Chronologically, this is the first time we see Billie and Danny acknowledge each other. Â This exchange would have been extremely useful to have been in the original comic, I’m sure. Â I didn’t realize yet at the time that Billie was to be important.
Hey, Carly.
The guy in the last two panels is based on a coworker from my time at Mars 2112, a theme restaurant. Â Â He was a foreign hire. Â Â (There were a lot of those at Mars 2112; Â it was an internationally-owned restaurant.) Â He looked just like that and did talk about capitalist pigs all the time. Â Also I was at a super drunk party with him once. Â He did the oink-oink thing and everything. Â My tribute to him.
Oh, right. Â The party I was at him with was a going-away party for an Irish girl from the restaurant that was returning home. Â She was really nice. Â I have never been so intoxicated before or since. Â At one point I said I’d had enough, and asked for Mountain Dew instead. Â Oh ha ha ha ha, the Mountain Dew had stuff in it, too. Â Totally pranked. Â Of course by the time I’d noticed, I didn’t care.
The police busted up the party when some underage girls wandered from it into the streets. Â They told us to go home. Â Well, that’s stupid, I thought, still wasted out of my mind. Â So I sat in my truck for hours, waiting to sober up enough to drive home. Â Not gonna be Ruth, I told myself. Â Not gonna be Ruth. Â
…not sure what Billie’s Monopoly line is about. Â Can someone else figure that out?
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I think she’s just calling him boring. The insinuation that the most interesting thing he’s got to do on a Friday night is play Monopoly. I guess?
I’ve seen Monopoly games end with the table getting flipped. There is no more harrowing board game.
The Doctor’s right. A good game can last hours and requires serious skill and planning (plus finance managing).
The only two ways I’ve ever seen a Monopoly game end either involve table flipping or the phrase, “Wanna do something else?”
I’ve never seen a monopoly game end in any way other than “let’s do something else”. That game is so dull.
That’s sort of the point – it was designed to teach people how unregulated capitalism would play out, with a few people gaining a total economic control over certain resources and everyone else going bankrupt.
@DapperAnarchist
Which makes it that much more funny that they’ve created a new version that only takes half an hour to play, lets you buy corporations instead of property and eliminated the “Go to jail” feature.
@showler
Just like Wall Street!
Well it sure as heck is good you had your own frame of reference to keep you from doing something stupid…
I say this sincerely.
I think the Monopoly comment was just about how much of a square Danny is. That or perhaps a jab at how well off he is? Do any of these seem right, Willis?
I’d say that the monopoly is a reference to Danny being boring. Also isn’t Billie’s family pretty well off? Or is that just in the Dumbiverse?
I thought the same thing as Maxy, but then when Tanned Foreigner called him a capitalist pig, I assumed Danny owned them all at Monopoly once and has spent too much time rubbing it in, so they use it against him.
Monopoly is boring and infuriating to most people.
Danny is boring and infuriating to her.
Board games are also a cliche thing for “boring” people to do on weekends.
There are a couple layers of meaning there.
Prolly that nobody with any sense of what’s good and decent will play Monopoly, because it’s the worst game ever.
After Candyland, which is basically predetermined from the card shuffle except for ONE choice [srsly], so it’s astonishing that it failed to make this list: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-board-games-that-ruined-it-everyone/
I love both those games.
If you do, you should play some real board games sometime. Your head will explode (in a good way).
Monopoly’s actually really fun imo. Candyland sucks, though.
It’s predetermined from the card shuffle, but as long as you don’t actually know how the cards are ordered, how is that less random than rolling dice to move?
Monopoly is a game about capitalism, and so is perfect for Danny, as Tanned Foreigner helpfully points out.
Because Monopoly is boring, like Danny. XD
Can yoooooooou feeeeel the loooooooove tonight?!
She thinks he’s like a fuddy-duddy old man in a top hat? She’s correctly presuming that only idiots and assholes play Monopoly? He looks a lot like somebody off a Community Chest card? Much like Monopoly, she feels that Danny ruins evenings and spoils fun?
“All it takes is one day.” isn’t that something the Joker says?
Either The Joker or Scourge the Hedgehog.
That’s exactly what I thought when returning to this. This is the Killing Joke with partyin’ Joker and boring Danny.
And a few years later, they get married.
Sounds like Bat-canon to me.
Fire the Bat-Canon!
wait, but “all it takes is one day,” is that, like, all it takes is one day to buy and drink a six pack? all WHAT takes?
To go loopy Joker-wise.
It’s because noone actually enjoys monopoly. Like you start up the game but it always ends in a fight, anger, frustration, and wishing you’d never brought it up. A perfect metaphor for Danny.
Me and my mom used to play Monopoly over the span of several days. Just play it until it got boring then leave it.
I like Monopoly. Even though I (almost) never win. Not sure whether that says more about the game or me.
I guessed that it was referring to the fact that there’s ways one person lording it over the rest when they have the most money or properties and Danny is pretty much doing that at the party because he is t drinking. Both of these make very little difference in the grand scheme of things.
Is it because he’s well off? Or non adventurous? Or a tool?
Wikipedia is telling me that there were only ever two Mars 2112 locations. One was in Times Square, so I’m guessing you worked at the one in Schaumburg?
On my first reading back in the day, I thought it was because the donkey (ass) was a monopoly piece and he should be put back in the box. But that was a horseman, not a donkeyman.
Now it reads more like Billie thinking of something she thinks is dumb and boring and trying to associate him with it.
This is making me sort of start to like Danny. Heh.
Yeah, when Danny’s being intentionally written as a pompous ass it’s actually kinda fun to watch him bounce off of the others.
Today in Roomies! Minus Danny, Billie talks to thin air, inadvertently proving this Danny right about her drinking.
I went to Mars 2112 as a kid back in around 2003! Got any cool stories about it?