Yeah, but isn’t it a song about cheating on each other with each other? Like they’re cheating on their resolve to be on break?
MoadDib
No, it’s about a couple that is feeling unsatisfied in their current relationship and they both decide to use personal ads in the paper to cheat. They find someone that sounds perfect for them and arrange a time & place to meet up and run away, but in the end it turns out that the person that they found was actually each other.
Depending on how you look at it, it can either be a terrible song about two people that both wanted to cheat and only blind luck ended up with it still being each other, or it can be a song about learning to be more open about your wants and desires because your partner might just end up being totally open to them allowing you both to have a more fulfilling relationship.
Regardless of the moral though, the story itself is still pretty skeevy when you break it down.
cbwroses
Like I said, it was about cheating on each other with each other. I didn’t say it was on purpose that the person they tried to cheat with was their significant other.
Don’t be confused by the “cheating on their resolve” part. I was trying to relate the song to the comic with that, not saying that in itself was part of the song.
Huh. A pudding cup and a pickle…maybe I’m overthinking this, but was Joyce (or perhaps Willis) sending Dorothy subliminal messages?
Once can argue that the pudding and the pickle are allegories for genitals. And Joyce even removed the seeds from the pickle and separated them in a Baggie, thus promoting safe sex.
Not as creepy as “I’ll Be Watching You,” but yes. Both definitely creepy.
I never understood when it came out, and I still don’t understand now, how anyone could listen to “I’ll Be Watching You” without thinking, “Oh, this is a song from the POV of a really sick stalker.”
Yumi
It’s also so creepy.
When I was younger, I genuinely thought the Police only did songs about illegal things. As some sort of irony or whatever.
Yeah, Sting was a schoolteacher before becoming a rock god, and had to deal with Schoolgirl crushes and stalkers before finding a job with better workplace security.
Benjamin
Sting actually meant it that way! As Wikipedia on the song says about him:
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. “One couple told me ‘Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!’ I thought, ‘Well, good luck.'” When asked why he appears angry in the music video, Sting told BBC Radio 2, “I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it’s quite the opposite.”
cbwroses
Dude should have chose a different melody then. Chip n Dale’s Rescue Rangers theme song has a more sinister melody.
Yumi
I think mixing those lyrics with the melody is kind of the point. It speaks to how we romanticize this kind of unhealthy obsession.
CJ
Several artist like to mismatch lyrics and song-energy:
Susan Vega really likes to mix snappy, feel-goof melodies with creepy lyrics. Ever really listened to Luka? (Or the Queen and the soldier)?
Or think abou Fee Fi Fo from the Cranberries.
Yumi
Well, Luka isn’t creepy, it’s sad an heartbreaking. And I love it because I’m addicted to emotional pain.
StClair
Yeah, I was really into “Luka” for about a week before I actually listened to the lyrics, and creeped myself right out the door.
194 thoughts on “Packed”
Ana Chronistic
love in an elevator
livin’ it up while we’re goin’… out?
(or staying in, I guess)
Ana Chronistic
it’s a magical world
as long as something under the bed isn’t drooling
Sambo
And you don’t get attacked by deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.
I was wondering if the reference was intentional; happy to have confirmation
Ana Chronistic
Yukon ho!
Needfuldoer
Academic progress goes ‘boink’.
Moose
I was going to correct that to scientific progress, but considering the nature of DoA, that could work, too.
I Had A Name, Once
THIS WAS THE PERFECT ONE
Deanatay
That IS a pretty good description of what’s happening to Dorothy’s study focus.
Charlie Spencer
It’s a magical world, Walky ol buddy. Let’s go exploring!
PB
Hang on, my childhood got in my eyes.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Something something next Slipshine something.
Sorry, too tired for coherent ludery.
David DeLaney
… lubery, or lewdery?
–Dave, por que no los dos, actualmente?
JA
And this is why you don’t walk barefoot in a campus elevator.
Or any elevator for that matter.
Doctor_Who
And then Faz falls from the ceiling.
Arawn
and then he disappears in a smoke of puff. I think Walky and Dorothy would be unFazed by it.
AnvilPro
Suddenly Faz falls from the ceiling
Doctor_Who
*Nelson laugh*
Emperor Norton II
Now now, be gracious in victory; and remember that thou too hast tasted the sting of defeat in the battle of making the witty joke first…
…Who am I kidding, let’s all do the Nelson laugh!
Doctor_Who
*Polite Nelson chuckle*
Opus the Poet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA
Nelson laugh.
Some1
Walky: Holy shit!
Dorothy: Oh god, there’s blood everywhere! Walky call 911. That was like a 20 foot drop!
Walky: How did he even get up there?
Some1
only now realizing they’re in the elevator in that final panel…
Kernanator
That elevated quickly.
Pink Freud
Yeah but I think someone’s about to get a lift.
adjudicus
They seem to like stairing into each other’s eyes
cbwroses
Of course they do. It raises their spirits.
Remmington Steele
Nope, he’s going down.
Roborat
If the Slipshine is any indicator, it will be Dorothy going down.
syd
C&H reference secured.
Chris Phoenix
Sweet!
Nicster216
Elevator like “I got you bro”
Deanatay
Wing-evator.
Inara
well, her to-do list *was* all things starting with an “F”…
Koms
It had only Walky
Jamie
So, we’re talking about Walky’s grades, right?
Passchendaele
I wonder what the next person to use that elevator will see. 😛
N0083rp00F
Szechuan sauce
….. everywhere …!!!!!!!111!!!oneone!!!!11!!elevensies!!!
Nicster216
Oh but poor Walky tho he be more than happy to be back in a relationship with Dorothy but doesn’t want her to do bad in class either
Keulen
Did you just reference Calvin and Hobbes? *checks alt text* Yes you did.
tbf
<3
Dark
Wait, which part?
Woof
“My days are just packed.”
Deanatay
And, of course, the alt-text.
Yumi
*me, chanting in a way that sounds distant but is still clearly heard within the elevator*: Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!…
adjudicus
To the tune of the Pina Colada song
Needfuldoer
It’s a song about cheating!
cbwroses
Yeah, but isn’t it a song about cheating on each other with each other? Like they’re cheating on their resolve to be on break?
MoadDib
No, it’s about a couple that is feeling unsatisfied in their current relationship and they both decide to use personal ads in the paper to cheat. They find someone that sounds perfect for them and arrange a time & place to meet up and run away, but in the end it turns out that the person that they found was actually each other.
Depending on how you look at it, it can either be a terrible song about two people that both wanted to cheat and only blind luck ended up with it still being each other, or it can be a song about learning to be more open about your wants and desires because your partner might just end up being totally open to them allowing you both to have a more fulfilling relationship.
Regardless of the moral though, the story itself is still pretty skeevy when you break it down.
cbwroses
Like I said, it was about cheating on each other with each other. I didn’t say it was on purpose that the person they tried to cheat with was their significant other.
Don’t be confused by the “cheating on their resolve” part. I was trying to relate the song to the comic with that, not saying that in itself was part of the song.
@zombieundergrnd
Is this the part where the demonic entity kills them in the elevator?
Or am I watching the wrong movie?
Dana
Wrong movie? Probably not. Relevant movie? Same.
StClair
if by “demonic entity” you mean “Faz”…
Cholma
Time for a caramel treat break!
cbwroses
You mean a tootsie roll?
Deanatay
Someone’s gonna get rolled.
Precious Roy
The Calvin & Hobbes feels :3
Keulen
Even the elevator wants them to get back together.
Vinny
Woman doth not live by pudding alone. Or pudding & a pickle.
cbwroses
Huh. A pudding cup and a pickle…maybe I’m overthinking this, but was Joyce (or perhaps Willis) sending Dorothy subliminal messages?
Once can argue that the pudding and the pickle are allegories for genitals. And Joyce even removed the seeds from the pickle and separated them in a Baggie, thus promoting safe sex.
Marsh Maryrose
Don’t stand
Don’t stand so
Don’t stand so close to me
s/Don’t/Do/g
Yumi
A very creepy song
Marsh Maryrose
Not as creepy as “I’ll Be Watching You,” but yes. Both definitely creepy.
I never understood when it came out, and I still don’t understand now, how anyone could listen to “I’ll Be Watching You” without thinking, “Oh, this is a song from the POV of a really sick stalker.”
Yumi
It’s also so creepy.
When I was younger, I genuinely thought the Police only did songs about illegal things. As some sort of irony or whatever.
Opus the Poet
Yeah, Sting was a schoolteacher before becoming a rock god, and had to deal with Schoolgirl crushes and stalkers before finding a job with better workplace security.
Benjamin
Sting actually meant it that way! As Wikipedia on the song says about him:
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. “One couple told me ‘Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!’ I thought, ‘Well, good luck.'” When asked why he appears angry in the music video, Sting told BBC Radio 2, “I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it’s quite the opposite.”
cbwroses
Dude should have chose a different melody then. Chip n Dale’s Rescue Rangers theme song has a more sinister melody.
Yumi
I think mixing those lyrics with the melody is kind of the point. It speaks to how we romanticize this kind of unhealthy obsession.
CJ
Several artist like to mismatch lyrics and song-energy:
Susan Vega really likes to mix snappy, feel-goof melodies with creepy lyrics. Ever really listened to Luka? (Or the Queen and the soldier)?
Or think abou Fee Fi Fo from the Cranberries.
Yumi
Well, Luka isn’t creepy, it’s sad an heartbreaking. And I love it because I’m addicted to emotional pain.
StClair
Yeah, I was really into “Luka” for about a week before I actually listened to the lyrics, and creeped myself right out the door.