You’re actually not far off. There’s a heating shelf sort of setup, with most of the meat going into trays that slide into the warmer. One tray can hold about 16-20 regular hamburger patties and each shelf compartment holds 4 of those trays. The McNuggets go into a tray about twice as wide and slightly shorter, which can hold I think 60-ish McNuggets, with 2 per shelf and 2 shelves, for a total of 4 trays of McNuggets and about 240-ish warming at any given time.
“I just assume that there’s a big tub somewhere in the back filled with Mcnuggets under a heating lamp and they just scoop them out of there.”
Have worked in a McDonald’s kitchen (in the UK, admittedly), can confirm that’s essentially how it works. 50 Mcnuggets is an entire tray, but they will have multiple trays staying warm, because Mcnuggets are very popular. So they should be able to deal with one large order.
As someone who used to work at Mcdonalds let me just say nobody is really “prepared” for big orders. Like we are required to keep only what we need in those warming trays and also during busy times those trays are constantly being emptied by people on the prep line and refilled by those on grill line and a sudden large order in the middle of that can destabilize the whole balance and backlog a bunch of orders. If Walky lived near my McDonald’s when I worked there I know everyone there would definitely hate him.
Having worked at McDonald’s last summer, I’m of two minds on this one. On one hand, it’s a pain in the ass to count out 50 McNuggets, especially if there are other orders on the screen. On the other, yes, please order as many McNuggets as possible, so I can empty these goddamn trays and drop a new batch.
It basically depends on when you come in, and whether you want your McNuggets fresh. If you come in during lunch rush and order 2 50-piece boxes fresh, right after the cook has finished making 4 trays of them, I can’t promise you’ll leave with all of your blood.
My lovely fiance, who lives across the Atlantic and is currently sleeping peacefully, worked at Mcdonald’s as a teenager. Since that was a long time ago, we may not be able to use the data, but at least this conversation has given me a reason to type the phrase “Okay, to the best of your recollection, how many mcnuggets could one order in a single sweep before it gets obnoxious?” at them for when they wake up in a few hours
Good way of putting it, yeah. When I worked at McDonald’s and was on the fry vat, there’d be some times I’d see that order and I’d be like, “okay, no big deal”. But usually, those orders would come on a super busy Saturday night and I’d be like “I do not need this right now”.
While reprint over at a for fiends house we got about fifty nuggets each for dinner from Burger King and a sack off swag sweet n sour sauce, I don’t think they hate us yet
First Joyce buys 50 nuggets to bribe Dina and now Lucy does the same to bribe Walky. The local chicken place is doing great business out of IU’s weird social dynamics today!
Woahwoahwoah. Red. Not Ash. Red doesn’t speak much, but when he does you can bet it’ll sound as buttery smooth as two Morgan Freemans in a sultry competition with Marilyn Monroe quietly singin’ happy birthday in their ears. This got pretty unnecessarily sexual(?), but uh, that’s about as smooth as I dare imagine.
Okay, serious question here. Is this how it’s going to be from here on out, ‘everybody wants Walky’ the self-insert fanfiction Willis always had in the back of his head but couldn’t make into reality until we were all slaves to his whim willing to read absolutely anything he puts out.
I mean, I’m not saying I won’t read it(I AM a slave to Willis’ whim after all)….but it’s getting just a little on the nose at this point.
Yes, now that Lucy hopes nobody else shows up, I’m predicting everyone who can make it will show up. Even though there’s no promise of booze, Billie will show up anyway, possibly bringing her own booze in a flask.
. . . .Man I think I REALLY like Lucy and would begin to support her in her efforts if not for Amber and Walky still being in a uncertain point in their relationship.
It’s true. There is a cemetary in Florida full of Nazis who time-lept from 1944 in the hopes of overthrowing the United States. They emerged in 1983 and went SPLAT!
I feel like Walky is the guy to watch Batman Forever with. I cannot tell if Amber and Ethan would be in the “haha this movie” or the “godDAMN IT, this movie!” camp, while Walky’s more detached from the subject
Lucy is adorable but wanting to date Walky probably isn’t a good idea. The whole thing with Amber hasn’t been resolved yet and dude’s got a bunch of other baggage.
Heh, and she KNOWS he’s in the middle of an “it’s complicated”-situation.
Basically, she’s giving him an out – an invitation to something that’s simple and uncomplicated* for a few hours (and where, by pure coincidence, Lucy will be there to be simple and uncomplicated* with). And given how much Walky yearns for uncomplicated*, he might just go for it.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I really hope other people show up. I really hate the thought process of “I’m going to invite this person under the premise that other people are there but hope that no one else shows up.” It feels SUPER sketchy to me. For me, the fact that Lucy’s thinking that way takes away most of her status as a “good person”. (before people ask, no, I’m not anti-shipping. I’m just anti that line of thinking)
That’s not at all what’s happening, though. There is no scheme, she has invited other people. She has no ulterior motives on it, just had a thought that even the shitty outcome of people blowing off her party might not be so bad.
It’s one where one partner invites someone to do something, saying there will be other people around (and thus claiming it won’t be a date and other people would be present to keep them feeling comfortable and casual) and not actually inviting everyone else and making up some excuse for why they’re the only two to show up.
It’s really not similar. The part that doesn’t “exactly fit” is the part that makes that trope sketchy in the first place (purposefully setting a trap and lying.) It’s like calling someone sketchy for saying “I hope my crush decides to come over and stay awhile” because that’s ‘similar’ to kidnapping.
My gosh, she’s been going around all this time inviting people. She wanted people to come. She didn’t know she’d run into Walky, but then she did. And now that she realizes she’s interested in him, and he’s agreed to come to the movie night, she has a (probably half-facetious) thought that maybe it might be better if no one came so she’d have Walky to herself. What is so terrible about having a random, maybe somewhat selfish thought? Even good people can be selfish sometimes. Nobody said Lucy was a saint.
What is it about Lucy that makes people ascribe such terrible motives to her, or to think everything that she might do that’s not 100% altruistic is somehow wrong or sketchy?
Lucy’s less sketchy than nearly the entire main cast. The only people she DOESN’T beat in that front off the top of my mind are Danny, Dina, Walky, Ethan, and maybe Becky.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding “sketchy” (not a native speaker). I was under the impression it meant something in the lines of “underhanded”, which Walky most definitely isn’t.
Yeah, you’re right I had a different understanding of its meaning. Though that feels like a strange word choice since most of the cast isn’t really underhanded or at least not in the sense “sketchy” tends to imply.
Fun fact: We use a faux ‘Flight of the Navigator’ to teach pickers how to pick at my Amazon Fulfillment Center (it might be all of them, but I don’t want to assume.) Before working at Amazon, I’d never even heard of the movie. After training hundreds of people with it…. I still know absolutely nothing about the movie.
But when you get to the Flight of the Navigator part of training, you know you’re almost done and need to wake up and start paying attention.
@Alt-text: You could straight nameswap the exchange from Back to the Future for the current U.S. president, and you wouldn’t need to change anything else about them. Not the emotions of incredulity and resignation they’re delivered with, and not even the prior profession.
Idle musings on “Back to the Future” — in 2015, they had flying cars, self-tying shoes, accurate weather forecasting (or control of the weather itself), and hoverboards … but nary a sign of anything at all like a smartphone.
…by which I mean, the movie got that wrong… (copyedit error), but the Cubs hadn’t even been to the Series since a decade before the flashback timeframe in the first movie.
Now I realize it was 40 years between the Cubs’ pennant in 1945 and BttF (1), and 30+ years between the first movie and the Cubs’ next pennant. And I feel not-young.
Have you tried describing humans? “It’s sort of this mostly hairless monkey that stands upright, covers itself in transformed plant or animal matter, and knowingly and willingly consumes poisons and subjects itself to sensorial overload. Also, a large number of them spend a large amount of time trying to kill each other over skin tone and imaginary friends.”
I keep hoping that they’ll come along and fix the cock-up they made and we’ll wake up in the proper timeline not remembering any of this, like in any proper time travel storyline.
Is this a first in DoA and/or SP! ? Characters have talked to themselves and/or the fourth wall before, but always in speech balloons. My memory was never good and is fading with age, but I don’t recall ever seeing thought bubbles before.
Walking with Dina had some. The subtitle implie that this may have been the first occurrence.
They were also colour coded for Dina and (towards the end) Becky.
The Doc Brown would be annoyed about our timeline having many fascists and an amoral tv celebrity as president of the USA.
Also, Lucy is showing her dark intentions. No “pure cinammon” character can exist in Willis works. None. I have been reading Roomies and I know the cynism of his work.
She knows he’s into someone else, that is basically the first thing she learned about him, but hoping that whatever is making the relationship rocky will finish it off.
Oh my god it isn’t “dark intentions” to want to have your crush to yourself it’s a pretty fucking natural desire and it’s not like she’s actively SCHEMING for it it’s just an idle thought on how it would be nice.
I don’t think Lucy having a crush on a guy and hoping to have a fun night watching a movie with him alone counts as “dark intentions”. Seems like pretty normal person-likes-somebody-else behavior to me.
Its hard to tell anymore since further up some clown is straight up declaring Lucy is no longer a good person because of this single thought she had. Parody of people being absurd about Lucy is no longer distinguishable from the real thing.
You know I had forgotten what it felt like to have a scary crazy old man with his finger on the nuclear button from when I was in my twenties. I don’t miss that feeling.
I always felt that Jerry would probably have been a better choice than an ex-CIA executive whose dad nearly ended up interned in the ’40s for being a Nazi sympathiser and whose loyalty to anyone except himself was always suspect.
This is the sort of scenario that could turn out wonderfully for both protagonists or it could turn out to be a total disaster on a social and emotional level. We will have to wait and see!
I don’t think he is aware, no. Let’s face it, though, Lucy’s body language and the easy way she’s initiating contact with him should be an indicator to him that she finds him attractive.
Dubya still started a war on false pretenses and got a hundred, possibly several hundreds, of thousands killed. If anyone is actually nostalgic for him, you can bet they don’t live near the Middle East.
Right? I can dislike (and do) Bush Senior like a mofo, but I can at least respect the fact that the dude willingly and knowingly committed political suicide to try and save the US economy from the inane fuckery that are Reaganomics.
I strongly suspect that Amber has other things on her mind right now. She’s trying to step away from her past and its self-loathing to try to create a new future perspective. In some ways, I suspect that she may leave Walky in the dust, which is a shame but it is her choice.
Lucy is so cute I kinda hope she and walky work out. Well I don’t care if it’s walky specifically I just want her to get what she wants I get the feeling it doesn’t happen often
I wonder what Lucy thinks is going on with Walky and Amber – she was there when Walky spoke to Billie about him and Amber, but she might have latched onto Billie’s suggestion that Amber was a rebound fling for Walky, and not fully understood that Walky does have feelings for Amber. Either way, she does know that Walky’s really hot off the heels of a break up with Dorothy, and is either involved with, or very recently involved with, someone else. Really, she should have enough information to realise now is not the time to get involved with Walky. And it’s pretty plausible that she’ll realise that later on, in spite of the (currently perfectly innocent) instinctive crush thoughts she’s having here.
Honestly not getting why Lucy is attracted to him. Dorothy and Amber I’ll buy because idk he’s relaxing to them in some ways and they’re pretty high strung and stressed ? But having a third girl after him is so bizarre to me all the same. Was Walky dumped in pheromones. Are McNuggets the true scent axe should be selling all along to jive with those weird ass ads a few years back.
Walky is apparently very physically attractive (and fit, although that seems a bit far fetched given his McNuggets diet), and let’s be honest, when you’re young and your hormones are cranked up to 11, you usually don’t look much deeper when deciding who you want to bang. 😉
Walky being fit is literally biologically impossible because he eats garbage and never exercises. At best his metabolism is fast enough that he doesn’t put on weight but there’s no way he’s like toned or something because nothing is happening to build the muscle mass necessary to be toned.
It’s at least partially true. Walky takes his opportunity to eat way more cereal at university than he did at home because his mom can’t tell him not to eat it all day.
I recall that strip where the group goes swimming and Walky’s shown to have distinct abs (it’s the same strip where Dorothy comments that Walky looks like he’s sculpted out of chocolate), so he apparently does look pretty ripped.
Nature doesn’t care what you think is impossible. Ive known men with naturally ripped abs and ate and drank garbage.
For some reason ( i have no idea why ) i lot of men work their asses off to have calves that look like mine. Other than a terrible predisposition to getting charlie horses and normal walking ive done nothing to earn it.
Youth, good genes, high metabolism, high testosterone hasn’t discovered beer are all good explanation s.
Nature is slippery when bad habits catch up to people.
Any type of attraction to someone like Walky I think would be something one would haft to ease into, Which is what happened to Dorothy and Amber. Lucy is an odd case it took little to no time for her warm up to him after they met.
It’s got a similar feeling (for me anyway) to those crappy sitcoms where the father is a complete dingus yet somehow has a wife that should be way out of his league but is still really into him.
Okay, now I kind of want to make a time travel movie in which someone travels from the eighties to 2019 and is all, “You maniacs! You blew it up!” Only it would be a horror film.
No, Lucy! Inviting Ruth is the only way to get anybody to go to your party!
. . . Then again, it will probably also be the reason that everyone leaves early.
So if this comic is effected in anyway by a warped version of rom-com logic, I predict that by the time movie night starts Walky will have had a good talk with Sal, made up with Amber and both he and Amber will attend movie night together and cuddle during the movie. At least something along those lines anyway. Nothing against Lucy but I doubt she’s going to be thrilled with what comes when movie night starts at least in the romance department.
… i kinda don’t get why so many people are romantically / sexually interested in Walky 😀 probably because he tends to also be interested despite seeming more of a mcnuggetsexual…
You inspired me to Google Rifftrax, and I am glad you did. I knew they were basically heckling bad movies, I thought of them as a modern MSTK3000. But I just found out they are by the same people.
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or, ya know, you could order TWO boxes
All the Mcdonaldses in the area already hate him, let’s not exacerbate the situation
Why would they hate him? He’s probably one of their best customers.
Maybe if he’s calling ahead before ordering massive amounts of mcnuggets, but I feel like that’s too much planning ahead for Walky
If they put 50x boxes on the menu, they probably are prepared to deal with selling them.
I mean, they are presumably the nearest McDonalds to a college campus. You think Walky is the only kid working on his freshman 15?
Are 50 piece mcnuggets a thing that’s really on menus? I’ve only seen 20s and figured 50 was reaching party platter territory.
*googles “how many mcnuggets can i order before it’s obnoxious”*
50 Nuggets is a pretty standard menu item, at least during Super Bowl time. But some places just have that on the menu.
Also 50 nuggets is just 2 20s and a 10. If they can’t handle that, they’ve got problems.
I just assume that there’s a big tub somewhere in the back filled with Mcnuggets under a heating lamp and they just scoop them out of there.
Maybe I’m underestimating the nugget volume the average Mcdonald’s is capable of.
What you’re underestimating is the tolerance level of college students for so-so food like McNuggets.
You’re actually not far off. There’s a heating shelf sort of setup, with most of the meat going into trays that slide into the warmer. One tray can hold about 16-20 regular hamburger patties and each shelf compartment holds 4 of those trays. The McNuggets go into a tray about twice as wide and slightly shorter, which can hold I think 60-ish McNuggets, with 2 per shelf and 2 shelves, for a total of 4 trays of McNuggets and about 240-ish warming at any given time.
I wasn’t gonna reply but nobody said he couldn’t order the 50 for himself and, like, 6 for sharing
@Ana Chronistic
Would that be the 6-piece, or a 4-piece with 2 extra McNuggets? I shit you not, I sold more 4+2s than I did 6s.
“I just assume that there’s a big tub somewhere in the back filled with Mcnuggets under a heating lamp and they just scoop them out of there.”
Have worked in a McDonald’s kitchen (in the UK, admittedly), can confirm that’s essentially how it works. 50 Mcnuggets is an entire tray, but they will have multiple trays staying warm, because Mcnuggets are very popular. So they should be able to deal with one large order.
Personally, I rather have KFC’s 24 nuggets for $10 deal, but only if I haven’t eaten all day.
As someone who used to work at Mcdonalds let me just say nobody is really “prepared” for big orders. Like we are required to keep only what we need in those warming trays and also during busy times those trays are constantly being emptied by people on the prep line and refilled by those on grill line and a sudden large order in the middle of that can destabilize the whole balance and backlog a bunch of orders. If Walky lived near my McDonald’s when I worked there I know everyone there would definitely hate him.
Having worked at McDonald’s last summer, I’m of two minds on this one. On one hand, it’s a pain in the ass to count out 50 McNuggets, especially if there are other orders on the screen. On the other, yes, please order as many McNuggets as possible, so I can empty these goddamn trays and drop a new batch.
It basically depends on when you come in, and whether you want your McNuggets fresh. If you come in during lunch rush and order 2 50-piece boxes fresh, right after the cook has finished making 4 trays of them, I can’t promise you’ll leave with all of your blood.
My lovely fiance, who lives across the Atlantic and is currently sleeping peacefully, worked at Mcdonald’s as a teenager. Since that was a long time ago, we may not be able to use the data, but at least this conversation has given me a reason to type the phrase “Okay, to the best of your recollection, how many mcnuggets could one order in a single sweep before it gets obnoxious?” at them for when they wake up in a few hours
You can order about 120 before it starts detracting from the other orders, 80 if it’s lunch rush.
Good way of putting it, yeah. When I worked at McDonald’s and was on the fry vat, there’d be some times I’d see that order and I’d be like, “okay, no big deal”. But usually, those orders would come on a super busy Saturday night and I’d be like “I do not need this right now”.
While reprint over at a for fiends house we got about fifty nuggets each for dinner from Burger King and a sack off swag sweet n sour sauce, I don’t think they hate us yet
Walky is to McDonald’s and Taco Bell as Kristen Arnett is to 7-11. (She held a book-signing party in her local 7-11.)
You say that like he’s ordering less than three.
Or go to Burger King. Are they still doing that 10-piece for a buck deal? He could have a HUNDRED-piece for a tenner.
Indeed. Verified that myself a couple days ago.
All this talk of McNuggets reminds me of the old TV ads about chicken nuggets… ‘examining a chicken looking for the nuggets’ and ‘parts is parts’.
100 NUGGETS? That’s like ten tens and that’s terrible.
I got it, Lex.
First Joyce buys 50 nuggets to bribe Dina and now Lucy does the same to bribe Walky. The local chicken place is doing great business out of IU’s weird social dynamics today!
Billie: I hope there are Jello Shots.
Malaya: I hope Lucy gets hit by a bus.
Luigi: I hope she made lotsa spaghetti!
Red: I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Red like the Pokemon Trainer?
Because he was pretty psyched about Hawaii, but it seems like an odd reference.
… The Shawshank Redemption.
Same character. Change my mind.
Ash has never and will never sound as buttery smooth as Morgan Freeman.
Woahwoahwoah. Red. Not Ash. Red doesn’t speak much, but when he does you can bet it’ll sound as buttery smooth as two Morgan Freemans in a sultry competition with Marilyn Monroe quietly singin’ happy birthday in their ears. This got pretty unnecessarily sexual(?), but uh, that’s about as smooth as I dare imagine.
“Facetiously” is probably his favorite adverb.
Lucy when did you even get his number.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/nut/
Maybe it’s like in the Deus Ex games where everyone just magically gets access to Adam Jensen’s/JC Denton’s skull-com! It’s PLOT MAGIC.
Ah, that’s cool.
Okay, serious question here. Is this how it’s going to be from here on out, ‘everybody wants Walky’ the self-insert fanfiction Willis always had in the back of his head but couldn’t make into reality until we were all slaves to his whim willing to read absolutely anything he puts out.
I mean, I’m not saying I won’t read it(I AM a slave to Willis’ whim after all)….but it’s getting just a little on the nose at this point.
Dorothy, Amber and Lucy are hardly everyone.
I guess it’s just an unusually large sample size in a comic with about a dozen major characters.
Hey, the pickings are slim among male leads here.
Your Lucy grav makes this even better.
Presumably off-panel at some point.
I can judge Walky on some things, but fuck if he doesn’t always make me really want some McNuggets. Not the Taco Bell, but the McNuggets? Right on.
Currently in the drive through getting McNuggets. Not even lying.
Same.
This, of course, means that the entire population of both dorms will show up to the movie.
Yes, now that Lucy hopes nobody else shows up, I’m predicting everyone who can make it will show up. Even though there’s no promise of booze, Billie will show up anyway, possibly bringing her own booze in a flask.
Billie wouldn’t show up without alcohol.
She’d also show up pre-drunk, so she could get super-drunk faster.
. . . .Man I think I REALLY like Lucy and would begin to support her in her efforts if not for Amber and Walky still being in a uncertain point in their relationship.
. . .Also when did Lucy get Walky’s phone number?
When she got his social media yesterday while talking to Billie.
Oh !
i just feel sorry for Lucy at this point.
Lucy has no chance of breaking up the one true pairing, Walky/McNuggets.
how do you always find the most appropriate avatar for your comments
Just lucky I guess.
Well there is always – manger à trois
It’s true. There is a cemetary in Florida full of Nazis who time-lept from 1944 in the hopes of overthrowing the United States. They emerged in 1983 and went SPLAT!
*plays The Beach Boys’ “I Get Around” on the hacked Muzak*
Seems there was another batch that showed up in 2016.
Oof.
Awww, Walky seems like he’d be fun to facetiously watch movies with. And Lucy is adorable.
I feel like Walky is the guy to watch Batman Forever with. I cannot tell if Amber and Ethan would be in the “haha this movie” or the “godDAMN IT, this movie!” camp, while Walky’s more detached from the subject
They can have mixed feelings. 😛
You did it Lucy! You caught a man! Might want to throw this one back though. He comes with baggage.
And it’s full of McNuggets.
Oh wait, maybe its not so bad then
Is there a rule in the Dumbingverse that if two women are interested in you you think about food? http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/wrong-3/
Well
If two women are interested –> Then exists
If exists –> thinks about food
Ergp:
If two women are interested –> thinks about food
Q.E.D.
I forgot how hot Joyce’s gameface was, wow.
True. Makes me wonder where and when, exactly, she learned / practiced that. Not from the two dates (Joe and Ethan) we’ve seen in DofA.
I don’t think Sierra has ever been shown to think about food.
Dr. Peppers doesn’t count.
*covers face* Lucy reminds me so so much of myself at that age. I just hope this crush ends less badly for her than it did for me!
*Pat’s hand*
“There, there, you are out of your most stupid years now.* Now we can enjoy these imaginary people doing the same mistakes.”
*) Apologies if not applicable
Of course. Who wants to share their McNugs?
Lucy is adorable but wanting to date Walky probably isn’t a good idea. The whole thing with Amber hasn’t been resolved yet and dude’s got a bunch of other baggage.
Crafty Lucy has a cute little scheme brewing…
…but frankly I think she’s unprepared for the amount of drama she’s about to unleash.
WHATEVER, STILL COUNTS AS A WIN FOR BILLIE!
“Crafty” is also a good word for the light physical contact she’s given him, which seems to be accepted.
I note that she didn’t tell him not to bring a date.
Heh, and she KNOWS he’s in the middle of an “it’s complicated”-situation.
Basically, she’s giving him an out – an invitation to something that’s simple and uncomplicated* for a few hours (and where, by pure coincidence, Lucy will be there to be simple and uncomplicated* with). And given how much Walky yearns for uncomplicated*, he might just go for it.
*) Yeah, as if.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I really hope other people show up. I really hate the thought process of “I’m going to invite this person under the premise that other people are there but hope that no one else shows up.” It feels SUPER sketchy to me. For me, the fact that Lucy’s thinking that way takes away most of her status as a “good person”. (before people ask, no, I’m not anti-shipping. I’m just anti that line of thinking)
That’s not at all what’s happening, though. There is no scheme, she has invited other people. She has no ulterior motives on it, just had a thought that even the shitty outcome of people blowing off her party might not be so bad.
I know it doesn’t fit the trope exactly. It just sets off alarm bells in my head because it’s so similar.
What trope is that?
It’s one where one partner invites someone to do something, saying there will be other people around (and thus claiming it won’t be a date and other people would be present to keep them feeling comfortable and casual) and not actually inviting everyone else and making up some excuse for why they’re the only two to show up.
It’s really not similar. The part that doesn’t “exactly fit” is the part that makes that trope sketchy in the first place (purposefully setting a trap and lying.) It’s like calling someone sketchy for saying “I hope my crush decides to come over and stay awhile” because that’s ‘similar’ to kidnapping.
My gosh, she’s been going around all this time inviting people. She wanted people to come. She didn’t know she’d run into Walky, but then she did. And now that she realizes she’s interested in him, and he’s agreed to come to the movie night, she has a (probably half-facetious) thought that maybe it might be better if no one came so she’d have Walky to herself. What is so terrible about having a random, maybe somewhat selfish thought? Even good people can be selfish sometimes. Nobody said Lucy was a saint.
What is it about Lucy that makes people ascribe such terrible motives to her, or to think everything that she might do that’s not 100% altruistic is somehow wrong or sketchy?
Everything is problematic and no one is pure
Also, if she really wants to get him alone, she can just ask him directly.
Apparently you’re a bad person if you have even one less than upstanding thought. And I thought I was a judgemental pain in the ass.
Lucy’s less sketchy than nearly the entire main cast. The only people she DOESN’T beat in that front off the top of my mind are Danny, Dina, Walky, Ethan, and maybe Becky.
Unless she has a sibling she’s spent her entire youth mistreating she definitely beats out Walky. Not to mention his gross toxic masculinity nonsense.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding “sketchy” (not a native speaker). I was under the impression it meant something in the lines of “underhanded”, which Walky most definitely isn’t.
Yeah, you’re right I had a different understanding of its meaning. Though that feels like a strange word choice since most of the cast isn’t really underhanded or at least not in the sense “sketchy” tends to imply.
Fun fact: We use a faux ‘Flight of the Navigator’ to teach pickers how to pick at my Amazon Fulfillment Center (it might be all of them, but I don’t want to assume.) Before working at Amazon, I’d never even heard of the movie. After training hundreds of people with it…. I still know absolutely nothing about the movie.
But when you get to the Flight of the Navigator part of training, you know you’re almost done and need to wake up and start paying attention.
It’s a fun little movie, just… kinda strange.
@Alt-text: You could straight nameswap the exchange from Back to the Future for the current U.S. president, and you wouldn’t need to change anything else about them. Not the emotions of incredulity and resignation they’re delivered with, and not even the prior profession.
I hate this flaccid cyberpunk future.
Idle musings on “Back to the Future” — in 2015, they had flying cars, self-tying shoes, accurate weather forecasting (or control of the weather itself), and hoverboards … but nary a sign of anything at all like a smartphone.
Basically, BttF2’s predictions were way off.
Well, the Cubs did win the World Series, just slightly off re the year.
…by which I mean, the movie got that wrong… (copyedit error), but the Cubs hadn’t even been to the Series since a decade before the flashback timeframe in the first movie.
Now I realize it was 40 years between the Cubs’ pennant in 1945 and BttF (1), and 30+ years between the first movie and the Cubs’ next pennant. And I feel not-young.
They actually got quite a bit right, not the least of which was cordial relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjnppyApI_gAhXmV98KHcGKCW0QFjAAegQICBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ffilm%2Ffilmblog%2F2015%2Fjan%2F02%2Fwhat-back-to-the-future-part-ii-got-right-and-wrong-about-2015-an-a-z&usg=AOvVaw3uiVT6bPSFThbl9wSC_Wf4
You WISH this was cyberpunk, because then at least we would be getting cool cyberpunk stuff. I think the word you’re looking for is “dystopian”.
Apparently, William Gibson considers our presence weirder than any future scenario he could dream up.
Have you tried describing humans? “It’s sort of this mostly hairless monkey that stands upright, covers itself in transformed plant or animal matter, and knowingly and willingly consumes poisons and subjects itself to sensorial overload. Also, a large number of them spend a large amount of time trying to kill each other over skin tone and imaginary friends.”
I mean, *I* don’t believe it.
“The place where the raising ape meets the falling angel…”
Thing is, BOTH apes and angels are absolutely absurd, in completely different ways.
Biff Tannen was partly based on Trump.
I is a bit of a bummer to know that we live in a timeline that exist only because some lazybutt of a timetraveler fudged something up.
I keep hoping that they’ll come along and fix the cock-up they made and we’ll wake up in the proper timeline not remembering any of this, like in any proper time travel storyline.
Maybe they did already.
Lucy’s really going for it with that arm grab. 10/10 flirting skills.
It’s moderately effective.
THOUGHT BUBBLES!
Is this a first in DoA and/or SP! ? Characters have talked to themselves and/or the fourth wall before, but always in speech balloons. My memory was never good and is fading with age, but I don’t recall ever seeing thought bubbles before.
Neither have I.
Two different colors…wonder if that means we’re getting more.
Walking with Dina had some. The subtitle implie that this may have been the first occurrence.
They were also colour coded for Dina and (towards the end) Becky.
There are even two characters who get to have an internal dialog.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/nearing/
They’re rare, but they happen occasionally.
I think this may have been the first instance in DoA, but I won’t swear to that.
The Doc Brown would be annoyed about our timeline having many fascists and an amoral tv celebrity as president of the USA.
Also, Lucy is showing her dark intentions. No “pure cinammon” character can exist in Willis works. None. I have been reading Roomies and I know the cynism of his work.
She gets to be pretty close, though
Dark intentions? She is a young woman with a crush who doesn’t realize it’s one sided.
She knows he’s into someone else, that is basically the first thing she learned about him, but hoping that whatever is making the relationship rocky will finish it off.
She also knows that it’s hardly started, even by the standards of college relationships.
Oh my god it isn’t “dark intentions” to want to have your crush to yourself it’s a pretty fucking natural desire and it’s not like she’s actively SCHEMING for it it’s just an idle thought on how it would be nice.
Lucy might entertain fantasies of being happy with Walky! The horror!
I don’t think Lucy having a crush on a guy and hoping to have a fun night watching a movie with him alone counts as “dark intentions”. Seems like pretty normal person-likes-somebody-else behavior to me.
Maybe the “dark intentions” are the movie. Like, if you really hate the idea of deliberately subjecting people to Sarah Jessica Parker, or something.
That DOES sound pretty bad, yeah.
I agree that people are being assholes about Lucy, but I’m preeetty sure abysswatcher was being facetious, guys.
Its hard to tell anymore since further up some clown is straight up declaring Lucy is no longer a good person because of this single thought she had. Parody of people being absurd about Lucy is no longer distinguishable from the real thing.
…Oh come the fuck on.
Yeah, so that movie is forshadowing when goes to the other hall, too, right?
Oh. No. That’s Walky in Billie’s “Popular” space.
THAT won’t bode well.
Neither will this thing Lucy has on Walky, while he’s still processing how the first girl he dates after his ex hurt his sister.
Jesus, Willis.
Homewrecker
More like dormroom-wrecker.
Which, when I think of it, sounds more like someone who likes to attend Billie’s kind of parties.
You know I had forgotten what it felt like to have a scary crazy old man with his finger on the nuclear button from when I was in my twenties. I don’t miss that feeling.
Because the current fingers are so much better?
Not particularly. Sometimes, though, I wish a motherfucker would.
Betcha YOU wouldn’t, because then you’d never get to play this:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/power-rangers-fighting-game-trailer-sees-mighty-mo/1100-6464495/
How did you know I would want to play that? I’ve never mentioned Power Rangers on this site.
I have semi phenomenal and nearly cosmic powers.
Wow, I totally identify with Walky at this point but he apparently had way more sex than I did in college.
Ronald Reagan? The ACTOR? HA! Then who’s Vice President? JERRY LEWIS?
This is heavy.
I always felt that Jerry would probably have been a better choice than an ex-CIA executive whose dad nearly ended up interned in the ’40s for being a Nazi sympathiser and whose loyalty to anyone except himself was always suspect.
oof lucy nO
ugh it wouldn’t let me hyper link this
This is the sort of scenario that could turn out wonderfully for both protagonists or it could turn out to be a total disaster on a social and emotional level. We will have to wait and see!
Fuck me running, she’s not about to date rape Walky. Take it easy, people.
I wonder if Walky even realizes that Lucy’s into him. I know if I were somehow in his place I most likely wouldn’t realize it.
I don’t think he is aware, no. Let’s face it, though, Lucy’s body language and the easy way she’s initiating contact with him should be an indicator to him that she finds him attractive.
I’d more think “…should be an indicator to (almost anyone)” v. (Walky, specifically)”.
Has he shown to be reasonably perceptive about these things?
Gods. I’m actually nostalgic for Ronald Reagan being President.
Hell, I’m starting to get nostalgic for Dubya.
Dubya still started a war on false pretenses and got a hundred, possibly several hundreds, of thousands killed. If anyone is actually nostalgic for him, you can bet they don’t live near the Middle East.
To be fair, Trump still has time to catch up, and with Bolton in there, it isn’t long odds he will.
There is never a reason to be nostalgic for Reagan. Be nostalgic for a president who wasn’t also a complete monster.
Right? I can dislike (and do) Bush Senior like a mofo, but I can at least respect the fact that the dude willingly and knowingly committed political suicide to try and save the US economy from the inane fuckery that are Reaganomics.
Another way Joyce and Lucy are alike I guess, lol
Rushing head first into one-sided Romance with guys who obviously don’t seem to be interested?….Yeah can see that.
oh Lucy, how your priorities have changed lol. Also god damnit. Don’t leave Amber in the dust like that Walky.
I strongly suspect that Amber has other things on her mind right now. She’s trying to step away from her past and its self-loathing to try to create a new future perspective. In some ways, I suspect that she may leave Walky in the dust, which is a shame but it is her choice.
He agreed to watch a movie.
Walky is clearly only in it for the mcnuggets.
Lucy is sweet! She expressed what she hopes in a completely healthy way!
“SHE WILL BE DESTROYED UTTERLY”
Wow, pretty dark internal demon voice!
What if Amber finds out about Walky and Lucy at the same time Dorothy finds out about Walky and Amber?
There would have to be a Walky and Lucy, for it to matter.
That alt-text though
Alright yeah if you told billie what the movie was she wouldn’t come and if you somehow did get her to come she would immediately leave
Lucy is so cute I kinda hope she and walky work out. Well I don’t care if it’s walky specifically I just want her to get what she wants I get the feeling it doesn’t happen often
I anti-ship this tremendously.
Like….ugh.
Lucy and Walky with ANYONE ELSE In the strip.
I wonder what Lucy thinks is going on with Walky and Amber – she was there when Walky spoke to Billie about him and Amber, but she might have latched onto Billie’s suggestion that Amber was a rebound fling for Walky, and not fully understood that Walky does have feelings for Amber. Either way, she does know that Walky’s really hot off the heels of a break up with Dorothy, and is either involved with, or very recently involved with, someone else. Really, she should have enough information to realise now is not the time to get involved with Walky. And it’s pretty plausible that she’ll realise that later on, in spite of the (currently perfectly innocent) instinctive crush thoughts she’s having here.
Well he did tell her it might be over I guess she’s just trying to put herself out there just in case. I don’t see anything too bad about this
Honestly not getting why Lucy is attracted to him. Dorothy and Amber I’ll buy because idk he’s relaxing to them in some ways and they’re pretty high strung and stressed ? But having a third girl after him is so bizarre to me all the same. Was Walky dumped in pheromones. Are McNuggets the true scent axe should be selling all along to jive with those weird ass ads a few years back.
Walky is apparently very physically attractive (and fit, although that seems a bit far fetched given his McNuggets diet), and let’s be honest, when you’re young and your hormones are cranked up to 11, you usually don’t look much deeper when deciding who you want to bang. 😉
Walky being fit is literally biologically impossible because he eats garbage and never exercises. At best his metabolism is fast enough that he doesn’t put on weight but there’s no way he’s like toned or something because nothing is happening to build the muscle mass necessary to be toned.
His metabolism will catch up to him eventually. It might just take a couple hundred years for the comic to progress that far.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Walky’s mom fed Walky and forced a diet of healthy food as well as exercise on him.
All that he’s abandoned in College.
It’s at least partially true. Walky takes his opportunity to eat way more cereal at university than he did at home because his mom can’t tell him not to eat it all day.
Not necessarily fit. Just cute. He’s not shown as muscular at any point at least
I recall that strip where the group goes swimming and Walky’s shown to have distinct abs (it’s the same strip where Dorothy comments that Walky looks like he’s sculpted out of chocolate), so he apparently does look pretty ripped.
Nature doesn’t care what you think is impossible. Ive known men with naturally ripped abs and ate and drank garbage.
For some reason ( i have no idea why ) i lot of men work their asses off to have calves that look like mine. Other than a terrible predisposition to getting charlie horses and normal walking ive done nothing to earn it.
Youth, good genes, high metabolism, high testosterone hasn’t discovered beer are all good explanation s.
Nature is slippery when bad habits catch up to people.
Any type of attraction to someone like Walky I think would be something one would haft to ease into, Which is what happened to Dorothy and Amber. Lucy is an odd case it took little to no time for her warm up to him after they met.
It’s got a similar feeling (for me anyway) to those crappy sitcoms where the father is a complete dingus yet somehow has a wife that should be way out of his league but is still really into him.
For being a super nerd, Lucy is way more assertive in pursuing her romantic interests than I could ever hope to be XD
Okay, now I kind of want to make a time travel movie in which someone travels from the eighties to 2019 and is all, “You maniacs! You blew it up!” Only it would be a horror film.
You’re trying to film my autobiography from the sounds of it.
I can only imagine the conflict that would arise if Walky ever met Ronnie from “Whomp!”
I fully believe Walky’s diet is new and the result of no longer having his mother looking over him.
…she has his phone number now ?
No, Lucy! Inviting Ruth is the only way to get anybody to go to your party!
. . . Then again, it will probably also be the reason that everyone leaves early.
Nah, inviting Ruth ENSURES that no one leaves early. No one who wants to live, at least.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/streaming/
“You get to leave or live – pick a homophone!”
Sierra, with sad voice: “I know my destiny. I have to leave.”
So if this comic is effected in anyway by a warped version of rom-com logic, I predict that by the time movie night starts Walky will have had a good talk with Sal, made up with Amber and both he and Amber will attend movie night together and cuddle during the movie. At least something along those lines anyway. Nothing against Lucy but I doubt she’s going to be thrilled with what comes when movie night starts at least in the romance department.
I hope he invites amber
… i kinda don’t get why so many people are romantically / sexually interested in Walky 😀 probably because he tends to also be interested despite seeming more of a mcnuggetsexual…
He’s using the same strategy I do: If a cute girl asks you out, say yes and hope for the best.
Shenanigans: There is NO Rifftrax for Flight of the Navigator, not anywhere on their site.
YOU, sir… are a liar. Good day.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
namedrop the rifftrax you want to see in the world
It’s one of those things to let you know it’s an alternate reality, like zeppelins everywhere.
You inspired me to Google Rifftrax, and I am glad you did. I knew they were basically heckling bad movies, I thought of them as a modern MSTK3000. But I just found out they are by the same people.