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Marten and I are going to go get a beer.

2 (3.1%)

W-we are? "We are."

5 (7.7%)

Tell Faye I loved her!

12 (18.5%)

I mean, not in a romantic way... YANK!

8 (12.3%)

So, uh, is this about Padma? "Yes."

0 (0%)

"I'm sorry, Elliot, but Weeping Hour is only on Thursdays."

3 (4.6%)

You've been into her all this time and never said anything?

0 (0%)

Been here for three years. Boss offered her a promotion if she stayed.

0 (0%)

...Are you taking NOTES?

8 (12.3%)

My life has been entirely devoid of pathos! This is primo material!

4 (6.2%)

I thought you were gonna kick my @$$.

0 (0%)

Big, unrealistic fantasy.

0 (0%)

DEFINITELY not gonna happen if you don't tell her.

0 (0%)

You think I have a chance?

0 (0%)

Faye gets informed about the hike

0 (0%)

I'm pretty sure he could take you in a fight.

1 (1.5%)

She's moving back to LA in a few weeks.

0 (0%)

You did it before, you better not do it again.

3 (4.6%)

Actually, I never would have met all you guys if I hadn't...

5 (7.7%)

Stop it you are frightening me

14 (21.5%)

Total Members Voted: 60

[jwhouk]

Another week, and this time we start out with our usual speculation.

[SirDudley]

I wonder if we'll get to see Logan Airport this week. And/or some wacky airport terminal hijinks (scanners, airplane food, etc.)

[FunkyTuba]

You didn't include any selections involving MEGABONERCAT


Edit: Now with more linky goodness.

ReEdit: Thanks for adding it, but I can't change my vote .

[Method of Madness]

Megabonercat is the reason that Randy is eternal.

[WAYF]

Wow, the QC characters' discussion on Twitter just made my day.

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Marten to Dora: also if your bedroom skills were a boardgame, they'd be "Sorry!"

Faye: If my bedroom skills were a game, they'd be Street Fighter II, because halfway through you have to demolish a car

Sven: If my bedroom skills were a game they'd be World of Warcraft, because just about everybody's at least tried it
Dora: and it has ruined lives

Despite the subject matter, Yelling Bird's contribution contains no swearing AND stays in character. Impressive.

[pwhodges]

Indeed (and Jeph himself has some similar tweets).

Jeph's also linked a picture of Pintsize and Winslow plushies that should be on sale by Christmas.

[DSL]

Wow, the QC characters' discussion on Twitter just made my day.

Looks like Marten and Dora are getting along ...

[Blackjoker]

I just went and read the twitter stuff, poor Marigold.

[idontunderstand]

Hope someone gets laid this week.

[cesariojpn]

Well goodbye Marten, it was nice knowing you. Hopefully they find your body. Maybe Momo's memory could be admissible in court as evidence.

[Welu]

Loved the cast tweets today. I use Echofon which is funny with lists. I've all the QC cast on one list and it seems to only get three quarters of the tweets.

Today's comic has interested me; for the first time in a while I'm impatient for tomorrow's comic!

[DSL]

Hmmm.
A.) Don't know about getting laid, but it's shaping up for Marten to be well and truly f*cked.
B.) Nah, they're getting a beer.
C.) A.) and B.)
D.) Now, at the end (or what Marten thinks is the end), do we truly understand ... (lightning bolts from fingers).
E.) Nope. Jeph's setting up the drama only to fast-forward to nothing having transpired as of 2022.
F.) Pintsize tosses a brick, yells "Deus ex Machina." (Would that be a brick joke?)
G.) Oh, who the hell knows? Besides Jeph, I mean.

[akronnick]

I sense exposition in our future...

[Paranoid]

We're still not sure Elliot has a crush on Padma.  Mind you that's where my money lies, but Elliot could also be planning on trying to steer Martin away from Padma for his own good.  I expect we'll know for sure in a day or two.

[Matheyus]

Is it just me, or did anyone else take particular notice of the bottom-left panel; if I was Marten I'd be plenty scared before that, but the two-handed shoulder grab clinches it for me.

On a side note, I feel like this is the first time I can really see the tough bouncer side of Elliot coming out.

[iduguphergrave]

Padma's expression in the third panel amuses me. Finally sensing a disturbance in the Force there, Yoda?  

[snubnose]

Hmm I dont think Elliot will do anything harmful to Marten.

Still very funny comic today !

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Sven: If my bedroom skills were a game they'd be World of Warcraft, because just about everybody's at least tried it

Uh hu.

For the record, I checked WoW out ... but I never tried it.

I am very throughout in checking MMORPGs before actually playing it ... and WoW didnt win me over.

MMORPGs are the kind of game I like to play for years. WoW doesnt have the required qualities. Lack of challenge, for once. Ugly graphics. Racial wars (ugh I hate that one, I want to be free to choose which race I wand to play THANK YOU VERY MUCH).

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes has it, and Star Wars: The Old Republic may have it. Albeit I have read from people for example crafting has no challenge in SW:TOR. I'm not sure if that is a bad thing.

And I have to admit I fear that SW:TOR will be the last real Bioware game, so I want to at least see it before EA finally destroys it.


P.s.: Ooops went offtopic without realizing. Sorry. Guess I'm tired today. Again. Sigh.

[Tuitsuro]

Aw come on Elliot don't hurt `em.   

[Delator]

The plot, she thickens!


...I predict the defeat of awkwardness, via the method of maximum ridiculosity.

[Swedish Chef]

Marten, if you can speak real fast you'll have your pick of execution' method. Go for the guillotine, classy.

[Akima]

Hmm I dont think Elliot will do anything harmful to Marten.

It's pretty unusual that I agree with Snubnose, but yeah. Especially if Padma is heading west in a couple of weeks, what has Elliot to worry or be jealous about? Perhaps he just wants to recruit Marten as a pastrycook?

Go for the guillotine, classy.

Unlike the garotte, which can be dicey if the executioner chokes.

[WAYF]

Marten getting dragged away like that was hilarious, and so were Sam's incredibly numerous band-aids.

also, I was so late to this punchline that I don't even have time to link anyone to TV Tropes because I'm that far behind:

@svenbianchi if your bedroom skills were a game, they'd be Angry Birds.

Birds: slang for attractive women.
Well duh.

Thanks for the terrible pun, Jeph

[akronnick]

Unlike the garotte, which can be dicey if the executioner chokes.

Isn't that how the garotte is supposed to work?

[Cornan]

I wanted to vote for waffles.

I didn't, but I wanted to.

I'm going with "She's been talking about leaving for YEARS" although I think that Elliot confessing his feelings and saying "I've got a whole dinner thing planned for thursday night. Mind not screwing it up for me?" or something of the sort is more likely. I just would prefer it if Padma is a whole new type of crazy from the rest of the cast. That'd be fun.

[Tova]

My favourite tweet was:

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Marten: if my bedroom skills were a game, they'd be D&D, because it always ends with the whole party dead

Also, I get the feeling that this isn't going to go the way we all expect. Elliot won't have a crush at all... but perhaps a cautionary tale?

Hey, I've been wrong before.

[westrim]

If there are not fancy clothes in the future of those two, I will be disappointed.

Hmm I dont think Elliot will do anything harmful to Marten.

It's pretty unusual that I agree with Snubnose

It is an interesting phenomenon for me as well.

[Arancaytar]

I sense exposition in our future...

Yeah, could be another Wham Episode.

[KingofHearts]

well I'm pretty sure the tweets aren't canon.

[Throg]

Aw, Marten, man the f---  up.

Eliot said he's gonna take you for a beer. Not take you behind tSB and pound you into hash.

And, words blurted out under duress are usually hidden truths. So he still does carry a torch for Faye, and in spite of the inner and outer dialogue.  Sad-ass, repressed punk.

Who knows, maybe this'll be an epiphany for both Eliot and Marten both: that they both trapped themselves in the Friend Zone and need to move on.  (yeah right)

[jwhouk]

I sense exposition in our future...

Yeah, could be another Wham Episode.

Something that involves Jim's divorce, or the reason why Renee is such a biatch, and why Padma's grandma is "by herself in Cali"?

Boy, this is gonna be a good one.

[jwhouk]

well I'm pretty sure the tweets aren't canon.

Except for when he changes a character's last name because of them.

[Method of Madness]

Marigold?  What was her old last name?

[Loki]

In tomorrows comic, we find out that Padma is, in fact, Elliots little step-sister.

[westrim]

Marigold?  What was her old last name?

Agriculturalist.

[jwhouk]

Marigold?  What was her old last name?

Not her - Ms. Beauvais Hurlbut.

[jwhouk]

Oh, no... I just thought of something.

Elliott is about to reveal to Marten that there's a reason why Padma is the way she is: she was involved in a car accident a few years back when she was visiting some friends.

She has a minor case of amnesia about the accident, but she remembers something about a woman driving her car across three lanes of traffic and launching her car into the boughs of an oak tree. The driver of her car spun out and hit a light post, which knocked her out.

She was visiting her friend in Savannah, Georgia, at the time.

[Border Reiver]

Or he reveals that he's cripplingly shy around women.  But still has fond college memories of dating this girl that once wore a see through skirt in economics .

[Jabberwocky]

Marigold?  What was her old last name?

Not her - Ms. Beauvais Hurlbut.

Where did the name "Beauvais" appear?  She's been Hurlbut since 1541.
Jeph's Tumblr, perhaps?

[bhtooefr]

I believe 1541 has been retconned.

[sleypy]

My money is on Elliot announcing that he likes Martin. And the hike was Padma's attempt to setup a situation to hook them up.

[akronnick]

My money is on Elliot announcing that he likes Martin. And the hike was Padma's attempt to setup a situation to hook them up.

Elliot's "in love" with "her" in 1845, the first time he appears.

We've been wondering who "[she]" is ever since

[stoutfiles]

I dont find it surprising that, joking or not, the first girl Marten thinks of is Faye.  I still say he would date her in a heartbeat if she dumped Angus and asked him out, even though he continually says he only likes her "as a friend". 

More proof he's only attracted to Padma and doesn't actually like her like he does Faye.

[jwhouk]

I believe 1541 has been was retconned.

FTFY.

Original version: when Steve was looking at the yearbook, Tai said, "Ooh, ooh, that's her! Cosette Beauvais! I KNEW she had a weird name, I just couldn't remember it!"
Current version: Tai said, "Ooh, ooh, that's her! Cosette Hurlbut! I KNEW she had a weird name, I just couldn't remember it!"

And it was changed because Jeph basically forgot when he was doing the Twitter "party" that he'd already given her last name.

[LeeC]

Dead man walking.

[kent_eh]

Prediction (which will, of course be wrong as usual):

Marten: don't kill me, bro
Elliot: Dude, why're you cock-blocking me
Marten :Bluh whha?
Elliot: you made her take you out today. I was gonna propose to her
Marten (spit take) wha.. me make her..

Etc, Etc

[Mr_Rose]

Hah. It's gonna turn out Elliot is actually a teenager with Werner Syndrome and his crush is on Sam, you watch. Oh and he wants to ask Marten's advice because he wasn't listening properly (what teenager does?) and got totally the wrong idea about him and Momo.

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

My money is on Elliot announcing that he likes Martin. And the hike was Padma's attempt to setup a situation to hook them up.

Elliot's "in love" with "her" in 1845, the first time he appears.

We've been wondering who "[she]" is ever since

And we'll all be surprised when "her" turns out to be Faye.  Elliot is upset with Marten because he thinks they're a couple and Marten is being unfaithful to her by being interested in Padma.

[zmeiat_joro]

Any theories on what Elliot wants to tell Marten about Padma? And why are so many people taking Marten's strange behavior seriously? I first interpreted it as theatrical joking, but he seems to be seriously upset by Elliot's behavior, weird. I interpreted it initially as Elliot wanting to tell Marten about something about Padma, looks like he has a grudge on her about something, which may or may not be waranted. We don't know them yet.

[grimeyville]

I am assuming that Elliot tell Marten about himself. How Marten reminds Elliot a lot of himself a few years ago and how he feels like Marten is gonna do a lot of things similar to him. Then Elliot reveals after a big break-up he went from trying to date Padma, then she put him down and he started bodybuilding, then a host of other things. Then he will tell Marten to go find himself.

Then Awkward Zone aversion.

[Skewbrow]

And we'll all be surprised when "her" turns out to be Faye.  Elliot is upset with Marten because he thinks they're a couple and Marten is being unfaithful to her by being interested in Padma.

Hmm. A possible theory, but you've got the wrong girl. IIRC Elliot has never seen Marten and Faye together. OTOH Marten and Hannelore came together to tSB, when they were first looking for another coffee shop.