Man with Wine Glass
Fans of Worm Quartet who followed me over to this strip will no doubt be impressed that I’ve gone nearly three months now without using the word “nipple.” I’m somewhat well-known in certain comedy music circles for mentioning nipples often, both in song and in my on-stage banter. One fan even listened to several of my songs backwards and sent me several snippets containing the word, which I found both creepy and flattering, and then creepy again. The only comedy musician I’ve ever found who comes close to challenging me in nipple-droppings is Norm Sherman, host of the amazing Drabblecast podcast.
But six strips before I took over PartiallyClips, Rob ran this strip. He knew by then that I was taking over in January, so I immediately chastised him for putting me in a position where I’d have to hold back to avoid nipple over-saturation. It has now been four months and two days since this previous nipple-mentioning, so the time has come.
Nipples, dammit.
Nipples.
And the clock starts again. *Sigh.*
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Oh God, why doesn’t he have a body? The man’s just a disembodied hand and head with a collar. Horror of horrors!
Aw, we don’t mind nipple-oversaturation. At least I don’t. In fact, I think you should do one whole strip where all the dialogue is “Nipple, nipple nipple” and has nothing to do with the art.
You should know that in the webcomics world, you’re in competition nipple-wise with Amazing Superpowers, so known for their bizarre nipple-exposure that they turned one into their mascot:
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2009/08/good-news-nipples/
And Sus: He pays people to repaint his body to constantly match whatever background he’s standing in front of.
Nipples and dimes.
I guess he’s wearing a white jacket to camouflage himself … and.. yeah.. lulz, movies.
“nipple droppings” — my brain just exploded.
Okay, this one has me beat. I cannot figure out how or why it’s supposed to be funny.
Turnabout is fair play. Somebody please explain.
ChunLing: Fried Green Tomatoes is movie about women’s issues, their hardships and friendships. ESPN is a sports channel, and not something that would ever play an emotional movie like Fried Green Tomatoes.
Chun,
Fried Green Tomatoes is about the chickiest of the chick flicks, airing on a manliest of men’s network. Obviously you’d have to pay the honchos at ESPN (and probably Disney) a bundle to run this movie and piss off almost 100% of their audience.
I know about the movie, and I’ve heard of the network. I also understand that the other two panels feature him bribing people to do inane and self-destructive things. I’m asking what the joke here is.
Uh, bothering people is fun? Rich people do it extravagantly?
Right after he suggests that he bribed a major corporation, the next bubble is the TV saying that the movie is up next.
The joke is that he had bribed ESPN to show it because he figured out that he can pay ESPN and irritate all of the viewers at the same time rather than pay individuals large sums of money. It’s a way to irritate a massive amount of people at a better value.
Now LAUGH! Hahahahaha!
And wow, jokes stop being as funny after they’re explained like this. I agree that nipples should be mentioned more. Hell, even give him floating nipples with his floating hand and head!
Aha. ESPN is a manly sports channel. I didn’t know that. It’s all mostly Sportland Sports as far as I’m concerned. Maybe if I lived in USA I’d have known.
For a while there I thought that maybe he bribed someone to have the movie made in the first place, and that we were supposed to think that the movie was so bad that someone had to be bribed to make it. Which didn’t make much sense to me, as I haven’t heard that it’s supposed to be a bad movie. (And I liked it just fine.)
Alright, so let’s try the angle that maybe it’s the nipples that are funny, like the commentary suggests.
Shit, that hurts just thinking about it. Maybe if he’d just paid them to have their nipples pierced or tattooed it would be funny rather than painful. The floating nipples would probably just look like buttons, but the general idea of using graphic commentary on the clip-art to go with the dialogue/narration seems like it could work in some cases.
You know what’s funny? I completely blanked on it saying ESPN and still thought it was pretty funny. I guess FGT is just amazingly irritating wherever it is shown
Chun, the joke is the juxtaposition of this intelligent, refined gentleman doing sick, perverse things with his money.