Make it so
on September 25, 2012 at 12:01 amI’ve titled this strip what Joe should have said in the last panel, if I’d actually known anything about Star Trek.
I’ve never known anything about Star Trek, but all my friends did. Did you know that in middle school I got invited to a birthday party with a Star Trek costume theme? I knew only Kirk and Spock, but of course those were taken already, so I got told I should come as Wesley Crusher. I had no idea who that was. But I did as they asked. There wasn’t an Internet back then, so I had to go off their vague description.
Twenty years later, I’m on a beach in Aruba with Wil Wheaton and his wonderful family.
Life is strange.
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They got you to dress as Wesley? Yeah, they totally knew you had no idea who that was, and were laughing behind your back. It’s like saying “You’ve never seen Star Wars? You should come as Jar Jar, he’s awesome! *snrk!*”
Wil Wheaton is awesome, though.
Would that mean that whoever gets this prank pulled on them will hang out on a beach with Ahmed Best in twenty years?
I say this calls for experimentation.
Given that Wesley was the identification character for younger viewers, being asked to dress as him IN MIDDLE SCHOOL is far from insulting. (Similarly, I worked as an in-home caregiver with individuals exhibiting developmental or other impairments, and a family member of two of my clients was a middle school kid who loved Star Wars. And he and his friends loved Jar-Jar.)
He’s going to need more Di-lithium Crystals to deal with Joe.
I’d always wondered how Howard ended up such a generic caricature, since your modern stuff is so good to nerds.
I guess that explains it.
And Joe just screwed them over.
Actually, no. Surprisingly, this plot point never comes into play ever again.
Yeah, I know, I’ve read it all, even subscribed to J&W, but I like being an idiot.
Make fun of Star Trek more Joe as i cant
So did you actually know a bit about Star Trek when you introduced Howard?
I guess it’s a standard comedy go-to for the RA to be a tyrant, or else David actually had one of these and pulled from real life here and in Dumbing. I was in the dorms all four years of my undergrad, and I barely interacted with my RAs.
The one time an RA was a jerk to me, it was because some girls spilled a bunch of milk in the commons room, and I ran to the bathroom to pull the roll of paper towels. I guess when I opened the dispenser the front cover banged against the wall a little loud, his main concern was that I could break it doing that. Except no, not really, those things aren’t that fragile. So I have no idea what stick was up his ass. He went on to be the student body president. Yep.
Originally posted:
September 11, 1997