039: Would You Mind Spitting In My Mask?

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 04:00:00 -0800

Amos and Edda are in a body of water, so that of course means that it is unclear: a) what kind of body of water it is, b) how deep the water is, and c) if there are any other people around. Amos threatens (promises?) to drown himself waiting for Edda to swim by again. I mean, they're married or at least dating at this point, so I'm not sure why he's being so stealthy about looking at her. Later, he sees legs under the water and decides to swim through them BEFORE BEING CERTAIN THEY BELONG TO EDDA. It ends up being Edda, who traps him between her thighs (metaphor!), and then he basically stays there, with his head pressed against her vagina. Mostly, it's the top of his head, which is confusing but also a bit of a relief. There's a moment where it totally seems like Ol' Mac-El-Dee wanted to imply that Amos was going downtown while in the pool, but the way it's drawn would rule that out. Physical impossibility rears its head in a strip where it appears Edda has removed Amos's head from his body. In the end, they either fuck, drown, or fart jointly under the water. Because ROMANCE! In a bonus strip, Edda dance/romances a dead-eyed Amos (is there any other kind?) and ends up kissing him while standing with her feet on his shoulders. Yeah. Try to imagine what that looks like. And good luck!

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

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This suspiciously bubbly episode includes:

Headphones vs. Earsets
Jigsaw puzzles
Kansas City
Is Stroud's Fried Chicken still around? Yes, it is.
Sudoku
Jigsaw Chat!
Brooke's hair surprises!
The official beginning of Spring
Crocuses are fucking useless
Stretch Armstrong
Australian Crawl
Giantesses
Catywampus and Kitty-Corner
9-1-1 & 9-1-1 Lone Star
Thigh gap
Becky Thatcher
A bit of a Ben Franklin
Milk Milk Lemonade
Little House on the Prairie
Slingblade
"Can't Touch This!" by MC Hammer
"Bad Girls" by Donna Summer

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036: I've Never Seen So Many Binoculars

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 04:00:00 -0700

Somehow, we limit ourselves to only five strips this episode. Seems impossible, but we actually did it. Brooke (Dillman) found a short run on one topic that, while only five-strips in length, carried all the fury-inducing content of a dozen or more ordinary strips. The journey begins with Ginger (Xiulan's friend whom we met at Xiulan's wedding to Hugh) and Gerald (the guy from the wedding she's now apparently involved with), who is apparently her boss. She seduces him on his own desk and Xiulan walks in on them, informing them that all of the people in the building next door are watching them with binoculars. Neither of them has so much as unbuttoned one button, so they're as covered up as can be, but somehow this behavior is enough to encourage dozens of people to get their binoculars out of their desks (naturally, I suppose?) so they can watch them. Everything gets kicked up a notch when Edda and Amos try to introduce Fleurrie and Sven to Xiulan and Hugh. The simple introduction of couples results immediately in Fleurrie and Xiulan simultaneously sticking their tongues out at each other. Fleurrie adds, while she does so, "Mine's bigger," referring obviously to the size of her husband. Sven then asks Fleurrie about what he thought he heard her say, which was "mine's's bigger," which of course makes no sense and no one would ever say. Fleurrie assures him it was only a typo and the editor caught it. Sven is stunned to discover they have an editor (as are we), so stunned in fact that his eyes point in two different directions. Xiulan then sends a question to Uncle Ethel (Thorax), asking for clarification the apostrophe's in the word "mine's's" which she claims to have heard used recently. But of course no one said "mine's's" around her at all. She types her question to Uncle Ethel on her computer and he responds immediately from his manual typewriter, sending back a single character, which is either a comma or an apostrophe. Neither would work as a punchline, of course, and neither really makes any sense. But that's par for the course in a run of strips where two people talk about a contraction that literally no one said. I mean, what the fuck?

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

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This episode, which is bigger than mine's's, includes:

The NEETs of the younger generation
Yodel the cat
Yodeling
Whales aren't fish
Brisket the dog
The Green Egg
Are banks companies?
Dorothy Parker
Bill spikes
Little House on the Prairie
Lashings
Wimpy will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
Rat mites
Double entendres
Binoculars
Voyeurism

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039: Would You Mind Spitting In My Mask?

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036: I've Never Seen So Many Binoculars

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