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As for this comic...
I know I kind of already made a joke like this. In fact, I absolutely made a joke like this. Indeed, I made an entire comic that perfectly matches this one in terms of joke setup, layout, and panel breakdown back in strip #501. But I thought it was funny the first time, so maybe it's even funnier the second time. That's how comedy works, right? Like, when Urkel said, "Did I do that?" the fiftieth time, it was WAY funnier than the first time. I'm sure that's how comedy works.
Anyway, consider it the strip so nice I drew it twice.
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VOTE TO BE SO VERY, VERY KIND!
As for this comic...
I know I kind of already made a joke like this. In fact, I absolutely made a joke like this. Indeed, I made an entire comic that perfectly matches this one in terms of joke setup, layout, and panel breakdown back in strip #501. But I thought it was funny the first time, so maybe it's even funnier the second time. That's how comedy works, right? Like, when Urkel said, "Did I do that?" the fiftieth time, it was WAY funnier than the first time. I'm sure that's how comedy works.
Anyway, consider it the strip so nice I drew it twice.
Obviously it is CHUG.
She drank the Kool-Aid.
Sometimes it’s the only way.
Au Contraire, my friend. You drink a glass of water. What Pheobe did here was not drinking. She CONSUMED that Kool-aid. It’s essence has been scrubbed from this mortal plane, never to be seen again.
Poor Kool-aid never stood a chance
“Consumed” is such a powerful word.
Like one of my favourite youtubers says, “if it’s funny once, it’s funny every time.”
Or he may just be covering because he forgets when he made the same joke before.
Now I want to know the Youtuber. That sounds like a Rhett thing to say.
Friends don’t let friends drink the Kool-Aid.
Exactly. This calls for a halfhearted intervention!
OOOOHHHH YEEEEEAAAAHHH!!!
(Sounds of falling masonry)
PS: Does this mean Phoebe may break the fourth wall?
Anything is possible. Though I didn’t know the fourth wall was made of bricks!
It’s usually from something transparent …
I’d love to be the Foley artist for the Kool-Aid man. Just tossing bricks around all day and recording them.
I’m kind of surprised that is not a concoction of Kool-Aid, 7-up and Hawaiian Punch. But if it had to be only one of these, what would have the most sugar per serving. Which when you consider Phoebe’s take on things, should be the entire container.
Hawaiian Punch is God’s nectar. I do love that stuff. Lately it seems there’s been a Canadian grocery conspiracy to hide or eliminate Hawaiian Punch from store shelves up here. You have to look harder to find it.
On that front, I must mention the best sugar rush in existence, Tahiti Treat (modern name ‘Tahitian Treat’) which is pretty much impossible to get in Canada. I used to buy it from a janky vending machine in the local art school when I went for lessons on the weekend as a kid. Then when I was a teen, it sort of disappeared from Canada. I have an uncle who loved the stuff too, and he would hunt down sources and buy cases of Tahiti Treat to store in his basement. Even that eventually died out, though.
BUT last week, I was in the Hamilton Farmer’s Market and got a sandwich from the source of the best sandwiches in the city, the little Jamaican place. (It’s humble, it’s just a husband and wife who run it, and it is the best. I believe it is just called ‘Jamaican Patty Shack’.) I was perusing their drinks and there it was on their display: TAHITIAN TREAT. I asked the woman in a tremulous, hopeful voice, “Do you have Tahitian Treat? Like, do you REALLY have Tahitian Treat?” She laughed and verified that yes, they do in fact have Tahitian Treat. I was the happiest I’ve been in years. It tasted like my past.
That reminds me of Guy deLisle in Burma.
Something like that. Only with less artistic merit.
But he talked so wonderfully about getting to eat the foods of his youth. 🙂
I never read it. I’m just jumping to conclusions off the little I know about it.
“I never read it. I’m just jumping to conclusions off the little I know about it.”
Read it. It’s great. A little dated now, but still great. He’s got some great scenes envolving his little boy.
The tragic thing about working on a comic is that it really does kill my desire and ability to read comics. I have very little free time to devote to such an endeavor, and working on a comic just … I dunno. It burns me out on comics. I look at comics and all I see are other people with talent greater than my own and I get jealous, or I’m just seeing the composition elements and the ‘how’ of the thing rather than enjoying the medium. There’s tons of comic material out there I really should read. I doubt I ever will.
“The tragic thing about . . .”
O.K., I can see that. I think Mark Twain talked about something similar. And sometimes I can really see typesetting.
HAWAIIAN PUNCH satisfies the Canadian’s natural inclination to VIOLENCE.
Yeah, that might be something like the reason. By the way, I dispute that commercial’s statement that they make Hawaiian Punch with seven different fruits. I’m pretty sure there are NO real fruits in Hawaiian Punch. Though they do mostly claim, “You taste seven different fruits in Hawaiian Punch” which is not technically inaccurate. It’s like Juicy Fruit, which though it sort of tastes like jackfruit, but contain zero jackfruit. Or zero fruit of any kind. For the record, I tried jackfruit for the first time this summer. It did taste like Juicy Fruit. It also had a … complex flavor profile that contained something akin to garlic in there as well. I felt no need to eat more.
With the little packets of Kool-aid, you can literally add as much sugar as you want. If you feel like making artificially fruit flavored pancake syrup, it’s theoretically possible.
Although with that much sugar, chugging would take a ridiculously long time.
I think that would depend on your capacity to chug!
Oh, and sometimes, repetition is the comedy.
Laurel & Hardy: That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.
Harpo Marx: Honk
Abbott & Costello: Hey Abbott!
The Little Rascals: Welcome to the G-Man women haters club.
The Three Stooges: Calling Dr Fine Dr Howard Dr Fine.
The Honeymooners: One of these days Alice.
Burns & Allen: Say good night Gracie. Good night Gracie.
The Flinstones: WILMA!!!
Dick Van Dyke: Never sees the ottoman.
All in the Family: Stifle it Meathead!
The Jetsons: Jane! Stop this crazy thing!
Get Smart: Would you believe, I missed it by that much.
M*A*S*H*: The adolescent antics in the Swamp.
F R I E N D S: How you doin?
How I met your mother! Barney’s womanizing.
The Big Bang Theory: That’s my spot. You’re in my spot.
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, etc, ad infinitum.
True enough. Even though some of those examples make my skin crawl.
I’m a baaaaaaad pussycat.
Familiar, but I can’t place it.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFC9vnZY93k
@Frank Harr
Awwwww….
Sometimes he sees the ottoman.
Or Big Bang Theory: Ba-zinga!
Will we get a thrice?
I don’t like to push this sort of thing too hard.
Pretty soon, Phoebe will be behaving like you’d expect Satan’s daughter to. UH_OH!!!
Well, as I’ve noted before, I don’t think that Phoebe would ever tilt toward the destructive or the cruel. She might get a little crazy, though. In the best way possible.
Oh you can totally OD on sugar, it’s called Diabetes. But Diabetes isn’t funny so I’m sure she’s safe.
Diabetes is one of the least humorous of ailments. Mind you, so is cancer and I did a whole story arc on that one. So nothing is safe.
i think her devilish genetics make her impervious to things like diabetis, so she is safe…..but from pucks panicky face, i´d say the people around her are far from. whether she worries about blood-red vomit or that the sheer amount of calories will make phoebe´s dress explode off of her, is anyones guess
I think Phoebe is also immune to calories. But that’s just a theory.
Those are child’s play compared to sarcoidosis. But anything that imbalances the health of an individual isn’t a laughing matter.
Unless you can make it funny. Then it is.
That’s a smart individual, that little voice.
Phoebe’s story goes apace.
Puck should not be . . . quick to go to the rescue. Phoebe’s aim doesn’t seem to be great.
You have a point about Puck rescuing Phoebe. She’s had bad experiences being next to Phoebe in an agitated state before. Though I think this will be different, if only because I already did the puke thing earlier.
Ooh! Twist? Cool!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g
Okay, I never knew who that song was by, or that it had a video. (The video, by the way, is very disappointing, IMHO.) I only knew it as the needle drop to many an 80’s moment. Great memories.
Yello is crazy hot if you’re into electronica found object Eurotrash disco. “Flag” is one of my favorite albums.
https://youtu.be/Y4QbJRAWvRU
I am not sure whether I’m into it or not yet. It certainly seems to be kinda my bag. Kinda?
OH YEAH!
The video is a trip into insanity. The song is forever etched into my memory via the little film starring Michael J. Fox: The Secret of My Success.
That was the second time it was used… The first time was in “Ferris Beuller’s day off”.
At the time we were calling it the Farrari theme!
I passed on that film. I got married in 1986 and we couldn’t afford movies. By the time video was popular I forgot that it existed. I had to look up the Deadpool reference to know what the bathrobe was about. That makes me mildly interested in the film — is it worth a look?
It’s worth watching if for no other reason than it was so completely different from every other Teen movie made at the time.
Besides, It’s got a ferrari… and what do you say when you get behind the wheel of a Ferrari?
“ohhhhhh Yeaaaaaahhhh”
Agreed. Worth a watch. It was ahead of its time in the fourth wall-breaking irreverent humour.
I should also mention that a lot of the jokes in this movie have been re-done ad-nauseum, but this is where they first appeared. If you watch it, you’ll see what I mean.
Re Phoebe’s dress= does that constitute a miracle of fashion, or engineering? Also, Phoebe chugging Kool-Aid is equivalent to a pin-pulled grenade . . . . that gown risks fragging, is all I’m saying. Ah well, Puck will no doubt save everything . . . she’s evil that way.
Phoebe’s dress constitutes a miracle of fashion engineering. Or just a plain miracle. I actually think it could be done, but would require wire or plastic framing, double-sided tape, and some other specific tricks of the trade. It’s also potentially possible that certain points that seem entirely pen could be actually connected via fishing line. That would make the whole thing more viable.
I have thought WAY too much about the physical feasibility of Phoebe’s dress.
You know, there is surprisingly little magic in your comics considering it features fairy and devil’s daughter. Maybe the dress IS magical.
The magic is in the little, mundane things. Like the dresses.
It’s like you once said about the towel: “If you were her towel, would YOU let go of her?” I suspect the same rule logic applies with her dress and presumably any other clothing.
Well, adherence is easy. What’s more the mystery is the … er, lift in the front. The girls don’t sit that way without support. Or implants. But I don’t think the latter would be likely with Phoebe’s character. (Tracee most definitely, but Phoebe? No.). So the question is what is providing the lift and compression? Space. Age. Materials.
Hooray; Phoebe’s back; my raging hormones missed her.
‘Raging hormones’ sounds like a painful medical condition. You may want to get it checked.
Her ability to keep that dress from falling off is nothing compared to the power of pouring that Kool-Aid in her mouth without a single drop of spillage.
She’s a dainty lady.
This joke needs three repetitions, minimum. I will accept no less.
Well, I will see what I can do.
Absolutely. Adhere to the Rule of Threes.
Goodness help us all if that’s not just Kool-Aid, but Bug Juice..
Bug juice? I’m not Googling that. I’ve had a bad history of Googling things recently.
Good call. I didn’t think about that, and now I don’t want to know. But, know this: in context, I mean the concoction we used to make in the Scouts. It was basically just dumping a few containers (not the little packets, the plastic containers) of Kool-Aid into a portable water cooler. We… might have also added more sugar.
I am unfamiliar with it. It sounds horrifying.
You must remember, EG, that whatever it says on the package, all Kool-Aid tastes the same. Only the colors differ. Therefore, red, green, and orange may be mixed without ill effects (excepting ocular ones).
You’re thinking of M&Ms. Kool-Aid definitely has different flavours. They’re all artificial and weird, but they are distinct.
GO PHOEBE, GO!!!! (hearing StrayCats “Rock this Town”, playing for her in my mind.) Puck will save her, but hopefully NOT before Phoebe has TONS of FUN!
I’m not sure Puck can stop this train when it’s going this speed.
I’m struck again by how good Puck’s dress is.
It’s the best dress of the lot.
Phoebe is a good friend.
I like the Kool Aid pitcher. Nice job, EG.
Drawn from memory. Hard to forget that profile.
I like the Kool Aid pitcher. Nice job, EG.
Also, I noticed in the picture of Daphne and Tyler, her T shirt says ‘IDGAF’. Could that be for “I Don’t Go Anywhere Foreign”?
😉
Well, her previous swimsuit had ‘STFU’ across the front, so … yes. Of course it does.
Years ago I saw a comic the the teenage babysitter gave in to the pleas of hte little girl she was minding and gave her some chocolate cake. the little girl promptly bacame a hyperactive little super ball, bouncing of he walls and ceiling. As she chaed her al lover theplace the babysitter wailed “oh my god I have created a gas molecule”
I don’t know why I felt compelled to share that.
Have we ever been shown why Phoebe and sugar are a bad combination?
Nope. This is a new development.