Maybe a Skeeball competition can lighten that up, but seriously, I hope at least that really helps
anon
at first i was wondering ‘what kinda karaoke place’ has skeeball but then again the last time i went on a platonic bowling date with a friend it was within some kinda arcade? that did have games and a karaoke room lol
Psychie
My question is, where in *Bloomington* can you get Karaoke and Skeeball at the same place? I know of like three places that have Karaoke and last I checked none of them had Skeeball. Granted, I haven’t looked into Karaoke since before the plague, and there are plenty of explicitly fictional establishments in this comic so it could easily be a fictional establishment that they are going to, but now I wanna go somewhere with Karaoke and Skeeball and if I find out that whatever place this is going to happen at doesn’t actually exist or otherwise have a real world counterpart here in Bloomington, I will be disappointed. I’ll understand, but I’ll be disappointed about it.
Eh idk Dorothy tried to get back with him but he didn’t because he’s loyal to Lucy. But Lucy just dumped him. So maybe he and Dorothy will get drunk and boink
I must confess that that never in my life have I skeeballed. Is it something worth adding to my bucket list?
Needfuldoer
Yes. Skeeball is fun.
Just try to find a local place that has it, so you don’t have to go to Mechanical Rat Pizza and Child Casino.
clif
Dang. That’s the only place I know that has it. I guess maybe some of these pop up carnivals might have it, but the only other place I’ve seen it was attached to a miniature golf course, and I don’t think I’ve seen a local miniature golf course since the turn of the century. Oh wait. I think the Six Flags over Texas opposite from the Astrodome had one, but I think the six flags was gone before the mini-golf.
Needfuldoer
Check your local dying mall for a corny arcade, they might have skeeball behind the giant phone games.
Yumi
Not a Dave & Buster’s near you? Sometimes random places will just have skeeball in a small arcade part that’s not what most of the establishment is, but those are harder to track down.
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm or a genuine question, but it’s an old arcade game… Think like bowling but there’s a ramp you have to slide the ball along and then get it into holes like a dart board sort of. I am explaining this terribly lol
Decidedly Orthogonal
You basically nailed it.
Or curling, but it’s sloped up with a jump at the end, and you roll a ball into the target’s cornholes.
I would have compared it to cornhole, but you roll smaller croquet balls instead of tossing bean bags, and there are several holes to aim for, each hole worth different points should you get the ball in it.
Tougher than you’d expect at first
It’s an arcade game that’s kinda like bowling, except instead of pins you’re aiming for a set of rings at the end with varying point values based on difficulty.
True Survivor
Ohhh, I know those things. I didn’t know that was what they were called. Thank you guys for taking the time to answer my question.
brionl
It’s a primitive version of Beer Pong.
Decidedly Orthogonal
* Mechanized version
Without beer either
Weatherheight
::Stares in awe::
Okay, now I have to try Drunken Skeeball…
Hoboturtle
How would that work?
Maybe you would you fill the cop based on the total point amount and keep track of whiffed throws.
Or just play normal Skeeball while drinking and assign an amount to drink based on the holes you get the balls into. Anything can be turned into a drinking game.
Jennifer is at karaoke to cheer up Dorothy, who kinda-sorta-not-really made a pass at Walky very recently. He rebuffed her on grounds that he was in a relationship with which he was happy.
Now that’s (probably) not the case. Presumably Walky wouldn’t immediately pick back up with Dorothy, but Sal is planning on sneaking in alcohol.
Schpoonman
I think of two things when skeeball is mentioned: Deadpool throwing it overhand into the high score pockets (was there no cage? There usually is when I’ve seen it), and misheard lyrics to I Can See All.
I feel like Deadpool would be more than happy to throw hard enough to have the ball go THRU the cage, or more than happy to just pull the cage part off first.
I mean, he’s not necessarily super-strong, but I suspect he could manage. It’s only a Skeeball cage.
Schpoonman
I should specify I’m talking about the recent Ryan Reynolds movie. Seeing that in a comic would be pretty excellent.
“Sir, you can’t pry that of–”
“Back up, Paul Blart, I’m practicing my overhand. I dropped $500 repairing the holes I made last time, not doing that again.”
Also I got some vague flashbacks of a Rugrats episode where Angelica is sticking the ball directly in a high score pocket, but that’s it.
In the event that a meeting occurs (obviously uncomfortable), karaoke is the possible relief that Dorohty needs and it is possible that at least Walky realizes that Dorothy really has a problem, I’m not saying they should come back (although I would like to), but talk a little and that at least there is no hate involved and finally the boy sees that the blonde is a normal girl who just wanted his help, yes, Dorothy was wrong to say that she missed him knowing that he was with Lucy, but let’s remember who still sees “perfection and organization” as the symbol of the blonde and although it was not intentional on her part, telling her that she will be fine the next day with the problems she currently has, that gave Walky a very negative look.
Schpoonman
I’m mostly worried about how alcohol is going to tie this into a pretzel.
+His part, of walky, I see my grammar misake, sorry.
anon
i feel like even if jen can’t see, an ex ‘alcoholic’ would prolly be able to smell it within like 3 feet, unless walky’s not showered for like 4 days himself lol but yeah i can imagine them both ending up in a drunken makeout
It’s that arcade game were you roll a ball down an alley, it jumps off a ramp at the end, and (hopefully) lands in one of the ring-shaped targets at the other end. You get more points for sinking the more difficult targets. It’s more engaging than it looks.
The local arcade I always went to had a row of this exact machine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skee-Ball I’ts a hundred-year-old arcade game from the pre-electronic era. (Yes, kids, there really was a pre-electronic era.)
Mark
Also, if you score well the machine spits out paper tickets sorta related to your score. When you have a million or so tickets you can trade them for a prize that makes you think, “this is a prize?”
It used to be a standing joke that everyone has sheaves of unredeemed tickets from Skee-Ball. I have some, somewhere.
Needfuldoer
I still have un-redeemed tickets from the now-closed arcade I mentioned earlier. Saved for a “next time” that never happened.
Somewhere around here, I think I have some Hersheypark arcade tickets from over 20 years ago. Do they still even use tickets?
His catchphrase in the OG universe. Because he’s quirky.
Golden Yak
That’s a real blast from the past.
RassilonTDavros
It specifically originated from a typo Willis once made in an IRC chat, where they tried to type “Woohoo!” but their right hand was one key to the left of where it should’ve been.
khn0
Thanks for the explanation, I was thinking it was a widely recognized onomatopoeia for the last 15 years… I’m lucky I didn’t tried to insert it in conversations…
Mark
Hey, I use it IRL when I am feeling particularly silly and/or mysterious.
StClair
All these years reading, and I never knew the actual origin.
Rose by Any Other Name
Same.
I just assumed it was random weirdness. Now, knowing that it ‘translates’ to woohoo, it’s usage makes more sense.
Decidedly Orthogonal
And their left hand typed s and ¿k? instead of w? And they hit e four times with their left instead of o with their right?
That’s a lot to pin on missing the home row with one hand…
Sarah Lea
I think it’s that the right hand hit i instead of o, and g instead of h, while the left hand accurately hit w.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Ah. ??♂️ wiigii => woohoo. Gotcha. Running a little slow these days.
morleuca
It’s like in the olden days when we had to type “catalog” in to see what was on the floppy disk we were looking at on our Apple II . People misspelled it “catakig” enough for it to become what we called a joke back then. but in the modern times I guess you would call it a meme.
Laura
Oh, wow, THAT’S a blast from the past, too! I remember that!
Carla's #2 Fan
Thank you for the explanation! I did not see it being a mistake coming!
Dave
It’s also a direct callback to the iconic guest week WALKY GOES NUCKING FUTS II, hence the acknowledgement that this bit from the Walkyverse got referenced before WIIGII did.
Now I’m trying to come up with a joke about Walky in Johnny Maxwell’s place in the novel Only You Can Save Mankind, because the aliens in that are called ScreeWee, but everything I come up with seems over elaborate and contrived.
Good for Sal for still thinkin’ logically with this & also offering to bring her brother out for a fun time to help ease his mind a bit.
Love when their Brother/Sister Dynamic comes out.
Well, we are in the prologue of Walky’s character development, but at least this little dynamism can grow a little more so that his brotherhood with Sal becomes stronger.
202 thoughts on “The meeting”
Poskie
That sounds like a genuinely great time, is the thing. Who doesn’t love skee ball?
Archieve
Though could get awkward between Dorothy and Walky.
Coatl
Maybe a Skeeball competition can lighten that up, but seriously, I hope at least that really helps
anon
at first i was wondering ‘what kinda karaoke place’ has skeeball but then again the last time i went on a platonic bowling date with a friend it was within some kinda arcade? that did have games and a karaoke room lol
Psychie
My question is, where in *Bloomington* can you get Karaoke and Skeeball at the same place? I know of like three places that have Karaoke and last I checked none of them had Skeeball. Granted, I haven’t looked into Karaoke since before the plague, and there are plenty of explicitly fictional establishments in this comic so it could easily be a fictional establishment that they are going to, but now I wanna go somewhere with Karaoke and Skeeball and if I find out that whatever place this is going to happen at doesn’t actually exist or otherwise have a real world counterpart here in Bloomington, I will be disappointed. I’ll understand, but I’ll be disappointed about it.
Kim
Gonna be great for Dor’s anxiety with both of her exes crashing the party ✨??
Qlx
Eh idk Dorothy tried to get back with him but he didn’t because he’s loyal to Lucy. But Lucy just dumped him. So maybe he and Dorothy will get drunk and boink
Bicycle Bill
Karaoke, alcohol, and skeeball? Sign me up!!
clif
I must confess that that never in my life have I skeeballed. Is it something worth adding to my bucket list?
Needfuldoer
Yes. Skeeball is fun.
Just try to find a local place that has it, so you don’t have to go to Mechanical Rat Pizza and Child Casino.
clif
Dang. That’s the only place I know that has it. I guess maybe some of these pop up carnivals might have it, but the only other place I’ve seen it was attached to a miniature golf course, and I don’t think I’ve seen a local miniature golf course since the turn of the century. Oh wait. I think the Six Flags over Texas opposite from the Astrodome had one, but I think the six flags was gone before the mini-golf.
Needfuldoer
Check your local dying mall for a corny arcade, they might have skeeball behind the giant phone games.
Yumi
Not a Dave & Buster’s near you? Sometimes random places will just have skeeball in a small arcade part that’s not what most of the establishment is, but those are harder to track down.
Makkabee
Skee Ball is the best sport. Endorsed by God herself.
Schpoonman
Oh my sweet salty Christ, no.
True Survivor
What’s wrong with skeeball? Also, what is skeeball?
Jo_cubstar
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm or a genuine question, but it’s an old arcade game… Think like bowling but there’s a ramp you have to slide the ball along and then get it into holes like a dart board sort of. I am explaining this terribly lol
Decidedly Orthogonal
You basically nailed it.
Or curling, but it’s sloped up with a jump at the end, and you roll a ball into the target’s cornholes.
Steven York
Curling with a jump at the end would be AWESOME!
Weatherheight
I would have compared it to cornhole, but you roll smaller croquet balls instead of tossing bean bags, and there are several holes to aim for, each hole worth different points should you get the ball in it.
Tougher than you’d expect at first
RassilonTDavros
It’s an arcade game that’s kinda like bowling, except instead of pins you’re aiming for a set of rings at the end with varying point values based on difficulty.
True Survivor
Ohhh, I know those things. I didn’t know that was what they were called. Thank you guys for taking the time to answer my question.
brionl
It’s a primitive version of Beer Pong.
Decidedly Orthogonal
* Mechanized version
Without beer either
Weatherheight
::Stares in awe::
Okay, now I have to try Drunken Skeeball…
Hoboturtle
How would that work?
Maybe you would you fill the cop based on the total point amount and keep track of whiffed throws.
Stanistani
All cups are bustards.
Psychie
Or just play normal Skeeball while drinking and assign an amount to drink based on the holes you get the balls into. Anything can be turned into a drinking game.
Schpoonman
Jennifer is at karaoke to cheer up Dorothy, who kinda-sorta-not-really made a pass at Walky very recently. He rebuffed her on grounds that he was in a relationship with which he was happy.
Now that’s (probably) not the case. Presumably Walky wouldn’t immediately pick back up with Dorothy, but Sal is planning on sneaking in alcohol.
Schpoonman
I think of two things when skeeball is mentioned: Deadpool throwing it overhand into the high score pockets (was there no cage? There usually is when I’ve seen it), and misheard lyrics to I Can See All.
Loki
I feel like Deadpool would be more than happy to throw hard enough to have the ball go THRU the cage, or more than happy to just pull the cage part off first.
I mean, he’s not necessarily super-strong, but I suspect he could manage. It’s only a Skeeball cage.
Schpoonman
I should specify I’m talking about the recent Ryan Reynolds movie. Seeing that in a comic would be pretty excellent.
“Sir, you can’t pry that of–”
“Back up, Paul Blart, I’m practicing my overhand. I dropped $500 repairing the holes I made last time, not doing that again.”
Also I got some vague flashbacks of a Rugrats episode where Angelica is sticking the ball directly in a high score pocket, but that’s it.
Coatl
In the event that a meeting occurs (obviously uncomfortable), karaoke is the possible relief that Dorohty needs and it is possible that at least Walky realizes that Dorothy really has a problem, I’m not saying they should come back (although I would like to), but talk a little and that at least there is no hate involved and finally the boy sees that the blonde is a normal girl who just wanted his help, yes, Dorothy was wrong to say that she missed him knowing that he was with Lucy, but let’s remember who still sees “perfection and organization” as the symbol of the blonde and although it was not intentional on her part, telling her that she will be fine the next day with the problems she currently has, that gave Walky a very negative look.
Schpoonman
I’m mostly worried about how alcohol is going to tie this into a pretzel.
Coatl
+His part, of walky, I see my grammar misake, sorry.
anon
i feel like even if jen can’t see, an ex ‘alcoholic’ would prolly be able to smell it within like 3 feet, unless walky’s not showered for like 4 days himself lol but yeah i can imagine them both ending up in a drunken makeout
Needfuldoer
It’s that arcade game were you roll a ball down an alley, it jumps off a ramp at the end, and (hopefully) lands in one of the ring-shaped targets at the other end. You get more points for sinking the more difficult targets. It’s more engaging than it looks.
The local arcade I always went to had a row of this exact machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpOxfhkhcAs
(I miss that place.)
Mark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skee-Ball I’ts a hundred-year-old arcade game from the pre-electronic era. (Yes, kids, there really was a pre-electronic era.)
Mark
Also, if you score well the machine spits out paper tickets sorta related to your score. When you have a million or so tickets you can trade them for a prize that makes you think, “this is a prize?”
It used to be a standing joke that everyone has sheaves of unredeemed tickets from Skee-Ball. I have some, somewhere.
Needfuldoer
I still have un-redeemed tickets from the now-closed arcade I mentioned earlier. Saved for a “next time” that never happened.
Somewhere around here, I think I have some Hersheypark arcade tickets from over 20 years ago. Do they still even use tickets?
M!a
Also the preferred pastime of God, as I recall.
NGPZ
Whacha talkin about?
Skee Ball and Karaoke sound EPIC!!! ??
*plays “Shred” from Friday Night Funkin’ Vs Sunday on hacked muzak*
All-Purpose Guru
Wait, you can get Christ in sweet AND salty? I gotta look at the menu more closely.
Greg
DoA Walky says “skeegee”
Laura
Can anyone help explain the alt-text?
Thank you!
Doctor_Who
His catchphrase in the OG universe. Because he’s quirky.
Golden Yak
That’s a real blast from the past.
RassilonTDavros
It specifically originated from a typo Willis once made in an IRC chat, where they tried to type “Woohoo!” but their right hand was one key to the left of where it should’ve been.
khn0
Thanks for the explanation, I was thinking it was a widely recognized onomatopoeia for the last 15 years… I’m lucky I didn’t tried to insert it in conversations…
Mark
Hey, I use it IRL when I am feeling particularly silly and/or mysterious.
StClair
All these years reading, and I never knew the actual origin.
Rose by Any Other Name
Same.
I just assumed it was random weirdness. Now, knowing that it ‘translates’ to woohoo, it’s usage makes more sense.
Decidedly Orthogonal
And their left hand typed s and ¿k? instead of w? And they hit e four times with their left instead of o with their right?
That’s a lot to pin on missing the home row with one hand…
Sarah Lea
I think it’s that the right hand hit i instead of o, and g instead of h, while the left hand accurately hit w.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Ah. ??♂️ wiigii => woohoo. Gotcha. Running a little slow these days.
morleuca
It’s like in the olden days when we had to type “catalog” in to see what was on the floppy disk we were looking at on our Apple II . People misspelled it “catakig” enough for it to become what we called a joke back then. but in the modern times I guess you would call it a meme.
Laura
Oh, wow, THAT’S a blast from the past, too! I remember that!
Carla's #2 Fan
Thank you for the explanation! I did not see it being a mistake coming!
Dave
It’s also a direct callback to the iconic guest week WALKY GOES NUCKING FUTS II, hence the acknowledgement that this bit from the Walkyverse got referenced before WIIGII did.
Laura
Oh, cool! Thanks for the link!
Taffy
Wally used to say a nonsense word in the older comics, for reasons unknown to me.
a/snow/mous/e
typo of “woohoo”
Decidedly Orthogonal
Was this on a Dvorak or romulan keyboard or something?
clif
Much more confusing. It was a timeline where they maintained the Qwerty keyboard that was specifically designed to slow the typist down.
Laura
Huh. OK, thanks!
Francoinblanco
I though its mean Walky main Waluigi in mario kart
clif
But see https://weegeepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Wiigii
Daibhid C
Now I’m trying to come up with a joke about Walky in Johnny Maxwell’s place in the novel Only You Can Save Mankind, because the aliens in that are called ScreeWee, but everything I come up with seems over elaborate and contrived.
Panhardt
Skeeball makes everything better
Jeff
Awesome, to see them bonding!
Freemage
Seriously! Sal’s, “Yeah. Ah do,” said as much as several dense talky-talk panels could’ve covered.
VolticEXE
Good for Sal for still thinkin’ logically with this & also offering to bring her brother out for a fun time to help ease his mind a bit.
Love when their Brother/Sister Dynamic comes out.
Coatl
Well, we are in the prologue of Walky’s character development, but at least this little dynamism can grow a little more so that his brotherhood with Sal becomes stronger.
Mr. Random