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The Party: Day XVII: Hope Springs Eternal Wednesday, April 3, 2002 • read strip Viewing 48 comments:

Chinese women man. Dang.

Chinese otter women. Amen.

I'd shorten it to

"Women"

W00ters!

Accounts for the overpopulation problem, I suppose.

That is the best Philippe can do. Man, I don't even know what to say about that. Does he have game? I guess the proof is in the pudding.

Yeah I can't even begin to guess what he was trying to communicate with that, but damn did it ever work.

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HEY-O!

Had you said "Ultra Peanut", you probably would've received double the chubbies and half the lames. You still would've gotten a few lames, however, from the people who would have to remind you that [color=red] PHILIPPE IS FIVE!!![/color]

apparently assetbar doesn't allow BBCode color modification

Assetbar is shit

It's funnier that the comment was so [bold]EMPHASIZED[/endbold] by the faulty BBCode

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I love how Philippe closes his eyes tightly in fear as Super Peanut hands him the paper.

Philippe gonna get his bone on...

I know, what's up with that? It's one of the few strips where I find a lack of continuity.

Well a five year old otter is probably pretty mature, how old is five in human years?

Apparently, otters reach sexual maturity somewhere around 3-5 years of age.

So yeah, gettin' his bone one.

Maybe, but Philippe is a stuffed animal, not a real otter, so...

yeah, no need to be all gettin our biology on here%u2026

If we were getting our biology on, we would have already noted that Phillipe's bone, being an otter bone, would have an actual bone in it.

If we were getting our biology on, we would have already noted that Phillipe's bone, being an otter bone, would have an actual bone in it.

"how old is five in human years?" i believe that would be five.

what a mysterous women

I like Panel 5's slight breakage of the fourth wall. Philippe needs us to tell Ultra Peanut that if she's going to swear, use kid swears and not the hard stuff.

subtlety, thy name is closefriend. nice pickup =)

Another subtle touch is Ultra Peanut's little tongue poking out in concentration as she draws. I do this, but produce asymmetrical stickmen.

Doubly subtle is that her tongue switches sides. This shows extra concentration.

Alt text: "Hope Springs Eternal"

She draws a dog and off come the clothes. We've ALL been there, Phillipe, welcome to manhood.

Dad?

panel 5 is some charlie brown shit

Where are the mickey mouse ears from? Hammerspace?

I love Phillipe's blank stare in panel 9. He doesn't even know what the fuck.

I was lied to. Vlad the Make-Out King was not in this strip.

Perhaps this is what Phillipe looks like in 3 dimensions, and that is a portrait of him in his mickey mouse ears?

I always read it as an early Disney style drawing of Phillipe wearing the ears. Onstad obviously has a taste for kitschy historicals, and Ultra Peanut's drawing is totally in the early 20s Disney style.

I never got the impression from this strip that Ultra Peanut took her clothes off. Look at how they're distributed across the floor. No, she's just been vaporised by a Martian laser beam while Phillipe was distracted.

"Dad, what's love?"
"Love is what it feels like when you've put on a hat specially for a girl but you're expecting her to just write some more swears at you but instead she draws a really good cartoon dog and takes off all her clothes"

Someday, perhaps I will go to a bar in pants, a tie, and a Mickey Mouse hat. I will espy an attractive female and go up to her.

"Look, this is the best I can do. Do you like this?" I will say to her. "Do you understand this hat?"

After that, the possibilities for the rest of the evening are quite limitless. Perhaps I will even get to meet a real live police officer!

ahahhhahahaha

ahahahhaa

phooh
wow

When that lady starts to remove her clothes in recognition. When she truly understands the hat. That is when your quest will be at an end.

Go now and return not until you have found your Achelady.

That would actually be funnier if you got it right, and the "Do you understand this hat" line was "Does this make any sense to you?".

GO PHILLIPE


(SHE TOTALLY WANTS YOU)

Look how tiny his thumbs are in the 8th panel.

The first 3 panels make this strip one of the best ever

Take advantage of this situation, Philippe!