Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2021 July 16

= July 16 =

find old cartoon
I had remembered this as being Dilbert, with Xkcd as a possible second guess, but I think web search would have found either of those quickly so it may have been some webcomic (i.e. I didn't find it that way). An experimenter (Dilbert?) is testing a drug intended to make mice smarter. The test involves timing a mouse navigating a maze after taking the drug, but the mouse seems to just stand there doing nothing, making the experimenter say that the drug must not have worked. Then the experimenter says something like "oh wait, my mistake: the mouse set up a holographic decoy projector".

Anyone recognize this? Thanks. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:2B99 (talk) 10:39, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * You might try CartoonStock; e.g., there are 373 results for "maze":. --2603:6081:1C00:1187:68F3:3312:6EAE:5E89 (talk) 17:19, 16 July 2021 (UTC) . . . [edit] I tried a caption search for "holographic decoy projector"; no results.
 * I only looked at the first three pages there, but so far it only showed single panels. Based on the OP's description (and mentioning of Dilbert and xkcd), I got the impression they're looking for a multi-panel strip though. 2601:648, do you remember which it was? ---Sluzzelin talk  18:07, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I had remembered it as Dilbert, but now I think it must have been something more obscure. Dilbert and Xkcd captions both show up pretty quickly in web search, and I looked for a bunch of variants of the text that I remembered, with no success.  It was quite an old cartoon, I think, based on my unreliable memory of seeing it in someone's cubicle in Boston, which I haven't visited in 10+ years. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:2B99 (talk) 21:56, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Heh, that kind of memory sounds familiar. I meant do you remember whether it was a single panel cartoon, or a multi-panel (for example 3 or 4 or more panels) strip (thus allowing for a build-up). I just imagined it might be hard to pack all that into a single panel, but maybe it wasn't. (Not that I expect it to make much of a difference at this point, having searched for all varieties extensively and having found zilch). ---Sluzzelin talk  12:09, 18 July 2021 (UTC)