Old, Cold, and Alone
on May 26, 2013 at 12:01 amChapter: Sexuality and the Modern Joyce
Characters: Joe Rosenthal, Joyce Brown
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room
I don’t have much terrible to say about this storyline, huh? I guess it was all right. Joyce and Joe interacting is always fun. Also, Danny’s no where to be seen, which is a tremendous boon.
“Dying old, cold, and alone” has such a wonderful malicious cadence to it. One of my favorite phrases.
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Joe’s so happy about the prospect of her dieing alone. XD
Though it’s sort of nice he thinks she’ll live that long given her amount of crazy.
She’d become one of those people who age fifty years in a minute because some kids are on her lawn…
[you know, before the mind-wipe thing happened]
All of which, admittedly, does add up to her being unappealing. It’s just that all the other stuff is a bigger problem.
Joe’s line in panel three is probably still one of the best things he’s said.
If Willis hadn’t already complimented it, I would’ve!
Seconded. Definitely the best punchline to date.
The best part about this continuity is that despite all of this, both Joyce and Joe wind up getting serious UST between them for awhile.
Yeah, because Joyce loses her personality and becomes much more tolerable and actually likable.
… Is “Unindependent” actually a word? I don’t think it is.
If it wasn’t before, it is now!
If it conveys meaning, it is a word. Willis (actually Joe) said it, you understood it. Word.
Whether it’s an accepted word is another story.
I think the normal version is “dependent.” Or “codependent” maybe.
Pretty much true, though the general populace is more prone to a prescriptivist view of language rather than a descriptivist one so also prone to start arguments in public forums.
Well put! My feeling is, there’s times and places when immpekkabulll formal written English is very important, and times and places where it really, really isn’t.
Dang, Joe. That’s just cold.
Also old. And alone.
But she never ACTUALLY gets it, which is the difficult part to sit through.
Originally posted:
December 3, 1998