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Managing Todd Thursday, October 4, 2007 • read strip Viewing 96 comments:

The underwear has made Todd rude and raunchy.

A comment left by natjo1986 was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Moolah, farqussus, bearealcoolhand, scraggg)

I bet the only reason he ate the underwear is because it is a code word.

Haha oh wow. I feel really stupid now.

I thought so at first, too, but now I'm not sure. Ray says "whale tail-ectomy" in the last panel. It seems weird for him to refer a specific type of underwear if the word "underwear" itself is code.

On the other hand, the whole thing in general makes more sense if you read "underwear" to mean "coke."

It was an act of love. We will never know anything so beautiful.

Eating underwear is so beautiful

Air stewardesses get pretty pissed if they suspect you've eaten any amount of underwear.

Don't call them stewardesses. They get mad at you if you call them that. I was told (very nastily) by one that they are called "Flight Attendants."

Also I learned that although they'll give you a blanket they will NOT tuck you in. Weird huh?

Can you think of anyone who has a more gigantic and deep-seated fury at the world?

Huh. Good point.

Pat?

References are better when people get them, I guess.

Shhh. I get the reference. Don't you worry.

*Waves*

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Also, don't call them "Air Mattresses".

Chubby for your Cassidy icon. ;)

bro your avatar is fuckn me up!!! i stare and stare but i swear to GOD everytime i glance away the eyes look away and back.... god help me i may have sniffed too much underwear

Ray Smuckles Gets Things Done. I'm sure he means three minutes in that last panel, which just proves it.

AIRWOLF IS FASTER THAN ANY JET

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Hell of copter

Yours > > > > > > > mine.

if i could only give one more comment on this site a chubby this would have been it

Heelacopter

I really can't look at any squirrels the same way because of todd.

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I've looked at squirrels from both sides now.

Chip and Dale were Chipmunks. I fail to see how they affected your Human:Squirrel realtions.

The Norwegian term for chipmunk directly translates to "Earth Squirrel" I guess I got confused.

You're all nuts.

ba dum pshh

Ever since I watched a squirrel down a flake from a 99 cone I've been waiting for this moment. Underwear is a cousin to the flake!

According to this article, an ice cream cone is known in the trade as a "frozen dairy platform"!

It's a recognized public health problem in cities like DC and NYC that squirrels dig up crack in city parks (stashed by dealers) and then go nuts trying to dig up more crack. They become aggressive, nervous and hyperactive, just like Full-Size Crackheads.
I think that's probably the most hilarious public health problem I've ever heard of.

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No. This is a discussion forum about a cartoon on the internet. It is funny whether it is true or not (of course it's an urban legend).

And you just challenged me for a citation. On a discussion forum about a squirrel over-dosing on underwear and performing surgery on himself with a restaurant.

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Two men. 3,000 page views a day.

Watch man destroy thought in the

GREAT INTERNET FIGHT

The appropriateness of my avatar seems to have emboldened me today. Chubbies all around.

Also, your second paragraph is maybe funnier to me than the last panel of the strip itself.

The Truth Shall Make You Lame, jeez.

Just a silly myth perpetuated by tabloid mags in the UK that have been on a staunch anti-drug crusade (what with their invention of "superskunk") in recent months.

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thanks for that

I was so certain that the first monkey wrench would involve cocaine.

Well-played, Onstad. Well-played.

Next: The lawsuit against the dangerously sharp Emeril Lagasse franchise is jeopardized when Todd's opening arguments consist of a single inappropriate word shrieked repeatedly.

Balls?

Also, this strip could stand on its own with just the first four panels. Genius.

For the purer souls on this messageboard:

Jelqing

It should be stated this is in reference to the alt text.

Haha, I'm glad someone else got the reference. Jelqing is hilarious.

I didn't get it, and I googled jelq-con. and became frustrated that there was no such thing.

I'm curious, but not as curious as my employers would be when "altpenis.com" shows up on the server history.

Later. I will learn about Jelqing later.

I find it curious that just by referencing jelqing, you've well increased number of chubbies. That's very appropriate.

And HTML stabs me in the back once more!

Submitted for your approval: a rat eats his trousers.

...Someone help me out on the last panel? I tried to piece it together with Google and contextual clues, but um... unless Todd underwent surgery to remove his thong by way of flinging himself into a sharpened restaurant, I have no clue what Ray is talking about.

Todd just tried to surgically remove an eaten thong using the corner of a building instead of a scalpel.

I took it to mean he puked on Emeril's restaurant.

fuck. sharpened corner. i'm Lame.

It's disturbing how close I was.

Next time you board a plane, tell the TSA people you ate a pair of underwear and see what happens.

I am getting on a plane tomorrow at 10AM after today being chock full of midterms, I am tempted to do such nonsensical things.

Until the last panel I assumed underwear was slang for coke. Even though it wasn't, it is now.

Ray saying "Thats It?" in the third panel makes me wonder why Ray knows what a safe level of underwear consumption is.

YES. Underwear = my new slang for coke. No more references to "skiing snow topped peaks". A whole new world is opening. "Hey, you wearing underwear today?" ("you holding?"). "Yeah man, BOXERS" (Totally, and I have some for sale, not just for personal use"). Alternately "It's been bikini briefs since I got fired from Peppers, dude."

The squirrel's stomach muffles the sound of the eaten underpants.

The cat is unimpressed by the volume of underwear consumed by the squirrel.

I can hear underwear, even when it's inside of you.
It sounds uncannily like Jerry Seinfeld.

I'm not even a stewardess.

Ray is a captain?

He has a captain's outfit.

He has many different professional and cultural outfits.

He could perform YMCA all by himself.

Not that he'd want to.

It would take him a while. He'd have to switch costumes every syllable.

He had his own flight service for a while. I'm sure if you wait patiently someone better than me will link you to it.

Oh those weren't just your ordinary flights

He looks just like John Travolta in that uniform. I bet he doesn't buy carbon offsets either.

I like how, in the previous strip of the arc, Teodor gently tries to bring Todd back to reality. Fuck that. Now he's right there with the camera.

The squirrel is so high he ate his own underwear.

Somebody did the old 'what were you eating under there' joke to Todd and it gave him ideas.

"What'cha eatin' under there?"
"Un-under where?"
"Ha ha. You're eating und-"
"I JUST F-F-FUCKEN TOLD YOU. CHRIST. P-Pass me that thong. I n-need something for this fucken f-flight."

Underwear can only be silenced through consumption.

Ever since that helicopter-blades strip, I keep picturing these Ray-on-the-phone strips as conversations with his mom. Which is more than a little terrifying.

Oh no! He took ray's advice and spent it all on his nose!

Underwear is a Schedule I controlled substance

I once downed some undies as a kid. I was all hell of buggin' out. Still, to this day I've got to go to weekly therapy. Todd is doing the only thing a sensible man would do.

This strip has so much to offer me.

That's it?

No one can hear underwear once it's inside of you!

the cat needs to save his squirrel friend from cutting himself open with emeril-brand knives.

I guess Teodor doesn't have a lot to do today. He's just going to stand there with the camera for the next four hours.

am i alone in thinking that "whale tail-ectomy" is a hell of clever joke

From the first sentence I figured Todd was on the line.

Oh, he was on "the line," alright. Several, actually.

Have we actually got the final word on Todd's geographical progeny, his ancestral grounds, his stirps, his radix? I envision vomiting of pantyhose.

Bill Bailey was right, squirrels are total druggies.

I am now unsure whether "underwear" was code in this strip

i found it rather amazing that Todd was able to bounce back so well for his show.

Squires will never be the same in my book, and I will never call a Flight Attendant the "S" Word. LOL what is Jelqing anyway, the only info I could find on it was on AltPenis and here does it actually mean enlarging the penis by stretching OUCH!!!

Bill Waterson would have signed in panel 3.