Also, I don’t think we’ve ever seen the story of how Gomez and Morticia met.
sultryglebe
There was an episode of the television series where they did. Gomez was intended for Morticia’s sister Ophelia – old families of means still arranging things – but his chemistry with Morticia was undeniable.
I believe that the “wayward” is quite important here. She knows that Walky’s got the hots for Amber, and that she thinks they’re destined to eventually bonk each other. I mean, she told him as much just a few strips ago. But as long as he’s not following this desires for Amber, it’s going to be wayward.
As for Joyce, I’m not sure if she thinks Joyce has the hots for Walky, nor is she aware who Joyce really has the hots for*; but she does know that Joyce is suppressing her sexual desires into aimlessly wandering around with not real outlet.
… I don’t think Joyce will end up pan and in a poly relationship with Jacob and Dorothy but if Joyce grows up, Dorothy either changes life goal or decides she’s OK playing to the section of the crowd who’ll go “threesome, hurr hurr” and vote for her in the hopes of sexy stuff, and Jacob decides to give a relationship model still built around commitment and trust but that isn’t monogamous a shot – I could see that working out pretty well… Hmmm…
Which is a trope that really needs to die. “You two fight all the time. You must be in love!” Sure, that works out well.
In this case though it’s the “wayward” as others have said. Whatever you think of the Joyce/Walky crack ship, right now they each have other interests they’re lusting after. Movies where the boy and girl bicker because of their horniness, but aren’t actually into other people are much rarer.
Well I want to go with “no” here, but you were just expressing the opinion that you’d have no reason to keep posting if you couldn’t get that right, and I wouldn’t wish to disagree with Your Imperiousness.
The question is not which movies fall into this category; the question is how many rom-coms don’t.
Someone on Patreon correctly pointed out that the ur-example of this is Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” the basis for “10 Things.” “Much Ado” is, of course, also a Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson movie.
The ones that popped into my head right away were “The African Queen” and “Desk Set” and “You’ve Got Mail,” which only goes to show how long it’s been since I regularly watched movies.
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Ana Chronistic
(500) Days of Summer School
Yotomoe
Is there a movie where they don’t?
Doctor_Who
The Addams Family, because they are the most emotionally healthy couple in fiction.
C.
Also, I don’t think we’ve ever seen the story of how Gomez and Morticia met.
sultryglebe
There was an episode of the television series where they did. Gomez was intended for Morticia’s sister Ophelia – old families of means still arranging things – but his chemistry with Morticia was undeniable.
Kamino Neko
Carolyn Jones was oddly adorable in the ‘Wednesday’ getup.
Dagonz
Morticia and Gomez recount it in the cemetary during the first movie.
Jeffrey
This is the gif where Malcolm Reynalds instantly holds up a finger to object but then realizes in the moment that the objectee may actually be right.
Clif
Yes, but they are the exceptions that prove the rules.
jeffepp
She ship them.
Stu
Begrudgingly.
jeffepp
Grudge shipping.
Walky_Talky
Gripping
Yumi
God, can you imagine what it’d be like to deal with Carol AND Linda at family events?
JetstreamGW
Sounds amazing. They’d probably eat each other.
BarerMender
Out?
Bagge
Everyone involved: Wait, what?
Becky, who doesn’t hold a grudge*: YOU GO CAROL!
*)Unless you are a chipmunk
Ana Chronistic
eternal DEFCON 1?
Jamie
I’d ship that.
Jamie
To Siberia.
Reltzik
Does “JUST DO IT ALREADY SO YOU TWO STOP BEING SO ANNOYING!” count as shipping?
Lokitsu
That is possibly the best kind of shipping.
DSL
That’s express shipping.
Michael Steamweed
Ring-the-doorbell-and-run-away/UPS driver mastery style shipping.
Yotomoe
Sal’s read “It’s Walky” and just doesn’t wanna tell anyone.
abysswatcher1993
Sal knows how this story ends so she just plays along and when Walky and Joyce are found out having sex she will say “called it”.
jimbotherisenclown
I’ve shipped them here since the last page of Joyce and Walky. Nice to see someone in the cast finally realizing these two are meant to be together.
Emperor Norton II
Not necessarily.
I believe that the “wayward” is quite important here. She knows that Walky’s got the hots for Amber, and that she thinks they’re destined to eventually bonk each other. I mean, she told him as much just a few strips ago. But as long as he’s not following this desires for Amber, it’s going to be wayward.
As for Joyce, I’m not sure if she thinks Joyce has the hots for Walky, nor is she aware who Joyce really has the hots for*; but she does know that Joyce is suppressing her sexual desires into aimlessly wandering around with not real outlet.
*My bet is Dorothy’s head on Jacob’s body**
**Joyce: The other way around is also acceptable!
Miri
… I don’t think Joyce will end up pan and in a poly relationship with Jacob and Dorothy but if Joyce grows up, Dorothy either changes life goal or decides she’s OK playing to the section of the crowd who’ll go “threesome, hurr hurr” and vote for her in the hopes of sexy stuff, and Jacob decides to give a relationship model still built around commitment and trust but that isn’t monogamous a shot – I could see that working out pretty well… Hmmm…
Emperor Norton II
I was not talking about a poly relationship, but rather Joyce’s dream relationship.
And more importantly, it was a reference to a joke from The Good Place.
Dana
Pretty definitely the former. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/foranybody/
Slartibeast Button, BIA
No way this comic will ever last long enough for someone to get the needed degree in Mad Science.
Ethics Gradient
More like, he horny, she horny: MATE
Cue ensuing drama wherein they learn they hate each other and live hatefully apart ever after.
THE END.
kutharos
It would take an alien invasion for those two to hook up.
ValdVin
Panel five: “The Shop Around the Corner”.
Charlie Spencer
Good call.
Ryek Hvek
Bickerin is a variant of Bufferin – it cures a headache by making you argue with someone until their head hurts, not yours
Stephen Bierce
*plays the Moonlighting theme a moment and cuts it off before it finishes on the hacked Muzak*
JessWitt
Ah of course! It’s not a movie but it’s a good example.
mrnoidea
RE 5th panel: Silly Sal, this ain’t the Walkyverse.
Mr.Morningstar
Yet
jeffepp
Plays “Perfect Crime” by G’n’R’ off an original “Use Your Illusions” CD, with the original warning sticker.
Kravis
Yes, there is, Sal.
It is called ALL OF THEM.
Dana
I knew someone would beat me to it.
Keulen
It’d probably be easier to list the movies where the boy and girl who are into each other don’t bicker endlessly.
thejeff
Which is a trope that really needs to die. “You two fight all the time. You must be in love!” Sure, that works out well.
In this case though it’s the “wayward” as others have said. Whatever you think of the Joyce/Walky crack ship, right now they each have other interests they’re lusting after. Movies where the boy and girl bicker because of their horniness, but aren’t actually into other people are much rarer.
Shane Wegner
She knew she didn’t need to specify.
Emperor Norton II
Sal Walkerton: The whisper whispere.
Emperor Norton II
So apparently these days, when I make long-ass comments, I make formatting mistakes. When I make short jokes, I ruin the joke by misspelling a word.
I should probably just stop posting.
Reltzik
But then who will entertain us with formatting mistakes and typos?
Emperor Norton II
Is that all We are to you, Reltzik?
Reltzik
Well I want to go with “no” here, but you were just expressing the opinion that you’d have no reason to keep posting if you couldn’t get that right, and I wouldn’t wish to disagree with Your Imperiousness.
JessWitt
Does “10 Things I Hate About You” count as Sal’s movie?
Marsh Maryrose
The question is not which movies fall into this category; the question is how many rom-coms don’t.
Someone on Patreon correctly pointed out that the ur-example of this is Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” the basis for “10 Things.” “Much Ado” is, of course, also a Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson movie.
The ones that popped into my head right away were “The African Queen” and “Desk Set” and “You’ve Got Mail,” which only goes to show how long it’s been since I regularly watched movies.
NickG
The basis of “10 Things” is “Taming of the Shrew’, hence the character names.
Tacos
I’m sure there’s at least amateur indie art films out there for all three things mentioned.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . . .I am Sal here. What she is doing is what I do and think.
begbert2
So you eat sandwiches, then.
Arianod
wayward horniness
Arianod
carry on my wayward horn
UniqueSnowflake2
There’ll be a piece when you are done.
Liquid Len
Lay my weary junk to rest
MatthewTheLucky
And don’t you bone no more…
Marsh Maryrose
I loved that it’s not just horniness, it’s wayward horniness.
I can’t imagine that the teachers at her Catholic school let Sal read early John Steinbeck, or any John Steinbeck at all for that matter.
Thorn
You would probably be surprised to learn that I had no less than 3 John Steinbeck books as required reading at Catholic school.
Marsh Maryrose
I would be and I am. Was it a Jesuit school? Also, which three?
Tan
Sal, you are a treasure.
DailyBrad
Carry on my wayward horniness. There’ll be peace when you’re done boning-ness
Put your tension to bed to rest
Don’t you fight no more
ESM
Walky that movie came out during the Bush administration.
No not that one, that one’s dad.
That reference was already dated before you were born.
DSL