# What's up with Today's Google Cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292 "2016-12-21T14:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/1 "2016-12-21T14:24:41Z")
It’s supposed to celebrate the first day of winter, but I’m not sure what they’re getting at. There’s a bunch of snow covered rocks that are shivering with cold. One of the rock’s eyes are shifting back and forth between a small bare tree and a very small rock(?). All I can guess is that the shifty eyed rock doesn’t understand why the tree is naked, but I dunno, why shift back and forth to the other rock? (If that is a very small rock.) Anybody got a better explanation? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/2 "2016-12-21T14:33:28Z")
Ah, you just solved me a question I had! Google Spain isn’t celebrating winter, but Paco de Lucía’s 69th birthday. So I haven’t seen your cartoon, but I can now tell that mine is different from yours! And the shifty rock is just because Someone in a higher pay grade wanted the picture to be animated because that is what the Procedure says and the Procedure is the Procedure and the Procedure must be followedommmm… but whomever drew it was sick of drawing snowfalls for winter 🙂 But that’s just my guess. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/3 "2016-12-21T14:51:08Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > There’s a bunch of snow covered rocks that are shivering with cold. I think you pretty much nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/4 "2016-12-21T16:00:58Z")
That winter picture is not showing on the Google Australia page (summer there). Actually they have no graphic. > **[Google](https://www.google.com.au/)** > > Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Google World Sites… [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Google\_domains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/5 "2016-12-21T16:05:40Z")
The three previous change in seasons has featured the same rocks. Here is the rocks from the first day of [spring](https://nhlife.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/2016springgddfsfsf.jpg?w=1108&h=634). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/6 "2016-12-21T16:39:06Z")
> [@Me\_Billy](#): > > That winter picture is not showing on the Google Australia page (summer there). Actually they have no graphic. > > [https://www.google.com.au/](https://www.google.com.au/) Aussies should be seeing [this](https://www.google.com/doodles/summer-solstice-2016-southern-hemisphere). ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/7 "2016-12-21T17:55:42Z")
Someone at Google messed up, because that’s only showing in Brazil! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/8 "2016-12-21T18:09:03Z")
Yeah, I was trying to make it do something, but no luck. Usually the rocks will do something, or something will jump out from one of them. Kinda disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-todays-google-cartoon/775292/9 "2016-12-21T18:17:11Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Someone at Google messed up, because that’s only showing in Brazil! Yeah, they seem to be having trouble with their Hemisphere doodles. At least today’s Winder Solstice doodle [covers the Northern Hemisphere like it should](https://www.google.com/doodles/winter-solstice-2016-northern-hemisphere). The Summer Solstice doodle? [USA only.](https://www.google.com/doodles/summer-solstice-strawberry-moon) The Winter Solstice doodle from the same day? [Limited to Australia & New Zealand.](https://www.google.com/doodles/winter-solstice-2016-southern-hemisphere)