ok, I know the whole slipshine name joke is played out at this point, but seriously, if these two ever by some miracle get together, “JUST DESSERTS” needs to be the title.
I tried one of those Hershey Kisses and I wasn’t that impressed to be honest.
Zababcd
They’re actually my favourite chocolate product, but I don’t actually know anywhere that sells them, so I don’t know if that opinion is tainted by childhood exuberance.
Kelly
They taste just like any other Hershey’s chocolate, which it say OK, but there is lots of better chocolate in the world.
neeks
Do you not have grocery stores where you live?
Kelly
It’s Australia, there is nothing but outback, dingos and poisonous things. No grocery stores. 😛
Maybe she just wants to get out of the way so Walky and Dorothy can chat in private?
Mr k
Joyce respecting other people’s privacy? Soon Danny won’t screw everything up,Dina becomes fascinated by mammoths, Ethan realizes that staying in the closet is a bad idea, and Malaya becomes the nicest girl ever.
Zababcd
As established earlier, however, Mike is Mike in all universes.
Also, I actually never noticed Joyce disrespecting people’s privacy.
Pumpkin Cake
Weird that you didn’t notice. She screamed at Joe for his own self-contained decision to have sex, tried to manipulate her religion onto atheist friend Dorothy, and yelled at Walky for his relationship decisions. That’s just to name a few. I’m sure I could come up with more if I dove into the archives.
Zababcd
Based on those examples, it’s a difference in definitions. You’re saying an invasion of privacy is when she meddles in other people’s private/personal business, but I consider it an invasion of privacy only if she also found out details of their personal business intentionally and in order to meddle.
Chaos_Lord
She also has (had?) a tendency to go into people’s rooms, climb on their beds and wake them up for church on a weekend(Billy was not amused). Oh and she has an obsession with brushing Sal’s hair. She interfered in Walky and Dorothy’s relationship when they broke up over pajama pants, Dorothy later tried to scold her over this with mixed results. She punched Joe in the face. She needs to learn to make room for fat Jesus. She named five of Billy’s future children. And she tried to stop Sarah from using her vibrator by staying in the room, she later wandered off with her pants.
Basically she needs to learn to respect personal space more than privacy. And learn more modern gender roles, and acceptance of the LGBTQ people(especially considering her sister is one of them).
Pumpkin Cake
Yeah, it sounds to me like your threshold for invasion of privacy is higher than mine. I think that any interaction with someone else’s personal business is an invasion of privacy unless that business was getting someone hurt.
It can make it better or worse what that person does when they’re involved in someone else’s private business (e.g. in order to help them like Billy did, or to criticize them like Mary and Joyce do), but Joyce has never been shown to recognize that other people’s privacy exists at all.
Rutee
The pants thing was Sarah’s fault. But the rest, yeah, Joyce has issues.
Pumpkin Cake
Nice examples, Chaos_Lord! It’s pretty worrying that when faced with something uncomfortable, she either attacks it or completely shuts down.
“manipulate her religion onto atheist friend Dorothy”
No she didn’t. Asking her to go to church with her isn’t trying to convert her. It is wanting to share a social experience with her. Admittedly to an atheist it is likely to be a dumb, boring, annoying social experience, but whatever.
Pumpkin Cake
You’re right, she wasn’t very in her face about it. However, it was made clear that it was an ulterior motive that she only half-heartedly hoped would happen. She also decided to ask her to church immediately after she was assaulted, when Dorothy didn’t really have the option of saying no.
i’d forgotten too but i think she might be trying to hide the fact that her best friend at college is an atheist? maybe she thinks becky would hate her for it or… something i dunno
then again she didn’t try and hide them from her parents so i’m not sure?
Well, she did try to get Dorothy to not admit to being atheistic. Maybe the results of that left her a little more wary of introducing Dotty to people from her pre-college life.
Leorale
But Joyce totally won that time! Surely standing up for her atheist buddy is easier with practice, and moreover, with a friend who is clearly way more chill than Joyce’s parents are.
Is Joyce afraid that Becky will be jealous of Dorothy’s new Best Friend Status? Maybe she’s trying really, really hard to keep her pre-college life separate? Afraid of Dorothy and Becky falling in love and leaving Joyce alone? Wild Speculations??
Maybe she just saw a drama bomb incoming and decided she can’t deal with it right now?
neeks
If that’s the case it’s a good thing Billie is waiting up in Ruth’s room instead of grabbing lunch. Drama bomb + drama hurricane = DoA version of a sharknado. Drama bombicane?
Granted, they have no beef with each other, I just wanted to make a sharknado joke.
I read this as Joyce wanting to be out of the way when Dorothy runs into Walky, not wanting to keep Becky and Dorothy apart. I mean, if she was comfortable introducing her to Billie…
That may be part of it, but I think it’s mostly that Joyce doesn’t want Becky to find out that she’s been demoted from “best friend” to “best friend from high school”. (Or whatever. I guess Joyce and Becky didn’t actually go to high school, but the point remains.)
Also, it’s my personal policy that if you ever notice that you’re acting the way a character in a sitcom would in your position, you should immediately stop doing it. Joyce is probably at a disadvantage there, too, though. Maybe she should consult Becky’s clandestine Seinfeld knowledge.
I think this is the most likely possibility. The evidence given points to this conclusion. Joyce never told Becky about Dorothy, and we also see Becky being jealous of a person she assumed had taken her place in Joyce’s life. Becky might have trouble with the whole multiple bffs concept. I know I did for a little bit in my life. (i was a pre-teen though…)
They were at Dorothy’s door when they met Walky. The only reasons Becky was not introduced to her were the do not disturbe sign and Walky opening a cup of instant drama as they walked up.
John
I think they were at Dorothy’s door because that’s where Walky was, and he lured Becky over against Joyce’s wishes with his belching. Dorothy’s room isn’t far from Joyce’s; they live on the same hall.
And Joyce hadn’t even mentioned Dorothy’s existence to Becky, and even after Walky brought Dorothy up, Joyce showed a distinct unwillingness to discuss her own relationship to Dorothy… though she was entirely willing to discuss Walky’s relationship with Dorothy, despite that being a sore spot with her.
Joyce doesn’t want Becky to know about her relationship with Dorothy. It might be because Joyce doesn’t want Becky to know that her new best friend is an atheist, but I think it’s just because Joyce doesn’t want Becky to know that she has a new best friend, that Becky has been replaced.
155 thoughts on “Large campus”
Jen Aside
which is when Becky decides she doesn’t want ice cream anyway and gives Joyce a good lickin’ instead
JUST DESSERTS
Atomix26
you sir embody all the lesbian angst.
Camachri
“Joyce, how do you taste even more vanilla?”
Yotomoe
This is the taste of a LIAR, Joyce Brown.
liahansen
ok, I know the whole slipshine name joke is played out at this point, but seriously, if these two ever by some miracle get together, “JUST DESSERTS” needs to be the title.
Orangey
yesssssssss +1
David Herbert
Half means the melted part at the bottom.
Atomix26
so…. melted part… bottom….
*snicker*
Hoboturtle
Half means “maybe the cone”
JessWitt
And any stuff leaking from the tip.
Coren
I am not sure Becky is interested in what leaks from the tip.
MrSirk
Half means something we both agreed on where we pretend I shared but you really got nothing.
liahansen
That part’s the best. Just take off the bottom and get your tongue all up in there. Sweet.
MrSirk
That’s what she said. She being Becky.
Idon'tcarenomore
I’m not sure that Becky is as excited about getting the leaving’s as she was about sharing.
Plasma Mongoose
An indirect kiss isn’t as good as an accidental one.
Yotomoe
Neither are as good as a Hershey kiss.
Disloyal Subject
That’s debatable.
John
Yeah, we at least need to know if it’s dark chocolate, and whether there was tongue.
Plasma Mongoose
I tried one of those Hershey Kisses and I wasn’t that impressed to be honest.
Zababcd
They’re actually my favourite chocolate product, but I don’t actually know anywhere that sells them, so I don’t know if that opinion is tainted by childhood exuberance.
Kelly
They taste just like any other Hershey’s chocolate, which it say OK, but there is lots of better chocolate in the world.
neeks
Do you not have grocery stores where you live?
Kelly
It’s Australia, there is nothing but outback, dingos and poisonous things. No grocery stores. 😛
Plasma Mongoose
We have supermarkets you know.
Cephalo the Pod
Too small, too much time spent unwrapping.
Now, maybe if there was some sort of giant Hershey Kiss
Opus the Poet
The Google-fu with this one is weak
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=7+oz+hershey+kiss&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=29830581386&hvpos=1s1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8710739357566280301&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8iz9arx6lg_b
I just wish this comment section supported images.
Em
I think she felt both honored, confused, and slightly upset that they were leaving both their friend and the room with no explanation.
Mik
In all honesty I think I’d lost track of what Joyce is trying to avoid anymore…
Plasma Mongoose
Dotty for some reason, must be something to do with Walky or atheism.
NightmareWarden
Maybe she just wants to get out of the way so Walky and Dorothy can chat in private?
Mr k
Joyce respecting other people’s privacy? Soon Danny won’t screw everything up,Dina becomes fascinated by mammoths, Ethan realizes that staying in the closet is a bad idea, and Malaya becomes the nicest girl ever.
Zababcd
As established earlier, however, Mike is Mike in all universes.
Also, I actually never noticed Joyce disrespecting people’s privacy.
Pumpkin Cake
Weird that you didn’t notice. She screamed at Joe for his own self-contained decision to have sex, tried to manipulate her religion onto atheist friend Dorothy, and yelled at Walky for his relationship decisions. That’s just to name a few. I’m sure I could come up with more if I dove into the archives.
Zababcd
Based on those examples, it’s a difference in definitions. You’re saying an invasion of privacy is when she meddles in other people’s private/personal business, but I consider it an invasion of privacy only if she also found out details of their personal business intentionally and in order to meddle.
Chaos_Lord
She also has (had?) a tendency to go into people’s rooms, climb on their beds and wake them up for church on a weekend(Billy was not amused). Oh and she has an obsession with brushing Sal’s hair. She interfered in Walky and Dorothy’s relationship when they broke up over pajama pants, Dorothy later tried to scold her over this with mixed results. She punched Joe in the face. She needs to learn to make room for fat Jesus. She named five of Billy’s future children. And she tried to stop Sarah from using her vibrator by staying in the room, she later wandered off with her pants.
Basically she needs to learn to respect personal space more than privacy. And learn more modern gender roles, and acceptance of the LGBTQ people(especially considering her sister is one of them).
Pumpkin Cake
Yeah, it sounds to me like your threshold for invasion of privacy is higher than mine. I think that any interaction with someone else’s personal business is an invasion of privacy unless that business was getting someone hurt.
It can make it better or worse what that person does when they’re involved in someone else’s private business (e.g. in order to help them like Billy did, or to criticize them like Mary and Joyce do), but Joyce has never been shown to recognize that other people’s privacy exists at all.
Rutee
The pants thing was Sarah’s fault. But the rest, yeah, Joyce has issues.
Pumpkin Cake
Nice examples, Chaos_Lord! It’s pretty worrying that when faced with something uncomfortable, she either attacks it or completely shuts down.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/03-the-first-step-towards-recovery/lalalalalala/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/proven/
Kelly
“manipulate her religion onto atheist friend Dorothy”
No she didn’t. Asking her to go to church with her isn’t trying to convert her. It is wanting to share a social experience with her. Admittedly to an atheist it is likely to be a dumb, boring, annoying social experience, but whatever.
Pumpkin Cake
You’re right, she wasn’t very in her face about it. However, it was made clear that it was an ulterior motive that she only half-heartedly hoped would happen. She also decided to ask her to church immediately after she was assaulted, when Dorothy didn’t really have the option of saying no.
gwalla
Mike is a multiversal constant.
Steph
i’d forgotten too but i think she might be trying to hide the fact that her best friend at college is an atheist? maybe she thinks becky would hate her for it or… something i dunno
then again she didn’t try and hide them from her parents so i’m not sure?
Disloyal Subject
Well, she did try to get Dorothy to not admit to being atheistic. Maybe the results of that left her a little more wary of introducing Dotty to people from her pre-college life.
Leorale
But Joyce totally won that time! Surely standing up for her atheist buddy is easier with practice, and moreover, with a friend who is clearly way more chill than Joyce’s parents are.
Is Joyce afraid that Becky will be jealous of Dorothy’s new Best Friend Status? Maybe she’s trying really, really hard to keep her pre-college life separate? Afraid of Dorothy and Becky falling in love and leaving Joyce alone? Wild Speculations??
Arkadi
Maybe she just saw a drama bomb incoming and decided she can’t deal with it right now?
neeks
If that’s the case it’s a good thing Billie is waiting up in Ruth’s room instead of grabbing lunch. Drama bomb + drama hurricane = DoA version of a sharknado. Drama bombicane?
Granted, they have no beef with each other, I just wanted to make a sharknado joke.
Arkadi
Achievement unlocked XD
cesium133
I’m pretty sure she doesn’t want Becky to know that Dorothy is atheist.
Clif
I’m pretty sure she doesn’t want Becky to know Dorothy, and not she, is her best friend.
RJ
I read this as Joyce wanting to be out of the way when Dorothy runs into Walky, not wanting to keep Becky and Dorothy apart. I mean, if she was comfortable introducing her to Billie…
alicemacher
But Billie does nominally believe in God, which makes her, in what Joyce probably assumes is Becky’s opinion, “better” than an atheist.
Em
But remember, she’s been hiding Dorothy from Becky since the day Joyce met Dorothy.
Clif
Billie didn’t replace Becky as Joyce’s best friend. Dorothy did.
Leorale
Joyce doesn’t realize that you can have lots of best friends?
Leorale
oh wait, yeah, Joyce would totally not realize that.
Becky did allude to her own friend-jealousy earlier, when she assumed that Sarah would be Joyce’s new BFF. But, calmly, and not in a scary way.
John
Joyce, you’re now in a sitcom plot where you’re trying to keep the two girls you’re dating from meeting each other.
Hoboturtle
That my first reaction.
Than I was like “oh right. Dorothy is an atheist and her parents freaked about that”
Carriethedragon
I’m kinda confused what that has to do with it?
TheOthin
I imagine Joyce doesn’t even want to find out if she’d get a similar reaction from Becky.
John
That may be part of it, but I think it’s mostly that Joyce doesn’t want Becky to find out that she’s been demoted from “best friend” to “best friend from high school”. (Or whatever. I guess Joyce and Becky didn’t actually go to high school, but the point remains.)
Also, it’s my personal policy that if you ever notice that you’re acting the way a character in a sitcom would in your position, you should immediately stop doing it. Joyce is probably at a disadvantage there, too, though. Maybe she should consult Becky’s clandestine Seinfeld knowledge.
Em
I think this is the most likely possibility. The evidence given points to this conclusion. Joyce never told Becky about Dorothy, and we also see Becky being jealous of a person she assumed had taken her place in Joyce’s life. Becky might have trouble with the whole multiple bffs concept. I know I did for a little bit in my life. (i was a pre-teen though…)
Dr. Paul
They were at Dorothy’s door when they met Walky. The only reasons Becky was not introduced to her were the do not disturbe sign and Walky opening a cup of instant drama as they walked up.
John
I think they were at Dorothy’s door because that’s where Walky was, and he lured Becky over against Joyce’s wishes with his belching. Dorothy’s room isn’t far from Joyce’s; they live on the same hall.
And Joyce hadn’t even mentioned Dorothy’s existence to Becky, and even after Walky brought Dorothy up, Joyce showed a distinct unwillingness to discuss her own relationship to Dorothy… though she was entirely willing to discuss Walky’s relationship with Dorothy, despite that being a sore spot with her.
Joyce doesn’t want Becky to know about her relationship with Dorothy. It might be because Joyce doesn’t want Becky to know that her new best friend is an atheist, but I think it’s just because Joyce doesn’t want Becky to know that she has a new best friend, that Becky has been replaced.
Plasma Mongoose
Someone needs a cooties shot!
Sylvester Crow
Circle circle dot dot~ now joyce has a cootie shot!
(Sorry but i had to)
Plasma Mongoose
Yes…yes you did. 😀
Disloyal Subject
I’m sorry; could someone explain the reference?
Clif
Consult http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties#Cooties_game
Disloyal Subject
Huh. Kids are weird.
Much obliged; I missed a few things back then.
OmegaDez
My my Mongoose, what a lovely avatar.
Disloyal Subject