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Circa ‘What About Bob’
Posted on February 2, 2024 by David M Willis

214 thoughts on “Circa ‘What About Bob’”

  1. Doctor_Who

    Commenters: “He does exist!”

    Tristan: “They DO exist!”

    (mutual fainting)

    1. cbwroses

      I want to be the Crispy M&M in this scenario.

      1. Jess

        what a great sentence to glimpse without context

      2. Casi

        i don’t think Crispy existed when that commercial came out. it was Red and Yellow (the peanut)

        1. cbwroses

          Oh Crispy definitely wasn’t in the commercial, but I figure we can be all inclusive.
          We, the commenters, are not all just Regular and Peanut, are we?

        2. Dr. Sharks

          Back in my day, the M&M characters were “regular”, “peanut”, and “girl”. Kids these days with their “crispy” and their “anxiety”. The other day at the gas station I heard some bluehhair say her favorite flavor of M&Ms was Skittles. Yeah right, get a job.

          (/s)

        3. The Oracle

          It’s insensitive to tell those dirty fucking Skittles to get jobs.

        4. NGPZ

          Yeah! They don’t exist to work! They deserve to fall into my mouth to their delicious deaths! :p

        5. Doctor_Who

          Found Robin’s Grav.

        6. Weatherheight

          They have jobs.
          They’re coporate shills and sucrosetarian edibles.

        7. Steamweed

          Can’t say I’m a big fan of Anxiety M&Ms. But I do hear they are popular.

        8. Dr. Sharks

          My understanding is the purple M&M is basically anxiety?

        9. coeurdechoeur

          Lol, remember when “bluehair” meant an old lady?

          Pepperidge Farm remembers…

        10. CardinalFan

          And that, kids, is how I met your mother. 😛

        11. Ed Rhodes

          Back in MY day, they were “Regular” and “Peanut,” and pretty much had no character whatsoever.

        12. Mark

          Everybody forgets Almond.

        13. Merbrat

          When I was in military, they called ’em male or female (w or w/o nuts)

        14. thejeff

          Mounds and Almond Joy used to have a jingle “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t”, which we decided was the first bisexual commercial.

        15. V

          No, you’re all peanut.
          The peanut GALLERY! AYOOOOO

      3. Needfuldoer

        Better than being the caramel one Red and Yellow ripped in half for that picture on the packaging.

    2. Kazuma Taichi

      and this commenter sitting here like “wait, has Tristan come up before? shit, he’s only got one strip in his tag, oh no how out of the loop am I? not like this noooo”

  2. Ana Chronistic

    Joyce had Snapchat filters before it was cool

    1. Ana Chronistic

      12:15!!

      1. Thag Simmons

        Time keeps on slippin’

    2. Thag Simmons

      sliding timescale means this is probably happening at a point when snapchat was cool, and if it isn’t yet it will be soon

      1. Ana Chronistic

        I did think about mentioning that at some point it would be AFTER it was cool but eh

    3. anon

      love how the filter shows him with stubble, so i guess joe should be fine even if he some how comes into the picture and still super hot lol

  3. Kyrik Michalowski

    Oh boy, more Joyce dreams. What could go wrong this time?

    1. NGPZ

      This isn’t a dream, it’s a flashback! XD

      *plays “Closer” by the Carpenters on passing car’s radio*

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        Even worse; dreams can be explained, but memories hurt the most.

      2. cbwroses

        Could be both.
        Jennifer’s was.

        1. HueSatLight

          Incidentally, that was at the beginning of “Don’t Stop Billie-ving”, the chapter that takes place 1 week before this chapters (presumably).

      3. Mark

        Not “Yesterday Once More”?

    2. cbwroses

      For all we know, this could be college age Tristan having this dream, and we won’t find out until the SUV is driving through the multiverse and Joyce starts to fall out while Tristan tries to pull her back while simultaneously not wearing pants.

      1. Walky_Talky

        Or it’s Becky’s flashback/dream

        1. Mark

          It’s Misha’s dream, and she’s about to wake up wondering, “why was I in a comic strip?”

      2. HueSatLight

        Danny wakes up extremely confused about his dream.

    3. anon

      given how starry eyed joyce was at the beginning of the series and her opinion/view of relationships it’s probably just a crush from afar or she said something embarrassing and ended up avoiding him. or she never said anything b/c he was popular enough to the point where he was never single lol

  4. Sirksome

    I immediately and irrationally hate Tristan.

    1. Thag Simmons

      The odds aren’t exactly great for how he’s gonna turn out

      1. thejeff

        He might be a jerk if he actually comes back in the present, but he’s not likely to be too bad in the flashback. No worse than Joyce and Becky were at least. She was still crushing on him a bit when he was first mentioned.

    2. HueSatLight

      you and past Becky

    3. anon

      the only thing we know is that he’s also jewish so hopefully her parents didn’t make some passive aggressive comments towards his family to where she’d be too ashamed to talk to him lol

      1. HueSatLight

        His dad is from Poland, so Carol assumed he was Jewish. https://www.dumbingofage.com/ohhh/

        1. thejeff

          Which is so weird an assumption it has to be something directly from Willis’s childhood.

  5. Tyler

    Backstreet Boys filter: ON

  6. Nono

    Misha has a tag.

    Interesting.

    1. Devin

      Something begins

      1. Thag Simmons

        This comic is really thorough with tags, so Misha could easily have like two more pages before they’re gone forever.

        1. Devin

          That’s still something! It might be something small!

    2. John Campbell

      I mean, the horse got a tag. The squirrel got a tag.

      1. darkoneko

        Blowj0b cat has a tag

        1. Doctor_Who

          Well obviously, he’s the main character.

      2. cbwroses

        Maybe Squirrel is that guy’s name who had just passed the group while walking in the other direction.
        I humbly request another strip with the squirrel that doesn’t have either a squirrel or said guy.

      3. Tan

        The cricket didn’t and I remain eternally bitter

        1. thejeff

          Tag the cricket!

    3. anon

      i mean this is a flash back so i imagine she’s going to have a copule more strips where it’s still in the past lol

  7. BBCC

    Ah the infamous Tristan! Nice to finally meet him.

  8. Thag Simmons

    We finally meet the mysterious Tristan.

    He’s not coming around in the present time is he?

    1. Bryy

      …… well. This arc is called….. what it is.

      1. HueSatLight

        Pun on his name, tryst, and possibly a reference to They Might Be Giants – Twisting? Is it a three-for?

        1. cbwroses

          There’s a They Might Be Giants song called Twisting?

          Anyway, “twisting in the wind” is already an idiom for leaving someone in an uncomfortable situation without help, so I think we can guess some of what’s to come.

        2. Dara

          oh yeah, there really is and it’s a great one

          she’s not your satellite
          she doesn’t miss you
          turn off your smoke machine
          and marshall stack

          she doesn’t have to have
          her young fresh fellas tape back now
          but there’s not a lot of things that
          she’ll take back

          she wants to see you again
          she wants to see you again
          slowly twistin’
          in the wind
          twistin’ twistin’
          in the wind

        3. cbwroses

          Huh. Not bad.

        4. Mark

          I always thought that idiom was from the final scene of Brave New World.

        5. HueSatLight

          The final scene in BNW and the idiom both describe something that’s happened a lot of times unfortunately, since antiquity.

        6. Daibhid C

          On the Flood album, IIRC.

      2. Thag Simmons

        Trystin’ could easily have multiple meanings here, especially since there’s a lot of set-up for potential trysta

  9. Bryy

    wait

    Little Canada

    what

    1. brute

      there’s a lot of towns in the us with weird names. before playing geoguessr i never would have realized how many palestines we have. not to mention places like white butte and beaver lick.
      i don’t even question it anymore.

      1. morleuca

        Don’t forget Toad Suck, and Skunk Holler

        1. Mark

          Stone Head; Gnaw Bone. Yes these are real place names.

          I bought my first car in New Palestine, IN.

      2. zee

        I hate it. You have no idea how annoying it is searching for anything in my country just to get results from “Jamaica, IA”. Canada too, fuck you Kingston, Ontario

        1. HueSatLight

          I would burn down the internet.

        2. Mark

          You are not alone: there is a city in Pennsylvania named “Indiana”. They have a University, too, betcha can guess its name….

    2. Bicycle Bill

      The Boundary Water is a wilderness area in northern Minnesota on the border of Minnesota and Canada, more or less due north of Duluth.  Little Minnesota, on the other hand, is a northern suburb of Saint Paul, which is about 300 miles south of the Boundary Waters… and I doubt you’d find an outfitter that far away from the area you’re going to be exploring.
      Now if it had been someplace like Grand Marais or Ely ….

    3. cain

      there is a town called Wyoming in Minnesota

      1. Mark

        Indiana has a Moscow and a Mexico.

      2. sanvi

        And there’s a town called Buffalo in Wyoming 🙂 i wonder how long you could chain these

  10. Bobcat

    Brace yourself for another trip to memory lane.

    1. True Survivor

      Though it was bound to happen, I can’t wait to sink my teeth into it.

      1. cbwroses

        I bet the drama of this arc will be delicious.

  11. RassilonTDavros

    THE TRISTAN IS REAL!!!

  12. DailyBrad

    Ah, more Rich Mullins!

    1. DaveM

      Hammered dulcimer anticipation increases

      1. Dara

        I went looking and I guess not, which is too bad.

  13. Kyrik Michalowski

    Has anyone here actually experienced a sudden interest in someone because they might like you?

    Maybe I was just missing it during high school and it is actually common.

    1. Thag Simmons

      I was never so self-confident to assume anyone actually liked me

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        I assumed the same. I ended up spending all of high school chasing one girl who I thought /might/ like me as more than a best friend, but nothing ever came of it.

    2. DailyBrad

      Kinda? At the very least, it made me more aware of them in the case of one of my coworkers who I had previously not paid a lot of mind to.

      I mean, I am still not going to date her, but I am certainly more aware of her.

    3. cbwroses

      I had a coworker who walked up behind me and unexpectedly massaged my shoulders for a few seconds as a greeting, and I was physically attracted to/aware of her from that point on, to the point that I wondered if she was bisexual vs a full (probably not the right term) lesbian, and that she had done that because she liked me (never asked so who knows).

    4. Eclipse

      Oh, absolutely. It was my defence mechanism in my younger years, I only got interested in someone if they showed interest in me first. That was I never had to feel one-sided affection! And instead just had to deal with being interested in garbage people simply because they liked me!

    5. sakamism

      If you find out someone is an option romantically, you’re more likely to consider them that way even if you hadn’t before. When it happened to me my reaction was more like, “Oh, really? Interesting…” rather than immediately falling in love, but then I wasn’t a sheltered Evangelical kid like Joyce

    6. miz

      hahaha, yes, absolutely! i was going to comment that this is literally EXACTLY how i got with my first boyfriend in high school. he was a friend of a friend and i honestly didn’t notice him much at all, until one day he said i was cute and asked me out. no one had expressed any kind of interest in me before and abruptly it was like my brain flipped- nothing had EVER been so attractive to me as being told i was liked. we dated for three or four months until the high wore off and i realized that there was a reason i hadn’t paid attention to him in the first place…

    7. Bicycle Bill

      Ab-so-freakin’-lutely!!
      And I might add I was in my late forties when it happened.

    8. zee

      No because no one ever liked me in school. If they did, no they didn’t that was a joke and I refuse to believe otherwise

      1. zee

        I did fall hard from “yeah I wanna hook up” to “marry me” when my boyfriend confesses his feelings tho so there’s that ig

  14. Sirksome

    So Joyce had at least one other friend and an implied four other friends. Where are they now? Answer? Becky clearly systematically eliminated them.

    1. DailyBrad

      If they were still part of the congregation, yeah, you could say Becky did just that.

      1. Reltzik

        Except for the systematically part.

  15. WindyDream

    BABY JOYCE BABY JOYCE LOOK AT HER LOOK!!!

    Also the fabled Tristan appears at last-

  16. True Survivor

    Maybe her arms just around the back of the seat, but I like to think that Becky has found away to be riding in the back of a van with arms around two girls. She was a smooth operator even then.

  17. Dday

    Long ago in the distant dream of 2007…

    1. Dday

      No wait i got the math wrong, probably more like 2015. It was a simpler time.

  18. Aura

    No alt text, I do not know. Who or what did he look like? A groundhog?

    1. cbwroses

      Bill Murray?

      1. Aura

        …
        Does Bill Murray look like a groundhog?

        1. Taffy

          He could if he wanted to

        2. Plain Marie

          He can do a great impression.

  19. Taffy

    Yeah, don’t point at him. We’re talking about him while he’s in the same car as us (allegedly whispering), looking right at him, but if you point he might know something’s up.

    1. Dara

      I think he’s in the next row up in the… SUV I guess?

      1. Taffy

        It’s an ugly-ass vehicle, I don’t think anyone is gonna get uppity if you call it an SUV when it’s technically a truck with a hooded autoback or whatever the fuck Car People call the part that makes it seats instead of a bed. Just a dogshit thing to look at, miserable from start to finish.

        Tristan isn’t even in the car, he’s just strapped to the side because boys are tough and safety is for women and queers, and he ain’t no fruit is he, so suck it up buttercup and get ratchet strapped to the door. Choo choo motherfuckers, if it’s God’s will for this young boy to become hamburger on the road then God wills it.

  20. darkoneko

    So she already was into beard stubs back then

    1. Reltzik

      Oh no!

      Joyce just saw a 5 o’clock shadow!

      NOW WINTER IN THIS COMIC IS GOING TO LAST FOR ANOTHER 16 YEARS!

      1. Plain Marie

        *snerk!*
        It’s…. groundhog day!

      2. NGPZ

        As much a curse as a blessing, climate change might mean that winter in this comic could be sliding time-scaled away into early spring ?

  21. brute

    relating hard to wee Joyce here and hoping this turns out better for her than it did for me (my friends were lying so i’d embarrass myself)

    1. Coco

      That’s so nasty, I would have lost trust in my friends forever!

      1. brute

        that would be the smart thing to do, yes

  22. Steelbright

    Oh god, i remember that song. It was a nice one to sing

  23. Thulcandran

    So Joyce has always been into stubble, huh. No judgement here.

  24. HueSatLight

    2015 chevy tahoe.

  25. Suet

    Ahh, crushes. Pathetic.

    The titles these past two days are baffling, yet muttering “more like Tryst-an in the Wind” under my breath ruined my week the most. So what about Bob?

    1. Plain Marie

      That’s another Bill Murray film.

    2. Pergola

      And Bob was there.

  26. Bicycle Bill

    Are Joyce and Becky both fitted with tin grins in this flashback?

    1. cbwroses

      That’s Misha with braces, not Becky.

      1. Taffy

        How is she in the car twice? That’s very obviously Becky in the middle there, it’s like impossible to mistake her for a second instance of a completely different person.

        1. miz

          ???????????? what on earth are you saying? yes, that *is* becky in the middle of panel 2, and she very clearly does not braces. the girl on the right does, and according to the tags her name is misha.

        2. miz

          does not *have braces, missed a word.

        3. Taffy

          Look, cbwroses accused Becky of being “Misha with braces”. That’s the most reasonable interpretation of that sentence, and it’s mind boggling that you’d even question it, let alone treat it as some outlandish display. Get a grip.

        4. cbwroses

          I cannot tell if you’re serious or trolling.
          And I feel like that’s not the first time I’ve said that to you.
          Maybe you could add an emoji or something for people like me who struggle with that?

        5. Taffy

          ?️??️

        6. miz

          It’s extremely not the most reasonable interpretation. You’re being very silly and dramatic right now.

        7. Needfuldoer

          First day in the comments? 😛

        8. miz

          [takes a long drag on a cigarette, gazes moodily into the sunset] comment sections…comment sections never change.

        9. a/snow/mous/e

          cbwroses was saying “That’s Misha [who’s wearing] the braces, not Becky.” ie “Misha is the one with braces; Becky doesn’t have braces.”

        10. a/snow/mous/e

          …ok now I feel like what happened is that Taffy misread it initially and then read it correctly when looking back at it. (either that or their initial comment was directed at bicycle bill but then they decided to pretend they were talking to cbw)

        11. Taffy

          I read it correctly and then took it in a really stupid direction for my own sleep-deprived amusement.

    2. Bicycle Bill

      My bad … I got the two mixed up.  But the point still stands … did Joyce have braces when she was younger?  I don’t seem to remember seeing them in the amusement park picture, for example.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Her character model for this flashback has braces.

        I think this is set a few years after the trip to Six Flags Great America.

  27. Taffy

    Who the fuck is Bob, anyway

    1. clif

      J. R. “Bob” Dobbs was a salesman from the 1950s, who is revered as a prophet by the Church of the SubGenius, which he founded in 1953. Jehovah 1,[ an extraterrestrial who contacted “Bob” in the early 1950s while he was building a television set, gave him supernatural knowledge of the past and future, an ineffable nature and a limited ability to travel in time. Jehovah 1 and his spouse Eris were technically part of the Elder gods, who are committed to human pain and are led by Yog-Sothoth, but Johava 1 is “relatively good” with Eris less so, however both are members of the “rebel gods” working against the Elder gods. Jehovah 1 intended “Bob” to lead a powerful conspiracy and brainwash individuals to make them work for a living. “Bob” refused; instead visiting Tibet where he infiltrated and then organized a counter-movement.to bring SLACK to the human descendants of the Yeti, the Subgenus. “Bob” teaches that Slack a unique magical system which will will allow a free, comfortable life (without hard work or responsibility) which is the rightful entitlement.of the Yeti and their descendants. Slack is obtained primarily through sex and the avoidance of work. The church plans to rid the world of everyone who did not descend from yetis and a complex counter-conspiracy is now unfolding where “Bob” hopes to rid the Earth of 90% of humanity, making the Earth “clear”

      Praise “Bob!”

      1. Taffy

        I’m not sure how much of that is real, but I’m into it either way. A world where we descended from yetis? Sign me the fuck up.

        1. clif

          I feel certain that you are a Yeti descendant and so I refer you to https://www.subgenius.com .

    2. Plain Marie

      Bob is [also] another Bill Murray character, a needy patient who refuses to let his psychiatrist go on a family vacation without him.

  28. RealMNPoster

    Love that we get a Minnesota shoutout! I feel duty-bound to point out, however, that Little Canada (despite the misleading name) is just a regular-degular suburb of St. Paul and has really nothing whatsoever to do with the Boundary Waters.

  29. HueSatLight

    meanwhile, Tristan is deep in thought, mulling the merits of Arianism.

    1. Taffy

      There aren’t very many merits, when you think about it.

      1) I benefit from this concept
      2) People my dad taught me to hate suffer from it
      C) [unintelligible muttering about skull shapes]
      IV: I shidded on the highway dad

      1. Thomas

        That word… I don’t think it means what you think it means. Arianism is a 4th century heresy regarding the nature of Christ.

        1. Mark

          According to legend it was the cause of Nicholas of Myra (yes, Santa Claus!) striking Arius at the Council of Nicaea, but this is disputed.

        2. C.T. Phipps

          Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

        3. Taffy

          Keep your meme to yourself.

        4. Thag Simmons

          does it involve calipers?

      2. HueSatLight

        Imagine it’s almost 300 years since Jesus was executed. There’s a con for his fandom, in Nicea, Asia-Minor. There’s competing fan theories over some timey-wimey aspect of when and how Jesus was generated: somehow before time or during when time existed. Real nerd stuff. There’s a vote and the pro-timey-wimey group wins and says if you disagree then you don’t get to go to heaven (literal, not an idiom). They come up with a creed everyone has to say, and it is very emphatic about the timey-wimey stuff, but they use jargon. And 1700 years later, English speaking Christians have to say “begotten” like three times in two sentences. “begotten, not made” blah blah blah. And then a couple of lines later, the Greek word that had been translated as “begotten” before gets translated as “made”.

        The lead of the faction of fans opposed to the timey-wimey stuff was named Arius, so Arianism. Some modern day offshoots of Christianity are accused of Arianism, and like a lot of old-timey heresies, it’s part of a random Christians* personal theologies. *Who ironically want there to be church police doing an inquisition.

    2. HueSatLight

      oops, should have picked a better known Christian heresy for the joke.

      1. HueSatLight

        You all know about Gnosticism?

  30. The Oracle

    Of course the Christians have a massive car.

    1. AGV

      It comes with the yearly church subscription

      1. asmodai27

        I’d say it has more to do with white privelege than christianity, but also, having a truckload of kids encourages you to have, well… a truck!
        I don’t really get driving a huge-ass car when you are single and alone in it 99% of the time, but when you have 4 kids (which the Browns do if I recall correctly), there is a need for extra space and a regular 5 seater won’t cut it, so it kinda makes sense (though there are more economical and less flashy options).

        1. Da Boy

          At least American gas is cheap so it’s not as bad as if you’d try in other countries.

        2. Taffy

          That feels like a lie.

        3. asmodai27

          Cheaper than in most of Europe (1.5 to 2 €/liter, which is approximately 6 to 8 $/gallon) at least.

        4. Li

          On the other hand my understanding is that the average European car gets almost twice our gas mileage (kilometerage?); American cars can be labeled fuel efficient while getting fewer than 50 miles per gallon.

          It’d be interesting to get a more apples to apples comparison; for two adults living the same distance from an in-person job and working the same hours, who spends more on gas each week?

        5. thejeff

          Do we even know it’s the Brown’s car? I was assuming some kind of church trip, especially given that Tristan’s there and Joyce doesn’t seem particularly close to him at this point.

        6. C.T. Phipps

          Eh, Christian families of color aren’t benefiting from white privilege.

        7. thejeff

          Even putting that aside, it’s weird to single Christians out given how dominant they remain in the US. Especially true going back a generation or more to Joyce’s parents.

    2. Needfuldoer

      It’s just a Suburban.

      I’m shocked it’s not a 15 passenger church van, but most of those probably disappeared years ago because they’re death traps.

      1. HueSatLight

        ah, I thought Tahoe, but the side rear window size didn’t quite match.

  31. AGV

    “A friend of a friend told me…”

  32. Acher4

    A wild Tristan (finally) appears!
    *WOOHOO*

    1. NGPZ

      *plays Pokemon Red/Blue Battle Theme on his Game Boy*

  33. Needfuldoer

    Joyce is now young enough to have been a tween when the 2015-2020 Chevrolet Suburban was around.

    Floating timelines are a reminder that time is scary.

    1. Autogatos

      I’m sorry but you must be mistaken, surely 2020 was yesterday!

      1. Needfuldoer

        It was!

        But that truck debuted years after the comic started…

      2. eh, whatever

        The pandemic doesn’t count.

        1. a/snow/mous/e

          It’s still 2020, really

        2. Needfuldoer

          It’s actually September 11112th, 1993.

    2. zee

      Having read this comic since I was 13, and thus having been younger than or the same age as these characters for the longest time. It feels really uncomfortable to think about the fact that at this point in the time scale, in 2020 i would have been 19/20 and they would have been 13/14/15

    3. HueSatLight

      2015 is when we could read about Becky and Dina getting together.

  34. Jimmy

    It’s sad that I know Michael W. Smith wrote this, but like David I grew up on Christian music; and in spite of being an atheist now, I still listen to it sometimes because of nostalgia.

    1. David M Willis

      Rich Mullins!

      1. Jimmy

        Ohh ok. I guess I was just thinking of the version sang by Michael W Smith. I heard that constantly growing up.

  35. Quiley

    Ah, the homeschool van rides. Good times.

  36. Amós Batista

    Oh, it’s Joyce’s first contact with the Devil.

  37. morhek

    I wonder if this’ll be the only appearance Misha makes? It would be….interesting to see how another old friend, one who hasn’t gone through the experiences Becky has, would react to the new Atheist Joyce.

  38. Sharaku

    J: I have no opinions about Tristan!

    M: Tristan exists, by the way.

    J: I have many opinions about Tristan!

  39. Amós Batista

    “Circa ‘What About Bob’”
    So, this flashback were, more or less, on 1991, right?

  40. CianM1301

    Huh, never would’ve guessed Joyce had braces.

    1. Taffy

      Dental plan

      1. a/snow/mous/e

        one of those simpsons bits my dad loves to retell lol

        1. C.T. Phipps

          Damn, I was about to make a Simpsons joke.

    2. zee

      It’s how she got her perfect smile

  41. Gregale

    Calling it, the storyline where Joyce bangs!

  42. bcb

    Oh my Cheese it only took 14 years for us to finally see Tristan!

  43. Scoutinthenight

    Little Canada is actually in the southern third of Minnesota, a good five hour drive from the Boundary Waters. I don’t think you really start to see signs for the BWCA until you get closer to Duluth.

  44. Jenniffniff

    The man, the myth, the legend!

  45. staszu13

    Ah yes nothing like getting information third or fourth hand, especially with the guy present

  46. Urainkhali

    Misha_ We had a Misha before?
    …
    New antagonist?
    Foil?

    1. Pergola

      Hell with Misha. I wanna hear about Izzy.

      1. anon

        given that it’s ‘heard from kory that izzy said’ i wouldnt’ be surprsied if ti was like a game of ‘telephone’ if not a meanspirited kid prank, if not some kinda manipulation as a way to get tristan’s attention lol

  47. Mturtle7

    Oh, huh. Well, that’s a new perspective on Joyce’s childhood crush. So she wasn’t really interested in Tristan, specifically, as much as she was interested in having Some Dude that she was given permission to project all her romantic(/sexual?) feelings onto! At least, that’s how I’m interpreting this.

    1. anon

      guess at that age you can get crushes easily from someone being nice to you , if not just someone telling you that another person might like you, as opposed to to immediately going ‘ew boys’ lol.

      tho i wonder if there’ll be some underlying “becky realizes she likes joyce” in a subconscious way lol

  48. Cloud

    A Joyce dream, this’ll either be repressed sexual urges or trauma.

    1. anon

      well, tristan was mentioned before but she didn’t rly seem to be too concerned about it either way when his name was brougt up, if only being in denial like “i definitely didn’t ride my bike past his house to sneak a peek at him”

  49. Stormies

    I always wonder how the lyrics sound to people who didn’t grow up with these songs / hear them in their head when reading the lyrics

    1. LexArturo

      Truly, we are burdened with knowledge and in my case a new earworm

  50. Kazuma Taichi

    weird way for me to be reminded just how many kids had braces

    I don’t think they were quite /that/ common up in Canada however, so I have to wonder if it’s one of those big capitalism scams

    1. anon

      i guess it’s a good thing joyce’s family wasn’t too religiously dependent to deny medicine to where she couldn’t get braces lol

      there def were some ppl that would’ve wanted invisalign or removed as soon as possible b/c of the pain or so lol but other than huge gaps, i think crooked teeth are fine/common in other countries.

      1. miz

        isn’t joyce’s DAD a dentist? i feel like that was mentioned at some point.

    2. Li

      Americans are very weird about our teeth, as an American. We have a big fixation on how white and straight and even they are, none of which actually relate to their health.

  51. anon

    lol i wonder if this flash back means we’ll she this friend in the future too, assuming she doesn’t shun becky and joyce for their current personality/beliefs lol

  52. Tesset

    I’m sorry Willis, but *this* is how the Tristan crush started?? This is the most comphet start to a crush in the world, no fucking wonder Becky was like “you’re just playing it up to fit in and hide your feelings” lmao

  53. staszu13

    For the benefit of those who don’t know, Boundary Waters is a real place near the Canadian border in Minnesota. Assuming they’re driving to or from La Porte, that’s about a 10 hour ride. They appear to be near Little Canada, which is just east of St. Paul.

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