Summer Blockbusters from a Nerdier Timeline
Ten 2017 movies reimagined for nerds: an 8 furious that 2³ < 3², a Spider-Man replication crisis, Minion postdocs, a consultant baby, the last climatologist, and Groot's linguistics.
Content note: Panel 6: 'Are you high, Seth Rogen?' (drug reference). Uses many movie characters (Minions, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Belle and the Beast, Batman, Groot) and names Seth Rogen and Alec Baldwin.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-05-10-summer-blockbusters-from-a-nerdier-timeline/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[1] FAST AND FURIOUS 8: An angry 8 speeds along: "Ugh! Being nⁿ⁺¹ and yet smaller than (n+1)ⁿ makes me SO MAD."
[2] SPIDERMAN: REPLICATION: "I'm sorry; the analysis found no statistically significant effect of 'Spidey Sense.'" Spider-Man: "But… earlier research found p < 0.01!"
[3] POST DOCS: Three Minions: "Pagpopanda?" "Fons?" "Fondos! Fondos!"
[4] WONDER WOMAN: "I hear she reached inbox zero!" "I've heard she has Twitter but only checks it every few days."
[5] BEAUTY AND THE BEAST AND THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATION ABOUT HYBRIDIZATION: Belle: "I love you!" Beast: "Belle… I don't even know if we have the same number of chromosomes."
[6] NEIGHBORS 3: ZONING BOARD: "Look, relaxing the occupancy limits could create more affordable, walkable neighborhoods." "Are you high, Seth Rogen?"
[7] CONSULTANT BABY, starring Alec Baldwin: "Naptimes cost productive hours. Eliminate them." "Your toy procurement system is… well, I hesitate to say 'disgrace'…" "Did you know you spend more than 95% of your budget on items that are neither directly nor indirectly cookies?"
[8] BATMAN V. SUPERMAN [a Supreme Court bench]: Batman: "Can't we request an injunction on behalf of the public?" Lawyer: "How many times do I have to explain this? It's a question of standing. You're not an elected official."
[9] STAR WARS EPISODE VIII: THE LAST CLIMATOLOGIST: "Another single-biome planet? This galaxy is boring me right out of the profession."
[10] XENOLINGUISTICS OF THE GALAXY: "I don't get it. How are you able to achieve the expressive variety of spoken language just by repeating the same three words over and over?" Groot: "I am Groot?" "Well, of course I've considered prosody and semantics! I'm not an idiot." Groot: "I am Groot…" "No, I'm sorry for snapping. Not your fault."