NEW MAY VOTING INCENTIVE UP NOW!
More bonus car wash comic stuff! Good times!
VOTE TO BE SO VERY, VERY KIND!
As for this comic…
I just want to make it known that there is currently an alternate punch line to this comic posted over on MY PATREON PAGE, so if you’re curious, you could always, you know, become a supporter and stuff. Not that I’m hard selling or anything. Just … just soft sell.
For the record, Papa is the kind of smooth talker I most admire: the type who is undeniably smooth, but never really tries. At all. It is an unstudied, uncultured smoothness. He gives little to no thought about what he is about to say, and so he never is at a loss about what to say. I am the exact opposite of this: I wrestle mightily with my own brain during conversations, trying desperately to think of a few decent words to say, and the end result is always a disaster. But not Papa. Papa is fearless, and instinctive, and just a little bit dumb, and that makes him a conversational genius.
Look out Phoebe, he’s looking for then number 10 to add to the list of phone numbers in his phone.
yeah, i think so as well….looking forward to papa smurf running into collin on the morning after in their kitchen already 😉
Well, let’s not jump to conclusions. Even though that’s the best part.
With Maureen McGovern’s “There’s Got to be a Morning After” playing on the radio and Papa Schnorf looking particularly disheveled.
I didn’t say thay, butt I can see how it could be implied.
Oh yeah. Other such words of the Buddha were “I feel good. I knew that I would, now” and “Get up. Get on up.”
He had some solid hits back in the day.
Ever see Buddha do the splits? Very impressive.
https://youtu.be/X8Ow1nlafOg
One of my favorites.
Ow!
Do it Phoebe! Shnorf the hell out of that party.
@Thisguy
YEAH !!!!
Keep on Shnorfing till your Shnorf don’t Shnorf!
Papa Shnorf go shnorf up that dance floor.
It’s a real mascot who can effectively dance inside a giant foam costume.
I loved the James Brown/Buddha mashup – but the Patreon punchline made me snort my coffee. Well done!
Sometimes (oftentimes) I end up running with the lesser joke. I don’t know why.
I adore Phoebe’s expression in Panel Three.
S-E-X-Y
I totally agree Salem. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Phoebe look so hot and she sets a pretty damn high bar. EG, you should be proud of panel three.
Now, I need to go take a cold shower.
It’s funny because I wasn’t even really trying to go for overly sexy in that panel. But if that’s the result, I’ll take it!
I am thrilled that you approve.
Ooooh Crap….
WALPURGIS is close upon me.
There are some Holidays I truly dread.
EG, can I hide under your bed tomorrow night ?
SALEMKATTE won’t look there.
And I’m pretty sure I can control my NIGHT TERRORS.
(at least I can promise they no longer involve incontinence)
No, you cannot.
@EG
🙁
I suppose if the Buddha and James Brown were together, you could tell them apart.
@Robert Nowall
The give-away is always the visible navel.
I actually asked him about that once – but he just smiled.
Buddah is inscrutable.
What? James Brown didn’t have a navel?
Could you? I’m not so sure.
Hey, see yawl tonite on the Brocken.
Look for me, TRACEEE and Mel (that’s what the Canadian Satan is known as to his pals).
I can be found beneath the Knockwurst Tent – overdosing on Saurkraut.
WHOOPEEE !
(did I mention TRACEEE prefers to celebrate NEKKID ?)
I have a lot of random books, but one of them is An Introduction to Pali. Flipping through it I did find a verb for “to dance” (nat- 3rd conjugation, with what I assume is the participle, naccam). I take this as proof positive that, at least in Theravada Buddhism, the Buddha could dance.
The Buddha danced the middle path every day. If you don’t think that took coordination and care, then you know nothing of the Buddha. Or dancing.
When Papa Shnorf says “Buddha” I think he means a type of pot. 😉
That’s ‘B.C. Buddha’ to you, dude.
BC as in British Columbia? Oh you Canadians know how to live it up!
🙂 I am looking forward to see Phoebe and Papa boogie down on the dance floor. Phoebe does need a little fun.
It was a rather specific reference to a certain strain of the herb in question. ‘BC Bud’ is legendary. And yes, it’s named after the province of its origin.
Huh. I seem to recall I actually predicted something like this happening… @_@;
Oh, Papa Shnorf… That may not have been the most responsible advice you have ever given.
Papa Shnorf is not a font of wisdom.
Panel 3 leaves me feeling just a teensy bit concerned.
Phoebe may be one of the more benevolent characters of the comic, but I have to wonder what a half-devil girl with her lavish upbringing considers “cutting loose”.
I don’t think you need be concerned. Phoebe cutting loose will likely be relatively calm compared to most. Though it might be a little wilder compared to normal Phoebe.
Yes, because that solves everything.
You know, there’s a problem right at the heart of Daphne’s plan, besides it’s psychoticness. Is Hannah really the kind of person who cries in the bathroom just because another girl is prettier than her? She’s just so bubbly. Daphne’s going to have to be a lot nastier.
Daphne’s plan was really no plan at all. Because she was entering an arena that was wholly foreign to her. It’s like someone who has never played hockey who sets a goal of winning some hockey tournament. The plan would look like this: (A) buy hockey equipment, (B) go to arena, (c) get on the ice, and (D) do some, uh … some good hockey stuff. This is the level on which Daphne’s plan exists.
True.
Great dress though.
Is Phoebe’s tail and horns invisible? Or is this some sort of deal, like the way Death can’t be seen by humans on Discworld because they don’t WANT to see him?
That second option, definitely. I liken it most to Douglas Adams’ “Somebody Else’s Problem Field”. Everyone sees it, knows about it, but assumes, “There’s probably a good explanation for it and it’s really none of my business,” so they go about their business.
She’s lived in this town for a long time. I suppose everyone’s just used to it. It would be impolite to comment at this point.
Exactly.
I believe another wise man once said “When it’s time to party, we will party hard.”
Good man, that Andrew W.K. 🙂
Pearls. Of. Wisdom.
The man who will get this party, and all parties, started.
Happy May Day to all!
Webcomic readers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your boredom! 😉
Everyone’s favorite forgotten holiday?
@ChrisH
Happy MAY DAY to you as well !
(tho mainly I’m just glad Walpurgis is over and SalemKatte is gone – until Samhain)
Coming up fast on the big 5-0-0, can’t wait to see it.
I wish I had something big and cool planned. At the moment, I do not. Unless I just sort of pause the running story arc for a one-off gag comic. I dunno.
Hummina! Hummina! Hummina! Phoebe! Hummina! Hummina! Hummina!
I am going to assume that ‘hummina’ is good? I shall assume so until told otherwise.
Ralph Kramden
Repetative Humminas is the sound a male makes when incapable of communicating coherently with the beautiful female in front of him. It’s a very old school gag in some movies, television shows and cartoons.
Sounds like some type of incantation to me.
Oh no! I just had a terrible image of Phoebe and Papa Shnorf breakdancing 80’s style. ~shudders~
That is a terrible image? Really? You and I have a very different concept of terrible.
Well, the Phoebe part is OK, but Papa Shnorf breakdancing causes the mind’s eye to fog up.
Happy Cinco de Mayo !
The very fake “holiday” invented in the USA, that when mentioned in Mexico, results in a very puzzled look.
Snopes
Please tell me this is not celebrated in Canada.
I know of it. But no, it is not celebrated. And seeing as there are almost no actual Mexicans to speak of in Canada, I cannot speak to the veracity of the holiday and whether it’s culturally authentic.
@EG
No actual Mexicans in Canada ?
I’d say this farce, celebrated solely by Caucasian College Students, is a perfect match for the Northland !
It’s much like the “African” holiday of Kwanza, which is unknown on that actual continent.
Well, I think you know already how much I enjoy bizarre Holidays. The older and weirder the betta’.
But yeah, I also decry fake invented ones.
As usual, Seinfeld covered this situation of fake holidays perfectly with FESTIVUS.
The man is a genius.
Hate to break it to you, but all holidays are invented ones. What you dislike, I take it, is the recently invented holidays.
@EG
The recently invented Holidays, that the people they are attributed to, yet not invented by them – those are the ones I question.
If Cinco de Mayo were a huge deal in Mexico, or Kwanza were celebrated across Africa, I would adore both.
Are there no genuine holidays in either culture I can get behind ?
Sadly, I am uninformed for African Holidays. But the Day of The Dead in Mexico is wonderful !
I support it 100% !
It is real, and in no way invented.
We almost never see anyone from the thighs down in this comic. I never knew Phoebe’s tail was so long!
It’s an unusual stylistic choice… but I like it!
Keep in mind that I am terribly inconsistent when drawing things like Phoebe’s tail. It tends to range between three and five feet in length. But it changes a bit. This looks a little long to me, but it’s not too far off. It’s a long tail any way you slice it, I guess.