Comments on: Continuity Repairs with Rob and Andy

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:01:01 +0000

I guess my equivalent for “Answer me that, Mr. Green Lantern” is “Explain that with your so-called science!” (Dunno where I picked it up.)

By: linkhyrule5

linkhyrule5 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:50:39 +0000

… This reminds me a *lot* of Umineko.

By: Mark Temple (mithril)

Mark Temple (mithril) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:45 +0000

Chainsaw escape: Antonio Smith mistied the knots on their arms, allowing Helen to work her hands free in time to escape the chair and rescue dave from the saw.

Island of the Ur-gerbils: The Ur-gerbils bought Dave's friendship with a crate of Mt. dew they found.

Helen turning into Dave: Helen first figured out something was wrong when she started drinking tons of Mt.Dew and having a crush on Mick Foley.

Doppleganger Gambit: Madblood didn't know how to work the transmogrifier properly, so when he switched the settings he missed the DNA inputting step Helen used to set the device to make dave into Madblood. since it didn't have dave DNA to work with, Madblood had a negative reaction to the change. he was trying to get Dave to tell him how to fix things, with Dave's snarky comments and the pain causing madblood to open the cell so he could reach Dave and physically shake the info out of him in anger.

Mell's rampage in the CS department: as we see later, most of humanity has selective memory for events outside their expectations. mell shooting up a place was mostly unnoticed by the student body. the CS department are all part of Dave's Gaming group, so while they remembered it, they also knew better than to go for help against mell. when they did mention it after the fact, people just assumed they were referring to some geeky video game or roleplaying session. the physical damage was chalked up to a wild party and a building in need of repairs by the college staff.

By: Shane Wegner (shanewegner)

Shane Wegner (shanewegner) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:44 +0000

The "Gilligan's Island Scenario", with a grass-wearing Mell and a goddess-like sarong Priestess Helen left David with "No incentive to get off"? Tee hee.

By: Adam McCune (adam-f-mccune)

Adam McCune (adam-f-mccune) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:43 +0000

There’s an image of that line from Green Lantern at this link:

http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/gl76a.jpg

By: Brandon Gorley (bowtothebard)

Brandon Gorley (bowtothebard) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:42 +0000

Andrew has a great shit-eating grin.

By: 'Keiya' (keiya)

'Keiya' (keiya) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:41 +0000

You know, probably simpler to say the ur-gerbils bribed him with his other addiction – caffeine.

By: Daffyd Wagstaff (lord_killerfish)

Daffyd Wagstaff (lord_killerfish) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:40 +0000

When will people ever learn! If you question the hows and whys of altered timelines, the Gods of Continuity will get angry, and destroy the universe, replacing it with something far stranger.

I learnt that lesson the last time I accidentally caused the end of the universe.

...

It got better.

By: Cat Bascle (mage_cat)

Cat Bascle (mage_cat) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:39 +0000

As for the moonbase, don't forget that even in the "Dave smokes" timeline, the nicotine addiction wasn't the first thing that got Madblood. He felt the pains of the Mountain Dew jones first. Presumably, in the "Dave doesn't smoke" timeline that was enough.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:06:38 +0000

For Mell's rampage, I prefer "clubbing in the head with the butt of her weapon = concussion = short-term memory loss".

(TUNE: "Fixing A Hole", The Beatles)
(What other song would I use? Answer me that, Mr. Green Lantern)

We're patching a hole in the comic strip plot
That breaks the continuity
That she built up!

We're fixing a goof that the author forgot
That languished in obscurity
'Til it's brought up!

And on the gerbil island there's a magic cave
To grant the wish of Dave!
Made by the gods!

And ANTONIO SMITH, FOREN-
SIC LINGUIST cannot comprehend
How Dave escaped that saw, against all odds!

We're mending mistakes that the readers might spot
Creating incongruity
When she screwed up!