Walky’s trapped in the helmet so we don’t see his meltdown over having _two_ Ambers. Shouldn’t she be tagged twice for this? It’s a mystery for these crazy kids no doubt.
That’s a flashback that’s been rehashed in every participants’ minds so much we should’ve had it in extra vibrant color, really. Though, having said that, I’m really glad that Willis didn’t turn the color saturation knob all the way up, that tends to be painful to look at. Also, the gas station robbery’s painful enough to look at already.
Amazing. I am sad now this isn’t in color, bet Dorothy makes for a cute Velma.
I do love the suggestion she dressed AS Amber, though, but I mean… if the shoe fits. There’s definitely not anything wrong with looking like Velma, though. *cough*
I don’t think a multinational business would survive very long if one of the main ingredients of their product was a single specific dog.
Clif
You make a good point, though cloning is a thing. However I’m pretty sure that The Wellerman is an alien virus, not a multinational business, and that the Scooby Snax were for their own consumption.
The Oracle
I don’t like to make assumptions about a person’s corporate status.
Is it really an ingredient, if the pot’s just containing the snacks?
deliverything
“My pot contains snacks, and vice versa.”
deliverything
It’s bad enough that I rarely have comments to make without the few exceptions disproportionately often being after I’ve forgotten I’ve gone back to an earlier strip…
Maybe I should just call my commenting style “next day delivery”.
One year in high school, one of my closest friends dressed up as our other closest friend and actually managed to surprise/confuse some people.
That was the year I dressed up as one of the school hall monitors, which got varied reaction among the actual hall monitors.
Are hall monitors an actual thing? I thought they were invented for specific episodes of cartoons, to give one of the characters a God complex so they can inevitably learn to be less of a cop about petty things.
That’s basically how it went down in that one Recess episode, right?
(Damn that show holds up.)
The Oracle
The only episode of that show I’ve seen was the one where the kids invented capitalism on the playground. There really was no adult supervision going on at that school.
Needfuldoer
Remembering another episode’s gonna cost ya two stickers.
(Seriously, go look up some more. Sometimes they’re actually better with an adult’s perspective because you can spot more of the references it draws from. I just with they had enough time to properly lampoon The Sting.)
Sam
Honestly Recess was such a GREAT show because it absolutely nails the experience of being a kid from the perspective of a kid.
As a former hall monitor, I can attest that hall monitors are an actual thing in some schools. In the school in which I was a hall monitor, it seemed pretty clear that it wasn’t a great deal of power, also it was rotated enough that nobody really got used to it. (Which is to say at the first hint of anyone reacting to the status as if it were something to flaunt, it’d rotate extra quick. But normally, I think we were only hall monitor for a week at a time, and it rotated to everyone not on the bad list. There was only one kid on the bad list for my grade at that school, and that was the one whose reaction to becoming the hall monitor was to threaten other students with undeserved demerits.
If I recall correctly, in the week I was hall monitor, I gave exactly 0 demerits.
The Oracle
I’ve never really been clear on the functional purpose of a hall monitor. Is it like a traffic controller, or do you just sort of stand off to one side and tell people not to run and get promptly ignored? On TV, they basically have the power to send you to the Supreme Court for sneezing.
Sam
To my knowledge the point is like to tell younger kids not to run or break school rules and check hall passes basically and it works usually because ‘I’m older than you’ is very effective on kids and they can be more willing to listen to older kids than adults at times.
Though in some cases or countries, they use hired adults instead.
Surprisingly no, I haven’t. You’d think with all the peppers I like to eat, that it would be obvious. How is it?
Clif
I enjoy it, though it’s a little messy. Even using a spoon.
OBBWG
Or, if you don’t want to eat it with a spoon, have popcorn with your favorite hot sauce. I like Frank’s Red Hot, but any decent hot sauce will do. Perfect for Halloween because the popcorn looks like someone bled all over it.
That sounded like sarcasm. Unfortunately, I kind of recall something hellish from the late 1970s whose existence you seem to be denying. Though hopefully it was just that one teacher, and she’s got to be retired by now, right?
183 thoughts on “Doofus”
Ana Chronistic
see now I have to wonder if Walky’s doing a bit
…playing the part of Walky
Clif
Marginally better than playing the part of Dexter playing the part of Walky.
And by better, we mean worse.
RassilonTDavros
Now I wanna see the Head Alien cosplay Walky.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Walky’s trapped in the helmet so we don’t see his meltdown over having _two_ Ambers. Shouldn’t she be tagged twice for this? It’s a mystery for these crazy kids no doubt.
Doctor_Who
Joyce: “Dorothy, you’re on your third bowl of oatmeal. What’s up?”
Dorothy: “My last trip to the bathroom was a B- at best. Need the fiber to improve my performance.”
Walky_Talky
Hope they don’t grade on a curve. That could get messy.
Clif
Insert joke about graded curves.
Insert second joke about “shitty jobs but someone has to do it” with a reference to what teaching assistants are for.
The Oracle
Dorothy’s pretty scrawny, so I don’t think she’d get a very high grade on her curves, at least not by quantity.
Chaucer59
Definitely a slippery slope.
Nono
Ah ha! It’s in blue, so her costume is Blue’s Clues!
Masumi
You know, I’ve completely gotten used to the blue shades by now. Going back to normal colours will be shocking.
Needfuldoer
I half-expected we would get the kind of muted color palette we saw during the “how it actually happened” flashback to the gas station robbery.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/siiiventeen/
Some Ed
That’s a flashback that’s been rehashed in every participants’ minds so much we should’ve had it in extra vibrant color, really. Though, having said that, I’m really glad that Willis didn’t turn the color saturation knob all the way up, that tends to be painful to look at. Also, the gas station robbery’s painful enough to look at already.
RassilonTDavros
President Doris has dark hair.
Alex
And we have a winner.
DailyBrad
Amazing. I am sad now this isn’t in color, bet Dorothy makes for a cute Velma.
I do love the suggestion she dressed AS Amber, though, but I mean… if the shoe fits. There’s definitely not anything wrong with looking like Velma, though. *cough*
Clif
Blue is a color and Velma is sexy.
Kyrik Michalowski
Apparently I can’t post a link to youtube, so look up PEAR哥 on youtube and admire his Velma video.
Opus the Poet
Let me try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszKbqxb484
Kyrik Michalowski
That is the one, wonder why I couldn’t post it.
The Oracle
Isn’t that audio from an old educational slideshow about acne?
crow
Gray is a color too, but grayscale tv isn’t “in color”
Stephen Bierce
*plays Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ “Scooby Snacks” on the hacked Muzak*
The Wellerman
? PERFECT!!!! I just made some Scooby Snax myself, in fact. Care to guess what the secret ingredient is?
Clif
As long as it’s not Scooby, it’s all good.
The Oracle
I don’t think a multinational business would survive very long if one of the main ingredients of their product was a single specific dog.
Clif
You make a good point, though cloning is a thing. However I’m pretty sure that The Wellerman is an alien virus, not a multinational business, and that the Scooby Snax were for their own consumption.
The Oracle
I don’t like to make assumptions about a person’s corporate status.
The Wellerman
Alien parasite, actually. ?
Dunedon
Pot 😉
The Wellerman
Ding ding sing! ?
The Wellerman
*ding. ?
Decidedly Orthogonal
Is it really an ingredient, if the pot’s just containing the snacks?
deliverything
“My pot contains snacks, and vice versa.”
deliverything
It’s bad enough that I rarely have comments to make without the few exceptions disproportionately often being after I’ve forgotten I’ve gone back to an earlier strip…
Maybe I should just call my commenting style “next day delivery”.
Nova
What a great song! Thank you for sharing.
Yumi
One year in high school, one of my closest friends dressed up as our other closest friend and actually managed to surprise/confuse some people.
That was the year I dressed up as one of the school hall monitors, which got varied reaction among the actual hall monitors.
Clif
Varied is such an ambiguous term. A range from mild amusement to apathy is varied.
Yumi
As is a range from “attempted murder” to “began to worship me as their god.” Which range better fits the situation? The world may never know.
Clif
My expectations were too modest. I was assuming a maximum range running from assault to being hired.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Hall Monitor. Being hired *is* assault.
The Oracle
Are hall monitors an actual thing? I thought they were invented for specific episodes of cartoons, to give one of the characters a God complex so they can inevitably learn to be less of a cop about petty things.
Clif
As is well known, whenever a fascist gains power in an administrative position, hall monitors are an inevitable consequence.
Needfuldoer
That’s basically how it went down in that one Recess episode, right?
(Damn that show holds up.)
The Oracle
The only episode of that show I’ve seen was the one where the kids invented capitalism on the playground. There really was no adult supervision going on at that school.
Needfuldoer
Remembering another episode’s gonna cost ya two stickers.
(Seriously, go look up some more. Sometimes they’re actually better with an adult’s perspective because you can spot more of the references it draws from. I just with they had enough time to properly lampoon The Sting.)
Sam
Honestly Recess was such a GREAT show because it absolutely nails the experience of being a kid from the perspective of a kid.
Some Ed
As a former hall monitor, I can attest that hall monitors are an actual thing in some schools. In the school in which I was a hall monitor, it seemed pretty clear that it wasn’t a great deal of power, also it was rotated enough that nobody really got used to it. (Which is to say at the first hint of anyone reacting to the status as if it were something to flaunt, it’d rotate extra quick. But normally, I think we were only hall monitor for a week at a time, and it rotated to everyone not on the bad list. There was only one kid on the bad list for my grade at that school, and that was the one whose reaction to becoming the hall monitor was to threaten other students with undeserved demerits.
If I recall correctly, in the week I was hall monitor, I gave exactly 0 demerits.
The Oracle
I’ve never really been clear on the functional purpose of a hall monitor. Is it like a traffic controller, or do you just sort of stand off to one side and tell people not to run and get promptly ignored? On TV, they basically have the power to send you to the Supreme Court for sneezing.
Sam
To my knowledge the point is like to tell younger kids not to run or break school rules and check hall passes basically and it works usually because ‘I’m older than you’ is very effective on kids and they can be more willing to listen to older kids than adults at times.
Though in some cases or countries, they use hired adults instead.
Suet
And the “I can’t tell Dorothy and Amber apart” may strike again!
That helmet has no visor hinge? Thank goodness we have foiled Head Alien III with fashion.
Eric
You can’t eat in a motorcycle helmet with just the visor up. It’s why ‘modular’ helmets exist.
Kyrik Michalowski
This is everything I had hoped for thus far. I’ve got my popcorn ready for when everything explodes.
I probably shouldn’t eat popcorn, especially with all the butter and salt, but sometimes the situation demands it. Am i right?
Clif
Have you tried popcorn and salsa?
Kyrik Michalowski
Surprisingly no, I haven’t. You’d think with all the peppers I like to eat, that it would be obvious. How is it?
Clif
I enjoy it, though it’s a little messy. Even using a spoon.
OBBWG
Or, if you don’t want to eat it with a spoon, have popcorn with your favorite hot sauce. I like Frank’s Red Hot, but any decent hot sauce will do. Perfect for Halloween because the popcorn looks like someone bled all over it.
Yumi
I like nutritional yeast on popcorn when I’m opting for something that’s not butter and salt.
The Wellerman
If you mix it with a little mustard, it actually makes for a nice cheese substitute too. ?
Clif
But maybe not on popcorn.
The Wellerman
Ever hear of a popcorn dog? ?
KingoHrts
I have heard of using popcorn as the binder in meat loaf.
Clif
I have heard of (and even seen) a popcorn dog, but it was a dog constructed with popcorn held together with a thread running through the popcorn
The Oracle
What I wanna know is, what cheese are you eating that tastes similar to mustard.
Clif
I’m going to assume that acceptable substitutions don’t necessarily have to be similar in taste.
Or at least not if you’re a virus.
Clif
I mean, the other option was to assume a brand of mustard that tasted like cheese.
The Wellerman
I mean nutritional yeast mixed with a little mustard is a great substitute for cheese, nice pungent and savory. ??
BBCC
Dorothy wants a good grade on Halloween costumes, a thing that totally exists and it is a reasonable thing to want!
Clif
You have now inspired a new fear that I will someday flunk Halloween costumes.
Some Ed
That sounded like sarcasm. Unfortunately, I kind of recall something hellish from the late 1970s whose existence you seem to be denying. Though hopefully it was just that one teacher, and she’s got to be retired by now, right?
Sirksome