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Roast Beef the Funk Fairy Monday, June 21, 2004 • read strip Viewing 98 comments:

A comment left by hexjumper was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by littlecat, jdhenry105, sid, gorrioncita, griggs_although)

Damn, dude. I was just going to say something like "I really love this strip, it is so goddamn sweet" but you brought the sack in terms of laying it out.

I do so love this strip.

It is pretty sweet.

it is.

"sweetest" is also the first word that came to mind... damnitall! i never have novel ideas!

Dudes shut up, his original comment has 104 chubbies, what else do you want

It had 104 chubbies when you commented a month ago? Shit, that means it's culminated 37 new chubbies in the space of a month. DAMN.

It slowed down a mite bit in the last month, as it only picked up 19 from where it was when you made your post. You know, Ms. Heccibiggs, this would make quite an interesting line graph!

Depending on your definition of interesting, I suppose.

It would just barely fall within acceptable parameters for my definition of "interesting." Just barely.

Personally, I think it would be pretty fly, but sadly there is no way of tracking it's past progress. I mean we could start recording it from this point onwards - checking back, say, once every week and noting the number of chubbies, over an extended period of time. However, I feel it would have been more worthwhile if we could have tracked it from the beginning - it's hayday of chubby-receiving is probably long over.

What happened, I started that comment with pretty normal speech and ended up almost Cornelius-ish with a hint of maths-geek.

I think you mean "Heyday".

Argh. Y'know, when I wrote it, I thought "maybe it's 'hey', not 'hay'", but I didn't bother to Google it. Such is the way of the pathologically lazy...

Not a "Biggs" mistake. Har har... har...

Oof. Was so corny, face fell off.
Chub for effort tho.

Guys. We must have more graphs up in here.

211 chubbies, July 19 2008.

227 - 17 August, 2008

245 Chubbies, excluded because of 3 Lames as of October 16, 2008

Just increase your lame threshold, brah.

I did, but I included it because 3 is the default setting which means that it will see decreased viewing from now on by people.

287 chubbies and 4 lames, April 3, 2009.

293/4, May 23rd, 2009.

317/5, September 13th, 2009. I have no idea what people are finding so offensive in that post that they lame it.

330/5 9/29/09.

341/5 on 1/11/10

347/5 on 3/1/10

354 on 4/4/2010

358/5 May 16 2010

365/5 June 23 2010. GOD HELP ME I DON'T SEE AN END TO THIS!!

368/5 July 10 2010

380/5 on September 7, 2010.

It is the sweetest song, played on the prettiest guitar.

He brought wicked sack.

You know what else is intertesting, that I just noticed? Beef doesn't sing Barry White or something romantic - what he sings is almost a nursery rhyme.

The airplane song fits perfectly to the tune of the Oompa Loompa song

Nooooo!

i definitely just gave this post Chubby number 69.

Monk is such a nutty-ass motherfucker

Did he entreat his lady to play at Whist?

There ought to be a way for chubbies to overload lames...

What the hell sid? Seriously, sid; what the hell? I haven't forgotten you, littlecat, your next. But seiriously, sid, what the hell?

the people that lamed this make me do a :(

Yeah, but after reading over what Roast Beef says a little more closely, it sorta brings to mind a 747 barreling towards some giraffes. (The giraffes would be grazing peacefully.)

359 Chubbies over 5 Lames on May 17th, 2010

A comment left by cryptfiend85 was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by johnnybaverage, straw, UntilYouAreSoNude, Zefiel, beansdooma, hellofyellin, riotdejaneiro, Overmedicated, wildcat, Jesler729, Deusoma, re5urgam, Catachresis, GMM, mortshire, bug, meowmix, brzbee, Carrot, suprememongoose, nutmeg, Doc_Rostov, stormagnet)

I ain't gonna fire up my u-hauls to carry my junk six feet! That is certainly Wasteful!

Doth our lover's potpourri befoul m'lady's honker?

How does it feel to be so wrong?

Does it hurt?

OH HE IS YOUR MOM AND HE TOOK YOU TO SCHOOL IN THE CAR OF PAIN!

SAY IT!

A comment left by dumase was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by sabbac, wildcat, 7th_shot, TonyHighwind, gethen, stormagnet)

I just love that phrase of Beef's. I think it is pretty good when not used right in the comments of its strip.

I agree.

But man, here I thought that playfully pointing out the obviously hilarious lines in this strip would impress all these people who are enthusiastic about debate.

How wrong was I, huh?

That'll show me for disagreeing with someone!

IT!

Why wasteful is capitalised is beyond me, but your are correct at the cre sir.

Beef puts his arm across his forehead in an Olde-Worlde style to deliver his line. There is so much good about this damn strip.

This strip is very beautiful.

I tried the "airplane/zoo" song on my girlfriend in bed. She didn't like it. I don't blame her. Molly's a special gal.

The reason it's endearing in the strip is because it's pretty obvious beef just thought of it on the spot and went for it. Using lines from a comic strip on your girlfriend in bed on the other hand strikes me as a bit..., odd.

By odd you mean lame.

BUT I QUOTE ACHEWOOD IN REAL LIFE ALL THE TIME

By lame you mean heck of lame.

Oh those sweet and silly moments in bed. This strip cemented my now-raging crush on Beef.

Man this strip is one of those rare moments where every little thing is perfect. 1) We don't see Beef coming back from the dead, making the focus Molly and Beef's love 2) They don't have a nice life, they're poor as crap, which again makes us focus on their love and 3) Beef is just so happy. How can you not love seeing Beef happy?

All the hints of poverty were a nice touch. Very naturalist look.

I think it speaks volumes about the kind of girl Molly is that, once outside of heaven, finding out Beef was dirt poor and that she'd be sleeping on a mattress on the floor was not a deal breaker for her.

Evidently you can have a DVD player and a Netflix account and still be considered poor as crap. Oh, America.

Dude, have you ever been to a trailer park? It's almost required that you have the biggest TV you can fit through the door, and a fancy stereo system to go with it. Everything else about the place will be cheap, broken, or old save for the items which provide mind-numbing entertainment. The main exception is usually the computer; if there is one at all, it is usually an ancient Dell or IBM running Windows ME, with a 15 inch monitor. It will be shoved into a corner, in the dark, and surrounded by empties and potato chip bags.

A comment left by achilleselbow was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by johnnybaverage, Rhadamanthus, Deusoma, dominus101, captneko)

Y'know what's sad? I kinda do.

Roast Beef's "lamp" is made out of a Pepsi can...

I've got a lamp made out of a tab can. It was all the rage in middle school metal shop.

Wow this strip just elevated itself above all other comic strips in history in yet another way.

Isn't he usually naked?

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY

I suspect the same cartoon logic that dictates Donald Duck wearing a towel around his usually bare duck ass when exiting the shower is also in play here.

Maybe naked RB is like that time Philippe shaved his head to look like Harry Potter.

Only... on the other end.

I love how the shape of Molly's body under the blanket hasn't changed in over three years!

This strip, among other things, is a great example of well-written dialogue. Their sweet, witty bantering really comes off true to life.

This set up is way too much like my college dorm room and the conversation reminds me way too much of how i talked to my girlfriend at the time when we were still blissed out on love and no parents. Sometimes I wish I didn't have so much in common with Roast Beef.

Blissed out on love

I just wanted to tell you that that is a really beautiful phrase. (chubs)

... cat condoms

wouldn't they tear? they must be made of some mad rugget material

ohmygodtypo - should say "rugged"

They gotta be mad rugget for gettin mad rutty

I guess it's Molly's knee, but that shadow on the covers rather looks like a 11 yo tried to make a bad penis joke.
I'll also add that the cuteness of the strip really disturbs me, but I love molly's last line, funk fairy.

And they lived happily...

I wanna see what happened between Molly and Grandma K...

He actually goes into it in the blogs, mostly Molly's but Beef probably mentions it a few times too.

A comment left by mrclumpy was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by hateandwar, fakead, TonyHighwind)

There is nothing romantic about XKCD, it is creepy, fetishistic nerd fantasy bullmess.

I agree with everything but "bullmess."

bull honkey?

Man, I have heard much on how awesome the "romantic" aspects of xkcd are and I have ne'er heard so much as a word otherwise. Thank you for REVERSING that, hateandwar.

maaaaaaaaaaadd hate on xkcd up ins.

This strip is a Thing.

You can totally distinguish Molly from Beef in the first panel.

Man I got a coupla friends that just leave their foils and spoils all over the place. I mean I don't mind too much but I didn't need to know the dude uses Magnums

when you are real-life Lyle, you gotta have low standards.

Great transition from Beef getting his neck snapped

This strip is incredibly sweet. So sweet that I can't hold a grudge against it for making me go back several strips to the last one with Beef in it, just to make sure that no, he really doesn't usually wear pants.