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June 14, 2026

Hungover

by David M Willis on January 10, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - If the Shoe Splits
└ Tags: dorothy, joe, joyce, leslie, roz, sue, walky

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  1. Akshay Chitturi
    Akshay Chitturi
    January 10, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Joe needs to get out more.

  2. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    January 10, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce’s pheromones intoxicate everyone around her.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 10, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      So, she’s like Poison Ivy?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 10, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

        So that’s why Billie is drunk all the time, so much for my Billie/Ruth and welcome aboard Billie/Joyce.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 10, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Only less seductive but twice as corny.

    • Dibullba
      Dibullba
      January 10, 2013 at 3:57 am | #

      I am just surprised Billy does not have this effect.

      • Kirt Dankmyer
        Kirt Dankmyer
        January 10, 2013 at 11:17 am | #

        Contact high. You have to touch her. This theory should be good for the Billie/Ruth ship. 🙂

  3. Thisguy
    Thisguy
    January 10, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce doesn’t understand Joe very much, does she?

    • fatemaster1
      fatemaster1
      June 23, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

      Does anyone understand Joe very much?

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    January 10, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Whoa, oh no Joe.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 10, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      Yo Joe.

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        January 10, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Watchu doin’ with that gun in your hand?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          January 10, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

          Shooting fish.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            January 10, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

            in a barrel?

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          January 10, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

          Gonna shoot my old lady …

          • Xydux
            Xydux
            January 10, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

            Caught her messin round with another man!

            • Vabolo
              Vabolo
              January 10, 2013 at 11:51 am | #

              *guitar on fire*

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 10, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    If this college was in Australia, Joe would already be at legal drinking age since he’s at least 18.

    • zfshiruba
      zfshiruba
      January 10, 2013 at 1:18 am | #

      The U.S. has the highest drinking age.

      • Resne
        Resne
        January 10, 2013 at 2:51 am | #

        I guess the youngest big country has to have a maturity complex.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 10, 2013 at 3:20 am | #

          No, we just have a beer complex due to living on a Death World

      • Whittier
        Whittier
        January 10, 2013 at 12:06 pm | #

        The effect, as I’ve observed it, is that a lot of people *stop* drinking at 21.

    • TARDIS with a Hat
      TARDIS with a Hat
      January 10, 2013 at 4:54 am | #

      Same with israel, that’s why the Roomies! beer story arc was always surreal to me – they would’ve been in legal drinking age in israel. Although if Roomies!\ DOA was REALLY in israel, they would’ve been in the IDF, so…

    • MrSpkr
      MrSpkr
      January 10, 2013 at 2:46 pm | #

      I think you’d find a good deal of support for moving Indiana to Australia . . .

      • AsimovSideburns
        AsimovSideburns
        January 10, 2013 at 3:36 pm | #

        “We’re succeed–sick-seed–cecee–REMOVING OURSELVES FROM THE UNION!”

    • icepyrox
      icepyrox
      January 10, 2013 at 4:36 pm | #

      If it was in Jamaica, he would be of drinking age since he is a living human. Yeah, no laws at all concerning age as of the late 90s. Was rather surreal to see how much was purchased by a group of teenagers.

  6. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 10, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    What? Danny/Amazi-Girl only got 16 votes? Then again, it is up against the most popular pairing.

    • numaron
      numaron
      January 10, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      The way I see it, Joe has already won because we know that he has already managed to get his bone on.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        January 10, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

        I figured Mike/Your Mom has won already since that was clearly going on since before the start of the strip. Possibly even before Mike was born. Mike/Your Mom is that much of a multiversal constant.

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

      That quiz was rendered meaningless by the fact that Walky/McNuggets have already being ‘white-sauced’.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 10, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

        Hehehehe…..”white sauce”

    • Darth Cariss
      Darth Cariss
      January 10, 2013 at 1:40 am | #

      I totally would’ve voted for Ethan/Joyce if it was there.

      • Peruhain
        Peruhain
        January 10, 2013 at 2:49 am | #

        +1 Leading to complications, because Joyce will certainly want to legitimize boning after the fact by getting married (or at least engaged) right away.

  7. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 10, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    The comics are blurring together in my brain. My first thought was “Huh, Titanic musta driven him to drink”.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 10, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      Or the Dover boys.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 10, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

        Confound them!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          January 10, 2013 at 12:25 am | #

          A roundabout? I’LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

        • james
          james
          January 10, 2013 at 3:17 am | #

          I HATE TOM!

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            January 10, 2013 at 3:20 am | #

            I HATE DICK!

            • james
              james
              January 10, 2013 at 3:22 am | #

              I HATE LARRY!!

              • Somebody
                Somebody
                January 10, 2013 at 2:56 pm | #

                These ponies drive me to drink! No one must ever know…

            • CWR
              CWR
              January 11, 2013 at 2:41 am | #

              Careful, all caps might imply that you doth protest too much…

              • CWR
                CWR
                January 11, 2013 at 2:43 am | #

                Man I hate the reply placement on this thread.

  8. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 10, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m expecting for Joe to say “Yes, Mom”

  9. Leon
    Leon
    January 10, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

    Joyce knows Billie. How can she be surprised at this?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 10, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

      Billie is a lost cause. Joe’s a lost cause in a different way. She didn’t think they’d have something in common.

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 10, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

    How do you know he didn’t drive to Mexico for the day and drive back? HUH!?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 10, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

      Joe has a car?

      • Xydux
        Xydux
        January 10, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

        Correction. Joe has an ULTRA car.

        • Josh
          Josh
          January 10, 2013 at 4:36 am | #

          Wrong universe. 😛 But given Shortpacked at the moment, it’ll only be a little while. 😛

    • Ess
      Ess
      January 10, 2013 at 4:16 am | #

      More realistic a venture from there would be Canada, but OK. Mexico.

  11. Rayrayravona
    Rayrayravona
    January 10, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

    I’m confused…. why is Joyce so surprised Joe was drinking? She didn’t seem too surprised people were drinking when she went to that party.

    • Buckybone
      Buckybone
      January 10, 2013 at 2:51 am | #

      She didn’t know they were UNDER AGE.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 10, 2013 at 3:30 am | #

        Why wouldn’t she know, she is the same age as the rest of the cast…right?

        • Bill M.
          Bill M.
          January 10, 2013 at 11:40 am | #

          Yes, because they are all freshmen, right?

          Except for the RAs… and Sarah and her frenemies… and anyone that’s not a freshman.

    • Whittier
      Whittier
      January 10, 2013 at 12:15 pm | #

      When I lived in the same philosophical world as Joyce, I was shocked at underage drinking, as well as underage smoking.

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 10, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

    Sometimes, Joyce makes me want to sin more.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 10, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

      I know. People like Joyce sort off give religion a bad name.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 10, 2013 at 3:33 am | #

        While Bon Jovi is btter known for giving love a bad name.

    • Josh
      Josh
      January 10, 2013 at 4:45 am | #

      Honestly if I knew her I probably would, I hate that holier-than-thou attitude with a passion.

    • Somebody
      Somebody
      January 10, 2013 at 2:59 pm | #

      But she’s adorable. And honestly, Joe looks older…so I’m a bit surprised that he’s not 21.

  13. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    January 10, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

    Is there a correct way to deliver that “are”? Because I keep reading it in a breathy porno-actress voice and hitting the consonants too hard, like as soon as she’s done saying it she’ll go “And you need to be punished.”

    That’s not Joyce. Not yet.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 10, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

      Yes that is correct. However, as a 21st century English speaker, especially in American comics, It is rare to see “you are” rather than “You’re” and it’s also rare for someone to phrase it like that, unless they are putting emphesis on either “you” or “are”.

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      January 10, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

      Try reading it like a line from the script of a poorly-written “just say no” skit from the 90s.

      Don’t get me wrong, I like Joe’s punchline, but honestly, Joyce not using contractions is the funniest part of the strip to me. I find it utterly hilarious.

      • CWR
        CWR
        January 10, 2013 at 8:43 am | #

        So she’s channeling Data from TNG?

        • N0083rP00F
          N0083rP00F
          January 11, 2013 at 1:35 pm | #

          Nope, more like all those 50’s shorts on the evils of hankypanky, smoking and the dope ….. dang it dope used to only refer to the epoxy used in preparing the cloth for aircraft but some idiot started sniffing the stuff and now look what its done to the language…..

  14. Giant Speck
    Giant Speck
    January 10, 2013 at 12:43 am | #

    Dorothy looks like she has prosthetic arms.

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      January 10, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

      Which raises the question of what family member she tried to raise from the dead.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 10, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

        Or if Dorothy’s a cyborg.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          January 10, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

          Or if she is a mannequin come to life.

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            January 10, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

            Nah, she’s a Discworld Igor. Those arms are hand-me-downs.

  15. Sporky
    Sporky
    January 10, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

    Good timing for this strip. Just a few days ago, Willis commented on Roomies! about first realizing what good foils Joyce and Joe were.

  16. NCP19
    NCP19
    January 10, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

    No one’s made a terrible “under age/dumbing of age” joke…I guess everyone realized it was not clever except for me.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 10, 2013 at 2:33 am | #

      What, like Dumbing of Under Age? Yeah, it is dumb even for me, the knight of unfunny jokes.

  17. Buckybone
    Buckybone
    January 10, 2013 at 2:55 am | #

    I’m shocked, SHOCKED (!) to find that underage drinking occurs at college! How much else, out of everything what I’ve been told all my life, is wrong? Is the earth not 6000 years old? Do babies not come from storks? Does God play dice with the universe?

    I’VE BEEN LIVING A LIE!!!

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      January 10, 2013 at 4:12 am | #

      In answer to your questions:

      1. 62%, give or take.
      2. It is, and then some. It stopped counting after the first billion years, though.
      3. Some babies do. Stork babies, for instance.
      4. They used to, but the universe kept insisting that God’s dice weren’t perfectly random, and, well, yeah, it’s a bit of a sore point with both of them.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        January 10, 2013 at 10:55 am | #

        I heard that the big throwdown was when, after the game, God was heard going around telling people about how he had loaded the dice. After that was when the Universe refused to play with him anymore.

  18. Tenn
    Tenn
    January 10, 2013 at 4:01 am | #

    Ah, I remember when I was shocked and appalled to find out that a few of my classmates had tried smoking and drinking.

    It was in middle school.

    • SHAZAM
      SHAZAM
      January 10, 2013 at 7:15 pm | #

      I remember being shocked at age 10 to see 13 year old girls smoking in public.

  19. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    January 10, 2013 at 7:26 am | #

    Joyce is Queen of the drunks, and this makes Joe her subject

  20. RebLaw
    RebLaw
    January 10, 2013 at 8:18 am | #

    I was totally like that when I was a frosh in college. 🙂

  21. The1exile
    The1exile
    January 10, 2013 at 8:42 am | #

    That stubble.

    • CWR
      CWR
      January 10, 2013 at 8:45 am | #

      *Dat*

  22. Vree
    Vree
    January 10, 2013 at 11:18 am | #

    If you look at panel 2 long enough you can imagine that you’re in a crazy inverted universe where Walky is getting more action than Joe.

  23. LiC
    LiC
    January 10, 2013 at 4:58 pm | #

    One would think that Joyce wouldn’t be all that shocked by the things that Joe gets into by now. I mean, he’s already got a sex tape with a politician’s relative out on the internet. A little drinking doesn’t really feel that shocking in comparison.

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