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Charley Smuckles Suicide Watch '05 Thursday, November 3, 2005 • read strip Viewing 74 comments:

I love this strip for nothing more than the very beginning.

I LOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUU!

Same here. Give me those first 3 panels and you can have the rest.

I feel like he is just singing that song from "Howdy Doody Time". You know...Skimma marinky dinky dink, simma marinky do. Iiiiiii looooooove yoouuuuu!" It goes on to mention loving in the morning, afternoon, evening, and underneath the moon, if I am not mistaken.

I think of "Fly Me to the Moon," myself.

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But he also says that he's walking through the woods, not by a lake. So he's probably trying to cover his "Silly Love Songs" loving hinder on all counts.

You think that people would have had enough of those, anyway.

What's wrong with that? I'd like to know.

'Cause here I go...

(Don't do it...resist the urge...)
AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!

Chubbies all around for the Wings reference, and for actually knowing the words.

Ray strikes me as the type of guy who calls any outdoors type of area "The Woods".

yeah, i got "silly love songs" out of this too

Pixies.

Thank you, Rowboat. Reading the other comments on my page very nearly made me finalize my 32-year-old plan to strangle Paul McCartney with his own entrails. Your superior taste may well have saved his life. I thank you, and a frikkin' battalion of post-menopausal real estate agents thank you.

I am totally with you on that.

I believe you're referring to [url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Show] Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show[/url].

I mean, Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show .

Hell yes. I remember loving the crap out of this show as a child, yet can't actually remember anything about it other than that song.

That is a common affliction.

I remember a large, bearded, Vikingish man called Eric, who, despite getting as much screen time as Sharon & Co., was not part of the trio.

I started doing all the hand motions as I recalled the lyrics. Dammit.

That's what i heard.

i hate to split hairs (i love to split hairs), but that is the song from the elephant show. i believe the song from howdy doody goes "it's howdy doody time" for a while. there might be other lyrics. who knows.

Ray is all about the Sharon, Lois & Bram. Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-dink.

He is totally totally singing Silly Love Song by Paul McCartney

Seriously I can hear the bass line start up

i had to make it into an animated gif

...YOUUUUU!

I want to note that the reason I posted this 5 months ago was because, in Internet Explorer, singtralala's animated gif icon only said "I..." "LOOOOVE..." and never showed the "YOUUUUUU!" part; so, I thought I was completing it for him.

I'm looking at it now in Firefox, and it does indeed have entire 3 panel gag in the gif.

I am sorry about this, singtralala.

My home/work computer life is divided between Firefox and Internet Explorer, too. I can back you up on this. I will back you up this.

1 year later and I am looking at the SAME DAMN PROBLEM... but then my office apparently doesn't feel the need to upgrade us from IE6

JESUH-US CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST

this might be my favorite

ray feels like a bad uncle.

Ray does not watch the news for any reason

I don't either. Unless it's on a TV at a bar I happen to be at.

I make it a habit to not go into bars where there is news on the television. Unless it's sports news, that doesn't count.

Well, around here the network news is like 60% sports anyway.

my thoughts:
chuck smuck
chuckles smuckles
chuckey smuckey

for the longest time I thought that the "honk!" was coming from Ray's nose

Wait, what? Isn't it... ohhhhhhhh, now I see it! GOD that is obvious!

Yeah, me too for a while.

I thought that Ray just saw a webcam, and made the logical assumption to honk quietly at it. "Huh, a webcam. Well, I guess it's honkin' time".

This action is so poorly conveyed.

Alt Text: Keep an eye out for the new Ray Smuckles song, I LOVE YOU

The "'05" implies that Little Nephew has a reputation.

Little Nephew's name is Charley. I just realized this.

ray... charles...

My mind is officially blown.

Your avatar is so perfect for that comment.

WHOOOOAAA

I only just realized that even though Ray is an idiot, all his friends have been aware that Neff is killing himself slowly on the Internet and have done nothing about it other than trying to tell his Uncle about it.

The last panel of this comic reminds of me the last panel of this comic: https://achewood.com/index.php?date=09112003

Oh man, I didn't See this here before. You beat me to it.

The cat carries around a cellular phone just so he can yell at whoever calls him.

Dear.God.I.Am.Not.A.Religious.Man.But.Help.Me.To.See.The.Connection.Here.

Ray...Pays Attention

If Ray didn't want to get interrupted, why did he have his phone with him at all?

Aw hell, looks like I got semi beaten two months ago

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I think you all knew where I was going with that.

You know how hard it would be to drive consistently at one inch per hour? Hard. Respect to Charley.

It looks like Ray was walking on a river.

Ray, Ray of Light


[IMGS OFF]

I like how you changed the timing there, so "I" is held for a long time instead of "love you". Makes it a whole new song.

its kinda trippy that you have a animated gif as your avatar, flashing right above this giant aniamted gif.

His name's Charley!

Ray sees a camera, and he examines the camera. Not until he gets an aural cue does he consider what the camera is looking at.

The camera is looking at him, of course.
This is the natural order of things in his experience.

And I love you! Because I have learned that plutonic love CAN exist between two grown cats.

I love how for about the last 10 panels, rays eyebrows tell the story.