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Dorm party
Posted on April 25, 2015 by David M Willis

347 thoughts on “Dorm party”

  1. Jen Aside

    Now Leaving Joyce’s Nightmares

    Welcome to Sarah’s

    1. Jen Aside

      DORM PARTY‽

      ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽

      1. cesium133

        DORM PARTY++;

        1. Portmanteaust

          DORM_PARTY();

        2. Screwball

          DORM PARTYYYYYY!!!
          *Runs in loaded up with kegs, munchies & other party stuff…*

        3. The Churro

          DEPRESSING_THOUGHTS() throws JoyceException;
          BECKY_CATCH(JoyceException sad) { DORM_PARTY() }
          DORM_PARTY() throws SarahException;

        4. John Colburn

          $> while [“$JOYCE_MOOD” -eq “depressed”] do;
          > party –dorm > /dev/dorms/girls/room202;
          > done;

          (PS Does Joyce have a canonical room number?)

        5. OwenSohmer

          Nah, Willis doesn’t put numbers or floors since people actually live there and that could be troublesome for them

        6. Ryan

          if (NEED_DORM_PARTY) {
          DORM_PARTY = DORM_PARTY::DORM_PARTY->new();
          DORM_PARTY->DORM_PARTY();
          }

        7. Ryan

          Whoops, I forgot to declare the type of the DORM_PARTY variable in my code. It’s DORM_PARTY.

        8. Ondřej Vágner

          @dorm
          def throw_party(people):
          invitees = [person for person in people if person in friends]
          for invitee in invitees:
          invite(invitee)

        9. Portmanteaust

          Ooh, so concise. Pity about the indentation.

        10. das-g

          # Because
          invitees = friends
          # instead of
          invitees = [person for person in people if person in friends]
          # would also invite all of Joyce’s plush animals.

      2. Zane

        DORM PARTY???????????????????????????????

        1. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          But I wonder what their resident RA, Ruthie will think of them throwing a dorm party? Or will it be the perfect excuse for her and Billie to hang out without anyone realising they’re a couple? 😉

      3. Tacos

        Yes, a party of the dorm variety.

      4. otusasio451

        ¡¿DORM PARTY?!

      5. TheHorseCouncil

        Now all we need is a way to freeze the hallways and it will be an ice rink dorm party!

        1. Ayase

          ICE IS NICE!

        2. Doctor_Who

          I love that movie.

        3. TheHorseCouncil

          But of course Mary will try to ruin it. But it’s okay Mary it’s probably not toxic.

      6. Portmanteaust

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      7. AlexDenton

        DOM PARTY waitwhat

    2. Kris

      She was totally indifferent until this very moment wasn’t she?

    3. Safgaftsa

      I sympathize with Sarah on this one.

    4. 6Qubed

      They’re gonna put SARAH into DIRECT CONTACT with FUN.

      It’ll be AWFUL.

      1. psudiname

        or if you wanted to code in python:
        import party
        party.dormParty()

        god I love python

        1. GreyTheDefender

          Assuming (as I read below) that the max size for a party is 5 people.

          party.dormParty(Joyce’s Dorm, trustedList[]);

          dormParty(location, invited[])
          {
          partyLocation = location;
          guest1 = invited[0];
          guest2 = invited[1];
          guest3 = invited[2];
          guest4 = invited[3];
          guest5 = invited[4];

          if(guest1 == “Mike” || guest2 == “Mike” || guest3 == “Mike” || guest4 == “Mike” || guest5 == “Mike”)
          {
          System.exit();
          }
          }

          …this is what happens when a programming student checks Dumbing of Age while taking a break from homework…

      2. Deanatay

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        IT WAS AWFUL

        1. 6Qubed

          Sarah is the grumpiest cat in all the land.

    5. Charlie

      My opinion of Becky just went up by a lot. That was a really sweet thing do do and she handled Joyce’s anxiety really well. Better than she’s handled a lot of other stuff. Yay Becky.

  2. An Average Loser

    PARTY!!!

    1. otusasio451

      DORM!!!

      1. Jude Deluca

        PARTY DORM!

        1. Doctor_Who

          MORD TYRAP!!!

        2. Bill

          MROD TYRAP!!!

          Fixed it for you….

        3. neeks

          MROD YTRAP, fixed that for your fixing it for the other guy

        4. blackhat64

          Oi, you two correctioneers, who’s to say our esteemed commenter Doctor_Who wasn’t simply making an anagram rather than reversing it perfectly?

        5. Renshear Blade

          My trap dor?

        6. Tacos

          My tarp rod?

        7. Portmanteaust

          I officially endorse this reverse portmanteau

        8. Lurlock

          DROP MARTY!!!
          DRY MOP ART!!!
          MY RAPT ROD!!!

        9. Dean

          DOM PAT REE!

        10. Portmanteaust

          “Dry Mop Art!” Would be a great chant. I don’t know what for, but it would be great anyway.

        11. Amazistool

          Well “mop art” actually is a thing, confirmed by google image search (> 7900 results).

          “Dry mop” of course exists (>77000 results) and even “dry mop art” has 88 results.

        12. Nock

          My Rapt Rod is the best solo male porn ever made.

        13. Amazistool

          One day, Joyce googles “Walky + Dorothy”

          “So what is this: Slipshine?”

          Click!

          “PORN, DOTTY?”

        14. Willoughby Chase

          ⅄┴ɹ∀Ԁ WɹOp
          !!!!!!!

        15. Lawzlo

          ⅄┴ɹ∀Ԁ WɹOp
          iiiiiii

  3. AnvilPro

    I see no way that this can go wrong

    1. Opus the Poet

      Every.thing.is.perfectly.normal.

    2. otusasio451

      What could POSSibly go WRONG???

      1. MeghanTheWorldEater

        What you said exactly but without being sarcastic!

      2. Bill

        Well, by the end of the night everyone — even Ruth, who wandered down to see what was going on — could be chanting “TO-GAH! TO-GAH! TO-GAH!”

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          So who’s going to be John Belushi in this party and will they do their impression of a pimple?

        2. CianM1301

          Joe, obviously.

      3. Smiling Cat

        *considers answering*
        *changes mind*

      4. Sera

        You know, this might work out pretty well. The people Joyce trusts are also the ones who could know how to help Becky out, and they need to find out about her situation anyway.

    3. SonicBlueRanger

      I’m sure it’ll be a Mary time…Merry Time I mean.

  4. MM

    Aw, they broke Sarah.

    1. otusasio451

      And now…SARAH BREAKS THEM.

      1. boomwolf

        In the Joyce’s Dorm Party, Sarah break you.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      RUN SARAH RUN!

      1. The Aussie Bloke

        Is that a Tedd avatar, Plasma? It kinda makes me think of female Tedd.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Yes indeed it is. ^_^

        2. Flipz

          Actually, it’s (spoilers!) recently been confirmed that Tedd is gender-fluid. 😉

        3. Flipz

          (Gah, meant to say that in reference to the info blurb on your Tumblr, sorry! :] )

        4. Kamino Neko

          There can be only one true Tedd! <_<

          (Nah, I'm just messin' with ya.)

        5. Disloyal Subject

          He has many forms.
          Wait, that doesn’t work. He literally has many forms…

        6. The Phantom's Belch

          But his title isn’t Chief Paper-Pusher! Only Stan has that title! 🙂

        7. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          The pun police (knight?) demands that you stop this madness.

        8. xKiv

          No exploding hamsters, though. Yet.

        9. Jordan

          Tedd from El Goonish Shive or am I barking up the wrong tree?

        10. darkgloomie

          yea, Tedd from EGS. He recently acquired a way to turn himself into a girl, and to further girlify/manlify himself from whatever form he starts with.

        11. yomi

          And here I was thinking of Teddy Lupin…

        12. Kamino Neko

          Tedd recently acquired ANOTHER way to genderflip. ‘I’ve been given the power to turn myself into a girl?! Wow that’s redundant.’

          Really, the only reason Tedd could possibly have been surprised by the reveal they were genderfluid is the fact they didn’t know that such a thing was possible until Grace told them. (Something I’m all-too familiar with, which is why I love Squirrel Prophet.)

      2. Wack'd

        If you don’t get 100,000 marks to this phone booth in twenty minutes…

  5. Yumi

    *3*

  6. Spencer

    Sarah’s D: face is perfect.

    1. Rich

      That it is.

  7. Vael

    So let’s see… Becky, Joyce, Dorothy… Got the guest list.

    Oh, and Sarah.

    1. Opus the Poet

      You left off Sal.

      1. Rich

        And Dina’s probably already there, unnoticed.

        1. anonymsly

          Joyce IS Billie’s best college friend. As far as Joyce knows. Billie agreed to it!

          So anyway, Billie’s on the guest list. Probably Walky and Ethan, too, if it goes co-ed.

        2. MiaKitty

          +1

        3. Viktoria

          Ethan, Walky.

        4. potatoaddict

          I could take lessons in avoiding detection just by observing Dina. She’s a natural.

        5. Calvin Coolage

          She’s just channeling her inner Solid Snake.

        6. Tacos

          But how could you observe someone who can avoid detection? @_@

        7. StClair

          Implicitly. You don’t so much observe her as where she is not, thereby narrowing the potential set of where she might be.

        8. Roborat

          I seem to remember an obscure british show giving lessons on how not to be seen.

      2. Rycan

        A grumpy woman nursing a hangover probably wouldn’t be interested anyways.

  8. Captain Batson

    Dorm Party.

    1. AgentKeen

      Dorm Party?

      1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        Dorm Party.

  9. Barf Ninjason

    Sarah is going to poop this party somethin’ fierce

  10. Plasma Mongoose

    Billie will bring the kegs!

    1. DarkoNeko

      tis a dry campus, cap’tain

      1. Spidergirl

        Hasn’t stopped her yet

        1. DarkoNeko

          They’ve get it in their own rooms so far. If Mary heard of it there’d be trouble

      2. Tacos

        When has that ever stopped anybody?

      3. Plasma Mongoose

        Dry as in dry beer, the strong stuff.

        1. Opus the Poet

          Powdered alcohol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Now that’s what I call DRY!

      4. Rich

        Yeah, sure it is. Half the strips tagged with Billie or Ruth disprove that, and Sal’s a drinker too even if she usually takes it off campus.

        If the party stays dry, it’ll be because people don’t want to make Joyce uncomfortable, not because of campus regs.

        1. potatoaddict

          Quite true, if I had to switch out the nationality of any of the above three, it’d be to my own accursed one, a stereotype we pursue in irony, as well as self-destructive cases of an ignorance borne from a life without reflection. We’re occasionally level-headed.

          I am, of course, quite Irish.

      5. Screwball

        It’s only dry till some of it gets spilt… 😛

      6. Rycan

        So, bring dry alcohol. Not sure why it’s next to impossible to obtain on a dry campus, though.

      7. P_chemist

        I visited IU last month and they gave me alcohol on campus, thus I would assume that it is not dry.

        1. Dean

          “Welcome to IU, here’s your pony keg.”

      8. Willoughby Chase

        As in a nice dry white wine? I’ll be in the corner drinking Thunderbird and Kestrel Super.

      9. darkgloomie

        but how will Joyce solidify her position as Queen of the Drunks if there’s no drunk people to queen over?

  11. Mr. Mendo

    Sarah’s world looks like it just ended…

  12. Lieutenant Dan

    Part dormy!

    1. Jen Aside

      PARM DOTTY

      1. MeghanTheWorldEater

        That sounds like Dorothy made out of Parmesan cheese and I’m just not sure how I feel about that…

        1. NoahL

          I feel a tad hungry about it.

        2. DarkoNeko

          ditto

        3. Twilightomens

          I feel good about that.

        4. Rycan

          If Dorothy were Swiss cheese, then she’d have godlike power. As Parmesan, Dorothy will be lucky if she can even break a pencil with her mind.

      2. Carriethedragon

        porm darty???

      3. otusasio451

        Dart Pormy!

        1. Manuel

          Farty towels

  13. Just Me

    Dorm Party? Sarah’s thinking Doom Party.

    1. Kennerly

      Donner party.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Kebabs or People?

        1. fogel

          (Doner kebab is Turkish & Australian // gyro is Greek & American)

        2. fogel

          (In the US kebab usually means chunks of grilled stuff on a skewer, rather than slices of meat like doner/gyro. Australian : American can make one a bit dizzy because there are so many words used in both, but with different, though related, meanings.)

        3. JetstreamGW

          Oh don’t worry, that’ll change. There’s a new chain of restaurants in Texas called Verts. They’ve been taking off like mad. They do Berlin style Doner Kebap. They expect to go to Illinois in the next year or two, and national over the next decade.

          Unless they crash and burn, I imagine people will begin understanding distinctions between Shish and Doner Kebap soon enough.

        4. JetstreamGW

          Well, Berlin INSPIRED Doner, I mean. I’m sure they’re not doing it like the Berliners do 😛

        5. fogel

          Berlin is supposed to be a very cool city these days.

        6. fogel

          Chicago?

        7. Willoughby Chase

          in the UK it’s both elephant leg and bits done on a skewer.

        8. fogel

          Elephant leg being slang for the giant cylindrical rotating meat thing with the ever renewing grilled exterior from which they cut slices to make up a DK/gyro? I never heard that expression, but it’s instantly understandable. (You a Pommy, then?)

      2. otusasio451

        Come to the Donner Party! Free popsicles!

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Killing cyborg Hitler is fun.

      1. Screwball

        I call the biggest gun :3

    3. Deanatay

      NOOO! MY GRADES!! MY BEEYOOOOOOOOTEEFULL GRADES!!!!

      WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

  14. Wisharts

    YESSSS, excellent

  15. Kennerly

    What’s the feminine version of a sausagefest called?

    1. Catullus

      I think I’ve heard “clambake” used before

    2. Geek2theRight

      A clam bake.

    3. MeghanTheWorldEater

      a clam jam?

      1. boomwolf

        I don’t care what the actual term is now, I’m calling it that for ever.

    4. otusasio451

      …Taco Tuesday?

      1. MeghanTheWorldEater

        But didn’t Becky say it was the weekend?

        1. Catullus

          Yup, it’s currently a Saturday

        2. Wack'd

          Taco Taturday

        3. Deanatay

          I believe you’d say ‘Taco Caturday’.

    5. Opus the Poet

      Hen Party.

    6. Ashley

      Clam fiesta?

    7. Roborat

      Estrogen fest?

  16. Dreadhawk177

    Sarah be like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9-RxHRtR0

  17. Tom

    Strunk and White Party

    1. TheStranger

      The Elements of Catan

    2. StClair

      Academic Conference

  18. HMRC4EVR

    For some reason I forsee Bibleman showings aplenty and rocking out to best music the local AM religious radio station can offer!

    1. Annamal

      Nah uh…Dexter and Monkey master all the way (or possibly church mice to embarass Walky)

  19. Arkantos

    ‘Dat look of horror.

  20. Tacos

    Dorm party?
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    .
    Dorm party. *nods*

    1. Bill

      Wonder how many other people realize that this is actually an ‘Animal House’ reference?

      1. Roborat

        First thing I thought of.

  21. Foxhack

    PARTY DORM

  22. nothri

    Sarah may say Dorm Party with her mouth, but what she actually heard was….Shenanigans. Giant, freighter sized piles of Shenanigans. Shenanigans the exact size of Moon….plus Belgium.

    1. Specter177

      Hey, LANGUAGE!

      1. Deanatay

        Relax, DoA is a Serious Screenplay… Willis is probably angling for a Rory.

    2. StClair

      Hey, Farva, what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy [stuff] on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

      1. Bill

        Wouldn’t that be TGIFridays?

  23. Rich

    Ruth’s RA sense must be tingling.

    1. Bagge

      Billie made sure of that earlier.

      Go Leafs

    2. patriotof1993

      As an RA myself, that is certainly a thing. You can just sense when people are causing a lot of trouble and something needs to actually be done about it.

      1. Rich

        “It’s quiet. Too quiet.”

      2. Rycan

        Is it the smell of ethanol? Because if so, the chemistry & biology buildings must drive you nuts.

        1. Rycan

          LABS, not buildings. If the building reeks of alcohol, the ventilators aren’t working and you’d best get out fast.

  24. DarkoNeko

    Sarah : “ooh no no no no NO NO NO NOOOOOOooooo”

  25. Cholma

    If the party is in THEIR dorm, I forsee Ruth having quite a collection of femurs by night’s end!

    1. tim gueguen

      And as a result we learn that, unlike the rest of the cast, Becky doesn’t need her femurs to live.

    2. JetstreamGW

      That is why you INVITE the RA.

  26. jams

    I’m so excited for Dorm Party

  27. Spidergirl

    Yep, that’s about my reaction the phrase “Dorm Party.”

  28. otusasio451

    And that, dear viewers, is the day that Joyce and Becky died.

  29. Plasma Mongoose

    Best case: Everyone will be high on Jesus.
    Worse case: Everyone will be high on the Jesus drug (DMT)*.

    *Dimethyltryptamine

    1. potatoaddict

      I don’t think even Jesus of the Biblical or Historical varieties can stand toe-to-toe with DMT. That opens up all the doors to dreamscapes & imaginings resembling eldritch monstrosities in your america-stemming political joke comics. And that’s for starters.

      I hear the worst part is, only you can see the doors, & you have a very crap time trying to explain any of it to anyone with a dense mind.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        It would make for one heck of a storyline though.

      2. Rycan

        “This chemical that looks like serotonin was bumping into random receptors in my brain, triggering signals at random and producing hallucinations.”

        That’s the simple explanation; the difficulty is probably in getting someone with a head full of DMT to understand that.

      3. Orbit Junkie

        Where are these political comics with eldritch monstrosities? I want them in all of my political cartoons from now on.

  30. Nick Piers

    *busts in*

    DORM PARTY!

    *slams and smashes open a keg full of beer*

    DORM PARTY!

    *runs away, hooting and hollering*

    1. Bagge

      Billie?

      1. Screwball

        DooOOORRRMM PPAARRTYYYYYyyyy
        *Runs past shouting out loud, starkers…*

      2. Nick Piers

        Knock knock!
        Who’s there?
        *kicks the door down*
        DORM PARTY, bongoES!

  31. Victor Riley

    Don’t worry, Sarah, it’ll mostly be board games and singing Christian Hymns.

    Personally, I’ll hang for the board games, but go on a root beer run when the Hymns come out.

    1. Bill

      Didn’t someone in the dorm have videos of ‘Himmel the Singing Hymnal’?  They would of course have to make an appearance, if for no other reason than to let Walky’s secret career as a Churchmouse out of the bag.

      1. Jen Aside

        That was Joyce, and I think she, Dorothy, and Walky collectively burned them

        1. Bagge

          Until explicitly stated otherwise I will maintain that Becky, in those desperate few moments when she fled her father and home and school and ended up on a lonely bus to Joyce, managed to save her beloved VHS copy of ‘Himmel the Singing Hymnal and the cute mouse boy*’ and that it will resurface and cause shenanigans at a later time.

          *) Even if she was more interested in Chastity Churchmouse…

  32. Ashley

    I wouldn’t worry too much about a party being thrown by Becky and Joyce.
    I mean, her last party Joyce was playing board games.

    1. Rich

      Joyce was also Queen of the Drunks and loving it. Would you deprive her of her subjects?

      1. John

        They can invite Billie.

    2. Bill

      I don’t think there will be too many games.  Last party she was at, Joyce was playing board games and almost got nailed by Ryan.

      1. Rycan

        Well, I think we can rule out Settlers of Catan being played. I’m guessing that would be a trigger for Joyce. But a board game that Joyce associates with her childhood would probably be fine.

        1. Deanatay

          A tragedy, that would be. But, possible.

        2. Amazistool

          Settlers of Satan?

      2. Rich

        We know Joyce owns a copy of Apples to Apples.

        Maybe someone will bring Cards Against Humanity too. Think Joyce would have to sit that one out.

        1. GreyTheDefender

          I can see it now. Joyce gets talked into Evil Apples, by some miracle the first hand or so is one of the cleaner sets and she’s lulled into a false sense of security, and then she’s slapped with “All hail Satan’s bunghole”. Hilarity ensues.

    3. licoricepencil

      IIRC, Joyce’s idea of a party was Sprite and Apples to Apples.

      1. Rich

        Definitely take Sierra Mist off the beverage list. Then again, that should go without saying.

        1. Rycan

          Especially since I think that was the drink that was drugged.

  33. Cheryl

    In the words of lana kane. NOOOOOOPE

    1. Rycan

      Your grav seems to be disagreeing with your comment.

  34. anonymsly

    Poor Sarah!! There goes your quiet night of studying and ignoring the chatter of your roommate and your new other roommate.

    Now you will have to ignore so much more chatter, AND they’ll all be trying to bring you in on it.

  35. JessWitt

    INCOHERENT YELLING AND SCREAMING!!!

    1. Screwball

      *Much beer sculling & arm flailing*

  36. Kris

    So what’s a Joyce party like? 24 hour Dexter and Monkey Master marathon?

    1. Bagge

      Yeah, aren’t you feeling lame in comparison

      1. Someone

        I would go to that party

      2. Kris

        I’m not cool enough for a Joyce party. SAL is barely cool enough for a Joyce party.

  37. advancecasette

    billy and mike kick the fucking door down each carrying two kegs

    yes, in my head joyce is comfortable with mike

    1. Rich

      No one in this world is “comfortable” with Mike.

      1. fogel

        Yet some of them hang with him. And I want to know if alcohol has the same effect on DoA Mike as on Walky-verse Mike. I hope so. That’s a great Willis-ism.

        1. Rich

          Has DoA Mike every gotten drunk? He’s pretty young at this point, way below legal age, and lots of kids never taste booze before college. Quite possible that he will react to it as he did in Shortpacked but isn’t aware of it yet.

        2. fogel

          I never drank in high school. though I did manage to get drunk at a family dinner when I was 12 … and reacquanted myself with that condition pretty early in my freshman year. So, I’d say Mike is an open question? Though it does seem that Ruth and Billie are doing all of the drinking for that whole dorm.

        3. Rycan

          You’re confusing ‘tolerating’ with ‘hanging out’.

        4. fogel

          Where I come from those aren’t mutually exclusive. Hanging out was just being casually collocated, not doing much of anything in particular if anything much at all. Some people you liked hanging out with, some not so much or even less, you tolerated them, even as you wondered “why are we hanging out with this #!&@+!%¿?” There was one guy who was a definite duck who sometimes showed & who once casually insulted a female friend,totes over the line; I very nearly punched him in the way so many folks here want to punch Mike. I really had to hold myself back.

    2. zoomer296

      Let’s fix that: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/answer-2/

  38. potatoaddict

    Sarah, get Ruth. You only have this moment. Quickly now, before they get steamrolling & cause a catastrophe involving removed femurs!

    1. Rycan

      That would be a great way to get Becky kicked out.

  39. Bagge

    Dorm party!!!!!

  40. Idon'tcarenomore

    Sahra almost lost her scholarship due to her higher that a kite ex-roomies. She’s not big on parties. Maybe also because of having to use a baseball bat at the last one?

    So they invite Joyce’s friends: Dorothy, Ethan, Sal, Walky, Dina,Amber. They all have a quiet night watching Monkey Man and playing games. All goes well.
    or
    ‘Dorm party’ leaks. Half the floor shows up. Things get noisy. Ambers dad shows up. Becky’s Dad shows up. Amber mops the floor with her father. Becky’s Dad tries to drag her out. Sarah bops him with a baseball bat. Ruthless arrives and collects all their femurs.

    1. GreyTheDefender

      Huh. I somehow thought the Dumbiverse would last longer than that…

  41. Idon'tcarenomore

    Oh yeah. Amber and Sal recognize each other from the candy store robbery and sets off a mild commotion somewhere in the midst of all this.

    1. Someone

      they’ve seen each other before, only Amber cares.

      1. No Name

        And you only need one to start a fight. It takes two to keep it going.

        1. fogel

          True, but it only takes one to lay a beating on someone who isn’t fighting back.

      2. anonymsly

        I’m pretty sure it’s less that Sal doesn’t care and more that Sal doesn’t recognize Amber.

    2. timemonkey

      Joyce doesn’t like Amber. And she hasn’t really got along with Dina the last few weeks.

  42. neeks

    “We need you to keep a low profile.”
    “Let’s throw a party!”
    “GENIUS.”

    1. Rycan

      Joyce & Becky are masters of subtlety.

      1. GreyTheDefender

        This just sarcastically summed up this entire story arc.

  43. Robert

    Back when I was in college, whenever there was a dorm party it was usually the R.A.s and building admins who got themselves arrested in the middle of the night. It was a strange time.

    1. fogel

      Our Resident Master was holed up in his apartment drinking. We did what we wanted.

      1. No Name

        So, basically Ruth but without the periodic death threats? Or the clandestine relationship with a resident?

        1. Rich

          Ah, but was he a Leafs fan? That’s the important part.

        2. Rich

          What am I saying? The guy drank alone in his apartment, of course he was a Leafs fan. They have to cope somehow.

        3. fogel

          No Name; Rich: well, I left out that he had a lady friend, since that didn’t seem strictly relevant to the fact that he ran a very, slack regime … though maybe it was?

  44. Jackson

    See, Sarah, this is why you need to make friends. Nice, quiet friends who just chill out all weekend doing nothing. So then when your roommate’s best friend secretly takes up residence in your dorm and starts throwing dorm parties, you can spend the weekend with your quiet friends.

    What I am saying is you need friends so you can exploit them.

    1. Jen Aside

      She has quiet friends!

      Or, friend.

      Okay, I guess vibration isn’t that quiet.

    2. timemonkey

      She’s friends with Dorothy and Dina. They’re quiet and study.

  45. Marvelman

    Am I the only one who can’t see the new strip?

  46. House Martell

    Dorne Party?

  47. Screwball

    While a Dorm Party sounds awesome (I’ve seen movies 🙂 ), something that comes to mind thanks to all these comments – CRASHERS. Sure, they may only invite those they trust, but what about outsiders trying to join in…

    …Like maybe some of us for instance… 😛

    1. Bagge

      Between Ruth, Sarah and Amazi-girl I think this party will be a bit better equiped to deal with them than what’s standard.

    2. Someone

      Okay that’s it, I’m finding a way to break the forth wall!

      1. Rycan

        The wall that’s been keeping you from venturing forth?

    3. Wack'd

      “Hey did you hear? Dorm party this weekend!”
      “Who’s throwing it?”
      “Joyce Brown.”
      “The smiley Bible nut with the sweatervests?”
      “…yeah, forget I said anything.”

      1. Screwball

        “Naa man, this is perfect. We either teach her how to throw a REAL party, or hang nearby, help a few people get drunk & see what happens…”
        “Hmmm, that girl with Joyce was shouting she was a lesbian. Maybe bring that desperate newspaper girl & see what happens…?”

        1. timemonkey

          “Wait, isn’t her roommate a bongoy killjoy misanthrope with a bat?”

  48. zmm

    SARAH HIDE YOUR LIGHT SABER SUPER WELL AND LOCK EVERYTHING IN A TRUNK!
    then go see a movie.

    Thats how I handled shit

  49. DarkoNeko

    So, sudden thought.

    “Hey, girls, you remember that Becky living there is still supposed to be a secret, right ?”

    If they keep by that, that’ll severely limits the number of people they can invite.

    1. DarkoNeko

      I’m parsing the 2 last chapters again to confirm, but I recon that beside Sarah, everyone thinks she’s just visiting.

      1. DarkoNeko

        Ah, turns out Walky and Dotty knows

        Maybe Mike if he overheard (but they sure as hell ain’t inviting him)

        1. DarkoNeko

          And Ethan. Not explicitly but it wouldn’t be hard for him to connect the dots.

      2. Tacos

        I don’t think people would particularly be paying attention if there happens to be a party thrown while someone is “visiting”.

    2. Someone

      It’s a party in a dorm room, you can invite like 5 people maximum

      1. DarkoNeko

        Not if you start bringing tables and chair in the corridor 😀

        1. GreyTheDefender

          My friends, I feel we’re dealing with an expert.

        2. DarkoNeko

          Eh, forget drinking parties, it’s really nice to do collective dinners sometimes 😀

      2. thejeff

        Are you kidding? You can fit at least a dozen people in a dorm room for a party. That’s pretty comfortable. Mostly standing, admittedly.
        And they’ll definitely spill over into Sal and Billy’s room.
        That’s without it actually turning into a floor party.

    3. timemonkey

      Pretty much everyone who Joyce feels safe around already knows or wouldn’t tell anyway.

  50. NinjaNick

    Dorm party!!!

  51. Liz

    Quick, Sarah! Retreat to Jacob’s room!

    1. Bagge

      No,not that Jacob, the other Jacob.

      1. neeks

        So her underwear drawer?

        1. Orbit Junkie

          *Joyce wakes up the next morning*
          *Accidentally opens wrong drawer*
          *Sarah unfolds herself from inside*

          “DO YOU MIND!?! I’M BUSY IN HERE!!!”

  52. Lulu

    We all know it will end so badly with Becky being removed from the campus…
    Still I hope that at least that lesbian newspaper girl will get a piece of Becky ^^

  53. Pinja

    Dangit

    1. DarkoNeko

      This… is so fitting for your avatar.

  54. skitchyskitch

    Since five sixths of the panels contain the words ‘dorm party’ I am suspecting that this strip is trying to communicate something to do with a dorm party.

  55. Megatron

    Way to trigger Sarah, fleshlings.

    1. Screwball

      But, but…Dorm Party Megsy. Dorm Party…

  56. Kitschensyngk

    Guys! I think they’re gonna have a dorm party!

  57. imightnotbeanyone

    Dorothy’s room. I’m sure Sierra wouldn’t oppose.

    1. Bagge

      She need to leave.

      1. Deanatay

        “You need to party.”
        “I need to party?”
        “I needed to party!”
        WOOOOO

  58. 4th Dimension

    DOOM PARTY

  59. CianM1301

    “SOCIAL ACTIVITY?!”

  60. Someone

    Now, would Ruth object or would she use the party as a distraction to get funky with Billie

    1. Cory

      ¿por que no los dos?

  61. Hors Service

    It looks like the perfect set-up to a Disney-style song with a wacky montage of party preparations!
    I can already hear the duo in opposition!

    1. Bill

      ♫♪♪ Zip-zip-zip!  Buzz-buzz-buzz!  Sarah, hide your toys! ♪♪
      ♪♫ That’s how we set the party up in the wonderful world of Joyce. ♫

  62. Willoughby Chase

    *looks into crystal ball* I can see much shenanigans and hi jinx ensuing in the near future!

  63. The Phantom's Belch

    Joyce: But Ruth, wait! What would Jesus do?
    Ruth: This. *flips the snack table and chases Joyce with a whip*

    ^^ What is going through Sarah’s head right now.

  64. Minty

    Sara’s face! this just might be her finest moment. she looks so horrified! 8D

  65. parkrndl

    Ha.

    The day I moved into my dorm at the beginning of freshman year, my roommate did this. He walked around campus inviting anybody and everybody he could find to a party in our room that night. (it was only freshmen on campus at that point, we got to move in a couple days early.) I made a face like Sarah. I was NOT ready for this…

    It worked out great. For the next four years, I never walked anywhere on campus without seeing someone I knew from that party.

  66. Martin Smith

    I’m disappointed in everyone who’s left a comment other than ‘DORM PARTY!’ (including myself now, obviously).

    1. Rich

      Dab dab dab

  67. agentksilver

    “Nice to meet you, Becky. How long are you in town?”

    “Uh…”

  68. hof1991

    Sarah has dorm parties all the time, inviting everyone she is comfortable with. But she’s only comfortable with Lil Jacob.

    1. Rich

      I believe it’s canonical that she owns more than one toy, and is presumably comfortable with them all. Lil Jacob is just the only one we’ve seen.

  69. Sir Robin

    I think there should be a final panel, with Ruth in her room, using some sort of RA sense and asking “Dorm Party???”

  70. Marethyu

    DOOM PARTY!?

    1. Roborat

      DOOM KITTY !!!!

  71. PAC

    I imagine that Danny is a safe person, has Joyce and Danny ever interacted with each other at all during the comic?

    1. Marethyu

      Is this sarcasm? They had a ton of interaction at the beginning of the comic.

      1. Marethyu

        God, I just realized I was thinking of the Roomies! canon. I apologize.

    2. Spencer

      I think the closest they ever got to interaction was when Joe asked Joyce out and pushed Danny towards Sarah. There’s a preview image of Danny walking into the room with everyone there, so presumably he’s also coming to this party.

      1. No Name

        Danny and Joyce also met later, when Amber first confronted Ethan about Joyce. That said, I don’t think they had any real interaction then either.

        1. Nono

          Joyce covered Danny’s eyes to prevent him from see Sal au natural.

        2. Rich

          Hey, hey, she had her gloves and panties on.

        3. Spencer

          Right. I forgot about those. That’s probably the most significant interaction between the two.

          Danny’s basically the only main character who hasn’t had some major event with Joyce yet, except maybe Ruth.

        4. No Name

          I’m pretty sure threats of death are major events (“I need my femurs to live!!!”), so, yeah Danny’s the only character left without major contact.

        5. Rich

          That joke has never worked for me. There are too many vets who have proven Joyce wrong. It’s surprising what you can live through.

    3. GreyTheDefender

      Does anyone else thing Danny looks vaguely like the dude who assaulted Joyce? Inviting him might be a bad idea. But then, she’s been around him since then and it doesn’t seem to bother her. Maybe I’m overthinking things.

  72. RavenRyy

    This idea is pure genius!

    Why the hell should all parties be ruined for Joyce? Hell, even Sarah needs tae let her hair down a bit.

  73. Marc in MN

    This needed one frame of some other random person who wasn’t even in the room yelling, “Dorm party!”

    1. Rich

      I nominate Ruth, complete with the Glare of Doom, set against background of hellfire.

      1. Bagge

        Bille: “Dorm Party?!” *perks up*
        Ruth: “Dorm Party…*GlareOfDoom*

        1. DarkoNeko

          Welllll

    2. podian

      It should be Dina. Everything’s better with Dina.

  74. Charles Phipps

    What happens next should be Becky and Joyce singing “Open up the Gates” from Frozen. Who gets the Elsa role is up to the audience given both conceal but don’t feel.

    1. boomwolf

      I say Joyce.

  75. boomwolf

    *runs around screaming* TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

    1. Animal

      “And most recently of all, a “Roman Toga Party” was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.”

      1. Roborat

        Oh oh, looks like someone is getting double secret probation.

  76. CommentSpawn

    DORM PARTY!!

  77. Opus the Poet

    I can’t believe nobody has linked this yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xemLz_fR1Ac

  78. Zatar

    I think its really cool that in the Becky is the one who is able to create a situation were Joyce can socialize the way she wants to while also feeling safe.

    1. GreyTheDefender

      I will now always refer to her as “The Becky”.

      1. Someone

        the beckster

        1. Zatar

          The Beckstar.

        2. Tacos

          The Beck-Meister.

  79. Bagge

    I just noticed that Joyce and Becky are in the tail end of a hug. Daaaaaww

  80. Animal

    TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

  81. B.D

    Their reactions are “:D:”.

  82. Someone

    Im just gonna say, third panel: Dumbing of Age needs more poofy lips.

  83. OnyxIdol

    Yes Sarah, there will be weeeeeeed.

    1. podian

      The idea is for the party Joyce’d be comfortable with, so nope.

  84. Regalli

    Dorm party,

  85. Torra

    This is up there with my favourite strips. Supportive friends + lol sarah face = yes. (DORM PARTY???)

  86. Dorm Party

    WHY IS EVERYBODY SHOUTING MY NAME!?

    1. Animal

      WHY DID THEY MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT MY HOUSE?

      1. The Thing

        WHERE DID MY GENITALS GO REED FIX THIS NOW

  87. Tenn

    The words “dorm party” have lost all meaning to me now. All hail Dorm Party. Praise be to Dorm Party.

  88. Crumplepunch

    CRAB BATTLE.

    Wait, no.

    DORM PARTY.

  89. Rebecca

    Based on Joyce’s socialization at the last party (“Let’s find people to play board games”), I don’t know why Sarah is so freaked out about the idea of a dorm party hosted by two barely-able-to-function-normally-in-social-settings girls.

  90. Bearpelt

    That is incredibly sweet.

  91. Roborat

    After the Animal House connection, my next thought was the monorail bit from The Simpsons.

  92. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

    Oh god, they’re gonna break into song any second now

  93. Onion

    dOrM pArTyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,,,,,,,,,,,/#&*%

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