'huh i wonder who that's for' meme
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Ruth: Okay, my song's done, not that ANYONE was paying attention. "Good Luck, Babe" is next. Whose song is that?
Ruth: JUST KIDDING, it's OBVIOUSLY Jennifer's. Here you go.
Jennifer: Huh? Obviously HOW?
Ruth: Try paying attention to the WORDS.
Ruth: Now, I'm going to go sit over on this couch and listen with rapt attention. Politely. In the interest of decorum, I will only SEETHE sarcasm instead of ERUPT with it.
Alice: Why does everyone call Billie "Jennifer"?
Ruth: Because that's what she asked us to call her.
Jennifer: "Try paying attention to the words"?

Good Luck, Babe
Posted on May 28, 2026 by David M Willis

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Tags: alice, asma, jennifer, ruth

106 thoughts on “Good Luck, Babe”

  1. Sirksome

    Why? Why? Tell em that it’s human nature.

    1. Tessea

      My god, I had that album on LP when I was a kid. How dare you make me realize that! :D

      1. Steamweed

        I remember that music. Quite the thriller, it was.

        1. Tessea

          Aayyyy! :D

      2. aplatonicjacuzzi

        It’s a classic. It was my and my parents’ favorite album when I was a kid

        1. Tessea

          *turns to dust*

        2. ResRam

          stop dating me so unfavourably….

  2. IntangibleMatter

    As someone who respects but doesn’t listen to Chappell Roan I need to look up the lyrics but I at least know enough about the song to know why Ruth is reacting this way

    And I would too, honestly

    1. IntangibleMatter

      Jesus Christ did she write this as a Ruth/Billie fan song wow

      1. DJTsurugi

        lol a lot of her music is quite literally lesbian coded, or at least it sure feels that way. it ends up being very popular for us. ~<3

        1. Carla

          Not just lesbian coded! Chappell Roan’s a lesbian, so most of it is explicitly gay, people just assume it’s about a man because it’s a woman singing! The Casual music video is so Ruth/Billie!

      2. Rose By Any Other Name

        Incidentally, I also highly recommend the cover of Good Luck, Babe! by Rain Paris for the Sapphics who enjoy a harder edge with their lesbian anthems.

    2. anon

      i’m sure there’s lots of couple songs/animatics with it too, i remember ppl pairing it with hayley from stardew valley

    3. ValdVin

      I, too, am not aware of that one. I won’t look it up so as to enjoy the upcoming surprise.

    4. Macareux Moine

      I’m kind of surprised that no one had linked the lyrics yet.
      They are indeed very fitting.

    5. Macareux Moine

      “Hey Jennifer, can we talk?”
      “Yeah, okay. ..
      ..
      ..
      .. wait?! Jennifer?!”
      “Yep. That would be the topic.”

      1. Macareux Moine

        this was supposed to be a stand-alone comment, not a reply to IntangibleMatters.
        It’s about Alice/Jennifer, not Ruth/Jennifer

  3. ZombieKyrik

    Ruth has a point; no one was paying attention while she was singing which is kind of a dick move during karaoke.
    .
    That being said I’m so glad Ruth chose Billie/Jennifer to sing the next song. What kind of outcome are we expecting? Or what outcome are we hoping for?

    1. Mitzi B.

      It’s absolutely a dick move from the other girls, but it’s understandable: I really doubt any of them share Ruth’s taste for dad-rock.

      1. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

        …huh. “enter sandman” is from 1991. thirty-five years old. there are definitely people who heard it in their teens and twenties who are now dads.
        .
        to me, “dad rock” is always gonna be stuff from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, because that’s the music cohort of my actual dad

        1. Cassie

          Released in 1991 and 37 years old? What’s 2028 like?

        2. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

          you saw nothing

        3. jaytyr

          My friend was born in 1991 and is dad to a 10-year-old. Metallica may be, and I know this is blasphemy, grandpa rock.

        4. Lee

          Yeah, when I read Mitzi’s comment, my knees abruptly started creaking.

        5. John Campbell

          I was in high school when “Enter Sandman” came out. My little sister’s oldest got married a few months ago.

        6. Morleuca

          My wife has been lamenting the growing realization that all the grocery store music is increasingly stuff she knows the lyrics to and feels a deep urge to sing along to.

        7. John Campbell

          Yeah, I figured I was officially Old when I made a trip to the grocery store and literally everything they played while I was in there was in my MP3 collection.

          I was in there one afternoon and they were playing The Cure (“Friday I’m in Love”). A little voice inside my head said, “Don’t look back, you can never look back.”

    2. IntangibleMatter

      I know what kind of outcome I’m ultimately hoping for from this

  4. nadamás

    “Wow this song really resonates with me for no particular reason whatsoever.”

  5. Dot

    Me, March 2025:
    .
    “ Awful lot of queer acts there, straight girl Jennifer. What can one say but good luck, babe?”
    .
    I am once again vindicated and all who oppose me shall fall in due time.

    1. ZombieKyrik

      I fell once today already; can I be excused?

      1. Cattail

        YOU GET BACK UP / BUT YOU FALL DOWN AGAIN /

        1. ChrisBChikin

          YOU NEVER STOP FALLING DOWN!

        2. Jon

          Well, maybe if you’d called it quits after the whiskey drink and the vodka drink…

  6. Dean

    ‘Good Luck Babe’ is a tough choice for karaoke, though.

    1. Irreleverent

      Is it? It’s been one of my karaoke go tos for a minute.

      1. Lamppost

        Damn, you must have some pipes on you

      2. Irreleverent

        Like I get that it has a wide range, but its not hard to shift the end down a bit to suit a less extreme soprano.

        1. lamppost

          *cries in alto*

  7. Bill Erak

    OOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH I LOVE SAPPHIC PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVENESS.
    Especially when, while it is true that Billie sort of gave up on Ruth and ditched everyone due to her ego, Ruth is definitely the one who tried dumping her and pushed her away. (And immediately regretted it because lol lmao) GIRL, YOU SHOULD BE SINGING THIS SONG, YOU’RE THE ONE WHO YEARNS HARDER HERE.

    1. Doopyboop

      To be fair to Billie, she didn’t “give up” on Ruth, Ruth broke up with her and then broke off her own doorknob to keep Billie locked out. It isn’t “giving up” on someone if they break up with you and you move on. Ruth is the bigger yearner here though it’s true.

    2. CroSS

      The song’s not really about yearning, it’s about being with someone who knows who she is.

  8. Pocky

    We just hitting all the sapphic classics.

  9. Lime

    Ooh! I like how this was set up when Jennifer was recommending music to Joyce and mentions Chappell Roan!

  10. Jay

    Ruth is queen of the wing-women/ex-girlfriends.

    Also I Need her and Billifer to mash faces again

    1. ZombieKyrik

      They can mash faces after I get my AlicexBillie fix. I’m dying of a lack of Alice and Billie putting their “coochies” together.

      1. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

        how do we think ruth and alice feel about sharing

        1. ZombieKyrik

          In my head: All three will do the horizontal tango with each other, and it’ll be a sapphic delight. :)
          In “reality”: I don’t think that’s going to happen; especially seeing how difficult it would be to get 3 people in one dorm bed. I shared a twin-size bed with a girl I loved for 3 years, but I don’t know if there would have been room for someone else.

        2. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

          oh my thinking was more alice can date billie and ruth can date billie but alice and ruth aren’t necessarily dating each other.
          .
          that said mandy grace and sierra make it work somehow. i assume grace and mandy put their beds together into a superbed

  11. ZombieKyrik

    Is anyone else having trouble loading the site lately? I keep getting a time out error, or just endless loading on a blank white page.

    1. Loki

      I had to delete my cookies for the site a few days ago because it kept telling me I had a problem with site headers. Maybe try that?

    2. Man#127

      I haven’t been able to get the site to load on mobile for a while without switching to incognito mode on Chrome

  12. Mel

    If Jennifer has the vocal range for Good Luck Babe she should ALSO be in Ensemble, that song goes from high soprano to low alto at the end

    1. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

      trust me: song choices for karaoke are NOT indicative of vocal range

      1. Rosicrucian

        Plus, not even Chappell Roan sings this song in its original range when she does it in concert.

        1. Rowan

          I get a “request header fields too large” error on multiple browsers on multiple devices. Currently I can access the site exclusively through Ecosia browser on my work phone, all other attempts fail. Even after clearing browser cookies

  13. Mitzi B.

    Asma’s face has changed from :[ to :| since the last comic she was in, I notice. Poor girl is having a rough time!

    1. Hell Yeah

      she does get to enjoy the raised eyebrow of “a pretty lady has sat next to me” at least!

    2. Needfuldoer

      Sorry, Asma. That’s just what happens when you’re an ascended extra.

    3. Ray Radlein

      Hey, Asma is getting all the gossip fodder she could ever want, at least

  14. Tenzhi

    Had to look up those lyrics to get the point. Maybe if I could have waited a strip or three the meaning would have been made clear to those who don’t worship at the temple of the horse.

  15. Sajuuk-Khar

    Billie: WAITAMINUTE, is this song GAY???? I just picked it to be MEAN, to YOU!

    Ruth: Picking it to be mean to me is the gayest goddamn thing you could possibly do!

    Billie: Oh, so now you’re throwing our relationship in my face, AGAIN.

    Ruth: OUR *GAY* RELATIONSHIP

    Billie: Tch! Just cause I wanted you to meet my folks, it’s “gay” now. Of course. You have to label EVERYTHING, Ms. Being a Dick About Terms!
    Alice: …Did you two date?
    Billie: No.
    Ruth: YES.

    1. Sajuuk-Khar

      (Ope, looking back Alice knows they dated
      Fuck
      Now my Tuvok vs. Harry Kim meme at the end
      Sucks)

      1. nadamás

        Disco Elysium fan sense tingling! Did someone say Harry Kim?!

        1. QueenofSodor

          Harry Kim’s the forever-ensign from Star Trek: Voyager!

        2. clif

          Hey, they fulfilled their potential.

  16. Tan

    To be fair, it also coulda been Alice’s

  17. Lee

    Kinda wish this had more of a punchline so it could hold up as more of a standalone, but it’s okay for some strips to be serialized, this is still one of my favorites in quite a while. Good Luck Babe is a fantastic choice for this.

  18. Darkoneko

    Oooh someone is cranki…er than usual

  19. ohyeadudeyea

    very cute jennifer at the end there :<

  20. Bryy

    Yeah, looking more and more like this is a catalyst storyline.

    1. Justin8448

      But a catalyst for what?!?!? With each Sapphic added to the room, the potential shenanigans increase exponentially…

  21. anon

    i wonder how ppl will react to this strip and song choice ten years from now lol

    1. Steamweed

      Bold of you to assume we will have civilization, electricity, and internet then.

      1. anon

        trust me, the internet weirdos (affectionate) will always find a way to keep the internet alive atleast

  22. redcaela

    She’d have to stop the world to stop this roasting…

  23. TimeKiller

    Jennifer is about to be hit by the comphet truck

    1. Sajuuk-Khar

      That’s a really mean thing to call Jason. That’s messed up.

      1. Naomi

        The first time I read this comment I didn’t understand it, but when I read it a second time it made me giggle aloud :D

  24. Taigan

    There was some previous strip where I posted the comment that, if Jennifer and Ruth ever got back together, the name of the chapter would be “You’d have to stop the world.”

  25. JoeCovenant

    Hands up of you’ve never heard of the song/artist in your life…

    …

    Just ME, then??

    1. eh, whatever

      Me too, but that’s entirely unsurprising for different reasons.

    2. Rimwalker55

      Guilty, your Honor. But I still listen to pre-rehab Alice Cooper. :-\

    3. Poppakatt

      I’ve heard of the artist but only because a number of lesbians I follow on Bluesky keep bringing her up. I should probably give it a listen sometime.

    4. Bill Erak

      Funnily enough, I know the artist AND the song’s lyrics because I’m surrounded by sapphics in my life, but I’ve failed to listen to it even once lmao

    5. Daibhid C

      Until very recently, I was completely oblivious to almost all chart songs from after about 2000, and most songs from any period that weren’t either comedy or folk. Then I started listening to BBC Radio 2 on the way to work, and it turns out the middle-of-the-road station for old people has actually got me the closest to “with it”, I’ve ever been.

      So, surprisingly, I actually have heard the song, and could possibly even name another Chapell Roan song without looking it up (the one about joining a fan group for Pinkie Pie is hers, right?)

  26. Morrismorris

    Ahahahahahaha, Incredible, Ruth, honey, your ability to put yourself in situations where you get hurt by Jennifer is *Chef’s Kiss * exceptional. Like, will this also hurt Jennifer? Probably, but holy shit what an perfectly lesbian way to de-rail the evening.

  27. Rosstifer

    Is Jenniflie one of those people who thinks ‘The Giver’ is about generosity?

    1. Dean

      Well, it kind of is…

  28. Paladin

    Solid drama today, with classic Billie levels of not-having-a-clue.

    I look forward to seeing where this is going

  29. Macareux Moine

    I always pay attention to the words – and I hate it when the bass/beat drowns the lyrics

  30. Railey

    I’m not sure if this will get buried or not, but the Jennifer tag isn’t working – it just redirects to the latest comic. I like to be able to go back and find context I forgot or missed ^^

  31. YourCousinJay

    Damnit now I gotta open Spotify..

  32. Jerna

    Since there wasn’t a prompt yesterday, I’m repeating Lesbian Love Sleuth from yesterday
    Lesbian Love Sleuth: Prompt from “Lay Me”: “Disguise yourself as the now-missing pumpkin, obviously. Thankfully, that’s not one of the ingredients of the Vegetarian Feta and DEATH, so it should be safe.”
    You look around. There’s no place you can hide. And then it hits you! On the place where a pumpkin would have stood, which you haven’t eaten by the way (Jesus Christ, I’m gonna burst). You look around and see a jar of orange chili powder. You go to the pumpkin stand and sit on it. Luckily you suddenly have the appearance and volume of an average pumpkin (How can I move so fast?). You coat yourself with the chili powder. Your eyes sting, but the powder stays on. Mario Mario walks past you. He notices something different about the pumpkin. It might be the fact the pumpkin is wearing a fedora and raincoat, the kind sleuths would wear. It doesn’t seem to bother him, though that the pumpkin suddenly got some garments. He grabs some ingredients and walks out of the room. He’s yelling that he’s going to make a pizza and someone needing to resupply on chili powder again. After he left, you dust yourself off and sneak to the door. It leads into the kitchen where someone is throwing dough around. There’s another door, leading to the pizzeria. Alice is nowhere in sight. What will you do?

    1. deliverything

      Well, disguising yourself worked last time. Maybe this time you can pretend to be a line cook who’s come in late? Hopefully you won’t need to ‘dispose’ of anyone to make room for yourself. This may require causing different foods to touch, but you’re sure you’ll be able to cope for a few minutes if you don’t have to eat it. Hopefully, anyway.

  33. Darkseide

    Is she drunk or just not very observant… I’m actually confused

    1. Mitzi B.

      Jennifer’s just not very observant. This particular karaoke outing is implicitly booze-free (no boozles on anyone, Ruth proposed karaoke as a non-drinking activity in https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/exchurchgirl/ )

      Jennifer also has a clueless streak: she’s convinced Sal is Amazi-Girl despite having met both of them, she didn’t realize Asher had hooked up with Ethan until they passed her walking hand-in-hand, and most recently she didn’t pick up on Alice’s attraction to her ( https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/importantmemories/ ).

      1. Yumi

        She has great intuition.

      2. David

        Usually Billie relates by mutually-destructive situationships, instead of talking

  34. Donutholebandit

    Good Luck, Billie!

  35. Dot

    Mx. Willis can I have a tag like some other prominent commenters please

    1. David M Willis

      I don’t know what this means!

      1. Dot

        Perhaps you haven’t noticed (and I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically) but anytime you go into a character tag on this website, there is a massive list of tags that you have to scroll past in order to get any results. There are character tags there, as you would expect, but a lot of the tags are also frequent commenters such as Yotomoe. Not sure what’s happened on the backend to make that happen. Anyway can I have one too please

        1. David M Willis

          …oh. Those are tags from… probably at least 15 years ago. I would post fanart and have contests, and people who drew art or participated in those contests would have those posts tagged with their usernames.

          Because of the new way the site is set up, those tags no longer direct you to the original posts, since they aren’t comic posts. With that in mind, I should probably clear them out.

        2. NGPZ

          heh we should have those contests again sometime soon! ^-^

  36. Zamperla

    There’s something. So. So. So funny about Jennifer just never telling Alice about the name change, or telling anyone ELSE she’s changing BACK (because she isn’t) and just kinda. Let. That ride. Forever. It’s exactly, perfectly, precisely Jennifer. Just let this thing she’s already comfortable with stay where it is and never deal ith the way anything might have been re-defined or changed!

    It’ll work forever. She’s a champion. She has never paid attention to these lyrics once huh.

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