I can explain
on October 7, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Psy-cute-ic
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room
Though I wasn’t cognizant of it at the time, Joyce and Joe had waaaaaaay better chemistry than Joyce and Danny. When you get down to it, Joyce and Danny are pretty damn similar, but Joyce and Joe have buttloads to argue about. If Sal had never existed, Joyce and Danny probably would have eloped in the first week, then maybe divorced a few years later when they realized how boring they were.
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I was totally JoyceXJoe when I read the comic for the first time.
This is assuming that Joyce and Danny ever realized how boring they were. Joyce, I could see it. Danny… well, not without some outside factors and characters that come up later in Roomies!, anyway.
I dunno. He always seems more irritated by her than anything. Once Sal does disappear Danny doesn’t start pursuing Joyce, and that’s in a few months. If Joyce/Danny was gonna happen it had about a year.
Tell me, have you ever seen a more reliable indicator or romantic tension in fiction than finding someone irritating?
I mean, look at her relationship with Walky. In both continuities, no less.
Yes, but Joyce finds Walky endearingly annoying, and besides they’ve got the repressed memories thing going on as well as a common goofy attitude and love of cartoons.
Danny, on the other hand, always seems to be legitimately pissed off at Joyce, more tolerating her out of kindness than anything, and they have vast differences in interests and behaviors.
The way the Joyce and Joe’s relationship progressed in Roomies! and It’s Walky! is one of the many things I love about the Walkyverse.
Although honestly anything involving Joyce, especially IW!-era Joyce, is probably something I love about the Walkyverse. Joyce is definitely my favorite. Bet you’ve never heard THAT before…
Yo Willis, S01E04 of Archer – I think there was an It’s Walky! reference. Somebody mentioned The Cheese.
“Wow, so even Pam got a date.
But suave master spy [i]Sterling Archer[/i] stands alone.”
“Just like [i]The Cheese[/i].”
[this bit came from an awkward character]
Check it out, see what you make of it. I couldn’t think of any other reference, personally.
As much as I’d like to think IW! references are making it out there, that is a lyric from the Farmer in the Dell.
I think it’s probably more a reference to The Farmer in the Dell, which ends with a verse about how “the cheese stands alone.”
sorry man thats a Magic the Gathering Reference from the card
“The Cheese Stands Alone” from either unglued or unhinged.
…which is itself a reference to the nursery rhyme Farmer in the Dell.
Yeah, the reference probably had nothing to do with The Walkyverse or Magic: The Gathering. The song has been around much, MUCH, longer.
Or, come to think of it, it’s more likely that EVERYTHING is retroactively a reference to The Walkyverse.
Thank you.
Bummer, I suppose I was hoping and dreaming.
Was Joyce meant to be an autobiographical religious nut at this point, or is she just straight-up psycho stalker? (Maybe that’s also autobiographical…)
According to Willis, everyone was a fundie at this point, it was the default. (Except Joe, who’s Jewish, and Sarah, who was mocked for buying into horoscopes.) Nothing’s made of it because he found religion boring. Later, everyone but Joyce was ret-fundied.
http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/10270379367/some-people-who-read-roomies-and-its-walky
Corded telephone.
That is all.
Originally posted:
September 29, 1997