Visualizing Comedy

A particularly vapid troll has been bloviating over at Action Skeptics for some time now, to our collective amusement, annoyance, and frustration. Recently, though, he seems to have paid off. See, he posted a link with the following urgent message:

this is very interesting

MUST CHECK OUT

http://www.imaginify.org/tesseract.gif

(again… make what you will of it)

peace
in the middle east xD

The link was to this image:

I looked, and I laughed and laughed and laughed.

But as I tried to make sense of it, I realized how truly profound the image actually was; it’s just that the text is confusing. I’ve cleaned it up and done my best to make the meaning clear:

It all makes sense now! I feel like I am one with the universe.

For those who aren’t quite so trivia-savvy, here’s a list of references (clockwise from top):
“beware of minotaur“
“directional nautilus“
“lon lon milk“
“Justice League of America #9“
“old steve martin gag“
“complex eyedrocarbon“
“that thing from pan’s labyrinth“
“doppler effect“