Ah yes, the washroom stall joke. This strip introduced yet another running theme in Puck: the potty humour. Despite the somewhat boyish joke here, a number of girls expressed that this was one of their all-time favourite strips in the series. That said, it took some other people aback. I was at a party shortly after this one ran in the paper, and a girl there kept saying, “I just can’t believe she was on the toilet!” Yes, Puck was on the toilet.
I think the shock factor here has to do with gender. Bathroom jokes are all too common in the male world, but when you show a picture of a girl sitting on the can, in our culture, there’s an immediate sense of the verboten about it. I worried about crossing the line of decency, but I thought it was funny, so I went for it.
I’m actually quite proud of this strip art-wise. It’s not necessarily easy to draw someone sitting on a toilet, and I’m happy with the pictures in all four boxes – a rarity!
I know this is an old strip but, at the beginning of a semester at university the staff told the students in my dorm that because of budget cuts we would have to buy our own toilet paper and apparently have to share it. This got stopped fairly quickly probably because some of the students’ parents were legislators and in general angry parents.
Angry parents are sometimes the only cause of change. The universities know who pays the bills.
Yes, it has been far too long since we have seen Puck doing a Number 2.
Not for me.
Tracee, then ?
No. Just no.
groan
I am not a native english Speaker nor a girl. So what is drip-dry? Was she peeing and Need a paper for that? The Oh-Henry tells me nothing and number two, is that a second snickers paper?
Puck needed paper for pee. ‘Number two’ is a euphemism for poo, so Phoebe had more pressing needs. An ‘Oh-Henry’ candy bar is a large chocolate bar, larger than a Snickers (which is also a chocolate bar). And now I am exhausted by the explaining.
Paper for Poo ?
Hats for Heads ?
Shoes for your Paws ?
I do believe the Creator was having a Bad Day when He made you guys.
Felines are so clearly THE ADVANCED SPECIES.
This sounds like the time to bring up what I once saw on the wall of a bathroom on the 3rd floor of the hall where I had most of my classes: “I love this f***ing university, and this university loves f***ing me.”
It would have been better if it had been on the wall of the stall, though. 🙂
That’s true poetry right there: the poetry of the peoples.
I would SO TOTALLY like to see this 4-Panel re-visited.
With Tracee.
Now that the Lizard has tasted the POWER OR PATREON, would $5 make it so ?
(snicker me whiskers)
No more toilets. But if you were at the $5 tier, I’m sure we could generate a Tracee pic to your liking.
Hmmmm…….
(power OF patreon)
damn this lack of editing function
It appears she is peeing right through her underwear….
That’s the bottom of her shirt hanging down beneath the vest. But yeah, it’s not the best visuals.
There is still that roll on the holder which usually is made of paper glued together, so by carefully picking you can .. What? No I never was in the situation, so … NEVER I say.
That’s … entirely true.
Poor Puck. She has no idea that at a certain point in the future she would rather drip dry, than say… feel like she’s $#!+!@& a chainsaw. EGADS!!!!
This page has an uncanny relevance in the age of panicky overbuying of toilet paper.
True enough. There are the have-nots in the toilet paper world, and the morons with a giant room full of the stuff.
Somehow I am certain, that both these girls will (eventually) leave the bathroom still bitching about there being no TP for them… but will NOT reach into whatever supply closet/shelf is nearby to put a fresh roll in the stalls for the girl that comes after them.
And thus, the saga continues…