2008 Christmas Special

The 2008 XKCD Christmas Special
Narrator: Due to the slowing economy, we could only afford to produce the prime-numbered panels.
Narrator: You should be able to infer the missing parts of the story easily enough.
Narrator: We apologize for the inconvenience.
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[[Girl carrying Christmas lights and guy watching]]
Girl: I'm going to one-up those Christmas light displays on YouTube.
[[Girl thinking]]
Girl: Hmm. Needs more flair. Do you know what happens when you fire sodium pellets into a snowbank?
Guy: No.
Girl: Me neither.
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[[Girl sitting in front of a console]]
Girl: Whoops, one of the Arduino control boards sublimated.
Girl: If only I could make it self-repairing...
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Girl: Shit. The system has become sentient.
Guy: Friggin' Python.
System: GRAAARR!
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[[Girl showing laptop to guy]]
Girl: But according to this email forward, Santa is secretly a Muslim!
Guy: It explains everything!
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Girl: Okay, the cloned raptors are hunting the last of the cyborgs. We're safe.
Guy: Are you sure you thought this through?
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[[Two couples appear in this next panel]]
Guy: Are the raptors contained?
Second girl: Sure. Unless they figure out how to build lightsabers.
[[The next panel is blank]]
[[Guy with hat fighting with a raptor using lightsabers]]
Guy: It's all right. I've got her.
[[Lightsaber appears from behind]]
<<Snap-hiss!>>
Guy: ...Clever girl.
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[[Bill Gates is holding a weapon over Santa's body. The two girls are watching]]
Girl: Great. Bill Gates kills Santa.
Bill Gates: I thought it was Stallman with a dyed beard.
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[[Girl and guy with hat are looking at a tree]]
Girl: Where did you get this Christmas tree?
Guy: Nowhere.
Girl: Did you cut down the Yggdrasil?
Guy: ...Maybe.
[[The next panel is blank]]
[[Girl and guy holding hands and looking at reader]]
Narrator: Merry Christmas from XKCD <3
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{{title text: 'How could you possibly think typing 'import skynet' was a good idea?'}}

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