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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Deadcoder on 02 Aug 2015, 19:48

Title: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Deadcoder on 02 Aug 2015, 19:48
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3016

NO! How will we go on without our profane vulgar asshole bird? Goodbye yelling bird, fuck you. Goodbye.

I will seriously miss this delightful little asshole.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Kugai on 02 Aug 2015, 20:18
There's always Randy
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Eddurd on 02 Aug 2015, 20:25
He got a better offer from Downton Abbey.  Watch for him to show up next season, playing Lord Sniffwhistle.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: TheRedMaiden on 02 Aug 2015, 20:51
What about Sweet Tits? D:
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 02 Aug 2015, 20:51
Oh, thank the fucking beard!

I do wonder what he will use for filler, now, but I can't say I'm going to miss this particular bit.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Aug 2015, 21:27
There's always Randy
You still have Randy. YOU ALL STILL HAVE RANDY!
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: cesium133 on 02 Aug 2015, 21:42
There's always Randy
You still have Randy. YOU ALL STILL HAVE RANDY!

Once again, the baby-heavy portfolio pays off for the eternal investor!
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Aug 2015, 21:53
You didn't even refrigerate your baby.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: YourBuddyBill on 02 Aug 2015, 22:00
I'm gonna miss the little bird. At least he had a way of bringing things to attention.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: osaka on 03 Aug 2015, 02:55
I don't know, I feel that Randy appeared solely because Yelling Bird was around. But I'm ok with his departure as filler, so long as the holidays appearances still happen.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Aug 2015, 04:16
So does "final Yelling Bird strip" mean the final strip with Yelling Bird in it or just the final one of these specific types? With YB just sitting there and yelling (and I guess sometimes being eaten?)
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: osaka on 03 Aug 2015, 05:15
According to Jeph's twitterz, it's the last strip of the "Yelling Bird, Sitting in a tree, F-U-C-K-I-N-G... up the whole tone of this comic because of reasons" style.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: MooskiNet on 03 Aug 2015, 08:02
I'm thinking it's largely 'cause Yelling Bird is a misogynist prick, and Jeph no longer sees the humor.

I'll follow that with "Good for Jeph."
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 03 Aug 2015, 08:10
I'm glad to see the end of him, frankly. Yelling Bird is the webcomic equivalent of opening a cookie tin and finding sewing supplies.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Aug 2015, 08:15
I'm curious to see what he'll use for filler from now on. I'll take YB over nothing, honestly, but I guess the best case scenario is more Shebly.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Socky on 03 Aug 2015, 10:36
This was the 1 time a yelling bird strip made me happy. Bye bye birdie!
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 03 Aug 2015, 10:42
I'm curious to see what he'll use for filler from now on. I'll take YB over nothing, honestly, but I guess the best case scenario is more Shebly.

I'd take nothing over Yelling Bird. Really.

I'd rather see no update, or a "my bad." Yelling Bird was never entertaining to me. Just a huge let down. No update doesn't make me stabby. YB does.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Hiazi on 03 Aug 2015, 13:56
i still lurk these forums more than i post on them (read: 99.9% lurking, .1% posting) but this is one of those monumental occasions to bring me out of my silence

maaaaan

i'ma miss that feathery little son of a bitch :( he's always been my favorite filler stuff. but as an author myself (albeit of shitty fanfiction) i can understand when something's run its course and you don't have the drive to do it anymore. it sucks, but it's a part of the creative process

RIP, yelling bird. er, that means rest in piece- NO GODDAMNIT NOT ANY OTHER KIND OF RIP YELLING BIRD STOP IT
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: emilygrrl on 03 Aug 2015, 14:38
Goodbye Yelling Bird, and good riddance.

He was obnoxious, offensive, and not even funny. I won't miss the bastard.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Akima on 03 Aug 2015, 15:18
I'd take nothing over Yelling Bird. Really.
Mmm... I'd take the test-card:
(http://www.oodletuz.fsnet.co.uk/tcd/tn_pm5544abc70s.jpg)
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: jaquio on 03 Aug 2015, 15:25
This comic is a graveyard of characters, jokes and themes that Jeph abandoned because he no longer found them funny or applicable.

But, in each of those instances, he simply stopped writing for them.  (What's Raven up to these days?)

I find it telling that instead of simply letting this joke slip away into the land of forgotten toys, he made a very overt and public statement about how there will be no more YB.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Penquin47 on 03 Aug 2015, 15:31
It's not even particularly like there's any risk of someone's favorite character disappearing, unless there are people who read this strip specifically for the Yelling Bird filler.  Unlike, say, Raven.  Or Steve.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: de_la_Nae on 03 Aug 2015, 19:04
Tomorrow's strip: more Yelling Bird.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: de_la_Nae on 03 Aug 2015, 19:54
Alas I have been thwarted with actual content.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Thrudd on 03 Aug 2015, 20:17
Well Mr J is correct that the character was stale and of limited depth. [how deep is a bedpan anyways?]
I could welcome a foul mouthed commentator if they were a bit more nuanced and creative.
Something along the lines of the main character in Grrl Power when it comes to invective while following the rule of funny or maybe an bit over the top sarcasm - I miss Hello Cthulhu and the dancing Marshmallow [but my aim and tracking is improving].
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: wlewisiii on 03 Aug 2015, 22:37
Put me in the "good riddance and why did you take so long to do it" camp.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: hedgie on 04 Aug 2015, 01:46
I could welcome a foul mouthed commentator if they were a bit more nuanced and creative.

Surely, he's fowl-mouthed.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Storel on 04 Aug 2015, 01:57
I actually don't mind Yelling Bird in small, occasional doses. His profanity was always new and creative -- which may have been making him harder and harder to write for. (How much new profanity can you come up with?) An entire week of YB was too much, but as the very occasional filler I kind of liked him.

(I'd rather have YB than that evil, insipid Randycoot. Ugh. Gives me the creeps.)

So long, YB, and thanks for the occasional amusement.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 04 Aug 2015, 09:02
Well Mr J is correct ...

I move that all reference to Jeph Jacques by his given name cease, and henceforth he be known only as "Mista J."
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Omega Entity on 04 Aug 2015, 10:09
Well Mr J is correct ...

I move that all reference to Jeph Jacques by his given name cease, and henceforth he be known only as "Mista J."
I'm surprised this hasn't been suggested sooner.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Kugai on 04 Aug 2015, 15:42
(http://pre01.deviantart.net/fff3/th/pre/i/2012/362/3/5/the_joker___the_animated_series_2_by_annashipway-d5pg866.jpg)
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: de_la_Nae on 04 Aug 2015, 19:13
Mista J, Jephzibah, what else was there?
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Nepiophage on 04 Aug 2015, 22:10
Does this mean no more Harriet (Sweet-tits)? oh no!
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: thedevilissix on 05 Aug 2015, 00:14
The bird is dead. Long live the bird. :angel: ( :mrgreen: )

Nah, in seriousness I agree that it's a door naturally closed. Humour's moved on and so shall we.
Intrigued to know what might pop up in its stead-I'm most open to something completely new, to be honest! (Or even just more guest strips and Thanksgiving turkeys)
I've quite liked the 'Vital statistics' single-panel posts about the robots (and I suspect attempts to do sassy versions of this for the humans might be in the offing) and would hope that any future ones are spaced out quite a lot if used as filler comics in the future. It's the kind of thing that risks fatiguing really quick if done too often, imho.

(And now, for some reason I'm singing "Goodbye Yelling Bird" in my head to the tune of "Goodbye Leggy Blonde" from Flight of the Conchords. Yelling yelling yelling yelling, birdy birdy birdy birdy etc.)
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 05 Aug 2015, 07:27
This comic is a graveyard of characters, jokes and themes that Jeph abandoned because he no longer found them funny or applicable.

But, in each of those instances, he simply stopped writing for them.  (What's Raven up to these days?)

I find it telling that instead of simply letting this joke slip away into the land of forgotten toys, he made a very overt and public statement about how there will be no more YB.

Great point, and that is a good countermeasure against staleness.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Kugai on 05 Aug 2015, 16:45
Mista J, Jephzibah, what else was there?

Lord jeph of Codoomia
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: DrBear on 05 Aug 2015, 17:55
(And now, for some reason I'm singing "Goodbye Yelling Bird" in my head to the tune of "Goodbye Leggy Blonde" from Flight of the Conchords. Yelling yelling yelling yelling, birdy birdy birdy birdy etc.)

Well, that's better than Elton John's "Goodbye Norma Jean."
Goodbye Yelling Bird
Though we never knew you at all
We heard you yell obscenities
Every summer, spring and fall....
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: DSL on 05 Aug 2015, 18:08
(And now, for some reason I'm singing "Goodbye Yelling Bird" in my head to the tune of "Goodbye Leggy Blonde" from Flight of the Conchords. Yelling yelling yelling yelling, birdy birdy birdy birdy etc.)

Well, that's better than Elton John's "Goodbye Norma Jean."
Goodbye Yelling Bird
Though we never knew you at all
We heard you yell obscenities
Every summer, spring and fall....


"Your cloaca burned out long before
your cuss words ever did."
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Aug 2015, 18:27
I saw Elton John and goodbye and was trying to make it work with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" before I realized you used a different song. ELTON JOHN SURE LIKED TO SAY GOODBYE.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: mustang6172 on 05 Aug 2015, 18:59
Randy will never leave us.  Randy is eternal.

Also, I think we could all use a little more shame orb.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Thrudd on 06 Aug 2015, 06:29
Shame Orb and Frozen Burritos - hey, I laugh about it  still - I don't eat Burritos though.

ah found it

Harriet: "This is NOT a Burrito!"
Shame Orb: "Sure it is. A Burrito is nothing but disgust, disappointment and disillusionment and eventual public humiliation wrapped in anxiety and spiced with fear."
Yelling Bird: " **** **** in the **** **** that keeps burning my Cloaca and singing my tail-feathers every-time I **** or ****."

Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: theMarc on 06 Aug 2015, 16:10
Well Mr J is correct ...

I move that all reference to Jeph Jacques by his given name cease, and henceforth he be known only as "Mista J."

I second this motion, and further move that all references to Jeph be voiced by Arleen Sorkin.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Storel on 06 Aug 2015, 22:31
I saw Elton John and goodbye and was trying to make it work with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" before I realized you used a different song. ELTON JOHN SURE LIKED TO SAY GOODBYE.

That was the first one I thought of, too. "Goodbye Yelling Bird Road" just doesn't quite work.
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: marsman57 on 14 Aug 2015, 07:52
I wanted to bump my old topic about how YB was pointless, but I suppose that would be pointless to (as is this post!)
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Timemaster on 18 Aug 2015, 02:05
Damn, I was actually reading QC only for Yelling Bird.

I´m outa here!  :wink:

TM
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: Kugai on 19 Aug 2015, 16:34
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f50/Kugai2/Memes/TuiBillboard.jpg)
Title: Re: Goodbye Yelling Bird
Post by: FlutterRaeg on 20 Aug 2015, 13:27
Of course we're still going to have Randy.

Randy is eternal.

In fact, he is actually in the background of every panel of QC and has always been there.