There was an episode of the television series where they did. Gomez was intended for Morticia’s sister Ophelia – old families of means still arranging things – but his chemistry with Morticia was undeniable.
I believe that the “wayward” is quite important here. She knows that Walky’s got the hots for Amber, and that she thinks they’re destined to eventually bonk each other. I mean, she told him as much just a few strips ago. But as long as he’s not following this desires for Amber, it’s going to be wayward.
As for Joyce, I’m not sure if she thinks Joyce has the hots for Walky, nor is she aware who Joyce really has the hots for*; but she does know that Joyce is suppressing her sexual desires into aimlessly wandering around with not real outlet.
… I don’t think Joyce will end up pan and in a poly relationship with Jacob and Dorothy but if Joyce grows up, Dorothy either changes life goal or decides she’s OK playing to the section of the crowd who’ll go “threesome, hurr hurr” and vote for her in the hopes of sexy stuff, and Jacob decides to give a relationship model still built around commitment and trust but that isn’t monogamous a shot – I could see that working out pretty well… Hmmm…
Which is a trope that really needs to die. “You two fight all the time. You must be in love!” Sure, that works out well.
In this case though it’s the “wayward” as others have said. Whatever you think of the Joyce/Walky crack ship, right now they each have other interests they’re lusting after. Movies where the boy and girl bicker because of their horniness, but aren’t actually into other people are much rarer.
Well I want to go with “no” here, but you were just expressing the opinion that you’d have no reason to keep posting if you couldn’t get that right, and I wouldn’t wish to disagree with Your Imperiousness.
The question is not which movies fall into this category; the question is how many rom-coms don’t.
Someone on Patreon correctly pointed out that the ur-example of this is Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” the basis for “10 Things.” “Much Ado” is, of course, also a Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson movie.
The ones that popped into my head right away were “The African Queen” and “Desk Set” and “You’ve Got Mail,” which only goes to show how long it’s been since I regularly watched movies.
Joyce is right that Walky is bitter for petty things, and… did Sal just broke the fourth wall and referenced the Joyce x Walky from the Walkyverse… Oh my stars, if it turns out this story ends with Joycce and Walky together again I will bang my head in my working desk for how this should have been expected but we were just focused on Amber’s thiccness and Jacob’s abs.
FWIW, I can see Joyce and Walky having a make-out session based entirely on annoyance and passion and both later agreeing that it was a huge mistake and should never have happened.
The eternal struggle: Do I utter aloud the brilliant, snarky comment I just came up with, or, do I keep quiet so I can quickly finish eating and escape the annoying people.
Aren’t you happy Sal, that you and Joyce have sorted out your friendship and she respects you as an equal; and that you and your brother have bridged the chasms built by a lifetime of favoritism and can build a healthy sibling relationship.
Joyce and Walky will always have chemistry. It’s just that this universe has not had them go through the difficult (indeed, traumatic) young adulthood that changed them enough for it not to be an ultimately negative chemistry.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the two end up doing something stupid in a moment of passion but I don’t see them having a lasting romantic entanglement without maturing a lot.
When Dumbing of Age first started the movie Single White Female was as old as most of the students. And now I feel a whole helluva lot older having looked that up.
Good job, Sal. With your newfound ability to stay out of conflicts, you can ignore Joyce and Walky’s bickering in order to claim the real ultimate reward for all your growth: you get to eat that sandwich. In peace, sort of. Enjoy!
Frustrated Sal is new to me. I think she needs to find more people to at least verbally spar with. Joyce, Walky and Danny are too easy, Malaya is just a pointless antagonist to her. Marcie is great for that, Amber’s a bit too antisocial for repartee. Jason?
(500) Days of Summer School
Is there a movie where they don’t?
The Addams Family, because they are the most emotionally healthy couple in fiction.
Also, I don’t think we’ve ever seen the story of how Gomez and Morticia met.
There was an episode of the television series where they did. Gomez was intended for Morticia’s sister Ophelia – old families of means still arranging things – but his chemistry with Morticia was undeniable.
Carolyn Jones was oddly adorable in the ‘Wednesday’ getup.
Morticia and Gomez recount it in the cemetary during the first movie.
This is the gif where Malcolm Reynalds instantly holds up a finger to object but then realizes in the moment that the objectee may actually be right.
Yes, but they are the exceptions that prove the rules.
She ship them.
Begrudgingly.
Grudge shipping.
Gripping
God, can you imagine what it’d be like to deal with Carol AND Linda at family events?
Sounds amazing. They’d probably eat each other.
Out?
Everyone involved: Wait, what?
Becky, who doesn’t hold a grudge*: YOU GO CAROL!
*)Unless you are a chipmunk
eternal DEFCON 1?
I’d ship that.
To Siberia.
Does “JUST DO IT ALREADY SO YOU TWO STOP BEING SO ANNOYING!” count as shipping?
That is possibly the best kind of shipping.
That’s express shipping.
Ring-the-doorbell-and-run-away/UPS driver mastery style shipping.
Sal’s read “It’s Walky” and just doesn’t wanna tell anyone.
Sal knows how this story ends so she just plays along and when Walky and Joyce are found out having sex she will say “called it”.
I’ve shipped them here since the last page of Joyce and Walky. Nice to see someone in the cast finally realizing these two are meant to be together.
Not necessarily.
I believe that the “wayward” is quite important here. She knows that Walky’s got the hots for Amber, and that she thinks they’re destined to eventually bonk each other. I mean, she told him as much just a few strips ago. But as long as he’s not following this desires for Amber, it’s going to be wayward.
As for Joyce, I’m not sure if she thinks Joyce has the hots for Walky, nor is she aware who Joyce really has the hots for*; but she does know that Joyce is suppressing her sexual desires into aimlessly wandering around with not real outlet.
*My bet is Dorothy’s head on Jacob’s body**
**Joyce: The other way around is also acceptable!
… I don’t think Joyce will end up pan and in a poly relationship with Jacob and Dorothy but if Joyce grows up, Dorothy either changes life goal or decides she’s OK playing to the section of the crowd who’ll go “threesome, hurr hurr” and vote for her in the hopes of sexy stuff, and Jacob decides to give a relationship model still built around commitment and trust but that isn’t monogamous a shot – I could see that working out pretty well… Hmmm…
I was not talking about a poly relationship, but rather Joyce’s dream relationship.
And more importantly, it was a reference to a joke from The Good Place.
Pretty definitely the former. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/foranybody/
No way this comic will ever last long enough for someone to get the needed degree in Mad Science.
More like, he horny, she horny: MATE
Cue ensuing drama wherein they learn they hate each other and live hatefully apart ever after.
THE END.
It would take an alien invasion for those two to hook up.
Panel five: “The Shop Around the Corner”.
Good call.
Bickerin is a variant of Bufferin – it cures a headache by making you argue with someone until their head hurts, not yours
*plays the Moonlighting theme a moment and cuts it off before it finishes on the hacked Muzak*
Ah of course! It’s not a movie but it’s a good example.
RE 5th panel: Silly Sal, this ain’t the Walkyverse.
Yet
Plays “Perfect Crime” by G’n’R’ off an original “Use Your Illusions” CD, with the original warning sticker.
Yes, there is, Sal.
It is called ALL OF THEM.
I knew someone would beat me to it.
It’d probably be easier to list the movies where the boy and girl who are into each other don’t bicker endlessly.
Which is a trope that really needs to die. “You two fight all the time. You must be in love!” Sure, that works out well.
In this case though it’s the “wayward” as others have said. Whatever you think of the Joyce/Walky crack ship, right now they each have other interests they’re lusting after. Movies where the boy and girl bicker because of their horniness, but aren’t actually into other people are much rarer.
She knew she didn’t need to specify.
Sal Walkerton: The whisper whispere.
So apparently these days, when I make long-ass comments, I make formatting mistakes. When I make short jokes, I ruin the joke by misspelling a word.
I should probably just stop posting.
But then who will entertain us with formatting mistakes and typos?
Is that all We are to you, Reltzik?
Well I want to go with “no” here, but you were just expressing the opinion that you’d have no reason to keep posting if you couldn’t get that right, and I wouldn’t wish to disagree with Your Imperiousness.
Does “10 Things I Hate About You” count as Sal’s movie?
The question is not which movies fall into this category; the question is how many rom-coms don’t.
Someone on Patreon correctly pointed out that the ur-example of this is Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” the basis for “10 Things.” “Much Ado” is, of course, also a Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson movie.
The ones that popped into my head right away were “The African Queen” and “Desk Set” and “You’ve Got Mail,” which only goes to show how long it’s been since I regularly watched movies.
The basis of “10 Things” is “Taming of the Shrew’, hence the character names.
I’m sure there’s at least amateur indie art films out there for all three things mentioned.
. . . .I am Sal here. What she is doing is what I do and think.
So you eat sandwiches, then.
wayward horniness
carry on my wayward horn
There’ll be a piece when you are done.
Lay my weary junk to rest
And don’t you bone no more…
I loved that it’s not just horniness, it’s wayward horniness.
I can’t imagine that the teachers at her Catholic school let Sal read early John Steinbeck, or any John Steinbeck at all for that matter.
You would probably be surprised to learn that I had no less than 3 John Steinbeck books as required reading at Catholic school.
I would be and I am. Was it a Jesuit school? Also, which three?
Sal, you are a treasure.
Carry on my wayward horniness. There’ll be peace when you’re done boning-ness
Put your tension to bed to rest
Don’t you fight no more
Walky that movie came out during the Bush administration.
No not that one, that one’s dad.
That reference was already dated before you were born.
“That reference is dated” is itself dated, ironically because the ephemeral Internet no longer lets anything die.
Loving how panel 1 Walky and panel 5 Sal have identical expressions.
Joyce is right that Walky is bitter for petty things, and… did Sal just broke the fourth wall and referenced the Joyce x Walky from the Walkyverse… Oh my stars, if it turns out this story ends with Joycce and Walky together again I will bang my head in my working desk for how this should have been expected but we were just focused on Amber’s thiccness and Jacob’s abs.
Joyce and Walky other world canon!!
Ok, Sal made me laugh out loud there
Also, yes. yes, there are plenty of TV series and movies about just that xD
Yes, it’s almost literally the ‘meet cute’ stereotype! Just about every romantic plot-line in animé tends to be along those lines too!
Are they, tho.
To answer Sal’s rhetoric question: Yes. Basically, all of them.
Joyce and Walky, huh?
Nope. Can’t see it.
I don’t think she meant with each other.
or maybe she did. I don’t know things
FWIW, I can see Joyce and Walky having a make-out session based entirely on annoyance and passion and both later agreeing that it was a huge mistake and should never have happened.
*Sees Comic*
SHIP! SHIP! SHIP! SHIP! SHIP! SHIP! SHIP!
The eternal struggle: Do I utter aloud the brilliant, snarky comment I just came up with, or, do I keep quiet so I can quickly finish eating and escape the annoying people.
Answer: You post it on social media as a “friend-of-my-friend”-situation.
Aren’t you happy Sal, that you and Joyce have sorted out your friendship and she respects you as an equal; and that you and your brother have bridged the chasms built by a lifetime of favoritism and can build a healthy sibling relationship.
Otherwise you would miss out on all this.
“Can’t I go back to sneering at people from a wall with Carla?”
To summarise Sal’s annoyed mumble: “Kiss already!!!“
Don’t mumble with your mouth full, Sal.
“Sublimate” is a wonderful word, Sal. Doesn’t get said often enough.
The alternate universe is bleeding I to this universe!
Joyce and Walky will always have chemistry. It’s just that this universe has not had them go through the difficult (indeed, traumatic) young adulthood that changed them enough for it not to be an ultimately negative chemistry.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the two end up doing something stupid in a moment of passion but I don’t see them having a lasting romantic entanglement without maturing a lot.
Joyce’s unconscious is slowly removing the religious obstacles to being endlessly horny.
Sal is basically one bickering away from just yelling “Get a room you two!”
<3 Sal!
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised Walky hasn’t seen The Social Network, A Beautiful Mind, or Good Will Hunting.
Walky is surely wrong, I told myself. And the comment section is going to provide examples.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Kiss. Kiss.
Walky and Joyce might’ve been good in the original, but I’ll be dammed if that shit gets a rerun here.
Only one vote counts, and it’s not yours or mine.
Someone needs to show Sal “Much ado about Nothing.”
Okay, so Sal has either seen the Walkyverse or she’s seen a romcom at some point in her life.
Consider: Both.
When Dumbing of Age first started the movie Single White Female was as old as most of the students. And now I feel a whole helluva lot older having looked that up.
Scatter-shot, indiscriminate, overloaded …
“I cannae hold her Cap’n!”
Laughs in Walkiverse
What a took away from this strip: Sal is taking a class where she recently read Freud.
Good job, Sal. With your newfound ability to stay out of conflicts, you can ignore Joyce and Walky’s bickering in order to claim the real ultimate reward for all your growth: you get to eat that sandwich. In peace, sort of. Enjoy!
Oh..hahaha
But Walky can’t date anyone who hasn’t broken up with Danny yet, it’s the rules.
Joyce and Danny. As if.
Frustrated Sal is new to me. I think she needs to find more people to at least verbally spar with. Joyce, Walky and Danny are too easy, Malaya is just a pointless antagonist to her. Marcie is great for that, Amber’s a bit too antisocial for repartee. Jason?