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The Wise Points of the Crudgens, Considered Thursday, May 31, 2007 • read strip Viewing 149 comments:

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Isn't that the response all dudes have to the "let's get married" conundrum?

yes

Onstad once again makes a cartoon cat seem more human than any television character ever made ever.

Chubbied for the avatar.

Come for me G'mork! I am Atreyu!

Also chubbied for the comment, but as I can only chubby once, you'll have to share.

Gotta say... this is the only time I've ever given a strip a 5 for something other than being hilariously funny. Beef seems to have worked things out in his mind, and it works for him.

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You mean "for the 8th time for the first time."

Syntax: it's your friend!

This is one of my favorite phrases in the whole strip.

Dude was right in the first place. Don't correct people when there's no correcting to be done. Hell of uncool.

Said by Busey himself

The first time the 8th time occurs is the worst.

this gave me good life feelings

This is the strip that got me hooked on Achewood.

What's great about it is that it isn't especially funny, it's just about a regular guy trying to find a way to express his feelings.

gooood feeling
won't you
stay
with
me
just a little longer

No better time than right now to bring back the RB "OH SHIIIIIT!"

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She always seemed more interested in Teodor than Ray in my mind. Felt like there was a thing in the air there.

and this is how fanfics are born

Say NO to fan fiction.

Oh god no. I'm getting visions of a person scrolling through fanfiction.net and there on the screen is 'RayxBeef'.

I, too, never need to see this.

I'd grow jaded to it, eventually. Like the time I browsed the Animaniacs section of Aerisdies.

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Do you like The Cure for real?

come on now, you know 97% of the people railin' on the cure hereabouts only do it cause chris told you to.

let's all just make some cracks about jet and get on with our lives.

It's true! I have no feelings on The Cure one way or the other!

No opinion!

Heh yeah, at least the Cure didn't completely rip off Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" for their only big hit...

exactly!

Whoa.

I never noticed the similarity before.

You're thinking of Jet.

The Cure are one of the better alt-rock bands out there, despite being unbelievably 80s.

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let's all just make some cracks about jet and get on with our lives.


Yes. Yes, he was thinking of Jet.

the cure really don't have a 'one big hit', they had a few songs that are fairly well known... which one were you referring to?

Goddamn it. He was talking about Jet.

i do like the cure for real


Indeed. Not blindly a favorite band as a rule for me, but "Killing an Arab", "Burn", the whole "Boys Don't Cry"/"Three Imaginary Boys" album... these are good songs. As a fellow acheworld music geek, I find myself agreeng with you on many things as I trawl the archives...

pornography, head on the door

case closed

Disintegration? Bloodflowers?

ok can't have pornography without disintegration and bloodflowers. just picking out my favorite cure albums is difficult

I'm pretty sure Onstad does as well. Ray hates The Cure because they are pretty much the opposite of hip-hop, and Onstad has let it slip on occasion that he hates hip-hop. And Teodor likes The Cure.

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Teodor is short and sweaty, and meets girls in internet chat rooms. I guarantee you that Molly "thinks of him like a brother" and assures him that one day he will meet the right person and make a wonderful husband.

you were right to use 'person', and not specify.

The blog that worried me was when she lingered in Whole Foods because of the tasty-looking man in her aisle.

a lady will look, and a man will too, no reason to get worked up about it

Agreed, I never thought she'd stray from her man, I'm just saying is all. I think there was a blog where Beef got kind of overprotective of her but I don't feel like hunting it down right now.

I'm a liar
Here is the blog entry.

She hugs Teodor and Beef absolutely fights a country and western band.

Fuck, how did I miss that entry! Thank you for that!

...and Lyle saves their relationship with his mad mechanical bull riding skills. Damn, I need to start reading the blogs.

The streetlights in my town are more like, "Muuuuuuhhhhh*Bzzt*muuuuhhhhh*Bzzt*muuuuuuhhhhh" But then, I'm from Seattle and maybe we have more moths.

Good call, I had no idea what that Z with a string of consecutive Rs was. [chub]

Pennsylvania lights are like a slow trance, like: nnnnnnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

In Chicago you get kind of a GzzZZzzzzZZttt

When it's REALLY cold in MN, it's all "GNEEEEEEEEEEE"

How they sound in the comic is basically how they sound in Maine so

This entire thread about the local dialects of street lights is very real and awesome and I appreciate it.

I feel good for Beef. I mean dude just came to realization that nobody could pressure him in to doing what he's thinking about doing, he had to come to that conclusion on his own. I'm rootin for you Beef.

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again, i am sad

One of those hood-less hoodies.

I thought it kinda looked like some Friar John sort of get up.

OHHH SHIIIIIT!

any comic with 'OHHHH SHIIIIIIT' is automatic 5

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shhh

I think you'l find that The Volvo Of Despair was more emo arc.

Two words:

Cartilage Head.

Not for neonfreon. He's still in that "girls are icky" stage of adolescence, so of course this arc made the little man uncomfortable. Someday he'll understand!

Jesus Christ. Onstad you are the master of words. Seriously, Roast Beef's words were just beautiful in this strip. They could be song lyrics. And what a great final decision. OH SHIT, indeed; you're getting married Roast Beef.

Guys, does this mean Beef will be happy now?

Beef will still be the same dude. He's just opened himself to a new set of experiences. Some of which may result in happiness, some not.

He'll be a regular man doing regular things.

This sounds like something Philippe would say.

Beef's smile of recognition in panel 8 is amazing- it's the sign of a good life decision made with perfect self-understanding. Fuck you, Dr. Phil.

will she let him have a car? will their be arguments over the merits of toy models vs. bowls of fruit? tune in to find out, ache-sters

*there

i am a retard today

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No.

oh man, I read that wrong. I thought "will there be arguements" was "Will their arguements be"

A truly am the retard.

Naw man, you're just five.

also Soundgarden.

Panels 7&8 made me tear up. Damn you, Onstad.

No danger of cheating with Kate Moss in or behind Madrid. His logic is unimpeachable. I mean that sincerely.

In this strip, the cat fantasizes about being a successful father in a sitcom from the 80's and makes us all cry like we are children again.

Achewood

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Onstad, I hope the Corso reference was intentional, because it was brilliant regardless

For the unknowing: https://www.litkicks.com/Texts/Marriage.html

I don't see a direct reference, but hot damn is that a good poem.

"and so happy about me she burns the roast beef"

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Pretty much the whole thing

It's nice to see Beef start to overcome his self-defeating inclinations for a change. Even if he does get his heart broken somehow, he was able to hear the wise advice of his friends, and now it looks like he will act on it. Yay!

but stayin' real to Beef, he does characterize the scenario with stoned kid, burned potatoes and handcuffs as "good times" and I think Esther Rolle would not exactly agree

is your avatar Quest for Fire or just some other caveman I was never emotionally invested in

He's the ape in 2001: A Space Odyssey who discovers the joy of eating meat in front of a Monolith.

How to make a mondo-character shift without making a turbo shift in character. WTG BEEF!!!

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boo.

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Shit dude, what the hell is goin on with that hand? It looks like a cross section of a cock with the note slicing through the head.

It's a paw. A cat's paw. Roast Beef is a cat.

Roast Beef = Cat. Excellent. You have my eternal gratitude.

You have that dream too.

In retrospect, it really doesn't look like he's holding it between his paw-finger-things at all. Patience and Science, these are the two watchwords for me as I learn microsoft paint publicly.

Man, if you really did that in MS paint then you do get a chubby. photo composing with MS paint is completely RAW

Have you heard of photoshop? It's pretty decent.

As someone who's getting married I'd say that's about how it is.

I second this statement.

So which is better?
Onstad's "Teh SCREAMZ"
or
Munch's "The Scream"

I of course vote Onstad.

.....but what if molly says no? she probably won't, but - she Might

then it's probably suicide for sure

Then there will be no bringing Beef off of the moon.

I have given out enough chubbies on this page.

"that's enough, friendly"

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BUT IT IS SUPERFANTASTIC TEXT! GET SOMEONE TO READ IT TO YOU

Roast beef is the best character ever.

That is always how I end my epiphanies.

Roast Beef is not the best father to have if you are a pothead bondage fetishist. Just a thought.

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So many different kinds of awesome.

Way to make my morning.

Nice job dude.

Beef has now taken The Walk. Makes me all nostalgic. Best "OHHH SHIIIIIT" of a person's life right there.

I love this strip... Beef all figuring out why he should get married. Makes me want to get married.

This one is actually beautiful.

DO THE RIGHT THING made me laugh out loud.

So is Madrid like a hotel or club somewhere?

Also, "First time somebody forgets to pay the water bill for the eighth time" is one of my favorite achewood lines.

This is, for some reason, one of my absolute favorite strips. Not because it makes me laugh so hard it hurts, like others have, but the way Beef expresses himself is just so damn on . It never ceases to amaze me how such a surreal comic can be so spot on in terms of observations of how people think. Someday, I will purchase a signed copy of this one.

Shoe in for top five.
I don't think I could pick a favorite, but if I could it may be this one.

why is this not a 5?

just gonna post that

it makes me want to run away with my man and come back with a certificate and a baby

It is a cry of realization and that is pretty swell.

Achewood: visit for the hilarity, stay for the striking prose and depth of character (and more hilarity).

I get this feeling that the "OHHH SHIIIIIT!" in the last panel was screamed at the top of his lungs, and that made me all warm, fuzzy, and happy. Beef is yelling . Beef is yelling . Yelling with joy.

one of my favorites =]

this strip really taught me something about relationships and anxiety toward them and such. Thanks Onstad.

One of my favorites because every panel is perfect.

I love this, although this totally makes me want to call up my boyfriend of 4 years and propose, haha.

Proposing on the phone, all not doing it right, all awkward silence.

So...did you do it?

it was a text message actually and the results were hilarious.

You are pretty much my hero.

Oh, if only I could rate this a 50 for Beef's contented little smile in panels 6 and 8.

I didn't even notice "ZRRRRRRRRRRRRR" the first time I read it. It adds so much

i thought a ufo was abducting him because of the ZRRRRRR and the light over him

it was confusing thank god it is over

Roast Beef's inner monologue with its Klein bottle of metaphor is my second favorite thing on this particular strip, surpassed only marginally by the awesome street light and darkness effect.

That's just the kind of thing you've gotta yell of an abandoned bridge some time in your life, ya know?

spent a couple minutes trying to line up the alt text with the speech bubble, then i realized it had too many "I's." ruined my fun