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Surprised

by David M Willis on May 14, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Answers in Hennessy

└ Tags: joyce, sal, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    May 14, 2013 at 12:01 am | #

    FOOMP

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 14, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      And Joyce is right next to her. You think she found Sal’s hair hard to resist before? Now it’s actively consuming her.

      • otusasio451
        otusasio451
        May 14, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

        Are you suggesting…that Sal’s hair is alive?

        Good Lord. We’ll all perish.

        • Björn
          Björn
          May 14, 2013 at 5:41 am | #

          It doesn’t get much hotter than this. 😀

    • stevecharb
      stevecharb
      May 14, 2013 at 9:30 am | #

      Welcome to the 80’s!

      • Jenny Creed
        Jenny Creed
        July 27, 2013 at 1:55 pm | #

        I wondered where the eighties went. Apparently they put all of it into Sal and went out of business.

    • Jehosaphat
      Jehosaphat
      May 14, 2013 at 9:53 am | #

      Sploosh.

  2. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    May 14, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    This is either really good or really bad

    • NerdHerder
      NerdHerder
      May 14, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

      I choose to think of it as a FOOMP of victory.

      • Bearer of Bear News
        Bearer of Bear News
        May 14, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

        Well, before she tried hard and still didn’t do well…

        She was never shown to actually learn the material, so it is doubtful her showing was any better than before.

        So her confidence is all from having sex with the TA. He is a stickler for rules and her surprise means it probably is a FOOMP of shocked defeat.

        • CiaranLovejoy
          CiaranLovejoy
          May 14, 2013 at 3:25 am | #

          That’s what I was thinking, Jason probably still gave her a bad grade and took the sex as a given, thinking that they actually shared something special, which clearly they did, but Sal wont admit it to herself.

          • Sailor_Arashi
            Sailor_Arashi
            May 14, 2013 at 3:57 am | #

            You’re both wrong. Someone just shot her in the back of the back of the head with a vortex gun. That’s the sound they make, too!

            • Ivan
              Ivan
              May 14, 2013 at 4:22 am | #

              That’s a pretty risky approach for a TA – who could be accused of taking advantage of a failing student, if not worse, unless he video tapes everything as I do, as an instructor…. I MEAN, UNLESS THERE WAS A WITNESS!!

              • Cancerous Tomato
                Cancerous Tomato
                May 14, 2013 at 9:44 am | #

                Yeahhh, he was pretty much backed into a corner once they had sex. If he fails her, she complains he slept with her under false pretenses, and he gets into boatloads of trouble. If he passes her despite her abysmal showing, he’s guilty of some pretty serious academic dishonesty, not to mention actually sleeping with her in exchange for grades.

                • Notebooked
                  Notebooked
                  May 14, 2013 at 4:27 pm | #

                  I’m not sure even Sal slept with him in exchange for good grades, really. She seemed to want sex for sex.
                  (If she’s got a good grade, and this turns out to be a FOOMP of triumph, I wonder if this won’t lead her to a crisis of conscience in that she knows she hasn’t changed enough to facilitate that good a grade, leading her to confront Jason about it and so on.)

                • Yarrr
                  Yarrr
                  May 14, 2013 at 6:33 pm | #

                  Sal seems a bit cool for that. It’s not like he came on to her anyway.

                • Logit
                  Logit
                  May 14, 2013 at 8:59 pm | #

                  There is a pretty easy out to said corner. Just have the professor grade her paper.

        • JepMZ
          JepMZ
          May 14, 2013 at 5:31 pm | #

          No way, man. She didn’t do it for the grades! She gave up and did something completely different, which is what she was telling Joyce about.

          She expected to see a gigantic zero on her paper, hehe

  3. piemanpie24
    piemanpie24
    May 14, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Are those cameos I see?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 14, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      and thanks to Sal’s hair, they will never be seen again.

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 14, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    That full-body shampoo really works wonders.

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      May 14, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      Indeed. The extra “bounce”.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 14, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

        She needs to invest in some smoothing conditioner though.

        • Portmaneau
          Portmaneau
          May 14, 2013 at 8:18 am | #

          Who needs conditioner when the results are all over the place?

  5. Leorale
    Leorale
    May 14, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Yay, now Sal has hair like mine! FOOMP for the win.

    • Kannyn
      Kannyn
      May 14, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

      Says the Galasso gravatar.

      • Geegles
        Geegles
        May 14, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

        Yells Ruth back at yelling Galasso…

        • Vabolo
          Vabolo
          May 14, 2013 at 12:51 am | #

          Smiles Joyce at the avatars.

          • VMtheCoyote
            VMtheCoyote
            May 14, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

            comments the… the… the abomination.

            • Icalasari
              Icalasari
              May 14, 2013 at 2:44 am | #

              Guess the abomination gave your avatar a headache?

              • Resne
                Resne
                May 14, 2013 at 4:37 am | #

                Dat top hat.

                • cookie1995
                  cookie1995
                  May 14, 2013 at 4:01 pm | #

                  Dem Sunglasses

                • Makkabee
                  Makkabee
                  May 14, 2013 at 5:47 pm | #

                  Dose eyebrows.

                • Usayasha
                  Usayasha
                  May 19, 2013 at 6:22 pm | #

                  Motorcyccccccllllllllleeee…..

          • Björn
            Björn
            May 14, 2013 at 5:44 am | #

            At first I thought your avatar’s nostrils were the eyes. That made it even more abomination-y. 🙂

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      May 14, 2013 at 1:05 am | #

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0imDALBHI

      • Aras Pabedinskas
        Aras Pabedinskas
        May 14, 2013 at 8:52 am | #

        That is frightfully appropriate.

  6. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 14, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Her grade was so sexy that she got immediate sex hair.

    • ArkhamTexan
      ArkhamTexan
      May 14, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      It gives me the impression she leaves her sex hair untouched.

      … Hot.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 14, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

        But how will she put her helmut back on?

        • ArkhamTexan
          ArkhamTexan
          May 14, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

          Oh, THAT hair!

          • Aras Pabedinskas
            Aras Pabedinskas
            May 14, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

            Now I want to see a photoshop of Sal with Melonhead Ethan’s hair.

  7. Yusaku777
    Yusaku777
    May 14, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Ok, starting a petition to get an animated gif of Sal’s hair going poof.
    “We, the undersigned…”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 14, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      Ah man. If I had more time on my hands…

    • Welknair
      Welknair
      May 14, 2013 at 1:20 am | #

      Do want.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      May 14, 2013 at 4:27 am | #

      I’m in…

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      May 14, 2013 at 5:00 am | #

      Where do I sign?

    • molochmachine
      molochmachine
      May 14, 2013 at 6:39 am | #

      Sick today, so I had a little time to mess around with this:

      http://s4.postimg.org/mhrakgp99/sal.gif

      • Yusaku777
        Yusaku777
        May 14, 2013 at 6:45 am | #

        You, Sir and/or Madam, are truly an inspiration, and a generation thanks you for your work!

      • ASmellyOgre
        ASmellyOgre
        May 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm | #

        That is AWESOME.

        • ASmellyOgre
          ASmellyOgre
          May 14, 2013 at 4:17 pm | #

          I hope you don’t mind, molochmachine, but I put that up on Tumblr because it is just TOO good. It links back to your post here, but if you want me to change that to some personal blog or something I’d be more than happy to.

          • molochmachine
            molochmachine
            May 15, 2013 at 1:25 am | #

            No prob at all, this is the only place i posted it. Just messin’ around. Share away 🙂

    • Portmaneau
      Portmaneau
      May 14, 2013 at 8:17 am | #

      We the people have spoken

  8. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    May 14, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Hey, that’s one of my wig powers.
    http://www.wonderwigandalfredoboy.com/?p=238

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 14, 2013 at 12:45 am | #

      I only hope she uses her powers for GOOD instead of EVIL!

      • hmrc4evr
        hmrc4evr
        May 14, 2013 at 2:36 am | #

        Heh. Good to see another Between Failures reader over here Plas. Great avatar.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 14, 2013 at 4:21 am | #

          Kiitti! ^_^ I’ve being reading BF for a couple of years now.

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        May 14, 2013 at 4:27 am | #

        I hope she uses her powers for nudity!

        • Felix Kütt
          Felix Kütt
          May 14, 2013 at 10:15 am | #

          *add’s an infinite loop of g+1’s*

  9. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    May 14, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Reminds me of my adventures in trying to get my hair under control.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 14, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Does that mean that you have a jewfro?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 14, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

        No. (S)he’s a hair trainer. (S)he had to whip it into submission.

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          May 14, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

          It’s not easy to wear a condom hat with poofy hair.

          • Animal
            Animal
            May 14, 2013 at 10:05 am | #

            I really don’t want to know how you know that.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        May 14, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

        Maybe? All I know is that my parents have really curly hair, and as a result, so do I.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          May 14, 2013 at 1:52 pm | #

          Well, Afros come from people of African decent.
          Jewfros usually refer to people of European Jewish decent, like Einstein.

          Arabic peeps can have curly as well (shouldn’t be a shock cause well Middle east is right next to Africa and Jerusalem is part of the Middle East) but we don’t have a term for that.

          I’d personally suggest “Afghanfros” but that only narrows is down to Afghanis and Arab-os sounds too much like a racist cereal.

  10. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 14, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    In the fifth panel, the Cthulhu hair consumes those two unfortunate students standing behind Sal.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 14, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      That’s where she gets her power.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 14, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

        and here is the proof!

  11. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 14, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    Hmmm, good or bad?

    If it’s good, maybe she picked up more during those tutoring sessions than she thought. Or mathematical skill is sexually transmitted.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 14, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      Wow. Maybe I should consider getting with girls who are good at math. And also having the kind of personality that makes people want to be with me.

    • SUGauthor
      SUGauthor
      May 14, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      Well my knee jerk reaction is that Jason is giving her special treatment, in which case I’ve lost all respect for him, I do suppose its possible that she just remembers this tutoring session better though.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        May 14, 2013 at 12:53 am | #

        I’m generally pretty honest and all, but if I got some Sal bonky tonkin’, I’d commit all sorts of heinous atrocities for her.

        …I mean, that’s romantic, right?
        …..Right?

    • clodia
      clodia
      May 14, 2013 at 4:15 pm | #

      I feel like she ought to know the results if she put her honest effort in. If she did poorly and knew it, and wasn’t relying on having boned the TA, then she shouldn’t be so cocky. If she did well, surely she’d know.

      The only way I can see her having an honestly good grade is if she didn’t put much thought into it because she thought the TA would pass her, but went ahead and quickly picked what seemed to be the right answers. In such a scenario, the explanation would be that by not overthinking it, she managed to actually grasp the material. Which would prompt further study sessions. This is my preferred outcome.

  12. Z3tto
    Z3tto
    May 14, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

    Clearly Sal’s about to go Super Saiyan on Jason’s ass.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 14, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      Not gold enough. She’s only Raditz level Saiyan.

      • james
        james
        May 14, 2013 at 3:56 am | #

        well at least she’s not Yamcha

    • Neospector
      Neospector
      May 14, 2013 at 11:05 am | #

      Curses, my best joke stolen!
      That means I have to go with the “Hair” references.

  13. S. Sagara
    S. Sagara
    May 14, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    :prays that’s a good foomp:

  14. NaYa
    NaYa
    May 14, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    Chi-chi-chi-chia!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 14, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      Can Chia-Sal be a new stretch goal added to the Kickstarter? 😉

  15. Yusaku777
    Yusaku777
    May 14, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

    Everyone is jumping to “She got an awesome grade!” Am I the only one who clearly sees this as “The bastard gave me an F after I gave him an O?!?!”

    • vsophi
      vsophi
      May 14, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

      That’s what I assumed.

    • Terrh
      Terrh
      May 14, 2013 at 12:25 am | #

      I agree here. My gut feeling is she failed big-time

    • Memyself
      Memyself
      May 14, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      I assumed a bad grade.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 14, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

        When you assume you make an ass out of uma thurman.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 14, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

          She needs no help in that department. 😛

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          May 14, 2013 at 12:54 am | #

          Especially by misspelling her name

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            May 14, 2013 at 12:58 am | #

            I…I think I spelled it right.

            • AgentKeen
              AgentKeen
              May 14, 2013 at 1:00 am | #

              (I meant in assumE, sorry, joke fail….)

    • J-Dawg
      J-Dawg
      May 14, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

      Yeah. I also assumed it was a bad grade. Raping your teacher isn’t usually the way to get preferential treatment on scoring. I kind of wish we’d gotten to see the aftermath of their tryst. Given Jason’s personality, I can’t imagine it being anything but awkward.

      • fit-to-freak
        fit-to-freak
        May 14, 2013 at 12:50 am | #

        Wait Sal raped him???? Fuck I need to re-read that part.

        • Ivan
          Ivan
          May 14, 2013 at 4:47 am | #

          It could have been that she was just lousy compared to the older (and needs more representation!!!) Penny!!

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          May 14, 2013 at 10:22 am | #

          Eh, she didn’t ask, and she jumped him. He had expressed attraction to her before that, so I wouldn’t be surprised if in the moment he acquiesced, or simply didn’t say anything against it, but if he said to stop even once, then yeah.

  16. Tan
    Tan
    May 14, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

    I admit, I am surprised.

  17. ridtom
    ridtom
    May 14, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

    Off-screen Joyce is being devoured by Sal’s luscious* hair.

    *Her words, not mine

    • Totz the Plaid
      Totz the Plaid
      May 14, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

      Nah, you can see her flinching to get out of the way.

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        May 14, 2013 at 6:16 pm | #

        Though being covered in Sal’s hair certainly won’t help with Joyce’s current lesbian problem.

  18. Chronos
    Chronos
    May 14, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

    Do not stare directly into the hair, or you’ll be turned to sto

    • Aras Pabedinskas
      Aras Pabedinskas
      May 14, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

      But I don’t want to turn into a stop sign!

  19. Andiemus
    Andiemus
    May 14, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

    “Needs improvement. A- on the quiz.”

    • Portmaneau
      Portmaneau
      May 14, 2013 at 8:16 am | #

      They’ll need to work on it in his office

  20. DontLookAtMe
    DontLookAtMe
    May 14, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

    Wow, her head exploded! Luckily her hair contained it so nobody else was hurt.

  21. MarcinMN
    MarcinMN
    May 14, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

    It’s the humidity.

  22. Aras Pabedinskas
    Aras Pabedinskas
    May 14, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

    “It’s rare when hair gains sentience, however in an odd way, there’s some sense to it. The hair is often the closest to the human brain, and on the occassion that the hair root somehow penetrates the skull, it begins to bond with the brain itself, subjugating some of the surrounding grey matter, gaining the tiniest shred of intelligence. As in all cases where something realizes it is smarter than every other being, the hair then develops a sense of superiority over the other 100,000 thousand folicles on the head, and in an effort to prove its dominance, it will stand it’s full length away from the head, a literal showing that it is above the rest. However when multiple roots breach the skull, such in the case of head injury brought on by such trauma as banging one’s head against the top of a window frame, the hairs that makes it through and root themselves in a localized area will often start to develop a sort of hivemind, and thus will move as one entity in their effort to dominate, resulting in what some like to call, a cow-lick. However, in the even rarer case multiple fractures, such as those caused by a motorcycle crash, every single hair on one’s head can take root, and as a result become a part of a single hivemind. This will usually result in the hair going lax, as it has nothing to prove when every single hair is simply a part of itself, however, in the rare case when the hair finds that their exist hair on other beings, the imperitive of the being shifts back to a show of domination. This manifests itself as what scientists like to call, the lions mane, refusing to stay down, and occasionally, attacking those that come near it.”

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      May 14, 2013 at 4:49 am | #

      Did anyone read that whole mega-paragraph? I thought about using the same amount of time to cruise for crack whores at this hour!

      • Portmaneau
        Portmaneau
        May 14, 2013 at 8:15 am | #

        Time wasted nonetheless

  23. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 14, 2013 at 12:41 am | #

    Danger: Sal’s hair ahead!

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      May 14, 2013 at 10:20 am | #

      BRILLIANT.

  24. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    May 14, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

    Hmmm, so, did she get a good grade or a bad one, and was it deserved or not?

    Personally, I’m leaning towards good grade, and she confronts Jason about ‘not needin’ his charity for slap jackin’ him’, but she actually deserved the grade. I mean, all sorts of good brain chemicals get released after doodlin’, so maybe that’s all she needed?

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      May 14, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

      Also, I got all three of Sal’s euphemisms in on this page, whoo!

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        May 14, 2013 at 1:17 am | #

        10 points.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          May 14, 2013 at 12:12 pm | #

          How many points do I need to trade in for an Internet? It’d be my first!

          • Andiemus
            Andiemus
            May 14, 2013 at 1:16 pm | #

            Ten thousand and fifty eight point six.

            • AgentKeen
              AgentKeen
              May 14, 2013 at 2:27 pm | #

              Aww, dang…
              -drops the points into a dinosaur bank-
              Someday… someday…

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      May 14, 2013 at 10:18 am | #

      But…she made it pretty damn clear that she -expected- to get a good grade for “doodlin'” him. In fact, it’s not hard to see the implication that that’s the main, if not only, reason she did it in the first place.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        May 14, 2013 at 12:11 pm | #

        Yeah, because of her look in panel 2, I’m guessing she expected a good grade, as well. Going back to the doodlin’, I read it as more of Sal, um, needing her back scratched, and deciding Jason was… you know what, euphemisms are harder than Sal made them look.

        Anyhow, looking back, it still seems like it was mostly a ‘I have a hankerin’ for some doodlin’ and you’ll do’, but I’m also super naive and easily miss some of the more down-played cues of dishonest intentions (i.e. maybe the ‘we both want to get out of here’ and the joke about ‘marks’ were supposed to tell me that she was doing this for a grade, but they only hit me as Sal being a bit sassy).

  25. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    May 14, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

    I have no idea what grade she sees, but this strip made me literally laugh out loud. Funny as hell.
    And I wonder how long it took to draw all that fantastic hair?

  26. BranTheQuixotic
    BranTheQuixotic
    May 14, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

    Jason failed her. I mean, seriously. That guy? So stiff, so buttoned up?

    He gave her the grade she deserved based on her work.

    Sal’s gonna be pissed.

    • BranTheQuixotic
      BranTheQuixotic
      May 14, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

      IT IS HAIR OF SURPRISE. She looked confident in the second panel. Surprise means failure.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        May 14, 2013 at 1:04 am | #

        ooo, good point, I failed to take into account the look of self-assured victory…

  27. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    May 14, 2013 at 1:06 am | #

    Hovertext ingenuity has climaxed. The only thing that could top it is a one about pajama jeans.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      May 14, 2013 at 4:51 am | #

      I thought that hover text was about her pubes!

  28. Alex Stritar
    Alex Stritar
    May 14, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

    It’s like the reverse Pinkemena Diana Pie.

    • Dierna
      Dierna
      May 14, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

      Not really. Pinky started with the flat hair then got her poofy hair when she was effected by the sonic rainboom.

      • Alex Stritar
        Alex Stritar
        May 14, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

        True. … Come to think of it, Sal’s was poofy before the aliens killed her parrents, so she might really be the anti-Pinkie

        • AsimovSideburns
          AsimovSideburns
          May 14, 2013 at 1:57 am | #

          No, it goes flat when she’s sad, so she IS Pinky.

          Oh god I just terrified myself.

          • Crimson Doom
            Crimson Doom
            May 14, 2013 at 11:44 am | #

            Wait, I thought we were talking about the pony, not the lab rat. 😛

  29. Dierna
    Dierna
    May 14, 2013 at 1:12 am | #

    Wow and I thought River Song had big hair!

  30. Nena
    Nena
    May 14, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

    I can’t wait to see what the result is. 😛

  31. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    May 14, 2013 at 1:28 am | #

    The more I think about it, I wonder if it is a grade at all?

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      May 14, 2013 at 4:52 am | #

      IT’S AN INCOMPLETE! She has 10 more “meetings” scheduled to get her grade!

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        May 14, 2013 at 5:39 pm | #

        Extra credit for every article of clothing she “forgets” to wear

  32. Ross V
    Ross V
    May 14, 2013 at 1:38 am | #

    There’s totally a doodle of them having wild monkey sex on the page instead of a grade.

    • AsimovSideburns
      AsimovSideburns
      May 14, 2013 at 1:58 am | #

      Heh. Doodle.

      He doodled a doodling doodle.

      Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        May 14, 2013 at 2:56 am | #

        Rose rose to the rows of rose, and rose a rose to her rose rows of rose.

        • Neospector
          Neospector
          May 14, 2013 at 11:07 pm | #

          James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.

  33. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    May 14, 2013 at 1:40 am | #

    Sounds like something the artist would do….sort of.

  34. Iggzy
    Iggzy
    May 14, 2013 at 1:56 am | #

    I’m guessing it’s a phone number and a photo of Jason winking and doing a sex gesture with his hands.

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      May 14, 2013 at 2:46 am | #

      Unfortunately, it’s a British sex gesture. Sal interprets it as “them copper mines are full of celery, my good fellow”.

      • Wazza
        Wazza
        May 14, 2013 at 9:21 am | #

        …that’s not universally a sex thing?

  35. scabbert
    scabbert
    May 14, 2013 at 2:18 am | #

    She gets rough and stuff with her afro puffs.

  36. Lanodantheon
    Lanodantheon
    May 14, 2013 at 2:19 am | #

    This could be very good or very bad for her…

  37. Tenn
    Tenn
    May 14, 2013 at 2:52 am | #

    Heheh. T&A with the T.A…

    Wow, that was funny for long enough to write it down. I think I can even hit “Post Comment” before I start feeling ashamed…

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      May 14, 2013 at 2:52 am | #

      WHAT HAVE I DONE.

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        May 14, 2013 at 10:15 am | #

        YOUR JOKE WAS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD! (/zoidberg)

  38. Raoullefere
    Raoullefere
    May 14, 2013 at 2:52 am | #

    I don’t know if Joyce is surprised, but I certainly am. I never managed to do that to any student. Get them to pull their hair out in handfuls, yes, but this… Jason has powers beyond my ken.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      May 14, 2013 at 4:55 am | #

      Well… then you missed out on the entire point of teaching a class, didn’t you?!?

  39. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    May 14, 2013 at 3:55 am | #

    Go ‘fro it, Sal.
    (Sal’s been away for quite a dang while! This seems like a FOOMP of triumph, which means…man, this relationship is gonna be awkward.)

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      May 14, 2013 at 10:14 am | #

      Hah, no. You don’t react like that when you see what you’re expecting to see.

      I mean, well, unless you’re some kind of weird human/blowfish hybrid, you don’t react like that -anyway-, but in a fictional cartoony sense…She got an F. I’d bet money on it.

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        May 14, 2013 at 4:37 pm | #

        Yeah, true, but on the other hand she might not have been expecting it. She’s put on airs for Joyce before, and may be doing the same here.

        Man, looking back, it’s way too early to theorize anyway and it’ll be revealed tomorrow so I shouldn’t even be guessing when I can just guess.
        (Jason really ruffled her…’fro-thers? No, crap.)

  40. Ivan
    Ivan
    May 14, 2013 at 4:58 am | #

    Wow! Talk about parallel comic thought! Check out SMBC for today!!

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20130514.gif

    It’s what I would have done, after a confirmation meeting to assure that she would commit herself to some self improvement…

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      May 14, 2013 at 10:12 am | #

      You would have given an A to somebody who didnt understand the material, that couldn’t do the work, and could barely construct a coherent sentence? Or are you saying you’d give her an A for jumping you?

      May I just take a moment to say that either case is exactly the MOST WRONG THING YOU COULD DO?

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        May 14, 2013 at 4:49 pm | #

        The A would be for the quality of the jumping! (Could be a C- too… )

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          May 15, 2013 at 9:58 am | #

          You are a horrible person.

  41. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    May 14, 2013 at 6:18 am | #

    I’m betting he gave her an F and now she’s going to storm in there and try to beat him senseless. Just my thought anyway.

    • Portmaneau
      Portmaneau
      May 14, 2013 at 8:13 am | #

      Beat him

    • Comrade
      Comrade
      May 14, 2013 at 4:11 pm | #

      Somehow I think there’s no ‘try’ about it if Sal decides somebody’s gonna be beaten senseless…

      • Jimmy
        Jimmy
        May 14, 2013 at 8:46 pm | #

        Haha good point!

  42. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    May 14, 2013 at 6:24 am | #

    This is the music that is playing in the background while her hair transforms.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48XYBDLPNCc

  43. Arturo
    Arturo
    May 14, 2013 at 6:45 am | #

    Yeah, the humidity will do that.

  44. The One Guy
    The One Guy
    May 14, 2013 at 7:50 am | #

    So a one-on-one session with the TA will give you big hair? Well Sal, you’re right; that is surprising.

    • Portmaneau
      Portmaneau
      May 14, 2013 at 8:13 am | #

      Maybe Jason moonlights as a hairdresser.

  45. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    May 14, 2013 at 7:54 am | #

    Let me guess: it’s Jason, so he graded her even more harshly to assuage his feelings of guilt for having slept with her.

    Which seems like a bad plan.

  46. Skydron
    Skydron
    May 14, 2013 at 10:42 am | #

    Judging by what happened to Sal’s hair, I’ve come to the following two conclusions…
    1) T.A. gave her a rather nice score.
    2) T.A. has some honor and did not change her grade

  47. phlebas
    phlebas
    May 14, 2013 at 10:46 am | #

    “F: needs more tutoring”?
    “F, and by the way Jason gave this one to me to mark, regards, Penny”?

    • George
      George
      May 14, 2013 at 3:19 pm | #

      Everybody seems to assume it’s an extreme grade provoking this reaction, but it could be the comments. Think he has it in him to write a racy enough poem to get Sal’s hair to do that?

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        May 14, 2013 at 4:40 pm | #

        “Oh Sal of South States, I’m a toff
        And you’re the girl I’m dreaming of
        I beckon — come to me again
        And take a tour of ol’ Big Ben…”

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      May 14, 2013 at 4:52 pm | #

      I think you’re on to something. That, indeed, would be the ideal twist. Especially if she wants to get it re-considered and Penny is game! WooHoo! More lesbian comic scenes to think about!

      (this is such a sad life… )

  48. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    May 14, 2013 at 10:52 am | #

    Drowned in a river of (luscious) chocolate!

  49. Whittier
    Whittier
    May 14, 2013 at 11:43 am | #

    I think the lesson has a note saying something to the effect that Jason is apologising for his egregious error and then knock her down a few pegs. At least, that’s what I’m hoping for.

  50. I also teach math for a living.
    I also teach math for a living.
    May 14, 2013 at 12:53 pm | #

    This is what their campus gets for not making the tests anonymous (where the student signs his test with a number assigned at the beginning of the test).

  51. Roborat
    Roborat
    May 14, 2013 at 2:31 pm | #

    And, ironically, it was that exact moment that Sal’s conditioner proved to be unable to hold against Indiana’s humidity.

  52. tb
    tb
    May 14, 2013 at 3:15 pm | #

    Maybe this is meant to be open to interpretation, but I just feel like I missed something.

  53. penguintruth
    penguintruth
    May 14, 2013 at 3:57 pm | #

    She became Starfire?

  54. Aslee
    Aslee
    May 14, 2013 at 4:38 pm | #

    I just really, really hope that all Jason did was give her the grade she deserved. Not, you know, an even worse one. I mean, I know he can be an asshole, but surely not that much of one.

    Surely.

  55. fangseeker
    fangseeker
    May 14, 2013 at 5:08 pm | #

    He probably wrote her a dirty sonnet.

  56. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    May 14, 2013 at 6:17 pm | #

    Jason’s evil plot: giving her her actual grade so she continues going to one-on-one tutoring

  57. JA
    JA
    May 14, 2013 at 7:10 pm | #

    I am confuse. Is the grade good, bad, or did the humidity in the room suddenly jump 102480%?

  58. Fred
    Fred
    May 14, 2013 at 8:14 pm | #

    When I went to college, they didn’t pass out completed tests. Grades were VERY confidential, and sent via email or posted by the door, obfuscated by Student Number.

    Maybe Sal was expecting to flunk the test, and then get a good grade via canoodling… and then the test looks easy to her. She WAS amazed by what her tutoring session accomplished:

    Jason boinked the math into her… it’s got to be true!

  59. Daenel
    Daenel
    May 14, 2013 at 9:00 pm | #

    Hmph.
    Now we see what kind of person she is.

    If he graded her to the positive because of the sex,.. she needs to crawl up under him and try to soak up knowledge from him like a sponge – Or refuse the grade on principal.

    If he graded her to the negative in spite of the sex,.. she needs to decide if there will be more to this sexual thing, or take this as a life lesson – Or try to punish him for not compromising his ideals.

    I wait on pointed ears and pitchforks.

  60. niblik
    niblik
    May 15, 2013 at 1:45 pm | #

    Wow, I thought I couldn’t possibly find Sal any more sexy… and then this!
    Joy!

  61. Random Webcomics Junkie
    Random Webcomics Junkie
    June 10, 2013 at 1:55 pm | #

    Holy shit, Sal would look unbearably hot with a lady-fro.

    I’ve always felt like it was weird for her to have straight hair. This proves that not only would changing it not look bad, it would look fucking amazing.

  62. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    April 14, 2015 at 7:11 pm | #

    hairpocalypse !

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