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July 25th, 2008
Nuke the Fridge at the 2008 Summer Failympics
I thought a good Triathlon for the Failympics would be a “Shark High Jump,” “Curve The Bullet Skeet Shooting” followed by the “400 m Fridge Nuke.” Maybe I should write a letter to the Failympic Committee.
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Tags: failympics, indiana jones, josh dies, meme, movies, nuke the fridge, olympics
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February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Is 100 M Meter a typo? Also, nice art in this one.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Poor josh and his wee little legs.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Whoa whoa, whose bodies are those? Cause unless Josh and Joel got super fit under those tees and sweaters, they seem to have really small heads in comparison to their bodies.
Hm. Not unlike real life roided up athletes. A lesson in realism!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You've certainly captured the agony of running
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Don't forget the 4×100m iPhone 3G relay.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
wow…The Board of Investors™ approves this one
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
sadly, I have to agree. How come the best ones are of me dying?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
If it's Failympics, wouldn't it be the MobileMe relay?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Is wanted really that much of a fail? I was kinda looking forwarded to it, oiled up Angelina looked like she had so much potential.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Niiiiiiiiiiice! Reminiscent of burning bodies in "Chronicles of Riddick." Er…not that I've seen that movie.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I could have video'd myself running for reference, but dead men cant draw comics.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"THE ZING OF THE DAAAYYYYY!"
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You just answered your own question.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
There was talk of "Curve the Bullet" becoming a fail catch phrase, but I dont think it caught on.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
There should be a Twitter event in the Failympics, too, shouldn't there?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I actually used T2 clips for reference.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
From josh …
"I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
That the comics where I'm dying
Are the best I've ever … read?"
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You're Joel's muse.
Or, rather, your spectacular death is.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Poor Joel and his wee little child's feet.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Wow. I know which comic I'll want to have autographed and framed! This is awesome. Sorry you had to die in the name of creative license, Josh.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Don't know; maybe it's his muse, you know? At least you're famous now!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You're like the HE version of Kenny, I suppose.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You need to do the Failympics every summer.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
They look like reasonable facsimiles to the real ones to me. Josh is definitely got the husky body going for him. If anything I think Joel might've made himself a little to unduly larger in panels 4/5 (at least from the photos and vlogs I've seen of him).
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Am I supposed to hear "Chariots Of Fire" in my head while reading this?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I guess Joel just wanted it more
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
because that movie ended up being really awesome.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"josh dies" is, unfortunately, my favorite tag.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I was expecting more Mcavoy nudity. I actually enjoyed Jolie more than him, which is odd.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"Yeah baby, this next heat of the race is NUCLEAR!"
What other sports would there be in the FAILYMPICS? I suggest DIVIDING BY ZERO, 100 YARD FAILBOAT, and ULTIMATE FAIL – in which the contestants navigate an obstacle course approved by the Darwin Awards.
I'm surprised at how quickly "Nuke The Fridge" entered modern nomenclature as a phrase. The movie hasn't even been out for a year yet, has it?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"I'm surprised at how quickly "Nuke The Fridge" entered modern nomenclature as a phrase."
It really hasn't, despite what the professional Lucas-haters would have you believe. I'll put it this way: the people trying to push "nuke the fridge" down our throats are the ones who still think "jump the shark" is the height of clever.
Sorry, Indy-haters, it had to be said.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I dunno. It's almost too easy to make fun of MobileMe and Twitter these days…
Would you ever have thought that Apple could have such a high-profile fail?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I don't think I've seen T2 (or even parts of it) since it first came out.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Can Joel attach a Vangelis mp3 to the image?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Reloadalympics. Refresh Twitter until you get the Fail Whale.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Wanted made me like Jolie more, who I didn't really care for before. I didn't find her all that attractive, but she was cute in Wanted.
That being said, Wanted was all "high octane" and "special effects wonder!" but it was also sort of doo-doo. You'd think a movie where everyone is shooting and dying wouldn't be so boring.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"Fun for all ages!"
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I love the skeleton drawing. It reminds me of Terminator.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Please, we hardly got a shirtless shot out of him.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
There has to be FAIL HURDLES in there somewhere.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Ultimate Fail? Sounds like a winner to me! Get those genes out of the pool!
What a figure is, all the athletes will kill themselves off eventually, leaving us in a civilization of monitor-tanned comics aficionados with a reasonable level of intelligence to pass on the the next generation. GO OLYMPICS GO!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Wow, Joel. That's some spectacular art. Love the look and coloring of the blast.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Poor Joel?! he's safe and sound in a fridge. No nuclear bomb can hurt him.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Whenever I do these… I dont know, "weird ass?" comics I use a body style with less cartoony and more realistic proportions. Call it artistic license.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Yes. With so many 100% wins, they are bound to have a misstep from time to time. .Mac was always the bastard of the Apple family, and MobileMe is a double bastard. They need to give up on that or retool it, or make it free.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Soooo…. twice?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Jinx. You owe Doug a coke.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Its funny how you are always wrong.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Then, you Sir, are missing out on one of my favorite films of all time. Grand total I KNOW I have seen it at least 200-300 times.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
They're just the sponsor. Fail Whale is the mascot
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Glad you liked it.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Yes. Yes you are.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Its a determination thing.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You and me both.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"100 Yard Failboat" is my favorite.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Oh, Grandpa. Stop chasing the kids off your internet. Just let them have fun.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Olympicide?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I was totally looking at T2 clips on Youtube when I drew that.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Thanks. This one certainly kicked my ass, but I saw it in my brain and insisted that I bring it to life. Damn brain.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
That's a lot of meltinator.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Heh!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Transportation provided by the Fail Boat?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
So Lion, Witch, & Wardrobe was better for that?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You really know how to hurt a man.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
See, that's why I have so much respect for people who can draw. All I can do is make sarcastic comments about it on the internets.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Yes but what kind of life is it with tiny feet and you know what they say about the size of a mans feet.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I wouldn't know, actually.
I protested seeing that movie… actually, I just never got around to it.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
LOl, I didn't even bother to read all the posts just did it while I was at work so I had to be quick. So what kind of coke do you like doug?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
McAvoy's a faun, so mostly shirtless. Just a scarf. And added hair.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Yeah the art is really impressive in this one
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
So…is the symbol for these here Failympics to be five interlocking Red Rings of Death?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You know, the original Back To The Future time machine was going to be a refrigerator… that required a nuclear blast to get the 1.21 Gigawatts.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'm actually in the minority of people who liked the latest Indy film.
I just think it's neat to see popular culture evolve right before our eyes like that. I'm always so used to looking back at the 80's that I don't know what to think when it happens right here and now.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I appreciate the compliment. I was determined to make it look exactly as I pictured it mentally, which in turn drove me completely insane with frustration.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Are there 5 fail circles? RROD, Goatse… and 3 more.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I thought I had read that on Wiki. Also Eric Stoltz was Marty.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'd add the eight-pronged circular insignia of the pre-Palpatine GALACTIC REPUBLIC, the 12-star ring of the European Union (all sporting fests need that annoying international flava) and the yellow O on University of Oregon football helmets.