If you appreciate Achewood, please support Chris Onstad (shop; gallery art.)
I am too drunk to drive Wednesday, December 12, 2001 • read strip Viewing 52 comments:

who here hasn't been in the situation of having to eat their phone

THIS IS NOT A GOD-DAMNED PHONE RESTAURANT!

oh man how come i never thought of this before

The humor is simple but subtly sugared by onomatopoeia.

marred slightly by the fact that... that is, in no way, what eating a phone sounds like.

I think it's what TRYING to eat a phone sounds like.

Phone. It's what's for dinner.

A comment left by saint was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ButterMoths, lamboyster, Overmedicated, farqussus, illgamesh, Doc_Rostov, morbo, dr_sexlove)

Teodor hurridly eats the phone before lyle thinks of it.

lyle COULD just eat Teodor

Not on the sofa, fellas.

I like how Teodor reaches towards the money on the counter, then withdraws his hand as he realizes that the scheme ain't gonna pan out.

Dude, that is the list.

thats a pretty good summary on the usefullness of taxis in modern society

I wonder what he was gonna do with the blacklight?

Turn it on, maybe.

Also, do a little dance.

Make a little love!
Get down tonight!

A comment left by falala was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Triptaphane, madnes, aogusky)

one comes after the other.

not with me.

Make sure the couch is clean.

The punchline in this strip is Teodor's burn on the taxi service

at first i thought he was so hungry he started eating the phone, but now i realize he was just frustrated.

No matter how hard I look, I cannot picture those lines as his mouth.

A comment left by pwb was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ButterMoths, NeoNaoNeo, rowboat, hcaz, farqussus, bixschmix, ANinasaurusRex)

this is the first comic that made me realize that teodor's mouth wasn't the little lines coming off his nose, i always thought he always looked displeased

It's kind of gross.

YES. I still have trouble visualizing where teodor and Cornelius's mouths are.

hah! he looks like pop-eye that way!

I'm trying to see it like that and I absolutely can't manage it. Seriously. I'm not trying to call you stupid or anything, I just literally can't see it any other way than how it's supposed to be.

squint your eyes and tilt your head, then jump on one leg and pat your head and rub your stomach AT THE SAME TIME . then you'll see it.

I...just cannot see that.

Man, check out Phillipe's mouth, now that is nasty

Teodor's culinary opportunities have sure come a long way.

For some reason, when I first read this, I though Teodor was blowing up a balloon in the last panel. I have no idea what that would imply.

A chubby Sir, your poor sight made me physically laugh!

it DOES look like a balloon! chubby!

...I have to check my notes, but I believe this is how PeaPod was born...

THESE KNIVES

I love how a lot of the early strips are focused on how exactly a bunch of stuffed animals obtain food.

I love how Teodor is suddenly overcome by determination

Teodor and I know that you truly haven't gotten low 'till you're eating ketchup on saltines.

it took me almost 7 years to realize that teodor is not blowing up a balloon in panel 6.

Strangely enough, the inventor of the taxi cab, William P. Taxi, did indeed get the idea from his mother during a conversation in which William expressed his frustration at being unable to find a rewarding career.

Mr. Cab, William's life long friend was listening into the conversation at the time and guilted him into including him on the project. Ironically enough Mr. Cab died four days later attempting to eat a phone.

I recently discovered that a local taxi service used to pick up and deliver alcohol to peoples' homes. Dunno if they still do, but methinks a good bottle of scotch would be a nice test subject in the near future. :)

When I was working at Big5 I had to load a weight set into a cab. That was crappy.

Man, Teodor's just furiously eatin' that phone.

He is just cold eating it.

Teodor eats the telephone with a ferocity seen only when Philippe helps himself to King's Piss.

Took me a couple looks to realize he was eating a phone, and not randomly making a baloon animal to eat instead.