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Butterball Hotline Wednesday, December 10, 2003 • read strip Viewing 65 comments:

This is exactly why I love Beef. Even to the end, he is ready to hypothesize.

That's our Beef.

I question we've all posed at least once in our lives.

I meant to say "A question..."

I am dumb.

A comment left by nickstraightup was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ted0phile, featurelessvoid, Unfun, michellemarie, Boyd, DickLaurent, Darthemed)

Perhaps A am dumb?

y'know i really don't think that it is, but he went and proved me wrong. i guess we need more science

The Butterball hotline people are really very helpful.

This is even better than Martin Sheen as the US President on the phone to the Butterball Hotline.

I imagine Rose on the other end to look like Rose from 2 and a half men

I imagine Rose from Golden Girls.

I'm the girl who sucks.

Plus you got depression, I assume.

Also, I hovered over your icon and it said "Strips Viewed: 666" Hee hee! Oh hee hee!

Not anymore. I should have just stopped there, but that would have made me sad.

(I have actually read the entirety of the archives previously, but without being logged in. I need the Assetbar accolades, damnit. VALIDATION)

I am in a similar situation. I mean, as far as reading the archives and then desiring validation, not so much being the girl who sucks, although I feel for you.

I actually read through every single strip, beginning to end, reading all the alt texts, and I somehow did not know that I could click on the strips to get into a comments section where I could be registered as a member.

I am indeed the guy who sucks. So now I'm doing a brand new archive crawl.

We've all been there, Calvin. Or at least I have.

I've been reading though the archives and this is the comment that made me register. IT MADE ME!

I'm... so proud!

*snif*

(Also, I apologize in advance.)

And history repeats itself. I even bought the books, but decided to read through again with the alt text and comments. It is a part of the experience.

when i came by and looked at this much later, it was 1377! oh, tee hee indeed

I think the number you're going for there is 1337.

I understand why he called Rose, Google does not offer good answers to this question.

Next week on Science Get: Testing commences.

a question for the ages.

Hey BEEF! You openin' one eye all funky in panel 7.

How come?

Because he's had all kinds of Cuervo .

I do this even after only one kind of Cuervo

I imagine he is trying to stare into the electrical socket
to see if it has the answer to whether or not it will shoot electricity through his puke into his heart

also yea all kinds of Cuervo

This exact, horrible thing happened to a guy I knew in H.S. He was a Power Company lineman, and went up with the flu on a nasty night.


I am glad this is in archives.

(-]

While I don't know the answer to this one, I do know that if you puke on your heater it will stink something fierce for days.

dear god

What we need more if is science

Roast Beef is a quality friend.

Doesn't *everyone* have the butterball turkey hotline rememberized? I know I do...

... now.

I know perspective is shifting from panel to panel, but I like to pretend that Beef is just rolling back and forth listlessly on the phone.
"Ugh, my stomach is hell of sour if I lay like that. *flip* Ugh, my stomach is hell of sour when I lay like this. *flip* Ugh, Rose, that's a nice name, maybe Rose knows."
*flip*

this comment is a delicious valu-add to this strip. thank you.

I'd always read it as Beef rolling around on the floor before. Never realized the perspective kept shifting.

Yeah, same here. Just rolling around, contemplating the electrical outlet.

That's how I've always seen it, and by God that's how it's gonna stay in my mind. It adds a certain charm to it.

Speaking of perspective, I find panel six to be extremely questionable.

Wow. Yeah.

Huh.

Panel six is all foreshadowing Roast Beef's quandry.

All kinds of scotch, but I've no motivation to puke into an outlet for the new year. Perhaps if I had a friend in hell.

How was your day Rose?
A man called and then killed himself. It was not a super day.

I love him just having one eye open in panel 7.
and I'm wondering what kind of party one would need to have for puking into an electrical outlet to become a possibility. I want to have this party

I think we all have had a time where we call someone with our eyes closed. Those are probably the most important calls of our lives, whether or not we knot it.

crap crap crap. KNOW it. KNOW W W W IT.

Once I wondered if wedging my head in the corner of a wall behind a door would make it so someone opening the door would cause my skull to crack open like a nutshell.

Fortunately no one else was home that day so I still don't know.

i have fallen asleep like that behind a door (obviously after one too many vodkas) and it didn't crack my head i slept through a good few people walking in and out of the room

Wait wait. Has anyone tried this yet?

Like, calling Butterball, not pukeicide.

I might just do this because I have to see the response I will get.

Did you ever think that you might be delaying a person with a genuinely pressing call about a turkey, you prick?

The little red button has popped up and I don't know what to do - I'M GOING FUCKING CRAZY HERE RIGHT NOW!

I am not really sure why I laughed so hard at the last panel. I guess just the fact that he has obviously been thinking about it all night, tortured by the decision enough to call someone.

I love it. Beef uses the tools immediately available to him to MacGyver his way to Hell.

1-800-BUTTERBALL

Rose is inquisitive AND insightful.

they should do a mythbusters about this.




the eyes remind me of paul who is a ghost