Puck 290
on June 15, 2015 at 9:29 pm
IT’S JUNE! SAY CHEESE!
Every month I run a voting incentive, and every month fans have one question on their minds: “IS IT CHEESECAKE?” If that’s your question, then this is your month! Vote for Puck on TWC! See cheesecake! GUARANTEED!
As for this comic…
This is one of those cases where I didn’t have a really killer joke, but I had two possible punch lines that were both kind of ‘heh’ instead of ‘HAH’. So I decided to drop both potential punch lines in one comic, thinking two hehs might equal a hah. Not sure if my laugh math is right, but I was never very good at math.
This is another case where I drew a whole bunch of crap for the background that never made it into the panel. I consistently forget how crammed my panels are. There’s often very little space left around the characters and the word bubbles. Oh well. I drew a few good shots of some dude in a shark mascot costume a while ago, and I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to stick them in somewhere! Maybe next week, I guess. There’s always next week.
Note: lemonade from those lemonade stands shaped like a lemon are always so good that they’re almost worth the five bucks they charge for a small lemonade. Almost. And that’s saying a lot.
Tyler, the size “lithe” is the same as “scrawny teen boy”. Take it from a guy who orders clothes in “couch potato” and “always adds bacon” sized clothes.
I prefer to call those the “solidly built” or “robustly manly” sizes.
I prefer to call those “I like my clothes baggy” and “A girl will borrow this to wear as a nightie at some point”.
How about having Puck work at the golden arches.
I am so with you on the lemonade thing; the moment I saw the stand, I was going to make that exact comment about the drinks being completely worth it. But, alas, you beat me to it.
And aha, Tyler shouldn’t be so discouraged by being called scrawny. I know a ton of girls who like scrawny guys. Okay, maybe not a ton, but a good amount, including me. Enough that it’s definitely not a bad thing.
I wonder if those lemonade stands shaped like lemons are a universal thing or just an Ontario standard. As for scrawny guys, they can always go work as male models. And to be honest, most scrawny teen males will grow to be decidedly less scrawny. I speak as a former scrawny teen boy. Oh, to be scrawny again!
It would be interesting to find out about the lemonade stand. From what I can tell from my google search, the shape that you put in here is Ontarian, but there is another lemon-shaped lemonade stand. It’s like a sideways lemon with a square hole cut through it. Not as interesting to me, but meh. I’m glad we got the interesting ones.
Long live the creepy Pac-man lemonade stand!
Likewise.
I used to be scrawny.
Then somewhere along the line I made the grievous mistake of taking up exercise, doing it for a year, and then … stopping.
Even someone who cannot put on weight by mere eating can still put on muscle through extreme exercise… and then de-training will take the muscle and replace it with fat. It is a real thing, and that made me very sad.
Where the bag came from: Cartoon space/magic (which you’ve used once before).
Amounts of uses left before it becomes boring: Infinite.
I’m… Actually somewhat surprised that people sell work clothes for specific locations on eBay (or was someone bored enough to make an identical one?) Then again, it’s not like I’m ever there, so eh…
As for him being ‘lithe’… Well, that and ‘scrawny teenage boy’ is more or less the same thing, so meh. If it fits, why complain?
I think everything is on eBay. I just looked up ‘McDonald’s uniform’ for research and found 293 listings. You can get McDonald’s uniforms dating all the way back to the 70’s! Oh, and the new McDonald’s uniforms that have never been opened? They apparently come in a bag that looks just like the bags that the Happy Meal toys come in. I find that incredibly amusing.
Kaiser is thinking of ‘hammerspace’ (one word).
Hey. Look at that. There’s even a wiki on it (not that I’m surprised) 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerspace
I dunno. These crazy kids and their crazy wordamajigs.
Oddly enough, MyWay and Ebay rhimes. Enough you could actually replace it in the song My Way.
Don’t give Weird Al any ideas.
NUUUU…. I’m still trying to get over eBay’s PR dept. butchering George Benson’s “Broadway” for a TV commercial!
“They say the sales are always on on eBay (on eBay)”
Aaaaaargh!
Way too late (although he didn’t use “My Way”). Al did “eBay” in 2003, to the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want it That Way”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtlK7sn0JQ
Hey, outfitting that old lady in Arizona was pretty magical!
Maybe next time they should plot against Target. He’s already wearing their red shirt…
Maybe he ordered the shirt on eBay.
Maybe the gnome Daphne wants to steal is on eBay, too…
I doubt it. That’s the sort of thing that needs to be stolen for it to really have value.
She is a girl of her times (not a woman, mind you… yet).
She tried to seem mysterious and powerful, but it seems HE is also a product of their time and knows her too well.
Which makes it both a mystery and understandable why he even bothers to hang around her.
Tyler bothers to hang out with Daphne because she’s a girl who tolerates his company. That was pretty much the only requirement for female friends back in high school for me. And even with those rather broad standards, I still didn’t find any.
I know definitely the feeling. Since I moved around quite a bit (military family), I usually discovered a girls was looking at me while I was packing to leave… if that soon.
About Tyler, I truly think Daphne ‘arranged’ for the other girls to leave him alone. Being an outsider of most cliches due to my movements, I saw such arrangements often.
The girl would decide which guy she ‘owned’ and informed the other girls. It was generally up to the guy to basically read the girls’ minds to find out which girls ‘owned’ him.
I think something vaguely like that would be going on. We’ll see more of their dynamic in a future story line.
You noticed the girl(s) in my statement just decide the guy knows without being told, right?
Thus, the ‘reads their minds’ statement. It’s belief in that ability women seem to share.
Concerning the daphne, IT is not, and never will be a girl, or a woman. IT’S a crime against nature. An unholy abomination, part kangaroo, part dog with just enough human DNA to give it the semblance of humanity. (Your welcome SotiCoto.)
Dude! I’m really getting good at this whole Daphne bashing thing.
I was scrawny then and am scrawny now. I prefer “gracile”
Well, for ladies, ‘svelte’ is always nice. Though most guys don’t like to be called svelte.
That’s funny; I don’t think I’ve ever heard “svelte” used to describe women; in my experience it’s always been used for males. It must be another one of those regional language/cultural differences.
Holy Cow !
“Svelte” has always been a compliment that focused on FEMALES.
At least in NorthEastern USA.
That’s funny to my mind, because the goofy Google dictionary pops up the example “svelte swimsuit models” which I’m guessing are of the Sports Illustrated variety. And Dictionary.com’s list of ‘contemporary examples’ gives three sentences all referring to girls. I’ve only ever heard it applied to women, but it well may be a regional thing.
Palagpat, you hear SVELTE used to describe males because you hang with weird people ?
Instead of Lizards, Baby Lions, Devil Women, Canada’s Satan, Cats, and whatever the heck Daphne is…..
Daphne is a kangaroo, dog, human hybrid from the Island of Dr. Moreau. I’m hoping that if I say it enough it will become canon.
It will not.
They are *so* going to end up on “Canada’s Most Wanted”.
“Tonight, on Canada’s most wanted, we have someone who over-uses the word ‘eh’, eh, someone who littered, and a daring teenage couple who stole a gnome from Canada’s World Famou… well, Canada Wide Famous Funderland!”
You know our country so well.
I kid, of course. I know that your country is just as much of a crime ridden cesspool as any other, it just doesn’t flaunt it like us Americans. Heck, at one point, you had an entire town’s police department arrested for dealing steroids.
Yeah, it’s not all sunshine and roses. But it’s slightly MORE sunshine and roses than some other places.
Recently, we had a state trooper captain blow his house up while cooking meth.
His excuse; he was trying to see how the criminals do it so he could do his job, busting them, better*…
*Also, he was out of meth.
It’s not Canada related. I just want to share because it’s funny.
You know you’re living the good life when…
Puck in a Mcdonald’s uniform is something I really want to see.
Love the alt-text, Gecko, but you explained that way back when with Tracee’s clutch.
I suppose for this crew, eBay is mystical, while cartoon space is mundane…. works for me!
I really do need to get over my dislike of drawing accessories and bags on characters. But it’s just a hang-up I have. I don’t like ’em. Until I need ’em.
as fun as this all is, i want to finally get to know just WHY she wants to steal one of these gnomes – selling it for a bundle to a perv with a gnome-fetish? scaring the crap out of phoebe? cause we all know this girl never does a harmless thing. and with a plan that well prepared, i´m expecting an epic reason!
Sometimes the answer with teenagers, even the most intelligent and mischievous of teenagers, is “Just because I can.”
I think you can probably put money on the first option. And I bet you can even guess who the buyer is.
My first guess at a buyer would be the lovely next-door neighbor Crackistan. My second and much more complex, amusing and less likely guess would be Satan (possibly catering to Tracy through some misconception), or even Sigmund. We haven’t seen much of him but his dedication to Satan is fanatical despite a rather calm appearance, which usually flags further issues.
All are possible. One is correct.
I made lemonade at the Evergreen State Fair (Washington State) so many years ago. Not a bad gig, except the sugar syrup splashed a little bit when you added it to the lemon chunks and crushed them with the pestle. After a few hundred of these, your glasses were fogged with sugar and there was no time to wash them off. Truly a geek moment!
Anyway thanks for reliving the trauma! And good luck to our protagonists – what is the penalty for “Impersonating a Fair Worker” ??
My guess? Being told by a supervisor to clean up the kiddie vomit on the Tilt-O-Whirl.
The punishment for impersonating a fair worker is, I think, ejection from the fair. The punishment for defacing a ride and stealing a component while impersonating a fair worker, though, is probably slightly more serious.
Hmmmn…
If Tyler is clever, and knowing his disdain for Funderland, a Permanent Ban may be his GOAL !
But sadly, his attachment to Daphne proves he possesses not an ounce of clever.
That’s … actually kind of likely.
I wouldn’t say Tyler would be impersonating a fair worker.
I suspect he would be much better than ‘fair’. I think he’s be a pretty good worker. Look what is puts up with all the time.
I hope you see the tongue firmly embedded in the cheek, there.
I’m looking forward to when Miranda goes to school.
How about having Puck and company go to Doctor Who’s native planet Gallifrey.
You, my friend should write comedy for tv.
It’s hard to do as it is but your dry sense of humor fits my palate like a glove.
On the one hand, I think that trying to write for TV would be fun. On the other hand, I think that the demand of coming up with twenty-five minutes of comedy is daunting. Which is why, I guess, most shows only contain one or two funny moments per half hour.
Then why is there uproarious laughter every 37 seconds in the average sit com ?
Shenanigans, perchance ?
Is there nothing sacred ? EGAD !
Canned laughter don’t count.