Voting Incentive: PUCK’S GUIDE TO “FINE” CHOCOLATE!
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As for this comic…
Some people were wondering how Puck would spend that ten thousand dollar windfall. Well, here’s a partial answer: generous payoffs to her cronies and enforcers. Though I think Daphne acted of her own free will here. The promise of making Heather’s life a tad more miserable would be its own reward for a girl like Daphne.
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Chapter: The Tale of Two BlondesCharacters: Daphne Phoebe Puck Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: donuts luggage
Voting Incentive: PUCK’S GUIDE TO “FINE” CHOCOLATE!
You know the drill: you get a box of cheap chocolate and it’s got a legend telling you what’s what, but what’s REALLY in those chocolates? Puck’s got the answers! Vote for Puck on TWC to find out!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK! IT’S SATISFYING LIKE CHUCKLAT!
As for this comic…
Some people were wondering how Puck would spend that ten thousand dollar windfall. Well, here’s a partial answer: generous payoffs to her cronies and enforcers. Though I think Daphne acted of her own free will here. The promise of making Heather’s life a tad more miserable would be its own reward for a girl like Daphne.
Is it just me or does Daphne look a lot cuter in the first and third panels where she’s smiling? And I love Phoebe’s reaction to Daphne saying she peed in their luggage. I’ve dealt with a lot of dogs and that’s exactly the face anyone makes when they’re eating and realize a dog made a mess in the house.
I don’t know about you, but a smiling Daphne just seems too … ominous to me.
“Cuter” than what?
Than she used to be in the college era? … Perhaps.
Than the Surinaam Toad? … Debatable.
I think it would’ve been better if Daphne had peed on their car’s upholstery, personally.
But they flew here, so that would mean she’d be messing up a rental. They’d probably have to pay some fee, but they’re pretty rich, so I doubt they’d care. Would make the ride to the airport less pleasant, though.
Wait until they try to check in at departures… the K-9 drug dogs’ reactions to the pee smell could be quite interesting…especially if they are males… heh.
That’s … weird.
Huh. I guess there’s more of the canine to Daphne than just her looks…
True. Apparently, there’s even at least one tick on Daphne’s T-shirt…..
Glad someone got that one.
Yeah +1 for Tick reference. Although im betting most have only seen the tv show and arent old enough to remember the indy black and white comic.
I remember the comics. Never read them, but knew of them, so that when the cartoon was announced, I was excited.
Not really. She’s just a jerk. Sometimes jerks and dogs act in similar manners.
Dogs certainly often act like jerks to me…
In the third panel, Puck looks like she’s thinking “I have never been more proud of you, Daphne!”
That’s exactly what I was going for. It was a hard expression to get right.
and Phoebe looks as if she finally realised that she´s living with a bunch of psychos who are quite possibly even more sinister then her dad 😉
She’s known for a while, I think. She’s come to terms with it.
There are perks to having a canine american as an adopted daughter.
Canine Canadian. But I’ve heard the canine community no longer prefers that term. They now favour the term ‘fur-enabled’.
If you want to get technical, Canadians are still from North America, which makes BrickJAK’s statement true in the broadest sense. 🙂
Telling Canadians that they’re technically American is about the only way to get punched in Canada.
I get it, national pride and all that. Or a dislike of what my country’s leadership is doing.
Believe me, I wish I could muster up either feeling, but I just don’t care about politics in any way, shape or form anymore.
Canadians also usually have a hard time mustering much care, but when you’re a tiny country situated right next to the most culturally dominant mega-country in the world, you tend to develop your identity in opposition to your neighbor. Which means Canadians tend to not get very worked up about anything except being told they’re American. It’s an identity thing more than anything else.
I figure that if one could at least make certain that the term “American” is *continental* in context (not national), then one might avoid the risk of a broken nose.
Canadians don’t break noses. They just get huffy.
Considering that I’ve seen people make jokes about Canada being “the 51st State”, I can understand what you mean.
Well, they’re pretty common.
I was watching a documentary on Canada a few years ago and some Canadian (i think) journalists. said when most people think of Canada, they expect a country of English politics, French Culture and American know-how…… but whet they find when they get there is a country of English know-how, French politics and American culture.
Enh, may be some truth to that. It’s hard not to have American culture when American culture is so huge, and you’re right next door. With the same freakin’ language.
About twenty years ago, we wrote modifications to some business software in order to make it work with the Canadian tax code. The comment was that Canada has some of the most advanced tax laws in the world.
I hate doing my taxes for that reason. But in all honesty, the tax laws up here make WAY more sense than American tax laws.
I love the good, old fashioned Protestant work ethic, myself and Daphne really put a little bit of herself into the work.
It’s all in how you apply that GOFPWE. A lot of it’s in the wrist.
Gecko, is Daphne becoming the “roommate from hell” that you where planning Phoebe to be in this strip’s University days? Cause this is the level of evil I was sort of expecting from Satan’s Daughter…
The again, I can sort of see the real Satan dumping his daughter on some poor victim and taking off…
Daphne’s always been a bit of a nightmare. But she’s usually a nightmare for people outside her clan, so that’s something. Definitely no ties to Satan, though. We may eventually meet Daphne’s birth mother. Then answers will occur.
Had to go back about fifty strips to see what luggage Heather actually had…not much, one bag that might be a purse and something slung over her shoulder.
All the better, it increases the pee-to-luggage ratio.
Heather’s not the type to carry her own luggage. I’m guessing her real luggage was carted in by her dad over five of six trips to the car well after that comic, because I guarantee a woman like that travels with a lot of luggage.
I spent the first 38 years of of my life avoiding women that have a lot of “baggage” & I’m all the happier for it…Ugh, I hate those patronizing “mind games” some of them constantly try to cram to my cranium.
Well, I find that lots of baggage (both physical AND metaphorical) can be a warning sign.
I love how Phoebe’s face goes from “mild amusement” to whole “WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST HEAR?!”
And dammit, now I owe my girlfriend a game (she and I bet what Puck would do with the money; she thought she’d buy someone something, I thought she’d blow it all on stuff she really didn’t need).
Then again, knowing Puck, her option was better was mine… Oh well!
Well, Puck’s spent a little bit of the money. A tablet’s like, what? A few hundred bucks anymore? There’s lots of money to go around. Thus there’s a good chance you could both end up winning this bet.
Good girl! You earned a cookie!
That’s one expensive cookie.
and you would have to have like Terry Pratchett troll teeth, or alternately dentures of the same, to treat it as a cookie
PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!
That video was stupid.
That is all.
You, sir, win all the awards. Many punchline comics have made me smile at the humor in the past, but none have made me laugh out loud so hard at 7:30 AM that I woke up my family and the neighbors.
Well, I try. Any success I have probably is due to the fact that my own particular dementia might correspond with the audience’s. I guess that’s all a humorist can ever hope for, really.
It just means that you’re probably not as alone in your dementia as might think…
After all, she *is* the Number One child.
She knows how to curry favour. Especially when rewards are offered.
I hope she didn’t favorite curry. That can make your pee smell.
ALL THE BETTER. Man. Now I want curry.
Put That Cookie Down isn’t that from Kindergarten Cop?
Jingle All the Way.
now I have the remix stuck in my head -__-
Here’s the link, if you’re willing to torture yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPFA6fo72A&feature=player_detailpage#t=57
I’ve been thinking this for a while, but I think Pheobe’s dress is one of her only articles of clothing that shows neither cleavage nor midriff.
This is likely the most tasteful outfit Phoebe has ever worn. But she had to look tasteful next to Tracee, so that’s where it came from.
I love how you got the apple fritter, honey crueller, and chocolate dipped doughnuts just right. Are they your/your family’s personal favourites or did you just pick them at random?
I have extensive experience with donuts. That’s why I can draw them so well. They’re all my favourites, really, but I chose the donuts according to the ones I could depict most effectively. My daughter always gets a sprinkle donut, but I didn’t feel up to the challenge of drawing the sprinkles.
By the way, I guess this means Tyler finally came back from Satan’s house…
Maybe one day we’ll find out what happened. Tom Stoppard will write a play about it or something.
Wait, I thought the traditional doughnut feast was pre-fight, and not post-fight.
At least, that’s what the Secret of the Ooze taught me. 🙂
Well, not to contradict the ninja turtles, but these donuts are for enjoyment, not for forcing your enemy to ingest questionable substances.
I hope at least the victory doughnuts are followed by a round of 90s slang and the Cowabunga high five! 😀
That’s our Daphne!
She knows how to ruin someone’s good time!
Someone’s dog actuallly peed in my sister’s Simonite once…. she was never able to get the smell out.
A solution of vinegar & water, from a spray bottle, let it sit for a few minutes, then dry it up with baking soda. Another few minutes & use a vacuum cleaner.
If you’re a good brother, you could pass that info. If you’re a bad brother…well, you have the info, so it’s up to you what to do with it.
😉
Alas, the simonite was donated to goodwill about 15 years ago… mentioning that to her now?
That wouldn’t make me good brother or bad brother… that would make me brother that was asking for it!
What will Puck spend the 10K on now that she is rid of the in and out laws.
Well, in part, a tablet. 🙂
I don’t really know, but I’m hoping it involves a trip to Disneyland.
Oh, please, could she? There’s a lot of comedy potential there…
I’d probably have to make it be some no-name version of Disneyland: Frisneyland or something.
I think you are kind of safe if you used some the name of some dead long ago Amusement Park that most of Canadian Readers never heard of, being born too late. Prudhomme’s Landing, Maple Leaf Village, or Crystal Beach come to mind…
I went to ALL of them, man. All of them. Fond, fond memories.
I . . . really don’t want the image in my head I now have. It . . . I need a brain-scrub.
I know. It’s hard to get rid of the mental image of a donut when it’s in there good and tight.
If you think that’s bad, try eating a chocolate candy bar while driving on the highway as you pass downwind of a pig farm…
Will Miranda go to the same college her parents went to if and when she goes to college?
Enh, maybe. Kids these days don’t like going to the local university. They like to fly off far away.
Ah, the old peeing in the luggage trick. The trick that keeps on giving. That smell will never leave leather either; especially on a hot day. Itching powder would have been a good choice too.
Itching powder is perhaps a more vindictive option, which is good, but I think an image-conscious neat freak like Heather would be most horrified by the pee.
I wonder what Miranda will do
for employment when she grows up.
Do not about Miranda, But have noticed that the Stafford Festival does play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on occasion perhaps Puck should attempt try to land the role of herself?
But what if she overacts the part? Comedy Gold comparisons to one”Capt. Kirk”, perhaps?
That’s just too meta for me. And Stratford always messes up MSND. They never want to do a straight-up fairies and fantasy thing. They always want to do some weirdo interpretation that comments on colonialism or gender identity or something that’s in NO WAY present in the text. I have no patience for that.
Too meta for you? GASP ! You mean your overacting skills are at the same level as the man who played Capt. KirK ? Most impressive !!! Got a minor at McNiven’s world-famous comedy faculty ?
Judging by the adult female influence that surrounds her… ?Probably a pole dancer…
I bet that Miranda will be a cheerleader when she’s a teenager in high school.
I still remember the day I got to the rink and discovered my cat had peed in my hockey bag… and so do my teammates.
It really is such a relaxing place to pee, though. So comfy. So contained.
How about having Daphne wear a Superman t-shirt.
The expressions in panel 3 are so well done. Even without dialog I could figure out that Daphne dropped something heavy to them.
Please tell me what donut is Puck handling there? I really hope that one’s attainable somewhere. 😀
Puck is eating an apple fritter from Tim Horton’s. They’re pretty good, but sometimes they release a caramel apple fritter, which is filled with caramel goo. That’s even better.