Yet another joke I didn't get: "You're invisible"

[Robert Paulson]

Can someone explain this joke from 665? Does it have something to do with the Emperor's New Clothes? I just don't get it, and I usually like Elan jokes. :smallconfused:

[Soepvork]

Try this:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html

[FoE]

Follow the link. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html)

You know, you could have just posted this question in the regular discussion thread. Nearly anyone there could have answered your question.

[abishur]

and again here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0302.html)

[Andore Mordre]

Yes, 25-28.

Also 302 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0302.html)

Aaaah, ninja'd! Ninja avatared ninja!

[Cleverdan22]

I'm surprised you don't remember that gag. It's one of the most famous in OotS. But yeah. Elan naked=Elan thinks he's invisible. And freaking out by the other characters. Except Haley.

[derfenrirwolv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzWN4v2Ck0s


Mystery men. A bunch of B list C list D list ? REALY really low powered superheroes have to save a city after the person with real powers is kidnaped. One of the persons powers is they're invisible... but only when no one's looking at them.

[abishur]

I'm surprised you don't remember that gag. It's one of the most famous in OotS.

Roy has boobies (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0102.html)

(Sorry, at first I thought you said "one of the most funniest in OoTS and I had to throw that out there):smallbiggrin:

[Cleverdan22]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzWN4v2Ck0s


Mystery men. A bunch of B list C list D list ? REALY really low powered superheroes have to save a city after the person with real powers is kidnaped. One of the persons powers is they're invisible... but only when no one's looking at them.

I love that movie, but why did you post that?

[derfenrirwolv]

Its probably the original reference for going naked and invisible.

[Blackjackg]

Nah, invisibility and nudity have long gone hand in hand. Just 'cuz it doesn't help much being invisible if your clothes are still walking around.

[fangthane]

The original reference was because the rules for D&D give penalties to many abilities (hiding among them) based on what you're wearing (specifically, because Hide is a dex-based check, any armor check penalty to dex applies to hide)

I'd consider it as much a reference to Douglas Adams' S.E.P. (Someone Else's Problem) field generators as to Mystery Men - with a flashlight battery and a S.E.P. people's own minds come up with excuses not to see Elan's nakedness :smallbiggrin:

[Andore Mordre]

I remember when I first read Durkon's description of "the more you wear, the more people can see you", and thought: "Boy, I hope Elan doesn't take that too litera...oh no...no...NOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY EYES!!!"

[Corwin Weber]

Its probably the original reference for going naked and invisible.

Actually the Invisible Man is.... and wasn't that written in the 20's? Or earlier?

[derfenrirwolv]

i dont recall the invisible man ever going "I'M INVISIBLE!!"

[Belkster11]

But he did have to go without clothing, because the clothes would make him visible.

So yes, the entire countryside was being terrorized by a naked maniac who was invisible. :smallyuk:

[Optimystik]

Ghost in the Shell also predated Mystery Men, and the main character (Major Kusanagi) had to disrobe to turn invisible (in the early adaptations, anyway.)

[abishur]

i dont recall the invisible man ever going "I'M INVISIBLE!!"

as a point of order, when you say "the invisible man" do you mean to say you read the 1897 H.G. Wells novel (who stole clothes to be visable again after setting fire to the building he used to live in) or the 1933 movie, or the 1958 TV series, or the 1975 TV series which all depict him as invisible unless he has clothes? Or are you referencing the 2000 Sci-fi channel series which used "quicksilver" as the invisible agent that coated his skin as well as his clothes?

[SadisticFishing]

Urm, the Invisible Man was still invisible when he was wearing clothes.

His clothes were just visible.

[KillianHawkeye]

as a point of order, when you say "the invisible man" do you mean to say you read the 1897 H.G. Wells novel (who stole clothes to be visable again after setting fire to the building he used to live in) or the 1933 movie, or the 1958 TV series, or the 1975 TV series which all depict him as invisible unless he has clothes? Or are you referencing the 2000 Sci-fi channel series which used "quicksilver" as the invisible agent that coated his skin as well as his clothes?

Or perhaps the Chevy Chase movie Memoirs of an Invisible Man, or the Kevin Bacon movie Hollow Man?

[Robert Paulson]

Try this:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html

Thanks! I'd completely forgotten about that. :smallbiggrin:

[Cen]

But he did have to go without clothing, because the clothes would make him visible.

So yes, the entire countryside was being terrorized by a naked maniac who was invisible. :smallyuk:

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[Berserk Monk]

Can someone explain this joke from 665? Does it have something to do with the Emperor's New Clothes? I just don't get it, and I usually like Elan jokes. :smallconfused:

Really? You didn't get the invisibility joke? That's like the oldest/greatest/most well known joke oots has. Did you like skip the first hundred strips or something? I'm just wondering how you missed it.

[sihnfahl]

*snip a lot of movie references*
Don't forget the 2003 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where the Invisible Man was made visible ... by snow.

[Robert Paulson]

Really? You didn't get the invisibility joke? That's like the oldest/greatest/most well known joke oots has. Did you like skip the first hundred strips or something? I'm just wondering how you missed it.

No, I like read them when they came out, and I like don't sit around studying them. OOTS is just like a web comic that I like enjoy reading, but I'm not like getting a PhD in OOTS cannon or anything.

[Cen]

No, I like read them when they came out, and I like don't sit around studying them. OOTS is just like a web comic that I like enjoy reading, but I'm not like getting a PhD in OOTS cannon or anything.

What? you mean that you read a webcomic AND have a normal life outside of the internet?


Unconcievable!

[onasuma]

Ghost in the Shell also predated Mystery Men, and the main character (Major Kusanagi) had to disrobe to turn invisible (in the early adaptations, anyway.)

I am sad to learn this no longer happens.

[Sephros]

What? you mean that you read a webcomic AND have a normal life outside of the internet?


Unconcievable!

I don't think it means what do you think it means...:smallamused:

[abishur]

Urm, the Invisible Man was still invisible when he was wearing clothes.

His clothes were just visible.

ah, yes, when I said "to be visible again" I did not mean that he would no longer be invisible, but simply that there would be a point of reference such that his location would be visible to others. (as well as using the same terminology as H.G. Wells did in his book :smallwink:)

[Robert Paulson]

What? you mean that you read a webcomic AND have a normal life outside of the internet?


Unconcievable!

I'm a walking paradox. :smallbiggrin:

[DoctorJest]

So yes, the entire countryside was being terrorized by a naked maniac who was invisible. :smallyuk:

Sounds like my plans for next weekend.

[BarroomBard]

There's an OOtS cannon? Do they shoot Belkar out of it or something? Or is the cannon not canon?