No, this isn’t another rant about how the media and advertisers are leaving out Christmas from their respective vernacular (heavily, and quite offensively handled by last night’s episode of Community)- its that time of year where I point you back to:

How not to end up in a ditch

As a bonus tip, avoid the ever-relevant “You have received a Hallmark e-Card from ‘A Friend’”, which invariably contains a link to an executable file which promptly installs itself and compromises your computer, AKA Bad news.

Merry Christmas and happy driving!

Hilarious, no? Everyone likes subtleties: especially when they’re difficult to pick out and very especially when it pertains to you and fellow zomgees. I’ll probably not catch them all but here’s a go.

Frame 1:

1. Red shirt (my fav color)
2. “Do a Barrel Roll” on shirt (my fav meme)
3. correct eye colors (should have known being asked what color they were)
4. “Cake is a lie” (orange for Aperture Science/orange box?) (linger roll over for info)
5. Stretch’s Hair (didn’t notice it the first time through)
6. “Fresh” beverage (Bel-Air’d flavor)
7. HT’s skin (Oh, that’s a shirt)

Frame 2:

1. Poof (onomatopoeia; significance?)
2. Flat-top hair on future HT (vanilla ice?)
3. visor (Star Trek TNG?)
4. Nervously confused giant sweat droplets (manga iconography everywhere)
5. Ta-Da (windows 95 sound?)

Frame 3:

1. Exclamation point (Metal Gear Solid discovery)
2. Bell-bottoms are ‘in’ in the future?
3. great back-shot of the mini-ears
4. Is that the same shirt they’re wearing? only from different times?

Frame 4:

1. Was hoping HT was wearing jorts at this point

Frame 5:

1. Hobbitstretch (throwback to HT’s post?)
2. notjorts
3. Oi VEY! (proof Yiddish still exists in the future)
4. FutureHT’s dialog (traveling into the past is impossible)
5. (but even if it was, wouldn’t they travel to a time where it’d be fix more optimally?)

Frame 6:

1. OhYo is not Zordon
2. Ahhhh! (from this)
3. Finally unveiling what’s on SS’s shirt

Frame 7

1. Not picking up phone inside joke (I’ve not been informed I suppose)
2. SS is still a midget/hobbit, lol.

Frame 8

1. Not sure who’s supposed to be rescuing me, FutureHT seems to be bailing.
2. Gifts in green bags might help. Can’t get enough of *Whack*
3. A young Barak or Will Smith (jorts) witnessing trouble in his neighborhood.

Frame 9

1. Glad I have at least a little of something to drink when I come to
2. Not sure if this thing is a conveyor belt taking me to my doom or something
3. Dig the visors, but I can’t be too eager to find out what’s brainwashing me
4. “I know that laugh”

I’m sure I’m missing a lot; considering other hints were given by our venerable artist; any help from the peanut gallery? One hint given was something about how the colors used were pretty much important in every case. By the way, we’re famous, we’re cartoons.

Santa-Suit gunman’s rampage leaves 9 dead

I haven’t had a ‘warm and fuzzy feeling’ along with the Christmas season for a while. It’s hard to say ‘this season is to remember Jesus’ birth’ especially when there’s so many other days of the year to do it. This should at the very least be a good reminder that if someone who “had no criminal record and no history of violence” can hate so much on a day of jolly and mirth is more sound and devoted to an evil cause that we can to our own causes on any day. People seem like they’ve ‘tried love’ or are bored with it, but they’re begging for it, even when they push it away. Love more and things might turn out better than you expected.