She lost her parents to a drunk driver and now she’s a slave to the demon that killed them. To top it off she’s severely attracted to someone who has been convicted of the same kind of crime the guy killed her parents committed. This explains where her resentment of Billie comes from and why she’s so messed up in general.
Agreed. I was wondering why Ruth acted the way she did to Billie. I wanted to know more. And now we do. She seems so much more human now. I wonder where she and Billie go from here.
I think it’s from one of the more recent chapters (572) where they got into the history of the Tailed Beasts, and how the Sage essentially made them so the Ten-tails wouldn’t reform when the Sage died. It featured a scene where the various Beasts (in younger forms) were shown from Kyuubi’s memories of just after they were formed.
Seriously, you know how in Scrubs they’d always play that one little background tune when things got dramatic? And then in one episode J.D. revealed that he can hear it in his head?
bada badabada ba baaaaaa
bada badabada ba baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ding
Doctor_Who
Thank you. I went looking for it on Youtube to demonstrate, but all I found was the scene where Dr. Cox is on the couch drunk and depressed after killing three people, and J.D. gives him a speech about how much he respects him. And like an idiot I watched it.
Between this strip and that scene, I am now an emotional wreck.
(Maybe if I watch some Futurama I’ll feel better….Jurassic Bark? NOOOOO!)
lokitsu
Thanks, now I have “How to Save a Life” running through my head
Season 4, episode 1: “My Old Friend’s New Friend.”
(Season 4 is my favorite, I think.)
AgentKeen
Futurama can have the occasional miss episode, but I have mad respect (I can’t believe I just used that phrase) for a show that can have episodes that are hilarious and cry worthy. Jurassic Bark and Luck of the Fryish get me every time, and Jurassic Bark has some of my favorite funny Futurama quotes.
It’s Dolomite, baby!
Chatokun
The one with Leela’s parents always gets me at the end too, when they play Baby Love Child by Pizzicato 5. Not in a cry way, just a feels way. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69e_1189901829
AgentKeen
From the newer seasons on Comedy Central, they had a Bender/Hermes episode (I had to look it up, it’s called Lethal Inspection) where they do a montage at the end that has about the same effect.
Like I said, not every episode’s a hit, but they can really get some good laughs and feels into one episode.
Leonou
Damn You DOA Readers !
I’ve just watched Jurassic Bark because of you.
How am I supposed to deal with so much feels now ?
AgentKeen
Don’t fight them, give into the feels and join the Feely Side!
Oh good god. That scene – the moment when How To Save a Life is in full swing and the last guy dies. Just that second where Cox flips the crash cart across the room… I lose it every time – and I never lose it with shows or movies.
Milosh
The funny thing about that tune is that it that it is never, even once, played seriously. I was keeping track and everything.
David
DISAGREE.
It was played seriously until the moment I linked above in season 4. Only after then was it only played for laughs.
Beige
…why did I see that tune as the underground theme from mario bros?
Ok, now I can officially say I feel identified with Ruth…
Sadly, my alcohol tolerance is too damn high and I can’t afford the required amount of booze!
As Homer Simpson learned once. (Well, they didn’t torment him for the rest of his life, exactly. And he did get to smoke pot legally as a result of what they did do. And…okay, this example is getting away from me fast.)
xain
so… fuck with crows, get pot???
alicemacher
Yes. Just make sure you don’t leave out the “with.” Otherwise, you get jail time instead.
xain
wait so now its fuck with crows,go to jail
alicemacher
No, it’s “Fuck crows, go to jail.” (Because ew.)
As opposed to “Fuck with crows, get pot.”
What a difference one little word makes.
xain
but when you do either you fuck with a murder, and when you fuck with a murder you get murdered
it is totally okay to fuck with crows. You just need to have your patented “crow fucking with” mask handy so they learn to hate the mask and not the man.
Ruth’s parents were killed by a drunk driver.
Ruth knew that Billie had a DUI. Indeed, that she’d had an accident while drunk.
So, that’s why Ruth’s been on Billie’s case since day one.
But Ruth didn’t cope with her parent’s death well, it would seem, and became an alcoholic, which she hates herself for.
I’ll be honest too, I don’t think I got this right.
I understand Ruth being in a very bad place after kissing a drunk driver, and after becoming a alcoholic.
What I don’t understand is her falling for a former drunk driver and becoming a alcoholic. I think this is confusing and, maybe, “confused” is the specific kind of “messy” Ruth is at this moment.
Maybe Ruth was punishing herself for becoming an alcoholic. She’s become the person that could get a DUI, so she must have feelings for someone who had a DUI.
Heavensrun
Or maybe she just -likes- -Billie-. Seriously, guys, it doesn’t have to be some effed up “I have to like someone that’s like me even though I hate people like me”, it could just be that she finds Billie attractive and found her company more tolerable than expected once she got to know her better.
xain
yeah guys what he said. This ship already has plenty of issues we don’t need no negative nancy’s with their worst case scenarios
What I don’t get is who she was talking with earlier on the phone that left her depressed. She called him sir and I assumed that was her father since he was a prick who cheated on her mother with Billie’s mother in the original Walkyverse. Maybe a step father or foster parent who’s authoritative and emotionally distant. Drunk driving affected the original Ruth albeit in a fatal way too so it would seem she cannot escape this no matter what reality she inhabits.
Dorothy, you are WAY too happy about current events!
And before you ask, the suggestive leer is because, despite all the heavy emotions and near alcoholic poisoning we’ve had, we still ended up with two half-naked chicks sitting together on a bed after previously making out. To Joe the journey isn’t as important as the destination!
183 thoughts on “Not directly”
AndaisQ
Oh dear.
Link
You say oh dear, but your avatar says what you really mean.
Cybersnark
HUZZoh dear.
Agera
ok that explains a lot
CathyGarrett (@CathyGarrett)
What? What? What does this strip explain? That Ruthless is 31 different flavours of loony?
BassBone
She lost her parents to a drunk driver and now she’s a slave to the demon that killed them. To top it off she’s severely attracted to someone who has been convicted of the same kind of crime the guy killed her parents committed. This explains where her resentment of Billie comes from and why she’s so messed up in general.
Led
That no matter which universe or timeline, something bad happens involving Ruth and drunk driving?
Platinakettu
Yes it does, I was expecting an reveal, but not something like this. So so sad…
angierhafai
Agreed. I was wondering why Ruth acted the way she did to Billie. I wanted to know more. And now we do. She seems so much more human now. I wonder where she and Billie go from here.
RaggleFraggle
Down. On each other.
Dion
Where’s your avatar from, with the kyuubi? For some reason, it looks… small and cute.
Marika Oniki
I think it’s from one of the more recent chapters (572) where they got into the history of the Tailed Beasts, and how the Sage essentially made them so the Ten-tails wouldn’t reform when the Sage died. It featured a scene where the various Beasts (in younger forms) were shown from Kyuubi’s memories of just after they were formed.
xain
In fact lets break out the vodka we need something stronder than this piss water
Wonder Wig
The feels are so thick in this room you could cut them with a knife.
Plasma Mongoose
Just as long as there is not cutting involved.
Tomaj
…but I like my feels julienne style…
Neospector
Poor feels. I feel for them. 🙁
Crumplepunch
Damn you, feels. I KEEL YOU.
dethtoll
I’m sad now.
Sensedog
Regarding the situation, I believe this would count as “its complicated”.
Ryan Balis
And now we know you won’t kill Ruth by a car accident in this storyline!
Joe
Not with her being responsible for it, at least.
otusasio451
On a very special episode of Dumbing of Age…
Doctor_Who
Seriously, you know how in Scrubs they’d always play that one little background tune when things got dramatic? And then in one episode J.D. revealed that he can hear it in his head?
I’m totally hearing that tune right now.
David
bada badabada ba baaaaaa
bada badabada ba baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ding
Doctor_Who
Thank you. I went looking for it on Youtube to demonstrate, but all I found was the scene where Dr. Cox is on the couch drunk and depressed after killing three people, and J.D. gives him a speech about how much he respects him. And like an idiot I watched it.
Between this strip and that scene, I am now an emotional wreck.
(Maybe if I watch some Futurama I’ll feel better….Jurassic Bark? NOOOOO!)
lokitsu
Thanks, now I have “How to Save a Life” running through my head
David
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx2GNt5hgH8
Season 4, episode 1: “My Old Friend’s New Friend.”
(Season 4 is my favorite, I think.)
AgentKeen
Futurama can have the occasional miss episode, but I have mad respect (I can’t believe I just used that phrase) for a show that can have episodes that are hilarious and cry worthy. Jurassic Bark and Luck of the Fryish get me every time, and Jurassic Bark has some of my favorite funny Futurama quotes.
It’s Dolomite, baby!
Chatokun
The one with Leela’s parents always gets me at the end too, when they play Baby Love Child by Pizzicato 5. Not in a cry way, just a feels way.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69e_1189901829
AgentKeen
From the newer seasons on Comedy Central, they had a Bender/Hermes episode (I had to look it up, it’s called Lethal Inspection) where they do a montage at the end that has about the same effect.
Like I said, not every episode’s a hit, but they can really get some good laughs and feels into one episode.
Leonou
Damn You DOA Readers !
I’ve just watched Jurassic Bark because of you.
How am I supposed to deal with so much feels now ?
AgentKeen
Don’t fight them, give into the feels and join the Feely Side!
Jenny Creed
I suggest watching Grave of the Fireflies.
That’ll make your current feelings feel insignificant. Problem fixed!
Tucker
Oh good god. That scene – the moment when How To Save a Life is in full swing and the last guy dies. Just that second where Cox flips the crash cart across the room… I lose it every time – and I never lose it with shows or movies.
Milosh
The funny thing about that tune is that it that it is never, even once, played seriously. I was keeping track and everything.
David
DISAGREE.
It was played seriously until the moment I linked above in season 4. Only after then was it only played for laughs.
Beige
…why did I see that tune as the underground theme from mario bros?
HK-A6A7
Ok, now I can officially say I feel identified with Ruth…
Sadly, my alcohol tolerance is too damn high and I can’t afford the required amount of booze!
Regalli
Hot DAMN.
… Were her parents driving a truck, by any chance? Because that’d be just the horrible, demented twist this needs.
Juliecat
Heavy stuff 🙁
Plasma Mongoose
Booze: Bringing people together since the dawn of history.
alicemacher
Okay, so I take back my comment from yesterday. It really wasn’t all about Billie.
(Mmm, this humble pie doesn’t taste too bad, actually. I’d “eat crow” too, except that I’m a vegetarian.)
xain
don’t ever fuck with crows … those fucker will remember you and torment you the rest of your life
alicemacher
As Homer Simpson learned once. (Well, they didn’t torment him for the rest of his life, exactly. And he did get to smoke pot legally as a result of what they did do. And…okay, this example is getting away from me fast.)
xain
so… fuck with crows, get pot???
alicemacher
Yes. Just make sure you don’t leave out the “with.” Otherwise, you get jail time instead.
xain
wait so now its fuck with crows,go to jail
alicemacher
No, it’s “Fuck crows, go to jail.” (Because ew.)
As opposed to “Fuck with crows, get pot.”
What a difference one little word makes.
xain
but when you do either you fuck with a murder, and when you fuck with a murder you get murdered
nothri
As this study proves: http://news.discovery.com/animals/zoo-animals/angry-crows-memory-life-threatening-behavior-110628.htm
it is totally okay to fuck with crows. You just need to have your patented “crow fucking with” mask handy so they learn to hate the mask and not the man.
Bronze Knight
I’ll be honest I don’t get it.
Kirby
Ruth’s parents were killed by a drunk driver.
Billie got in trouble for driving drunk.
Ruth kissed Billie.
GDwarf
Ruth’s parents were killed by a drunk driver.
Ruth knew that Billie had a DUI. Indeed, that she’d had an accident while drunk.
So, that’s why Ruth’s been on Billie’s case since day one.
But Ruth didn’t cope with her parent’s death well, it would seem, and became an alcoholic, which she hates herself for.
Marcos Dantas
I’ll be honest too, I don’t think I got this right.
I understand Ruth being in a very bad place after kissing a drunk driver, and after becoming a alcoholic.
What I don’t understand is her falling for a former drunk driver and becoming a alcoholic. I think this is confusing and, maybe, “confused” is the specific kind of “messy” Ruth is at this moment.
I think I’ll need to read more …
Karen
Maybe Ruth was punishing herself for becoming an alcoholic. She’s become the person that could get a DUI, so she must have feelings for someone who had a DUI.
Heavensrun
Or maybe she just -likes- -Billie-. Seriously, guys, it doesn’t have to be some effed up “I have to like someone that’s like me even though I hate people like me”, it could just be that she finds Billie attractive and found her company more tolerable than expected once she got to know her better.
xain
yeah guys what he said. This ship already has plenty of issues we don’t need no negative nancy’s with their worst case scenarios
brasca1
What I don’t get is who she was talking with earlier on the phone that left her depressed. She called him sir and I assumed that was her father since he was a prick who cheated on her mother with Billie’s mother in the original Walkyverse. Maybe a step father or foster parent who’s authoritative and emotionally distant. Drunk driving affected the original Ruth albeit in a fatal way too so it would seem she cannot escape this no matter what reality she inhabits.
Jason Ell
Are we certain that *Ruth* wasn’t the drunk driver that killed her parents?
begbert2
Um, yes. Yes we are.
Not just because that would be sick, but because she probably would have mentioned that first.
Alex
Danny, you’re arguing with yourself again.
spaceyOptimist
Marcie, you talk?!?!
Izzy
Dorothy, you know Marcy?
nothri
Dorothy, you are WAY too happy about current events!
And before you ask, the suggestive leer is because, despite all the heavy emotions and near alcoholic poisoning we’ve had, we still ended up with two half-naked chicks sitting together on a bed after previously making out. To Joe the journey isn’t as important as the destination!
Foxhack
Also, Ruth’s Canadian. Billie isn’t. I think.
Raen
I say it was Danny.
Jason
Probably a not-so-loving foster dad, I would guess.
Jason
Meant to be a reply to brasca1….
JepMZ
It could be a silent hill2 kind of thing. There’s really no one on the other end
JepMZ
also meant to be a reply to brasca1…
DanielleM
I think we can assume it was whoever became her legal guardian after her parents died.
drs