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Philippe is Fat Wednesday, January 8, 2003 • read strip Viewing 56 comments:

oh man, phillipe is just too hilarious for words.

A comment left by lk was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by enough_talk, shrewbie, AtlanticCity)

All flailin' around I bet.

Just like Teodor said.

Diabetes ain't ballin'.

It is not rad to have.

Subway doesn't want people to know that you can get diabetes from their food.

Philippe is 6!

If you were born in 1997 and it's currently 2003, you may be 5 or 6.

Of course, now Philippe was born in 2002.

Stop screwin with my mind!

Philippe has what is known as a "migrating birthday".

Philippe's answer to diabetes is a candy bar.

"How about by not givin' a shit!"

Philippe has been 5 for 5 years now. I like the way his legs seem to be going somewhere on his gravestone.

except that the gravestone says his legs are 6.

I believe that Philippe's year of birth changes with the year so he is perpetually five

which means now in 2007 his year of birth was 2002

granted, in this circumstance he would have to start aging next year, as it doesn't really make sense for him to only be five but appear in six years worth of comics

Shutupshutupshutupshutup shutup!!!!

Philippe is five!

Not Anymore!

DIE.

Wanders off to cry in the corner.

Chubbied because i laughed out loud at the image of Stephen Colbert narrating your two above posts, then running off to cry.

You will never love America.

Really? Does it make sense for the characters in The Simpsons to have stayed the same age for over twenty years?

best comeback!

phillipe looks evil when he's fat

read my mind.

No thanks.

The pants died along with him.

The depiction of pants are in remembrance of a better time, where he was free to where pants.

His shoes also died. And also, whilst he was walking.

Mid-stride is no time for an otter to die.

awww they had to amputate his legs a year before he died. poor insulin management, phillipe!

Nice job stating the obvious, self. This comment adds nothing to the conversation and simply states what is shown in the strip. I disappoint myself. What is with the not capitalizing? I will check back in another year and reassess your/my attitude.

I do not remember Waylon Jennings

He was supposed to be on Buddy Holly's airplane.

Waylon was in his own words "a rambling man." I don't think he ever wrote a song about how he ate so much Subway that it gave him diabetes. But he should have.

Oh hell, he dint! He wrote exactly that song! Then he died, age 6. Look it up!

Reading this strip again, I never knew that Todd had a Subway franchise.

I bet the bathrooms are nassty

I would never eat anything that came from Todd's Subway... He's most likely peed in several of the condiments, and he probably passes out before closing time, so stuff never makes it back into the fridge.


Also, he is fictional.

'Course he's fat! Bein' fat rocks!

obese otter = adorable.
Now, in the words of Ultra Peanut, Philippe really is a "Real super-size homo jackass!"

Phillipe puts his pancreas on the line for his friends. A brave fool and a very special boy.

Man, as someone who grew up a diabetic, this only reminds me of how fun it was to have your parents constantly telling you you were going to lose your feet. This is not a fun thing to be told when you are 5.

Couple questions, and I am in earnest here: Did they tell you that to scare you off eating things that might be a problem? And, how are you doing now?

Dead.

Shit I immediately feel awful about this comment, I really hope you aren't dead d-pad.

The dirt on the top half's grave is still fresh, but grass has grown over the legs' grave. Brilliant.

Theodore isn't one to talk about being fat.

especially the way he's drawn here jesus it looks like he ate a bowling ball

Teodor is still chubbier.

is it just me, or does philippe look like a very small, very chubby penis on his gravestone?

He didn't, but thats the kind of thing you can't unsee after someone else points it out.

I love the few times that Philipe gets his knickers in a knot. His face is priceless. I'm trying to imagine a pissed off five year old and it just makes me laugh my ass off.

I just noticed an odd detail in this strip: Todd, of all people, had a subway. I feel like we missed out by never having his highlighted in the strip.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that, one, Philippe's legs have actually been buried in a grave and two, each gravestone bears a picture of the person within it. Hilarious.

I like that his eyebrows appear and disappear with his emotions.

Nice attention to detail there - in the year between the burial of his legs and that of the rest of him, the grass has grown back over the first grave. It's the little things that mean so much.

To me.