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JELL-O
Posted on January 5, 2019 by David M Willis

122 thoughts on “JELL-O”

  1. AnvilPro

    Best friends!

    1. Dedlok

      B E S T F R I E N D S

      1. Clif

        What were the odds.

    2. Gayer Than You

      Outside of the main cast, Carla and Lucy are definitely my favorite characters, can’t wait for them to become best buds!.

    3. Roborat

      Cue Andy Samburg video: “Best Friends”.

  2. Derek

    Carla hasn’t annoyed Malaya yet, did she give up on that maybe-romance?

    1. DailyBrad

      She may handle potential romantic partners differently than friends. That, and/or Carla picking up on what Marcie’s aim was and giving them a wide berth.

      1. Emperor Norton II

        Time to link to Robot Hugs again!

        Number three is something that Carla might be into.

        1. ValdVin

          Upvote for anyone who posts an R-H link.

  3. butts

    This just in: Carla admits liking someone (other than herself)

    1. butts

      …and Malaya, I guess

    2. DailyBrad

      She did also admit to liking Ruth, but did say she liked Ruth more when she’s, well, Ruthless.

      Not sure how she’s liking the current middle ground.

  4. meep

    So Lucy had no malicious intent at all. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising given her character, but with how packed this is with drama I couldn’t hel but expect something sneakiy was going on.

    1. Cholma

      Shame on you for thinking pure cinnamon roll Lucy would stoop to sneaky!

      1. AntJ

        Not sneaky, just an underhanded way of restoring her popularity. It does seem a bit much going to Billie’s old dorm to ask how to deal with her, but then again, Billie is a bit much to deal with.

        1. ninja_jesus

          Except Lucy was never interested in popularity. She was more frustrated that people were being totally opposite of how they usually were just because someone “popular” showed up at the dorm.

    2. BarerMender

      I’m not convinced.

      1. MatthewTheLucky

        Why? Your suspicion is highly irrational.

        1. Jengoci

          Simple, the spirit of Sarah is possesing tbem

      2. Emily

        I’m no stranger to blood feuds against fictional character but I gotta admit you picked a really strange subject for one.

      3. dethtolldotmid

        What would convince you, then? Because this strip is the most obvious example yet that you’re wrong.

        1. DSL

          And DoA overall is the most obvious example that readers who are sure they are right about any character end up being wrong — at least to a degree.

        2. Clif

          I’m sure that Lucy’s motives are purely benevolent. But would it really be so bad if she blackmailed Billie into attending her party?

  5. Shiro

    I’m so excited for this friendship 😀 😀 😀 😀 Poooossibly in part because some of the people I like best in the world express friendship via “bug the everlovin’ shit out of you forever and ever”

  6. Stephen Bierce

    “Good, clean, Cosby-type fun!”–attributed to Jimmie Walker

    1. Shiro

      That sure didn’t age well

  7. regina phalange

    …the latter of those options seems indistinguishable from how she treats people she dislikes….

  8. Yumi

    Christ on/as a cracker, I love panel three.

    1. Yumi

      Book 9: Stock the Place up with Bad Ideas

      1. Marsh Maryrose

        It’s been way too long since I thought about Cat and Girl and Bad Decision Dinosaur.

      2. Keulen

        Dumbing of Age Book 9: You’re Not Gonna Enjoy the Respective Likelihoods

        1. Clif

          DOA9: Stock the Place Up with Bad Ideas.

        2. Clif

          is the best, followed by DOA9: I Dunno, JELL-O SHOTS. It’s too bad the alt-text isn’t available tho.

  9. ShinyNeen

    Aww, Carla made a friend! In a fairly normal, straighforward way, she made a friend!

    … I hope Lucy doesn’t come to regret that.

  10. Some1

    I feel like a few people took my comment about Carla to imply that she was a bad person. She isn’t. A bad person doesn’t deal with people like Mary by mildly pranking them.

    1. Khantalas

      Yeah, a bad person would form a political party with Mary and keep shutting down the legislative.

      1. MatsuoTanuki

        Um… zing..?

      2. DarkoNeko

        wow.

  11. DarkoNeko

    More like “how do I coax Billie to go to a party SO everyone else attend”, right ? 😀

    1. DarkoNeko

      wait, I misread. Coffee tiiiiiime

    2. CJ

      Meaning “I don’t really need Billie there but if she’s a no-show, everyone is” (and how depressing is that?)

      1. DarkoNeko

        eh, it’d mean I’d say “fuck them I’m watching that movie alone anyway” to me, but it looks like Lucy need the crowd.

  12. Larkle

    I kind of feel like Carla is already being a better friend to Lucy then her dorm friends are.

    1. AntJ

      Carla, for better or for worse, plays straight. There’s something to be said for bluntness in that you always know where you stand with blunt people.

      1. King Daniel

        Pretty sure Carla plays non-straight, actually. 😛

        1. BBCC

          You are correct.

        2. ktbear

          Are you sure about that? I mean, I know Carla thinks girls are cute, because she is one, but I’m not sure that translates to her prefering girls?

        3. Nono

          Carla’s very obvious crush on Malaya?

        4. thejeff

          Carla’s crush on Malaya, that was incredibly blatantly obvious for an hour or so with no signs of existence before or since. And appeared to involve either total desperation or an abuse kink that also hasn’t appeared before or since.

          I still think something other than the obvious was going on there.

        5. TemperaryObsessor

          I think she likes women romantically, and no one sexually.

        6. timemonkey

          Sexuality transfers from the other universe where Carla was explicitly stated to be homoromantic asexual.

        7. King Daniel

          What everyone above me said.

        8. Tan

          Word of Willis is that sexualities are consistent across universes (stated both generally and specifically for Carla), which means asexual homoromantic.

        9. BBCC

          Yes, I’m sure. Carla’s a sex repulsed ace lesbian.

  13. DailyBrad

    Ahhh, so that was Lucy’s game. She wanted to get Billie to show up to get other people to, not blackmail or anything like that.

    Carla and Lucy friendship, heck yes.

    …think she’s going to get clued in to invite Ruth and do it that way?

    1. Lingo

      Whoop whoop, I called it!

    2. DarkoNeko

      ….why would you imagine Lucy wanting to blackmail anyone

      1. Zee

        People think she’s some popularity obsessed evil Mastermind or something

        1. Khyrin

          Popularity-Obsessed? yes.
          Evil? No.
          mastermind? Maybe.

          her obsession seems to stem from Billie effortlessly displacing her as the Queen Bee of the wing. (As opposed to Alpha Bongo.)

      2. DailyBrad

        I honestly didn’t think Lucy would do that, but that was what many people were speculating on in the comics.
        I was thinking it was, at worst, a “know your enemy” kind of thing, but this is even less of a hostile thing.

    3. Tan

      Alternately, invite Carla. Best case, Billie’s fans are suddenly converted into Carla fans, which is better for everyone. Worst case, you watch a movie with Carla. Win-win.

      1. DailyBrad

        I like the cut of your jib.

      2. Daibhid C

        The movie will be Short Circuit 2.

  14. Catman

    . These two are adorable. One is a cinnamon roll, extra sweet, and the other one is a cinnamon roll, extra cinnamon

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      Carla is more like a cinnamon roll, extra chipotle.

      1. Marsh Maryrose

        I haven’t actually tried it, but I’m thinking chipotle and and cinnamon would be really great together, if you could get the proportions right. I’ll have to add a little bit of chipotle the next time I bake cinnamon rolls.

        1. Proxiehunter

          I don’t know about cinnamon rolls but I bet they’d make a hell of a chocolate cake and you’d have more leeway with the proportions.

    2. Emily

      Carla is a raw habanero with like 7 grains of sugar buried at the center.

      1. Catman

        I mean, I happen to be quite found of the spicy/sweet combination, though 7 grains of sugar mightn’t be enough for it to work.

        I am now curios to try a have Nero that’s been filled with caramel or toffee, maybe dipped in chocolate for good measure.

        And on the topic of Carla, she seems mostly okay.

  15. Marsh Maryrose

    Re:Alt-text: Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!

  16. BBCC

    *looks at last storyline and notes Carla’s still wearing the jacket she got to match Sal* Yeah, that checks out.

    As does Carla’s advice, bad idea though it may be.

    And oooooh, jello shots!

    1. Daisy

      Ha! Good note. Carla bugs Sal about a lot of things, but it mostly involves following her around being nosy and that’s the peak of friendliness for Carla.

      I would read a LOT about the misadventures of these two.

  17. Raen

    I think I’m going to need a source on that first one.

    1. Clif

      First one what?

  18. Solenoid

    curs’t to be annoyed for all time

  19. MatsuoTanuki

    Does Lucy not know you DON’T HAVE to be best friends with your roommates? If you can have fun with each other and get along then more the power to you, but the one and only requirement absolutely need to be met is that you can tolerate one another and work in peace.

    1. Danigami

      She just want Billie to come to the movie watch so the others girls go too

    2. DarkoNeko

      After Malaya, I think she kinda noticed.

    3. Zee

      She’s not trying to here though? She’s literally just trying to get her shitty friends to hang out and watch a movie

  20. Keulen

    Carla is correct though, alcohol is an effective way to get Billie to go to a party.

    1. BenRG

      It is also the first step to getting the party to end up in places that you’d prefer it not to go.

      1. RicardtheDragoon

        Such as making drinking seem popular? Either knowing Billie is an alcoholic will kill her popularity or make the popularity of drinking alcohol spike in Lucy’s dorm. Or possibly a third option such as no change at all.

        1. BenRG

          Such as having a room full of disorderly conduct that WILL attract the authorities and ruin Lucy’s day, week or possibly academic career because you can bet that Billie’s little minions won’t let their idol take any blame.

  21. Reltzik

    Hooray for self-awareness?

  22. ninja_jesus

    So wait, since Lucy is now a friend of Carla, does that actually put her up higher on the social ladder than Billie is?

    1. DarkoNeko

      definitly

  23. qlx

    Hmm, does this mean Carla secretly likes Mary?

    1. Yumi

      Go sit in the corner.

      1. Adam Black

        Lol

    2. DarkoNeko

      wow, *what*

  24. BenRG

    FWIW, I think it’s a sign of how much Carla already likes Lucy in that she’s warning her in advance of just how difficult she is to get along with! That said, I’m not sure it’s legal to be that self-aware and not do anything about it!

    1. Vulcanodon

      I dunno, I’m aware that my lack of control around sweets is not good for me, but still struggle with it. Sometimes our own behavior is a bit of a mystery to us.

      1. Emily

        Yeah but the difference is you’re not hurting anyone else with that behaviour.

    2. Jengoci

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/assignments-2/ She’s often rewarded because of her behavior so why change it

    3. Emily

      It’s yet another reason for me to dislike her, because hey it turns out she knows she does this and just does not care enough about the people she claims to like to do a damn thing about it.

  25. Bagge

    That’s pretty solid advice in panel 3. Billie as much as told her the same thing this morning – add a few keg stands and make it a frat party and I’m sure Billie will be there.

  26. fire_daws

    If those two pair up together in a sit-com I’d watch the shit out of it.

  27. Clif

    If panel 6 was a stand-alone app where you got to fill in the word balloons for Carla and Lucy, what would it say?

  28. AJ

    Yeah, they gonna bang.

  29. Peter

    Hmm. That last panel is interesting. for one thing, it explains how Carla has treated Joyce with uncharateristic helpfulness. It also explains how she has treated Sal.

  30. TemperaryObsessor

    Lucy is great at doing both at the same time.

  31. Zee

    Huh wadd’ya know. The nerd girl who so far has shown no traits other than being a somewhat pushy lonely kid who just wants friends *didn’t* come here to socially destroy her roommate. Go figure

    1. Emily

      Clearly this scheme is actually just even more diabolically complex.

      1. BBCC

        There’s a crackfic somewhere of Lucy being a diabolical villainess.

    2. fire_daws

      Amazing isn’t it? It’s as if everybody’s worst ever projections didn’t come to pass.

  32. hof1991

    The unmentioned difference between the two dorms. Lucy and Joyce are pretty similar, the difference being that Joyce is harder to get along with. Joyce has a lot of friends who care about her. Lucy doesn’t.

  33. kilgaen

    What? Who’s Carla just been nice to?

    1. Emperor Norton II

      She was being nice to Joyce by making her shower-shoes.

    2. BBCC

      Her parents? I also haven’t seen her being mean to Marcie either.

    3. JBento

      She patched up Amber once.

    4. Norah

      She was nice to Ruth when Ruth was depressed. Plus she alerted everyone to the fact that Ruth wanted to die and needed help. She didn’t do this in the best way, but then she didn’t realize that Ruth might have to go live with her abusive grandpa if she got fired.

  34. Whatt

    Worst case scenario of them being friends, Lucy was just doing it for the free jacket and droids!

  35. Kathleen

    the way to Carla’s heart: say thanks!

  36. Megz

    So I’m pleasantly surprised that Lucy wasn’t aiming for blackmail material. She does still seem too eager to please people who are actually still stuck on high-school levels of shallowness. Sweet girl needs to take a break from trying to force this movie night and let the glow of “Popular Billie” fade because it will. These nerd girls will have to grow out of this craziness soon enough.

    1. Emily

      If current events have taught us anything it is that people don’t have to grow out of falling for cults of personality revolving around people with extremely questionable charisma.

      1. Norah

        Yes, but they live day to day with Billie, and they might get sick of her shit after awhile. It’s not as if she’s on TV or Twitter telling them what they want to hear and validating all their bigoted thoughts, but she’s far away in the White House and they don’t live with her or have to work with her daily.

        1. Norah

          Not sure if that made any sense. What I meant was, if people who idolize Trump had to spend time with him day to day, they might feel differently about him. Since Billie’s dorm-mates do see and deal with her daily, she may end up doing things that alienate them, or at least make them stop idolizing her and treat her more like a normal, everyday person.

  37. stoodmuffin

    People shit on Carla, but. Damn if she isn’t relatable in some ways. Not just for being trans.

    1. Jago

      I can’t really relate to her, but I can respect her attitude. I wish I was that confident.

      1. Jago

        …and before someone yells at me, that doesn’t mean that I think her behaviour is good, but that’s kind of the point. Being so unapologetically yourself takes a lot of confidence, I imagine. Especially if she’s aware of how she is acting, and that acting like that will cause people to dislike her. Not caring what others might think of you, it’s impressive.

  38. Clif

    I have a note to myself atter reading yesterday’s comments to google Bojack Horseman. I’ve now decided that it’s much less effort to blow that off and assume/believe that Bojack Horseman is a My Little Ponies arch-villain.

  39. DarkoNeko

    Why not both ?

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