Gunnerkrigg Court Comment Poll

[Runningflame]

One of my favorite parts of Gunnerkrigg Court is Tom's comments below each comic page. Sometimes witty, sometimes insightful, sometimes terribly punny--and so many of them quotable. Since polls are all the rage right now, I thought it would be fun to find out what everyone's favorite comments were. Thus, the Gunnerkrigg Court Comment Poll. I've included all page comments up through page 2365, in alphabetical order, with duplicates combined. The page(s) where they appear are in brackets afterward. Since there are over 2000 unique comments (!), you can vote for up to 20. (It's a pretty long list, so you might have to wait a bit for the page to load.)

The poll will stay open during the two week break, and then I'll post the results (though I'm not promising any pretty graphs--probably a top 10 rundown or something).


_{I have no clue if this is a good idea, but we're gonna try it and see what happens. Better to have loved and lost than to be... dead or something.}

[philman]

...That's a lot of options!

[wies]

Well, that was a long and entertaining reread. Sent my twenty comments in. Excited for the results.

[mturtle7]

This is an EXTREMELY silly idea for a poll, but I have to say it was remarkably fun going through all those comments! Especially because it kept tricking me into rereading the pages and chapters they came from.

[Runningflame]

Brought to you by the Ministry of Silly Polls!

[sigma]

I'm gonna revisit the poll when I get to my PC, all the options crashed my phone browser!

[fia]

Runningflame, you are a TruFan(TM) and I tip my hat to you..!

That was so hard, picking just 20. I didn't end up reading all of the options because I knew I'd just keep adding more votes, but I did try to skip around out of order to make sure the alphabetical ordering didn't bias me too much.

[wombat]

This is great, but I will be refusing to recognize the winner if it is anything other than "ZimmyXJack??? (http://gunnerkrigg.com/zimmy.html) [469]"

[fia]

I don't want to bias new polltakers but I was torn between the Jones party hat comment line and "Mfw I found out I exist as an eternal allegory for stupidity" as my top favorite. Oh gosh, and a lot of the "mystery solved" comments, particularly the one with the Jones GIF. And that bonus mini-story of Margo x John.

[fia]

On a different note: an entirely different comment poll for the most devastating comment. For me it's between the one under the girl who had a crush on Mort explaining her life story, and the one explaining that Annie thinks it's normal for people to hate Tony.

[wies]

Oct 11, 2020 13:51:21 GMT fia said:

On a different note: an entirely different comment poll for the most devastating comment. For me it's between the one under the girl who had a crush on Mort explaining her life story, and the one explaining that Annie thinks it's normal for people to hate Tony.

I just chose them too as my favorite comments. I think a devastating comment can serve well as a favorite comment too.

[lurkerbot]

I've submitted my choices - it was not easy to select a Top 20 out of more than ninety of my favorite comments. So many gems... 

[rafk]

I'll have to go through this at some stage.

Off the top of my head, "thankyou for reading this chapter about girls getting haircuts" or "in your faces girls" or the comment on the chapter title page for "The Breakout" or one of the many comments about Jones not being a robot would be the great ones I remember...

[Runningflame]

All right, results time! First some stats:

There were 30 responses, so you know this is a very scientific survey. 307 different comments received votes.

There were four very dedicated people who each voted for only one comment. One person voted exclusively for comments that contained the phrase "That guy." Somebody else voted for all the comments that started with the phrase "Click here." You know who you are.

And now for a top-15 rundown.

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Comments that received four votes:

• A cliffhanger? In MY comic? [715]
• A gift from Coyote! Nothing could possibly go wrong here! [685]
• Here it is. The best page of Gunnerkrigg Court. [995]
• www.gunnerkrigg.com/images/jonesface.gif [1113]
• Laser Cows. Just like real cows. / Only with lasers. / T-shirt coming soon. [602]
• mfw I found out I exist eternally as an allegory for stupidity. [2043]
• ZimmyXJack??? (gunnerkrigg.com/zimmy.html) [469]

Comments that received five votes:

• After hours, delinquent mandolin playing? This nightmare hellride is just getting started. [909]
• Click here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnerkrigg) to learn about Gunnerkrigg Court. [1112]
• The less said about Chapter 12a: Cursed Teapot Woes, the better. [402]

Comments that received six votes:

• Choose wisely, John. / Five minutes and fifty four seconds later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/margo.jpg) / Six minutes and twenty seconds later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/johnmargo.jpg) / Nineteen hours later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/margopaint.jpg) / Twenty one years later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/margodream.jpg) [472]
• Lower those eyebrows, young man. And the other one. [449]
• Jones saw no reason to remove the hat for the rest of the day. [788]

And the grand winner, the only comment to receive seven votes:

• Congratulations to those who figured this out. In my mind I am picturing a dart board with every available space riddled with darts. [250]

[Runningflame]

Honorable mention goes to the 20 comments that got three votes apiece:

• 10 minutes later and things would have been awkward. [397]
• A couple of real geniuses at work right here. [2116]
• A quartz alternator is not a real thing, don't worry about it. [2312]
• After a little convincing, Zimmy and Gamma drew something too! Of course, Zimmy wouldn't draw anything herself, or even look at the paper, or say anything, or really do anything other than sit in the corner and sulk, but Gamma assured Annie and Kat that she helped out with her piece. [1174]
• Annie is descended from a long line of people with their feet in their mouths. [1236]
• Being dead shouldn't stop you from living your life! [2223]
• COOL BEANS! [1854]
• Cool beans. [1860]
• It's basically a disaster when a cute girl likes you. [1012]
• It's not a party unless someone brings the proto-limb floating in a vat of liquid. [1397]
• Mystery solved. [421, 539, 944, 1036, 1094, 1263, 1526, 2198]
• Prune juice. A warrior's drink. [1687]
• Scientific test number 1: Poke it. [490]
• Someone who hides the fact they are flipping out? Seems unreasonable to me. / (What I'm saying here is that Annie does the same thing) [1559]
• Thank you for reading this chapter about girls getting haircuts. [329]
• Thanks for reading this comic about a girl getting her hair cut. [1563]
• The word I'd use is... jabronis. [998]
• The Ysengrin fan club members list: / Annie. / End of list. [2044]
• There are days when we have all bin junk. [318]
• Well now this is awkwaaaa- [682]

(This is my way of making sure my top favorites get recognized, since most of them didn't make it into the top 15. )

SPOILER: Click to show

Funny story: while I was editing these lists in Notepad++, the autocomplete suggested the following sentence: "After a little convincing, ZimmyXJack???"

[lurkerbot]

Interesting...

1 of my Top 20 favorites made the Top 15 list (comments with 4 to 7 votes each).

• After hours, delinquent mandolin playing? This nightmare hellride is just getting started. [909]

4 of my Top 20 favorites made the honorable mention list (comments with 3 votes each).

• It's basically a disaster when a cute girl likes you. [1012]
• Prune juice. A warrior's drink. [1687]
• Thanks for reading this comic about a girl getting her hair cut. [1563]
• The Ysengrin fan club members list: / Annie. / End of list. [2044]

2 of my honorable mention favorites made the Top 15 list.

• A gift from Coyote! Nothing could possibly go wrong here! [685]
• Here it is. The best page of Gunnerkrigg Court. [995]

3 of my honorable mention favorites made the honorable mention list.

• Annie is descended from a long line of people with their feet in their mouths. [1236]
• Being dead shouldn't stop you from living your life! [2223]
• It's not a party unless someone brings the proto-limb floating in a vat of liquid. [1397]

Thanks for creating the poll and tabulating the results. It was fun and insightful.

[Per]

I was one of the single vote people, with the "bin junk" comment; there was no way I was going to read through all the others to see if I was forgetting some other favourite. Cool that two others went for it as well.

The "riddled with darts" comment is for me most strongly associated with the fact that I once edited it in as the page quote on the TV Tropes Wild Mass Guessing page (shortly thereafter it and my account were both irretrievably lost in the great server crash of 2008).

[wies]

7 of my twenty comments made it to the top 15:

• www.gunnerkrigg.com/images/jonesface.gif [1113] (surprised this didn't get more votes tbh, it is pretty iconic)
• mfw I found out I exist eternally as an allegory for stupidity. [2043]
• ZimmyXJack??? (gunnerkrigg.com/zimmy.html) [469]
  (I am very glad to discover that three other people share the same sense of humor)
  
  
• Click here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnerkrigg) to learn about Gunnerkrigg Court. [1112]
• Choose wisely, John. / Five minutes and fifty four seconds later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/margo.jpg) / Six minutes and twenty seconds later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/johnmargo.jpg) / Nineteen hours later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/margopaint.jpg) / Twenty one years later. (www.gunnerkrigg.com/junk/margodream.jpg) [472]
• Jones saw no reason to remove the hat for the rest of the day. [788]
  

(didn't vote for the dart board comment, but it deserves the highest place as it is an evergreen one)

My comments in the honorable mentions:

• Mystery solved. [421, 539, 944, 1036, 1094, 1263, 1526, 2198]
• Someone who hides the fact they are flipping out? Seems unreasonable to me. / (What I'm saying here is that Annie does the same thing) [1559]
• Thank you for reading this chapter about girls getting haircuts. [329]
• Thanks for reading this comic about a girl getting her hair cut. [1563]
  (not sure if I voted for both of them or just one, but I don't remember anymore for which of them I voted if so, hence me including them both. It sums the comic pretty well up anyway)

I think most of the comments that didn't make the cut were the more sad ones like the Hands come off, walls come down, the last comment of the chapter A handful of dirt, the one about Annie thinking it normal that people hate her father and Betty's lifestory (though it is debatable how sad that one actually is). The rest I don't remember.

Thank you, Runningflame, this has been an unusual and fun inquiry to an overlooked part of the webcomic!