The Annotated Order of the Stick - A Companion Guide

[Ron Miel]

I gave a bunch of title annotations in this earlier post.

Here's a first batch of Title annotations from 1-200

Spoiler

Show

Strip 3 See Spot Spot

The title is a reference to the **** and Jane books, a series of reading primers for young children. They feature a dog named Spot. They are full of simple sentences such as See Spot run.

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Strip 6: The Cleric is 'In'

The title is a reference to the Peanuts comic strip. Lucy plays at being a Doctor, and displays the sign "The Doctor is [IN] '"

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Strip 9: I Am Curious Elan

The title is a reference to the films I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue)


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Strip 28: Just Like on Three's Company

The Title refers to the sitcom Three's company. Much of the humour in this show derived from comical misunderstandings similar to those in the strip.

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Strip 36: Building a Better PC Trap

The title refers to the old saying "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."

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Strip 40: The Gods Must be Busy

The title is a reference to the film The Gods Must Be Crazy


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Strip 59: The Shot Heard Round the Dungeon

The title is a reference to "the shot heard round the world" This phrase has been applied to several historical events, but is most often used to refer to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which precipitated the First World War.

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120 The End of the Beginning

The title is taken from a speech by Winston Churchill. "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

The same speech also contains the phrase "blood, tears. toil, and sweat" which shall be referenced in a later book.

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Strip 131: Money Makes the World Go Round

The title comes from a song in the show Cabaret.

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Strip 144: Pop Goes the Weasel

The title comes from an an English nursery rhyme of obscure origin and meaning.

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Strip 145: Mr(s). Wizard Explains It All

Mr Wizard (the late Don Herbert) was the presenter of a series of educational TV shows that introduced children to science. The use of Mr(s) in the title obscures V's gender. It also provides an early hint that V is married

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164 Here He Comes, To Save the Day!

The title references the Mighty Mouse theme song.

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Strip 171: The Prisoner Dilemma

The title references Prisoner's dilemma, a famous logical puzzle and paradox.

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Strip 181: Cursing the Darkness

The title references a popular saying "It is better to light a little candle than to curse the darkness"

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Strip 183: Spit and/or swallow

The title references .... something that is against the rules of the forum to discuss. And it isn't politics.

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strip 192 Everything Sits Better on a Ritz

The title references a TV advert for Ritz Crackers.

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[Grey_Wolf_c]

I gave a bunch of title annotations in this earlier post.

Yes, I saw that after I had started mine. I was checking the main list to make sure I wasn't duplicating the effort, but I missed the post where they were collected (I clicked the link of "strips 1-100", which jumped over the relevant post).

GW