Page 680 – At the Cherry Factory

I didn’t expect “cultural osmosis” to be a recurring theme in this little D&D webcomic, but here we are.

This is pretty experimental as far as jokes go in this comic, but I figured there was no better way to go meta than to go right to the source, the only way my generation knows how.

DM:

<roll> Oof! That’s bad. Cherries are rolling down faster than you can sort them. What do you do?<br/>
Fluttershy: Panic?<br/>
Pinkie Pie: Try and gather them up so they don’t go flying everywhere?<br/>
DM: They keep coming faster! Anything else?<br/>
Fluttershy: Call for help?<br/>
Pinkie Pie: Put them in our bags so they don’t get dirty? I don’t know what else you want!<br/>
DM: Do you… heh heh heh… do you start eating them?<br/>
Pinkie Pie: Wha?!<br/>
DM: To, heh heh, y’know, not get in trouble!<br/>
Fluttershy: That sounds like an awful thing to do on the job…<br/>
DM: Oh come on, it’s a classic. Does the name I Love Lucy ring any bells? …Okay, maybe NONE of us are old enough for it, but it’s a cultural osmosis thing, and– You know what, perhaps I can just show you I’m talking about.<br/>
(YouTube search: I Love Lucy)<br/>
Boss: If ONE piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped… you’re FIRED!<br/>
Twilight Sparkle: Wikipedia says this was THE landmark sitcom of the 50s.<br/>
DM: See, there you go.<br/>
Lucy: Oh, this is easier.<br/>
Ethel: Yeah, we can handle this okay.<br/>
Rainbow Dash: So you were trying to make a parallel in our game to… this?<br/>
Fluttershy: I can tell where this is going…<br/>
Lucy: I think we’re fighting a losing game!<br/>
Pinkie Pie: I like it! The escalation’s got really good pacing.<br/>
Rarity: So, in the collective unconscious, when people think of this “landmark television comedy,” they think of two women stuffing their faces full of chocolate?<br/>
DM: Well… when you put it like THAT…