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The backyard gig Tuesday, October 16, 2001 • read strip Viewing 84 comments:

Woo! I am definitely not afraid of the fucking DENTIST

Hehe, nice.

anyone ever actually do shots of scope? its the only scenario where you vomit uncontrollably and can still make out with a girl in the following seconds.

No, but they drank Listerine at my high school.

I hate people.

I'd love to see what type of girls will make out with a dude who puked 10 seconds ago. I have no doubt they exist, I just want to see them.

They're best to be looked at only AFTER you drink the scope.

These girls ain't "focusers."

Avatar accompanies post well, short pause, eyes bug out and he says "Focusers". Ocular Shenanigans chubby for you.

I feel the same way about hot lesbians.

I've been with three.

I could show you the world...

I don't dude, they are probably hell of nasty, the kind of girl that would let a dude puke on her vag and be ok with it. That is dog shit. That is nasty.

You can see them on Girls with Low Self Esteem

actually the scope isn't totally necessary for that...[i]promise

hah, i wanted italics, but that worked out better than most code failures...

how desperate does one have to be to drink scope(perfume, listerine, vanilla extract, etc)? its similar to those weirdo fucks that drink Rx cough syrup recreationally...

First Lyle in Misfits shirt, first Sex funeral. An historic strip.

Note for the interested: Scope is not a good thing to be intoxicated by.

I never want to see a band's first gig, even if there is Scope.

A band should stay in the fucking rehearsal studio until they're good and ready.

Another four, but yeah, the strip being Cornelius and Todd's adventures really weirds me out. I wonder if Cornelius was really old from the get-go.

the bathrobe and pince-nez seem to indicate "well-aged, like scotch."

Determining age for the characters based on appearance when they were acting primarily as alive stuffed animals is a little questionable. They would have been constructed (sewn I guess?) in their current forms. The Philippe doll could be older than the Mr. Bear but Mr. Bear would still appear more stately than the young/retarded Philippe.

I'm pretty sure that Onstad (and most everyone else) would prefer that people forget that they were ever stuffed animals. It hasn't been part of the story for, like, eight years now.

In short: shutup_shutup

Listerine is $2.

That is way too much for scope.

Lyle gets so drunk he shits himself.

Every band starts somewhere; I guess Lyle played for hobos in an alley.

no no, the band members are the hobos in an alley.

I wonder what kind of scummy venue of a dive bar Lyle's gig is at. At least now Lyle wears a T-shirt.

It was called the Moonlight Café. It was a barn with the roof blown off.

The band is called "Sex Funeral" and they charge $1 for a shot of Scope. This is the kind of gig where if you still have all your teeth at the end of the night, you got RIPPED OFF.

Now that's my kind of funeral.

Teodor is ENORMOUS here.

The moustache no longer resembles a stealth bomber.

Yeah, and the Misfits shirt is in place too. All that's missing is a bottle of booze (or Scope).


You know, I always assumed the Scope meant that whatever was going to happen was going to leave the worst taste imaginable in the viewer's mouth, to the point where paying a buck for a shot of Scope sounded like a reasonable proposition. The alcoholic content sailed passed me like a poorly-aimed paper airplane.

I think it may be better that way.

I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure.

Every paper airplane I ever aimed never hit target either. Your analogy missed me like a poorly aimed punch in the face.

a dollar a scope shot is pretty expensive, non?

See, you don't have to present an ID to buy a bottle of scope . . . and if they catch, like a whole bunch of 17-year-olds all Scoped out, the cops still ca'nt make a bust. Strategy, man. Strategy is everything.

I performed a show as Sex Funeral. It was awesome. We got in a lot of trouble because we said that all the other bands playing at CBGBs Downstairs Lounge that night were awful and that we were the best band in the world. The next band shoved their amp at one of my band guys and argued with us.

for some reason, i find that a great story.

chubbied.

It ends with a very Onstadian non-punchline. Actually I think I'll chubby it too.

you are most assuredly lying.

i'll take 3!

For a relatively minor character, Lyle has undergone more bodily and facial hair-related transformations from Then to Now than anyone. More than Star Jones, even.

WOW MORE SO THAN EVENSTAR JONES!!!!!
<3<3<3
I LOVE YOU ROWBOAT . .. .FROM THE FUTURE!!!!!!

*bro grabs*

Bro grabs.

is that a thug-hug? (that tough guy thing where dudes who are afraid of committing to being casually affection to another dude clasp opposite hands and half hug at the same time.....)

No, a bro grab is just a regular hug followed by a blowjob.

gross. dudehugs are for homosexuals.......

It's only right and natural.

I thought that was called a brojob?

Isn't a bro grab where you politely reach around?

Ohhh. Now I get this whole thing. I came across this strip via the random function two days ago, and just a few minutes ago, via the same function, came across the strip where rowboat finds sje's first post, and sje threatens to go make fun of rowboat's first post. And he sorta did.

Huh.

Yeah. We have fun.

I guess 1 years is the highest assetbar can count. That was definitely more than 1 years ago.

I think after 12 months and before 24 months counts as being in the "1 year ago" range. There are older posts listed as "2 years ago"

It seems like I have seen some "2 years ago" posts now that I think about it. However, my above post was definitely made more than two years ago, so make of it what you will.

(I'm probably not gonna think about it too much.)

(You fucking know you will.)

You were right, I now think about it a lot during my archive trips.

God dammit.

Crap.

For what it's worth, it now says 2 years. I guess I was just a few months off.

It's gotta be coming up on three years pretty soon here. Seems like, ten.

I meant to, do that.

It was so long ago I started coming here...I was just a child...

haha...we did shots of Scope in junior high...it was free.

how desperate does one have to be to drink scope(perfume, listerine, vanilla extract, etc)? its similar to those weirdo fucks that drink Rx cough syrup recreationally...

Mr. Bear clearly disapproves of Scope. Because Listerine is better.

A shot of Scope is better than a shot of Aqua Velva, this is truth.

Sex Funeral-A band for which I have the greatest respect.

Lyle came into his own with this strip.

Kids be all at drinking mouthwash for the 'alcohol' around my little nephew's hangouts. Honestly, if they laced milk with LSD and charged a dollar a shot NOBODY would ever get calcium deficiency. It's a big problem where I come from. Brittle bones. Gran has it.

Moloko plus is where it's at.

Should be closer to 5 :)

that was great.

This is the first glimpse of the true Lyle. Even with the strip no longer worried about preserving a concept of housebound stuffed animals, it's still quite Lyle to sell Scope shots.

this is the first one i've read that's made me laugh out loud. granted, i've only read about 8 so far.

SCOOOOPE...minty fresh!

In the days before story arcs we missed out on the rivalry between Sex Funeral and Connie's band, Ethelbert and the Silly old Things.

Lyle replaced his alcohol addiction with Scope. It helped him lose the weight.

I had a teacher that poured whiskey and scope into his coffee. Lyle and him would make a power duo.

As someone who once drank coffee after brushing their teeth, I find this horrifying.

Téodor and Cornelius are in essentially the same positions as the previous strip. They replace Philippe with... with Lyle.