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. . . The worst part is that since Walky DOES have this thing with his exes… I can’t convince myself they 100% won’t. That’s why, for our sake, please don’t have Danny and Sal hook up.
I can practically HEAR Scooby Doo going “RUH-ROH” in the background.
Yeah I’m pretty sure Sal is fed up with being objectified. Wouldn’t be surprised if she tells him off, she’s probably still kind of vulnerable after Marcie’s confession.
Poor Walkertons. Why do the ships always come true in the worst possible ways for them? (Lately, at least. Jason/Sal could only be a trashfire and Walky/Dorothy was only moderately embarrassing.)
Yes. Agreed. At least with Joyce, we know Jacob is interested. Sal treats Danny like a halfwit baby brother. Not anyone’s idea of the ideal fuck toy. Danny needs to reset his sights on Ethan.
Ethan said no (and Danny said no at almost the same time), because of the fallout for Amber. If the reasons that someone said no change, it’s reasonable to revisit the question.
It’s like asking someone out and they turn you down because they’re seeing some one else. Then they break up. Is that “No means no” and you can’t try again?
Except even more so in this case, since no one actually asked. They both just spontaneously said they can’t do that because of Amber. If Danny can’t reset his sights on Ethan because of that, then Ethan can’t for Danny either, so this would have to be permanent, regardless of how the situation or feelings change.
Ethan literally made it clear three strips ago that his feelings on it hadn’t changed. I’m saying this because Ethan has *already* reaffirmed that his feelings on it being a bad idea haven’t changed and that continuing pursuit would be disrespectful as it seems like his view on that is unlikely to change.
I say this is a ‘no means no’ situation because Ethan might not have literally said no, but he was clearly letting him down gently no more than 2 minutes ago in comic time and for him this seems like a line he isn’t willing to cross. If it is to be revisited again, it would have to be Ethan that brings it up because while Danny is willing to, Ethan still is not and is the one who is fridging the possibility.
And honestly, I think if you have asked out someone and they have said no, you shouldn’t try again, regardless of why they said no. If they have reconsidered or want to give things a chance after all or to know if you are still interested, they are perfectly capable of coming to you and telling/asking you themselves.
In a case where they both mutually agreed they shouldn’t, it should only really be revisited if there is reason to believe circumstances have actually changed. At this point, Danny should back off as Ethan reaffirmed his feelings about it hadn’t changed. And if they do, Ethan can come to Danny and tell him that himself.
Danny is just displaying all his worst qualities in the first 4 panels, and Joe’s worst quality in the last panel. This is the hardest he’s Danned in this universe, frankly.
We’ve seen people be much dumber, more often, and not become a verb. This is probably the only dumb thing he’s done in hundreds of strips, let him have it.
“Let him have it” is what Sal’s going to probably do, anyway.
It’s not too late for Danny to realize ‘shit I have Fucked That Up, sorry, forget what I said and let’s pretend it never happened and I’ll trade you a shiny Charizard.’ Meanwhile, Joyce has firmly enmeshed herself in such a way there is no getting out of without Significant Awkward and ‘Wait. WHAT?!’ from Harrison when he finds out.
Yeah but at least Jacob’s cool with the deception, and Harrison’s content while he believes it’s true. Sal’s not going to be cool with this…
It’s sort of a matter of consent, really, although Jacob’s consent might be compromised by brother worship. But that’s not Joyce’s fault, and from her perspective he could have shut this down as soon as she gave him the guilty-but-pleading smile.
Joyce, and it isn’t even close. Danny is neither lying nor breaking up a relationship. Danny will also be fucking up for a shorter length of time, either because he comes to his senses or because, unlike Jacob, Sal is gonna the brakes on the whole thing so hard it’ll leave skidmarks (in the latter situation, the merit is Sal’s, of course).
He is however very likely going to completely screw up his friendship with Sal and possibly her recent attempts spread her idea of friendship beyond Marcie altogether.
Oh, there’s no doubt that either Danny catches himself and stops this nonsense early in the next strip or this is going to be an entire wreck, it’s just not as bad a wreck.
I love the fact that he’s referencing the Folger’s Incest Commercial.
For those who aren’t aware, here’s the commercial, or, more accurately, the “extended version,” with a parody tacked on the end of the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k
Danny look we know your pissed bit that doesn’t mean this hast to become a downward spiral. Also let’s be clear on same things here, Danny they both dumped you so your THEIR sloppy seconds.
I’m considering the possibility that Roomies! Danny has taken over our Danny’s body and the Multiversal Merging has begun. Soon, Joyce, Joyce, and Goatee Joyce will fight Head Alien.
See, this is the reason I continue to despise Danny.
Every time he seems to be growing on me, even slightly, he has to danny it up by being a vile little … **trails off grumbling**
Sal: “Walky, our son became a tyrant.”
Walky: “I knew incest was a bad idea.”
Danny: *Being drunk.* “I-I loved Amber, b-but… she was t-taken from me by-by Targary-ryen hic!”
Sal: “Don’t you mean, Mike?”
Danny: “S-same thing same thing… have I told you how much I love you…”
Sal: “Eww… This is one reason I became an incest practitioner.”
1)Yeah, incest would be awkward.
2)Knowing the nature of Dumbing of Age, the chances of Danny x Sal are as low as Joe x Rachel. Alternate realities are messed up, and this universe will stay the way it is as long as Ruth doesn’t become insane because of of Integrivact.
That is still not about Sal. He’s treating Sal as an object in a stupid feud he wants to have with Walky. Danny is not approaching Sal on account of her own qualities but because she is Walky’s sister and he wants to disconcert Walky.
I think this is a new location AND I MUST KNOW WHERE IT IS! Aaaand of course I’m in a place where the internet connection is too slow to Street-View-stalk.
The thing Sal’s leaning against resembles a sarcophagus? Surely it’s distinct enough that if you saw it IRL or from Street View, there wouldn’t be any question of the location.
Someone on Patreon kindly provided the answer. It is just off the street from Rawles Hall (in the background) where the Math department is housed. Misled by the shape of the gate stone, I was searching half a mile away.
Okay, the alt-text fucking murdered me. Ever since my brother and I saw that commercial years ago, we’ve made fun of it relentlessly (to our mom’s absolute confusion bc she’s the only person on this entire planet who sees that commercial as wholesome and not “off” at all), but also laughing because the comments section has CALLED this, haha
I’m just glad he’s making this joke happen so we, the comments, don’t have to. Also let’s be real, MWAHAHAHAHAHAH. I wouldn’t be shocked if somehow this was part
I love how Dina tries and fails to follow the monologue.
“Why is he talking to amber, she has already left this conversation…. wait, he acknowledged that fact. Is it a joke? Irony? Is he still talking to me… amber is not a bird. She is a mammal. He DOES know that, right? Is it a metaphor? Is he angry at birds? Ooooh! I know this one. Walky did not eat fries. I am contributing!”
Welp, I had no particular opinion about Danny after all this time, but this one strip has changed all that. On the bright side, Sal’s change of expression in the last panel gives me hope that he’s going to have this stupidity knocked right out of him, one way or another.
Okay people, I’m setting up a betting pool to see who’s gonna fuck shit up first!
Will it be Contestant #1, Joyce Brown, and her impulsive lie where she claimed she was Jacob’s girlfriend to his brother Harrison backfiring?!
Will it be Contestant #2, Danny Wilcox, and his attempt to seduce Sal just to get back at Walky and possibly ruin their friendship in the process?!
Will it be Contestant #3, Rachel Jackson, as she continues to escalate her grudge with Ruth despite her attempts to change and recover from mental illness?!
Will it be Contestant #4, Blaine O’Malley, as he continues to prove to be this comics biggest sack of shit and further assembles his wannabe Legion of DOOM?!
Or will it be Contestant #5, Mike Warner, as he simply does what he usually does?!
Place your bets here as we find out in the upcoming Dumbingbowl 2019!
I’m betting on Danny here, if only because Sal will probably not put up with this bullshit and it will go down in flames very fast.
Since Jacob is now in on Joyce’s lie and keep it up in front of Harrison it got the potential to last this entire chapter. Rachel and Blaine’s storylines have been in the background for awhile now, and might stay there for a while still before they end.
I’m trying to think of a way to describe the scale of the Pandora’s Box that Danny might be opening here but I’m really failing to do so. What promises to be really interesting (and hilariously funny) is to watch just how bad he is at starting a relationship when he’s actually trying to start a relationship.
Then again, I may be entirely wrong. It could be that “He’s an idiot but he’s my idiot “is the key to making it work with Sal!
I did a best-case-scenario for Joyce around the last comic we saw from her plot, here’s one for Danny: Danny isn’t really trying to get with Sal, he’s just going to joke with her about it and talk about his frustrations. That will make Sal feel more comfortable about complaining to him and they will both walk away feeling better and having commiserated/advised.
I call this fantasy land comic “Coming of Age”. It’s a story about surprisingly mature and level headed individuals making the best of bad situations and growing closer as friends and sometimes lovers in extremely healthy relationships.
You know what? Screw it. Calling it now. Sal is feeling vulnerable enough and pissy enough at the world at this moment that she decides she’ll date Danny. Hijinks ensue, Sal ends up nearly killing Danny, they both learn things about themselves, and due to some inopportune timing, both get screwed over hard due to bystanders spotting them at the worst possible moments
Sal: Ok, Wonderbread, since we’re friends I’ll give you 10 seconds to explain yerself.
Danny: I’m frustated because I and Ethan thought that we couldn’t hook up because Amber wouldn’t take it lightly but then she goes on to date Walkie and that’s the second ex of mine that he dates and if I date you he won’t date you when we break up… right?
S: …
D: …
S: ‘Aight, stay still so Ah can smack you without knocking out yer teeth.
D: Life and death and love and birth and peace and war on the planet Earth. Is there anything that’s worth more than peace and love on the planet Earth?
Well fuck, you are not being a good egg now, Danny. Sal/Danny is a fine ship, but do not start it for such awful petty reasons! And I really like their friendship, I don’t want this to ruin it.
I think that she’d probably be more annoyed if it wasn’t for the fact that, even at this stage, it’s clear that Danny is going for “Unironic and unaware self-parody”.
“So can we date? I have a hate-boner for your brother, and wish to cause him distress.”
“No way, I’m his sister. Walky always dates your exes, and I just can’t take that chance on eventually being YOUR ex.”
Well, the Walkyverse, for a start. It didn’t work out because the Walkyverse version of Sal is a homicidal sociopath who needed the local equivalent of James Bond to be her boyfriend to make her behave like a civilised human being.
Oh no… Here we are. This will be soooooo good and bad. But really, soooooo goood and baaad that Mike will feel sorry for him and genuinely try to cheer him up.
For Danny, it seems that every day is ‘bad decision day’. That how this fandom developed the phrase “Danning it up!” to describe a flat-footed act of self-sabotage.
Just going to say that by far the bit that is bothering me the most is the part where he and Ethan made an executive decision regarding Amber and he’s now mad at her for not abiding by an agreement that she wasn’t party to and isn’t even aware of.
Like I think he’s got some pretty valid reasons to not let her know he’s into Ethan but that’s not one of them.
I don’t think he’s upset she’s not abiding by an agreement so much as the fact that he and Ethan were concerned about Amber’s well-being and feelings and thus decided to abstain in order to not make things worse for her/give her a complex. You know, attempting to be mindful. Whereas Amber’s all aboard the trash roof train and doesn’t really care to be mindful in the same way. Especially since the break-up was kinda shitty in the first place.
Admittedly, I’ve had major issues with the Amber/Walky thing all throughout this. Then again I’m ace so there’s obviously a big disconnect here as far as “hormones” and such…
I kinda want to see Sal fix this with stoicism.
s- “What did you call me?”
d- “…Baby girl.”
s- “Why?”
d- “I was trying to flirt?”
s- “Poorly.”
d- “I know.”
s- “Again, why?”
And then Danny admits he was upset because Walky started dating his ex. Again. And they bond some more about how annoying Walky is to them.
True, I doubt Walky would hook up with his twin sister…though it might make him want to sleep with Walky, since he’s bi and they look so much alike with the whole being twins thing…
Obviously, he needs to be friends with Walky because they have similar taste and they might have other things they enjoy…like wild leaps and conclusions.
In high school, there was this very sweet girl who kept dating my exes and vice versa. It was never an issue, always more like “amicable breakup, she dates him six months later, two months after that I start dating her ex from the year before” sort of thing. (Hilariously, we were both bi, but this only happened with the guys.)
Anyways. Last anybody heard from her she was married to a cult leader. I don’t trust my taste in men anymore.
Can someone please link me to the conversation where Danny and Ethan admitted feelings for each other but abstained because of Amber because I DON’T REMEMBER THAT, AND NEED TO.
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they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
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⚧️Coming Out
Hailey Piper 
now Danny’s copying Joe lolololol
Dumbing of Age Book Threeve: Yeah, Well, Let’s See You Scarf Up These NEXT Sloppy Seconds!
When I hear the term Sloppy Seconds, I think of that used clothing store chain from Saints Row 2.
. . . The worst part is that since Walky DOES have this thing with his exes… I can’t convince myself they 100% won’t. That’s why, for our sake, please don’t have Danny and Sal hook up.
Yeah I know rite
Dumbing of Age Book $Texas: Mostly McNuggets
Oh no Danny is back on his bullshit, this is going to be the mother of all Dannying it up moment’s I can feel it.
Shit he’ll be lucky she doesn’t break his arm for calling her “Baby girl.”
I can practically HEAR Scooby Doo going “RUH-ROH” in the background.
Yeah I’m pretty sure Sal is fed up with being objectified. Wouldn’t be surprised if she tells him off, she’s probably still kind of vulnerable after Marcie’s confession.
It seems New Danny can be just as dumb as Old Danny. Maybe after Sal gives him a good beating he’ll become Newer Danny and gain some common sense.
This is what happens when he doesn’t sit down long enough to let the hat do the thinking for him
but when he was sitting down he wasn’t wearing the hat so it couldn’t influence his thoughts
it was only when he stood up that the hat regained control
and this plan is probably what I’d expect from such a hat…
Nonsense and blasphemy, he only got this idea in his head because he didn’t get the hat back on sooner.
My theory is that this is still anti-Danny from the concussion.
I think it’s more that he’s so pissed at Walky and Amber that he’s just… Acting on impulse
…I kind of wonder how much of this Mike expected?
I know, right?
The last few days, I’ve been surprisingly okay with Danny.
And then this happened. Back to usual. Thank goodness?
Mike is the Cthaeh.
No matter what happens, Walky certainly won’t be dating Sal. Danny also probably will have a broken arm in a moment.
Danny definitely just has a crush on Walky, right?
Then obviously he should date himself for a while. If the pattern holds, Walky will snap him right up when the time’s right.
Honestly, since Walky’s foodiesexual, all he has to do is grab him some McNuggets, pizza, or a bean burrito from Taco Bell.
I’d say it was likely Sal was gonna hit him with the ukulele, but Sal respects musical instruments too much for that.
This got very Game of Thrones very fast.
Sal doesn’t do much violent lashing out, so his arm’s probably safe.
His ego, on the other hand, is in for a bruising.
careful Danny, you’ll awaken the incest shippers
They sleep?
…With each other
*Grabs more popcorn* Trainwreck! Trainwreck!
Poor Walkertons. Why do the ships always come true in the worst possible ways for them? (Lately, at least. Jason/Sal could only be a trashfire and Walky/Dorothy was only moderately embarrassing.)
This will end badly.
In fact it may even end worse than Joyce and Jacob…
It started very badly, and it hasn’t even started yet.
See, and I was going to post “This will end well.”
Danny, sweetie, no.
Well this ends poorly
Think of it as a growth opportunity.
Assuming one is talking about the growth of large lumps on his noggin….
Yes. Agreed. At least with Joyce, we know Jacob is interested. Sal treats Danny like a halfwit baby brother. Not anyone’s idea of the ideal fuck toy. Danny needs to reset his sights on Ethan.
Wrong place. WTF?
Sal treats Danny as a friend. One of very few she has. She hasn’t shown any interest, but it’s at least possible something could develop out of that.
This is precisely the wrong way to go about that.
He in fact does not. Ethan already said no. No means no.
Ethan said no (and Danny said no at almost the same time), because of the fallout for Amber. If the reasons that someone said no change, it’s reasonable to revisit the question.
It’s like asking someone out and they turn you down because they’re seeing some one else. Then they break up. Is that “No means no” and you can’t try again?
Except even more so in this case, since no one actually asked. They both just spontaneously said they can’t do that because of Amber. If Danny can’t reset his sights on Ethan because of that, then Ethan can’t for Danny either, so this would have to be permanent, regardless of how the situation or feelings change.
Ethan literally made it clear three strips ago that his feelings on it hadn’t changed. I’m saying this because Ethan has *already* reaffirmed that his feelings on it being a bad idea haven’t changed and that continuing pursuit would be disrespectful as it seems like his view on that is unlikely to change.
I say this is a ‘no means no’ situation because Ethan might not have literally said no, but he was clearly letting him down gently no more than 2 minutes ago in comic time and for him this seems like a line he isn’t willing to cross. If it is to be revisited again, it would have to be Ethan that brings it up because while Danny is willing to, Ethan still is not and is the one who is fridging the possibility.
And honestly, I think if you have asked out someone and they have said no, you shouldn’t try again, regardless of why they said no. If they have reconsidered or want to give things a chance after all or to know if you are still interested, they are perfectly capable of coming to you and telling/asking you themselves.
In a case where they both mutually agreed they shouldn’t, it should only really be revisited if there is reason to believe circumstances have actually changed. At this point, Danny should back off as Ethan reaffirmed his feelings about it hadn’t changed. And if they do, Ethan can come to Danny and tell him that himself.
Swelling TOTALLY counts as growth!!
As does scar tissue.
But not dismemberment.
Oh cool, Danny’s gonna get slugged in the jaw.
Danny, you are supposed to be doing better and be a good egg Danny. Don’t give in to the darkside and be like Joe.
Also, trying this shit with Sal is likely to go nowhere good, remember that.
Danny is just displaying all his worst qualities in the first 4 panels, and Joe’s worst quality in the last panel. This is the hardest he’s Danned in this universe, frankly.
Some things just aren’t about you, Danny!
We’ve seen people be much dumber, more often, and not become a verb. This is probably the only dumb thing he’s done in hundreds of strips, let him have it.
“Let him have it” is what Sal’s going to probably do, anyway.
“Let him have it”?
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So who’s fucking up harder here; Danny or Joyce?
We won’t know until we see how both end, but I’m still leaning to Joyce.
It’s not too late for Danny to realize ‘shit I have Fucked That Up, sorry, forget what I said and let’s pretend it never happened and I’ll trade you a shiny Charizard.’ Meanwhile, Joyce has firmly enmeshed herself in such a way there is no getting out of without Significant Awkward and ‘Wait. WHAT?!’ from Harrison when he finds out.
Yeah but at least Jacob’s cool with the deception, and Harrison’s content while he believes it’s true. Sal’s not going to be cool with this…
It’s sort of a matter of consent, really, although Jacob’s consent might be compromised by brother worship. But that’s not Joyce’s fault, and from her perspective he could have shut this down as soon as she gave him the guilty-but-pleading smile.
(That being said, before Jacob actively agreed to this, it was definitely sketchier.)
Depends on how dramatic the fallout of either encounter is.
Sal isn’t currently in a relationship, so Danny by default.
Which infinity is bigger?
“When I’m with Danny, my fuckups are the Aleph-one fuckups.”
Definitely Joyce cause less then noble reasons aside, Sal is single AND she does get along with Danny.
Lying about your relationship with someone vs flirting with a girl you like…
Imma go with Joyce.
Yup, completely agree. Danny is at least being honest albeit for not so good reasons.
Joyce. What Danny is doing is stupid but what Joyce is doing is evil.
Joyce, and it isn’t even close. Danny is neither lying nor breaking up a relationship. Danny will also be fucking up for a shorter length of time, either because he comes to his senses or because, unlike Jacob, Sal is gonna the brakes on the whole thing so hard it’ll leave skidmarks (in the latter situation, the merit is Sal’s, of course).
He is however very likely going to completely screw up his friendship with Sal and possibly her recent attempts spread her idea of friendship beyond Marcie altogether.
Oh, there’s no doubt that either Danny catches himself and stops this nonsense early in the next strip or this is going to be an entire wreck, it’s just not as bad a wreck.
Joyce’s behavior is worse. The wreck that comes from this might actually be worse.
hey baby girl lol
Expected reaction: https://youtu.be/57ZMPAr3aW0
danny is like one of my favorite characters now honestly
Man I ship them in this universe more than I ever did in the last one, but this is a baaad way to kick things off.
(checks the alt text)
DAMN YOU WILLIS
I love the fact that he’s referencing the Folger’s Incest Commercial.
For those who aren’t aware, here’s the commercial, or, more accurately, the “extended version,” with a parody tacked on the end of the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k
Oh no!
A wild Danny appears!
Sal uses “Fuck off!”
**Gags** Gods Danny why?
Danny look we know your pissed bit that doesn’t mean this hast to become a downward spiral. Also let’s be clear on same things here, Danny they both dumped you so your THEIR sloppy seconds.
Ooof, damn, so this is where 13 years of hanging out with Joe went.
Danny, you’re not Agent Morgan. Knock it off.
And I dunno what demon possessed him to start calling women sloppy seconds but how do we send it back?
I’m considering the possibility that Roomies! Danny has taken over our Danny’s body and the Multiversal Merging has begun. Soon, Joyce, Joyce, and Goatee Joyce will fight Head Alien.
Soon, Soggies may rule.
The hell they will! Linkara’s on it.
Unfortunately Linkara is busy atm trying to stop Dr. Crafty from decapitating him and sewing his head onto a cat’s body.
Really shouldn’t have reviewed Franken Fran.
Look, sometimes he takes a while, but he’ll get here eventually.
See, this is the reason I continue to despise Danny.
Every time he seems to be growing on me, even slightly, he has to danny it up by being a vile little … **trails off grumbling**
*Game of Thrones Music Stars Playing*
Sal: “Walky, our son became a tyrant.”
Walky: “I knew incest was a bad idea.”
Danny: *Being drunk.* “I-I loved Amber, b-but… she was t-taken from me by-by Targary-ryen hic!”
Sal: “Don’t you mean, Mike?”
Danny: “S-same thing same thing… have I told you how much I love you…”
Sal: “Eww… This is one reason I became an incest practitioner.”
1)Yeah, incest would be awkward.
2)Knowing the nature of Dumbing of Age, the chances of Danny x Sal are as low as Joe x Rachel. Alternate realities are messed up, and this universe will stay the way it is as long as Ruth doesn’t become insane because of of Integrivact.
I love the double entendre of the strip title
*doesn’t think anybody here has time for a playing of Anna Russell’s commentary on Wagner’s Ring Cycle*
*saxophone music intensifies*
/me gags.
Holy fuck. Now Danny is trying to seduce Sal to get revenge on Walky? That’s vile.
Danny makes bad decisions when he’s royally pissed.
No. He’s trying to seduce Sal because that way if they break up he can be 100% sure that walky will not date her afterwards.
Either that or Danny has an incest fetish.
That is still not about Sal. He’s treating Sal as an object in a stupid feud he wants to have with Walky. Danny is not approaching Sal on account of her own qualities but because she is Walky’s sister and he wants to disconcert Walky.
blegh
OMFG every strip in this arc is my favorite; this just beat out Dina’s desired B-Day gift
No Danny, not like this.
I think this is a new location AND I MUST KNOW WHERE IT IS! Aaaand of course I’m in a place where the internet connection is too slow to Street-View-stalk.
The thing Sal’s leaning against resembles a sarcophagus? Surely it’s distinct enough that if you saw it IRL or from Street View, there wouldn’t be any question of the location.
Oh, that’s not a port-a-potty then, huh.
Yeah, that was my first reaction too.
Someone on Patreon kindly provided the answer. It is just off the street from Rawles Hall (in the background) where the Math department is housed. Misled by the shape of the gate stone, I was searching half a mile away.
And Danny has taken a flying leap into the grody ball pit of Fuckboyism…
Well, at least we know he was projecting that entire time right? Damnit, Danny.
Danny knows they’re related anyway so it’s the only option Walky wouldn’t dare consider.
But whew he really needs to work on his opening lines.
Okay, the alt-text fucking murdered me. Ever since my brother and I saw that commercial years ago, we’ve made fun of it relentlessly (to our mom’s absolute confusion bc she’s the only person on this entire planet who sees that commercial as wholesome and not “off” at all), but also laughing because the comments section has CALLED this, haha
I didn’t realize the alt-text was referencing that folger’s commercial until now.
Totally agree, ian, absolutely love that commercial, especially the “extended version” with the parody tacked on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k
Ugh, not available in Canada. Fucking goddamn fucking region bullshit.
Why not bounce your GPS to a country that can view it? I’ve done similar, and there’s no repercussions.
Why is this his plan? Why not just go for Ethan who he actually wants?
The poor fool got sidetracked by thoughts of Walky dating all his exes to care about the more pressing matter involving Amber.
I’m just glad he’s making this joke happen so we, the comments, don’t have to. Also let’s be real, MWAHAHAHAHAHAH. I wouldn’t be shocked if somehow this was part
That, and Amber just informed him that Ethan isn’t looking for anything serious.
Yeah, that too.
Going after a guy that’s in a sort-of relationship with another guy? That’s Joyce level thinking.
Danny, when you ask yourself, “What would Joe do?”, you’re not supposed to actually DO what Joe would do.
That damn folgers commercial XD
I wanna ruin our friendship
We should be lovers instead
This concludes the first session of ‘Sitting on the floor’-club
Oh hovertext. Is that referencing the folgers commercial? Oh boy.
“The best part of waking up….”
Danny, don’t Dan up thos friendship.
This, not thos.
I love how Dina tries and fails to follow the monologue.
“Why is he talking to amber, she has already left this conversation…. wait, he acknowledged that fact. Is it a joke? Irony? Is he still talking to me… amber is not a bird. She is a mammal. He DOES know that, right? Is it a metaphor? Is he angry at birds? Ooooh! I know this one. Walky did not eat fries. I am contributing!”
Once again, and to my big surprise, Joe’s relationship advices to Danny continue to be really useful, if only he would listen to them.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/romance/
Is it bad I want to follow around most of the cast just to smack their hands and say “no”?
oh god no
DANNY NO
DANNY. NO. YOU STOP THAT.
Well, I had no idea this was a thing before today. Thanks Ian Livs
Explained here:
https://www.bustle.com/articles/131838-that-folgers-brother-sister-christmas-commercial-has-finally-been-explained
Why does that article link to AO3? Why is there fanfic base on this commercial? Why are there 12 of them!?
My favorite part of the whole thing?
That’s Jeffrey Combs’ daughter.
Why is that funny? I don’t know who Jeffrey Combs is.
the alt text just got a legit CACKLE out of me fjgkenlfdb that commercial sure is. something
Danny, you had me for the first two panels but now all I can say is: DANNY, NO!
Welp, I had no particular opinion about Danny after all this time, but this one strip has changed all that. On the bright side, Sal’s change of expression in the last panel gives me hope that he’s going to have this stupidity knocked right out of him, one way or another.
Bro just date Walky
Okay people, I’m setting up a betting pool to see who’s gonna fuck shit up first!
Will it be Contestant #1, Joyce Brown, and her impulsive lie where she claimed she was Jacob’s girlfriend to his brother Harrison backfiring?!
Will it be Contestant #2, Danny Wilcox, and his attempt to seduce Sal just to get back at Walky and possibly ruin their friendship in the process?!
Will it be Contestant #3, Rachel Jackson, as she continues to escalate her grudge with Ruth despite her attempts to change and recover from mental illness?!
Will it be Contestant #4, Blaine O’Malley, as he continues to prove to be this comics biggest sack of shit and further assembles his wannabe Legion of DOOM?!
Or will it be Contestant #5, Mike Warner, as he simply does what he usually does?!
Place your bets here as we find out in the upcoming Dumbingbowl 2019!
I’m voting for tied (concurrent) winners, while also suggesting that Ryan MIGHT be bigger sack of shit than Blaine. (I go back and forth on it.)
I’m betting on Danny here, if only because Sal will probably not put up with this bullshit and it will go down in flames very fast.
Since Jacob is now in on Joyce’s lie and keep it up in front of Harrison it got the potential to last this entire chapter. Rachel and Blaine’s storylines have been in the background for awhile now, and might stay there for a while still before they end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrpoK7Askck
Imagine this but with Walky
Never watched that show but this bit makes me regret my life choices.
Oh what the fuck Danny. Don’t call people sloppy seconds you’re supposed to be a good egg
has he forgotten he told sal to fuck off?
I searched through the danny+sal tag but I must’ve missed something. When did this happen?
“not now, sal” but it had the tone
Say what?
Panel two: “Daniel-san. Wax on, wax off.”
Legit LOL’d at work!
Man, Danny only lost his hat for a minute, and this is what happens.
Danny, what are you doing? Stop.
I’m trying to think of a way to describe the scale of the Pandora’s Box that Danny might be opening here but I’m really failing to do so. What promises to be really interesting (and hilariously funny) is to watch just how bad he is at starting a relationship when he’s actually trying to start a relationship.
Then again, I may be entirely wrong. It could be that “He’s an idiot but he’s my idiot “is the key to making it work with Sal!
Danny seems totally smashed right now ~ ?
Concussion. He’s been uninhibited ever since.
Oh Danny ABORT.
I did a best-case-scenario for Joyce around the last comic we saw from her plot, here’s one for Danny: Danny isn’t really trying to get with Sal, he’s just going to joke with her about it and talk about his frustrations. That will make Sal feel more comfortable about complaining to him and they will both walk away feeling better and having commiserated/advised.
I call this fantasy land comic “Coming of Age”. It’s a story about surprisingly mature and level headed individuals making the best of bad situations and growing closer as friends and sometimes lovers in extremely healthy relationships.
You’re a good egg
So how much did he drink before thinking this would end well?
Rot13 of the day: V’z ehaavat bhg bs jnlf gb fnl gung jr’er fgvyy sbyybjvat gur fnzr punenpgre.
Solved it. Neat gimmick, but try less easily identified letter combinations next time, Nigma.
it, uh, isn’t meant to be hard, it’s meant to obscure potential spoilers. you can “solve” just it by googling “rot13”.
Ah. Well, screw it. I haven’t been able to do a proper cryptogram in weeks, and it made me feel like Batman outsmarting the Riddler.
You know what? Screw it. Calling it now. Sal is feeling vulnerable enough and pissy enough at the world at this moment that she decides she’ll date Danny. Hijinks ensue, Sal ends up nearly killing Danny, they both learn things about themselves, and due to some inopportune timing, both get screwed over hard due to bystanders spotting them at the worst possible moments
Daniel, what are doing????
*Daniel, what are you doing?!
“Please, Daniel, we can’t keep doing this.”
Sal: Ok, Wonderbread, since we’re friends I’ll give you 10 seconds to explain yerself.
Danny: I’m frustated because I and Ethan thought that we couldn’t hook up because Amber wouldn’t take it lightly but then she goes on to date Walkie and that’s the second ex of mine that he dates and if I date you he won’t date you when we break up… right?
S: …
D: …
S: ‘Aight, stay still so Ah can smack you without knocking out yer teeth.
D: Life and death and love and birth and peace and war on the planet Earth. Is there anything that’s worth more than peace and love on the planet Earth?
NO, DANNY!!! BAD!!!! (Smacks him with a rolled-up newspaper)
…Boy, between this and Joyce, this whole Day is going to be nothing but A-grade cringe, isn’t it.
Well fuck, you are not being a good egg now, Danny. Sal/Danny is a fine ship, but do not start it for such awful petty reasons! And I really like their friendship, I don’t want this to ruin it.
The alt text made me howl with laughter tho.
Awh Goddamit…
I ALWAYS wanted Danny and Sal to be (back) together….
But not like this, dude!
Sal, hearing the familiar and unwelcome tones of the pickup line, seems understandably wary.
I think that she’d probably be more annoyed if it wasn’t for the fact that, even at this stage, it’s clear that Danny is going for “Unironic and unaware self-parody”.
You know, that’s… that might legitimately be the only way to break this narrative groove.
Cookie to anyone who guesses update of what I was reading immediately previously.
“So can we date? I have a hate-boner for your brother, and wish to cause him distress.”
“No way, I’m his sister. Walky always dates your exes, and I just can’t take that chance on eventually being YOUR ex.”
*sigh* Give him a good verbal smacking, Sal.
In what alternate universe would Danny Sal ever be a thing?
Well, the Walkyverse, for a start. It didn’t work out because the Walkyverse version of Sal is a homicidal sociopath who needed the local equivalent of James Bond to be her boyfriend to make her behave like a civilised human being.
See sarcasm and irony.
Oh no… Here we are. This will be soooooo good and bad. But really, soooooo goood and baaad that Mike will feel sorry for him and genuinely try to cheer him up.
*End of storyline*
Danny with a stunned expression, in bed, hat disheveled, ukulele forgotten on the floor, turns to Jacob next to him: “Well… that was unexpected.”
Objection: that ukulele would have been used. It would have… seen things.
Ah, it‘s bad decision day. That explains a lot.
For Danny, it seems that every day is ‘bad decision day’. That how this fandom developed the phrase “Danning it up!” to describe a flat-footed act of self-sabotage.
Maybe it’s Danny’s fate to be a vigilante hero’s Lois Lane? If not Amber, maybe Sal?
Danny no
Aw. I think Sal appreciated having one friend who wasn’t trying to get with her.
Wait does he know they’re related? It’s funnier if he doesn’t know.
He figured it out eventually
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/tall/
Just going to say that by far the bit that is bothering me the most is the part where he and Ethan made an executive decision regarding Amber and he’s now mad at her for not abiding by an agreement that she wasn’t party to and isn’t even aware of.
Like I think he’s got some pretty valid reasons to not let her know he’s into Ethan but that’s not one of them.
I think he’s more annoyed at wasting the opportunity for smooches because of incorrect presumptions.
I don’t think he’s upset she’s not abiding by an agreement so much as the fact that he and Ethan were concerned about Amber’s well-being and feelings and thus decided to abstain in order to not make things worse for her/give her a complex. You know, attempting to be mindful. Whereas Amber’s all aboard the trash roof train and doesn’t really care to be mindful in the same way. Especially since the break-up was kinda shitty in the first place.
Admittedly, I’ve had major issues with the Amber/Walky thing all throughout this. Then again I’m ace so there’s obviously a big disconnect here as far as “hormones” and such…
Apt avatar.
That’s how I see the situation, too! Thank you for putting my thoughts into words. (I’m also ace, if that means anything to anyone).
I screamed at my office desk haha Danny no
Danny’s using the same rom com tropes as Joyce. Pester the lady with music and it will all work out after 90 minutes. Isn’t it romantic?
I tried that IRL once a long time ago. It crashed and burned so hard I’m still charred.
I kinda want to see Sal fix this with stoicism.
s- “What did you call me?”
d- “…Baby girl.”
s- “Why?”
d- “I was trying to flirt?”
s- “Poorly.”
d- “I know.”
s- “Again, why?”
And then Danny admits he was upset because Walky started dating his ex. Again. And they bond some more about how annoying Walky is to them.
Me too because if not she might lose one of the only real friends she’s made… and that might also back fire more with Marcie
I scrolled this far down to see a commenter who has some faith in their friendship. I’m optimistic about them having a heart-to -heart
Optimistic but also afraid. This is a DYW comic.
True, I doubt Walky would hook up with his twin sister…though it might make him want to sleep with Walky, since he’s bi and they look so much alike with the whole being twins thing…
Ha. Ha ha. This is either going to be hilarious or sad. Either way I’m down
I see Danny, damning it up.
Obviously, he needs to be friends with Walky because they have similar taste and they might have other things they enjoy…like wild leaps and conclusions.
I still assume Danny will end up tutoring Walky in math eventually, because that’s how both their lives are going.
A-ha! If Danny dates Walky, walky cannot be his own ex, ergo cycle also broken.
You do hear about people dating themselves, but presumably Walky is not allowed to, because of the sliding timescale.
I was thinking more he could never break up with himself. He obviously has datenights already as 50 pc chicken McNuggets.
That’s actually completely perfect. Sal, of course, refers Walky to Danny as the person that helped her with math.
Sal’s about to break Dannys ukulele… and arms. possibly by hitting one with the other.
Absolutely nothing can go wrong with this plan and I unreservedly endorse it.
….
[chant] Dumpster fire! Dumpster fire! Dumpster fire! [/chant]
In high school, there was this very sweet girl who kept dating my exes and vice versa. It was never an issue, always more like “amicable breakup, she dates him six months later, two months after that I start dating her ex from the year before” sort of thing. (Hilariously, we were both bi, but this only happened with the guys.)
Anyways. Last anybody heard from her she was married to a cult leader. I don’t trust my taste in men anymore.
Either you’ve told this story before, or it’s just a recurring event in this fandom. Either way, that’s a yikes.
I actauly might remember her telling us this one….still messed up on some level.
Can someone please link me to the conversation where Danny and Ethan admitted feelings for each other but abstained because of Amber because I DON’T REMEMBER THAT, AND NEED TO.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/chest/
G9t you covered- https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/chest/
Is this reminding anyone else of what happened when someone called Star Butterfly ‘Baby Girl?’
Yes, yes it is. And it will end just as badly.
It looks like Sal is leaning up against a slightly insubstantial port-a-potty.
The term sloppy seconds has always really grossed me out.
On one hand, Danny deserves better. On the other, Danny don’t even pretend to hit up Sal just to bug Walky, that’s gross.
Danny x Sal = no
I support it strongly. Just not this way.
When they first met Sal asked him who ‘set him up’. The answer this time is apparently sorta Walky.
DANNY NO