Congrats Becky, you’ve survived your first and only(?) parental response to a party. Now you just need to do the horizontal tango with Dina and have Robin or Leslie accidently walk in. Then you will truly be living the life you missed out on. Is there anything else I am missing?
There are numerous direct flights from DC to Indy, and commuter flights to Bloomington. No need to route through Detroit, you can get those martinis on the more direct route.
Yeah, SP Robin being in a goofier universe and clearly having the soft gooey heart of gold helped a lot. Also the change in parties and dynamics cross-universes didn’t help matters – a Representative who behaves as goofily as Robin became much less funny post-Palin, and what we know of her politics here is ‘opportunistic and will sell you out for three votes.’ I don’t think we really ever saw SP Robin do much politicking that wasn’t related to toys – all I remember was the Dinobot Hall of Fame campaign and her first winning the seat on a sugar vendor by courting the necrophiliac Star Wars fan vote.
Ah yes, the most trustworthy kind of boss – the kind that acts friendly and doesn’t set hard expectations of what is appropriate in your relationship, turning it into a constant guessing-game to please them while they can change the rules at a whim.
Robin might have provided her with the apartment, but it’s hers. She’s allowed to host a small birthday party there. That has nothing to do with her job.
It’s possible Becky used campaign funds for pizza, but really the issue here is that Robin lives in this apartment with her employee. Even if Becky weren’t vulnerable, young, and totally dependent on this job, that’s not a dynamic that good things come out of.
SuperZero
Especially since she wasn’t supposed to.
She said she was lending it to Becky’s, then asked if she could stay one night.
But there are (hopefully temporary) work situations where you live where you work. I’ve had a few jobs like that (camp counselor).
Regalli
Yeah, that reads different to me than ‘relatively small apartment you share with the Congresswoman you do PR for.’ There’s positions where that’s at least not unheard of (say, live-in nanny,) but your unrelated campaign manager isn’t one of them.
He Who Abides
Let’s be honest though, anyone around DoA Robin will end up being her nanny at some point.
And the person upthread who mentioned the showing up at Galasso’s thing… kind of suggests it’s a pattern. (Bad enough Becky is now living with her boss.)
And this gets everyone out the door who wasn’t already on their way out. Robin is a master of the parental technique of embarrassment. This is offset by it being the only technique she knows.
Just wait until she puts on the Macarena and insists on dancing.
Yes, I know she’s probably too young to have grown up with that song. Doesn’t matter, it’s the most embarassing choice, and to teenagers anyone over 21 is basically 60 anyway.
Robin’s served at least one term in the House of Representatives, which means she’s 27 at minimum. The Macarena came out in 93, so she was probably young for it, but still old enough to remember hearing it and everyone doing the dance at events. (That was my experience with it, at least, and I’m only a year longer.) Of course the timescale means this won’t last, so I suggest trading a slight amount of embarrassment factor for being several years younger – do the Cha Cha Slide instead.
Needfuldoer
At least she didn’t try something obnoxious, like dabbing or a dance from that battle royale game the kids apparently aren’t playing anymore.
Leslie’s a lesbian mom. Like, if you cut her down the middle without it becoming gory, her insides and bones and stuff would somehow be arranged to spell out “LESBIAN MOM” on one side (and then the same thing on the other side, but you’d have to put it against a mirror).
Deathjavu
Leslie is extremely mom, possibly even more mommish than Dorothy. HOWEVER, this doesn’t mean she isn’t still a billion times better older sister than Robin. (This is as much to do with Robin being an awful racist as anything)
Charles Phipps
Weirdly, Leslie wants to be a lesbian mom and Becky has no interest in her being a lesbian mom. Becky doesn’t look at Leslie as an authority figure whatsoever–just a role model.
I feel Becky might consider Hank a dad but as far as she’s concerned, she HAD a mom and is an adult now.
thejeff
Becky wanted a lesbian mom. Not an authority figure, perhaps, but still a mom figure. Following Leslie to the store so she could tie her tie is probably the most obvious example.
And now for a short joke about lesbians that has nothing to do with Dumbing of Age.
“mom, dad” I adopted.
“what? How?”
“It was a wild night and when I went to the bathroom in the morning I found I had a baby”
“How could this happen!?”
“It was Amelia, wasn’t it! I swear I’ll kill her.”
“Hey, I’m responsible for my own body and its ability to drunkenly go down to the adoption center and sign the papers! Just because Amelia co-signed has nothing to do with it!”
On a side note, I’m hit with the most nostalgic of feels right now.
Marie Fredriksson, of world-famous band Roxette has passed away. My late childhood/early teens definitely had this band on the CD player a lot.
The songs of Roxette could be good, or silly, or sometimes quite cheesy… But her distinct voice would always raise the level of them. She would pour her heart and feelings into every tone, every word. And because of that, you’d recognize that voice anywhere. She was queen of The Feels.
Without her and her amazing musical chemistry with Per Gessle, Roxette would absolutely not be the mega-success it became.
The last panel while being very cringy for a person like me… it’s a quite exact moment of knowing her voters extremely well… and yes I don’t mean it as a compliment to the voters…
98 thoughts on “Slightly”
Ana Chronistic
I mean tbh I don’t know what Robin would’ve even pretended to be mad about, no one said no partyin’ and shiz
Kyrik Michalowski
Mad she wasn’t invited? I don’t know, I’m sure Robin could find a reason given time.
Doctor_Who
“Free pizza, but no free candy?!”
BarerMender
It seems to be Robin standard. She did it to Becky over at Galasso’s.
DarkoNeko
Nice try, tho ?
Fiiiiilo
this is a bruh moment
Suet
Dubiously perfect.
Robin, no duck lips
tim gueguen
Isn’t the duck lip thing passe? Which, if it is, works perfectly with Robin being clueless.
Pablo360
Everything about this is passe.
DarkoNeko
it is ? Thanks all the gods, finally.
Delicious Taffy
“Finally”? I got sick of hearing about people being sick of hearing about it about six years ago.
Deanatay
As is the ‘selfie thing’, the ‘diversity thing’, and of course, the ‘Republican party thing’. SOOO passe.
Kyrik Michalowski
Congrats Becky, you’ve survived your first and only(?) parental response to a party. Now you just need to do the horizontal tango with Dina and have Robin or Leslie accidently walk in. Then you will truly be living the life you missed out on. Is there anything else I am missing?
Lawzlo
Hopefully there isn’t another parental response coming to this party. Everyone knock on wood and don’t jinx it.
Clif
Leslie is here now, so it’s possible, but I’m betting on a more public venue.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
So she can learn that there “there’s no way you can remove your head from another girl’s crotch in a nonchalant manner”?
Or finally learn to lock the darn door?
Stephen Bierce
Might have been a three-martini connection from Detroit.
Opus the Poet
There are numerous direct flights from DC to Indy, and commuter flights to Bloomington. No need to route through Detroit, you can get those martinis on the more direct route.
SUGauthor
I really want to like you Robin, but you make it so difficult sometimes.
Keulen
I liked Shortpacked Robin, but this universe’s version of her is too terrible for me to like.
Regalli
Yeah, SP Robin being in a goofier universe and clearly having the soft gooey heart of gold helped a lot. Also the change in parties and dynamics cross-universes didn’t help matters – a Representative who behaves as goofily as Robin became much less funny post-Palin, and what we know of her politics here is ‘opportunistic and will sell you out for three votes.’ I don’t think we really ever saw SP Robin do much politicking that wasn’t related to toys – all I remember was the Dinobot Hall of Fame campaign and her first winning the seat on a sugar vendor by courting the necrophiliac Star Wars fan vote.
SUGauthor
I’m like, 60% confident there’s a good person somewhere deep inside of her. Very, very deep, but I’m decently sure it’s there.
Charles Phipps
Reality messed with Robin. It turns out that buffoonish politicians only out for the perks not only exist but are horrifying.
jmsr7
You’re not kidding. She was modeled after Sarah Palin, but it turned out that she was all that and a terrible person to boot.
There are times i really wish that the “moral majority” people cared more about morality than power.
BBCC
First she was Palin, then Rubio and Cruz and now she’s the pile of human slime in the white house.
Schpoonman
TROF
That Racist Orange Fucker.
Author X
Ah yes, the most trustworthy kind of boss – the kind that acts friendly and doesn’t set hard expectations of what is appropriate in your relationship, turning it into a constant guessing-game to please them while they can change the rules at a whim.
taekwondogirl
oh no D:
this is wildly close to home augh
SuperZero
Robin might have provided her with the apartment, but it’s hers. She’s allowed to host a small birthday party there. That has nothing to do with her job.
Regalli
It’s possible Becky used campaign funds for pizza, but really the issue here is that Robin lives in this apartment with her employee. Even if Becky weren’t vulnerable, young, and totally dependent on this job, that’s not a dynamic that good things come out of.
SuperZero
Especially since she wasn’t supposed to.
She said she was lending it to Becky’s, then asked if she could stay one night.
But there are (hopefully temporary) work situations where you live where you work. I’ve had a few jobs like that (camp counselor).
Regalli
Yeah, that reads different to me than ‘relatively small apartment you share with the Congresswoman you do PR for.’ There’s positions where that’s at least not unheard of (say, live-in nanny,) but your unrelated campaign manager isn’t one of them.
He Who Abides
Let’s be honest though, anyone around DoA Robin will end up being her nanny at some point.
Clif
Point.
Regalli
And the person upthread who mentioned the showing up at Galasso’s thing… kind of suggests it’s a pattern. (Bad enough Becky is now living with her boss.)
Lingo
Thankfully she’s not Ruth’s stuffy ol’ grandpa either.
DailyBrad
When she says it like that, it just makes me think of those college flyers.
AeromechanicalAce
Ah, Robin…Only Stephan Molyneux has a greater ability to make me cringe every time they open their mouth…
Illithid
^^^^^^^^^^ upvotes
Emperor Norton II
I don’t know whether to upvote you for making such a correct observation, or downvote you for reminding me about GamerDouche McSexist Extraordinaire.
Solenoid
And this gets everyone out the door who wasn’t already on their way out. Robin is a master of the parental technique of embarrassment. This is offset by it being the only technique she knows.
Doctor_Who
Just wait until she puts on the Macarena and insists on dancing.
Yes, I know she’s probably too young to have grown up with that song. Doesn’t matter, it’s the most embarassing choice, and to teenagers anyone over 21 is basically 60 anyway.
Regalli
Robin’s served at least one term in the House of Representatives, which means she’s 27 at minimum. The Macarena came out in 93, so she was probably young for it, but still old enough to remember hearing it and everyone doing the dance at events. (That was my experience with it, at least, and I’m only a year longer.) Of course the timescale means this won’t last, so I suggest trading a slight amount of embarrassment factor for being several years younger – do the Cha Cha Slide instead.
Needfuldoer
At least she didn’t try something obnoxious, like dabbing or a dance from that battle royale game the kids apparently aren’t playing anymore.
“What is up, fellow kids?”
– Robin, probably.
Emperor Norton II
She’ll put on Rebecca Black’s “Friday”.
Zee
Um, I’m 19 and I grew up with that song. I figured it was the kind of song everyone grew up with
Bagge
Of course it works. It is shenanigans. Robin likes shenanigans.
BBCC
Blech. Robin.
Becky’s so cute here though, it balances out.
Nono
Robin was almost okay, then the last panel happened.
Deathjavu
To be fair, panel 5 isn’t great either. Leslie is a billion times better slightly older sister than Robin.
Emperor Norton II
Leslie’s not an older sister.
Leslie’s a lesbian mom. Like, if you cut her down the middle without it becoming gory, her insides and bones and stuff would somehow be arranged to spell out “LESBIAN MOM” on one side (and then the same thing on the other side, but you’d have to put it against a mirror).
Deathjavu
Leslie is extremely mom, possibly even more mommish than Dorothy. HOWEVER, this doesn’t mean she isn’t still a billion times better older sister than Robin. (This is as much to do with Robin being an awful racist as anything)
Charles Phipps
Weirdly, Leslie wants to be a lesbian mom and Becky has no interest in her being a lesbian mom. Becky doesn’t look at Leslie as an authority figure whatsoever–just a role model.
I feel Becky might consider Hank a dad but as far as she’s concerned, she HAD a mom and is an adult now.
thejeff
Becky wanted a lesbian mom. Not an authority figure, perhaps, but still a mom figure. Following Leslie to the store so she could tie her tie is probably the most obvious example.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
QUILTBAG Auguries?
Mr. Random
Eeeeh.
I know political points and all, but that last sentence….
just so skeevy.
AeromechanicalAce
“Skeevy” pretty much DEFINES Dumbiverse Robin.
Opus the Poet
“What kind are you?” Human, that’s what kind I am.
Miri
At least she didn’t say “blue Skittles flavoured” to be sarcastic coz Robin might have licked her…
Apparently some people really do ask that question using those words but ICK doesn’t begin to cover it.
Some1
And now for a short joke about lesbians that has nothing to do with Dumbing of Age.
“mom, dad” I adopted.
“what? How?”
“It was a wild night and when I went to the bathroom in the morning I found I had a baby”
“How could this happen!?”
“It was Amelia, wasn’t it! I swear I’ll kill her.”
“Hey, I’m responsible for my own body and its ability to drunkenly go down to the adoption center and sign the papers! Just because Amelia co-signed has nothing to do with it!”
“Have you considered abortion?”
“Bit late for that.”
Beef
I was right about Robin being ok with the party but maybe too right
Plasma Mongoose
TIL that hair dye can change your ethnicity.
Hugo Bedward
“You don’t sound blue hair’d”
Delicious Taffy
I’m sure there’s a decent-sized portion of right-wingers who think that Dirty Liberals think this unironically.
Needfuldoer
Of course, that’s what the TV and poorly edited memes their friends shared on social media told them liberals believe! It must be true!
(Shout-out to everyone who’s had to block otherwise rational relatives on social media because they inexplicably fall for this stuff and re-share it.)
Emperor Norton II
On a side note, I’m hit with the most nostalgic of feels right now.
Marie Fredriksson, of world-famous band Roxette has passed away. My late childhood/early teens definitely had this band on the CD player a lot.
The songs of Roxette could be good, or silly, or sometimes quite cheesy… But her distinct voice would always raise the level of them. She would pour her heart and feelings into every tone, every word. And because of that, you’d recognize that voice anywhere. She was queen of The Feels.
Without her and her amazing musical chemistry with Per Gessle, Roxette would absolutely not be the mega-success it became.
Rest in peace, Queen of The Feels, Queen of Rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27eClHQxXls
Romanticide
May she Rest In Peace.
Charles Phipps
She was a little bit dangerous but we loved her.
Bagge
<3
Romanticide
The last panel while being very cringy for a person like me… it’s a quite exact moment of knowing her voters extremely well… and yes I don’t mean it as a compliment to the voters…
Rikunda