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Gilmore Girls Wednesday, April 16, 2003 • read strip Viewing 89 comments:

Man, that Gilmore Girls is shit. My sister-in-law is far too into it. Crap, dude!

I'm all like please slow down, Shakespeare is dead and you are draining my intellect though the tubes

I remember showing this comic to a Gilmore Girl-liking ex of mine at the time, thinking she might think it was funny. Instead it severed our relationship.

That's a feather in your cap.

I think of it more as a black eye.

I cannot chubby you hard enough for the Catch-22 reference

I'm sorry. It's for the best. Trust me.

Holy crap, I was just thinking about how MY ex likes the Gilmore Girls too...creepy.

You took the plunge. for better or for worse whatever happened was for the best.

Introducing a S.O. to achewood is always risky. A chubby for your bravery. And your hilarious results!

My boyfriend introduced me to Achewood in the first few weeks of our relationship. When I read through it and realized how quintessentially humorous it was, I knew I'd found a keeper.

An autographed "Philippe is standing on it" strip was one of his presents that Christmas.

Chicks like you don't exist where I live.

Nor where I live.

Neither are they where I live.

ME NEITHER GUYS I HEARD THERE ARE SOME "OUTSIDE"

Bummer, maybe I should move there and be a hot commodity. My boyfriend didn't appreciate it when I ignored his advice to dress as a slutty maid for Halloween. I chose to go as the Eye of Sauron instead. Hence the avatar.

i have gotten this angry watching the gilmore girls one time

woah, woah woah, best avatar in the dog damn universe, you sir are now declared king of this place

This strip is one of my favorites if not my most favorite

I love the bottom row, how Ray's just kind of irritated and Pat is all panicked

For some reason, I imagine Ray's speaking voice here as "The Dude" from Big Lebowski.

well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I generally picture Pat talking like Walter.

the last panel coupled with my hatred for gilmore girls makes this one awesome

There are so many cusses in this one strip...it's just amazing.

Nerdy bitches on speed, crap dude. So good.

There is no way that I would not be interested in dating someone who self-identified as a "nerdy bitch on speed"

Hey baby.

"Who's this blowjob?" has entered the vernacular in my social circles.

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...What??

He emphasizes "this", implying that he calls all of Pat's acquaintences Blowjobs.

I have just come to the shocking realization that I am one of those people who quotes Achewood, as I use that phrase all the time.

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Ray is in a hell of bickery mood.
He is laying on the attitude.

ray is fortunate that his address of nice pete did not have more dire Repurcussions.

Crap, dude!

Ray is so annoyed!

One of my all-time favorites right here.

Haha the last 2 panels look like Ray is having a bemused conversation with himself. Which he essentially is. Quite often.

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I have to agree with Cornelius here.

And I have to agree with you. I'm not a huge fan (my roommate watches it, mostly), but it's a pretty damn funny show at times; people bitch about the dialogue being "unrealistic" and "too fast;" I always see it as a throwback to movies like His Girl Friday and It Happened One Night. (People who demand realism from a TV show need to think about things.) Plus, Lauren Graham is ridiculously good looking.

That being said, I still love this strip.

Chubby for the literal chubby I get when I think about "The Milfmore," aka Lauren Graham.

Hear hear!

See, I do appreciate that aspect of it, because I like those movies. The problem is, overall the show completely pisses me off. The things they're talking about are not things I want to listen to.

On the other hand it has some damn sexy gentlemen and ladies.

I like the show too, although I haven't watched it in a long time. I totally agree with you about the dialogue.

That said, while Lauren Graham is indeed a fine-looking woman, I personally think Alexis Bledel (Rory) is one of the hottest girls I've ever seen in any context.

God help me, but I've always referred to Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as the Milfmore and the Chilfmore. One must choose.

God help you if 'chilf' means 'child I would like to fuck'. That does not need to be a term.

God, you're sick, davey-boy. It's obviously "Chilfmore" because Rory went to high school at the prestigious Chilton Academy. Pervert.

Why must one choose? I mean, think about it. How hot would it be to have both of them at once.

I assure you I am young enough that it is not creepy when I say: I have a huge crush on Alexis Bledel.

She's like 26 anyway. Quite legal.

That is pretty darn legal.

Could it be too legal?

Could it be too legit? Too legit to... quit?

or Family Guy's 1943 hit Fast Talkin' High Trousers

well, isn't this a fine song and dance?
what you gettin' so hot about?
keep your shirt on!
where do you get off making remarks like that?
supposin' i say you're wrong, Ken?
well, i ain't much for supposin'
well, supposin' you were?
well maybe i'm through supposin' and i'm fixed to start figurin'!
ah horse rubbish!
well, aren't you a pocket fulla firecrackers.
oh yeah? you got somethin' to say about it?
i'll say plenty!

This just goes to show that pacing can make or break dialogue. A whole goddamn panel for "Crap, dude!" immediately makes it funny.

It's a five all the way through, and then the alt text is just the icing on the cake.

Why is this not rated any higher? I cannot help but laugh at Ray in this.

whenever ray gets a bit pissy it's always a laugh

Ray is so angry. But his face betrays this.

This might be my absolute favorite Ray strip. Much hype is made about how Beef talks, and it is deserved. But then you got Ray sayin "Who's this blowjob?!" and "You stay in here and watch this show that totally sucks !" This is the shit I associate with Ray, moreso than his more popular (and admittedly great) quirks like riding side saddle on Hungry Gus.

Featuring Ray as Lyle.

I made it turn to 4.4. tee hee.

I totally did eat ribs today. And I'll probably eat the leftovers a little later. Thanks, alt text!

I took my wife out for ribs yesterday. As we got out of the car, I turned to her and plaintively stated, "everyone eat ribs today".

How did she respond?

Oh man oh man my vote on this totally put the rating up a .1

That is the first time that has happened to me this is so awesome

That's happened to me twice for an up and once for a down. Bringing it down a .1 made me feel terrible

Say what you guys want about Family Guy, but they made the same joke about Gilmore Girls, and better.

Um, no. All they did was throw in an incest implication, as is the classic Family Guy way. It started out being a genuinely funny show but then became nothing mroe than shock-value humour.

I kind of agree. Family Guy peaked somewhere around the third season. The characters had finally developed into something beyond just the simple sitcom parodies they started out as and the show became funny on its own merits.

After it was brought back from cancellation, it seemed to change its mission from "be funny and sometimes shocking" to "push the envelope as far as you can, and then push it some more." Which would be funny if it weren't so transparent.

I still watch Family Guy, but I don't hold much hope for its getting better.

There was a radio show I used to listen to that had a semi-regular segment where they would play a ten second clip from Gilmore Girls and have people ring in to guess the number of words contained in the clip.

Hahahaha genius.

I hope to God I someday get to use Ray's dialogue in panels three and four.

RAY DID YOU KNOW THAT AN UNBORN CHILD CAN STILL SENSE CUSSES AND BE HURT BY THEM

i love it when ray's a foulmouth

basicamente...

CRAP, DUDE!

Fuck the Gilmore girls. Fuck them in their stupid asses.

Oh, but you know you literally would fuck the Gilmore Girls.

I think I would develope leprosy on the spot should the occasion arise, but you never know I suppose.

This is easily one of my favorite strips. I have no idea how it is just a 4.4.

[IMGS OFF]

Having pondered for a couple of minutes, I think what seals this strip for me is the understatement in the final panel. If you rewrite that last remark as 'Fuckin' hell, dude', it's much less funny. But 'crap', after all the goddamning and blowjobs (a.k.a. a good Saturday night in), is just so... second rate. It's almost like Ray's run out of all the good cusses.

For 500 more pages of suchlike wanky overanalysis, I direct you to my monograph 'Crap, Dude: Achewood and the Bathos of Obscenity' (Oxford, 2009).

Crap, dude! My girlfriend loves this horrible, horrible show. But it's okay, I still like her.

That final panel is the perfect panel

I don't have the Saintesque achewood quoting going on to do this in real life, but I wonder how a person I was newly introduced to in real life would respond if I used the line "what the shit? Who's this blowjob?" but did it while smiling and extending a hand to shake, and using the enthusiastic tone of a friendly greeting.

(Epicurus is the guy, who, in the early days of assetbar, was always saying how he used achewood quotes a lot in real life. Not Saint.)

(thanks for putting that in brackets so as to whisper it and save me embarrassment)

Ray's nipples! They are not present!