D.B. Cooper
D.B. Cooper
[Cueball is using a baton to point towards a projector.] D.B. Cooper ("Dan Cooper")
Hijacked a plane in the 1970s. On landing, demanded money and parachutes. Jumped from plane mid-flight and was ne ver found.
Vanished mysteriously with large amount of money Real age/name unknown Ambiguous, possibly affected speaking style ("negotiable American currency") Fate unknown
[Cueball has his palm out.] Tommy Wiseau ("Johnny")
Wrote, directed, and starred in The Room , a film widely hailed as "The Citizen Kane of b ad movies."
Appeared mysteriously with large amount of money Colleague says he's much older than he claims. Ambiguous, possibly affected speaking style ("You are tearing me apart, Lisa!") Background unknown
[Two images captioned "Cooper (FBI sketch)" and "Wiseau (Flickr photo by Al Pavangkanan)".]
Offscreen voice: This is the dumbest theory I've ever heard. Cueball: But it explains everything!!

In 1971, a man referred to by the media as D. B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and escaped with $200,000 in ransom money (equivalent to $900,000 in 2003 or $1,250,000 in 2020). While the FBI maintains that Cooper was most likely killed when he parachuted from the plane, they have never determined his identity, and the investigation was called off in 2016, making it the United States' only unsolved plane hijacking. (This mystery was later referenced in 1501: Mysteries , and then again in 2452: Aviation Firsts .)
In 2003, Tommy Wiseau released The Room , which is considered by many to be the worst film ever made, but has also earned a sizable number of fans who uphold it as a prime example of a film that is " so bad, it's good ". In the decade since, Wiseau has become something of an icon alongside his infamous movie, of which he was the producer, writer, director, and main star. Surprisingly little, however, is known about him. The comic refers to "The Room" as "...the ' Citizen Kane ' of bad movies." This is a comparison between what is widely considered the best film of all time, which was, coincidentally the first film produced by, written by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles and what is widely considered the worst film of all time, the first film produced by, written by, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau.
This comic points to similarities between several details of Cooper and Wiseau's stories:
The comic then compares an FBI sketch of Cooper with a photograph of Wiseau, apparently to claim that they have similar appearances.  The only real similarity is that they're both wearing sunglasses.
However, these are only a few cherry-picked aspects of their lives, and do not seriously suggest that they are the same person. For example, even if we assume that Wiseau was born in 1950, and that Cooper was only 35 (probably the youngest age which can be mistaken for mid-40s) in 1971, that leaves a 14-year gap between their ages. Likewise, Cooper was said to have either an American or Canadian accent, while Wiseau's bizarre accent is certainly not North American. While Cueball 's theory in this comic is clearly a joke on Randall 's part, given Randall's known distaste for conspiracy theories, this may also be making fun of people who base theories off of minor details while ignoring contradictory ones and bigger-picture questions. The question in the title text, for instance, notes that Cooper would have gone through a huge amount of effort just to produce a movie; a similar rhetorical device is often used against convoluted conspiracy theories, where one points out a vastly simpler way for the supposed conspirators to have accomplished their goals.
The title text goes on to attribute such a weird motive for hijacking to the impression that "people are very strange these days," which is another quote from The Room .
[Cueball is using a baton to point towards a projector.] D.B. Cooper ("Dan Cooper")
Hijacked a plane in the 1970s. On landing, demanded money and parachutes. Jumped from plane mid-flight and was ne ver found.
Vanished mysteriously with large amount of money Real age/name unknown Ambiguous, possibly affected speaking style ("negotiable American currency") Fate unknown
[Cueball has his palm out.] Tommy Wiseau ("Johnny")
Wrote, directed, and starred in The Room , a film widely hailed as "The Citizen Kane of b ad movies."
Appeared mysteriously with large amount of money Colleague says he's much older than he claims. Ambiguous, possibly affected speaking style ("You are tearing me apart, Lisa!") Background unknown
[Two images captioned "Cooper (FBI sketch)" and "Wiseau (Flickr photo by Al Pavangkanan)".]
Offscreen voice: This is the dumbest theory I've ever heard. Cueball: But it explains everything!!
