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Philippe's Birthday Monday, August 22, 2005 • read strip Viewing 156 comments:

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You mean Bob Barker?

I just gave you your one hundredth chubby.

You're welcome.

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he's five.

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HE IS FIVE.

... Six?

NO.

FIVE.

Five he was, Five he is, and Five he is yet to be.

Has Five been redefined?

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I would give you a chubby except you have 5 chubbies and 5 lames, and I don't want to ruin it. PLEASE NO ONE RUIN THE BEAUTY.

It..It has been ruined...*sob*

Don't fret, balance has been restored.

No, because you see there there are seven lames/chubbies, and the thing is, to quote a forebear, if I may be so bold:

HE IS FIVE.

You confuse the predicate "is" with the "is" of equality. Maybe English is not your native tongue.

I've tongued a few English natives.

Its stuff like this that makes the assetbar 100 times better then 4chan.

Only 100? More like one hundred hundreds of times better. Than again, any negative integer multiplied by a positive one is will always be negative. What I am saying is that 4chan has a negative value for being better or worse than basically anything.

Also someone lamed you, I assume it is for even mentioning that place. I cannot say I completely disagree with them.

more like over 9000 times

This comment is not meant to sound aggressive, but have you ever been on 4chan for a serious length of time? If you get through all the spam and racism it can be a pretty great forum, in a similar way to assetbar

Yes, but the spam and racism and awful images make up 98% of 4chan.
4chan is maybe 2% great.
Assetbar is at the least >50% great because it does not have much spam and I do not see a lot of racism around here. There are some awful images but not as many as 4chan.
(The commonality is that both 4chan and Assetbar are full of people who spout memes constantly.)

Does not have much spam?
Assetbar is 90% spam at least.
Or would you like another "THESE KNIVES!" chain to prove the point?

Yes, I have, and I disagree.

Let us agree to disagree then.
*doffs cap

you are fundamentally gone in the head.
you insult Phillipe, and Achewood will send you to Hell.

..and then it's just a quick drive to Friendly's and their bathroom and FLOOSH! they're back.

Those who do not understand Achewood will never understand the riddle in the menu... and instead are doomed to hang around out back with No-No for eternity.


dag. you're right.

Surely not. Trouble-Man and No-No hang out in Heaven.

And stare on as it just kinda burns down.

Well, just the one apartment building in Heaven.

Heaven is an apartment building with the woman you love.

;____;

Both on fire.

Well, you know, if you're into that kind of thing.

you must be retarded.....

Why are you doing this

Why are you attacking a five year old child otter

WHAT MAKES YOUR HEART SO BLACK

Sometimes it is hard to tell if someone is gone in the head or just five. Philippe demonstrates this on a regular basis.
But five-year-olds are also possessed of a short attention span and an easily-fascinated nature. Phillipe also demonstrates this on a regular basis.
(what I am trying to say is that this is normal for five-year-olds, and probably normal for stuffed otters too)

i don't know...beef made it pretty believable. when my mother was giving birth to me, my father tells me she screamed "oh god man this is so WAAAACKY!" too.

Chubbied if only for the way you were born.

And all this time I thought you'd just congened in a gutter somewhere.

Congealed. See, that's the problem with quoting tv shows: sometimes you are an idiot.

I like congened. It is the process by which genes, floating in the local atmosphere, tend to drift together and form a viable, if not particularly savory, organism.

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Because the consensus is that Ultra Peanut is mistaken and quite possibly a bitch.

I very much had to increase my lame threshold just to see this. I increased it to 50 and then was surprised when it still didn't show up. I am pleased with going to this much trouble because now I get to contribute the 78th lame. Yayyyyyy!

And with that, I ceremonially give your hundredth chubby. The circle is complete; you are officially the retard.

I mean your hundredth lame. I have fallen upon my own sword.

Hoisted with your own retard petard?

my friends printed this strip out for me on my birthday... it holds special significance forevermore.

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what, No!
the christmas punch is the saddest thing.
https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuabrnRCw

"OH GOD MAN THIS IS SO WAAAACKYYYYY" just slays me.

that, and when Roast Beef says, "oh crud man wish me luck"

I hope my wife says that to me before she goes into labor.

I wish I could give you another chubby. And please, please tell your wife to say that. Also request "OH GOD MAN THIS IS SO WACKYYYY"

this strip makes me feel conflicted. i can't help but laugh, but i can't help but think that ray and beef would've scarred any normal five year old for life... especially because beef was a hermaphrodite. too much weirdness, but i can't look away

Nah, the best line is Ray telling Beef, "You just went into labor!" That this has to be pointed out to him is the... ...I can't think of a way to end this sentence. I want to say something like "the bomb" only not so lame and tired. But you know what I mean.

"freaking hilarious"

also, "goddamned awesome"

That's the goddamned awesome.

I thank you for this new bit of vernacular, ford!

No, the best line is Ray asking Philippe if its okay to for Roast Beef to have a baby in Ray's room

This.

It is sort of creepy how Ray asks if Philippe is okay with Beef giving birth in Ray's room.

"I mean we could do it somewhere else if you're not cool with it"

He just wants the little guy to feel like he's part of the process.

Roast Beef's face is priceless.

Oh man look at that compassion in the last panel.

considering phillipe is five, that gift hit the nail on the head. well played.

Who says good things never happen to the little shaver.

Male pregnancy is also a fetish.

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Doug Winger.

Sometimes I think everything conceivable is a fetish if you google hard enough.

Siiiiigh.

Including hot Google pr0n.
Don't believe me, [url=www.google.com]Google[/url] it. C'mon, Google it hard... SO hard.

Yeah my high school content filter didn't cacth pr0n. Hilarious!

if I ever get married and have a kid it will only be on the condition that my wife describes birthing the child as "wacky."

I got the Mickey Mouse Memory game as a birthday present when I was real young. Only, it wasn't my birthday, it was my older sister's birthday. I got a present for my sister having a birthday.

That is rad.

When I was boy my brother once got a present on my birthday. 7 months later I demanded similar courtesy and was scolded, my parents apparently having completely forgotten their earlier transgression. This left a deep impression upon me.

It must have, seeing as how you are now female.

You were not the favourite child.

I don't know if it was intentional or not that you wrote "When I was boy" rather than "When I was a boy".

Either way, it made me read your entire comment in a Russian accent.

^This is a rad comment.

For rest of today, I read comments in theeck Russian accent. PRAVDA!

This is the one that started it all for me.

I love Ray and Beef for doing this. Particularly the idea of how they came up with this as a way to surprise Phillipe.

this is how we do christmas at my house.

Fuck yes.

I concur!

Philippe concurs angrily.

Also, sorry for the double post, but Beef's face while watching Philippe's contentment makes my heart go all gooey.

Beef's :3 face always warms my cockles.

My cockles are burning.

One time my ex-fiancee confided in me that she loves cats so much she wishes she could give birth to them instead of kids. I shit you not.

Guess what this strip reminds me of every time I read it!

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Kitten's got to have a collar, too, let's not forget that.

...

I'm sorry, I'll go take a cold shower now before I get further carried away.

If made to choose, I would take the collar over the ears.

But not over the butt plug with a tail attached to the end.

cats don't wear no butt plugs with tails. At least most cats don't...

his woman all gnawing on a dead bird in bed...

I would totally have kids if I could give birth to goats instead of humans. Cats..eh.

...goats?

A baby goat is called a kid.

I, too, would rather have kittens instead of kids. It's a bit weird, I'll grant you, but damn little kitties are cute. Babies - sorry all you mothers out there, but they're a bit boring.

Also, kittens are smaller.

and you can leave them alone for most of the day and not get arrested.

And you can drop them and they'll be okay. Babies, not so much.

On the other hand, babies don't have claws...

But they have those tiny razor-like nails.

But babies don't learn to use the litterbox for well over a year. Net win goes to kittens.

I've used up my Chubby Allotment... So I will grant you one in essence only...

Kittens FTW.
Who the heck would want a screaming human maggot when they could have a cute little mewing fluffball instead?

the cake is a LIE

Off the top of my head? People who are allergic to cats.

Oh, yeah, and people who want to propogate the species. If I raise one smart kid it cancels out one dumb kid, and the world moves that much closer to balance.


Ideally, you'd also teach your smart kid to kill the dumb kid to complete the transition... otherwise you have the average of an average kid across two bodies, which just won't do.

Also, distinctly unlike human young, I have never seen a picture of a living kitten that was not intensely adorable. With the singular and notable exception of the one that was born with one big eye like a cyclops.

This one?

[IMGS OFF]

noooooooooooooo

Oh God. That's the one.

Is that real? Does the eye work?
...
I want one.

It is real, it's like a very rare deformity where something has one eye in place of where it's nose should be. No idea if the eye actually worked or not.

Note my use of the past tense... It died like a day and a half after it was born. Like, outrageously tragic, right?

It does indeed fill me with an intense sadness.

It fills me with intense relief.

I meant the poor thing's entire truncated existence, not the fact that it died. I wouldn't want it to live for the sole purpose of being alive, so in that I freely agree with you.

AUGH
UNMAKE IT

Take it up with God.

Chubby for Cy the Cyclops Kitten. It's sad that it died a day and a half after it was born.

I bet Phillipe was a little disappointed that it wasn't a baby. A little.

The things they do for Philippe rock. I wish this happened to me on my birthday.

PS. Onstad rocks at drawing Philippe's innocent little emotions.

So would this be his 4th birthday? Or is it just assumed they are all his 5th?

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PHILLIPE IS FIVE.

PHILIPPE IS FIVE WHETHER I CAN SPELL HIS NAME OR NOT.

how is philippe retarded?

Oh god oh god your avatar is staring at me and asking that question... Um... You aren't. Every child marries flowers because a lying robot told them to.

*bursts into tears* I just couldn't do it, man...

Is SO good.
Is SO funny.

this is my favorite achewood strip. those cats are so legitimate. Also, will people stop calling Philippe retarded. He's five and how fucking often do you need to be told that?

And with this strip in particular, is a male cat giving birth to a board game really that much more ridiculous than a giant rabbit sneaking into one's house and hiding (of all things) eggs and candy all about?

Maybe it is.
:shrug:

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"he's havin' his baby in my room. Are you okay with that?"

I suspect hell of jays were burned in the preparation of this scheme.

I don't think Philippe ever realized it was a ruse.

Roast Beef yelling "OH GOD MAN THIS IS SO WAAAACKYYYYY" is probably my favorite panel in all of Achewood.

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Mr. Bear: Small clay statue.
Onstad: The day's work is done.

The hairnet is to prevent hairs infecting the memory machine.

Kermit is VERY PARTICULAR about this.

He probably has a form letter to this extent.

The birthday surprise is priceless.

I wonder why it wasn't Ray who got the giving birth gig. The gentleman clearly is packing hella cold pounds in the comparison to Roast Beef.

One night I dreamt I was giving birth, and woke up with a sleeping cat between my legs.

this is the best way to get gifts, ever.

This strip doesn't half tug on the heartstrings.

I get the sense that this charade was more for Ray's and Beef's benefit than Phillippe's.

I love this one so much I laugh so hard every time I re-read it

IS IT CROWNING BEEF?

Oh I hope Philippe knows that men still cannot bear children from this experience... or presents.

I am doing this for a friend sometime.

,>BEST->BIRTHDAY->EVER-
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Philippe's Birthday is the day after mine! We should totally have a joint birthday party one time!

Has there ever been a birthday where they don't fuck with the little guy in some way? i mean jesus and damn, when this kid turns five he's gonna have such a warped sense of reality.