I wouldn’t be surprised if Dorothy was the kind of sincere person who would feel bad that Becky didn’t get any actual education along with that grade, and genuinely believe that she herself was in a better position for life by having taken the long road.
Now, when Becky ended up in another high-profile position by seemingly winging it… Then starts the textbook biting.
Robin: Folks, I have some bad news. I’ve given notice, and effective immediately will no longer be your professor.
Dorothy: (Oh, thank god, finally we can get someone qualifi-)
Becky: Hi, I’m professor MacIntyre!
Dorothy: CHOMP
Jane
That is hilarious to imagine, and makes me wish I had some way to “like” comments to show my appreciation.
StClair
I think you just did.
Jane
Well, true… But at the cost of not really adding anything to the conversation. When I write something, I want it to at least have the potential of being amusing or insightful for others.
But mostly, I just needed something to help round out the rest of the comment; I wasn’t seriously wishing that anything would change.
Curious Observer
After 10 years, making tenure, and getting added as co-author on innumerable random papers, despite not knowing what’s going on…
Becky: “Maybe it’s time to run for Pres. Hey Dotty, wanna be my VEEP?”
Dorothy: cRaCKk … tinkle, tinkle.
Sirksome
Actually even though I’m the one who made the claim I’d argue that Becky is at least in the conversation if not an equal to Joyce in “main character” status. Especially since she also appeared in the very first DoA comic ever.
Joyce had a really tough first semester. I mean they all kind of did but Joyce’s was consistently pretty awful and ideologically challenging pretty much from day one. That’s what happens when you’re the main character. Also she broke her toe once.
Is she “the” main character? She’s certainly one of the top 5 or so, but does this comic even have a 100% absolute top of the mountain “the” main character?
Inb4 you answer: Yes it does. And it’s Joyce. I just said that. XD
I don’t even care about the automatic A. Becky’s cool and deserves good thing. But the fact that Robin clearly values Becky over her own sister is really fucked up and I don’t care how obnoxious Roz has been she deserves a better sister than Robin. Fortunately she has one. It makes more and more sense why Roz would try to sabotage Robin’s political career. They’re not sisters. Not in any way that matters.
drs
I think we’re running on too little data.
I was re-reading earlier, and they’re close enough that Robin knew Leslie was Roz’s favorite teacher. Roz complained about having traded sisterly favors for the classroom fiasco rather than “like, six helicopter rides”.
And sibling interactions can be complicated. Just because they rag each other at one level doesn’t mean they don’t love each other at another.
Azhrei Vep
Assuming that is the case (and I’m not, yet), I don’t see anything especially fucked up about Robin valuing Becky over her own sister.
When she’s not running her ‘joking’ antagonism toward Dorothy into the ground (which I don’t think Robin’s seen much of), Becky’s a really likeable and generally super-nice and chill person who’s pretty much always generally been nice to Robin when she reeaallly didn’t deserve it.
Roz, meanwhile, is wannabe manipulative, obnoxious, and openly contemptuous toward Robin. I’d value Becky over her too.
Sirksome
This goes both ways. Robin slut shamed Roz in front of an entire class in her first appearance and Robin has consistently shown more interest in her own career than her sister. Maybe even both her sisters. This is admittedly a flimsy argument but why did Riley end up spending the night sharing a cramped bunk bed with Roz when her other sister a congresswoman had a fully furnished apartment near by? Probably because Robin’s a shit sister right? One who still dragged a 12 year old on stage as prop for her “family first” campaign at that rally.
But hey, if there’s been one consistent theme of this comic it’s been that family is actually who you make it to be. (Jennifer and Walky, Joyce and Sarah, Amber and Ethan, Becky and basically anybody ect) There’s nothing saying Robin and Roz have to like each other just because they share some dna.
Regalli
It’s possible Robin didn’t have the apartment before her campaign imploded, but she definitely had money for a hotel room if so. That said, Riley might have wanted to spend more time with Roz.
And she routinely dragged Riley and Roz to campaign rallies. Given Riley’s presence, kinda doubt Roz only started being dragged out as a prop when Robin needed to magnanimously ‘forgive’ her sister for being, I quote, ‘a total slutmonger.’ (And given Robin’s joking about Tony McHenry being hot and the possibility of him ‘making (Roz) respectable’ at Freshman Family Weekend, I don’t think that’s exclusively the sex tape.) Robin’s significantly older than Roz – at absolute minimum, nine years, and possibly more like eleven or more. The onus is on her to not use her sisters for political points, regardless of bedtimes (Riley was present at the midnight rally where AG and Sal encountered Ryan, and also was asleep) or their actual political leanings. The onus is also on her not to slutshame her sister in public on multiple occasions. I can’t imagine the sex tape was the first point of tension between the two.
There’s just something deeply sad, in general, that the opinion of a woman Robin knew for less than a month before the timeskip (given the Robin kissing Leslie pic leaked in early October, I think Becky only worked for the campaign for like a week) was enough to convince her to drop out of the race, while her sister’s opinion doesn’t at all.
I wonder who broke up with whom. Billie was kind of unreliable, like that time she was trying to get Ruth to drink again or something? She did get help eventually, but there might have been some relapses, and that might have led Ruth to believe they needed to part ways. Or maybe after baring all her flaws to Forrest quad, Billie realized “Hey, I can accept that I need help in this particular area and still be popular!”, but also she never really let go of the concept superficial=popular=good, hit it off with Asher, and decided she’d rather date someone cool than someone who roots for the Maple Leafs?
Maybe Billie’s therapist talked to her about how she met Ruth and convinced her that Ruth was a bad influence who bullied her, threatened to expose her alcoholism, and then gaslit her into falling in love by being alone with her so often? [source: longtime online best friend and RP partner dropped out of my life after suddenly saying they’d been uncomfortable with the level of intimacy in our relationship basically the entire time, and i guess i’ve gotten over losing a friend but the whole thing kinda stresses me out because i thought i’d always been very consent-oriented???]
Also Billie herself has thought she was straight and experimenting (“We get curious. It’s basically inevitable.”), so maybe after getting some alone time she convinced herself it couldn’t have really been love. That’d be alongside the ego boost and return to shallowness, I think.
sorry for rant in the middle, i probably should have just vented into that middle-paragraph theory without doubling back on my potential catharsis and also over-disclosing
Based on Ruth’s line “I didn’t ‘lose’ Billie–” I’m assuming Billie relapsed. To be fair, it was always a possibility, relapses occur and that was Billie’s first honest attempt, but until we know more odds are it was Billie.
Am I okay with them splitting up? Yes. It was always an open question about whether the relationship was more healthy than toxic, and as long as no one’s committing suicide or having a complete meltdown as a result of the relationship ending I’m going to call that a win.
Am I okay with not getting to watch the train wreck? No.
2020 had some good things. Just think, the guy who crippled the CDC just before covid was discovered, tried to abuse his veto powers to force Congress to ban email in a military funding bill, and repeatedly wrecked the economy using poorly thought out executive orders, was voted out of office that year.
That’s the problem. The youngin’s aren’t strong enough to pull with their finger so they spin the A around and use their thumb instead. It’s not a pretty picture.
136 thoughts on “Funnelin’”
Ana Chronistic
“Easy A! …I mean, easy, eh??”
Doctor_Who
Robin immediately flunks her, because as a Republican she naturally disapproves of Canadians.
Sunny
But Ruth isn’t even in that class?
Doctor_Who
Plot twist: Becky’s puppy eyes work on every professor. She graduates with a doctorate in political science within two weeks.
Dorothy bites through a 400 page textbook in response.
Jane
I wouldn’t be surprised if Dorothy was the kind of sincere person who would feel bad that Becky didn’t get any actual education along with that grade, and genuinely believe that she herself was in a better position for life by having taken the long road.
Now, when Becky ended up in another high-profile position by seemingly winging it… Then starts the textbook biting.
Doctor_Who
Robin: Folks, I have some bad news. I’ve given notice, and effective immediately will no longer be your professor.
Dorothy: (Oh, thank god, finally we can get someone qualifi-)
Becky: Hi, I’m professor MacIntyre!
Dorothy: CHOMP
Jane
That is hilarious to imagine, and makes me wish I had some way to “like” comments to show my appreciation.
StClair
I think you just did.
Jane
Well, true… But at the cost of not really adding anything to the conversation. When I write something, I want it to at least have the potential of being amusing or insightful for others.
But mostly, I just needed something to help round out the rest of the comment; I wasn’t seriously wishing that anything would change.
Curious Observer
After 10 years, making tenure, and getting added as co-author on innumerable random papers, despite not knowing what’s going on…
Becky: “Maybe it’s time to run for Pres. Hey Dotty, wanna be my VEEP?”
Dorothy: cRaCKk … tinkle, tinkle.
Sirksome
Actually even though I’m the one who made the claim I’d argue that Becky is at least in the conversation if not an equal to Joyce in “main character” status. Especially since she also appeared in the very first DoA comic ever.
Ana Chronistic
She even had the first lines!
mrj
Becky as surprise guest lecturer.
BBCC
Bad Robin! XD
Joyce, love, you good?
Doctor_Who
She’s waiting to see if someone whips out a tummy wand before she decides what emotion to have.
BBCC
Pfft! I love that dream, sad as it was.
Sirksome
Joyce had a really tough first semester. I mean they all kind of did but Joyce’s was consistently pretty awful and ideologically challenging pretty much from day one. That’s what happens when you’re the main character. Also she broke her toe once.
Clif
It may have felt like a broken toe, but in fact it was a broken tonail.
JR
She also broke a toe, with her fists.
This is probably a name if you don't look too closely
Is she “the” main character? She’s certainly one of the top 5 or so, but does this comic even have a 100% absolute top of the mountain “the” main character?
Inb4 you answer: Yes it does. And it’s Joyce. I just said that. XD
Sirksome
Yeah, no. This is total bullshit and I still feel incredibly bad for Roz a character I don’t even like.
StClair
Politics is total bullshit, yes.
Bladeglory
See? 30 seconds and they’ve already learned something about gender, I mean politics. Robin’s good at this “teaching” thing.
deathjavu
This is bullshit? Seems like everyone else’s reaction is that it’s getting a little too real.
a/snow/mous/e
It can be both. “Bullshit” here meaning “unfair” rather than “fake.”
Jamie
We are extremely good at repurposing words into unrelated meanings. Especially profanities.
It is the shit.
Needfuldoer
“Shit” is such a versatile word too; it’s a noun, a verb, an interjection, and an adjective!
Mr D
I’m okay with Roz suffering hilariously until she improves. Then I can feel angry in her stead.
Sirksome
I don’t even care about the automatic A. Becky’s cool and deserves good thing. But the fact that Robin clearly values Becky over her own sister is really fucked up and I don’t care how obnoxious Roz has been she deserves a better sister than Robin. Fortunately she has one. It makes more and more sense why Roz would try to sabotage Robin’s political career. They’re not sisters. Not in any way that matters.
drs
I think we’re running on too little data.
I was re-reading earlier, and they’re close enough that Robin knew Leslie was Roz’s favorite teacher. Roz complained about having traded sisterly favors for the classroom fiasco rather than “like, six helicopter rides”.
And sibling interactions can be complicated. Just because they rag each other at one level doesn’t mean they don’t love each other at another.
Azhrei Vep
Assuming that is the case (and I’m not, yet), I don’t see anything especially fucked up about Robin valuing Becky over her own sister.
When she’s not running her ‘joking’ antagonism toward Dorothy into the ground (which I don’t think Robin’s seen much of), Becky’s a really likeable and generally super-nice and chill person who’s pretty much always generally been nice to Robin when she reeaallly didn’t deserve it.
Roz, meanwhile, is wannabe manipulative, obnoxious, and openly contemptuous toward Robin. I’d value Becky over her too.
Sirksome
This goes both ways. Robin slut shamed Roz in front of an entire class in her first appearance and Robin has consistently shown more interest in her own career than her sister. Maybe even both her sisters. This is admittedly a flimsy argument but why did Riley end up spending the night sharing a cramped bunk bed with Roz when her other sister a congresswoman had a fully furnished apartment near by? Probably because Robin’s a shit sister right? One who still dragged a 12 year old on stage as prop for her “family first” campaign at that rally.
But hey, if there’s been one consistent theme of this comic it’s been that family is actually who you make it to be. (Jennifer and Walky, Joyce and Sarah, Amber and Ethan, Becky and basically anybody ect) There’s nothing saying Robin and Roz have to like each other just because they share some dna.
Regalli
It’s possible Robin didn’t have the apartment before her campaign imploded, but she definitely had money for a hotel room if so. That said, Riley might have wanted to spend more time with Roz.
And she routinely dragged Riley and Roz to campaign rallies. Given Riley’s presence, kinda doubt Roz only started being dragged out as a prop when Robin needed to magnanimously ‘forgive’ her sister for being, I quote, ‘a total slutmonger.’ (And given Robin’s joking about Tony McHenry being hot and the possibility of him ‘making (Roz) respectable’ at Freshman Family Weekend, I don’t think that’s exclusively the sex tape.) Robin’s significantly older than Roz – at absolute minimum, nine years, and possibly more like eleven or more. The onus is on her to not use her sisters for political points, regardless of bedtimes (Riley was present at the midnight rally where AG and Sal encountered Ryan, and also was asleep) or their actual political leanings. The onus is also on her not to slutshame her sister in public on multiple occasions. I can’t imagine the sex tape was the first point of tension between the two.
There’s just something deeply sad, in general, that the opinion of a woman Robin knew for less than a month before the timeskip (given the Robin kissing Leslie pic leaked in early October, I think Becky only worked for the campaign for like a week) was enough to convince her to drop out of the race, while her sister’s opinion doesn’t at all.
Ana Chronistic
I assumed bc Roz has access to a campus cafeteria with UNLIMITED CEREAL
I mean, SOME hotels have that, sure, but in more limited variety, and others charge
thejeff
At the very least this should put to rest the “Robin’s pretending not to know her sister because she’s trying to be professional” argument.
Reltzik
Aha! You underestimate my contrarian powers!
Robin IS trying to be professional! She’s just very bad at it and has the attention span of hydrogen-7.
Avian Maria
Somehow this is becoming more upsetting than killing Mike or skipping Halloween. I’m kinda ok with the Billie/Ruth split.
Bruceski
Less okay with Billie dating a mob stooge.
Rose by Any Other Name
**Dina-esque raptor hiss**
He Who Abides
Seconded.
Clif
More upsetting than killing Mike? What kind of soulless inhuman monster are you?
On the other hand, it was Mike. But still.
Insanenoodlyguy
Mike isn’t dead, he’s back with a re-color. Why be upset over his new tan?
Needfuldoer
If anybody’s getting a mid-series actor replacement, it’s Becky. (Or maybe Aunt Viv.)
Avian Maria
Do you really like Booster less than Mike? I mean, at least Mike got a chance to redeem his character, as drastic as that sounds.
Also, I’m a teacher, so that’s maybe why I’m so personally wigged out by this aggressively terrible person teaching college students.
a/snow/mous/e
I wonder who broke up with whom. Billie was kind of unreliable, like that time she was trying to get Ruth to drink again or something? She did get help eventually, but there might have been some relapses, and that might have led Ruth to believe they needed to part ways. Or maybe after baring all her flaws to Forrest quad, Billie realized “Hey, I can accept that I need help in this particular area and still be popular!”, but also she never really let go of the concept superficial=popular=good, hit it off with Asher, and decided she’d rather date someone cool than someone who roots for the Maple Leafs?
Maybe Billie’s therapist talked to her about how she met Ruth and convinced her that Ruth was a bad influence who bullied her, threatened to expose her alcoholism, and then gaslit her into falling in love by being alone with her so often? [source: longtime online best friend and RP partner dropped out of my life after suddenly saying they’d been uncomfortable with the level of intimacy in our relationship basically the entire time, and i guess i’ve gotten over losing a friend but the whole thing kinda stresses me out because i thought i’d always been very consent-oriented???]
Also Billie herself has thought she was straight and experimenting (“We get curious. It’s basically inevitable.”), so maybe after getting some alone time she convinced herself it couldn’t have really been love. That’d be alongside the ego boost and return to shallowness, I think.
a/snow/mous/e
sorry for rant in the middle, i probably should have just vented into that middle-paragraph theory without doubling back on my potential catharsis and also over-disclosing
Schpoonman
Based on Ruth’s line “I didn’t ‘lose’ Billie–” I’m assuming Billie relapsed. To be fair, it was always a possibility, relapses occur and that was Billie’s first honest attempt, but until we know more odds are it was Billie.
Reltzik
Am I okay with them splitting up? Yes. It was always an open question about whether the relationship was more healthy than toxic, and as long as no one’s committing suicide or having a complete meltdown as a result of the relationship ending I’m going to call that a win.
Am I okay with not getting to watch the train wreck? No.
Giguioto
Joyce, that was very specific, are you alright?
plasticwrap
Corruption knows no end.
Stephen Bierce
You don’t have to be asleep to have NIGHTMARES
NIGHTMARES!
No, you don’t have to be asleep to have NIGHTMARES!…
Stephen Bierce
But Are You Sleeping?
tim gueguen
Just consider 2020.
Miles
2020 had some good things. Just think, the guy who crippled the CDC just before covid was discovered, tried to abuse his veto powers to force Congress to ban email in a military funding bill, and repeatedly wrecked the economy using poorly thought out executive orders, was voted out of office that year.
plasticwrap
?I’m just a kid, and my life is a nightmare! I’m just a kid,and I know that it’s not fair ?
Fart Captor
Genuinely caring about Becky and enthusiastically wanting to give her all the things is a VERY effective way to get on my good side
Yotomoe
An automatic A is a bit too dangerous. How about a semi-automatic A.
Stephen Bierce
Settle for a bolt-action B+. 🙂
Needfuldoer
Those last two panels say it’s silenced.
Jake'm
An automatic A over a manual A would probably easier to handle for a younger student.
Rycan
A bit too easy to handle – someone could easily get hurt.
Needfuldoer
That’s the problem. The youngin’s aren’t strong enough to pull with their finger so they spin the A around and use their thumb instead. It’s not a pretty picture.
Fart Captor
Also does this mean Joyce’s dreams have Bisexual Lighting? Or would that be more pink and teal
Sirksome
Joyce’s nickname should be the Bisexual Nightmare! She can only repress it for so long!
plasticwrap
That would be quite the twist…
Needfuldoer
Joyce dreams in CGA.
crow
I love Robin’s face in the fourth panel
Bladeglory
No, Becky, you can not have an automatic A.
“May I have an A?”
Yes, you may.
TrueVCU
NOD NOD
Beau Kirin Maysey
“Yes, no, I dont know, can you repeat the question”
DaisyFM
This is going to be the most accurate lesson in politics any of these kids could possibly get. Robin is going to be an amazing teacher.