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Did you notice that?
DSL:
I first found QC about the time Raven was first hired at the coffee shop and thought, huh, another story about younguns hanging around a coffee shop, and thought no more of it. Next time I saw QC, and I'm not sure what led me there, Faye was having an anxiety attack about her date with Angus (I remember wondering what she was doing in the hallway in her underwear, not realizing at the time she was sharing an apartment with Marten) and didn't even realize it was the same comic, because of the art evolution. I stayed on through the Dorapocalypse and it wasn't until after that I decided to check out the forum. I think I'm glad it worked out that way.
I found out about TVtropes much later. I could stand to have not found out about it at all.
Carl-E:
I see the math/science geeks got here from xkcd (as did I). I had tried it from the beginning once or twice, and couldn't get into it. Then one day, I clicked the link and saw a young woman sledding down a hill with an upraised beer, and her friends looking on.
I actually read the comic backwards from there for several hundred strips, watching the plot re-fold, seeing characters I'd gotten to know introduced ("Oh, so that's why...") and watching the art slowly devolve. I finally went back to the beginning, and met myself halfway while keeping current.
Oh, and the "fired... out of a cannon" joke's a lot older than futurama. I seem to remember Louie from Taxi (Danny Devito's character) using that line.
And maybe Abbot & Costello.
pwhodges:
And speaking of Futurama...
mustang6172:
I once spotted a Leftover Soup strip that showed characters drinking out of Coffee of Doom style emoticon mugs. I can't find it now though.
Eddie 88:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=333
- Raven's "nine times" is a Homestar Runner reference. We probably all knew that one, but I've never seen it mentioned.
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jun 2013, 13:32 ---Login; write.
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Heh, that's pretty simple.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Jun 2013, 20:08 ---Oh, and the "fired... out of a cannon" joke's a lot older than futurama. I seem to remember Louie from Taxi (Danny Devito's character) using that line.
And maybe Abbot & Costello.
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Doesn't mean Jeph didn't get it from Futurama. The wording is almost exactly the same.
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jun 2013, 22:09 ---And speaking of Futurama...
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That's the hazard of popularity -- get enough readers and they'll collectively know every line of every popular work ever produced, and someone will see quotes and references where there are none.
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