If you appreciate Achewood, please support Chris Onstad (shop; gallery art.)
Todd's Skit Ideas Tuesday, September 25, 2007 • read strip Viewing 118 comments:

A comment left by mikemcg was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by kylank, Howard, clembot, DerSquirrel)

Oregonian article about free Achewood tatoos
Phillipe's blog about Mr Bear's food.
Lyle's blog entry about..uh..I think he got fired.

I find the comparison to Winnie the Pooh interesting, since there are already parallels. The sagely scholar Cornelius is quite similar to Owl; Phillipe and Piglet (or perhaps Roo) are the cute youngsters, Pat and Rabbit are both Dicks, Roast Beef with his depression is Eeyore, and Onstad is Christopher Robin.

And Todd is both a Heffalump and a Woozle.

Teodor likes to cook so I guess that would mean he has things in common with Winnie the Pooh in terms of gastrointestinal interests, but it is a hard sell from my vantage point to imply that Ray is the comic strip's Tigger I mean bouncing around like that all up in Rabbit's George Foreman and making Pooh spill his honey dude Tiggers are just of low mind.

Tiggers are quite clearly constructs of the highest quality rubber, springs and fun^5... and you, sir, are a cad! I bite my thumb at thee!

I do bite my thumb sir, but not at you sir!

I see your "Zing!" and raise you a "Ba-Zing!" Totally my reaction on the last panel.

*BA-ZOINGGGGG!*

I thought the last tenth was funny accents.

The last tenth is Bob Saget.

... I don't know who that is, so naturally I am subbing in Sagat from Street Fighter instead.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x6Lt2jlEyOo

If Sagat was America's Funniest Home Videos host, that would have been a better show. Basically if he just HYPER UPPERCUTted every entry off the screen.

Tiger Uppercut.
Z HP

I always figured it was a pun, on account of him being Thai. The way he says "Tiger" sounds more like "Thai-girl", and you know what gender is like in Thailand.

Not "whoever".

"Whatever".

A comment left by mikekitchell was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by kylank, DerSquirrel, LocusCosecant)

god damn it, typo , not type

How Ironic?

Flut!

A comment left by mcowgill was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by kylank, SSDDR, thedudeabides85)

A comment left by spectre was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by lawbot, GregChant, VictoriaW)

A comment left by hargbarf was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ewin, kylank, theoneyouwant, Soilentshuggah, Jesus, SPECTRE)

Actually, it's her face. It looks like...yes, it looks like she's getting an idea.

oh hee hee!

That tiny baby never expected that massive hat.

Who cares if todd dies he'll be back.

I'm totally going to tell someone to go to a dungeon today.

"Welcome to the dungeon, Mr. Kazenzakis. Here's a hubcap from a 1982 Subaru Brat." Those sent to the dungeon eventually came to envy those sent to hell.

A comment left by feetnotes was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by kylank, theoneyouwant, sittered, jeannetteandre)

what?

Okay, look at panel 3, where everything appears normal with Ray's mouth and cheeks. Now look at 2, 5 and 6 where his left cheek looks swollen.

Welcome to the wonderful world of perspective.

Perspective makes the cheek further from you look bigger?

I really don't want to argue this any more, I'm sorry I offended all of you Internet Tough Guys with my lighthearted observation.

what the hell

Perspective can foreshorten and appear to flatten the closer cheek. Also, Ray's head is turned upward and toward Beef in panels 1 and 3, which gives a more side-on view of his right cheek. That relieves the foreshortening, as your view is no longer perpendicular to the deepest part of the cheek.

i think you're reading a lot into a little bit of line inconsistency.

turd fergison would certainly agree with the alt text

And Andy Kaufman. (google image search)

Hey, uh....look what I found backstage.

It's funny cos it's bigger than a, uh, regular hat.

Turd Furgeson.....funny name.

I love Ray's initial reply. "Go to a dungeon". Says it all.

You can't cut out the bits about cocaine! That's the heart of the piece.

Pitch: It's JUST LIKE The Kids in the Hall, but without the satire, the talented Canadian cast, or standards!

You could totally sell this to Lorne Michaels if Ray walks...

The "I'm crushing your head!" bit would probably translate well to a coked-up Todd.

go to a dungeon. really.

Ray's right. Back in 1980, ABC's "Fridays" failed to take enough steps to edit out the coke references, and look what happened to them.

I was about to write something up about how Onstad made a typo with the word "shellfish" but so as to ensure I did not make a fool of myself I looked up "selfish" in case there was some new crustacean I hadn't heard about and then I remembered selfish is actually a word

In hindsight, it's probably the most altruistic thought I've ever had

See, this post is a fine example of comedy through editting out the cocaine and selfish sex.

I took a hit of cocain and then.. ... while having sex with anyone I wanted, would not have had the same irony quotient.

It was a typo. Shellfish sex. Eeew.

That's actually what the whole lobster thing was about. When coked up, the line between sex and fighting is completely indestinguishable to Todd.

To Todd? It is a very broad line to most people snortin the... snort.

Sex with whatever Todd wants! Even a selfish!

I really like "You a crazy person, go to a dungeon". That is so rad.

It's been my IM status for round about a few months now.

5'd for the second and sixth panels.

There's an MTV executive reading this thinking, "Stupid Clam! Why haven't I thought of that?"

Did anyone else read the article posted today and think "I would buy that headband"?

Definitely with you on that.

Rejected skit ideas include:

Todd does ketamine and sits there.

Todd does heroin and sits there.

As a part of a community service agreement, Todd does a PSA condemning drinking and driving, while doing cocaine and driving. He drops the mirror and crashes his van into an orphanage.

Todd does acid and decides he can fly, but he is the wrong kind of squirrel. This would make an excellent Mark Trail Sunday comic.

Todd does X with Nice Pete and they fall in love. In the trade it is known as 'inappropriate pair-bonding'.



You kind of lost me there with the Nice Pete thing.

Ray is a stone cold businessman.

That is because Todd is a catastrophe no matter what you do. You only have a choice as to whether to cash in on his inevitable demise, or go without.

Now be a good lad and get Andy Ackerman on the phone. Tell him to hold a couple of hours on Thursday for a pitch meeting.

And a latte. Get me a latte.

Fuckin' right. Todd deserves nothing less than this, and you are only giving his existence meaning by funding and manipulating his habit.

Perfect.

I feel like I've learned something today. It's the educational aspect of Achewood that truly makes it exceptional.

Ray lays it on his dogg: Straight up go to a dungeon.

My favorite part: "You are a crazy person Beef. Go to a dungeon." All crazy people should most certainly be sent to a dungeon.

Todd's conditions are to have sex with ANYTHING he wants. Not ANYONE, but ANYTHING.

Please see previously much chubbied comment by daniel.

haha wow, I completely missed that. I blame the crippling flu i'm down with.

It's all good, dogg. You show that flu who's boss. That's you, tiger.

So many of our late great TV stars have died from problems. The tragedy of show business...

From problems, or from circumstances?

I would think that Circumstances are experienced strictly in the past tense, mainly in the formative years.

Problems seem to be more of the present tense, but become circumstances when you have overcome them and moved on. Since the stars who have died can no longer look back on their circumstances, the last immediate cause of death would be problems.

And, I would also add that perhaps a third category exists, that of cares . Cares would be possible issues in the future that you must consider, even if they are purely hypothetical .

Problems, or cocaine?

Ray has the business down stone cold. Check out these SNL brainstorming notes:

1977

Belushi does coke and smashes stuff with a samurai sword

Belushi does coke and runs around in a bee costume, yelling at anybody he wants

Belushi and Akroyd do coke, start a blues band and have sex with groupies

1992

Farley does coke, screams at people and falls through a coffee table

Farley tries out to become a coke-fueled Chippendales dancer and has sex with his screaming fans

Farley keeps a van down by the river where he takes underaged girls for sex. He also lives there.

There is Coke in the Van.

that sounds like a hot idea for a band name...

If This Van's A-Rockin, Don't Come A-Snortin!

If This Van's A-Rockin, I'm Doin Coke to Dokken!

This is the best Achewood all month.

I don't know if Beef is wrong to be so pessimistic - that lobster one sounds great!

It really does.

Wouldn't Todd freeze at a equally proportional rate?

Dude's got fur

And [MUSIC CUE: FOREIGNER] he's hot-blooded.

and thermal homeostasis

It really depends on how many decades of America's Funniest Home Videos ABC has retained the rights to.

Something to do with hibernation . . . and Bob Saget. . . . and coke.

And, definitely, a Van.

I would like to announce now that, in my head, Todd sounds exactly like Dale, of Chip and Dale. Except with a cocaine habit.

Yes.

Oh. my. god. I had been hearing him as Tweak, but rereading this with your mental voice casting made it even better.

Todd's show is already more entertaining than Jimmy Fallon.

Being trapped on the cusp of slumber and awareness is more entertaining than jimmy fallon.

I think it is important that the "Stupid Clam!" segment should be in slow motion.

No. It should be a whirl of activity. It has to sync with the fast, heavy metal.

Stupid Clam!

the return of flut. also, the lobster idea is kind of genius

i would love it if this strip was comprised of only the first two panels.

[IMGS OFF]

Ooo! C'mon girls!

Rock all day
Sniff that line
Roll that money
No more clowning around for you

Got it bad
Need to get some more
They say it's gonna snow
Gonna put White Christmas up my nose

I ain't no weatherman - don't know if it's gonna rain
'Cause I'm a rock 'n roll clown, do a lot of cocaine
One of these days they're gonna take me away
'Cause I'm Dr. Rockso, and I do cocaine

Yeeha!

Holy damn. I was listening to the Dethalbum when I first saw cousinted's message. That's the second time something like that has happened.

God, cocaine is funny! It gets me every time! And man, what I would give to keep all the crazy people in dungeons. Where can I find a good dungeon around here%u2026

When you do coke, your life becomes a dungeon, and the addiction becomes your prison guard. And then your body is like a cellmate who is always around but never real does anything productive and your wallet is like your murder victim and your brain is like your estranged and battered wife who for some reason keeps coming back to the conjugal trailer even though you just keep beating her up time after time.

Do you want to have to dick-slap your brain on the conjugal trailer of your life?
Don't do drugs, kids.

What the hell?

This free Achewood tattoo thing, is happening in Oregon.
I just watched a movie (Mr. Brooks) that takes place in Oregon.
While I was watching the movie, I got an email from a girl who said she loved my Take on Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N. (like the emails Cornelius got in his junk folder) Where is the girl from? You guessed it: Oregon

So, what the hell...?

Oh, wait. I'm hecho en Mexico.


i grew up in portland and basically all of portland is one big achewood tattoo. achewood is really funny sometimes but believe me that living a city which is a big achewood tattoo gets really, really old.

I bet if you hit the random comic link, you'd end up in the Oregon Trail arc.

Stupid Clam: Extreme Edition has Todd smashing quahogs.

Ray must be wearing be wearing Lazarus again; that is some cold television industry savoir faire he is exhibiting. Heh, he's optioning the rights to Todd's cold dead corpse.

I like the image of Todd and the Lobster in a death-embrace, as the lobster's warmth slowly ebbs from his body, Todd is flooded with a kind of angelic glow. For a minute, he is lifted out his miserable existence and sees the world with new eyes, the frost in the freezer is white like the snow on his grandmother's fur in chicago in the first frost of November, the ham legs hanging from the meet hooks are frozen in mid-air, how - like a painting - the icicles point like swords at the bags of artichokes, as the artichokes heroically protect the bag of peaches underneath, the icicle will fall some day, piercing the artichoke's heart, bleeding frost from the hole in slow motion. but, for todd, as his vanquished foe becomes more and more a part of this white world, he realizes that he himself is not part of it. he fluffs his tail, presses his warm paws together; he has beaten his coke addiction.

for now.

It is a perfect... homicide!

"You a crazy person. Go to a dungeon."
That is what I will tell my kids.

Though it's often claimed, I swear that in this instance Chris Onstad has generated an adage which has wormed its way pretty far to the front of my sayin' habits.

Today's Blogs

Philippe: Dinner was Crummy!
Lyle: well thats a fick pissr

that last line.

This right here? This is my absolute favourite Achewood. The first panel sets the scene and then every panel after that is simply hilarious. Pure comic fucking gold.