# Because
invitees = friends
# instead of
invitees = [person for person in people if person in friends]
# would also invite all of Joyce’s plush animals.
But I wonder what their resident RA, Ruthie will think of them throwing a dorm party? Or will it be the perfect excuse for her and Billie to hang out without anyone realising they’re a couple? 😉
My opinion of Becky just went up by a lot. That was a really sweet thing do do and she handled Joyce’s anxiety really well. Better than she’s handled a lot of other stuff. Yay Becky.
You know, this might work out pretty well. The people Joyce trusts are also the ones who could know how to help Becky out, and they need to find out about her situation anyway.
Tedd recently acquired ANOTHER way to genderflip. ‘I’ve been given the power to turn myself into a girl?! Wow that’s redundant.’
Really, the only reason Tedd could possibly have been surprised by the reveal they were genderfluid is the fact they didn’t know that such a thing was possible until Grace told them. (Something I’m all-too familiar with, which is why I love Squirrel Prophet.)
Quite true, if I had to switch out the nationality of any of the above three, it’d be to my own accursed one, a stereotype we pursue in irony, as well as self-destructive cases of an ignorance borne from a life without reflection. We’re occasionally level-headed.
(In the US kebab usually means chunks of grilled stuff on a skewer, rather than slices of meat like doner/gyro. Australian : American can make one a bit dizzy because there are so many words used in both, but with different, though related, meanings.)
Oh don’t worry, that’ll change. There’s a new chain of restaurants in Texas called Verts. They’ve been taking off like mad. They do Berlin style Doner Kebap. They expect to go to Illinois in the next year or two, and national over the next decade.
Unless they crash and burn, I imagine people will begin understanding distinctions between Shish and Doner Kebap soon enough.
Elephant leg being slang for the giant cylindrical rotating meat thing with the ever renewing grilled exterior from which they cut slices to make up a DK/gyro? I never heard that expression, but it’s instantly understandable. (You a Pommy, then?)
Sarah may say Dorm Party with her mouth, but what she actually heard was….Shenanigans. Giant, freighter sized piles of Shenanigans. Shenanigans the exact size of Moon….plus Belgium.
As an RA myself, that is certainly a thing. You can just sense when people are causing a lot of trouble and something needs to actually be done about it.
I don’t think even Jesus of the Biblical or Historical varieties can stand toe-to-toe with DMT. That opens up all the doors to dreamscapes & imaginings resembling eldritch monstrosities in your america-stemming political joke comics. And that’s for starters.
I hear the worst part is, only you can see the doors, & you have a very crap time trying to explain any of it to anyone with a dense mind.
Didn’t someone in the dorm have videos of ‘Himmel the Singing Hymnal’? They would of course have to make an appearance, if for no other reason than to let Walky’s secret career as a Churchmouse out of the bag.
Until explicitly stated otherwise I will maintain that Becky, in those desperate few moments when she fled her father and home and school and ended up on a lonely bus to Joyce, managed to save her beloved VHS copy of ‘Himmel the Singing Hymnal and the cute mouse boy*’ and that it will resurface and cause shenanigans at a later time.
*) Even if she was more interested in Chastity Churchmouse…
Well, I think we can rule out Settlers of Catan being played. I’m guessing that would be a trigger for Joyce. But a board game that Joyce associates with her childhood would probably be fine.
I can see it now. Joyce gets talked into Evil Apples, by some miracle the first hand or so is one of the cleaner sets and she’s lulled into a false sense of security, and then she’s slapped with “All hail Satan’s bunghole”. Hilarity ensues.
Yet some of them hang with him. And I want to know if alcohol has the same effect on DoA Mike as on Walky-verse Mike. I hope so. That’s a great Willis-ism.
Has DoA Mike every gotten drunk? He’s pretty young at this point, way below legal age, and lots of kids never taste booze before college. Quite possible that he will react to it as he did in Shortpacked but isn’t aware of it yet.
I never drank in high school. though I did manage to get drunk at a family dinner when I was 12 … and reacquanted myself with that condition pretty early in my freshman year. So, I’d say Mike is an open question? Though it does seem that Ruth and Billie are doing all of the drinking for that whole dorm.
Where I come from those aren’t mutually exclusive. Hanging out was just being casually collocated, not doing much of anything in particular if anything much at all. Some people you liked hanging out with, some not so much or even less, you tolerated them, even as you wondered “why are we hanging out with this #!&@+!%¿?” There was one guy who was a definite duck who sometimes showed & who once casually insulted a female friend,totes over the line; I very nearly punched him in the way so many folks here want to punch Mike. I really had to hold myself back.
Sahra almost lost her scholarship due to her higher that a kite ex-roomies. She’s not big on parties. Maybe also because of having to use a baseball bat at the last one?
So they invite Joyce’s friends: Dorothy, Ethan, Sal, Walky, Dina,Amber. They all have a quiet night watching Monkey Man and playing games. All goes well.
or
‘Dorm party’ leaks. Half the floor shows up. Things get noisy. Ambers dad shows up. Becky’s Dad shows up. Amber mops the floor with her father. Becky’s Dad tries to drag her out. Sarah bops him with a baseball bat. Ruthless arrives and collects all their femurs.
Back when I was in college, whenever there was a dorm party it was usually the R.A.s and building admins who got themselves arrested in the middle of the night. It was a strange time.
No Name; Rich: well, I left out that he had a lady friend, since that didn’t seem strictly relevant to the fact that he ran a very, slack regime … though maybe it was?
See, Sarah, this is why you need to make friends. Nice, quiet friends who just chill out all weekend doing nothing. So then when your roommate’s best friend secretly takes up residence in your dorm and starts throwing dorm parties, you can spend the weekend with your quiet friends.
What I am saying is you need friends so you can exploit them.
While a Dorm Party sounds awesome (I’ve seen movies 🙂 ), something that comes to mind thanks to all these comments – CRASHERS. Sure, they may only invite those they trust, but what about outsiders trying to join in…
“Hey did you hear? Dorm party this weekend!”
“Who’s throwing it?”
“Joyce Brown.”
“The smiley Bible nut with the sweatervests?”
“…yeah, forget I said anything.”
“Naa man, this is perfect. We either teach her how to throw a REAL party, or hang nearby, help a few people get drunk & see what happens…”
“Hmmm, that girl with Joyce was shouting she was a lesbian. Maybe bring that desperate newspaper girl & see what happens…?”
Are you kidding? You can fit at least a dozen people in a dorm room for a party. That’s pretty comfortable. Mostly standing, admittedly.
And they’ll definitely spill over into Sal and Billy’s room.
That’s without it actually turning into a floor party.
We all know it will end so badly with Becky being removed from the campus…
Still I hope that at least that lesbian newspaper girl will get a piece of Becky ^^
Since five sixths of the panels contain the words ‘dorm party’ I am suspecting that this strip is trying to communicate something to do with a dorm party.
The day I moved into my dorm at the beginning of freshman year, my roommate did this. He walked around campus inviting anybody and everybody he could find to a party in our room that night. (it was only freshmen on campus at that point, we got to move in a couple days early.) I made a face like Sarah. I was NOT ready for this…
It worked out great. For the next four years, I never walked anywhere on campus without seeing someone I knew from that party.
I think the closest they ever got to interaction was when Joe asked Joyce out and pushed Danny towards Sarah. There’s a preview image of Danny walking into the room with everyone there, so presumably he’s also coming to this party.
Does anyone else thing Danny looks vaguely like the dude who assaulted Joyce? Inviting him might be a bad idea. But then, she’s been around him since then and it doesn’t seem to bother her. Maybe I’m overthinking things.
What happens next should be Becky and Joyce singing “Open up the Gates” from Frozen. Who gets the Elsa role is up to the audience given both conceal but don’t feel.
“And most recently of all, a “Roman Toga Party” was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.”
I think its really cool that in the Becky is the one who is able to create a situation were Joyce can socialize the way she wants to while also feeling safe.
Based on Joyce’s socialization at the last party (“Let’s find people to play board games”), I don’t know why Sarah is so freaked out about the idea of a dorm party hosted by two barely-able-to-function-normally-in-social-settings girls.
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Now Leaving Joyce’s Nightmares
Welcome to Sarah’s
DORM PARTY‽
‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽
DORM PARTY++;
DORM_PARTY();
DORM PARTYYYYYY!!!
*Runs in loaded up with kegs, munchies & other party stuff…*
DEPRESSING_THOUGHTS() throws JoyceException;
BECKY_CATCH(JoyceException sad) { DORM_PARTY() }
DORM_PARTY() throws SarahException;
$> while [“$JOYCE_MOOD” -eq “depressed”] do;
> party –dorm > /dev/dorms/girls/room202;
> done;
(PS Does Joyce have a canonical room number?)
Nah, Willis doesn’t put numbers or floors since people actually live there and that could be troublesome for them
if (NEED_DORM_PARTY) {
DORM_PARTY = DORM_PARTY::DORM_PARTY->new();
DORM_PARTY->DORM_PARTY();
}
Whoops, I forgot to declare the type of the DORM_PARTY variable in my code. It’s DORM_PARTY.
@dorm
def throw_party(people):
invitees = [person for person in people if person in friends]
for invitee in invitees:
invite(invitee)
Ooh, so concise. Pity about the indentation.
# Because
invitees = friends
# instead of
invitees = [person for person in people if person in friends]
# would also invite all of Joyce’s plush animals.
DORM PARTY???????????????????????????????
But I wonder what their resident RA, Ruthie will think of them throwing a dorm party? Or will it be the perfect excuse for her and Billie to hang out without anyone realising they’re a couple? 😉
Yes, a party of the dorm variety.
¡¿DORM PARTY?!
Now all we need is a way to freeze the hallways and it will be an ice rink dorm party!
ICE IS NICE!
I love that movie.
But of course Mary will try to ruin it. But it’s okay Mary it’s probably not toxic.
do̗̞͕̳͑̔ͮ͐ͥr͍̫͓ͬ̓̓m̟̞̩̘̘ ̙̻̩͚̳̯̙̔ͥp̓͗͒͛̃̑̓a͍͍͔̭̳̯̜̒̃͛̆̾͋r͋̔͋͌t͖̜̆̏y̲̱̟
DOM PARTY waitwhat
She was totally indifferent until this very moment wasn’t she?
I sympathize with Sarah on this one.
They’re gonna put SARAH into DIRECT CONTACT with FUN.
It’ll be AWFUL.
or if you wanted to code in python:
import party
party.dormParty()
god I love python
Assuming (as I read below) that the max size for a party is 5 people.
party.dormParty(Joyce’s Dorm, trustedList[]);
dormParty(location, invited[])
{
partyLocation = location;
guest1 = invited[0];
guest2 = invited[1];
guest3 = invited[2];
guest4 = invited[3];
guest5 = invited[4];
if(guest1 == “Mike” || guest2 == “Mike” || guest3 == “Mike” || guest4 == “Mike” || guest5 == “Mike”)
{
System.exit();
}
}
…this is what happens when a programming student checks Dumbing of Age while taking a break from homework…
I HAD FUN ONCE
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IT WAS AWFUL
Sarah is the grumpiest cat in all the land.
My opinion of Becky just went up by a lot. That was a really sweet thing do do and she handled Joyce’s anxiety really well. Better than she’s handled a lot of other stuff. Yay Becky.
PARTY!!!
DORM!!!
PARTY DORM!
MORD TYRAP!!!
MROD TYRAP!!!
Fixed it for you….
MROD YTRAP, fixed that for your fixing it for the other guy
Oi, you two correctioneers, who’s to say our esteemed commenter Doctor_Who wasn’t simply making an anagram rather than reversing it perfectly?
My trap dor?
My tarp rod?
I officially endorse this reverse portmanteau
DROP MARTY!!!
DRY MOP ART!!!
MY RAPT ROD!!!
DOM PAT REE!
“Dry Mop Art!” Would be a great chant. I don’t know what for, but it would be great anyway.
Well “mop art” actually is a thing, confirmed by google image search (> 7900 results).
“Dry mop” of course exists (>77000 results) and even “dry mop art” has 88 results.
My Rapt Rod is the best solo male porn ever made.
One day, Joyce googles “Walky + Dorothy”
“So what is this: Slipshine?”
Click!
“PORN, DOTTY?”
⅄┴ɹ∀Ԁ WɹOp
!!!!!!!
⅄┴ɹ∀Ԁ WɹOp
iiiiiii
I see no way that this can go wrong
Every.thing.is.perfectly.normal.
What could POSSibly go WRONG???
What you said exactly but without being sarcastic!
Well, by the end of the night everyone — even Ruth, who wandered down to see what was going on — could be chanting “TO-GAH! TO-GAH! TO-GAH!”
So who’s going to be John Belushi in this party and will they do their impression of a pimple?
Joe, obviously.
*considers answering*
*changes mind*
You know, this might work out pretty well. The people Joyce trusts are also the ones who could know how to help Becky out, and they need to find out about her situation anyway.
I’m sure it’ll be a Mary time…Merry Time I mean.
Aw, they broke Sarah.
And now…SARAH BREAKS THEM.
In the Joyce’s Dorm Party, Sarah break you.
RUN SARAH RUN!
Is that a Tedd avatar, Plasma? It kinda makes me think of female Tedd.
Yes indeed it is. ^_^
Actually, it’s (spoilers!) recently been confirmed that Tedd is gender-fluid. 😉
(Gah, meant to say that in reference to the info blurb on your Tumblr, sorry! :] )
There can be only one true Tedd! <_<
(Nah, I'm just messin' with ya.)
He has many forms.
Wait, that doesn’t work. He literally has many forms…
But his title isn’t Chief Paper-Pusher! Only Stan has that title! 🙂
The pun police (knight?) demands that you stop this madness.
No exploding hamsters, though. Yet.
Tedd from El Goonish Shive or am I barking up the wrong tree?
yea, Tedd from EGS. He recently acquired a way to turn himself into a girl, and to further girlify/manlify himself from whatever form he starts with.
And here I was thinking of Teddy Lupin…
Tedd recently acquired ANOTHER way to genderflip. ‘I’ve been given the power to turn myself into a girl?! Wow that’s redundant.’
Really, the only reason Tedd could possibly have been surprised by the reveal they were genderfluid is the fact they didn’t know that such a thing was possible until Grace told them. (Something I’m all-too familiar with, which is why I love Squirrel Prophet.)
If you don’t get 100,000 marks to this phone booth in twenty minutes…
*3*
Sarah’s D: face is perfect.
That it is.
So let’s see… Becky, Joyce, Dorothy… Got the guest list.
Oh, and Sarah.
You left off Sal.
And Dina’s probably already there, unnoticed.
Joyce IS Billie’s best college friend. As far as Joyce knows. Billie agreed to it!
So anyway, Billie’s on the guest list. Probably Walky and Ethan, too, if it goes co-ed.
+1
Ethan, Walky.
I could take lessons in avoiding detection just by observing Dina. She’s a natural.
She’s just channeling her inner Solid Snake.
But how could you observe someone who can avoid detection? @_@
Implicitly. You don’t so much observe her as where she is not, thereby narrowing the potential set of where she might be.
I seem to remember an obscure british show giving lessons on how not to be seen.
A grumpy woman nursing a hangover probably wouldn’t be interested anyways.
Dorm Party.
Dorm Party?
Dorm Party.
Sarah is going to poop this party somethin’ fierce
Billie will bring the kegs!
tis a dry campus, cap’tain
Hasn’t stopped her yet
They’ve get it in their own rooms so far. If Mary heard of it there’d be trouble
When has that ever stopped anybody?
Dry as in dry beer, the strong stuff.
Powdered alcohol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
Now that’s what I call DRY!
Yeah, sure it is. Half the strips tagged with Billie or Ruth disprove that, and Sal’s a drinker too even if she usually takes it off campus.
If the party stays dry, it’ll be because people don’t want to make Joyce uncomfortable, not because of campus regs.
Quite true, if I had to switch out the nationality of any of the above three, it’d be to my own accursed one, a stereotype we pursue in irony, as well as self-destructive cases of an ignorance borne from a life without reflection. We’re occasionally level-headed.
I am, of course, quite Irish.
It’s only dry till some of it gets spilt… 😛
So, bring dry alcohol. Not sure why it’s next to impossible to obtain on a dry campus, though.
I visited IU last month and they gave me alcohol on campus, thus I would assume that it is not dry.
“Welcome to IU, here’s your pony keg.”
As in a nice dry white wine? I’ll be in the corner drinking Thunderbird and Kestrel Super.
but how will Joyce solidify her position as Queen of the Drunks if there’s no drunk people to queen over?
Sarah’s world looks like it just ended…
Part dormy!
PARM DOTTY
That sounds like Dorothy made out of Parmesan cheese and I’m just not sure how I feel about that…
I feel a tad hungry about it.
ditto
I feel good about that.
If Dorothy were Swiss cheese, then she’d have godlike power. As Parmesan, Dorothy will be lucky if she can even break a pencil with her mind.
porm darty???
Dart Pormy!
Farty towels
Dorm Party? Sarah’s thinking Doom Party.
Donner party.
Kebabs or People?
(Doner kebab is Turkish & Australian // gyro is Greek & American)
(In the US kebab usually means chunks of grilled stuff on a skewer, rather than slices of meat like doner/gyro. Australian : American can make one a bit dizzy because there are so many words used in both, but with different, though related, meanings.)
Oh don’t worry, that’ll change. There’s a new chain of restaurants in Texas called Verts. They’ve been taking off like mad. They do Berlin style Doner Kebap. They expect to go to Illinois in the next year or two, and national over the next decade.
Unless they crash and burn, I imagine people will begin understanding distinctions between Shish and Doner Kebap soon enough.
Well, Berlin INSPIRED Doner, I mean. I’m sure they’re not doing it like the Berliners do 😛
Berlin is supposed to be a very cool city these days.
Chicago?
in the UK it’s both elephant leg and bits done on a skewer.
Elephant leg being slang for the giant cylindrical rotating meat thing with the ever renewing grilled exterior from which they cut slices to make up a DK/gyro? I never heard that expression, but it’s instantly understandable. (You a Pommy, then?)
Come to the Donner Party! Free popsicles!
Killing cyborg Hitler is fun.
I call the biggest gun :3
NOOO! MY GRADES!! MY BEEYOOOOOOOOTEEFULL GRADES!!!!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!
YESSSS, excellent
What’s the feminine version of a sausagefest called?
I think I’ve heard “clambake” used before
A clam bake.
a clam jam?
I don’t care what the actual term is now, I’m calling it that for ever.
…Taco Tuesday?
But didn’t Becky say it was the weekend?
Yup, it’s currently a Saturday
Taco Taturday
I believe you’d say ‘Taco Caturday’.
Hen Party.
Clam fiesta?
Estrogen fest?
Sarah be like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9-RxHRtR0
Strunk and White Party
The Elements of Catan
Academic Conference
For some reason I forsee Bibleman showings aplenty and rocking out to best music the local AM religious radio station can offer!
Nah uh…Dexter and Monkey master all the way (or possibly church mice to embarass Walky)
‘Dat look of horror.
Dorm party?
.
.
.
.
Dorm party. *nods*
Wonder how many other people realize that this is actually an ‘Animal House’ reference?
First thing I thought of.
PARTY DORM
Sarah may say Dorm Party with her mouth, but what she actually heard was….Shenanigans. Giant, freighter sized piles of Shenanigans. Shenanigans the exact size of Moon….plus Belgium.
Hey, LANGUAGE!
Relax, DoA is a Serious Screenplay… Willis is probably angling for a Rory.
Hey, Farva, what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy [stuff] on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
Wouldn’t that be TGIFridays?
Ruth’s RA sense must be tingling.
Billie made sure of that earlier.
Go Leafs
As an RA myself, that is certainly a thing. You can just sense when people are causing a lot of trouble and something needs to actually be done about it.
“It’s quiet. Too quiet.”
Is it the smell of ethanol? Because if so, the chemistry & biology buildings must drive you nuts.
LABS, not buildings. If the building reeks of alcohol, the ventilators aren’t working and you’d best get out fast.
Sarah : “ooh no no no no NO NO NO NOOOOOOooooo”
If the party is in THEIR dorm, I forsee Ruth having quite a collection of femurs by night’s end!
And as a result we learn that, unlike the rest of the cast, Becky doesn’t need her femurs to live.
That is why you INVITE the RA.
I’m so excited for Dorm Party
Yep, that’s about my reaction the phrase “Dorm Party.”
And that, dear viewers, is the day that Joyce and Becky died.
Best case: Everyone will be high on Jesus.
Worse case: Everyone will be high on the Jesus drug (DMT)*.
*Dimethyltryptamine
I don’t think even Jesus of the Biblical or Historical varieties can stand toe-to-toe with DMT. That opens up all the doors to dreamscapes & imaginings resembling eldritch monstrosities in your america-stemming political joke comics. And that’s for starters.
I hear the worst part is, only you can see the doors, & you have a very crap time trying to explain any of it to anyone with a dense mind.
It would make for one heck of a storyline though.
“This chemical that looks like serotonin was bumping into random receptors in my brain, triggering signals at random and producing hallucinations.”
That’s the simple explanation; the difficulty is probably in getting someone with a head full of DMT to understand that.
Where are these political comics with eldritch monstrosities? I want them in all of my political cartoons from now on.
*busts in*
DORM PARTY!
*slams and smashes open a keg full of beer*
DORM PARTY!
*runs away, hooting and hollering*
Billie?
DooOOORRRMM PPAARRTYYYYYyyyy
*Runs past shouting out loud, starkers…*
Knock knock!
Who’s there?
*kicks the door down*
DORM PARTY, bongoES!
Don’t worry, Sarah, it’ll mostly be board games and singing Christian Hymns.
Personally, I’ll hang for the board games, but go on a root beer run when the Hymns come out.
Didn’t someone in the dorm have videos of ‘Himmel the Singing Hymnal’? They would of course have to make an appearance, if for no other reason than to let Walky’s secret career as a Churchmouse out of the bag.
That was Joyce, and I think she, Dorothy, and Walky collectively burned them
Until explicitly stated otherwise I will maintain that Becky, in those desperate few moments when she fled her father and home and school and ended up on a lonely bus to Joyce, managed to save her beloved VHS copy of ‘Himmel the Singing Hymnal and the cute mouse boy*’ and that it will resurface and cause shenanigans at a later time.
*) Even if she was more interested in Chastity Churchmouse…
I wouldn’t worry too much about a party being thrown by Becky and Joyce.
I mean, her last party Joyce was playing board games.
Joyce was also Queen of the Drunks and loving it. Would you deprive her of her subjects?
They can invite Billie.
I don’t think there will be too many games. Last party she was at, Joyce was playing board games and almost got nailed by Ryan.
Well, I think we can rule out Settlers of Catan being played. I’m guessing that would be a trigger for Joyce. But a board game that Joyce associates with her childhood would probably be fine.
A tragedy, that would be. But, possible.
Settlers of Satan?
We know Joyce owns a copy of Apples to Apples.
Maybe someone will bring Cards Against Humanity too. Think Joyce would have to sit that one out.
I can see it now. Joyce gets talked into Evil Apples, by some miracle the first hand or so is one of the cleaner sets and she’s lulled into a false sense of security, and then she’s slapped with “All hail Satan’s bunghole”. Hilarity ensues.
IIRC, Joyce’s idea of a party was Sprite and Apples to Apples.
Definitely take Sierra Mist off the beverage list. Then again, that should go without saying.
Especially since I think that was the drink that was drugged.
In the words of lana kane. NOOOOOOPE
Your grav seems to be disagreeing with your comment.
Poor Sarah!! There goes your quiet night of studying and ignoring the chatter of your roommate and your new other roommate.
Now you will have to ignore so much more chatter, AND they’ll all be trying to bring you in on it.
INCOHERENT YELLING AND SCREAMING!!!
*Much beer sculling & arm flailing*
So what’s a Joyce party like? 24 hour Dexter and Monkey Master marathon?
Yeah, aren’t you feeling lame in comparison
I would go to that party
I’m not cool enough for a Joyce party. SAL is barely cool enough for a Joyce party.
billy and mike kick the fucking door down each carrying two kegs
yes, in my head joyce is comfortable with mike
No one in this world is “comfortable” with Mike.
Yet some of them hang with him. And I want to know if alcohol has the same effect on DoA Mike as on Walky-verse Mike. I hope so. That’s a great Willis-ism.
Has DoA Mike every gotten drunk? He’s pretty young at this point, way below legal age, and lots of kids never taste booze before college. Quite possible that he will react to it as he did in Shortpacked but isn’t aware of it yet.
I never drank in high school. though I did manage to get drunk at a family dinner when I was 12 … and reacquanted myself with that condition pretty early in my freshman year. So, I’d say Mike is an open question? Though it does seem that Ruth and Billie are doing all of the drinking for that whole dorm.
You’re confusing ‘tolerating’ with ‘hanging out’.
Where I come from those aren’t mutually exclusive. Hanging out was just being casually collocated, not doing much of anything in particular if anything much at all. Some people you liked hanging out with, some not so much or even less, you tolerated them, even as you wondered “why are we hanging out with this #!&@+!%¿?” There was one guy who was a definite duck who sometimes showed & who once casually insulted a female friend,totes over the line; I very nearly punched him in the way so many folks here want to punch Mike. I really had to hold myself back.
Let’s fix that: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/answer-2/
Sarah, get Ruth. You only have this moment. Quickly now, before they get steamrolling & cause a catastrophe involving removed femurs!
That would be a great way to get Becky kicked out.
Dorm party!!!!!
Sahra almost lost her scholarship due to her higher that a kite ex-roomies. She’s not big on parties. Maybe also because of having to use a baseball bat at the last one?
So they invite Joyce’s friends: Dorothy, Ethan, Sal, Walky, Dina,Amber. They all have a quiet night watching Monkey Man and playing games. All goes well.
or
‘Dorm party’ leaks. Half the floor shows up. Things get noisy. Ambers dad shows up. Becky’s Dad shows up. Amber mops the floor with her father. Becky’s Dad tries to drag her out. Sarah bops him with a baseball bat. Ruthless arrives and collects all their femurs.
Huh. I somehow thought the Dumbiverse would last longer than that…
Oh yeah. Amber and Sal recognize each other from the candy store robbery and sets off a mild commotion somewhere in the midst of all this.
they’ve seen each other before, only Amber cares.
And you only need one to start a fight. It takes two to keep it going.
True, but it only takes one to lay a beating on someone who isn’t fighting back.
I’m pretty sure it’s less that Sal doesn’t care and more that Sal doesn’t recognize Amber.
Joyce doesn’t like Amber. And she hasn’t really got along with Dina the last few weeks.
“We need you to keep a low profile.”
“Let’s throw a party!”
“GENIUS.”
Joyce & Becky are masters of subtlety.
This just sarcastically summed up this entire story arc.
Back when I was in college, whenever there was a dorm party it was usually the R.A.s and building admins who got themselves arrested in the middle of the night. It was a strange time.
Our Resident Master was holed up in his apartment drinking. We did what we wanted.
So, basically Ruth but without the periodic death threats? Or the clandestine relationship with a resident?
Ah, but was he a Leafs fan? That’s the important part.
What am I saying? The guy drank alone in his apartment, of course he was a Leafs fan. They have to cope somehow.
No Name; Rich: well, I left out that he had a lady friend, since that didn’t seem strictly relevant to the fact that he ran a very, slack regime … though maybe it was?
See, Sarah, this is why you need to make friends. Nice, quiet friends who just chill out all weekend doing nothing. So then when your roommate’s best friend secretly takes up residence in your dorm and starts throwing dorm parties, you can spend the weekend with your quiet friends.
What I am saying is you need friends so you can exploit them.
She has quiet friends!
Or, friend.
Okay, I guess vibration isn’t that quiet.
She’s friends with Dorothy and Dina. They’re quiet and study.
Am I the only one who can’t see the new strip?
Dorne Party?
While a Dorm Party sounds awesome (I’ve seen movies 🙂 ), something that comes to mind thanks to all these comments – CRASHERS. Sure, they may only invite those they trust, but what about outsiders trying to join in…
…Like maybe some of us for instance… 😛
Between Ruth, Sarah and Amazi-girl I think this party will be a bit better equiped to deal with them than what’s standard.
Okay that’s it, I’m finding a way to break the forth wall!
The wall that’s been keeping you from venturing forth?
“Hey did you hear? Dorm party this weekend!”
“Who’s throwing it?”
“Joyce Brown.”
“The smiley Bible nut with the sweatervests?”
“…yeah, forget I said anything.”
“Naa man, this is perfect. We either teach her how to throw a REAL party, or hang nearby, help a few people get drunk & see what happens…”
“Hmmm, that girl with Joyce was shouting she was a lesbian. Maybe bring that desperate newspaper girl & see what happens…?”
“Wait, isn’t her roommate a bongoy killjoy misanthrope with a bat?”
SARAH HIDE YOUR LIGHT SABER SUPER WELL AND LOCK EVERYTHING IN A TRUNK!
then go see a movie.
Thats how I handled shit
So, sudden thought.
“Hey, girls, you remember that Becky living there is still supposed to be a secret, right ?”
If they keep by that, that’ll severely limits the number of people they can invite.
I’m parsing the 2 last chapters again to confirm, but I recon that beside Sarah, everyone thinks she’s just visiting.
Ah, turns out Walky and Dotty knows
Maybe Mike if he overheard (but they sure as hell ain’t inviting him)
And Ethan. Not explicitly but it wouldn’t be hard for him to connect the dots.
I don’t think people would particularly be paying attention if there happens to be a party thrown while someone is “visiting”.
It’s a party in a dorm room, you can invite like 5 people maximum
Not if you start bringing tables and chair in the corridor 😀
My friends, I feel we’re dealing with an expert.
Eh, forget drinking parties, it’s really nice to do collective dinners sometimes 😀
Are you kidding? You can fit at least a dozen people in a dorm room for a party. That’s pretty comfortable. Mostly standing, admittedly.
And they’ll definitely spill over into Sal and Billy’s room.
That’s without it actually turning into a floor party.
Pretty much everyone who Joyce feels safe around already knows or wouldn’t tell anyway.
Dorm party!!!
Quick, Sarah! Retreat to Jacob’s room!
No,not that Jacob, the other Jacob.
So her underwear drawer?
*Joyce wakes up the next morning*
*Accidentally opens wrong drawer*
*Sarah unfolds herself from inside*
“DO YOU MIND!?! I’M BUSY IN HERE!!!”
We all know it will end so badly with Becky being removed from the campus…
Still I hope that at least that lesbian newspaper girl will get a piece of Becky ^^
Dangit
This… is so fitting for your avatar.
Since five sixths of the panels contain the words ‘dorm party’ I am suspecting that this strip is trying to communicate something to do with a dorm party.
Way to trigger Sarah, fleshlings.
But, but…Dorm Party Megsy. Dorm Party…
Guys! I think they’re gonna have a dorm party!
Dorothy’s room. I’m sure Sierra wouldn’t oppose.
She need to leave.
“You need to party.”
“I need to party?”
“I needed to party!”
WOOOOO
DOOM PARTY
“SOCIAL ACTIVITY?!”
Now, would Ruth object or would she use the party as a distraction to get funky with Billie
¿por que no los dos?
It looks like the perfect set-up to a Disney-style song with a wacky montage of party preparations!
I can already hear the duo in opposition!
♫♪♪ Zip-zip-zip! Buzz-buzz-buzz! Sarah, hide your toys! ♪♪
♪♫ That’s how we set the party up in the wonderful world of Joyce. ♫
*looks into crystal ball* I can see much shenanigans and hi jinx ensuing in the near future!
Joyce: But Ruth, wait! What would Jesus do?
Ruth: This. *flips the snack table and chases Joyce with a whip*
^^ What is going through Sarah’s head right now.
Sara’s face! this just might be her finest moment. she looks so horrified! 8D
Ha.
The day I moved into my dorm at the beginning of freshman year, my roommate did this. He walked around campus inviting anybody and everybody he could find to a party in our room that night. (it was only freshmen on campus at that point, we got to move in a couple days early.) I made a face like Sarah. I was NOT ready for this…
It worked out great. For the next four years, I never walked anywhere on campus without seeing someone I knew from that party.
I’m disappointed in everyone who’s left a comment other than ‘DORM PARTY!’ (including myself now, obviously).
Dab dab dab
“Nice to meet you, Becky. How long are you in town?”
“Uh…”
Sarah has dorm parties all the time, inviting everyone she is comfortable with. But she’s only comfortable with Lil Jacob.
I believe it’s canonical that she owns more than one toy, and is presumably comfortable with them all. Lil Jacob is just the only one we’ve seen.
I think there should be a final panel, with Ruth in her room, using some sort of RA sense and asking “Dorm Party???”
DOOM PARTY!?
DOOM KITTY !!!!
I imagine that Danny is a safe person, has Joyce and Danny ever interacted with each other at all during the comic?
Is this sarcasm? They had a ton of interaction at the beginning of the comic.
God, I just realized I was thinking of the Roomies! canon. I apologize.
I think the closest they ever got to interaction was when Joe asked Joyce out and pushed Danny towards Sarah. There’s a preview image of Danny walking into the room with everyone there, so presumably he’s also coming to this party.
Danny and Joyce also met later, when Amber first confronted Ethan about Joyce. That said, I don’t think they had any real interaction then either.
Joyce covered Danny’s eyes to prevent him from see Sal au natural.
Hey, hey, she had her gloves and panties on.
Right. I forgot about those. That’s probably the most significant interaction between the two.
Danny’s basically the only main character who hasn’t had some major event with Joyce yet, except maybe Ruth.
I’m pretty sure threats of death are major events (“I need my femurs to live!!!”), so, yeah Danny’s the only character left without major contact.
That joke has never worked for me. There are too many vets who have proven Joyce wrong. It’s surprising what you can live through.
Does anyone else thing Danny looks vaguely like the dude who assaulted Joyce? Inviting him might be a bad idea. But then, she’s been around him since then and it doesn’t seem to bother her. Maybe I’m overthinking things.
This idea is pure genius!
Why the hell should all parties be ruined for Joyce? Hell, even Sarah needs tae let her hair down a bit.
This needed one frame of some other random person who wasn’t even in the room yelling, “Dorm party!”
I nominate Ruth, complete with the Glare of Doom, set against background of hellfire.
Bille: “Dorm Party?!” *perks up*
Ruth: “Dorm Party…*GlareOfDoom*
Welllll
It should be Dina. Everything’s better with Dina.
What happens next should be Becky and Joyce singing “Open up the Gates” from Frozen. Who gets the Elsa role is up to the audience given both conceal but don’t feel.
I say Joyce.
*runs around screaming* TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
“And most recently of all, a “Roman Toga Party” was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.”
Oh oh, looks like someone is getting double secret probation.
DORM PARTY!!
I can’t believe nobody has linked this yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xemLz_fR1Ac
I think its really cool that in the Becky is the one who is able to create a situation were Joyce can socialize the way she wants to while also feeling safe.
I will now always refer to her as “The Becky”.
the beckster
The Beckstar.
The Beck-Meister.
I just noticed that Joyce and Becky are in the tail end of a hug. Daaaaaww
TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
Their reactions are “:D:”.
Im just gonna say, third panel: Dumbing of Age needs more poofy lips.
Yes Sarah, there will be weeeeeeed.
The idea is for the party Joyce’d be comfortable with, so nope.
Dorm party,
This is up there with my favourite strips. Supportive friends + lol sarah face = yes. (DORM PARTY???)
WHY IS EVERYBODY SHOUTING MY NAME!?
WHY DID THEY MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT MY HOUSE?
WHERE DID MY GENITALS GO REED FIX THIS NOW
The words “dorm party” have lost all meaning to me now. All hail Dorm Party. Praise be to Dorm Party.
CRAB BATTLE.
Wait, no.
DORM PARTY.
Based on Joyce’s socialization at the last party (“Let’s find people to play board games”), I don’t know why Sarah is so freaked out about the idea of a dorm party hosted by two barely-able-to-function-normally-in-social-settings girls.
That is incredibly sweet.
After the Animal House connection, my next thought was the monorail bit from The Simpsons.
Oh god, they’re gonna break into song any second now
dOrM pArTyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,,,,,,,,,,,/#&*%