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Slightly

by David M Willis on December 11, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Birthday Pursuit
└ Tags: becky, dina, grace, joe, mandy, robin, sierra

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 11, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    I mean tbh I don’t know what Robin would’ve even pretended to be mad about, no one said no partyin’ and shiz

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      December 11, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

      Mad she wasn’t invited? I don’t know, I’m sure Robin could find a reason given time.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        December 11, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

        “Free pizza, but no free candy?!”

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      December 11, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

      It seems to be Robin standard. She did it to Becky over at Galasso’s.

  2. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 11, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Nice try, tho ?

    • Fiiiiilo
      Fiiiiilo
      December 11, 2019 at 6:39 am | #

      this is a bruh moment

  3. Suet
    Suet
    December 11, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Dubiously perfect.

    Robin, no duck lips

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      December 11, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      Isn’t the duck lip thing passe? Which, if it is, works perfectly with Robin being clueless.

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        December 11, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

        Everything about this is passe.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 11, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

        it is ? Thanks all the gods, finally.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          December 11, 2019 at 2:13 am | #

          “Finally”? I got sick of hearing about people being sick of hearing about it about six years ago.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        December 11, 2019 at 8:15 am | #

        As is the ‘selfie thing’, the ‘diversity thing’, and of course, the ‘Republican party thing’. SOOO passe.

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 11, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Congrats Becky, you’ve survived your first and only(?) parental response to a party. Now you just need to do the horizontal tango with Dina and have Robin or Leslie accidently walk in. Then you will truly be living the life you missed out on. Is there anything else I am missing?

    • Lawzlo
      Lawzlo
      December 11, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

      Hopefully there isn’t another parental response coming to this party. Everyone knock on wood and don’t jinx it.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2019 at 3:55 pm | #

        Leslie is here now, so it’s possible, but I’m betting on a more public venue.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      December 11, 2019 at 9:26 pm | #

      So she can learn that there “there’s no way you can remove your head from another girl’s crotch in a nonchalant manner”?

      Or finally learn to lock the darn door?

  5. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    December 11, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Might have been a three-martini connection from Detroit.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 11, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

      There are numerous direct flights from DC to Indy, and commuter flights to Bloomington. No need to route through Detroit, you can get those martinis on the more direct route.

  6. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    December 11, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    I really want to like you Robin, but you make it so difficult sometimes.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      December 11, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      I liked Shortpacked Robin, but this universe’s version of her is too terrible for me to like.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        December 11, 2019 at 1:38 am | #

        Yeah, SP Robin being in a goofier universe and clearly having the soft gooey heart of gold helped a lot. Also the change in parties and dynamics cross-universes didn’t help matters – a Representative who behaves as goofily as Robin became much less funny post-Palin, and what we know of her politics here is ‘opportunistic and will sell you out for three votes.’ I don’t think we really ever saw SP Robin do much politicking that wasn’t related to toys – all I remember was the Dinobot Hall of Fame campaign and her first winning the seat on a sugar vendor by courting the necrophiliac Star Wars fan vote.

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        December 11, 2019 at 2:11 am | #

        I’m like, 60% confident there’s a good person somewhere deep inside of her. Very, very deep, but I’m decently sure it’s there.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          December 11, 2019 at 11:33 am | #

          Reality messed with Robin. It turns out that buffoonish politicians only out for the perks not only exist but are horrifying.

          • jmsr7
            jmsr7
            December 11, 2019 at 12:21 pm | #

            You’re not kidding. She was modeled after Sarah Palin, but it turned out that she was all that and a terrible person to boot.

            There are times i really wish that the “moral majority” people cared more about morality than power.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              December 11, 2019 at 2:51 pm | #

              First she was Palin, then Rubio and Cruz and now she’s the pile of human slime in the white house.

              • Schpoonman
                Schpoonman
                December 11, 2019 at 4:18 pm | #

                TROF

                That Racist Orange Fucker.

  7. Author X
    Author X
    December 11, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Ah yes, the most trustworthy kind of boss – the kind that acts friendly and doesn’t set hard expectations of what is appropriate in your relationship, turning it into a constant guessing-game to please them while they can change the rules at a whim.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      December 11, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      oh no D:

      this is wildly close to home augh

    • SuperZero
      SuperZero
      December 11, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

      Robin might have provided her with the apartment, but it’s hers. She’s allowed to host a small birthday party there. That has nothing to do with her job.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        December 11, 2019 at 1:41 am | #

        It’s possible Becky used campaign funds for pizza, but really the issue here is that Robin lives in this apartment with her employee. Even if Becky weren’t vulnerable, young, and totally dependent on this job, that’s not a dynamic that good things come out of.

        • SuperZero
          SuperZero
          December 11, 2019 at 1:49 am | #

          Especially since she wasn’t supposed to.
          She said she was lending it to Becky’s, then asked if she could stay one night.

          But there are (hopefully temporary) work situations where you live where you work. I’ve had a few jobs like that (camp counselor).

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            December 11, 2019 at 2:04 am | #

            Yeah, that reads different to me than ‘relatively small apartment you share with the Congresswoman you do PR for.’ There’s positions where that’s at least not unheard of (say, live-in nanny,) but your unrelated campaign manager isn’t one of them.

            • He Who Abides
              He Who Abides
              December 11, 2019 at 4:45 am | #

              Let’s be honest though, anyone around DoA Robin will end up being her nanny at some point.

              • Clif
                Clif
                December 11, 2019 at 3:57 pm | #

                Point.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      December 11, 2019 at 1:30 am | #

      And the person upthread who mentioned the showing up at Galasso’s thing… kind of suggests it’s a pattern. (Bad enough Becky is now living with her boss.)

  8. Lingo
    Lingo
    December 11, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Thankfully she’s not Ruth’s stuffy ol’ grandpa either.

  9. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    December 11, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    When she says it like that, it just makes me think of those college flyers.

  10. AeromechanicalAce
    AeromechanicalAce
    December 11, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Ah, Robin…Only Stephan Molyneux has a greater ability to make me cringe every time they open their mouth…

    • Illithid
      Illithid
      December 11, 2019 at 1:32 am | #

      ^^^^^^^^^^ upvotes

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      December 11, 2019 at 2:45 am | #

      I don’t know whether to upvote you for making such a correct observation, or downvote you for reminding me about GamerDouche McSexist Extraordinaire.

  11. Solenoid
    Solenoid
    December 11, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    And this gets everyone out the door who wasn’t already on their way out. Robin is a master of the parental technique of embarrassment. This is offset by it being the only technique she knows.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      December 11, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      Just wait until she puts on the Macarena and insists on dancing.

      Yes, I know she’s probably too young to have grown up with that song. Doesn’t matter, it’s the most embarassing choice, and to teenagers anyone over 21 is basically 60 anyway.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        December 11, 2019 at 1:46 am | #

        Robin’s served at least one term in the House of Representatives, which means she’s 27 at minimum. The Macarena came out in 93, so she was probably young for it, but still old enough to remember hearing it and everyone doing the dance at events. (That was my experience with it, at least, and I’m only a year longer.) Of course the timescale means this won’t last, so I suggest trading a slight amount of embarrassment factor for being several years younger – do the Cha Cha Slide instead.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 11, 2019 at 2:11 am | #

          At least she didn’t try something obnoxious, like dabbing or a dance from that battle royale game the kids apparently aren’t playing anymore.

          “What is up, fellow kids?”
          – Robin, probably.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        December 11, 2019 at 2:47 am | #

        She’ll put on Rebecca Black’s “Friday”.

      • Zee
        Zee
        December 11, 2019 at 12:34 pm | #

        Um, I’m 19 and I grew up with that song. I figured it was the kind of song everyone grew up with

  12. Bagge
    Bagge
    December 11, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

    Of course it works. It is shenanigans. Robin likes shenanigans.

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 11, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

    Blech. Robin.

    Becky’s so cute here though, it balances out.

  14. Nono
    Nono
    December 11, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Robin was almost okay, then the last panel happened.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      December 11, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      To be fair, panel 5 isn’t great either. Leslie is a billion times better slightly older sister than Robin.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        December 11, 2019 at 12:33 am | #

        Leslie’s not an older sister.

        Leslie’s a lesbian mom. Like, if you cut her down the middle without it becoming gory, her insides and bones and stuff would somehow be arranged to spell out “LESBIAN MOM” on one side (and then the same thing on the other side, but you’d have to put it against a mirror).

        • Deathjavu
          Deathjavu
          December 11, 2019 at 9:15 am | #

          Leslie is extremely mom, possibly even more mommish than Dorothy. HOWEVER, this doesn’t mean she isn’t still a billion times better older sister than Robin. (This is as much to do with Robin being an awful racist as anything)

          • Charles Phipps
            Charles Phipps
            December 11, 2019 at 11:35 am | #

            Weirdly, Leslie wants to be a lesbian mom and Becky has no interest in her being a lesbian mom. Becky doesn’t look at Leslie as an authority figure whatsoever–just a role model.

            I feel Becky might consider Hank a dad but as far as she’s concerned, she HAD a mom and is an adult now.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              December 11, 2019 at 2:47 pm | #

              Becky wanted a lesbian mom. Not an authority figure, perhaps, but still a mom figure. Following Leslie to the store so she could tie her tie is probably the most obvious example.

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          December 11, 2019 at 10:07 pm | #

          QUILTBAG Auguries?

  15. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    December 11, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

    Eeeeh.
    I know political points and all, but that last sentence….
    just so skeevy.

    • AeromechanicalAce
      AeromechanicalAce
      December 11, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

      “Skeevy” pretty much DEFINES Dumbiverse Robin.

  16. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    December 11, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

    “What kind are you?” Human, that’s what kind I am.

    • Miri
      Miri
      December 11, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

      At least she didn’t say “blue Skittles flavoured” to be sarcastic coz Robin might have licked her…

      Apparently some people really do ask that question using those words but ICK doesn’t begin to cover it.

  17. Some1
    Some1
    December 11, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

    And now for a short joke about lesbians that has nothing to do with Dumbing of Age.

    “mom, dad” I adopted.

    “what? How?”

    “It was a wild night and when I went to the bathroom in the morning I found I had a baby”

    “How could this happen!?”

    “It was Amelia, wasn’t it! I swear I’ll kill her.”

    “Hey, I’m responsible for my own body and its ability to drunkenly go down to the adoption center and sign the papers! Just because Amelia co-signed has nothing to do with it!”

    “Have you considered abortion?”

    “Bit late for that.”

  18. Beef
    Beef
    December 11, 2019 at 1:25 am | #

    I was right about Robin being ok with the party but maybe too right

  19. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    December 11, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

    TIL that hair dye can change your ethnicity.

    • Hugo Bedward
      Hugo Bedward
      December 11, 2019 at 1:39 am | #

      “You don’t sound blue hair’d”

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      December 11, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

      I’m sure there’s a decent-sized portion of right-wingers who think that Dirty Liberals think this unironically.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 11, 2019 at 2:25 am | #

        Of course, that’s what the TV and poorly edited memes their friends shared on social media told them liberals believe! It must be true!

        (Shout-out to everyone who’s had to block otherwise rational relatives on social media because they inexplicably fall for this stuff and re-share it.)

  20. Emperor Norton II
    Emperor Norton II
    December 11, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

    On a side note, I’m hit with the most nostalgic of feels right now.

    Marie Fredriksson, of world-famous band Roxette has passed away. My late childhood/early teens definitely had this band on the CD player a lot.

    The songs of Roxette could be good, or silly, or sometimes quite cheesy… But her distinct voice would always raise the level of them. She would pour her heart and feelings into every tone, every word. And because of that, you’d recognize that voice anywhere. She was queen of The Feels.

    Without her and her amazing musical chemistry with Per Gessle, Roxette would absolutely not be the mega-success it became.

    Rest in peace, Queen of The Feels, Queen of Rain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27eClHQxXls

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      December 11, 2019 at 1:41 am | #

      May she Rest In Peace.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 11, 2019 at 11:36 am | #

      She was a little bit dangerous but we loved her.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 11, 2019 at 12:08 pm | #

      <3

  21. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    December 11, 2019 at 1:45 am | #

    The last panel while being very cringy for a person like me… it’s a quite exact moment of knowing her voters extremely well… and yes I don’t mean it as a compliment to the voters…

  22. Rikunda
    Rikunda
    December 11, 2019 at 1:58 am | #

    Wow… Her level of racism makes me feel more uncomfortable than normal.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 11, 2019 at 2:09 am | #

      Yeah, she’s got a history of sucking on that front. It’s why Sal doesn’t like her.

  23. Chris Phoenix
    Chris Phoenix
    December 11, 2019 at 2:44 am | #

    New York Times, Sept. 23, 1983. “WATT ASKS THAT REAGAN FORGIVE ‘OFFENSIVE’ REMARK ABOUT PANEL”

    Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt asked President Reagan’s forgiveness today for making a ”morally offensive” statement in describing an advisory panel as ideally balanced for including ”a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.”

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  24. Polaris
    Polaris
    December 11, 2019 at 3:30 am | #

    I know tht Robin was present in previous Willis strips, but having started with Dumbing of Age, I always found Robin to be pretty confusing and completely unreadable… She seems to be presented as lively and cool, whereas she seems to be planning from a political point of view every single thing she does…

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 11, 2019 at 8:02 am | #

      But planning so openly and badly that you can’t see how it would ever work. Not so much here, since she’s talking about photos she could show to others who won’t have heard the cringey phrasing, but think of Leslie’s class when she was openly asking in front of the audience how pandering she should be?

    • Sam
      Sam
      December 11, 2019 at 9:07 am | #

      That’s because Robin’s actual intelligence and knowledge are constantly in conflict with her impulsive, act now think later, nature and they rarely align due to her self-driven and in the moment nature making it difficult for her to consider the long-term. She isn’t stupid but she ends up acting the fool a lot because of it. Robin knows a lot of the ins and outs of politics but without people scheduling her every move for her, she kind of just flails about, not really knowing how to manage herself.

      Being self-driven like she is leads to her making equally very moral and very immoral decisions as well. The former being when she would rather fire all her staff than let a rapist go because she felt furious at him, the latter being things like refusing to leave Leslie’s damn house because she felt comfortable there.

      Robin doesn’t know what she’s going to do next either because she doesn’t know what whims and impulses will come to her along the way.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        December 11, 2019 at 11:37 am | #

        High Intelligence, Low Wisdom

  25. someguywithakatana
    someguywithakatana
    December 11, 2019 at 5:34 am | #

    Well…

    Becky…

    almost faced consequences for her bad decisions…

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      December 11, 2019 at 5:41 am | #

      What bad decisions? Hosting a non-alcoholic birthday party in her own apartment? Cuddling with Dina?

      • someguywithakatana
        someguywithakatana
        December 11, 2019 at 5:48 am | #

        Using campaign funds for a personal party? That’s what a lot of people are saying she did?

        The narrative was acting like she was in trouble, I kinda just assumed they were right.

        • someguywithakatana
          someguywithakatana
          December 11, 2019 at 5:52 am | #

          Time dilation in this comic being what it is, people could be referring to something that happened like 5 years ago, far as I know

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 11, 2019 at 8:06 am | #

          The campaign funds here was pure assumption, I think. She did spend them on Dina’s giant stuffed dinosaur.

          Even if she did fund this with campaign money, it’s not like it’s a lavish party. It seems like the most expensive thing would have been the pizzas. No one would ever notice or care. (Actually the most expensive thing probably was the pull down banner saying it was a DeSanto party and that’s almost a legitimate use.)

          • LeslieBean4shizzle
            LeslieBean4shizzle
            December 11, 2019 at 9:25 am | #

            The pizza has been explicitly called out as Little Caesars. Whatever else you can say about them, they are the least expensive pizzas around. Even if she splurged on 10 pies, that’s only $50.

            So yeah, decorations in general or that banner specifically would have taken the lions share of funding.

            • Kat
              Kat
              December 12, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

              I mean, Becky gets paid as part of her job right? This party doesn’t have to be funded with Campaign funds. If it is paid for out of Becky’s salary, it is not subject to any Campaign fund restrictions since it is Becky’s money.

  26. Jhon
    Jhon
    December 11, 2019 at 5:53 am | #

    Mandy dyes her hair? Dang.

    ( mandy stop blocking our view of grace )

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      December 11, 2019 at 9:16 am | #

      When she was introduced she was a redhead, but a little while back Willis had her start dyeing her hair to make her stand out a little more as a character.

  27. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    December 11, 2019 at 6:26 am | #

    Isn’t Robin of Latin origin too, though? Does Latino politician also seek to show how they support diversity, or is it just Robin?

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      December 11, 2019 at 6:42 am | #

      If you’re Republican you have to pretend to be all about diversity to appease racists who don’t want to admit that their party is racist.

      • Zatar
        Zatar
        December 11, 2019 at 10:04 am | #

        Honestly a lot of republicans don’t even do that.

        • Hoboturtle
          Hoboturtle
          December 11, 2019 at 11:09 am | #

          Ya, some try to argue that all parties are racist and when everyones racist, no one is. Its like the shittiest Incredibles misquote.

  28. Booker
    Booker
    December 11, 2019 at 8:14 am | #

    Robin. Go back to wearing a sombrero so I can pretend to tolerate you. This of blend being silly and goofy mixed with pandering politics is smacking too close to home. *Resumes teaching highschool political science after a period of crying in disbelief*

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      December 11, 2019 at 4:00 pm | #

      Oh yeah, I forgot she started “Wacky Hat Day” in Congress.

  29. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    December 11, 2019 at 8:58 am | #

    Aaaaand the party is ruined.

  30. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    December 11, 2019 at 11:28 am | #

    (facepalm) One step forward, two steps back.

  31. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    December 11, 2019 at 1:07 pm | #

    Sierra is in no hurry to have a photo with Robin.

    And we know how difficult it is to enmadden Sierra.

  32. Clif
    Clif
    December 11, 2019 at 4:08 pm | #

    If her coming selfy with Dina doesn’t go viral, the DOA Internet is broken.

  33. GutterChick
    GutterChick
    December 11, 2019 at 5:48 pm | #

    I get asked “what (race) are you?” all the time. And it’s like, I gotta say mixed to keep it simple or I gotta explain how Cali-West Afro-Insular Celto-Judeo Germanic-Ibero-Caribbean works for 5 minutes. Or try and simplify it as much as possible like… Albi-Boricua?

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      December 11, 2019 at 10:28 pm | #

      Why not just say “human”?

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