Versus having been kidnapped with her friends, watching someone’s Dad get murdered, and then losing one of the people in her peripheral friend group (also to murder)? Weird.
Even recently, I was with my friends having a picnic in a park, and some people were having a pizza party for Cub Scouts or something, and one of the leaders came over and asked if they could get some cups from us. Offered to pay, too, but we were like, “It’s fine, we have plenty! Take some, no worries.” Still. Potential business idea.
Which is my preferred amount of these things to own. Very difficult to have a sink full of dirty dishes when you don’t own a sink’s worth of dishes.
#lifehacks
I got my first automatic dishwasher a few years ago.
Friggin’ game changer.
Now my problem is habitually drawing clean dishes to use from the dishwasher instead if putting them away first, and letting dirty dishes stack up until I reload and wash them all whether they need it or not…
Dorothy, that’s a nice thought.
However, I think everyone will agree, that’s the most disappointing thing you could have brought to a party. And, despite being statistically the best option, it is also the most insulting because you’re assuming the host is incapable.
The thing with paper products is that they don’t go bad. If Sarah/Joyce is set for them, Dorothy’s can be used for the next party. And if they do need more, it’s pretty hard to find a substitute for cups.
(I’d say ice is the most likely to need more of, but that’s just a gut instinct.)
Every time I’ve brought dishes to a party, either everyone had the same idea or nobody else thought to bring any, with no in-between state. It’s strange to me that you assume somebody would be insulted by basic consideration.
I think Dorothy is having issues, she is even more gung-ho about helping people than usual. Is her secret weighing on her mind? I don’t think anyone else knows at this point.
I actually think she’ll flourish there. The problem is when she’s on top of things academically her mind seems starved for stimulation so she hyper focuses on overly pleasing people. Despite neglecting her hygiene or eating she was actually way more balanced when she had a full workload, or a significant other to distract her.
That’s… pretty unhealthy though. Like she was studying so hard she basically missed three days once.
The fact is, if Dorothy can’t keep up her grades while having a semblance of a healthy life here, she’s going to burn herself to cinders trying to keep up at Yale.
She improved her grades in like a weekend. That’s not something most people can do. Look at Walky from last semester, who essentially failed his math class despite having multiple weeks to work on it. She does need to work on that social life but I don’t think burnout is the problem. It never really was. Dorothy thrives in this academic/problem solving scenario.
I’m actually still a little confused about that Walky math grade thing. Didn’t he only have a chance to pass because Amber changed his grades to be salvageable? He did put in work to pass, but the point is that Dorothy is a bit of a genius when it comes to academic studying.
I don’t think it was really clear. That was before the midterm, so normally I’d expect not too much of his grade to set in stone yet. I’d argue that the grade change mostly made him feel he had a chance and it was the help studying that really made the difference, but most of that took place off-screen even before the time skip, so it never really got explained.
We saw Amber and Mike talking about him being ADHD. We saw some suggestions about helping him study. And we saw him make the commitment to go take the test after the kidnapping, rather than use it as an excuse to postpone – which was a big psychological step, but wouldn’t actually work unless he’d already figured out how to study and caught up.
As I said, I don’t think that worked out well narratively. Felt like it mostly got pushed to the side and not wrapped up well.
Dorothy has always hyper fixated on people pleasing and seeking external validation. “Treating everything like she’s being graded” to paraphrase this comic.
I think when she has a higher workload and is actually being graded she’s more able to prioritize what really matters to her a bit more. Which isn’t’ actually making everyone like her. I think that’s just the mindset she defaults to when she doesn’t have anything to do.
It’s probably better when she’s dating because despite her failing grades Walky was actually a good influence on her because he was helping her relax. Watching cartoons, banging and napping, having fun chasing after AG, I think Sierra even mentioned it.
To continue the hall monitor discussion I started yesterday: in my elementary school, fifth graders who were on something called “Service Squad” had hall monitor duty as one of the rotations, and yeah, that was basically just “sit in the hall during lunch for a week and tell kids not to run.” In high school, though, the hall monitors were actual hired adults.
They basically monitored passing times and lunches, would check your pass if you were in the halls during class time, that sort of stuff. My senior year, the hall monitors got uniforms as a result of the school district going through a company to employ the hall monitors (even though they were largely the same people who had already been working there), and that was the outfit I mimicked for my Halloween costume.
lol i feel like the ‘enjoying halloween’ would balance/cancel out with “a bunch of ppl in our dorm for a ‘party'” but nice to see her having fun (wonder if the breakup will make her feel ecstatic b/c she hates billie or in a worse mood for ‘ruining’ the party)
Sure, and then when they inevitably forget something, this hypothetical perfectionist probably blames somebody else because “I don’t make mistakes”. Tolerance is fine, up to a point.
Normally, true, but non-perishables like this are always easy to find a use for, especially in a college setting where get-togethers are always going on, big and small.
well in joyce’s case she’d prolly be more in love with how considerate/prepared dorothy is/other than some food issues i don’t really think joyce would be too controlling over the party
disposable, single-use plastic? tsk tsk Dorothy, a real presidential candidate thinks about the environment more than about convenience
(I’m mostly joking)
OTOH, I read that the stuff they do to paper cups to make them waterproof makes them harder to recycle, which is why I invested in a reusable Costa Coffee cup. Maybe plastic cups are actually easier to recycle?
Hell yeah! Those are the kinds of things you bring that don’t always get appreciated by the guests when they’re younger but when you’re a couple years older, you will be your friends’ lifesaver, Dorothy.
The fun part of a long-running semi-serious slice of life that’s also a gag-a-day is that you never know whether a punchline is just a silly goof that you can afford to forget about for another year and a half, or foreshadowing for an imminent crisis brought on by a character’s escalating neuroses.
It’s also only a few bucks, as opposed to about $25 for enough cups to distribute, plus dishwashing liquid to wash them later, plus something to store them in after the fact, and you’d better hope nobody breaks one. Costs less in the long run, probably, but tell that to people who don’t have long-run money.
Yeah yeah, plastic bad grr, but let’s not wag our fingers at broke kids as one of the main causes of pollution. There’s a point where individual civilian responsibility stops being worth the fuss and it becomes more useful to take aim at the corporations producing the products.
I thought the typical bad outcome was for everyone to bring cups and napkins, leaving the host scrambling for food and beverage at the last moment? Joyce did assign some things though so that probably wouldn’t happen this time anyway
I had a ‘bring some food or drinks’ pay once, but didn’t specify who should bring what – so pretty much everyone showed up with a large bottle of coke.
Interesting Amber seems more positive and social here than she does in the present comic. I know we were under the impression it was all to do with Mike’s death but I’m wondering if it’s something else now.
Could both be for that reason. When you’re in acute pain from someone just having died, the distraction that social interaction can provide outweighs the introversion.
She and Walky are also still together here, and she hasn’t been rebuffed by Ethan for three months straight yet. It’s also possible that the death just hasn’t really sunk in yet.
Yep, like especially given A. it’s the kind of thing that you might forget or run out of, and B. even if you don’t use them all, might save you from having to do dishes for a little bit with the leftovers.
Another thing people overlook is that you absolutely can wash cheap plastic cups if you really wanna be a fussbudget about things. They wear out pretty quickly and yadda yadda microplastics, but it can be done.
I may as well hop on this “Let’s make the worst conclusion about cartoon women” bandwagon, since it seems fun.
Everyone is always on about Sarah being a great big sourpuss, and now they’re essentially punishing her for showing genuine mirth. It’s a really crappy dynamic, if we’re being honest with ourselves.
I’m reminded of a magic item somebody drew recently (?) called a Bra of Holding, that has a pocket dimension on the inside parts and looks more or less like a binder. That’s a sort of “cupspace”, I’d think.
I love when someone posts a hilarious joke, and then posts an apology for the sheer audacity of the joke which, in fact, just makes it all that much funnier.
Did Dorothy have those cups and plates with her this whole time? Where was she hiding them? I didn’t see a backpack or anything else she could’ve used to carry them.
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Sarah wins scariest costume
y’know, since Mike‘s disqualified
… why did you choose that comic in particular?
probably because of him smiling even if it does look awkward/strained lol
I’m guessing from Ana’s first comment about Mike’s face really made the comic memorable to them.
Is Dorothy okay? I feel like she was actually healthier when she was academically failing.
well she did have a bombshell dropped on her when she had that talk with ruth
Versus having been kidnapped with her friends, watching someone’s Dad get murdered, and then losing one of the people in her peripheral friend group (also to murder)? Weird.
So, you know how Sarah’s happiness is inversely proportional to that of those around her?
This does not bode well.
Or Halloween is Sarah’s favorite holiday, and this is the one day a year she’s allows herself to be happy without any ridiculous self-imposed caveats.
Yes, this ^
Both can be true.
Our maybe Halloween is her favourite holiday *because* it makes everyone else miserable. Maybe that’s just an established fact in their universe.
Since when does Halloween make everyone else miserable? I find it’s the most loved holiday. People start preparing for it in the summer lol
Dorothy’s got a point about plates and cups.
Especially in college. Everyone I knew had like one plate, bowl, and set of silverware.
Even recently, I was with my friends having a picnic in a park, and some people were having a pizza party for Cub Scouts or something, and one of the leaders came over and asked if they could get some cups from us. Offered to pay, too, but we were like, “It’s fine, we have plenty! Take some, no worries.” Still. Potential business idea.
Pizza party for cub scouts with no cups –>???–> Profit.
Which is my preferred amount of these things to own. Very difficult to have a sink full of dirty dishes when you don’t own a sink’s worth of dishes.
#lifehacks
or don’t own a sink
I got my first automatic dishwasher a few years ago.
Friggin’ game changer.
Now my problem is habitually drawing clean dishes to use from the dishwasher instead if putting them away first, and letting dirty dishes stack up until I reload and wash them all whether they need it or not…
How is that a problem?
I leave the dishwasher door open and the drawers pulled out, and have walked into them in the dark on multiple occasions.
Good call there, Amber.
I don’t know, Amber. Sarah looks plenty scary.
Which Amber?
Here. Have an Internet.
Dorothy, that’s a nice thought.
However, I think everyone will agree, that’s the most disappointing thing you could have brought to a party. And, despite being statistically the best option, it is also the most insulting because you’re assuming the host is incapable.
The thing with paper products is that they don’t go bad. If Sarah/Joyce is set for them, Dorothy’s can be used for the next party. And if they do need more, it’s pretty hard to find a substitute for cups.
(I’d say ice is the most likely to need more of, but that’s just a gut instinct.)
“The thing with paper products is that they don’t go bad”
Counterpoint: The New York Times.
I once brought the game Oodles to a party in high school and one guy got mad because he thought it was going to be O’Doul’s.
Just about every search result I got for O’Doul’s came up as non-alcoholic beer. Beer already sucks, why remove the one good part of it?
Some people don’t partake in alcohol, because they’re afraid if they do they’ll listen to their intrusive thoughts.
Kaliber is better, anyway.
O’Doul’s Amber isn’t terrible. Regular O’Doul’s is.
Yeah, but what I’m asking is, if you’re not getting drunk, why drink piss?
Tastes vary. Why get drunk if you can have fun without it?
Why eat a brownie when you can have some nice boiled celery? What kind of a question is that? I’m insulting the taste of beer, not somebody’s kid.
Got pretty “yikes” there, friend.
It’s just funny because nobody gave the obvious “because they like the taste” answer, but focused on “maybe they don’t want to get drunk”.
When I don’t want to get drunk, I drink juice or soda, not imitation alcohol.
Because we were in high school and parents were in attendance?
Every time I’ve brought dishes to a party, either everyone had the same idea or nobody else thought to bring any, with no in-between state. It’s strange to me that you assume somebody would be insulted by basic consideration.
Pretty sure the most disappointing thing I ever brought to a party was me.
*plays Genesis’ “Paperlate” on the hacked Muzak*
Wow. Reached wayyy back into the collection for that one! Haven’t heard that in decades. Thanks!
Any excuse for Genesis is fine by me, and 70’s Genesis? Even better.
omg i r teh dum, I thought it was on Spot The Pigeon EP, but it’s not, so actually not 70’s. Oops.
The Genesis didn’t come out until 1988 though
That’s not when St. Peter put down the lamb in Broadway.
Going on a limb here, but given that Dorothy got her Yale acceptance letter after the time skip, she’s probably hardcore stressing out about that.
Oh yeah, she also got a bunch of bad grades recently in comic time too, right? So that’s a double whammy.
I think Dorothy is having issues, she is even more gung-ho about helping people than usual. Is her secret weighing on her mind? I don’t think anyone else knows at this point.
I don’t know that even she knows at this point.
Wait, what secret. What am I forgetting…
…yeah, given the amount of stress that Dorothy is under just from this, I kinda get the feeling she’s gonna crash and burn at Yale.
I actually think she’ll flourish there. The problem is when she’s on top of things academically her mind seems starved for stimulation so she hyper focuses on overly pleasing people. Despite neglecting her hygiene or eating she was actually way more balanced when she had a full workload, or a significant other to distract her.
That’s… pretty unhealthy though. Like she was studying so hard she basically missed three days once.
The fact is, if Dorothy can’t keep up her grades while having a semblance of a healthy life here, she’s going to burn herself to cinders trying to keep up at Yale.
She improved her grades in like a weekend. That’s not something most people can do. Look at Walky from last semester, who essentially failed his math class despite having multiple weeks to work on it. She does need to work on that social life but I don’t think burnout is the problem. It never really was. Dorothy thrives in this academic/problem solving scenario.
Walky, who managed to turn his math class around well enough to pass despite being nearly completely lost weeks before the midterm.
Honestly, I kind of feel like both those plots didn’t get justice. The Dorothy one kind of feels like it was just an excuse to break up her and Walky.
Yeah, but Walky had Amazigirl explaining it and working with him, which probably had more of an effect than Amber wiping out the bad grades.
I’m actually still a little confused about that Walky math grade thing. Didn’t he only have a chance to pass because Amber changed his grades to be salvageable? He did put in work to pass, but the point is that Dorothy is a bit of a genius when it comes to academic studying.
I don’t think it was really clear. That was before the midterm, so normally I’d expect not too much of his grade to set in stone yet. I’d argue that the grade change mostly made him feel he had a chance and it was the help studying that really made the difference, but most of that took place off-screen even before the time skip, so it never really got explained.
We saw Amber and Mike talking about him being ADHD. We saw some suggestions about helping him study. And we saw him make the commitment to go take the test after the kidnapping, rather than use it as an excuse to postpone – which was a big psychological step, but wouldn’t actually work unless he’d already figured out how to study and caught up.
As I said, I don’t think that worked out well narratively. Felt like it mostly got pushed to the side and not wrapped up well.
I have literally no idea what you mean by “balanced ” here…
Dorothy has always hyper fixated on people pleasing and seeking external validation. “Treating everything like she’s being graded” to paraphrase this comic.
I think when she has a higher workload and is actually being graded she’s more able to prioritize what really matters to her a bit more. Which isn’t’ actually making everyone like her. I think that’s just the mindset she defaults to when she doesn’t have anything to do.
It’s probably better when she’s dating because despite her failing grades Walky was actually a good influence on her because he was helping her relax. Watching cartoons, banging and napping, having fun chasing after AG, I think Sierra even mentioned it.
I haven’t seen her that happy since the future.
A Dorothy-Amber palette swap would be much scarier.
To continue the hall monitor discussion I started yesterday: in my elementary school, fifth graders who were on something called “Service Squad” had hall monitor duty as one of the rotations, and yeah, that was basically just “sit in the hall during lunch for a week and tell kids not to run.” In high school, though, the hall monitors were actual hired adults.
They basically monitored passing times and lunches, would check your pass if you were in the halls during class time, that sort of stuff. My senior year, the hall monitors got uniforms as a result of the school district going through a company to employ the hall monitors (even though they were largely the same people who had already been working there), and that was the outfit I mimicked for my Halloween costume.
lol i feel like the ‘enjoying halloween’ would balance/cancel out with “a bunch of ppl in our dorm for a ‘party'” but nice to see her having fun (wonder if the breakup will make her feel ecstatic b/c she hates billie or in a worse mood for ‘ruining’ the party)
Honestly, Dorothy is a good guest, even if she is a bit intense about it.
yeah, intensity aside i’m sure lots of ppl would want a guest this considerate, if not straight up in charge of organizing things like this
I dunno, some perfectionists who want to be on top of anything might take offense that someone brought things ‘just in case they were forgotten’.
Some perfectionists can get over themselves and admit to the occasional mistake, then.
that’s the thing, though: they can’t.
Then they can stay out of the way.
Tolerance for other peoples idiosyncrasies?
I mean, most of us have enough of our own.
Sure, and then when they inevitably forget something, this hypothetical perfectionist probably blames somebody else because “I don’t make mistakes”. Tolerance is fine, up to a point.
Normally, true, but non-perishables like this are always easy to find a use for, especially in a college setting where get-togethers are always going on, big and small.
well in joyce’s case she’d prolly be more in love with how considerate/prepared dorothy is/other than some food issues i don’t really think joyce would be too controlling over the party
The cast mocks Dorothy but guess what item my oldest brother, who almost always makes a spreadsheet for vacations/holidays, consistently forgets?
The answer is cups, but more specifically shot glasses.
disposable, single-use plastic? tsk tsk Dorothy, a real presidential candidate thinks about the environment more than about convenience
(I’m mostly joking)
Those might be paper cups, like Dixie ones or something, but yeah, probably the red plastic ones.
She says “plastic cups”.
OTOH, I read that the stuff they do to paper cups to make them waterproof makes them harder to recycle, which is why I invested in a reusable Costa Coffee cup. Maybe plastic cups are actually easier to recycle?
Or you could stick the plastic cups in the dishwasher and reuse them.
Hell yeah! Those are the kinds of things you bring that don’t always get appreciated by the guests when they’re younger but when you’re a couple years older, you will be your friends’ lifesaver, Dorothy.
The fun part of a long-running semi-serious slice of life that’s also a gag-a-day is that you never know whether a punchline is just a silly goof that you can afford to forget about for another year and a half, or foreshadowing for an imminent crisis brought on by a character’s escalating neuroses.
Plastic cups? Ouch
is there something wrong with that? other than environmental reasons but seems pretty common for a party esp college aged ones
It’s also only a few bucks, as opposed to about $25 for enough cups to distribute, plus dishwashing liquid to wash them later, plus something to store them in after the fact, and you’d better hope nobody breaks one. Costs less in the long run, probably, but tell that to people who don’t have long-run money.
Yeah yeah, plastic bad grr, but let’s not wag our fingers at broke kids as one of the main causes of pollution. There’s a point where individual civilian responsibility stops being worth the fuss and it becomes more useful to take aim at the corporations producing the products.
Hey, red Solo cups are cheap and disposable, and in fourteen years they are decomposable.
I thought the typical bad outcome was for everyone to bring cups and napkins, leaving the host scrambling for food and beverage at the last moment? Joyce did assign some things though so that probably wouldn’t happen this time anyway
I had a ‘bring some food or drinks’ pay once, but didn’t specify who should bring what – so pretty much everyone showed up with a large bottle of coke.
Interesting Amber seems more positive and social here than she does in the present comic. I know we were under the impression it was all to do with Mike’s death but I’m wondering if it’s something else now.
Could both be for that reason. When you’re in acute pain from someone just having died, the distraction that social interaction can provide outweighs the introversion.
She and Walky are also still together here, and she hasn’t been rebuffed by Ethan for three months straight yet. It’s also possible that the death just hasn’t really sunk in yet.
…I’m reminded of a gag from YuGiOh Abridged, that every time Seto Kaiba smiles, a puppy dies.
Sarah has that kind of smile going on right now…
Dorothy is ready on being graded on bringing party supplies
She should have cosplayed as Hermione instead of Velma
Dang Dorothy isn’t coping well is she….?
I did not expect it this fast.
She’s been cracking since “Grain for her grismill” or whatever DX
The twins are talking
Just saying that no one has ever been annoyed when I sign myself up to bring cups/paper plates/etc on the potluck list
Yep, like especially given A. it’s the kind of thing that you might forget or run out of, and B. even if you don’t use them all, might save you from having to do dishes for a little bit with the leftovers.
Another thing people overlook is that you absolutely can wash cheap plastic cups if you really wanna be a fussbudget about things. They wear out pretty quickly and yadda yadda microplastics, but it can be done.
Telling people what they suppose to bring in a party: an important non-writen rule in our society, like…
Like what? Are you gonna write any of those rules?
That’s the trouble with a list of unwritten rules. As soon as you write one down they don’t belong on the list.
I may as well hop on this “Let’s make the worst conclusion about cartoon women” bandwagon, since it seems fun.
Everyone is always on about Sarah being a great big sourpuss, and now they’re essentially punishing her for showing genuine mirth. It’s a really crappy dynamic, if we’re being honest with ourselves.
Someone is punishing Sarah?
I’m not sure if finding an unaccustomed expression on her face a little frightening is exactly punishment.
Dorothy fumbles and drops them all.
“MY GLASSES!”
“I CAN’T SEE WITHOUT MY GLASSES!”
Then Joe comes in wearing a black T, a blonde pompadour, and sun glasses and trips on Dorothy.
“I CAN’T BE SEEN WITHOUT MY GLASSES!”
A+ deep cut!
I always think of this whenever I’m reminded of Velma’s line.
Props to 90s CN for always having Jonny get his ass kicked when he’s being an ass and only rewarding him when he cleans up his act.
“Jinkies? Isn’t that a breakfast cereal or something?”
It reminded me of Velma losing her glasses and Johnny Bravo finding them for her.
That was embarrassing
QUICK!- How many comments do you think will mention ‘hammerspace’??
Yours and maybe a couple deliberately engaging with it.
It’s more “cupspace”
…that sound wrong, somehow.
I’m reminded of a magic item somebody drew recently (?) called a Bra of Holding, that has a pocket dimension on the inside parts and looks more or less like a binder. That’s a sort of “cupspace”, I’d think.
“Accio!”
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/02-everything-youve-ever-wanted/stashed/
(Autocorrect wants to turn “Accio” into “ACIP”, which… fits, actually.)
Dorothy – Always ready
ALWAYS
Except that one time she watched Amber turn a guy into spaghetti. That seemed to catch her off guard.
That’s why she always has parmesan cheese with her now.
Damn. Two Internets in one night.
Oh, wait. That was Needfuldoer.
*Steals Needfuldoer’s Internet when they aren’t looking and hands it to Yumi.
Aw 🙁
*slips needfuldoer an extra internet and a coupon for orange juice, on the sly*
newest slipshine comic: Where She was Keeping That
This is gross I’m sorry
Are you saying she pulled them out of her ass?
I love when someone posts a hilarious joke, and then posts an apology for the sheer audacity of the joke which, in fact, just makes it all that much funnier.
Did Dorothy have those cups and plates with her this whole time? Where was she hiding them? I didn’t see a backpack or anything else she could’ve used to carry them.
They were shrunk and then she used her magnifying glass.
Next question.
I’d give you an Internet, but somebody stole it while I wasn’t looking.
Gasp! Who would do such a thing?
Soooo Dorothy is not in fact coping well. That nail just keeps getting hammered in harder.
nah
she’s fine.
Is Sarah even more happy now because Dorothy, Dinah and Becky went all in their costumes and her loving halloween self is getting dopamine?