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Delicious Coke Shake Friday, September 28, 2007 • read strip Viewing 119 comments:

Didn't they make a diesel version of that car? In Todd's mind, he is going to sidestep a future fuel crisis by using only diesel. In Todd's mind, he is a frikkin' genius.

Not even biodiesel smelling like french fries will work in a ragtop.

I want a car that runs on white.

The car will run for many miles simply by passing by a white barn, or perhaps a man in a white tuxedo.

I want a car that runs on jazz.
With a little jazz-band in the tank, just faintly muffled by the cap.

...just faintly [i]miffed[/] by the cap. The alto sax-player thinks it's commentary on his signature chapeau, a deer-stalker. Not a gas-cap.

Man, Teodor is gonna get his head kicked hardcore

Apparently there is a line of people waiting to do it. Is todd the least of his worries?

Apparently you have to have a white car before you can join said line. The line is currently empty.

..or is it that you have to have some white lines before you join the said car?

Why not save the fuel and put Todd's ass in a hamster wheel with some blow hanging on a string in front of his face? You have problems? I have solutions!

I wouldn't worry about that too much if I were. Can't hurt a lot more than, say, getting a pencil thrown at you.

if I were Téodor, I mean

Man, you need to be more aware of rabies.

Maybe we should do some sort of marathon?

A head kicking marathon?

A rabies-kicking marathon.

Curb-Stomp Rabies 5k Fun Run

The Michael Scott D.M.S.M.P.M.C. Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For the Cure .

What, does Robert Smith have rabies? Again?

damned if i'm doing anything for The Cure.

I dunno, Todd can shank you pretty nastily. Even Nice Pete thinks so.

Three months later, Todd sells the '83 for cocaine money.

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It appears, good sir, that we have reached an impass

Put the boots to him. Medium-style.

ohhhh, what a good show.

what about the van?
can't run smack out of a mercedes, too obvious.
this squirrel is coked outta his friggin' tree.
good times!

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I'm actually quite fond of comments such as this one.

Ow. Point taken.

Uncle Culpepper needs to reappear.

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Wouldn't the chamber pot have all manner of waste? T did recommend liquids.

What do you want bad enough that you'd drink from a chamber pot?

I need some clarification here. Are we talking

-Drinking a normal, healthy liquid (water, coffee, rum) from a recently emptied/cleaned chamber pot?
OR
-Consuming the contents of a (recently) used chamber pot?

As you can see, the devil is really in the details.

I think it is, in fact, the contents of a chamber pot. And what would I do that for? Support gig for Underworld. Not much else.

Maybe to see mclusky reunited, in my backyard, and all my mates are there, and they have to play Support Systems .

People, people! We are talking TV here. Come on! The chamber pot is sterile. The contents are pure water along with whatever pure food additives will make the water fulfill the director's "vision". Get it? TV, not reality.

We are also talking about Ray. I think he would feel the integrity of the piece would be best served by having actual excrement in the chamber pot.

Ray : Todd :: John Waters : Divine

Todd is Ray's Godzilla.

I can't say that your comment is lame, but just about anything involving jon waters completely fails to give me even a soupcon of a chubby no matter how analogiously correct it may be.

i had to look up 'soupcon' in the dictionary.

I imagine Ray has Thomas Jefferson's genuine chamber pot complete with presidential "leavings" which he bought on ebay platinum reserve.

Urine.

A frikkin' WHITE Mercedes-Benz jerkwad!

I'm really kind of glad that we can't see how bloodshot Todd's eyes are, nor the coke-boogers dripping from his snout.

Todd. Poor Todd. You need help but Ray keeps pushing you on. Todd remember this. Jesus he loves you enough to keep you alive to keep on doing what you doing.

If Jesus loves Todd, why does he end up in hell?

It's a love-hate relationship.

Suggested reading: Problem of Free Will

He went to heaven last time. Didn't get terror-laid or nothin'. This could be taken as proof of Jesus' love, but it's hard to tell, seeing as even Jesus ain't allowed to bitch-up there.

y-y-yeah! he's never been off h-his knees is so long!!

Johnny Carson was all about drinking liquids. Sometimes while driving. He said that to me once in a letter. Now he is dead. Please don't write to me, Ed McMahon.

Todd from the front is a scary proposition.

Todd up close is full of emotion.

I was ready to pan this strip until I read the alt-text. Then I burst out laughing and immediately conceded that this the funniest Achewood in months.

Joe Pesci with a big bushy tail.

I'm actually quite impressed with Todd's self control here. To me, panel five smacks of a familiar scene, sort of at the top of an parabola of insanity where everything is about to go horribly wrong.

And then Todd shows remarkable maturity and decides to drink from a chamber pot instead of wailing on Teodor right then and there.

This would come off as a little sick on Ray's part if Todd weren't such a horrible person. Because he is beyond any sort of redemption or sympathy, it is fantastic in a deliciously dark way.

The chamber pot is going to be the size of a very deep jacuzzi of ordure compared to Todd. This is appropriate, however, because that car is going to be huge. Remember how small Beef was behind the wheel of that '65 Ford Galaxie? Todd is going to have to wedge a brick on the gas and roar towards coke-and-twisted-metal-apocalypse.

I don't think Todd can afford another infringement from the Achewood City Squirrel Police Department either. This car really will be his downfall.

Ray is pretty evil right now.

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I wonder if Todd's new license plate thingy will say: "Drinking Urine & Dung Bought This Mercedes."

[url=https:// https://achewood.com/index.php?date=05282003]Suckin' Dick Bought This Van[/url]

Also, I am shit at code.

Your code is a dog's code.

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your code is a dog's shit.
your shit is a dog's code.
y'followin' me here?

Ohhhh. You know, I always thought "Suckin' Dick" was intended to be the name of the person who bought the van, not the method in which the van was purchased. Stupid mental inflection.

You know, I actually think I like your way BETTER. Because it means A) there is a person named Suckin' Dick, and B) Todd carjacked him.



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is this a meta comment?
i don't understand meta.

Ray should check with legal before going forward with this idea. I'm pretty sure the guys from Bum Fights already did this.

suddenly phillip seymour hoffman shows up with a white 1983 Dodge Omni seeking todd's approval and insists he will return it if todd doesnt like it and kisses todd

For this whole storyline, I picture Ray speaking in that disinterested monotone you get that makes most people think you are mocking them.

Todd doesn't know that Ray is mocking him.

Todd will also require a tape of The Police - "Every Breath You Take" and a white suit jacket.

Glenn Frey - "You Belong to the City"

Also on the tape: Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow - Cruisin' Together

when one starts referring to oneself as "the old [name]-man", you know that they have done a lot of cocaines.

A lot, or too many? 'Cause I don't know that I can fit rehab around college right now.

if you have to ask...

Todd. . . man, get off the stuff.

Obligatory "ass to ass" reference.

Todd without cocaine is Christianity without Jesus.

In a world where death is not only impermanent but even a good time in Heaven or Hell we have no reason to worry, only reason to laugh.

failing that, you can always direct your grandson and friends towards your old porn stash when they play the Ouija.

BUXOM

todd didn't stutter.

something is amiss.

Todd doesn't stutter when he's on coke. Although then again, it's hard to tell when he's not.

Also, I'm starting to think that Ray is not really doing what everyone thinks he's doing. Ray hates Todd's "issue". I'm thinking perhaps he's doing it in order to eventually teach Todd a lesson, or prank him. Or both.

making a pretend tv show just to make a tv show about a person!

ingenious.

Is this what coke people do? I don't have any coke friends, is this what I'm missing out on?

Basically if you have coke friends you will not have a television. Because they will have broken into your house while you were asleep to sell it to some other cokehead for $8. They are still your friends, and they are sorry, but they NEEDED to pawn your tv.

it's a Let's-Use-Cocaine-Money-To-Fuck-Todd Friday!

Is anyone else shocked and disturbed by this non natural squirrel/cat interaction? Where I grew up ( Texas ) a cat would eat a squirrel in no time flat - business deals were definitely anathema.

Ray is just a little more vicious than the average cat. The merciful thing would be to eat Todd right away. But Ray will torment his prey first, plying the squirrel with cocaine and bad career advice. Ray dispatches squirrels with style.

Achewood Modified Death, anyone?

The last time I was that way about a car, I ended up spending large sums of money when it stopped working every other month or so.

i can't help but feel that todd is a comic embodiment of a personality trait chris is repressing.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but today's article in the Telegraph links to nonadventures.com when you try to click the achewood link. that needs to get fixed asap.

an SRV reference in the alt text? god damnit it onstand just keeps surprising me. i really like where this arc is going.

Todd is Rupert Pupkin and Travis Bickle.

I love how Ray gives a scale to Todd and then just totally neglects it. Its like saying to a friend...

"on a scale of one to ten, I'm gonna need you to do this bong hit"
and thier just like
"TEN!"

The squirrel is mad and that is why he rips the picture in two.

The picture didn't rip. It is two pictures of the same (the only) car, from two different angles.

Furthermore, I don't see any accompanying onomatopoeic ripping sound effect.

Ah. Quite right. My mistake.

He is so fucking high on the cocaine that he tears the picture so fast the sound of the rip doesn't even register.

SCIENCE!
(say something smart again.)
SCIENCE, AGAIN! I SAID SCIENCE AGAIN!!

Todd thinks that wearing nylons and drinking from a chamber pot on television in order to get a white '83 Mercedes will garner him MORE respect than he currently has.

Todd is currently at
this stage of his
Louis Wain psychotic breakdown.

that is terrifying stuff.

i will never be able to look at todd without seeing the abstract cat paintings first.

thanks, idiot.

Back when that car was new I saw one (in Palo Alto or nearby) with '2X2PLAY' on the license plate. Children, cokeheads, and comb-over guys.

Douglas Hofstadter's next book.

My mind is achin', Lord it won't stop
That's how it happens living life by the drop

Ray knows what to do with crappy little bullshit men