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by David M Willis on July 12, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Answers in Hennessy
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce, walky

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  1. AHR
    AHR
    July 12, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    This is why I don’t study 8D

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      July 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      Studying is for chumps!

      [and people who get good grades through hard work]

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

        Yeah, study at the last minute.

      • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
        Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
        September 9, 2013 at 10:04 pm | #

        I wish I had the ability to study on a whim instead of trying to cram last minute

      • Unruly One
        Unruly One
        July 7, 2014 at 4:56 pm | #

        Yeah, that’s why I got good grades without much work, waaaaaay easier.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      Neither do I. I like giving myself unnecessary challenges.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 12, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      But if this comic has taught me anything, After you study, cuddling happens!

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        July 12, 2013 at 5:58 am | #

        Unless you have a president bound girlfriend who finds studying to be an attractive quality, you are in for a big disappointment.

        • Petre pan
          Petre pan
          July 14, 2013 at 6:33 pm | #

          I feel like most girls consider studying an attractive quality. It means you’re responsible, probably going to get a decent job, and probably either a goal-driven dreamer or a realistic down-to-earth person. Both good things for log term stability, with the possibility of adventures if you play your options right. I, for one, prefer a dude who studies.

      • kiapdx
        kiapdx
        July 12, 2013 at 5:35 pm | #

        I don’t have to study for cuddles, my boyfriend gives me them anyway :I

  2. Buckybone
    Buckybone
    July 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Onward, to meet the parental hordes!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 12, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      CHARGE!

      • Vertixico
        Vertixico
        July 12, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

        *Gets Coconutshells*
        Catta-clapp Catta-Clapp Catta-Clapp

        • Ghostforge
          Ghostforge
          July 12, 2013 at 1:54 am | #

          brave brave Sir Robin,
          rode forth from Camelot,
          he was not afraid to die,
          oh, brave Sir Robin!

          • Galen
            Galen
            July 15, 2013 at 10:57 am | #

            He was not afraid at all to be killed in nasty ways
            Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!

  3. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Yeah, this looks a bit familiar.

    Me: I have lots of time!

    8 weeks later

    Me: OHGODWHATDOIDO?!?

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      July 12, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

      Yep — me, too. But like Dorothy, I always put up a good fight. Less guilt if you stay at your desk (where you theoretically could work), while wishing you were out having fun!

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        July 12, 2013 at 2:58 pm | #

        And let it be noted that, if Dorothy were Amber, she could be sitting at her desk (theoretically able to work) *and* having fun (playing video games — or . . . reading webcomics, say), while wishing she was having other kinds of fun elsewhere.

        Not that I know anything about this sort of procrastination.

  4. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    July 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Yes, that would indeed be college.

  5. piemanpie24
    piemanpie24
    July 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Y’know, I never thought I’d get so excited over time passing in a webcomic.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      July 12, 2013 at 12:43 am | #

      It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness… takes its toll.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        July 12, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

        But listen closely….

        • Turbo Sexaphonic
          Turbo Sexaphonic
          July 12, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

          Not for very much longer!

          • vlademir1
            vlademir1
            July 12, 2013 at 1:17 am | #

            I’ve got to… keep control.

            • ridtom
              ridtom
              July 12, 2013 at 3:03 am | #

              .I remember, DOING THE TIIIIMEWAAARP?

              • Angel
                Angel
                July 12, 2013 at 3:51 am | #

                Drinking that moment when!

                • BlueRam
                  BlueRam
                  July 12, 2013 at 6:21 am | #

                  The blackness would hit me!

                • Josh
                  Josh
                  July 12, 2013 at 10:41 am | #

                  And the void would be calling

                • JBO
                  JBO
                  July 12, 2013 at 10:57 am | #

                  LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIIIIIIIIIIIN!

                • Regalli
                  Regalli
                  July 12, 2013 at 5:22 pm | #

                  LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIIIIIIIIN!

              • CianM1301
                CianM1301
                July 12, 2013 at 5:01 am | #

                Drinking, those moments when!

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  July 12, 2013 at 3:32 pm | #

                  I know I have said it before, but this comic’s comment section is awesome.

                • Bronze Knight
                  Bronze Knight
                  July 12, 2013 at 10:47 pm | #

                  TIME WARP LET’S DO AGAIIIIIIIIN!

  6. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 12, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Reminds me of that one story from Dexter’s Laboratory.

  7. Iggzy
    Iggzy
    July 12, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    She’s taking the mantra of Lover Boy far to seriously

    • C.
      C.
      July 12, 2013 at 2:14 am | #

      Remember, Pig and Elephant DNA just don’t splice.

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        July 12, 2013 at 11:20 am | #

        I’m not sure what you mean, but I’m taking it as a challenge.

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        July 12, 2013 at 6:55 pm | #

        Obscure South Park reference is obscure, wow.

  8. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 12, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Who 3 days pass in one strip? It’s like we fast forwarded a thousand days in our time.

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      July 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      *Woah

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      July 12, 2013 at 3:29 pm | #

      Yea, I think I got whiplash from that time jump.

    • EvergreenFir
      EvergreenFir
      July 12, 2013 at 9:40 pm | #

      Next strip starts off with “meanwhile…”

  9. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    July 12, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    ^ piemanpie24

    • Totz the Plaid
      Totz the Plaid
      July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      …you could just reply to his comment, you know.

  10. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    If only you could download knowledge like they do in the Matrix…

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      But that’d involve us all being batteries.

    • Aras Pabedinskas
      Aras Pabedinskas
      July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      If only I could absorb knowledge by osmosis by sleeping with my head on a book.

      • John
        John
        July 12, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

        Knowledge isn’t water, so technically that would be diffusion.

        • Jenny Creed
          Jenny Creed
          July 12, 2013 at 2:59 am | #

          If only we could record information on water molecules and drink it like in The Invisibles.

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        July 12, 2013 at 7:09 am | #

        You could always have it playing through headphones as you sleep.

        …omelette du fromage…

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 12, 2013 at 4:29 pm | #

          Oh man, I remember that episode.

    • AJBulldis
      AJBulldis
      July 12, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

      Society would quickly collapse, as everyone would be too busy learning kung fu and fighting Laurence Fishburne to get anything else done.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        July 12, 2013 at 1:48 am | #

        In Man of Steel, it occurred to me that he took the Blue Pill

  11. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    July 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    I don’t even know how to study.

    But this is also why I can respect Walky as Dorothy’s love interest. No matter how much he’d rather she pay attention to him, even if he doesn’t really get studying, he still respects that it’s important to her.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 12, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      Nor do I. I sit down and think, “Do I just read a book? Is that how this works?”

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Procrastinate until the information is forced into you.

        • saltchocolate
          saltchocolate
          July 12, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

          Panic-induced adrenaline is the best study aid yet.

          • Gram91
            Gram91
            July 12, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

            Having an eccentric professor also helps make you pay attention. Basically, think how (old) Daffy Duck would be if he were giving a lecture on relative physics and acting really enthusiastic about the subject.

            • Neon5162
              Neon5162
              July 12, 2013 at 7:07 am | #

              By old do you mean the zany one they had before the 1957 remodel of most of the characters or they one after that when they had him as a antagonist for bugs bunny

              • Gram91
                Gram91
                July 12, 2013 at 1:27 pm | #

                Meh, I’m not referring to a specific era. Just referring to the cartoons I grew up with as a child (where you either had to wake up really early or had to wait until summer to enjoy) before the Looney Tunes Show, that seems so different from then.

  12. Gram91
    Gram91
    July 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    I have the same problem a lot. But then I’m like Walky with getting an A without too much work.

    • CollyWolly
      CollyWolly
      July 12, 2013 at 1:52 am | #

      There are DOZENS of us!

      • Farmer_10
        Farmer_10
        July 12, 2013 at 2:46 am | #

        DOZENS!

        • saltchocolate
          saltchocolate
          July 12, 2013 at 2:55 pm | #

          +1

  13. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    Last Panel: She’d rather be doing that to Walky’s nipples.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      Making fart noises into them?
      Yes. I think we all would.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 12, 2013 at 7:44 pm | #

        You worry me sometimes.

    • Aras Pabedinskas
      Aras Pabedinskas
      July 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      Ah yes, the challenging nipple maneuver, where a partner is held completely horizontal on top the others head with their abs as the centrepoint. It called the Nipple Maneuver because all you end up seeing is your partners nipples, hanging down in front of your face.

  14. JBO
    JBO
    July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    And now for the debate:
    “Bookhat: Better or worse then Boobhat?”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 12, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      If said boobhat is the Amazi-Rack then there’s no contest.

    • NightmareWarden
      NightmareWarden
      July 12, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      Worse. Hear that, bookhat? You’re bad and you should feel bad! Hmmph, that’ll learn ya for tryin’ to teach me.
      Boobhat teaches the most important lesson: Everybody likes boobs.

    • Justnobody
      Justnobody
      July 12, 2013 at 2:53 pm | #

      What if we combined the powers of Boobhat with the powers of Bookhat?
      Boobs placed over a book with the spine sticking upwards between the boobs.

  15. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    Panels 3, 4, and 5 relate to me as follows:
    Freshmen Year
    Sophomore Year
    Junior Year

    Senior year is not illustrated. It would be a picture of Dorothy fast asleep in a puddle of her own drool surrounded by empty pizza boxes and holding a playstation controller.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 12, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      Same for me except replace the drool with tears….and then add drool.

    • Luzahn
      Luzahn
      July 12, 2013 at 4:25 am | #

      I’m pretty much running straight panel 5s. It is less than optimal.

  16. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 12, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    This is why I study with music on. Alone is OK but silence is dull.

    • Gram91
      Gram91
      July 12, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      I study math while listening to metal

      • Anon
        Anon
        July 12, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

        Same! It makes the numbers seem so much more awesome.

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        July 12, 2013 at 7:10 am | #

        Have you ever studied math while listening to mathcore?

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        July 12, 2013 at 2:07 pm | #

        “Math-Metal is delicious!”- Winslow

  17. All-Purpose Guru
    All-Purpose Guru
    July 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    Someone needs some rejuvenational sex, methinks.

    • Neospector
      Neospector
      July 12, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

      Rejuvenational sex comes free if you purchase the combo pack of angry and make-up sex.
      But wait, order now and we’ll throw in an order of panic sex right before that big test!

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        July 12, 2013 at 2:06 pm | #

        Unfortunately, we’re currently experiencing a shortage in hatefucks. Some snooty British guy in a bow tie came in and bought us all out.

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      July 12, 2013 at 3:53 am | #

      You know you need it
      I need it too
      You know you need it
      It’s good for you

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        July 12, 2013 at 1:41 pm | #

        No one got the reference yet? “Too long”?

        Now I imagine this playing over a montage of Dorothy studying. Caaan you feeeeeeeeeeeel iiiiit?

  18. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 12, 2013 at 12:22 am | #


    LAST FRIDAY NIGHT
    I READ TO MANY BOOKS
    GAVE THE WALL SOME FUNNY LOOKS
    EVERYONE ELSE HAS A NOOK
    LAST FRIDAY NIGHT

    • AJBulldis
      AJBulldis
      July 12, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

      I attempted to “Like” this but then realized this wasn’t Facebook.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      July 12, 2013 at 7:14 am | #

      STAYING UUUUUUP AGAIN

  19. LookingIn
    LookingIn
    July 12, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

    Fun factoid, you retain more information if you get your work done right away instead of waiting, so all her work on the weekend that she is forcing herself to do isn’t as effective as the work she is doing during the week.

    So if she lets herself enjoy some fun Friday evening through Sunday afternoon she isn’t hurting herself she is actually helping!

  20. Dorky
    Dorky
    July 12, 2013 at 1:00 am | #

    All work and no play makes Dorothy a dull girl.

    • Ghostforge
      Ghostforge
      July 12, 2013 at 1:59 am | #

      ohnoes are u snowed in at a mountain hotel?

  21. Sock
    Sock
    July 12, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

    Comic is really picking up speed. Three days in one strip!

    • Josh
      Josh
      July 12, 2013 at 4:12 am | #

      From now on, the comic will just be one panel days, by the end of the month they will be graduating.

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        July 12, 2013 at 6:57 pm | #

        Actually from now on 3 months will pass every panel. They graduate tomorrow.

  22. David
    David
    July 12, 2013 at 2:09 am | #

    Bad move, Walky. Dorothy was in need of a scapegoat, and instead you just went along as if you could live just fine without her. Three nights in a row already.

    Somebody better lend him the handbook on women.

    • Thanks, I'll Have Another!
      Thanks, I'll Have Another!
      July 12, 2013 at 2:27 pm | #

      Sounds like you need to start hanging out with different women, Dave.

  23. JA
    JA
    July 12, 2013 at 2:11 am | #

    It’s Friday night, Dorothy. Go take a break and have some fun. You can catch up on homework on Sunday.

    Now go have some premarital hanky-panky with Walky!

  24. Jenny Creed
    Jenny Creed
    July 12, 2013 at 3:15 am | #

    I never did very well on tests. I think I always knew that plugging in the information needed to beat the test wouldn’t teach me anything – you know about how kids forget everything they needed to know for a test after they take the test – and my goal in school was to learn stuff. Thus I had no motivation to study.

    It was pretty interesting in I think 11th grade when I had to talk to my teachers about it. Between that and my barely turning in any homework, they said, they had no way to judge how well I was doing, and did I have any ideas about how I’d prefer to have my knowledge measured?

    I did not. I didn’t think it mattered then. I’ve never had any use for my grades yet, so maybe I was right.

    The message here is: Be cool, stay in school! Don’t take it home with you.

  25. Tommyboy595
    Tommyboy595
    July 12, 2013 at 3:49 am | #

    well crap. took me a while to realize that this was the last comic. i may have accidentally just read all of them -_-

  26. Loguebuuk
    Loguebuuk
    July 12, 2013 at 4:05 am | #

    I think this might just be a clever way of skipping three in-comic days?

  27. Luzahn
    Luzahn
    July 12, 2013 at 4:28 am | #

    On another note: Woohoo! Imminent Freshmen families, I’ve been looking forward to those.

  28. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    July 12, 2013 at 5:55 am | #

    Is this the 4th Friday or the third? It’s hard to keep track.

  29. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    July 12, 2013 at 7:13 am | #

    Walky is a relaxing influence.

  30. Jbunton
    Jbunton
    July 12, 2013 at 10:18 am | #

    I never Thought a wecomic would be this cool

  31. MrSmiley
    MrSmiley
    July 12, 2013 at 11:05 am | #

    Its officially love. When you get depressed when 1 person drops our of your life, that is love.

  32. nothri
    nothri
    July 12, 2013 at 11:40 am | #

    Wow. It only took her three days to learn how to absorb knowledge into her brain through osmosis. This girl is amazing!

    • Caleb
      Caleb
      July 12, 2013 at 2:09 pm | #

      It’d be diffusion, since knowledge isn’t water.

      • nothri
        nothri
        November 13, 2013 at 5:29 pm | #

        Hey, spinal/brain fluid is a thing! So arguably…

  33. brionl
    brionl
    July 12, 2013 at 12:35 pm | #

    So, if you play Eye of the Tiger for a TRAINING MONTAGE!! what is the proper theme music for a STUDY MONTAGE!!?

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      July 12, 2013 at 3:00 pm | #

      Depends on your major. “She Blinded Me With Science”?

  34. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    July 12, 2013 at 1:25 pm | #

    Does that mean there’s a 2 day skip or are the next comics taking place two days into the past?

  35. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    July 12, 2013 at 2:04 pm | #

    Dorothy on Friday night is me every night.

    Also, whoo time jumps!

  36. Roborat
    Roborat
    July 12, 2013 at 3:31 pm | #

    Wow, she lasted three days. I would get to that point after about 4 hours.

  37. Megatron
    Megatron
    July 12, 2013 at 6:34 pm | #

    “Sometimes we are unentertained.”

  38. eddy_h
    eddy_h
    July 15, 2013 at 4:04 am | #

    Aaaaaaand this is why Student Night at the local disco in my university town was MONDAY night. No-one but the most sadistic tutors set any assignments on Monday. But a lot of them were due in midday monday…

    Slog through the weekend finishing them off, hand them in at 11.55am, bleary eyed after an all nighter, attempt to sit through one lecture, doze off, cut the rest in order to nap… oh look it’s 7pm, what’s the plan for the rest of the evening? More study? Hahahahahahaha…. no.

    Make something cheap and disgusting to eat, wolf it down, shower, change of clothes, and stroll off to join the queue to get hammered* and dance out all the stress and accumulated ickiness.

    * Note: hammerage may be dependent on locale. Americans, I pity you and your quaint need to card anyone under 21. You don’t have to hit the bottle like Ruth and Billie, but college is a lot easier to get through when you can occasionally go out and forcibly erase your mind for a few precious hours.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      July 15, 2013 at 4:10 pm | #

      And that is the best possible recruiting incentive for Canadian Universities, at least in the provinces where 18 or 19 are the legal drinking ages.

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