“My favorite is the one where someone develops a split personality and then watches her father kill someone and then forgets what she saw when she’s in the other personality but has a nagging feeling of something wrong”
FriskyJacket
I like the musical episodes personally.
Strangeshapes
Ooo, yeah, that was on Law & Order SVU, right? … wait
Makkabee
Law & Order works better if you think of it as a sitcom.
What about the one where the spouse/fiancee loses their ring and tries to hide the fact until they can replace it? Or they lose the OTHER person’s ring, etc.
I like the one where they help the French Resistance blow up a train trestle while the local German commander is convinced he’s going to the Russian Front if they can’t shift the blame for the security lapse to someone else. The moral of the story is “Nazis are stupid and a determined multiethnic coalition will always defeat them” and I think that’s a good moral in these trying times.
“Bravely” refusing to look up bottle episode on TV Tropes.
Needfuldoer
Save you the trip:
A bottle episode is an episode that only uses main characters and existing sets. they can be for diving deeper into the characters, but are usually filler to replace scrapped episodes or pad out a season on a budget.
Chris Phoenix
And if they do that, but also shuffle the relationship status of one or more characters, they call that “spin the bottle.”
… No they don’t. Probably. I just made that up. But maybe they do anyway.
Kyrros
Not a half-bad idea. Definitely submit that for ‘Trope-age’
MutantSentry
Moving outside of Sitcoms, an action/drama variant is “base under siege” which is like 80% of Doctor Who episodes.
jonathan young
and there was an episode of Supergirl this week that was called “The Bottle Episode” and it used main characters but there were multiple instances of one character so they figured a way to wiggle out of the Bottle slightly but without violating the rules 😀 also there is a literal bottle but …spoilers
What about the one where they travel to an alternate timeline where everybody is the opposite of what they normally are? Good guys are evil. Bad guys are good. Vegemite is a delicious snack.
The nosy neighbor (or whoever) gets caught up in shenanigans because they got too close to the main character’s secret superpowers. For example, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian…
In the beforetimes (prior to the internet), Ian Shoales created a small tribute to the Nosy Neighbor sitcom. It’s called I Married a Puppet, and it may be worth looking up.
Attack of the Clones where one of the main character’s becomes two people to do shenanagains in two places at the same time but then, the clone decides to go full evil or jealous and fights the main character.
I think Joe gets the gravity of it, he just thinks that lying about being your boyfriend is a different magnitude than being a liar about adultery or why he cut his father out.
Jacob’s actions are unforgiving and punishing.
AeromechanicalAce
Eh, That one’s a matter of opinion. While i think it’s valid to say what Joyce did isn’t THAT bad in the grand scheme of things, All Jacob has really DONE so far is not start a rebound relationship with her, because he feels like starting on that note of dishonesty is a bad idea.
Now, If he starts being a dick to Joyce or Ghosts her completely over the issue, that’d be going too far, but it’s too soon to tell on that one.
RacingTurtle
I agree. Jacob has the right to be upset the morning after the stuff with Joyce and Harrison happened. It’s what he does over the next few days that will really show what kind of person he is when a friend screws up. (I don’t think he’s obligated to continue the friendship or even talk to Joyce ever again, save for basic politeness. He is obligated not to be a total jerk or go out of his way to punish her. I don’t think he’ll go that route, but only time will tell.)
miri
A) He went along with the deception. B) When she offered to come clean he told her not to. C) He snogged her before telling her there was no way it would be happening.
He wasn’t exactly completely innocent in it all.
jonathan young
Miri has hit the nail upon the proverbial head
BBCC
Turns out, nobody’s obligated to be forgiving.
BBCC
That said, considering Jacob was more than happy to go along with it and THEN called her on it? Yeah, that was definitely a dick move. Maybe if he didn’t wanna break up with Raidah he should’ve told her to back off earlier. Maybe if he wanted to be with Joyce, he should’ve excused himself and broke up with Raidah.
RacingTurtle
Yeah, I bet that part of the reason he’s in such a pissy mood is because he’s displeased with himself, too.
Poofdepoof
Ooh good call Racing Turtle! Being wrong is so much more upsetting than being right
Johan
Kissed her then got upset btw. But the dude is 18 max.
King Daniel
He could be 19 – Dorothy and Dina both are, off the top of my head. (Sarah and Ruth being 20 doesn’t count, as they’re both in their second year.)
BBCC
Yep, yes he did.
And I don’t hate him or Joyce, and yeah, the whole point is them developing. Doesn’t mean it’s not crappy or annoying in the mean time 😛
Geneseepaws
Ahahahaha, haha, … (cough). I thought you meant; On a scale of points from 3 to 20, Jacob is an 18. I’m thinking, “Yeah, no, 16 or 17, maximum. Cause of the Riyadh thing, then farther down I’m thinking, “ …WTF, oh, they mean AGE!” Yeah. Too much D&D.
Geneseepaws
Scale of 3 to 18, with 18 being perfect, optional bonus of 1 or 2 points for charisma if having 18=Beauty and 18=Intellegence.
Rahdream
He wasnt exactly “more than happy” to go along with it. He seemed pretty confused and rolling with it because he wasnt sure what to do (and definitely LIKES/LIKED Joyce so it was kind of a thrill to play along). He seemed to enjoy MOMENTS of it, which I think made him REALIZE he likes/liked Joyce. But then seeing Raidah when they got back snapped him to reality and he realized how much deceit he was participating in and then, yeah… plenty of blame and anger and guilt for both himself and Joyce
thejeff
And then, after that realization, he kissed Joyce. I mean, I think I kind of get why he did it and he was caught up in a whirlwind of self-realization and emotion, but it was still pretty crappy.
It’s about the least bad form of cheating possible, but it’s still uncool.
I mean, it is correct in that it is a Stock Sitcom plot, and thus must have been funny at some point, right? Joe is within his rights to laugh at it for at least a minute. After that, I think it becomes crass.
Now, to be fair, Joyce is a louse for using underhanded methods to break Jacob and Raidah up rather than just letting the train wreck on its own and being there to pick up the Jacob pieces. Jacob is now also a louse for going along with it rather than being upfront with both of them. I’m not sure how bad Jacob feels about either of these, but something has him down, and he may project his disgust at himself at being a louse onto Joyce, compounding her louseness in his mind.
Joe is a lot more lighthearted and hijinks-friendly with Jacob. I imagine he would legitimately not understand why Jacob was so upset even with full context. He’s just the kind of guy to laugh that off.
I don’t think he is being sarcastic. It’s just on its face that sounds minor or goofy or silly but it doesn’t really encapsulate everything that happened or that Jacob went along with it.
159 thoughts on “Interested”
Ana Chronistic
“the boxing episode”
“…nobody does those anymore”
“getting their driver’s license”
“…I’d watch it”
Doctor_Who
“The hamster or goldfish dies, and the adult needs to find an identical replacement before the kid notices.”
“Classic.”
Baf
“My favorite is the one where someone develops a split personality and then watches her father kill someone and then forgets what she saw when she’s in the other personality but has a nagging feeling of something wrong”
FriskyJacket
I like the musical episodes personally.
Strangeshapes
Ooo, yeah, that was on Law & Order SVU, right? … wait
Makkabee
Law & Order works better if you think of it as a sitcom.
Furie
Fun story. I had that exact thing happen with a kids mom once. You helped me grab another from that alternate universe.
Michelle J. Caboose
What about the one where the spouse/fiancee loses their ring and tries to hide the fact until they can replace it? Or they lose the OTHER person’s ring, etc.
Honestly, I hate sitcoms.
Dara
I like the one where they help the French Resistance blow up a train trestle while the local German commander is convinced he’s going to the Russian Front if they can’t shift the blame for the security lapse to someone else. The moral of the story is “Nazis are stupid and a determined multiethnic coalition will always defeat them” and I think that’s a good moral in these trying times.
Needfuldoer
That’s pretty much every episode of Hogan’s Heroes.
He Who Abides
I see nozing, I know nozing. NOZING!
Stephen Bierce
Bottle episode!
Lingo
Yep I love those Earth-in-a-bottle hijinks!
Proto
“Hey, you know this is like a bottle episode!”
“Please shut up Joe”
Clif
“Bravely” refusing to look up bottle episode on TV Tropes.
Needfuldoer
Save you the trip:
A bottle episode is an episode that only uses main characters and existing sets. they can be for diving deeper into the characters, but are usually filler to replace scrapped episodes or pad out a season on a budget.
Chris Phoenix
And if they do that, but also shuffle the relationship status of one or more characters, they call that “spin the bottle.”
… No they don’t. Probably. I just made that up. But maybe they do anyway.
Kyrros
Not a half-bad idea. Definitely submit that for ‘Trope-age’
MutantSentry
Moving outside of Sitcoms, an action/drama variant is “base under siege” which is like 80% of Doctor Who episodes.
jonathan young
and there was an episode of Supergirl this week that was called “The Bottle Episode” and it used main characters but there were multiple instances of one character so they figured a way to wiggle out of the Bottle slightly but without violating the rules 😀 also there is a literal bottle but …spoilers
Twirls
Incidentally, I think this episode/chapter may be the opposite of a bottle episode
Tacos
What about the one where they travel to an alternate timeline where everybody is the opposite of what they normally are? Good guys are evil. Bad guys are good. Vegemite is a delicious snack.
Cattleprod
I’m still weirded out that the McAwesome’s characters just exist as normal people in DoA.
DrWattson
I mean, they were normal people in Shortpacked too. They just worked at a different store. And had eerie parallels with the Shortpacked staff.
King Daniel
Keep in mind, at least one of the McAwesome’s crew rooms on the same floor as Billie in this ‘verse.
Liquid Len
That’s actually true for both dorms…
Meagan
Ooh I like that one. They did that on Charmed and I enjoyed it, though it made little sense
Reltzik
…. that’s not alternate timeline, that’s alternate laws of physics.
Strangeshapes
Yes, Evil Alternate Dimension, where every character has a mustache or goatee!
Fogel
Have you seen Justin Trudeau lately? His been replaced by Alt Universe JT.
jonathan young
did they all have goatees? they have to have goatees if they’re evil
Needfuldoer
The nosy neighbor (or whoever) gets caught up in shenanigans because they got too close to the main character’s secret superpowers. For example, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian…
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Damn near the premise of the show in all three cases, if I recall
ValdVin
In the beforetimes (prior to the internet), Ian Shoales created a small tribute to the Nosy Neighbor sitcom. It’s called I Married a Puppet, and it may be worth looking up.
Clif
There’s the one where a continuing secondary character is killed off. That’s always good for a laugh.
Charlie Spencer
The one where, for some reason or another, the boss has to sleep over and acts like an entitled boor instead of a guest asking a favor.
Sebastian Temples
Attack of the Clones where one of the main character’s becomes two people to do shenanagains in two places at the same time but then, the clone decides to go full evil or jealous and fights the main character.
Emperor Norton II
Sounds like Attack of the Clone meets Superman III.
Bun
It’s adorable how entertained joe is by this. I didn’t want to ship it initially but oh my god.
Nono
Joe/Jacob, you say?
Amber is intensifying.
woobie
Because Joyce/ Jacob Baby sounds really really like a Three’s Company episode.
Lux
Is Joe being sarcastic in panel 5? I’m bad at sarcasm so I genuinely can’t tell. I think he’s being sarcastic in panel 7 though?
Lux
bad at *detecting* sarcasm
Robbie
Those don’t look like sarcasm eyes in panel 5.
Nono
I think Joe doesn’t get the gravity of it, or he doesn’t get the full grasp.
Also notice how Jacob hasn’t said anything about how he also went along with the charade.
Charles Phipps
I think Joe gets the gravity of it, he just thinks that lying about being your boyfriend is a different magnitude than being a liar about adultery or why he cut his father out.
Jacob’s actions are unforgiving and punishing.
AeromechanicalAce
Eh, That one’s a matter of opinion. While i think it’s valid to say what Joyce did isn’t THAT bad in the grand scheme of things, All Jacob has really DONE so far is not start a rebound relationship with her, because he feels like starting on that note of dishonesty is a bad idea.
Now, If he starts being a dick to Joyce or Ghosts her completely over the issue, that’d be going too far, but it’s too soon to tell on that one.
RacingTurtle
I agree. Jacob has the right to be upset the morning after the stuff with Joyce and Harrison happened. It’s what he does over the next few days that will really show what kind of person he is when a friend screws up. (I don’t think he’s obligated to continue the friendship or even talk to Joyce ever again, save for basic politeness. He is obligated not to be a total jerk or go out of his way to punish her. I don’t think he’ll go that route, but only time will tell.)
miri
A) He went along with the deception. B) When she offered to come clean he told her not to. C) He snogged her before telling her there was no way it would be happening.
He wasn’t exactly completely innocent in it all.
jonathan young
Miri has hit the nail upon the proverbial head
BBCC
Turns out, nobody’s obligated to be forgiving.
BBCC
That said, considering Jacob was more than happy to go along with it and THEN called her on it? Yeah, that was definitely a dick move. Maybe if he didn’t wanna break up with Raidah he should’ve told her to back off earlier. Maybe if he wanted to be with Joyce, he should’ve excused himself and broke up with Raidah.
RacingTurtle
Yeah, I bet that part of the reason he’s in such a pissy mood is because he’s displeased with himself, too.
Poofdepoof
Ooh good call Racing Turtle! Being wrong is so much more upsetting than being right
Johan
Kissed her then got upset btw. But the dude is 18 max.
King Daniel
He could be 19 – Dorothy and Dina both are, off the top of my head. (Sarah and Ruth being 20 doesn’t count, as they’re both in their second year.)
BBCC
Yep, yes he did.
And I don’t hate him or Joyce, and yeah, the whole point is them developing. Doesn’t mean it’s not crappy or annoying in the mean time 😛
Geneseepaws
Ahahahaha, haha, … (cough). I thought you meant; On a scale of points from 3 to 20, Jacob is an 18. I’m thinking, “Yeah, no, 16 or 17, maximum. Cause of the Riyadh thing, then farther down I’m thinking, “ …WTF, oh, they mean AGE!” Yeah. Too much D&D.
Geneseepaws
Scale of 3 to 18, with 18 being perfect, optional bonus of 1 or 2 points for charisma if having 18=Beauty and 18=Intellegence.
Rahdream
He wasnt exactly “more than happy” to go along with it. He seemed pretty confused and rolling with it because he wasnt sure what to do (and definitely LIKES/LIKED Joyce so it was kind of a thrill to play along). He seemed to enjoy MOMENTS of it, which I think made him REALIZE he likes/liked Joyce. But then seeing Raidah when they got back snapped him to reality and he realized how much deceit he was participating in and then, yeah… plenty of blame and anger and guilt for both himself and Joyce
thejeff
And then, after that realization, he kissed Joyce. I mean, I think I kind of get why he did it and he was caught up in a whirlwind of self-realization and emotion, but it was still pretty crappy.
It’s about the least bad form of cheating possible, but it’s still uncool.
Freezer
I think that’s Joe being genuinely taken off guard by the reason for Jacob’s acrimony.
Really, when a black belt in “Find ‘Em, F**k ‘Em and Flee” finds your reason for fleeing ridiculous, you should really do some introspection.
Norah
Joe’s reasons for fleeing are different than Jacob’s, though. Joe doesn’t flee because of anything the woman did.
Nono
Reminds me of when Dorothy reacted to Joyce about her lying about the boyfriend thing.
‘Oh! Well… that’s not great, but I expected it to be worse.’
JetstreamGW
No. He’s serious. He didn’t know what went down and he thinks that the situation, as presented, sounds silly.
… Cuz it kinda is.
Kat
I mean, it is correct in that it is a Stock Sitcom plot, and thus must have been funny at some point, right? Joe is within his rights to laugh at it for at least a minute. After that, I think it becomes crass.
Now, to be fair, Joyce is a louse for using underhanded methods to break Jacob and Raidah up rather than just letting the train wreck on its own and being there to pick up the Jacob pieces. Jacob is now also a louse for going along with it rather than being upfront with both of them. I’m not sure how bad Jacob feels about either of these, but something has him down, and he may project his disgust at himself at being a louse onto Joyce, compounding her louseness in his mind.
And Roger Smith is always a Louse.
Lux
oh, ok! Thanks!
Madock345
Joe is a lot more lighthearted and hijinks-friendly with Jacob. I imagine he would legitimately not understand why Jacob was so upset even with full context. He’s just the kind of guy to laugh that off.
Sam
I don’t think he is being sarcastic. It’s just on its face that sounds minor or goofy or silly but it doesn’t really encapsulate everything that happened or that Jacob went along with it.
Corey
Beach episode.
Wait no thats anime nvm
Stephen Bierce
Yeah, that one tends to make a series “jump the shark.”
JessWitt
Lake episode. And that was seasons ago.
Sunny