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Potty
Posted on March 5, 2013 by David M Willis

203 thoughts on “Potty”

  1. Wonder Wig

    5some.

    1. Sensedog

      Joyce is turned on by that kind of talk, even if she will not admit it out loud.

      1. AckAckAck

        She admit it with her expression though.

        1. Skull025

          That’s the repressed, evil side of Joyce, slowly worming its way to the surface. She will be assimilated.

        2. Count Dracula

          I thought that all their innuendo reminded her of her big test on Monday, and she’s going to study. I try to study in public restrooms as often as I can, it’s just a great learning environment.

        3. Drunken Nordmann

          Studying – that’s what they call it nowadays?

        4. Fady

          Hey, maybe Joyce could borrow Sal’s tutor!

        5. Josh

          Oh she’d ‘borrow’ her ‘tutor’ alright.

        6. fatemaster1

          Resistance is futile.

        7. fatemaster1

          We are The Borg.

      2. Kirt Dankmyer

        I actually think she’s a bit more freaked out by the fact she kissed Ethan, and the innuendo is just an additional push to her existing embarrassment.

  2. Numan

    It doesn’t take much to get her water flowing.

    1. Resne

      Considering the faucet hasn’t been used much, it’s unsurprising.

    2. Kernanator

      And once it starts, she just can’t stop!

      1. Roborat

        Are you lot implying something???

    3. JA

      The Corruption of Joyce is progressing at a good pace.

  3. Robbie C

    Judging by her face in panel three, that’s a pretty urgent potty.

    1. Robbie C

      Erm, panel 4.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        When you gotta go, YOU GOTTA GO!

        1. Aizat

          Yeah, the call of nature is unforgiving.

        2. Yotomoe

          Panels 3 and four look equally urgent to go to the bathroom.

        3. Wonder Wig

          What I think is happening, is that she’s secretly on a date with two boys at the same time, and throughout the evening she’s gonna keep excusing herself to the bathroom so that she can sneak back to the other tables.

        4. AckAckAck

          The rom com formula!

        5. Khantalas

          She *is* on a date with both Ethan and Walky.

        6. BlueRam

          And then the t-rex will attack her in the stall, and her last thoughts will be, “….are those feathers?”

        7. AckAckAck

          More like “So they did sneak in to the ark.”

        8. Josh

          If I’ve learned anything from DoA in the past week, it’s that Fundies think that the Dinosaurs were on the Arc. 😛

        9. Nee Hou

          You’ve seen them in St. Louis? No that would be Arch.
          Hmmm…
          I think you mean Ark.

        10. EHeroRedEyes

          or Arc, as in Arc tech, as in Repulsor tech.

          I can make anything an iron man reference.

        11. Shobo

          Personally, I’d ship T-Rex.

        12. Groove

          …clever girl

        13. Roborat

          And Dina would be standing behind the door, thinking, ” I knew they had feathers”.

    2. JA

      When you gotta go, you gotta go.

  4. Davriel

    I think Joyce is going to examine something too…

    1. Josh

      With her penis?

      1. Dibullba

        in her FAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCEEEEE!!!!

      2. Shobo

        Ethan’s in for a treat, then.

        1. Numan

          Or his worst nightmare.

  5. Aizat

    I would prefer to say “answering the call of nature” or “going to relieve myself” Heck, “going to the toilet” is still viable.

    1. David Herbert

      Yes, but she’s still young at heart.

      1. Aizat

        Dude, I’m still young at heart and even I don’t use the word “potty”. Then again, I never actually used the word potty in my life.

        1. ajm5007

          I own a dog, so I occasionally use the word “potty.” Pretty much only to the dog.

        2. Andiemus

          Neither did I.

    2. Alex

      I still say “gotta use the head”.

      1. Yotomoe

        I just say ” I’m-a go to the bathroom.” or sometimes the ever classy ” I gotta piss”

        1. phroggonalog

          i used to date a girl who would always say “i gotta piss like a racehorse”

        2. Vabolo

          I usually use the good ol’ “I must excrete waste matter from the appropriate orifice, pertaining to its solidity.”

          I still wonder why my friends haven’t invited me over for lunch at a restaurant in a while.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          “I gotta make a deposit in the porcelain bank”.

        4. AckAckAck

          “Bombarding the dam”

          Or in case of diarrhea

          “Carpet bombing the dam”

        5. Kam

          “dropping the kids off at the pool”

        6. AckAckAck

          I thought that one is for masturbating in the bathroom?

        7. LWS3

          My brother the doctor always announces “I’ve got to go micturate!” in restaurants.

      2. Aububuh

        Someone I know prefers to say “hit the head’. That sounds a bit painful to me.

    3. Rex Hondo

      I generally just go with, “I’ll be right back.”

      1. Aizat

        Do you do it with an Austrian accent?

      2. Rex Hondo

        It has been known to happen when I’m in a particularly puckish mood.

    4. Valdrax

      “I’ll be in my bunk.”

      1. lightsabermario

        That’s what she’s really thinking!

      2. Rex Hondo

        Wait. Are we still talking about peeing. If so… :6

        1. Valdrax

          /looks up at all the other euphemisms

          …We were talking about peeing?

    5. Roborat

      Still doesn’t clear up the removing bodily waste or masturbating confusion.

  6. David Herbert

    Relationship chicken, and she lost bad.

    1. Groove

      It does seem like the primary drive here is wanting to keep up with the Jones’s.

  7. ASmellyOgre

    I’m taking bets on when Joyce explodes. Also taking bets on the number of casualties.

    1. Yotomoe

      There will be no casualties, but everyone with in the range of the explosion will have eternal Joyce smiles.

      1. Pat

        That sounds an awful lot like casualties…

        1. AckAckAck

          You got a lot of casualties in your pants.

        2. Yotomoe

          You should see a doctor about that.

    2. Roborat

      It will be carnage, death by snu snu everywhere.

  8. Kernanator

    I’m guessing that this has been a topic of conversation between them.

  9. orcasauce

    moist

  10. RobHagen

    Self-Induced Pre-Martial Hanky Panky in the Potty?

    1. Aizat

      Don’t you mean “Handy” Panky?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Just as long as it’s NOT “Mr Hanky” Panky.

        1. Aizat

          Chloroform can be used as an aphrodisiac?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          I was thinking more of the lines of “Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo’.

        3. Kelly

          I think it was a South Park reference. One of the many reasons I don’t watch that show. O_o

        4. AckAckAck

          I used to watch that show. It was entertaining at first but disgusting later on.

        5. slicedtoad

          meh, it’s still the only cartoon with any intelligent comedy… they just hide it behind the poop jokes.

        6. AckAckAck

          Intelligent? hah! they simply took the newest craze/topic and make it as offensive as possible. Then slap poop jokes infront of it to mask shit with shit.

        7. begbert2

          You don’t watch many cartoons, I take it.

        8. Ronnie

          “[South Park is] still the only cartoon with any intelligent comedy”
          These are the words of a man who has never seen Futurama, nor Daria. Nor the original Looney Tunes.

        9. Renadt

          @ Ronnie
          …or the Simpsons, or Family Guy (but not so much).

  11. The Sound Defense

    On the day Walky starts dressing up nice, Dorothy is wearing a “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese” T-shirt.

    1. John

      They’re both wearing the clothes the other picked out for them. Symmetry!

    2. Omnithea

      Look back at the previous strips. They’re both wearing the shirts they picked out for each other.

    3. JoeMerl

      Remember? They made a deal that they could each pick out something for the other one to wear.

      1. AckAckAck

        I think it also turn them on immensely.

    4. dcmeserve

      Hey we need more people with Billie gravatars to say the same thing some more times! Come on, don’t be shy.

      1. Groove

        What you’re all forgetting is that they chose those clothes for each in an earlier strip.

      2. DEG1377

        It’s the clothes they bought for each other!

      3. John

        I have the fastest Billie!

  12. Plasma Mongoose

    What’s wrong with the term potty, or is that word too common-sounding for ya?

    1. Yotomoe

      The proper term is the crapper.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Or the ever popular Aussie term “the dunnycan”.

        1. Yotomoe

          You can’t go wrong with calling it the john.

        2. Aizat

          Just make sure you don’t have a friend named John. That could be really awkward.

        3. Roborat

          Unless he is into that sort of thing.

        4. John

          Yes. Yes, you can.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          Unless your name is John…

        6. AckAckAck

          No one call it “the throne?”

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          I used that term sometimes but only for the 5 star quality loos.

        8. AckAckAck

          I want to know what’s your 5 star quality throne looks like.

          Me? I want that Japanese toilet made by TOTO.

        9. Vert

          I prefer “thunderbox”.

        10. Plasma Mongoose

          Now that is a very ocker word.

        11. Valdrax

          *stands up*
          “You called down the thunder…”
          *flushes*
          “…now reap the whirlwind.”

        12. Yes Son, I Am Space

          There are few things left on the Internet that actually make me laugh out loud. Thank you, Vert and Valtrax, for proving that there are still some genuine LOLs out there.

        13. Kernanator

          Next time I go to the bathroom, I’m saying that.

  13. ridtom

    Dina looks like Joyce and Ethans kiss traumitized her!

    And dang Dorothy, time and place gurl, time and place.

    1. Yotomoe

      Naw, she always looks like that.

    2. Aizat

      Seriously though, keep the double entendre to a minimum, Dotty. What are you doing, trying to advertise to the whole world that you’re doing Walky at the moment?

      1. AckAckAck

        “Do the Walky” can be an interesting term.

        1. begbert2

          I was going to put in some clever lyrical reworking of “Do the Hustle” here, since that’s what instantly sprang to my mind from your comment… but “Do the Hustle” doesn’t have enough lyrics to rework! So just imagine that music in your head…

        2. Regalli

          Is it set to the “Do The Mario” song? Please let it be set to the “Do the Mario” song!

  14. NCP19

    Remember when Jason and Sal were having sex?

    Pepperidge Farms remembers.

    1. Yotomoe

      Remember when Roz was going to hook Ms. Bean up with her sister?

      Pepperidge Farms remembers.

      1. Aizat

        Remember when I blew up the Sun?

        Yeah, I don’t either.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Is that some kind of advert reference??

        1. Aizat

          Either that or a Family Guy reference….and I’m pretty sure we’re classy enough not to reference that.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          I’m not a big fan of Family Guy even though it has the elements of the type of humour I like, but somehow the result most of the time is ‘FEH’.

        3. Yotomoe

          Yes, peppridge farms had an ad campaign were they said “Peppridge Farm remembers”. Futurama and Family guy just reference it.

        4. Roborat

          I seem to remember a Dr. Demento riff on that theme as well, my radion station used to play them. The tag line was: “Pepperidge Farms Dismembers”.

    2. Derek

      Well done, you bastard, that legitimately made me laugh out loud.

  15. Blob Marley

    Oh, the absolute lack of consideration for others that comes with being a horny college student.

    Seriously, you two, keep that shit to yourselves.

    1. Wack'd

      Really? I mean, this is pretty tame stuff.

      1. Toad

        Naw, I’m with Blob. Don’t flirt/make out/”insinuate” with your significant other in public, especially when, say, eating a meal with other people who are therefore trapped and can’t reasonably excuse themselves.

        To be fair though, they are early enough into the relationship that the “LOOK AT ME, I HAVE A *ROMANTIC PARTNER*! HAVE YOU MET MY BOYFRIEND YET? OH, YES, I WAS JUST TALKING TO MY GIRLFRIEND” stage is still excusable, if no less obnoxious.

      2. Blob Marley

        Still pretty rude to be doing in a public place. Making out, talking dirty… these are not things one does in a public restaurant if one is trying to be considerate of the other customers..

        1. Yes Son, I Am Space

          Agreed.

    2. AckAckAck

      Someone is alone…

      1. Blob Marley

        So you’re saying it’s NOT incredibly rude to make out and talk dirty at a casual lunch meeting?

        1. Josh

          Jokingly? No.

        2. Spiny Creature

          The thing is, what seems ‘joking’ and ‘playful’ to the people screwing is not ‘joking’ or ‘playful’ to everybody else at the table. Or rather, it’s still a joke, but it’s a pretty lame joke, since no one else is allowed to join in on it. I agree with Blob completely, and I am a sexually-active college student who is often guilty of doing what Dorothy is doing. No matter how subtle and clever you think you’re being, there will always be friends who can awkwardly confirm for you later, that no, you were not being subtle. Not at all.

          The thing is, I have dated enough to learn that most people get uncomfortable with blatantly sexual PDA, no matter how cute or subtle I think it was. Dorothy and Walky have yet to learn this.

          Also, as a college student, there are way too many people who make out in restaurants, libraries, etc. and generally act like it’s their own private space. So I am inclined to not give them the benefit of the doubt.

        3. dcmeserve

          My brain automatically used Jason’s voice when I read that.

        4. begbert2

          They’re making out now? Where? How did I miss that!

          Ok, I see now. My view was blocked by that goalpost. Fortunately it’s moved now.

        5. KKoro

          Definitely a goalpost, yeah. It’s not like it made Joyce uncomfortable or anything.

          Or Dina, by the looks of it.

  16. Yotomoe

    Alright Ethan. This is like…cutoff point. You either break it off NOW or deal with the fact that you’re a bad person doing a bad thing and deserve bad things to happen to you for the bad thing you are doing.

    1. begbert2

      It’s vaguely amusing that somebody has said this very thing in pretty much every strip with Joyce and Ethan in it since Mike happened.

  17. Madock345

    No, Joyce! You’ll go blind!

    1. Yotomoe

      And have hairy palms.

      1. Aizat

        Those are lies! My palms are still hairless and I still have perfect vision.

        1. Yotomoe

          Then you’re not doing it right.

        2. AckAckAck

          You have to rub it counter clockwise and slam your face to the wall while singing “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne loudly!

        3. Roborat

          Now that made me laugh, good job.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          If NOT losing your sight and keeping your palms hairless is doing it wrong, than I would not want to be right.

  18. JoeMerl

    Dina now gets to observe the mating habits of the elusive weirdoes.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I now imagine Dina with David Attenborough’s voice.

      1. Aizat

        “And here we see the Dorothysaurus flirting with it’s mate, the Walkyraptor.”

        1. Yotomoe

          The Joysaur, usually a docile creature retreats after initiating the mating sequence with the Ethantops.

      2. Roborat

        I went with Steve Irwin.

    2. AckAckAck

      Weirdos that got laid more than Joyce….

  19. John

    Joyce really needs to just admit that she wants to be the one having Dorothy proctor her oral exam.

  20. Alex

    “Guess Who’s Coming [at] Galasso’s”

    1. AckAckAck

      “Cleaning at table 5!”

    2. Kernanator

      This is a wonderful comment.

  21. Raibean

    I use the word “potty” in public all the time… but I also work at a daycare.

    1. AckAckAck

      Wow, a little kid who can use the internet well! good job!

      PS: You need to hide your age in several sites or they’ll kick ya out.

      1. begbert2

        You think I’m playing with these blocks? This is work! I have a deadline to meet here!

  22. Nono

    First panel Ethan is adorable.

  23. Pie

    It looks like Dorothy doesn’t approve of Walky’s… potty mouth.

    1. Roborat

      -Cue Roger Daltry primal scream here.

  24. Zababcd

    Has anyone else considered that maybe the innuendo-laden conversation is merely a background to Joyce’s growing embarrassment about having kissed Ethan out of nowhere because of peer pressure, and not actually the cause of her departure?

    1. Toad

      Yes, I believe that was the intent.

      1. Zababcd

        Really? I was just offering it as an alternative to what I considered the likely intent, which was simply that Joyce is uncomfortable around sexual innuendo.

        As another alternative, though, maybe the conversation is simply the background to Joyce’s growing shame after Dina’s remark made her realise that perhaps Dina felt hurt by Joyce’s failure to notice her at first.

    2. DEG1377

      Yeah, I don’t get why everyone suddenly went all dirty with it. I interpreted it as embarrassment, not… THAT…

      Or, to be more direct – I thought it was the intent, too.

      1. Gil

        Me too. Not sure where everyone is coming up with these other theories from.

        1. begbert2

          Probably Joyce’s facial expression. And behavior. And destination. And also conservation of detail – authors don’t tend to juxtapose for no reason. Yes, reality does, but reality is a pretty crappy author.

        2. Regalli

          Can’t it be both? She’s embarrassed to have even momentarily succumbed to the cragged shame pits of the lust-wolves, and the innuendo’s not helping.

  25. Wizard

    The world of academia has never sounded so erotically charged.

    1. Yotomoe

      Let me direct you to ever teacher related pornography. This may take a lifetime.

      1. Zababcd

        I’d comment on your misspelling and say something not-really-funny like ‘you mean pornography about immortal teachers?’ – you know, ever-teachers – but I expect that there’s plenty of pornography in that subcategory as well, for whatever reason.

        1. Yotomoe

          I blame the Japanese.

  26. Romanticide

    Joyce is overloading, this is just too much to her… Dinah is just being Dinah XD

  27. Toad

    Aw maaaan, I like this couple, why’d you have to go make Dorky (is that their shipper name?) one of those couples?

    1. AckAckAck

      I like that ship. Seeing Dotty going all fuzzy wuffy is a nice change of pace for her.

  28. Arkadi

    Joyce is a bad influence XD

  29. Uniqueantique

    First time I think I’ve seen Dina say out lout that she is often ‘overlooked’. She does seem to be spending more time out and about, and not standing behind doors so much as she used to do. Yay, she’s coming out.

    1. John

      Now if only Ethan would…

      1. Kernanator

        Oh jeez, I can’t stop laughing.

      2. Josh

        Ethan did, he’s just been talked back into it by Mike. 😛

    2. Roborat

      She has spend years perfecting her technique. After all, it is hard to make observations in the wild if your subjects are aware of your presence.

  30. EspanolBot

    Unexpected snarkiness from Dina there.

  31. Jehosaphat

    Her mind is already there, so she had to go find it.

  32. ArkhamTexan

    I’m starting to think Joyce and Ethan are gonna sleep together before Ethan comes clean (he has to come dirty first). Y’know, for maximum drama.

    And Dina will get even more mad that they didn’t notice she was there.

    1. Greenygal

      I don’t think Joyce “cragged shame pits of the lust-wolves” Brown is going to be pushing for sex anytime soon. On the other hand, she’s surprised me before–last strip, for example.

      1. ArkhamTexan

        That’s what I’m thinking. She felt the need to compete or whatever. Things keep going this way and if Ethan continues the illusion, it might eventually reach a point to where to where Joyce goes “To h-e-double-hockey-sticks with it” and give in to her lust for Ethan.

        1. AckAckAck

          Then the drama tag happened?

  33. Alexx

    Uuuuugh, nothing like hanging out with friends and hearing about how much they wana bone. Though I’m sad that my particular friend is lonely; I’m also glad that he’s not in THAT relationship anymore. Called each other “bebe” (baby) all the time *shudder* sweet christ almighty those two needed to be locked up.

  34. Marcos Dantas

    Curriculum sounds dirty in Portuguese …

    Kinda like Uranus in English.

    1. Marcos Dantas

      Oooops! Posted in the wrong sub-thread.

      1. begbert2

        Don’t worry, a comment like that is welcome everywhere.

  35. Malta

    Joyce: POTTY EMERGENCY! I HAVE A POTTY EMERGENCY! POTTY! POTTY! WHERE IS THE POTTY?!

  36. Jimmy

    With Joyce getting attacked not that long ago (in DoA time) and now with all of these feelings she’s having towards Ethan, it’s understandable why she’s so nervous and/or embarrassed. Forget an emotional roller coaster. It’s more like an emotional hurricane.

    1. AckAckAck

      Are you sure? it looks like like emotional potty for me.

  37. Ray

    I’m starting to see why Walky and Joyce are the couple in the old continuity. Though Joyce at least has the excuse of being sheltered by extreme parents. There’s no excuse for Walky.

    1. begbert2

      Walky’s excuse is the best excuse: he’s how he is because he chooses to be. Despite what insecure minds might tell you, there’s no inherent superiority to any life approach once you get past the bar of ‘being grounded in reality’. Fancy shirts are only better than comfortable shirts if you’re measuring by a metric that is actually improved by the shirt (like increased butt-grabbings); if this is not the case, then the comfortable shirt is easily as good. Similarly the word ‘potty’ isn’t a mark of shame unless you’re an insecure senator wannabe. As for myself, I prefer the word ‘can’, as in, ‘I’m going to the can’. It has the precise level of simplistic uncultured crudeness that I wish to convey. But it’s not ‘better’ than “potty”, if you’re interested in conveying different things, or if you just don’t care.

  38. Steven

    Dina seems to be coming out of her shell a bit. She’s more aware of her surroundings and saying more words.

  39. Prok

    So Dorothy gets to wear a “Kraft Mac & Cheese” shirt while Walky is stuck in that uncomfortable looking monstrosity!?!?!?

  40. HLY

    is it just me, or does Dina’s bandana do her facial expresisons for her?

    because this is currently in snark-face

    1. xKiv

      It had that expression since they realized she’s there, while she was changing her expression under its .. eyes …

  41. BranTheQuixotic

    I sure hope Ethan is going to come out to Joyce ASAP now. It’s officially Gone Too Far. I have a feeling Mike is going to be involved in outting him very soon if he doesn’t get off his ass and get to it.

    DoA Mike seems to prefer somewhat more benign assholery. Or at least assholery with a benign edge. Outting Ethan is just so perfect, he must have some sort of internal Spidey Sense going off.

  42. Sporky

    I remember Willis talking about how he discovered in the original Roomies! that Joyce and Joe were good foils to each other because they would clash so much.

    I just realized that DoA Joyce and Walky basically fulfill the same dynamic.

  43. datgoat

    I wish more people were aware of your awesome hovertext.

  44. Rheios

    Poor Dina. “Lot of that going around”

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