Fornication
on September 14, 2013 at 12:01 amChapter: Chicks Dig Engineers
Characters: Danny Wilcox, Joe Rosenthal
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room, Indiana University
I want to go back in time and rewrite Danny’s punchline to say “Joe, this is just the word ‘buttstuff’ written over and over.”
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But is Spite sex as hot as Hate sex?
No but it’s fairly warm.
Mmm, spitesey.
“It’s not spelled ‘Fellashio’, you know.”
I chose to believe that somewhere exists a porn parody called Goodfellashio.
Right alongside Bryan Singer’s classic, The Usual Buttsex.
Since I doubt Joe would have any other items on that list that weren’t sex-related, I choose to interpret this as Danny only knowing what two of the terms mean, and “fornication” is how he chooses to describe them out loud.
The punchline still works, but I’m guessing you didn’t think Danny was the butt of the joke when you wrote it?
A lot of Roomies! probably makes more sense if you imagine Danny being the butt of every joke.
Reading this strip I couldn’t help but feel like Danny was finally the real butt of the joke for once. Even though Danny’s supposed to be the reasonable one here, Joe’s remark about Danny hating anything related to sex felt like such a snarky retort about Danny’s jerky prudeness and haught. It was like he was mimicking all the jokes we’ve made about Danny so far, but now, FINALLY, it was being said to Danny’s face. It felt satisfying, like a character was finally in agreement with us.
Take that, Danny.
Why would Joe write Fornication as opposed to Sex.
Because…Willis Crica 1998.
ayup
Why would Joe write sex as opposed to Fucking?
While one assumes Willis wants to go back in time to rewrite the punchline via replacing his 1998 self with his current self, I would imagine more humor value in going back in time, leaning over his 1998 self’s shoulder, scratching out the old punchline and writing in a new one.
Unfortunate side effect: 1998 Willis’s shock at his future self’s flippant and unapologetic use of the word “buttstuff” sends him in deep isolation and prayer –timeline shift– and we’re now reading a Shortpacked! which greatly resembles Spire’s Archie Christian comics.
Even worse, Roomies! never ends, and we never even meet awesome characters like Robin or Mike or Dina. All self-righteous Danny all the time.
Because by then, EVERYONE has been killed off to further Danny’s “character growth.”
Danny might not regret it but we do regret not seeing that ship
Originally posted:
January 28, 1999