Jeez Danny, if you’re going to sing Chumbawamba, at least sing one of their more wholesome songs like “I Can’t Hear You Cause Your Mouth’s Full of Shit” at least!
Sal: Welp! Done exposin’ mahself emotionally for the ev’nin’, tahm to find me a bar an’ tie one on!
Danny (lying in a crumpled ball on the stairs): Pissin’ the night away, Pissin’ the night away…
Sal: Dammit, Wonderbread…
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the best times
(Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy)
According to googling we knew a *little* about Radagast prior to the movies – he was more into plants and animals and birds than the affairs of men and maia, and he was somewhat gullible and Sauruman considered him to be a fool (with justification, since Saruman was the one who fooled him). He was probably intended to be a more significant character in earlier drafts of the Hobbit but things changed as the manuscript developed.
So he wasn’t quite just a footnote. Still, leaping from that to ‘dotard with poop on his face’ was fairly typical of why the only Hobbit movie I acknowledge was made in 1977.
IIRC, Radagast didn’t exist when the Hobbit was written – nor did Saruman or really the idea of Istari in general, just Gandalf and it wasn’t clear what he was.
That all developed during the writing of LoTR as he brought the simpler children’s story of the Hobbit fully into the larger world of Middle-Earth. Marginally more than a footnote, but pretty slim and not at all done well by in the movies.
This is kinda a huge overstatement. Radagast wasn’t a footnote—he had a distinct personality (an eccentric and “simple” wizard who was overly connected with the beasts and birds and eventually failed to join the rest of the Maiar because of it) and a distinct arc. I honestly had no complaints with his addition, though it was part of a broader “filler” issue with those terrible garbage movies.
Walky throwing toys, Danny turning down Amber for Amazigirl, Ethan trying to turn straight for Joyce, everything about Joyce and Jacob flirting despite Raidah… yep math checks out
you never know if you’re too slow
when you’re trying to run from the Po-po
Hey now, you’re a murderer! wash the blood off your face
Hey now, wipe te prints off! What’s your alibi for March 8th?
DNA starts to glow-OOH-oh!
Under UV lights so wash some mo-OOH-oore~!
There’s no escape from Smashmouth. There never was, if we’re being honest. It’s been a futile effort, when we could have saved ourselves the exhaustion by just giving in
I can’t figure out how to react to this. On the one hand, I like the song. On the other… that song is nearly impossible to sing well (because the original doesn’t really sound all that good in the first place) and … it’s a ukulele cover. And I don’t think we’ve ever seen Danny sing before. So I have to question the quality of his cover.
And all the lights that light the way, fluorescent
There are many songs that I would like to sing with you
But you don’ know how
So may-bay
You’ll learn them on the u-kel-lay-lay
And like you said (talking to you, Marsh)
Yer mah Wonderbread
Every time there are notes on the screen, I always grab a uke and attempt to play it. I’m bad at moving my fingers around a fretboard and I can never figure out the strumming pattern.
I’m impressed by Danny’s apparent ability to memorize chord patterns. He’s only been playing a couple days now, right?
Or maybe I’m just remarkably slow…
I got a ukulele for Christmas but chronic pain has kept me from playing much at a time until this weekend. Ukulele is easier to play with body problems than violin or guitar but you still need some measure of ability to bend your hand and fingers. Anyways I’ve been playing this weekend. I finally learned to strum decently! I am so proud of myself!
I know that, due to the floating timeline, DoA characters live in the eternal now. And I also know that I long out of touch with what teh kidz are listening to.
But I never had any trouble believing that that current-year college freshmen would know “Desperado” and the Johnny Cash cover of “Hurt.” (They might not know “Hurt” was a cover — as a twenty-year-old, I didn’t know Joan Jett’s “Crimson and Clover” was a cover, nor Bow-Wow-Wow’s “I Want Candy.”)
But “Tubthumping?” Is that something that current-year eighteen-year-olds know?
Maybe I’m a bad reference, since my music tastes are so esoteric I recognized neither “Desperado” nor “Hurt” and had to look them up to have any tune in my head for the lyrics (I recognize ALL the church music though (bleah)).
But, that aside, although I couldn’t immediately place it, I am at least familiar enough with “Tubthumping” for the tune to come right to mind. I’m also 20, but I doubt the extra two years make a difference.
That’s funny to me, because of the three you mentioned, this is the one that would find it MOST likely for a kid their age to know– at least the part Danny is singing here. I honestly didn’t know “Hurt” before it appeared in the comic. And while I’m very familiar with “Desperado” (my dad is a huge Eagles fan), when my high school band played it, there were kids around me who didn’t recognize it at all.
“I get knocked down, but I get up again” on the other hand, seems…never out of touch.
Also, Twenty One Pilots apparently covers it sometimes.
My local classic rock station has been mixing the 90s in for a couple years now. They’ll play the usual 70s radio standards, then suddenly Heart Shaped Box or Californication comes out of nowhere.
When we start hearing those stations play nu-metal, we will officially be Old. Those belong in badly animated Newgrounds Portal submissions, darnit!
I’m nineteen and know very little about music but I’ve at least heard all these songs before. I figured they were the kind of songs you learn through pop culture osmosis… although come to think of it I guess the main reason I know Desperado is because I sang it in my elementary school’s choir.
(I never knew what Tubthumping was called, though, and I only know the part of the song that Danny’s singing here.)
I’m also 20 and I’ve never heard a single one of these songs before. I feel bad that I had to google Tubthumping…it sounds like something that would’ve been associated with a meme? Or a movie?
I’m 22 and I’ve never heard Desperado nor Hurt. What Danny is singing in this strip, I’ve heard it but only that part (I think I heard it in a movie? Probably? In some kind of montage?) and I didn’t even know the name of the song until I read the comments here.
Amusingly I was a kid when this song came out and I literally did not know that’s what it was called until this very moment. It was just one of those songs you heard constantly and I think I assumed the title was “Get Knocked Down” >.>
Fun fact: Chubawumpabe is actually a radical, politically active, anarchist band and has been for about thirty years at this point so this really just proves that Sal is fake hardcore and Danny’s the real deal.
Another fun fact; Most people in the US know shit all about Chumbawamba outside this one song which people here generally consider repetitive and annoying so it’s been largely ignored for twenty years or so (ie longer than these kids have been alive) and the band with it. In essence they suffered the same fate as the Goo Goo Dolls, Marcie Playgound, et al from the same period.
Goo Goo Dolls? Really? “Name”, “Iris”, and “Slide” were all huge in the US with tons of radio play. “Black Balloon” was pretty up there too. They had a dozen songs hit the Top 100 in the US and a handful more that came close, from 1995 to as recently as 2013
And yet, Iris is the only one most anyone I’ve met can seem to recognize. Radio play and Top 100 status has been at best a mediocre metric for recognition by the general public since ’03 or so.
Yeah gotta disagree with Goo Goo Dolls. Anyone who was an angsty teenage girl in the early 00s is pretty familiar with most of their top hits ime. Plus their most popular song(s) are also pretty dang good so it’s not quite like those bands that have a mediocre song become popular and then the rest of their music is ignored as consequence.
I’ll add Simple Minds to that list though. EVERYONE knows Don’t You Forget About Me (aka the Breakfast Club song) but they have so much more, better music that no one in the US seems to know (unless you were a teen in Scotland in the 80s).
When I went to read the last panel, I read the first two vertical words and got “I get knocked up” which was a rather different song than the one Danny was actually singing. Ah well.
Chumbawamba is from a country where people can get knocked up in the morning and nobody thinks anything of it. (“To knock up [someone]” means something innocuous in the UK, or at least it used to.)
The first line of the chorus is sometimes mondegreened as “I get no towel.”
O, so that line from Mansfield Park where someone says of the main character that “It would be a shame for you to get knocked up” is only funny to North Americans?
However, if the Browns ever won SuperDuperMegaBowl… Or even got there… Or won a play-off match… -Then- we’d have to start considering living in an alternate universe.
Musical paradoxes like that are more common than you think! My favorite is playing Hollywood Undead for people who hate scenecore (myself among them). The creeping expression of “OH GOD WHY DO I LIKE THIS” is beautiful.
Have a nice day! Since that’s me too, I’ll share how to say “bisexual” in my language:
…Bisexual.
Well okay but in Spanish we say it like bee-sexual! So it counts as a different word!
Hmm get the feeling that Sal would prefer “Enough is Enough”, “Jacobs Ladder”, “The ABC’s of Anarchy” with Negativeland or possibly Oi Polloi’s “Chumbawumba is Shit”
I suppose so (I’d definitely add “That’s How Grateful We Are” to the list) — but then, this was the song, if I recall correctly, that they sang “free Mumia Abu Jamal” to, and “New Labour sold out the dockers”, and so on — none of which Danny knows, obviously. So it seems to me it’s the case of a song that can change meaning quite significantly based on who’s covering it.
@benRG: no, it’s not just you. I was thinking fondly of them 50 years down the road (their years, which I guess would be like a millennium or two for us) as an old married couple and she STILL calls him “Wonderbread.”
I gotta say, I’m proud of Danny. Sure not everyone likes his instrument of choice and he’s changed up his look, but he’s taking risks and trying out new things to find out who he is and what makes him happy. It might not stick, but that doesn’t matter. All that matters is that at the moment he is happy in his own skin. His willingness to try new things and take risks is not only a positive development, but an asset for his future.
I… am just wondering what Sal seemed to be expecting from “I get” before Danny launched into the song, as her expression shifts quite a bit between those two panels.
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“ya want me ta test yer resilience?”
“huh?”
*SHOVE*
“now get up again, ah wanna see if ah can keep ya down”
*groan* “…I knew these stairs were cursed…”
Danny’s always getting dumped there.
I warned you about the stairs, bro.
I’d try to come up with an appropriately humorous and referential reply, but I’m only in Act 5, so…
What I’m trying to say is, what you did there: I SEE IT
it keeps happening. ~<3
It’s escalating.
Or as panels 2/3 prove: I warned you about STARES!!!
Jeez Danny, if you’re going to sing Chumbawamba, at least sing one of their more wholesome songs like “I Can’t Hear You Cause Your Mouth’s Full of Shit” at least!
I’m partial to anything off Readymades, myself.
Sal: Welp! Done exposin’ mahself emotionally for the ev’nin’, tahm to find me a bar an’ tie one on!
Danny (lying in a crumpled ball on the stairs): Pissin’ the night away, Pissin’ the night away…
Sal: Dammit, Wonderbread…
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the best times
(Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy)
Danny can read the mood like a wizard
A crazy old wizard that talks to rocks, eats mice, and forgets to wear pants.
Outside of the “eats mice” thing, sounds like Radagast.
Pants? How do?
I’m annoyed by this, Radagast was a footnote in the books with no character development
Fortunately the movie corrected that.
His entire existence prior to the movies was “Oh, and there’s also Radagast”. They didn’t need to make him the Doctor.
Radagast was a completely different character to the Doctor. Sylvester McCoy playing both roles doesn’t change that.
Corrected, ruined, tomato, tomahto.
According to googling we knew a *little* about Radagast prior to the movies – he was more into plants and animals and birds than the affairs of men and maia, and he was somewhat gullible and Sauruman considered him to be a fool (with justification, since Saruman was the one who fooled him). He was probably intended to be a more significant character in earlier drafts of the Hobbit but things changed as the manuscript developed.
So he wasn’t quite just a footnote. Still, leaping from that to ‘dotard with poop on his face’ was fairly typical of why the only Hobbit movie I acknowledge was made in 1977.
IIRC, Radagast didn’t exist when the Hobbit was written – nor did Saruman or really the idea of Istari in general, just Gandalf and it wasn’t clear what he was.
That all developed during the writing of LoTR as he brought the simpler children’s story of the Hobbit fully into the larger world of Middle-Earth. Marginally more than a footnote, but pretty slim and not at all done well by in the movies.
This is kinda a huge overstatement. Radagast wasn’t a footnote—he had a distinct personality (an eccentric and “simple” wizard who was overly connected with the beasts and birds and eventually failed to join the rest of the Maiar because of it) and a distinct arc. I honestly had no complaints with his addition, though it was part of a broader “filler” issue with those terrible garbage movies.
My bet is a reference to the Wizards of the Unseen Academy with 0 social skills.
Dan Danned this ship real good.
Danny boy, Danny boy…
The ukes, the ukes are calling…
From dorm to dorm and down the wonderbread
Why, wonder bread, why
It’s Danny
Because you always wonder – is this bread?
Can’t tell if this christens the ship or sinks it…
No DoA relationship is official until it’s gotten awkward. It’s like breaking a bottle of champagne on the hull.
Sometimes the bottle smashes a hole through the hull, but hey what can you do?
Walky throwing toys, Danny turning down Amber for Amazigirl, Ethan trying to turn straight for Joyce, everything about Joyce and Jacob flirting despite Raidah… yep math checks out
And then there’s Billie and Ruth’s whole relationship… Most good ships in this start off a bit rocky.
I’d rather they not be a ship, honestly. I love their friendship.
Which, of course, is Willis’s cue to step in and sabotage the whole operation.
the pipes, the pipes are calling
from glen to glen
and down the mountainside
you tumble
Down HER mountainside?
“I get knocked down
Then she’s on top o’ me
Guess I’m gonna stay down for a while…”
Now I’m waiting in your valley
To be standing on your mountain
That I might tumble down your hillside
To a place that waits for me.
The cruelest love can seem so kind
He’ll be comin’ round the mountain when he cooooomes
–Dave, in the distance, Sal winces
If you look at “Danning it up” in the dictionary, you’ll find this strip.
“Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me . . .”
“Finish that verse and I swear they’ll never find the body!”
“I stored his body inside the shed…”
Someone come up with the next line please.
“Then I slipped on his blood and hit my head.”
He was looking kinda dumb with his finger and his thumb, in the shape, of an L, on the floorboards.
WELL
The cops start coming, so I gotta get running ?
The cops start coming, and they don’t stop coming
They’re coming for me, so I gotta get running.
Didn’t make sense not to up and run,
My breath gets short ’cause I ain’t got lungs…
So much to do, so much to see,
Getting NSync with the Backstreets…
Just saw a cop, better stay low;
I’m in a dead end, where can I go?
you never know if you’re too slow
when you’re trying to run from the Po-po
Hey now, you’re a murderer! wash the blood off your face
Hey now, wipe te prints off! What’s your alibi for March 8th?
DNA starts to glow-OOH-oh!
Under UV lights so wash some mo-OOH-oore~!
There’s no escape from Smashmouth. There never was, if we’re being honest. It’s been a futile effort, when we could have saved ourselves the exhaustion by just giving in
Can I just say how much I freakin’ love this friendship.
Dannys gonna danny
the pipes the pipes are calling
ah nuts, i got beat to the joke.
I can’t figure out how to react to this. On the one hand, I like the song. On the other… that song is nearly impossible to sing well (because the original doesn’t really sound all that good in the first place) and … it’s a ukulele cover. And I don’t think we’ve ever seen Danny sing before. So I have to question the quality of his cover.
I mean, the original song is just kinda shouting anyway.
Sing before…
Desperado…
Oh good point, I’d forgotten about that. That was also to Sal, yes?
Suggested reaction: Hey, there’s someone who’s having a good time expressing themselves in song without hurting anyone.
I not sure that song would sound good with ukelele. And I get the feeling Danny isn’t as good at singing as Sal.
One of the great failures of human anatomy is that we cannot hear Sal sing.
holy crap sal has whites to her eyes
Kiss!
Danned up the moment, but like, in a really loveable way
I can’t tell whether I’m shipping it or friendshipping it but either way oh god Amber’s reaction…
You’re not fooling anyone, Panel 3 Sal. 😛
Wonderbread: Oasis’ previous attempt at creating a hit.
“And lahk ah said
Yer mah Wonderbread”
And all the walls we sit upon are public
And all the lights that light the way, fluorescent
There are many songs that I would like to sing with you
But you don’ know how
So may-bay
You’ll learn them on the u-kel-lay-lay
And like you said (talking to you, Marsh)
Yer mah Wonderbread
Oh, nice.
“Weird Al” is a personal hero.
First time this year I’ve wished for a thumbsup button here, seeing as I have nothing to add but agreement.
Kiitti ^_^
Wouldn’t have fingered Danny for anarcho-punk
Every time there are notes on the screen, I always grab a uke and attempt to play it. I’m bad at moving my fingers around a fretboard and I can never figure out the strumming pattern.
It was such a magical moment.
It was…
It started magical, and became legendary.
Because the fluke mainstream hit of a weird anarchist supergroup is so much whiter than a Cash cover of NiN…
My thoughts exactly, Cash is infinitely whiter.
But less likely to be the object of a drunken singalong, which makes all the difference.
Danny, you dork.
I’m impressed by Danny’s apparent ability to memorize chord patterns. He’s only been playing a couple days now, right?
Or maybe I’m just remarkably slow…
I got a ukulele for Christmas but chronic pain has kept me from playing much at a time until this weekend. Ukulele is easier to play with body problems than violin or guitar but you still need some measure of ability to bend your hand and fingers. Anyways I’ve been playing this weekend. I finally learned to strum decently! I am so proud of myself!
I know that, due to the floating timeline, DoA characters live in the eternal now. And I also know that I long out of touch with what teh kidz are listening to.
But I never had any trouble believing that that current-year college freshmen would know “Desperado” and the Johnny Cash cover of “Hurt.” (They might not know “Hurt” was a cover — as a twenty-year-old, I didn’t know Joan Jett’s “Crimson and Clover” was a cover, nor Bow-Wow-Wow’s “I Want Candy.”)
But “Tubthumping?” Is that something that current-year eighteen-year-olds know?
Maybe I’m a bad reference, since my music tastes are so esoteric I recognized neither “Desperado” nor “Hurt” and had to look them up to have any tune in my head for the lyrics (I recognize ALL the church music though (bleah)).
But, that aside, although I couldn’t immediately place it, I am at least familiar enough with “Tubthumping” for the tune to come right to mind. I’m also 20, but I doubt the extra two years make a difference.
I dunno, I’m weird.
I know Hurt and Tubthumping, and I’m only slightly older than the DoA cast. But I’ve never actually heard Desperado.
Johnny Cash covers it on “American IV”, the same album he covers Hurt.
That’s funny to me, because of the three you mentioned, this is the one that would find it MOST likely for a kid their age to know– at least the part Danny is singing here. I honestly didn’t know “Hurt” before it appeared in the comic. And while I’m very familiar with “Desperado” (my dad is a huge Eagles fan), when my high school band played it, there were kids around me who didn’t recognize it at all.
“I get knocked down, but I get up again” on the other hand, seems…never out of touch.
Also, Twenty One Pilots apparently covers it sometimes.
How could you *NOT* know the original of “Crimson and Clover”?? Don’t you *EVER* listen to the oldies?
No. 😛
When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
…Don’t answer that.
My local classic rock station has been mixing the 90s in for a couple years now. They’ll play the usual 70s radio standards, then suddenly Heart Shaped Box or Californication comes out of nowhere.
When we start hearing those stations play nu-metal, we will officially be Old. Those belong in badly animated Newgrounds Portal submissions, darnit!
When did Ozzy become an actor?
I’m nineteen and know very little about music but I’ve at least heard all these songs before. I figured they were the kind of songs you learn through pop culture osmosis… although come to think of it I guess the main reason I know Desperado is because I sang it in my elementary school’s choir.
(I never knew what Tubthumping was called, though, and I only know the part of the song that Danny’s singing here.)
I’m also 20 and I’ve never heard a single one of these songs before. I feel bad that I had to google Tubthumping…it sounds like something that would’ve been associated with a meme? Or a movie?
Or a ‘near the end of the party’ song in Britain.
I’m 22 and I’ve never heard Desperado nor Hurt. What Danny is singing in this strip, I’ve heard it but only that part (I think I heard it in a movie? Probably? In some kind of montage?) and I didn’t even know the name of the song until I read the comments here.
Did you know that Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” was also a cover? It was originally done by a band called The Arrows.
I mean, it still comes on the radio fairly often where I live? And there are radio stations now devoted to playing 90s-early 2000s songs 😛
If nothing else, teens can play Youtube roulette and keep clicking through related songs until they get to something they’ve never heard of before
Amusingly I was a kid when this song came out and I literally did not know that’s what it was called until this very moment. It was just one of those songs you heard constantly and I think I assumed the title was “Get Knocked Down” >.>
Dann and Sal’s friendship is so good
Do you think Danny is brave enough to sing the word “piss”
Eh, it’s Danny, not Joyce
Fun fact: Chubawumpabe is actually a radical, politically active, anarchist band and has been for about thirty years at this point so this really just proves that Sal is fake hardcore and Danny’s the real deal.
Not necessarily. This was a fairly big mainstream hit. If Danny knows any of their other songs, I’ll give him some hardcore cred.
I know that this song is actually about the Irish revolution, does that count?
Another fun fact; Most people in the US know shit all about Chumbawamba outside this one song which people here generally consider repetitive and annoying so it’s been largely ignored for twenty years or so (ie longer than these kids have been alive) and the band with it. In essence they suffered the same fate as the Goo Goo Dolls, Marcie Playgound, et al from the same period.
Goo Goo Dolls? Really? “Name”, “Iris”, and “Slide” were all huge in the US with tons of radio play. “Black Balloon” was pretty up there too. They had a dozen songs hit the Top 100 in the US and a handful more that came close, from 1995 to as recently as 2013
And yet, Iris is the only one most anyone I’ve met can seem to recognize. Radio play and Top 100 status has been at best a mediocre metric for recognition by the general public since ’03 or so.
Yeah gotta disagree with Goo Goo Dolls. Anyone who was an angsty teenage girl in the early 00s is pretty familiar with most of their top hits ime. Plus their most popular song(s) are also pretty dang good so it’s not quite like those bands that have a mediocre song become popular and then the rest of their music is ignored as consequence.
I’ll add Simple Minds to that list though. EVERYONE knows Don’t You Forget About Me (aka the Breakfast Club song) but they have so much more, better music that no one in the US seems to know (unless you were a teen in Scotland in the 80s).
“Oh Tony, how could you do this to me?”
When I went to read the last panel, I read the first two vertical words and got “I get knocked up” which was a rather different song than the one Danny was actually singing. Ah well.
Funny enough, that was a not uncommon variant to hear someone sing back when the song was in heavy rotation… at least in my experience.
Chumbawamba is from a country where people can get knocked up in the morning and nobody thinks anything of it. (“To knock up [someone]” means something innocuous in the UK, or at least it used to.)
The first line of the chorus is sometimes mondegreened as “I get no towel.”
And in Australia “knocked up” means “tired, physically exhausted”.
During WWII my mother had an American boyfriend who was appalled when she complained of fatigue on a hot day.
O, so that line from Mansfield Park where someone says of the main character that “It would be a shame for you to get knocked up” is only funny to North Americans?
okay so
the cubs have won a world championship
and now the eagles have
if the leafs win the cup then we-are-in-an-AU confirmed or…?
also, ruth is tearing her hair out again now (y/y)?
I think we’re safe – on the Leafs winning the cup, anyway
Considering the Bruins wiped the floor with the Leafs on Friday, it’s pretty unlikely.
Besides, we’re stuck in the “Biff Has the Sports Almanac” AU.
Pfft, as if Eagles winning is that off.
However, if the Browns ever won SuperDuperMegaBowl… Or even got there… Or won a play-off match… -Then- we’d have to start considering living in an alternate universe.
Or more likely, that the End Times were upon us.
I tried imagining that song played on a ukulele, but my brain treated the idea as malware.
“The cover is a paradox, sir. It cannot exist in real space or time.”
Is it just me, or did Danny suddenly sprout a mustache and goatee in the last panel?
Looking again I think his mouth is just taking up more of his face than usual.
That look, in panel 3.
AWESOME.
I’m impressed with how many songs Danny’s managed to learn since he started
You’d be amazed how quickly you get good at an instrument when you dedicate your existence to it.
Now your hitting me up with “tub thumping? ” I’m starting to like new Danny.
Nothin’ wrong with a little anarchist music.
Though “Enough Is Enough” or “The Day the Nazi Died” would be better tunes.
anyway here’s raining blood
Be patient, Sal. Not everyone can have your effortless talent for being cool!
oh god I was Danny.
No matter how much I am out can change that.
Oh boy.
Oh god I can even confirm those are the chooooords ugh Danny this is why you’re wonder bread aaaaaaaaaaugh
… I like this song unironically YEAH I SAID IT FIGHT ME
Me too!!!! And yet I really hate really repetitive songs. It’s a paradox that’s always confounded me.
Musical paradoxes like that are more common than you think! My favorite is playing Hollywood Undead for people who hate scenecore (myself among them). The creeping expression of “OH GOD WHY DO I LIKE THIS” is beautiful.
oh i do too.
It’s just Danny is a dork and I have been this exact dork
We have all been this dork, don’t worry. Even if we weren’t this specific dork.
Alright. Time to try out the Grav Roullette.
Don’t know why I didn’t try doing this earlier…
Guess I just found the whole thing too daunting…
In any case, I am hoping for Carla.
Partially in honor of Cerberus, who hopefully (if she’s in a good state to do so) returns soon.
And partially because I’m also an asexual trans girl who wants to act more aloof and suave than she actually is.
In any case, I’d also be cool with Dina.
Or possibly Becky.
Outside of that, though, how are you all doing, today?
…
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—
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I shall do this unto eternity!
Sorry about all the equivalent to spam…
Hhh…
Wow. I never realised how many different characters there actually are in DoA…
Oh, well…
In any case, thank you O Willis Who Art In Heathen for creating this wondrously tortuous and hilarious and heartbreaking comic.
Shoot.
I can’t keep doing this forever; can I?
Myghte it be possible?
No. The answer is no.
At least you got Becky.
Grats on the Becky, at least.
I found it entertaining to space out my attempts, trying one each day and sometimes using it as an excuse to comment on the character.
If you get eaten by the spambot, the way out is to change both your name and email and then wait for Willis to fish you out of moderation.
here is kitty’s finnish word of the day!
biseksuaali (bisexual)
thats me 🙂
have a nice day!
Have a nice day to you too! 🙂
Have a nice day! Since that’s me too, I’ll share how to say “bisexual” in my language:
…Bisexual.
Well okay but in Spanish we say it like bee-sexual! So it counts as a different word!
It’s hip to fuck bees.
One two three,
A B C
Eric the half-a-bee!
Danny you got a voice for silent movies…
Wonderbread, yer pushin’ it…
Look, you can’t really say you’ve “shared a moment” unless that “moment” actually ends.
*sigh*
wonderbread you ruined the mood.
Is it just me, or is Sal beyond adorable in that third panel?
Not just you. Sclerae do wonders for the non-sclera folk.
Nope. Sal should smile more often too. 🙂
*look up lyrics* oh, it’s THAT song.
…on an ukulele
…..uh
…. ukulele as a deconstructionist medium. Huh.
Just massacring a song on a simplified instrument isn’t deconstructionism !
…. post-modern?
Yes it is (he says, after giggling uncontrollaby for several minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ha9COToKE
Makes me think of:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=361
Woo! Best way to end a storyline!
SHIPPING INTENSIFIES
‘Wonderbread’ feels like a ‘pet name’ to me. Am I the only one who thinks that?
I wasn’t sure the first time she used it, but yeah, I think it’s just transmuted into a nickname now.
Honestly, my first thought was that I don’t see him as either a whiskey or vodka kind of guy. Or necessarily a lager. Maybe a nice cider.
At least it wasn’t Wonderwall.
and after aaaaaaaaaall
No, it was Wonderbread.
(Check out Plasma’s comment chain further up)
Glorious
Interesting thing is, nobody knows that Chumbawamba was a socialist band. They were antifa before the term antifa actually existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljQ2DM8Mve
I believe we called them anarchists back in the day. Though they did write a lovesong to Ulrike Meinhof…
Yeah, I had an anarchist friend back in college who was really into them and he introduced me to the rest of their music. Get Knocked Down is pretty overplayed but I really like some of their other less-known stuff! Has a totally different sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNuVwywEIB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaL74vlMS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8KRz7WHm08
You might enjoy Todd in the Shadows’ look at the entirety of Chumbawomba’s career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZr87g6rNo
Hmm get the feeling that Sal would prefer “Enough is Enough”, “Jacobs Ladder”, “The ABC’s of Anarchy” with Negativeland or possibly Oi Polloi’s “Chumbawumba is Shit”
I suppose so (I’d definitely add “That’s How Grateful We Are” to the list) — but then, this was the song, if I recall correctly, that they sang “free Mumia Abu Jamal” to, and “New Labour sold out the dockers”, and so on — none of which Danny knows, obviously. So it seems to me it’s the case of a song that can change meaning quite significantly based on who’s covering it.
Haven’t heard that name in ages, I remember stealing a Negativeland vinyl single (U2) from a student radio station in ’91 or so
I get… no kick from champaign….
Though for this audience
I get the bag might fit better.
@benRG: no, it’s not just you. I was thinking fondly of them 50 years down the road (their years, which I guess would be like a millennium or two for us) as an old married couple and she STILL calls him “Wonderbread.”
Hey, that was a very underrated album. I don’t understand the hate for Chumbawumba.
They Might Be Giants even did a fun cover of that song, once.
Now sing Spiralling
I gotta say, I’m proud of Danny. Sure not everyone likes his instrument of choice and he’s changed up his look, but he’s taking risks and trying out new things to find out who he is and what makes him happy. It might not stick, but that doesn’t matter. All that matters is that at the moment he is happy in his own skin. His willingness to try new things and take risks is not only a positive development, but an asset for his future.
I really love the expression on Sal in panel 3 🙂
They’ll be singin’ when we’re winnin’, and we’ll be singin’…
Did anyone comment about the bizarreness that is Danny’s mouth in the last panel?
Next panel, Danny:
“Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you”.
Sal grabs ukulele and smashes it over his head.
PERFECTION
I… am just wondering what Sal seemed to be expecting from “I get” before Danny launched into the song, as her expression shifts quite a bit between those two panels.