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Also I have a second webcomic again. It’s a small side project, updates irregularly, and it’ll run no more than nine months. It’s called “It’s Pregnancy!” and takes place in the Old Universe. (As such, there may be a character pairing you might not be used to if you’ve only read Dumbing of Age.) Take note of the navigation arrows! There’s a small backlog of strips there, reaching back into May. I’ve been updating it in secret all this time.
The new comic exists because Maggie and I are having twins.
Yup.
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where previously Billie had mistakenly tried giving him a screwdriver, hold the vodka
…
how do they even know about Animal House, *I* barely knew about it when I was in college
(I think I mistook it for Animal Farm)
((and I thought THAT was strictly about farming))
Some movies about frat life are more equal than others.
Four drinks good, two drinks bad.
Then the revolution matures and you realize: Four drinks good, two drinks better.
Ive always thought that animal house was a metaphor for communism. Also we need a scene in dumbing of age where Tony’s dad goes Freshmen!
You’re thinking of Animal Farm.
I was being sarcastic.
I was being condescending.
Yay, were both jerks!
You meant to say “we’re” right there.
Sorry, condescension was already taken, you have to take something else.
I actually watched it as preparation for college.
It was less relevant to my college experiences than I expected.
I’d say the same about Saved by the Bell, but that’d admit that I watched it
wait oops
“Saved By The Bell” was about high school. The sequel was about college life and it bombed because it wasn’t written by David Willis…
I watched both and learned NOTHING from EITHER
Did that make you sad, glad, or indifferent? 😀
I read dumbing of age as preparation for college.
Well, the first month anyway.
How do they know about it ?
Probably the same way I know about, and Willis knows about it,
it was made before I was born, and I’ve never seen it, but even in the latest
movies, comics, and tv-series, they still talk about it, and enough to give
me a general idea that the movie was a wacky comedy about college high-jinks.
I don’t know where the idea that media exists in a vacuum, even if you are young, all the old stuff is referred to ALL THE TIME in modern media, because the modern media is made by the people who grew up with the old media, and they never stop putting references to it.
Were you homeschooled by a Cubedad, too? I’m saying it seems strange for Becky in PARTICULAR to know about it…
but then there was Seinfeld, so huh
Animal House came out when I was 17, so it was the first R rated movie I wanted to see. My friend & I went to see it, and we just loved it. The best part was a gaggle of nuns a couple of rows ahead of us, also watching it. I guess they were scoping out the enemy.
Don’t be so quick to cast judgement. I have met and gotten to know quite a few people “of the cloth” and they are just like us, only the vows they take for their particular orders is what constrain them and their activities.
I was living in a work camp in northern Alberta when it was still new, with an American satellite feed hooked to the single t.v. in the common room. I saw Animal House about 20 times in a week, still loved it.
I knew about it, but my parents are also super old….
Time period is immaterial. WATCH. ANIMAL. HOUSE.
There exist those who haven’t? Really?
I haven’t watched it since I saw it on Betamax.
Was betamax like an Australian thing?
Cause I googled it and it looks sorta like a tiny vhs tape.
I think it’s an 8 track with moving pictures.
Betamax was a smaller, better version of VHS but since VHS already had a big market by the time Betamax came out, it never became as popular and it died off by the early 1990s.
Videocassetes had two formats, VHS and Betamax, and VCRs could only play one or the other. VHS overtook and detroyed Betamax- by the early 80s, you could go into a video store and see one sad shelf of Beta tapes, and the rest of the place was VHS.
So it was sorta like when Blu-Ray murdered HDDVD then?
This also means betamax had already lost before I was even born which kinda weirds me out but I dunno why.
Kind of. With the exception that Betamax had better video and audio quality than VHS, and Blu-Ray surpassed HDDVD because it was a superior format
I thought it was more do with capacity, adoption by certain popular market segments, and eventual economies of scale in both generations. Competing on length eroded Beta’s quality advantage. Betamax actually was on the market before VHS.
Also Betamax lived a long life in the commercial sector with high end and commercial equipment. Most studios used Beta.
The thing that killed it in the consumer market was content, or the lack thereof. VHS locked down a lot of popular films and series, porn included.
VHS was the older of the two formats, if Betamax were around when VHS was first released, maybe Betamax would have being the dominant format but then again, cheaper often sells more than better quality.
Studio support killed beta. VHS locked in more studios to their format with exclusive deals. More movie choice brought in more VHS VCR owners, which led to more exclusive deals and so on.
actually, porn killed beta. they actually came out around the same time, but the porn industry took to VHS because it was cheaper to manufacture the tape. stores like blockbuster used to be pretty equal but have a huge store of VHS tapes in the back room… for porn… so VHS was more popular and betamax was just used significantly less until it died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXjxUofZHc
I never thought knowing about that clip would be relevant!
That clip made me feel old…and I just saw how betamax died before I was born…this is friggin whiplash!
Actually there were three formats. We had Video 2000 too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000
Those were double sided like audio cassettes, so when you reached the end you could flip them over and record on the other side.
And let’s not forget the 12″ LaserDisk format. The quality was superior to any of the tape formats, but the price of equipment and media was unholy. Still, it laid the groundwork for subsequent formats (CD, DVD, etc.).
And in the future finding a betamax is a quest… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfAF-VTI0w
I remember when I was really little (in the mid-80s), my grandparents had a Betamax set and video cassettes ‘cos they could afford it, while my parents bought cheaper VHS equipment. Score 1 for the younger generation in that case…my grandparents had to buy everything they had all over again a few years later as Betamax quickly died out.
Needless to say, Animal House was before I was born too.
A-hem.
There were at least three tape formats. Phillips brought out their proprietary format, Phillips 2000, which had Double Sided Tape! How could it fail?
Muggins here bought one, and the recorder kept developing mysterious problems like turning itself on and off.
These days, we know from experience that propietary formats, while often cooler than more accessible and generic formats, are a thing to avoid. But back in the 80s, they seemed such a brilliant idea! 😀
My family bought an Amstrad CPC in about 1988, which was awesome! Looking back now, I realise that the fact that everything about Amstrad was made in a proprietary format should’ve been a big warning sign…who ever knew back then that IBM Compatibility would be the way to go? xD
Oh god, the Amstrad. What a total pile of scrap parts. Doing out of warranty support on those things was a pain. Normally with the then new home computers, a mechanical part would fail so thing tape and floppy drives and printers but not Amstrad, it was monitors and power supplies and things that should never have failed.
Well, Sony sort of shot themselves in the foot with their licensing rules to make the machines, which helped VHS dominate, which was too bad, as technically, beta was a better quality picture.
I don’t try to watch bad movies.
So skip The Room. Watch Animal House instead.
I’ve not seen it.
Afraid so. I’ve never seen it even though I could have when it first came out (yes, I’m old, damn you Willis!)
I still have it somewhere. It’s aged badly.
Animal House used to be a 1 beer movie. Now it takes three doubles before I don’t skip the embarrassing parts.
Really. What has become of our common cultural standards?
What about 1355 BC? I don’t think they had invented a means to watch the movie back then. Also, there was no Animal House to watch.
No.
Just, no.
Look. I’m from the generation that came right after the one that produced Animal House, and the one that was probably the most strongly-influenced by it, as we saw it in high school and it very strongly influenced our belief about what college would be like (despite it being set a full two decades before I even graduated from high school). It turned John Belushi from just another one of the Not Ready for Prime-Time Players on SNL into a full-fledged cultural icon, especially in Chicago, where I went to high school. The only way to avoid seeing at least one person imitate Belushi’s mashed-potato stunt was to avoid the cafeteria entirely.
And I don’t like it any more, and can’t enjoy it even through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, the way I can for, say, The Blues Brothers, which is really about a couple of white guys giving themselves permission to co-opt black culture (which they mitigate in part by featuring the black artists that gave them inspiration, who had already been passed up by mainstream culture, and may have helped revive their careers). Mostly for these two reasons:
1) It’s part of rape culture. Pinto doesn’t actually have sex with the thirteen-year-old girl who’s passed out in his bed, but he has to debate with himself about it. Dean Wormer’s wife is arguably too drunk to consent. In the National Lampoon “First Lay” comic, which was the genesis of Animal House, the freshman character does rape the unconscious woman.
2) Overall, it’s the kind of movie that you’d expect a bunch of well-off Harvard graduates to have written: children of privilege who decide that they’re too cool for school and much more interesting than those other yuppies.
This is exactly how I feel about Animal House. Though, I am probably 1 or 2 generations after you. (Graduated h.s. in 2005.)
…Well, damn. You just ruined my nostalgia with your well-worded argument. DAMN YOUR LOGIC AND MODERN SENSIBILITIES! Seriously, though, I forgot about the rapey-ness of the movie. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve seen it.
Admittedly, this is similar to the reasons I don’t like Revenge of the Nerds.
oh hey newsbox:
TWINS OH YOU’RE IN FOR IT
unless one eats the other
Man, how shitty are you going to feel if that actually happens?
=(
[also, eh, ’cause I “know” two that did?]
[[and am a horrible baby-not-lover]]
…Fair enough. Babies can be kind of awful.
Eh, Daniel the Human seems rather proud of his Niece & Nephew, plus they seem OK to me (finally, Humans smaller than my Bot form…), so I don’t have any problems with them…
There goes my theory that Jen Aside is actually Willis’s wife. (You do seem to have the inside track on when the next strip is going to be posted though…)
It’s always one minute past midnight EST. Just look at the posting date on each and every strip, s’not so hard to figure out.
(Counting threads starting at exactly 12:01) There’s 4 of them on this strip, two of them started by Jen Aside, one of them actually rather long. Still sounds like she somehow had relevant posts already prepared ahead of time. Or she types really really fast…
This means you can race ’em!
Or make ’em fight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1oz3-Qe4ss
I’m all about relevant cartoon clips tonight, apparently.
(I knew exactly what clip AgentKeen’s post had before I even clicked the link… 😀 Man, I love that show!)
Anyway, many congrats, Willises!
…Willisees…?
…Willi…?
Oh, whatever the plural term is for you guys, congratulations! 😀 I can’t help but wonder, though; now that David has kiddos on the way, will he make some G-Rated comics so he can show his work off to his children when they’re old enough to read?
Willi? (Pronounced “Will-eye”?)
Life almost imitated art there Willis. Robin and Leslie having triplets and now you are having twins. Congrats!
or they could be Sal and Walky?
That would break the It’s Pregnancy!-to-real-life continuity.
Also, they’ll have to give the girl up because of the aliens.
and trade for Beef!
I saw Animal House when it was first run
Yes, I’m OLD. Get over it.
I also saw “Blues Brothers” in a theater first run…
Awesome, I got an Ethan avvie. And condolences on having kids, you may now bid farewell to concepts like “personal space” and “free time”.
I was in the Navy when Blues Brothers came out. I watched it in Orlando, but most of the people there had come from the Great Lakes Navy Base, so we were more or less familiar with Chicago.
When Animal House was in the theaters, I was far more interested in a movie called “Star Wars”. My parents let me see Star Wars, but Animal House would have been out (assuming I’d had any interest in it in the first place).
that’s babies, man
babies willis
srsly congrats c:
Totes babies!
Mayhaps even Babies McIntyre.
To early to suggest baby names?
Hot Shot and Hot Dog Water go together nicely.
Only if Willis wants his children to be bullied.
Windblade and Whirl it is then. Together they’ll have many fans.
(Dodges thrown tomatoes).
I’m sure these are fine options if Willis and/or Mrs. Willis are celebrities. Are they tho?
Minor Internet celebrities. Middle names might be appropriate.
On the Convention Circuit!
I’d go with Chromedome and Rewind myself.
That would make their initials just one big WW zigzag. Kids love zigzags. 😀
What’s your AC with dodge? I get a +7 to thrown weapons. Go halflings!
How about “Desmode”? Pronounced “Death Mode”.
The kids will probably end up named Claire and Clinton. Or maybe Faye and Marten.
Hannelore and Winslow?
Long ago, I’d suggested Hotspur Schott for one…
Luke and Leia!
Jacen and Jaina
(They have to still exist somewhere.)
Before we start tossing out names, maybe we should wait until Willis announces that they have determined the gender of the offspring. At that point, then let the floodgates open.
Or use non-gender-specific names? Alex? Sydney? something else along those lines?
I need to meet more Humans…
Congrats anyway Mr Willis. Almost forgot that bit… 😛
Men have been called Claire.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(Not QUITE as adorable from a Penny avatar instead of a Dina one.)
If your wife has babies, does that mean she’s babid?
[Zoidberg]Your jokes are bad and you should feel bad[/Zoidberg]
Magic!
Oh yeah, that’s the one with Tim Curry as the butler right?
I think that’s Clue.
You mean cludo right?
Don’t start that! 😛
Lol, whenever I tell my American friends about playing Cluedo, they tilt their heads and stare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Cluedo
Cluedo was the original, but nobody in the US seems to know.
See the fact that there was a game called Ludo makes it all make more sense to me.
I’m still bummed by the change from Reverend Green to Mr. Green, and Miss Scarlett would have had me less confused about how to spell Scarlett O’Hara’s name.
That was the Rocky Horror Show.
If I recall correctly, I would have been legally old enough to watch it.
The Fuck is Animal house?
A 1978s movie, starring John Belushi, about a fraternity in 1962 that causes havoc at Faber College, and the attempts of the college dean to get rid of them. It also spawned a short lived TV spinoff, Delta House.
We need a temporary edit function here, my post above being a good example why.
Seconded.
Who’s John Belushi? ( 🙂 )
Plus, gratuitous Professor-sexes-Nancy-Allen & scary-African-Americans
A movie about frat guys back in 1978 starring John Belushi, famous for his zit impersonation.
It’s all about Delta House being on Double Secret Probation, and the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor! ;P
Behold, the combined power of Google & Wikipedia…
Its kind of like Revenge of the Nerds, only more like Revenge of the Drunken Fratboys.
I relate to this strip, and yet this comment makes me sad.
…What a wonderful world this would be.
Oh my gosh. Congratulations on the twins!!
Is it about animals in a house doing wacky animal things?
That is technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Twins! :O Congratulations indeed! Yay!
Guess that’s what I get for not reading the announcements first. But ya congrats man.
becky made reference to their relative temporal position to our world! she did not read before posting! she’s such a rebel…
Well no matter how much the comics time scale shifts, the movie will have been made decades before any of them were born.
Pop culture might be an exception? About a week ago Willis said that Jurassic Park came out five years before Dina was born.
There might be some system in place where the exact year a movie was released in-universe is on a sliding timeline. So in the year 2020 Dina will still be 18 meaning Jurassic Park will have been released in 1997. Though that’s pure speculation on my part.
I said Jurassic Park came out four years before Dina was born, and that next year, Jurassic Park came out five years before Dina was born, and the year after that, Jurassic Park came out six years before Dina was born…
Ah, that makes sense.
If you just say that the stars of Jurassic Park came out 65 million years before Dina was born, you’ll be correct well into her sophomore year.
But totally, totally buggered by the time he gets to Junior Year.
Theory: Scientists in the DoAverse go overboard with the leap seconds by adding new ones every few seconds.
YES. XD
Boy, talk about time being relative to observational frames
At this point Willis should just add that to the FAQ on his tumblr.
So are we therefore going to have a flashback to Amber playing a portable game system newer than a DSi in high school?
Nobody said that in comic though. As of this posting Jurassic Park came out five years before Dina was born. In 2020 in comic it will have came out ten years before Dina was born. The release date of the movie will stay the same as it was in real life, everyone else’s birthdate moves forward because of comic book time. (Though it will probably remain the main pop culture point for dinos for a long time, so it’s pretty reasonable Dina is going to know about it. And its errors regarding dino facts)
And beaten to the punch by the author. Also I got the release date of the movie wrong (1993 not 1992). Whoops.
Aw. How did Walky’s shoelaces come undone? Sleeping cutie with undone shoelaces.
He kept trying to undress and Dorothy kept stopping him. The shoelaces were the last battleground before they fell asleep.
His shoelaces never end up done in the first place— the only time I remember Walky having his shoes tied is when he had to borrow Danny’s.
How can today’s teenagers hope to relate to Animal House, people didn’t even have the internet or mobile phones back then.
Drunken debauchery is technology level-agnostic.
Yet again Billie tries but fails to be cool. Stupid nerd to ask follow up questions.
Awww. Walky and Dorothy. I think you nailed that “relax” thing, Dotty.
I love how Dina tries to follow the conversation.
I’m fairly sure I’ve seen it reenacted line by line across the various homages on TV shows.
I’m barely able to keep up with most of the film references the internet makes, and I’m twenty-freaking-two. The list of movies we “have” to have seen, regardless of when they came out, gets longer every year. I can only imagine how confusing things must be for the actual teenagers these days; you practically have to have a degree in film history just to follow a conversation.
Not really. Most new series and movies make enough references to all the other movies and series that you can pretty easily gain a complete knowledge of media history since the beginning just by listening to what characters in a single sit-com or movie are saying.
Becky’s line in panel 2 is hilarious. Becky’s pretty witty at times.
The power of alcohol was always inside Billie.
“The BOOZE was inside you all along” amirite
idk how it’d get into Walky from there w/o squicking Billie tho
Via spinal tap? 😛
And exploding drummers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM
Do today’s young people know the Tap? When will they do a 50th Anni reunion/tour?
I still maintain that Billie is totally tsundere for Walky.
You can have an unrequited tsundere relationship. I treasure Ruth/Billie and Walky/Dotty too much for anything further.
I’d say it is too sibling-y, but she did drunkenly come onto Sal, so all bets are off.
Not to mention and her come zback and defusion in the end. This is great smartassery.
OMG! twins XD
Oh hey you’re having kids, awesome 😮
Anyone else worried about where joyce is going?
Nah, she thanked Ruth last strip, now she keeps an eye on this little group of people while she mops up the rest of the party.
Personally I think she’s looking to have a moment alone time with Sarah for a heartfelt apology.
Oh, good, I like that explanation. I was also worried, but maybe that’s how it’ll end up.
It may or may not be significant; ‘worried’ is too strong a word for it right now.
Yeah, all things considered the party was a success and I think Joyce is pretty content right now.
Nah, to me that just looks like a, “Welp, party’s over. Time to clean up the mess we made.” type of expression.
CONGRATULATION!!!!
*S (so excited I forgot the ‘S’)
Twins, congrats! That’s so babies, in the best way!
I was sadly introduced to animal house throughout the Futurama parody
…That episode suddenly makes so much more sense to me xD
ROBOT HOUSE!
Dodecatuple secret probation!
Also, both avatars work scarily well for these particular comments
Cheese-it!
Congratulations!
Congratulations on the twins!!!
What a tweest! Tweens!
Never saw Animal House, but I’ve read the book. Not really into George Orwell tbh.
:-p
Animal HOUSE, not Animal FARM 🙂
Those are quite different.
No, they are almost Identical (they are really nothing even close, there was an animated Animal Farm but “Animal House” was live action)
La-dee-lulz.
Why should you be, when Animal Planet has its own channel?
(just to troll the literalist trolls a bit more)
JessWitt: LOL. 🙂
My spouse too when she asked why I was laughing & I read it to her.
Interestingly, your post is a palindrome (kind of):
Have you read Animal Farm?
No, but I’ve seen the movie. Not really into Belushi, tbh.
Yay twins!
Who needs Animal House when you got Futurama.
“Curse you ROBOT HOUSE!”
I doubt the homeschooler, the anti-geek, and…well, maybe Dina’s seen it, but I don’t think there are enough dinosaurs for her.
I think a lot of Futurama would be criminally unfunny without knowledge of at least half the references it makes to other forms of pop culture. Joyce and Becky would be comfused. And… gosh, the next generation of kids might just be too young for the references D:
Old people feels
Joyce specifically wants to understand the references to “The Simpsons” and “Spongebob Squarepants”, but Ethan ethanned it up and showed her only Transformers.
Trust me, it’s still funny if you’ve never seen the originals.
Does this mean one of the babies gets named McIntyre?
They will both be given the surname McIntyre, so that they may be referred to as “the babies McIntyre”.
Congratulations and congratulations on your baby and your baby!!
I had an intelligent comment but it was replaced with BAAAABIEEES.
This comic made me feel old!
Congratulations. Now get ready to say goodbye to the mere concept of sleep in nine months time.
Twins!! Wow. Congratulations. Much happiness, along with the sleepless nights.
I used to have Animal House on DVD, but my jerk college roommate stole it, along with my TV and DVD player. I’m pretty sure he pawned them to buy cocaine.
His name was Mike?
He didn’t stole it, he gave it to some skateboarders outside to help them prop up their ramp!
The weirdest idea just popped into my head.
Paint your wife’s belly like a pokeball. Just before the baby is born, yell, “(baby’s name), I choose you!”
I believe that is called “grounds for divorce”. 😉
Or “Most awesome birth video ever”…
I’d joke you should name them David Junior and Sally since they’re twins, but I don’t think your children would forgive you for naming them after characters in your webcomic.
I don’t plan on naming them David and Sally, but frankly there’s very few names I ain’t used in my comics at this point…
Dad why did you name me after the girl who tries to blow up half the continent?
Melchizedek?
Also congratu-frickin-lations! You made people!
Not like it’s hard or anything http://www.itswalky.com/comic/and-then-the-sperm/ Joyce in the last panel…
As long as you stay away from “Blaine”, “Ryan”, and “Head Alien”, you should be fine. XD
I nominate Dexter and Monkey Master.
Faz and Mary it is, then.
Penny and Dargon
Wiigii & Cheese!!!!!
One twin’s Head, the other’s Alien !
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Larry, Bob, Susan, and Venus, obviously.
Our rule was no names that had previously been used for roleplaying game characters… which excluded quite a lot of our favorites (and in the end we ended up picking a name we used anyway. Oooops. At least it was a decent character).
Congratulations so much!
It’s Pregnancy is absolutely adorable.
Do you get access to the Joyce & Walky archive at the Dumbing of Age patreon?
Awww, Dotty and Walky falling asleep on each other. :3
Congratulations on the twins! Are they identical twins? I hope they will be in good health! ^^
From the published ultrasound it appears they are fraternal rather than identical as there are separate amniotic sacs.
And I Am Not A Doctor, but I did write a pamphlet translating Doctor-speak to English titled “So You’re Having Twins”.
The shared knowledge of any group of people – say the regular commentators of a webcomic – never fails to amaze me.
I see. I did a presentation in class about twins once, but… well obviously I don’t remember much from it, haha. ^^” Thank you. 🙂
Missed the premier by just 3 months. Congratulations on the twins!
1) There is something inheritly cute about Walky and Dorothy here; they’re probably going to be the most uploaded image to students’image wall tonight!
2) Actually, I have seen ‘National Lampoon’s Animal House’ and find it curious that Becky has even heard of it! Possibily a tale of wild parental youth!
Some movies (like ‘Animal House’) were sometimes put out there by misguided parents as a cautionary tale or a warning — sort of a “See what could happen to you!” type of object lesson.
And then there were the movies that were *MADE* to be an object lesson by the rest of ‘right-thinking society’. Anybody here ever hear of or see a film called “Reefer Madness”?
I’d heard Reefer Madness was bad (on MANY levels), but damn. If the trailer alone is like this, I don’t even want to imagine the full movie.
OMG! Congratulations!!! 😀 😀 😀
And they are twins? Life imitates art for sure 😛
come on sal and david
Congratulations, Dave and Maggie! I just became a grandfather 3 months back. I hope your baby ‘s as happy and healthy as my awesome grandson.
Oops, make that “babies are”
Animal House bagged the most money of any comedy movie ever made; 141.6 million to date. It made John Belushi a star and launched several other young actors careers. There are clips of some of its best scenes on YouTube. Destroying the college Homecoming Parade is a classic.
“EAT ME”
Senator and Mr. Keener.
With twins and a hectic comic schedule, you will no life Mr Willis!
Congratulations!
Animal House is also from before my time. But only a couple years though.
“pooping out a baby”? Make sure Maggie knows to use the right set of muscles, and the right external aperture. If she tries pooping, it’s not a baby (or two) you’ll get. 😛
Never been there myself but I understand that when having a baby pooping is always involved anyway.
Not always. I’ll grant ‘sometimes’.
Oh, I only expected Walky to be down there.
quick, someone that isn’t Mike take a pic for safe keeping~
Also wow, twins ? Congrats. Let’s not name them David & Sal ? lol.
Shoot…
“Almost everybody I know and care for came to a party meant to help me get over a traumatic experience, and decided they had to drink to get through it.”
Joyce’s face… :<
You mean Joyces face when she or Becky didn’t actually tell anyone what the point of the party was?
“It’s from before even I was born…”
Yep. Now, I feel old…
Mazel tov!
(And thanks. I’m still not used to the new pairings …)
Wow. That is totally babies, man. Best of everything! 😀
Also: yay low angle shot! 😀
Congratulations!
The new comic exists because Maggie and I are having twins.
Congratulations! Parenthood is awesome!
…keep telling yourself that XD
Yeah how silly to think someone would watch a movie that came out before they were born
First movie I saw in college was Casablanca. That was a tradition in my first year dorm.
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(also, congrats on the impending parenthood)
Congratulations on the baby Willises-eses!
I’ve never seen Animal House either, but in terms of college comedy movies, I like PCU a lot.
The first thing I always remember from that movie is Gutter misunderstanding a question about the campus.
Mazel tov!
A couple of things to consider:
– Willis is now totally babies.
– Damn You Willises!
– THERE ARE MORE WILLII!! WIILLII!! (Pronounced ‘wee-lee’)
Oh, and congratulations. You have become the thing you once despised. This is called growing up.
Grammatically speaking, wouldn’t it be “Willes”?
Only if ‘Willis’ was Latin. And the W at the start is a strong clue that it’s not. 😛
But then why would it be Willi rather than Willises?
(Mostly because it’s similar to ‘Wiigii’, Walky’s old battle-cry.)
Congratulations!!
Your Transformer collection will never be safe again.
He’ll have to invest in bullet-proof vitrines.
It won’t be enough… don’t understimate babies.
Moat and aligators it is then! 😀
Animal House?! Wow! Now you are making me feel old. Watched that when I was a teenager in the 80’s.
And congrats on the twins!!!
How’s this for old? I actually used a slide-rule in High School for my AP Trig class. That was the last class to do it though. Then when I joined the Navy and got to Nukular Power School, I was in the first class where they allowed us to use calculators.
One more thing…
For most of these kids, if their parents had them (the kids) while they (the parents) were in their 30’s, Animal House would have come out around the time their parents were being born.
!!!!
I think there’s something wrong with your math. Animal House came out in 1978, 37 years ago. Most of the cast is 18. A parent born the year Animal House came out would’ve been 19 when they had the kid.
This is subject to change as the timeline slides, of course.
Mazel tov!
Also, the joke in today’s strip is excellent.
And now I’m sad…
Dina is trying to come up with an awkward pose to leave them in while they sleep, but all she’s coming up with are neanderthal poses.
It seems like they got off the hook, but I hope they all drank water as well. Hydration is the key to avoiding a nasty hangover.
Not to mention Dorothy might get a guilt-trip when she wakes up and that’s only worse hung over.
Since they exist in comic time, Windows 95 is older than most of the people there.
Grats on the twins!
And ha, love that Robin strip snippet. 🙂
Well then, grats Mr. and Mrs. Willis.
Well Willis, give your past self a giant-ass hug and thank him for the comic buffer. Yer gunna need it probably.
seriously though CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
And yet, when I survey my classes on how much ancient history they know, they don’t know much, but they all say that they know about Bill and Monica, which gives me hope for America.
Oh, yes: we are only 4 years away from the first First Years born after 9/11 and only 6 from FY’s born after the start of George and Dick on The Road to Abu Ghraib.
It’s so strange to think of kids that were born post-9/11 becoming adults. I just can’t imagine NOT being able to remember it, and how different the world seemed afterwards.
But that’s probably how everyone felt after Kennedy got shot. And WWII. And WWI. Time marches on.
“New ones coming as the old ones go”
Sliding time scale: when (not if) they remake Animal House, this takes place decades in the future
Congratulations to Willis on the twins! If DOA goes on long enough, the twins might eventually be college freshmen at the same time as these characters.
Animal House came out before I was born also, but only by about three years. I never got around to seeing it. There are a whole bunch of movies that “everyone” is supposed to see that I never got around to seeing.
I did see that episode of Futurama, though. It wasn’t one of my favorites. Maybe I would have liked it better if I’d seen the movie it was based on.
Joyce looks sad and troubled in panel two. I’ve been wondering about the context of that panel ever since the preview panel was first posted. I wonder what’s going through her mind there? I can think of several possibilities.
I wouldn’t worry too much about missing something “everyone” has to experience. There’s too much content being made at an exponential rate to take it ALL in (and, despite frothing Duncans, that’s a GOOD thing)
Unrelated to today’s strip, but has everyone checked out this tumblr post up on DOA’s tumblr?
http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/122870042321/dumbing-of-age-disperse-amber-and-alcohol
It’s a really interesting view on Amber’s perspective and how her issues with underaged drinking (and perhaps even just Danny in particular drinking) are a lot deeper than “it’s illegal.”
Congratulations, David (and Maggie, if you read these)! What wonderful news!
That is all.
I feel old. It came out the year I was born.
Hey, “cisgender” just made it into the Oxford dictionary!
🙌👏👏👏
Congratulations! as the parent of two and a child development “expert” your in for a wonderful, horrible at least interesting ride!
You Millenials are aware that there’s this thing called DVD, it allows you to watch movies made before 1985, especially ones with inappropriate sex jokes and cruelty to horses. And the best motivational speech of all time: “WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR? HELL NO!”
…”The Germans?”
“Forget it, he’s rolling.”
Wonderful news! As a twin: congratulations, and good luck 🙂
David and Maggie, congratulations.
Almost forgot, cheers to your upcoming parenthood.
Congrats on the having twins thing. Oh, and you know how you have a stupidly deep buffer? Well, double it.
forgot to ask—after nine months, will “It’s Pregnancy!” turn into “It’s Totally Babies McIntyre!”?
Oh man, Joyce and Walky are back! It’s like I’ve come home! 😀
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TWINS.
Congratulations!
It was from long after I had left school, gotten married, gotten divorced, and then started a career that I’m about to retire from. A fun movie; y’all should see it.