[PA Comic] Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Friends With Menifits

Geth · February 20

Friends With Menifits
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/02/20

Pandabearcakes · February 20

I can't help but feel that the panels are context-independent.

Lux · February 20

Is this one of those things that they drew at a panel and people shouted out requests? That's the ice cream helmet from the outdoor strip, isn't it?

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud · February 20

YOUR STAR BURNS
I REQUIRE QUEER FRIENDLY VIDEO GAME NARRATIVES

TychoCelchuuu · February 20

Henroid · February 20

I would love for the last panel to have been drawn in protest somehow.

Slacker1913 · February 20

Oh god...
It's a Harlem Shake, isn't it?

Falx · February 20

Holy crap it is.

Graelyn · February 20

Rod, tell him what he's won!

TIFunkalicious · February 20

I remembered that specific helmet from a different comic and found it

god what am I even doing this isn't a mystery that needed solving

Crippl3 · February 20

Slacker1913 wrote: »

Oh god...
It's a Harlem Shake, isn't it?

How did I miss that?! I spent almost 20 minutes watching those the other day.

Kagera · February 20

Oh god it is a Harlem shake. You bastards!

TIFunkalicious · February 20

And the 4th panel would just be them watching youtube for half an hour

Black_Heart · February 20

I enjoyed this strip infinitely more before I realized it was yet another regurgitation of an unfunny youtube meme.

darleysam · February 20

Still don't know what a Harlem Shake is, and I'm happy to remain ignorant.

Fiendishrabbit · February 20

It's kind of an interesting experiment. Can you create a recognizable recreation of an audiovisual meme that's formulaic but based primarily on sound and movement, in just 3 comic panels (which are completely without sound and movement).
The answer is yes, at least in this case.

dadeacon · February 20

Funny Meme, even funnier comic! This was inspired funny. Well Done.

Skwigelf · February 20

darleysam wrote: »

Still don't know what a Harlem Shake is, and I'm happy to remain ignorant.

The Harlem shake, originally called the albee in Harlem, is a dance that started in 1981. The dance became mainstream in 2001 when G. Dep featured the Harlem shake in his music video "Let's Get It". It has its history from a type of dance exercised in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, called "Eskista" and was allegedly started in Harlem by a man named Al B.

Oh wait...

Phantoom · February 20

Great work of art, or the greatest work of art?

GeekBabel · February 20

wooooow i can't believe you just harlem shaked us. Well played sir... well played.

Skull2185 · February 20

Slacker1913 wrote: »

Oh god...
It's a Harlem Shake, isn't it?

The fuck is harlem shake? It's all over the place... Everytime some new thing happens, I have no idea what it is, and I feel real old...

Edit: Oh, I should read all the posts before posting myself.

Axon · February 20

I'm 33 and what is this

Lucascraft · February 20

I still don't get it. I have read this whole thread and looked at the gif of the guy dancing and I still don't get it. The dance in the gif doesn't look anything like the poses of the dudes in the strip.

Also, a few weeks ago Mike said he'd like to do a CTS strip again. Maybe this is that.

kingworks · February 20

Concerning the words in the strip - Does the new Fire Emblem have some sort of relationship-based system? The only one I've played (on the DS) did not.

kuhlmeye · February 20

Lucascraft wrote: »

I still don't get it. I have read this whole thread and looked at the gif of the guy dancing and I still don't get it. The dance in the gif doesn't look anything like the poses of the dudes in the strip.

Also, a few weeks ago Mike said he'd like to do a CTS strip again. Maybe this is that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Shake_(meme)

davidsdurions · February 20

kuhlmeye wrote: »

Lucascraft wrote: »

I still don't get it. I have read this whole thread and looked at the gif of the guy dancing and I still don't get it. The dance in the gif doesn't look anything like the poses of the dudes in the strip.

Also, a few weeks ago Mike said he'd like to do a CTS strip again. Maybe this is that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Shake_(meme)

The fuck The Washington Post is doing reporting in internet memes?

WUA · February 20

Third panel as wallpaper. Give.

Enlong · February 20

So, the last panel is a Fire Emblem joke of some sort, because Gabe suddenly has combat gear on, right?

Pifman · February 20

The fact that it references the Harlem Shake isn't what's funny. What's funny is that it appears they're being forced to do it by some unknown force. Continuing to carry a conversation while gyrating in weird ways.

KalTorak · February 20

I see the Harlem Shake joke (which I didn't get) as a sort of bonus joke. They're already having a funny conversation; now there's something funny (though unrelated) going on to look at.

It's like the comic where they're climbing out of alien birth pods while discussing Sony's sports characters.

KalTorak · February 20

davidsdurions wrote: »

kuhlmeye wrote: »

Lucascraft wrote: »

I still don't get it. I have read this whole thread and looked at the gif of the guy dancing and I still don't get it. The dance in the gif doesn't look anything like the poses of the dudes in the strip.

Also, a few weeks ago Mike said he'd like to do a CTS strip again. Maybe this is that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Shake_(meme)

The fuck The Washington Post is doing reporting in internet memes?

Old media trying to stay relevant probably.

TychoCelchuuu · February 20

I don't see why The Washington Post shouldn't report on Internet memes. This thread is filled with people who would've been better off had they read the Post's article, because then they'd know wtf the Harlem Shake is.

Delzhand · February 20

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

I don't see why The Washington Post shouldn't report on Internet memes. This thread is filled with people who would've been better off had they read the Post's article, because then they'd know wtf the Harlem Shake is.

Or we could remain blissfully ignorant of another unfunny meme.

Lucascraft · February 20

Yeah, I don't follow internet trends at all. The only time I become aware of something is when there's a bleed-over effect from the internet, (which I ignore) to something else which I don't ignore.

Memes stopped being funny or clever 6 or more years ago.

Enlong · February 20

Memes stopped being funny [the last time I tried to use one]

Phantoom · February 20

Let us all declare how far we are above this "internet humor".

Tube · February 20

I for one have never laughed on the internet

theResetButton · February 20

I find life is more fun when you're not a sourpuss about stuff because you feel like you have to be elitist about it. Is the Harlem Shake meme dumb? Probably, yeah. Is it somewhat amusing though and better than being Serious Business about everything? Oh, definitely.

Jasconius · February 20

i know what harlem shake is but i dont care

Gaslight · February 20

Harlem Shake aside (and I would never have recognized the positions in this comic as being a reference to the Harlem Shake, but that may be because I have studiously avoided learning anything about it as it it seemed like people seizing on the first lame thing that came along after Gangnam Style got played out)...

My interpretation of the third panel is that this is them throwing in a bunch of old stuff people ask them to bring back more often (CTS, Div, Fruit Fucker, Tycho's sun exposure protective gear) into one comic. Sort of like this old strip did with games that people were apparently bugging them to reference.

Darkewolfe · February 20

GRUMPY CAT DOES NOT APPROVE OF YOUR HARLEM SHAKE SHENANIGANS.

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[PA Comic] Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - Friends With Menifits

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