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Spreading the Love Friday, June 1, 2007 • read strip Viewing 105 comments:

A comment left by zefiel was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by kenthegod, le_chien_manquee, jeffreyquah)

Sodium Pentothal is usually stereotyped as truth serum, but actually it doesn't do much apart from making you think life is awesome

Seriously, wiki Project Artichoke. The CIA uses some rad codenames.

That was a fun project, I won't lie.

Not as fun as dosing guys in a whorehouse in SF.

oh my god, perfect

*splut*

Your tax dollars at work!

"Player's block", gotta love this.

Ray gives and gives, but the Player's Block Foundation is years away from finding any sort of treatment or cure.

Player's block, indeed. Did anyone else notice that, in this strip at least, Teodor knows Roast Beef better than Ray?

I did not notice that. In fact, the humour of this strip (from my perspective) was Teodor suggesting something so wildly unlike what Beef would enjoy that Ray suggested Beef would only request such a gift if violently tortured.

Would Molly not fancy a nice trip abroad then?

I think that Molly would probably be happy on any holiday where Roast Beef wasn't in a perpertual state of terror and therefore acting all hoi polloi and low.

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Oh man the tension keeps building. It's so weird to become excited about a possible marriage between two anthropomorphic cats, but I am anyway.

In this arc we're getting nervously excited -- giddy, even -- over the impending marriage of two cats. Achewood.

I'm nervously excited because I assume he's going to kill her (again).

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Oh damn, is this really going to happen?!

Maybe the big twist is that everything actually goes as planned for once. I am hoping that's the case.

well, if it's the normal situ they'll just get engaged and get married in 6 months or something right? I hope we see a couple of story arcs come down before any knots get tied. you know, soap opera style

Egg in a bag. This will no doubt enter my vocabulary.

I wouldn't be interested in the minigolf tour of all the states, but the sodium pentothal and electrocution does sound like a way to kill an afternoon.

I probably wouldn't wear clothes during it.

I hope Ray picks out an engagement ring for Beef, too.

teodor is such a badass.

Beef is a complex cat with simple tastes.

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I'm with the two of you on this, but if you look at it, Beef and Molly's relationship never ran the entire strip and I doubt it would do so in the future if they did tie the knot. I mean, there are a couple of child characters in the strip, but its never devolved into anything nearly as kitschy as any other kid-centered comic in print. I can't see Onstad really sinking into that with a married couple in the cast.

I am from the future and I am telling you that is not the case.

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well if you leave the top off, it almost kinda crystallises into a gunk which is totally useless for the purpose of lubrication, hence prolonging the messy business of foreplay. this is information which only married people are privy to. in fact i might be breaking some sort of marriage omerta code by telling you all this.

Do married people have their own drink, like breast men?

well, i'm an assman and that trumps my marital status. maybe one of the married breast men could answer that for you.

The "Man, rough day but I'm on my way home I'll see you in a bit-tini". My wife makes them like I like them, dirty, cold, and waiting on the counter. I'm a lucky, lucky man.

this makes me wonder if beef ever got molly to 'spray'.

why would you think of that though
why would you think of that

I believe it was "squirt" and not "spray".

Either way it's pretty messy.

I don't know why this got 'lamed', it's a perfectly normal question. Why is the KY Jelly unusable!? The alt text mentions nothing about the top being left off. I'm confused. Whatever.

I assume the comment was lamed because everyone here somehow knows exactly why the gel was unusable.

Hey guys... I fail at HTML!

bbcode is not html, it uses ['s and ]'s

You succeed at HTML, but fail at BBcode.

I invite you to join my BBCode Detractors' Club .

It's in the fridge. It'll be hell of sludgey and thick, not to mention freezing fucking cold. Not something I'd want near my cash'n'prizes, anyway.

CASH'N'PRIZES!!!!!

How are they going to get the RV to Hawaii?

Ray owns Airwolf. This can be managed.

Hawaii is their last stop and they take a plane there after they return the RV.

After Beef ties the knot, I hope we get another story arc like, say, when Phillipe ran awawy. Tons of characters and bona fide weirdness. I miss the rest of the cast.

Ray is super-cool. You'd think he'd be a little bit sad to give up his partner-in-crime to a lady but he's just happy for RB. He's even planning the honeymoon, that's one loyal cat.

Bear in mind that Ray probably finds it unimaginable that Molly and Beef might not want him in their life as much as he is now once they're married. I will bet good money that he expects to come along with them on this honeymoon.

A Third Wheel Legend could be in the making. Something's gotta go wrong or at least awry, and the tension's starting to get to me. We have not so much as seen Molly since this began.

Also that honeymoon sounds so damn rad, even though I doubt any Mrs. would be content with that. Provided I wouldn't have to drive the RV, 'cause changing lanes in a beast like that would give me fits.

The Legend, the Legend, the Third Wheel Legend...

Always in the way...

I find it unbelievable that Molly and Beef wouldn't want Ray in their lives as much as he is now. I mean.... wouldn't you?

Ray wants to plan everything. This may be a manifestation of his own single and lonely situation taking terrible shape in his subconscious.

I love that Ray is funding research into a cure for Player's Block.

A comment left by asherdan was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by clever-nickname, ppccd, nutmeg)

I think that what Ray is doing for Beef is a noble thing... but he should at least let Lyle collaborate on the bachelor's party. It just wouldn't seem right without him there

Todd also needs to take part.

Jesus Christ... Apatfan is not only a pat fan, but a prophet as well!

Seriously though, we've had ZERO Molly here for the last few howeverlongs and you know what that means, right?

[IMGS OFF]

Hanging in Ray's den.

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Hanging in Ray's Den

Dude, you seriously need some practice with those image tags. Hilarious, though.

What gets me is the intractable nature of these posts. Once you put it out there, you can't take it back and everybody just reads it and knows you're an idiot

Unretractable.

"Dr. H. G. Andreti"

Very nice touch man.

shucks...

Ahh, Dr. Andretti is one of my favorite characters, props... Isn't he named Paul, though? Am i high on sodium pentotal?

Obviously, this is Dr. Andretti's belated addition to the Harry Potter FanFiction series. The chart was written by Dr. Hermoine Granger-Andretti, after she married him.

Also: Mad Props for remembering. It is indeed Paul.

Alternatively, we could imagine Doc Andretti as being a long-exiled ruler of a foreign country, in which case he would sign things "His Grace", Dr. Andretti. Perhaps "His Grace" became a nickname, playfully shortened to HG?

wonderful, you truly are a man dedicated to achewood

You know what this arc is starting to remind me of?
Remember when Philippe had that little french fry buddy, and they were just having a great time for several weeks, and this feeling of dread just set in?

Jesus, I hope not. It's getting harder to maintain a Philippe-like optimism about the possible outcome, but I like all the buildup either way.

I would just like to point out that this is the 1,234th strip. congrats achewood.

Will this be the cure for beef's depression? Or will it be the harbinger of a hysterical sitcom marriage?

with ray bargeing into the pool house like kramier.

Happy 1,234 strip everyone

sorry to be a dick, how do i see the alt text you guys are always talking about?

Go to the main site, then hover your mouse pointer over the strip. Magically, alt text appears!

Ronald Reagan is sorry to be a dick.

(When I originally posted this, henrythecad's icon was a picture of Ronald Reagan.)


"Marriage proposal definitely too strong of a diversion"

A comment left by tg was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Solle, madnes, silver_lake, Bacter, nutmeg, SeanBad, neitherman)

never realized this whole system existed until i accidentally clicked on a comic. but now i have a good excuse to go back through and reread each comic for ache-cred.

Just don't go back and give a 5 to every comic. I know some of you have done that, and unless you get some kind of password to a secret area of the site, it's not cool.

he knows too much, he must be eliminated...

i usually only rate the 5s, the less good ones, i just click next on... is that bad form?

Would explain why >80% of all comics are 4.6-4.7.

those who mark all the comics with ones will recive a letter coontaining pictures nice pete holding a picture of them, a disk with a usb device driver on it, and a blank letter with only their name writen on it.

bad grammer FTW!!!

I think this one is funnier if you take out the Teodor side and just hear Ray's end.

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ok fuck assetbar's image truncation.
https://genericus.org/b/060107edit.gif

I hope they do a honeymoon in heaven or something far out. It's been a while since something really supernatural has happened in Achewood.

why does ray need to find his wallet to book the RV tour?

his credit card number is 0000 0000 0000 0001.

Can't remember the expiration date.

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Onstad: A Return to Bacon, the Senses, and the Stove.

For the sake of continuity, and in light of Rays "four years" claim, I would like to specify that Molly and Roast Beef met on March 10, 2003, in Heaven, after RB was shot for the second time.

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=03102003

The third time RB was shot (this time by Lie Bot, disguised as Ray's uncle Marlon Culpepper), which was also the fifth time he had died (once he had driven off a cliff in a golf cart, and another time he committed suicide by vomiting in an electric circuit in order to go to hell and meet up with Ray, who had also died), he arrived in Heaven only to find that Molly was missing, having returned to Earth by dying in a fire in Heaven.

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=06142004
https://achewood.com/index.php?date=06152004

Well Molly says their honey moon consisted of
"a quiet little trip to Oregon where we lived in the woods and played mini-golf at an abandoned course that some wealthy Political Science students seem to have made in the 1970s"
So about half way there I suppose.

'Egg in a bag' is a wonderfully evocative phrase.

His wallet is where he keeps the "emergency minigolf tour" fund.