Old Comic Discussion: "Imaginate" to "Imaginate, too!"

Post by **Dissension** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:55 am

One of my professors (one of my favorite professors) once held a class discussion on superhero physics. Lois Lane died a lot of splashy deaths that day.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:03 am

So basically, nobody can ever have two candies.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:19 am

i love how realistic the price chart is. XD

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:49 am

Jack wrote:i love how realistic the price chart is. XD

Yeah, they make a killing on the concessions....A small popcorn costs more than the movie!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:56 am

Dylan wrote:
Jack wrote:i love how realistic the price chart is. XD
Yeah, they make a killing on the concessions....A small popcorn costs more than the movie!

i do believe it is called monopoly?

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:10 am

Concession stand owners are the true nefarious villains.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:10 am

this displays it best.

[Link deleted, sorry.]
(don't mean to annoy those who don't like this comic.)

Sketcherofstuff · Post by **Sketcherofstuff** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:11 pm

Jack wrote:this displays it best.

[Link removed]
(don't mean to annoy those who don't like this comic.)

Sorry for being momentarilly off topic, but I feel the need to say ***!?!?!?!
I started reading archives of Concession and I found the early ones funny and light hearted.
So I skipped to the newest ones and began reading it backwards. *** is all I can say.
They might as well have been totally different comics. Okay, I'm done...

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:45 pm

@Jack: That comic, for, like, 10 comics, was about a concession stand (like the one you linked). Then it went crazy and very, very NSFW. The artist himself actually admits that his comic now has literally nothing to do with the original premise. So, uh, while that comic in particular isn't NSFW, I'm going to have to remove that link, okay?

Now...

/salesperson voice

Okay, I'm going to talk about theaters, concession stands, and you. Seeing as my part-time job is working at a theater, I can shed some light on this.

The movie business has two sources of revenue. The Box office, and the concession stand (henceforth referred to as the Box and the conc).

The box profit goes to the people who made the movie...the actors, the director, the lighting person, the guy who gets the doughnuts and everyone in between.

The conc profit goes to the theater chain.

BECAUSE we don't see a cent from the ticket (or at least very, very little), the prices are marked up so theaters can survive and then still turn a profit. Keep in mind, theaters have to bid for the movies to just have them leased to the theater (this is why small theaters never show good movies unless they're part of a large chain) to play them. There's the equipment to play the movie, employee wage (as minimum wage as it might be...for Cali, anyway, it's $8) blah blah blah.

As for why your popcorn tastes like degreaser...well, that stuff's the cleaner from the gods, I kid you not. That aside, the popper is usually cleaned at the end of the day. Using degreaser for the walls and external parts of the popper, and this weird kettle cleaner stuff that has the likeness of cat-litter for the inside. What? We always throw out the first batch the next day. Or, at least, my theater does...

Okay, a friendly hint: Never go for the first batch of the day. Truuuuuusssst me.

Another hint: The popcorn is always fresh. ALWAYS as long as there's a new batch popped over the old, the butter is always real, and of course you want the large. YOU WILL BUY THE LARGE. Although, surprisingly, the butter IS real at my theater...most movie theaters use the same kind of butter you'd used for dipping lobster in at restaurants, I kid you not. Of course, we receive this butter in large two liter jugs...refilling the butter dispenser is my least favorite task.

Hint the third: You actually don't want the large popcorn unless you're getting a refill. Because that extra 50 cents is you paying in advance for the refill. Otherwise...and I've tested...the medium popcorn can fit as much as that fat tub if the person actually fills it all the way. After the first "free refill" extra ones cost 50 cents...coincidentally, that's the price difference between the medium and the large. Huh.

But you know what? No matter what the prices might be, people still come in a buy the stuff. And they get the large, and then tell us to put butter halfway up, shake salt all over it, and then fill it all the way, put on more butter and salt, and then they also get a large drink and some candy.

It's mind boggling, all of it. But I'm still going to ask you if you want a large for just 50 cents more, 'cause my job requires it.

RaptorAnton · Post by **RaptorAnton** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:20 pm

Wow... That's realy great, that I don't like to eat at the theater...

Plot seems to me much more interesting than "chomp-chomp-chomp"

p.s. I hope that soon we will see continuation of "Ocean's Two" story arc.

Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:48 pm

That, children, is why we sneak food into a theater.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:56 pm

BlueArmy wrote:That, children, is why we sneak food into a theater.

Actually, you don't really have to sneak it in...most theaters don't have that rule /or don't enforce it.

Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:15 pm

Dylan wrote:
BlueArmy wrote:That, children, is why we sneak food into a theater.
Actually, you don't really have to sneak it in...most theaters don't have that rule /or don't enforce it.

I know exactly what you mean. I've done it several times and never got caught. Then again, in a 3-screen theater in Warren, you think anybody's going to care?

However, one would assume that the screen in the comic does have that rule, otherwise they'd sell no candy (then again, with prices that high I'd try to sneak it in every single time).

Two_Twig · Post by **Two_Twig** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:36 pm

Sometimes I'm a little surprised by the delightfully amoral sense of humor from Peanut (I'm mostly referring to the firstborn thing). It must come from Grape or Earl.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:41 pm

Two_Twig wrote:Sometimes I'm a little surprised by the delightfully amoral sense of humor from Peanut (I'm mostly referring to the firstborn thing). It must come from Grape or Earl.

I shudder to think of the price of a combo pack.

Sinder · Post by **Sinder** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:11 am

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:44 am

"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!

YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY SIR!"

If only I knew where that video was.

"Must be that tunnel to the other side of the house?" Given you're still on the second or third floor, that wasn't very smart Thomas!

RaptorAnton · Post by **RaptorAnton** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:17 am

I think, that one of the ferrets will find Tomas and say something like: "You're that guy, who sells pneumatic tubes! You came too early, you know? And why did you shaved off your beard?"...

Post by **rickgriffin** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:02 am

Buckdida wrote:"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!

YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY SIR!"

If only I knew where that video was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKG07305 ... re=related

GameCobra · Post by **GameCobra** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:23 am

I've seen quite a bit of movies and i admit i find the standard pricing of snacks is quite expensive as well.

Popcorn though is the only thing i would admit i'm a sucker for =P

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:53 pm

those rich people (ferrets) and their secret door cravings.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:29 pm

Jack wrote:those rich people (ferrets) and their secret door cravings.

That has not been proven true yet.

cooljoe224 · Post by **cooljoe224** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:16 pm

Buckdida wrote:"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!

YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY SIR!"

If only I knew where that video was.

"Must be that tunnel to the other side of the house?" Given you're still on the second or third floor, that wasn't very smart Thomas!

AWWW I was gonna make that reference

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:44 am

I have always assumed that everyone liked secret passages...

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 6:45 am

Dissension wrote:I have always assumed that everyone liked secret passages...

everyone really does. its so awesome to find them! its like an adventure. :3

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:55 am

Yes, and I spent a lot of time as a little kid trying to find them in our house. I have selected several locations for their installation, once I get the money.

Also, I sort of wonder whether Thomas is strong enough to climb back up. Otherwise, he might be leaving in an ambulance (although that would require a van to be drawn).

RaptorAnton · Post by **RaptorAnton** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:22 am

Dissension wrote:Yes, and I spent a lot of time as a little kid trying to find them in our house. I have selected several locations for their installation, once I get the money.

Also, I sort of wonder whether Thomas is strong enough to climb back up. Otherwise, he might be leaving in an ambulance (although that would require a van to be drawn).

This could be funny, if he will stuck there))

D.Z. · Post by **D.Z.** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:45 pm

Sinder wrote:

"Snake, you're trapped in a ceiling! It must be the nanomachines! Use the syringe!"

cooljoe224 wrote:
Buckdida wrote:"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!

YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY SIR!"

If only I knew where that video was.

"Must be that tunnel to the other side of the house?" Given you're still on the second or third floor, that wasn't very smart Thomas!
AWWW I was gonna make that reference

**** you both, so was I. :p

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:36 pm

And what do we learn from that? Be always righteous and don't try to trick your fellow men or otherwise you will end like Celia with nothing in the end. You have to be especially righteous if you try to rob someone.

Wait...

D.Z. wrote:
Sinder wrote:
"Snake, you're trapped in a ceiling! It must be the nanomachines! Use the syringe!"

THIS.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:58 pm

Dissension wrote:Yes, and I spent a lot of time as a little kid trying to find them in our house. I have selected several locations for their installation, once I get the money.

Also, I sort of wonder whether Thomas is strong enough to climb back up. Otherwise, he might be leaving in an ambulance (although that would require a van to be drawn).

Well, if Celia really does call the cops, he could leave in a police car instead.
That is to say, car instead of van. Sneaky!

Icharus · Post by **Icharus** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:59 pm

If Thomas happens to be dangling in the (literal) ballroom, he may just be in luck. Though it isn't very probable.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:44 pm

Icharus wrote:If Thomas happens to be dangling in the (literal) ballroom, he may just be in luck. Though it isn't very probable.

It from a ceiling, so it might still be painful, however they live in a mansion. He could land somewhere even more painful...like next to wolves taking a break or something.

Sinder · Post by **Sinder** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:07 am

GameCobra · Post by **GameCobra** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:10 am

Dylan wrote:It from a ceiling, so it might still be painful, however they live in a mansion. He could land somewhere even more painful...like next to wolves taking a break or something.

oh, great. now Thomas is reminding me of Yosemite sam!

luckily, Thomas has averted that fate at the moment...unless... *ponders*

Icharus · Post by **Icharus** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:20 am

Okay, I've gotta know.

What time is it? Some of the ferrets (and a human) are asleep, and some are awake (and getting imprisoned in tube socks). So is it like two in the morning (making Rock quite the night owl), or is it more like nine (and Duke just has good sense going to bed that early)?

Sinder · Post by **Sinder** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:23 am

This is a house with high ceilings.

Post by **Dissension** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:24 am

I assume it's the early-morning hours and that Rock is a night person. xD It is also entirely possible that he sleepwalked right into that tube sock.

Darn you, tube sock; darn you to Heck! Yay for puns! *giggles*

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:01 am

It is all fun and games until you're trapped in a sock. Then it is hilarious.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:21 am

i wanna see a ferret in a tube sock now. ... but it sounds evil.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:28 am

Jack wrote:i wanna see a ferret in a tube sock now. ... but it sounds evil.

Just one ferret? I wanna see all of them in socks, put them in a room...and see what happens.