Part of me is really worried she won’t be able to pass this class just because Robin is teaching it which would suck, but part of me also thinks that if she wants to be a politician or activist she’ll at some point be working with or under people she despises so this could be good experience for her.
Adam Black
Why? She’s trying to take over the Class,
she’s making a scene , and being disruptive and disobedient.
and its not because its Robin per se, she did this with Leslie also.
if She doesnt like the professor she can drop the class. its the first day.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
This is a pretty understandable reaction to finding out that your “eccentric” older sister is subbing for your class’s professor without warning
Yotomoe
Understandable sure. Acceptable not so much. Pretty much started yelling at her right away. I don’t have time for rudeness in my class, young lady.
thejeff
How about Robin’s behavior? Not just pretending not to recognize her here, but also not warning Roz she’ll be teaching the class up front.
Roz is yelling, but that’s an understandable provoked reaction, to a situation Robin set up.
Needfuldoer
Roz really shouldn’t be in a class taught by her sister in the first place, but if she has to be here then Robin has to at least put up a front of professional distance.
Remember the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Aunt Viv teaches Will and Carlton’s class about the civil rights movement? Or the episode of Recess where it’s revealed that Ms. Finster the playground monitor is a family friend of the Spinellis?
Regalli
The thing is, Robin had to know this in advance, and everything we know about the DeSantos’ family relationships suggests Robin is a primary support for her sisters. (We didn’t see their mom at Freshman Family Weekend, though I suppose she could’ve been offscreen or sick or something.) They almost certainly saw each other over winter break. Roz would’ve been enrolled in the class by then. Roz may well have talked about getting into a competitive class like this. Roz had no warning this was coming, so of course she’s going to react badly given the disaster that is their relationship.
Robin may be acting more or less in line with standards, but the only way she DIDN’T know Roz was owed the courtesy of a heads up so she could pick another section (if only because of her major, if Robin somehow didn’t realize she’d be taking ‘Nicholson’s’ class this semester) is a level of ignoring Roz that’s… deeply, deeply sad.
Lala
@Regali(bc i cant reply directly to your reply) I think it’s likely that Roz wouldn’t tell Robin about the class. She could be trying to avoid a “you want to be like me” speech from Robin, or just… straight up not care to tell her.
thejeff
Roz didn’t have to tell Robin about the class. Professors get a class list. They know who’s supposed to be there.
Robin knew and deliberately blind-sided her sister. (Or possibly, because she’s Robin, didn’t know because she never even looked at her class list, but she shows no surprise at all about Roz being there.)
Mr D
@Regalli
I mean, if Roz was your sister, wouldn’t you ignore her too?
Devin
WRT professors getting a class list, it seems extremely in-character for Robin to not read a thing like that. I’m not convinced we have enough information to know which side is more messed up, but I’m not sure either of them have really earned that much benefit of the doubt at this point in this strip.
Sirksome
You’re right. Roz has been very disrespectful and is disruptive when voicing her opinions almost as if other opinions don’t matter.
My problem is that Robin’s been extremely awful to Roz. It kind of goes both ways with them, but Robin slut shamed and demeaned her sister in front of people in her first appearance and blatantly told Roz to her face that keeping her job was more important to her than her beliefs.
Roz in return actively tried to sabotage her sister’s career willing to use her lesbian teacher as bait for it so they both have done horrible shit but I still wouldn’t want someone like Robin as a teacher to Roz specifically.
Giguioto
It’s always nice to remember that Leslie asked Roz to literally shut up and stop making a scene with Joyce when the “white naive christian girl” started to understand the class.
Delicious Taffy
Yes. It is.
Heather
Honestly I can like Robin in what she brings to a story but never as a person because if she was real she’d have absolutely killed people a la Pump’s speech to Moist in Discworld’s Going Postal given her politics and position of power in the past.
geno
I would imagine this is Robin try to use wacky hijinks to make everyone happy. It will explode in her face dramatically, and she will probably learn a lesson after making everyone else’s life worse.
Devin
I also wouldn’t want Roz as a student for Robin. Mostly for the sake of the other students though. The two of them interacting is going to be detrimental to everyone around them, especially those who need this class. Roz is going to be at least as disruptive as she was in Gender Studies, and Robin is likely going to just push her buttons and escalate the situation.
They’re bad for each other and bad for everyone around them when they get together.
Sirksome
This is true too. This interaction between them is already wasting everyone’s time. When Robin first showed up Leslie actually ended class early because of the fight between her and Roz although she justified it as a teaching moment since it was relevant to the class itself. Still not good for a class where they’ll potentially interact everyday.
She can also probably fit 10 billiard balls in her mouth, play a saxophone with her nose, crab walk 3 miles straight, and do the tiny clown car bit flawlessly. Though, for the last one, she’ll need a least 9-14 exact duplicates of herself before she can pull it off…
She can also play the spoons, make music with her armpit, and little animals from balloons. She can also whistle Dixie, while eating crackers, and covering one eye.
Sadly confident the damage will not be limited to Roz. Becky still friggen lives with Robin, as far as we know. Everyone is going to hate this for one reason or another.
Dorms are only for about 30 weeks a year. She still needs some other place for the remaining 22. Although she does have a standing invitation with (half) the Brown family.
crow
And Leslie, probably
Yumi
How long you can access dorms can vary depending on the school, but Becky should be good at least for the semester, which is a few months for her, so I think that’s enough to qualify it as where she lives currently. And, of course, the semester is years for us.
1) Infuriated-at-Robin-Roz tends to become even-more-obnoxious-to-everyone-else-Roz.
2) Dorothy doesn’t deserve a teacher so petty that she won’t call on Dorothy because Dorothy asked a good question that one time.
3) NO ONE ELSE in that class deserves Robin as a teacher either. (Well maybe one or two we don’t know, but otherwise.)
4) If Robin doesn’t stop playing power games with her students and make with the actual teaching, the class will riot and she won’t have taken over shit.
200 thoughts on “Questions”
Ana Chronistic
now I wonder what if Roz DID raise her hand
would the universe implode
Bagge
I say with 100% certainity that we will never know
Lars
Soggies may rule!
Spookyfox
oh poor roz
Muttski
No. Roz has this coming. Love seeing “holier than thou” folks dealing with events that just aren’t going their way.
thejeff
Not really. Roz can be obnoxious, but she doesn’t deserve Robin. Not like this.
C.T Phipps
Roz absolutely deserves non-bigoted Robin.
Spencer
Robin was literally a conservative politician.
Like, obnoxious leftists aren’t as bad as people who campaign on making the lives of the marginalized miserable. Both sides are not the same.
C.T Phipps
Yes and she torpedoed her career to gain redemption for her sister:
Becky.
BBCC
Cool, doesn’t mean she regrets or understands why her heterocentric, misogynistic and sometimes racist policies were wrong.
Fomalhaut
It is bizarre how much this community hates the character that acts most like it.
Doctor_Who
I note that we still don’t have the answer to where Professor Nicholson is.
Or to what that rhythmic pounding coming from Robin’s trunk is.
AntJ
I’m sure that’ll be answered in the next strip. This moment has plenty of hangtime to milk
pjeseb
Is Robin’s trunk the one with seven locks on it?
Lingo
Are you saying that club music is coming out of Robin’s butt?
Clif
That’s what I heard.
Yotomoe
Nicholson’s being taken care of by top men.
TOP. MEN.
Suzi
I just had an awful thought.
What if that IS Nicholson? And Nicholson is just Robin’s pen name?
Because Nicholson hasn’t taught a class before, if I’m remembering that right, and it totally fits for Robin to use a male name to write.
geno
They said Nicholson was a talking head on tv, so I imagine they know what he looks like
Proto_Eevee
How can Robin speak clearly with a pipe in her mouth?
Doctor_Who
Good question!
She’s a politician. They can speak out of both sides of their mouth.
(This joke brought to you by the comic taped to Grandma’s fridge)
Wizard
That, and they often talk out of their ass. (And in advanced cases, both sides of that.)
Makkabee
Because it’s a BUBBLE pipe.
DaHOY!
Sirksome
Surprise! The pipe’s actually a microphone and it’s how any of them can even hear her speaking right now.
Lingo
The same way Sal talks with a cigarette in her mouth.
SeanR
Don’t bring logic into this.
Rabisch
It’s not impossible.
Sirksome
Woof. I actually feel real bad for Roz.
Doctor_Who
So do I. But I’m sure that feeling will fade as she continues talking.
And Roz always intends to continue talking.
Sirksome
Part of me is really worried she won’t be able to pass this class just because Robin is teaching it which would suck, but part of me also thinks that if she wants to be a politician or activist she’ll at some point be working with or under people she despises so this could be good experience for her.
Adam Black
Why? She’s trying to take over the Class,
she’s making a scene , and being disruptive and disobedient.
and its not because its Robin per se, she did this with Leslie also.
if She doesnt like the professor she can drop the class. its the first day.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
This is a pretty understandable reaction to finding out that your “eccentric” older sister is subbing for your class’s professor without warning
Yotomoe
Understandable sure. Acceptable not so much. Pretty much started yelling at her right away. I don’t have time for rudeness in my class, young lady.
thejeff
How about Robin’s behavior? Not just pretending not to recognize her here, but also not warning Roz she’ll be teaching the class up front.
Roz is yelling, but that’s an understandable provoked reaction, to a situation Robin set up.
Needfuldoer
Roz really shouldn’t be in a class taught by her sister in the first place, but if she has to be here then Robin has to at least put up a front of professional distance.
Remember the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Aunt Viv teaches Will and Carlton’s class about the civil rights movement? Or the episode of Recess where it’s revealed that Ms. Finster the playground monitor is a family friend of the Spinellis?
Regalli
The thing is, Robin had to know this in advance, and everything we know about the DeSantos’ family relationships suggests Robin is a primary support for her sisters. (We didn’t see their mom at Freshman Family Weekend, though I suppose she could’ve been offscreen or sick or something.) They almost certainly saw each other over winter break. Roz would’ve been enrolled in the class by then. Roz may well have talked about getting into a competitive class like this. Roz had no warning this was coming, so of course she’s going to react badly given the disaster that is their relationship.
Robin may be acting more or less in line with standards, but the only way she DIDN’T know Roz was owed the courtesy of a heads up so she could pick another section (if only because of her major, if Robin somehow didn’t realize she’d be taking ‘Nicholson’s’ class this semester) is a level of ignoring Roz that’s… deeply, deeply sad.
Lala
@Regali(bc i cant reply directly to your reply) I think it’s likely that Roz wouldn’t tell Robin about the class. She could be trying to avoid a “you want to be like me” speech from Robin, or just… straight up not care to tell her.
thejeff
Roz didn’t have to tell Robin about the class. Professors get a class list. They know who’s supposed to be there.
Robin knew and deliberately blind-sided her sister. (Or possibly, because she’s Robin, didn’t know because she never even looked at her class list, but she shows no surprise at all about Roz being there.)
Mr D
@Regalli
I mean, if Roz was your sister, wouldn’t you ignore her too?
Devin
WRT professors getting a class list, it seems extremely in-character for Robin to not read a thing like that. I’m not convinced we have enough information to know which side is more messed up, but I’m not sure either of them have really earned that much benefit of the doubt at this point in this strip.
Sirksome
You’re right. Roz has been very disrespectful and is disruptive when voicing her opinions almost as if other opinions don’t matter.
My problem is that Robin’s been extremely awful to Roz. It kind of goes both ways with them, but Robin slut shamed and demeaned her sister in front of people in her first appearance and blatantly told Roz to her face that keeping her job was more important to her than her beliefs.
Roz in return actively tried to sabotage her sister’s career willing to use her lesbian teacher as bait for it so they both have done horrible shit but I still wouldn’t want someone like Robin as a teacher to Roz specifically.
Giguioto
It’s always nice to remember that Leslie asked Roz to literally shut up and stop making a scene with Joyce when the “white naive christian girl” started to understand the class.
Delicious Taffy
Yes. It is.
Heather
Honestly I can like Robin in what she brings to a story but never as a person because if she was real she’d have absolutely killed people a la Pump’s speech to Moist in Discworld’s Going Postal given her politics and position of power in the past.
geno
I would imagine this is Robin try to use wacky hijinks to make everyone happy. It will explode in her face dramatically, and she will probably learn a lesson after making everyone else’s life worse.
Devin
I also wouldn’t want Roz as a student for Robin. Mostly for the sake of the other students though. The two of them interacting is going to be detrimental to everyone around them, especially those who need this class. Roz is going to be at least as disruptive as she was in Gender Studies, and Robin is likely going to just push her buttons and escalate the situation.
They’re bad for each other and bad for everyone around them when they get together.
Sirksome
This is true too. This interaction between them is already wasting everyone’s time. When Robin first showed up Leslie actually ended class early because of the fight between her and Roz although she justified it as a teaching moment since it was relevant to the class itself. Still not good for a class where they’ll potentially interact everyday.
woobie
Dorothy: “Where’s Professor Nicholson?”
DudeMyDadOwnsaDealership
Roblin: “See, that’s why you never answer her questions. She asks ones like that! Seriously…..”
Lawzlo
“Good question; five points to Ravenclaw. Next?”
Clif
Probably not Dorothy’s question.
Bagge
See, Robin can learn things.
She doesn’t want to but she can.
DudeMyDadOwnsaDealership
She can also probably fit 10 billiard balls in her mouth, play a saxophone with her nose, crab walk 3 miles straight, and do the tiny clown car bit flawlessly. Though, for the last one, she’ll need a least 9-14 exact duplicates of herself before she can pull it off…
Bagge
I’m sure she can do that. But I see no reason to think that’s a skill she aquired rather than a natural talent.
SeanR
She can also play the spoons, make music with her armpit, and little animals from balloons. She can also whistle Dixie, while eating crackers, and covering one eye.
GLaDOS
Specialization is for insects.
Clif
For all his flaws, I miss Heinlein.
Avian Maria
Man, this school is bananas.
JessWitt
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
DudeMyDadOwnsaDealership
She like Professor Nicholson, didn’t she?
Deanatay
A LOT better than she likes Robin, that’s fer sure
Kyrik Michalowski
Robin is doing a great job of infuriating Roz so I’m all for her taking over this class permanently.
deathjavu
Sadly confident the damage will not be limited to Roz. Becky still friggen lives with Robin, as far as we know. Everyone is going to hate this for one reason or another.
Yumi
Becky lives in the dorms now.
SeanR
Dorms are only for about 30 weeks a year. She still needs some other place for the remaining 22. Although she does have a standing invitation with (half) the Brown family.
crow
And Leslie, probably
Yumi
How long you can access dorms can vary depending on the school, but Becky should be good at least for the semester, which is a few months for her, so I think that’s enough to qualify it as where she lives currently. And, of course, the semester is years for us.
drs
Becky has become Dorothy’s douchey roommate, remember?
Reltzik
1) Infuriated-at-Robin-Roz tends to become even-more-obnoxious-to-everyone-else-Roz.
2) Dorothy doesn’t deserve a teacher so petty that she won’t call on Dorothy because Dorothy asked a good question that one time.
3) NO ONE ELSE in that class deserves Robin as a teacher either. (Well maybe one or two we don’t know, but otherwise.)
4) If Robin doesn’t stop playing power games with her students and make with the actual teaching, the class will riot and she won’t have taken over shit.
drs
4a) Teaching by experience!
TemperaryObsessor
Honestly a teacher that won’t call on people because they have good questions is a bad teacher.