077 – pop culture reference


May 17th, 2010

077 - pop culture reference

if you watch a lot of television then this comic will make sense to you

it is a reference to a television show called “power rangers”

where people would “range” using their “powers”

TELEVISION!

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  1. Skillplx says:

    LOL

  2. wtf? says:

    power ranger? isnt it goku?

  3. Adam says:

    Haha XD SS Fletcher! =p

  4. Simon says:

    Lol, I think they’re being ironic?
    But I wonder what is his power level.

  5. Jade Messenger says:

    It’s over 9000! Sorry… couldn’t resist… ;p

  6. HD says:

    dragon ball reference, actually (said in a friendly-and-non-pretentious-for-my-knowledge-of-this-stuff way)
    power rangers would have..used a giant multi-coloured robot to open it

  7. HD says:

    the “knowledge” says i spent a lot of my childhood at home… ¬¬

  8. Sgt. Traveler says:

    Now that’s when the powers really helpful. =)

  9. JDub says:

    Yeah, I thought it was Goku too…. and I don’t remember the power rangers doing that… but then again that was like 14 years ago…

  10. Tzeentch says:

    I think it’s more like Dragonball than Power Rangers, but who cares :)

  11. Dack says:

    @wtf… dude, c’mon that’s obviously optimus prime

  12. The man who comes from Explosm and was the second to contribute to the joke says:

    DBZ powers.

  13. durr says:

    Dear wtf?,
    Sarcasm is a beautiful thing.

    With love,
    your mother

  14. Orge says:

    I thik that is more of a Dragon Ball thing not power rangers I mean the hair and the glowing it is so DB.

  15. Hmmm says:

    Yeah, i thought he’d gone super saiyan…

  16. Stensh says:

    omg! power rangers?? shame on you xD
    hahaha .. is goku being a super sayain!!
    but doesnt matter! the today comic rules!

  17. zrnzle500 says:

    wow wtf? *face palm*

  18. Quups says:

    Goku is my favorite Power Ranger. He wasn’t all stereotypical like the nappy black ranger.

  19. Kid says:

    I always thought Goten was the best Power Ranger. Not a lot of other people liked the 4th season of Power Rangers though. Too many damn turtles with bandanas.

  20. Dr. Pepper says:

    Lol classic DBZ background in the last panel

  21. Bledsoe says:

    I’m glad Fletcher was able to unlock his Jedi powers.

  22. vlukev says:

    ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!

    this is made of win, when i was reading it i caught the beam in the corner of my eye and was expecting to see shoop da woop, but was pleasantly suprised :D

    I loved the blue power ranger with the sword, he kicked ass.

  23. Fapples says:

    He just went super ranger!

  24. el cid says:

    Absolutely all over this comic - f-ing class.

  25. woop says:

    its not the power rangers, its dragon ball z

  26. Sadly Mistaken says:

    wtf? got it right.. This isn’t a power ranger reference. It’s a Goku in Dragon Ball Z reference… Again there is nothing tying this strip to the power rangers…

  27. dariop says:

    Not Power Rangers. That is Goku in Sayajin mode (it is not PR), from Dragon Ball Z.

  28. PennieLain says:

    Ka-me-ha-meeeeeeee HA!

  29. Sgt. Pepper says:

    I didn’t know Fletcher was Spiderman!

  30. really?! says:

    power rangers? really?

  31. Tenkely says:

    Power Rangers eh? Written by Akira Toriyama, follows the adventures of Goku and is better known as Dragonball? Hah! Still a funny pic…

  32. Ragnarokio says:

    I love power rangers, my favourite episode was the one where they captured monsters and fought eachother with them. Nice reference :thumbsup:

  33. JL says:

    Uh. That’s DragonBall NOT power rangers. Don’t insult Dragonball you may never get your credibility back.

  34. Angryswede says:

    ITS OVER 9000!!!1!!!one!!!

  35. Mok says:

    Are those flames or just sexy He-man-looking hair. Or wait, Fletcher IS He-man!

  36. Sean says:

    LOL.

    Fletcher = Broly! It reveals so much! Especially that if Copernicus gets really angry he can just hurl him into the sun.

  37. Shadowslayer says:

    Hey, hey, hey. I know I’m the first person to point this out buuuuuuut, that’s not Power Rangers, it’s DBZ n00b!
    Yeah, I know it’s a part of the joke but I don’t think the other people got it so I need to point that out.

    Also, the fourth panel would have been better if he said, “I’m a firing mah lazar!”

  38. Sam says:

    WOOOWW hahahahahahaaha. That is funny man.

  39. Dr. Derp says:

    I would have enjoyed this comic by so much more if I knew wha-wha-wah-what it’s all about.

  40. CrazyBlues says:

    Dudes, chill… It’s totally obvious that he said “Power Rangers” for the sake of irony. Obviously he knows what “Dragon Ball Z” is… -_-”

  41. zrnzle500 says:

    ughh…so many people just don’t know the meaning of sarcasm

  42. zrnzle500 says:

    i wouldn’t bother to list them all as there are so many. To those people *face palm*

  43. Obviously the Power Rangers thing was a joke, I’m pretty sure fletcher knows what DBZ is. Also last panel fletc is effing RIPPED

  44. zrnzle500 says:

    to Shadowslayer, double *facepalm*

  45. Jai says:

    I can’t believe that fifty people would rather say “HEY LOOK AT ME I’M REALLY BAD AT UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN HUMOR, DUR DUR DURRM DURP DUURR**” than “Oh my god Fletcher is sexy as all hell when he’s ripped — you could lick ketchup off of those abs”.

    **This is a thinly-veiled reference to everyone that said “It’s not Power Rangers, it’s DBZ; and here’s hoping that the guy who said it was Power Rangers ISN’T actually such a huge idiot that he mistook DBZ for Power Rangers, because OH MY GOD I don’t think I could stand that”.

    PS: How did the Power Rangers theme go? “Power power, power range, power rangers GO”?

  46. Dr. Derp says:

    Oh my god Fletcher is sexy as all hell when he’s ripped — you could lick ketchup off of those abs.

  47. Isis says:

    Fletcher got all ripped and sexeh!

  48. guilt.through.blood says:

    haha hee hee ho he! must be depressing to see how many stupid people read your strips and that this one is the most discussed! I hope this will teach you about using irony! if you want to receive even more comments. just skip the comic next time and simply write: “this site here, which you are visiting right now, is obviously explosm.net…”

  49. Discombobulated says:

    You people are f-ing idiots. Its obvious what he did. Yes he’s a Super Saiyan, yes he said power rangers insdead of dragon ball z. GET OVER IT! ARGH! /facepalm

  50. Discombobulated says:

    Wow i got so frustraited reading those idiots that i had to stop half way and didnt see the posts aftercomplaining about the 10-14y.o’s haha

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