44: Love
| Love |
 Title text: This one makes me wince every time I think about it |
Explanation
This comic is a play on a trope whereby couples obnoxiously escalate the claims of how much they love each other. Instead of continuing Cueball's escalation by saying the expected response "I love you more!" Megan stops and agrees with him: he does love her more than she loves him, which is a common, though unfortunate, situation in relationships. Typically, however, the couple never openly admits this painful truth, particularly right in the middle of a fun, loving exchange as Megan does here.
In the title text, Randall expresses his awkwardness or chagrin at the exchange he's portrayed.
Transcript
- [Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]
- Cueball: I love you!
- Megan: I love you!
- [Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]
- Cueball: I love you more!
- Megan: Yeah.
- [Cueball and Megan stand facing one another - saying nothing.]
Trivia
- This was the 21st comic originally posted to LiveJournal.
- The previous was 21: Kepler.
- The next was 40: Light.
- Original title: "Wednesday's Drawing"
- There were no original Randall quote for this comic.
- This comic was posted on xkcd when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
- It was posted along with all 41 comics posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
- The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.
- This is the last of the original drawings drawn on checkered paper.
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This comic made me go OOF and wince. SilverMagpie (talk) 05:29, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
- Now, that's epic. 172.70.98.153 22:01, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Pretty sure this comic has the longest break in between the next post-10/19/2005 jumps to 01/04/2006. 42.book.addictTalk to me! 20:39, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Not really, the following comic was only posted 2 days later (40: Light). You can learn more about the LiveJournal chaos here. :) --FaviFake (talk) 09:40, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
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