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Rainbow Friends
Dr. Frizzle
*Walky still eating pizza but also twirling a noisemaker*
I’m imagining Fry trying to clap while eating several sandwiches.
If Robin was REALLY mad at Becky, she should’ve called her “REBECCA WHATEVERYERMIDDLENAMEIS MACINTOSH!” rather than starting the full-name-shout with Becky. xD
I doubt she knows Becky is a nickname
Excellent save, Becky.
But the Robin I know is basically a Shipping Demon, and wouldn’t want to interfere with someone getting lucky, so you could probably just be honest.
Plus, just look at Dina’s extra endearing face in this one. Could Robin get mad at that face? I think not.
I’m not quite understanding why Dina’s face goes from being so pleasant in panel 4 to full stink-eye in panel 5.
Not that I wouldn’t give Robin the stink-eye, but I’d have done it from panel 2 onward.
I think she’s just looking up at the sign in mild surprise.
Yeah, Robin’s a lot less cool in this universe, but she’s not a monster.
One second of puppy eyes from Dina (she calls them compsognathus eyes) and Robin will be scattering rose petals along the path to the bedroom while playing Barry White on her phone.
Ah right, Robin’s election woes
Hahaha someone came prepared for all eventualities
Tho, isn’t it supposed to be *Becky’s appartement* now while deSanto just take the couch ?
Yes.
That bit has me a little confused as well.
I think she’s looking up at the banner that mysteriously unfurled. How dare it surpass her velociraptor cloaking.
It’s not that she has the banner. That’s simple enough. It’s that she managed to position herself in arm’s reach of the ripcord exactly when she needed it. That’s the impressive bit.
Ah, you assume that’s the only banner.
A Lesbian is always prepared.
Learned that one from my Lesbian Scouts handbook.
I never did manage to collect all the badges before leaving the troop..
(Meme)
Lesbian Scouts seem to be a thing in Canada. Huh.
That’s some impressive contingency planning, no wonder she’s a campaign manager
Well I can see this ending one of three ways:
1. Dorothy confronts Robin about Ryan.
2. Joe seduces Robin.
3. Carla.
Mike.
He is too grumpy right now. Let him be himself while drama occurs.
Didn’t dotty leave one page ago?
No, that was amber. You can go back one page by clicking the left-pointing arrow under the comic.
Also, that little blue triangle on the right of Mandy in the last panel is bugging me because I can’t figure out what that is.
Someone’s leg. You can see the top of their foot.
It’s actually Danny’s foot. He’s doing that cartoon trope where he disappears out of one side of the panel, only to re-appear on the other side.
This is Our Imperial Headcanon and We will die on this hill!
Eh, works for me.
Given that the person seems to be sitting on the couch, I think it’s an untagged Mike.
Becky, this is such a flimsy cover, there’s no way in haha okay yeah this is totally going to work
If it were any other candidate, it wouldn’t work. It’s Robin, though. So it’ll work.
It’s a comic strip, so it’ll work.
Rule of Funny. I had a D&D character who had that as a DM invocable feat, a 3.5E warlock whose deity was Dizzknee and had a spell that pantsed other characters
I don’t believe that Robin would be mad at Becky for throwing a party but I guess tomorrow’s strip will tell
Smooooth, Becky.
Well Becky, no one can say you aren’t prepared, but pulling a re-election party banner out during the middle of what is otherwise a rockin’ party might not always go over the best.
I don’t know, how would you feel if someone spontaneously pulled out a banner for a random candidate for what is otherwise a non-related party?
We for one would expect it.
Sounds like the party was over anyway.
For everyone else, maybe. For Becky and Dina, it was just about to start.
That’s some serious foward thinking, clever Becky very clever.
Clever girl.
Oh, great, Robin’s back.
Well, I say: oh, great, Robin’s back!!! <3 <3 <3
Yeah, unfortunately 3 years living adjacent to a Trump presidency has killed my enjoyment of DoA!Robin.
Yeah I wanna move back to Newfoundland myself. I guess I missed my chance right after the election, when NL real estate was in the dumper pricewise and there was a lots of inventory for sale. That means I’m stuck in TX.
Oh, hey, you’re a Newf?
But now you can be “just a Newfie in a Calgary hat”!
It’s the most damaging character in the entire strip, what’s not to like? I loathe that creature.
This is more plausible than the Evil Dads crashing the party.
They’re probably out recruiting more members of the Legion of Dipshits. My guesses are Guns, Whitney McJority, and Ninja Rick.
i see only good things coming of this
Becky came prepared! Respect level up +2!!
Well let’s be honest, Robin will probably be OK with this just because of seeing that sign.
Wow. Becky did think of *everything*…
So not only has Robin given Becky a place to live, she’s also giving her the opportunity to pull some classic teen movie party shenanigans.
Which is something Robin fully supports
Ah, so it’s a Republican party.
So, next strip everyone denies they’re LGBT and say poor people are the worst?
….Ya gotta give props to Becky for covering her bases.
What, exactly, is “further adieu”?
A common mispronunciation/flourish. Presumably intentional on the author’s part.
“Further ado” except French.
Honestly? It’s accurate. She’s leaving the group without further goodbyes… Without further adieu.
My pun radar is giving high fives to Becky, that’s quite clever.
But it’s weird to commend the group to God when Robin just showed up. … oh.
Much adieu about nothing
A sure-fire short circuit in my brain. Aaaah.
What it is….
IS A PUN.
This is going to start a pun chain… and I, for one, am not bye-ing into it!
Then you’re not going to fare well in the near future.
Hah! Crafty Becky. That’s the kind of thiking that makes her earn the big bucks
Time to get started on that bookshelf, Robin.
Who knew politics involved mental tricks and diversion tactics. My sarcasm is high, but not as high as Meredith right now.
Saved By The Bell did that trick too.
It oddly worked.
Listen, all Robin needs to do is send Becky to dig up dirt on her opponent. She can withhold her apartment and tuition until then.
While she’s under investigation for conspiring to do just that, because nothing fucking matters anymore and the echo chamber will perpetuate a narrative more favorable to her.
Is it really a crime to break a written contract that money has been exchanged hands on?
“Yes.”
FAKE NEWS!
I mean, Becky’s probably committing campaign finance violations in this party so that might not be the wisest objection.
I forgot Becky was using election funds for this party.
She could be paying for it out of her salary, if she’s paid herself yet. (Or if she’s doing some “creative” accounting to give herself an advance…)
I guess but then why would she not just admit to throwing her girlfriend a birthday party in her own home.
Remember the arc where Becky, Joyce, and Jocelyne broke into Casa Toedad, where Becky talked about how she used to sneak in and out all the time? And the time she “accidentally” got glue in her hair so she had an excuse to cut it shoulder-length? She got her rebellion where she could.
“Throwing a big party while your parents aren’t home” is a rite of passage she’s missed out on so far. Now she can tick that one off the to-do list.
Becky is now batman for all it seems… so prepared for everything.
Dang, Robin is gonna touchblock Becky
What’s that Robin has on her neck? Is that a Dexter-the-Head-Alien travel pillow?
And also, Robin doesn’t remember Becky’s right name.
It surely looks like it.
I just wonder if these were supposed to be commercially available in-universe, or if someone re-purposed Joyce’s pajama pants.
I bet D&MM is on anything and everything in the Dumbiverse.
“Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!”
– Yogurt, Spaceballs
Robin still wearing her neck pillow from the airline flight is very on-brand.
Especially since it’s, what, a 2 or 3 hour flight from Reagan Washington to Munroe County?
Becky, seriously, I don’t think that Robin will be upset with you hosting a birthday party. She WILL be upset at you starting without her!
Nice backup plan.
Wait, whats the problem again?
Becky was raised by a tyrant and would probably have been “honor-killed” for throwing a party like this, growing up. Also, I have a feeling she sorta hornswoggled Robin into going on whatever trip she went on.
She’s also showered Dina with campaign funds and (the worst part, in Robin’s mind) made Robin do her damn job.
Ain’t no harm in misappropriatin’ a few dirty Republican dollars here and there.
True, but it could get one or both of them in legal trouble.
200 points for “hornswoggled.”
That’s my favorite Hogwarts House.
Um, wait. Is this Becky’s apartment, or Robin’s?
Because Robin’s treating it like her place and Becky’s crashing here, and Becky seems to be acting the same way, but it’s actually being given/leased to Becky as compensation for labor, so…?
Robin straight up gave Becky her own apartment and then asked if she could crash on the couch, iirc
Huh, my photo instead of a character avatar, guess due to me registering a wordpress xD
In other words, it’s still Robin’s apartment and Becky’s crashing there.
Trust nothing until the ink on the paperwork is dry, and Robin’s a republican so not even then.
Robin has three houses but wants a roommate.
…did… did Becky just pull the drama tag?
*prepares chloroform rag* now now we don’t need any more of thay added to this fire
That would have required the drama to have been contained before now.
That was the hijinks tag.
I don’t know why I can take typos and incorrect punctuation and word misuse in stride, but mixups like ‘without further adieu’, ‘supposably’, ‘make due’ and ‘all intensive purposes’ wig me out so much. The make due one even makes better sense I just. Agh.
I too, am wigged out. I’m willing to assume that the mix-up is entirely Becky’s own doing. It’s very much in character.
*clears throat* “could of”
Worse yet: “tow the line.”
I hereby submit “rouge/rogue”.
Oh, the rogue one drives me up the wall, I see it all the time in D&D game forums. And another one I find annoying is “mute” instead of “moot”.
affect/effect
Wow, Becky planned for everything.
That’s why she’s going to end up the White House Chief of Staff! “Ambush fillibuster in Congress? Like, that’s scenario 18C, if I remember!”
im pretty sure that’s a party faux pass.
Pretty sure that’s a faux party pass.
Come to think of it, do we know any characters’ middle names?
We’ll probably find out Joyce’s when Carol shouts it at her at some point.
Billie’s middle name is Yunru, as I recall. I can’t think of any others, though. Until further notice, I’ve decided to insert random names for everyone. Really stupid names, like
Joyce Watercress Brown
Sal Doublebrick Walkerton
Ruth Caterpillarstone Lessick
Amber Scopilopteryx O’Malley
Mike Underpants Warner
Danny Indefinite Wilcox
Dorothy Avalanche Keener
And so on.
Dorothy’s middle name is Margot. Joyce shouts it at her after Dorothy broke up with Walky.
Reality is often more boring than fiction.
Reality is often disappointing.
‘Reality’
Sal’s is Elizabeth, Dorothy’s is Margot, and if its the same as the Walkyverse, Joyce’s is Nicole.
Money well spent
Fucking genius
I think people are taking Robins comment the wrong way, I think she is telling Becky she is coming along…
Also she seems to be expending election funds for her own purposes a lot…she is going to get in trouble
Nah. Becky’d sent Robin to DC for the day. That’s why she wasn’t here.
The early flight explains why she got back during the party rather than the next day.
Becky is a genius in planning party.
say what you want about becky, but she is a Grand Master when it comes to planning.
Clever girl
Considering a previous aide got called “You”, MacIntosh is a pretty close guess for Robin.
“Becky Macintosh”?
(This gag was given far more effort than it deserves.)
Now, that’s impressive.
thumbs up
bravo
That’s awesome!
She’s prepared, I’ll give her that.
“giving birthday girl #1 her birthday cuddles“ – the first ever G (maaaybe PG) rated slipshine!!
(yes, the situation might arouse higher ratings, but it IS possible to just cuddle and not touch all of the many places right away! The excitement of exploration!)