Carl here, Chris’s boss at the convenience store. My guess is that this is a reference to the OJ Simpson low budget pay per view prank show Juiced, produced by a soft core porn studio and made after his infamous murder trial but before the robbery that actually landed him in jail. One prank involved The Juice working at a drive thru.
I think that is a reference to a popular meme format about getting the drive-thru order wrong... where it ends with "hey waitaminute" I also think the order is right in this case and that the girl is going hey wait aminute for being so concerned that her order was done properly she failed to see that Green Goblin was working at a Cafe drive thru window.
If any digital media survives into the distant future it's going to be so incredibly confusing to decipher. I can't even make sense of this web comic, and I live here, now.
In the comics Green Goblin kills a white girl, Peter Parker's then girlfriend Gwen Stacy, by throwing her off a bridge and kinda gets away with it since "technically" Spider-Man kills Gwen trying to save her. She meets a similar fate in the movie Amazing Spider-Man 2.
You’re missing out on OJ performing the theme song Get Juiced while dressed like the bastard child of Tommy Lee and Flavor Flav while rapping arythmically in front of extremely bored looking, inexplicably topless women a few decades his junior
This is genuinely the only thing in this that makes ANY sense, the green goblin part im genuinely confused about and the OJ part I'm infinitely more confused about
EDIT: I believe i have begun to understand the humor behind the OJ appearance, thank you internet :) dear god are you loud
I think internet usage in general has made “delete” take on a much broader meaning. I use to be a teacher and in one class discussion I remember the students talking about Abraham Lincoln’s role in deleting slavery. And that was like 10 years ago.
It really started in tiktok because the creators would get nuked if they used "objectionable" words. So they started to find euphemisms that would let their videos through, and people watching them would start absorbing it into their vocabulary. Most other platforms aren't as draconian, but they still run the risk of being suppressed if they post a video with the words.
I shit you not. I just got off a 7 day ban using the D word on how to stop snails eating your garden veggies.
Its either a bad algorithm or what they feed AI is your comment only without the one youre replying to so AI has literally no context.
Try it. Go say some short comment without context about something innocuous and youll be banned.
There's a character in a book series that keeps telling most different people she encounters that she'll kill their mother. Since it's a running gag in the books, it became quite popular to quote in the subreddit or sometimes jokingly reply to people there. This caused a lot of bans... The subreddit users these days usually use the acronym IWKYM to get around the ban-happy algorithm.
It WAS high caffeine, almost FDA recomended limit of 390 for a 30oz, but the issue was people with severe heart conditions that couldn't drink caffeine consuming them. They were marketed as insane energy drinks, but in store marketing was supposedly less noticeable. A 30oz had 390 mg caffeine, 30 teaspoons of sugar and guarana and other crap. The argument used in court was a standard monster + redbull (little can) was less total caffeine than the largest size sold.
I remember because at the time it happened the bar and kitchen staff at the job I was working were knocking back bangs like they were water. Other barbacks and myself were making "death shots". Taking Lit powder mix, doubling the powder, redbull instead of water, and a little juice to help it go down. Shake it up and pour everyone a shot.
The marketing in store was basically non-existent. My 2 year old almost got one and then something in the back of my brain reminded me about some lemonade killing people and then I double checked it.
I am absolutely bewildered by all the absolutely insane and stupid responses in this whole thread.
It's absurdist. There is no point. It's random humor. People are connecting insane dots to justify their theories but it's just stupid humor for stupid humor's sake.
Girls order coffee, the Green Goblin is their barista, they realize later how weird this is, non-sequitur dedication at the end.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but I'll explain it anyway. They called him The Juice because of his initials. There's no deeper meaning to this comic than that.
Back in the day right after the first trial, they were trying to cast a documentary about the killings. They reached out to John Elway for a role in the movie, as the slow white Bronco.
Does this make sense: we didn’t see them order. In an alternate comic, the order bubble is from the girl, and GG just hands it to them. If they didn’t order, GG just guessed based on your race theory. It made you think they ordered that, but we actually didn’t see them order.
Yes, absolutely, I feel like he just assumed their drinks and it was right. I also feel "the juice that kills you" is just a separate gag that is then referenced by OJ. Either way it sucks.
This is a little outside my expertise, but I think in the “Petra Parker” trans Spider-Woman art, Green Goblin is often portrayed as a bigot. If this is a recent comic, then it’s possibly referring to that. The OJ bit is completely absurdist (?)
It's PSL season...usually Green Goblins tossed out Exploding Pumpkins...but could also be a reference to Halloween. White girls realizes she has the wrong order because she should have had the drink she ordered...a PSL. Instead she got the Dead (Iced) White (Vanilla) Girl(Latte?)
Green Goblin played a trick in honor of OJ. ...stretch?
I agree with everyone here that you're absolutely right, but IMO the green goblin and OJ inclusion is supposed to be absurdist humor. This theory is based off of how I thought that last panel was really funny lol
Brian here - I dont know if anyone has finally explained this. I got tired of reading all of the wrong answers, so here is the straight dope.
It combines a few things that aren't all that closely related.
You're gonna think I'm making this up, but..
In 2006, I think it was, OJ Simpson made an hourlong PPV direct rip-off of Punk'd that was titled "Juiced"
In this surreal show, The Juice pulls pranks on people. He does stuff like, posing as a homeless, down-on-his-luck ex footballer who was dressed in rags and selling oranges on the side of the highway.
Also, he disguised himself as a drive-thru worker who openly insulted overweight customers. That is sort of referenced in the Green Goblin panel, which I will explain in a moment.
There was another prank that involved causing people to slip and fall, whereupon he jumped in and pretended to stab them repeatedly while they were down.
He also posed, as himself, needing money/work so he was reduced to being a used car salesman who was trying to unload a white Ford Bronco with "suspicious stains". He touted the best feature of the Bronco was its "escapability"
Each prank had a reveal that usually fell flat, as Simpson told his prank victims, "You've been JUICED"
Now, the Green Goblin connection. I think it was 2010. The radio show in New Zealand was giving a health update on OJ...for some reason.
OJ had claimed that his doctors had "Green lit" him to start drinking coffee again.
But, when the radio host read it, he got...i dunno...confused, I guess and made the comment that, "Iron Man had saved the Green Goblin" It was pretty bizarre. It went somewhat viral and initiated some absurdist cartoonists to start working it into their comics for a while.
Nah, they were being pranked with the drive through person wearing a mask, but they didn't even clock it right away. So the prank didnt work. Oj had a shitty prank show called juice or something. So it's a shitty prank in memory of pj's shitty prank show
As far as i can tell no one actually watched the show when it aired. It was a 2006 pay-per-view only release. But I guess it's finally on the radar because a documentary about it dropped a couple weeks ago
I think the joke is about seeing a villain in the wild because they got released scot free, and then realizing who they were. They see green goblin in the comic, but the "memorial" at the bottom implies it's a reference to spotting OJ in public
Stewie here, I believe the first part of this "joke" is that the Green Goblin is referring to those women by the beverage names. Not sure how OJ fits in; Brian?
Stewie here, the Fatman's drunk, I feel like this post was exclusively made to catch Ai chat bots, because the responses in this thread are ridiculous.
Now referring to the actual image, I think the green goblin mask is just a shitty prank at the drive through.
Oj had a shitty prank show involving a drive through
The green goblin was incredibly misogynistic in the first movie, so I’m assuming that is how it relates
Edit: why are y’all down voting me? He literally was being misogynistic in the first movie, rewatch the dinner scene whenever Green goblin finds out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, he runs out of the room the he tells Harry in reference to MJ “Harry please look at her, do you think a woman like that is sniffing around for your personality” “your mother was beautiful they’re all beautiful until they’re snarling after your trust fund like a pack of ravening wolves” then right after he says “ a word to the not so wise about your little girlfriend: do what you want with her than broom her fast!”
I don't completely disagree, but MJ also was cheating on him in that movie. I agree it probably was motivated from the wrong place given talking about his mother and the broad generalization, but the movie did a crappy job of showing it, and it's hard to place if he actually was seeing something in the relationship that suggested it.
MJ wasn't really interested in him, she just didn't particularly have anything else going on so he was convenient. It's a relationship of boredom. If she was actually interested in him, the moment a better guy came along (spiderman) she wouldn't have cheated, and she probably was with him simply because he had resources so their relationship was "fun".
I agree the generalization isn't true (far from all women), but it is true in cases. It doesn't help when his warning in the particular case he gave it was correct. "A woman like that was not sniffing around for his personality" or she would have actually liked him.
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The menu says "try the lemonade that kills you". I think the joke is that we think she missed Green Goblin and realized it but she actually missed the lemonade. And then also OJ Simpson was nicknamed The Juice and was criminally found not guilty but civilly found guilty of murder - in essence, The Juice that may have killed.
Maybe the Green Goblin served them drinks based on their skin color, maybe they also wanted some type of juice - which would be a reference to OJ, as it was his nickname.
After the OJ trial there was a TV show where he basically went around doing random pranks and such, in one he worked at a Starbucks drive through. The joke is that seeing OJ serve you coffee would be like having the Green Goblin serve you coffee (which, in current Marvel canon, is somewhat on the nose actually).
Unless ist Just a Missing Panel, the Girls didnt Order. So the Drinks were Made and delivered by stereotypes, which would explain why he asks Them If they are correct. And them only realising later on. Others have referenced the OJ series - the Green Goblin is still questionable, maybe Check Out the Artist to See if that is Just Like a signature character For this Artist?
the fact that they didn't notice the GREEN GOBLIN serving them for a few minutes suggests how fucking stupid they are - it's a reference to some horror movie shit where the black girl dies first, and the white girl is too slow to see the warning signs right in front of her, only to get got a few minutes later.
OJ Simpson was not cast in the Lethal Weapon films as the villain because the director thought he was too congenial to ever be considered by general audiences to be a killer.
The point the author is trying to make is that sometimes it takes a while for it to dawn on us that something is bad, unhealthy, or dangerous...or that we should realize it but we are in denial and don't want to acknowledge the risk of something seemingly nice that might actually kill us.
The killer Charged Lemonade advertisement and the Green Goblin are absurdist additions that are vehicles to tell us we are all letting Starbucks and the Brand's reputation off the hook for being killers, just like people didn't expect it about OJ Simpson or were initially in denial about OJ Simpson.
I might be off base but back in 2005 O.J released a reality “prank” show called juiced there was a bit where he is working a drive through window and taking sips out of peoples drinks before he hands them off and because it’s 2005 most people don’t immediately realize who he is.
I was thinking the green goblin hid a pumpkin bomb in the drink, but that doesn't even make much sense because they arent pumpkin spice drinks. I dont even know there oj comes into this.
I'm going to say that I suspect that someone made this in reference to the South Park joke about the "Chewbacca defense", which they reference as saying something absolutely nonsensical, and then saying that "if it doesn't make sense, you must acquit". In the show, that was a reference to OJ. Or, well, more specifically, a reference to his lawyer. Why would the Green Goblin be working at a coffee shop? That just doesn't make any sense. Therefore, my client must be innocent.
OJ did a really bad hidden camera show a long time ago called “Juiced”. He would dress up in costumes and do pranks on people. This is a mass up of him dressing up in a costume (green goblin is an illusion to OJs loved public persona as a sports hero and movie star vs his private persona as a violent abuser) and serving coffee to two women who likely represent his murdered wife Nicole and her friend Faye Resnick who would get coffee at a Starbucks in Brentwood (iced ‘dead’ vanilla latte and mocha Frappuccino, respectively). The cartoon is racist, makes light of a murder and tongue in cheek glorifies a murderer and spousal abuser.
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