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{{Infobox chapter | {{Infobox chapter | ||
| image = c36p2f7.png | | image = c36p2f7.png | ||
| major_characters = | | major_characters = [[Lucy]], [[Yashy]], [[Chirpy]] | ||
| minor_characters = | | minor_characters = [[Lily]], [[Carol]], [[Mike]] | ||
| locations = | | locations = [[Lucy's house]], [[Neighborhood sidewalks and streets]] | ||
| collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume One|Volume One]], [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Omnibus 1|Omnibus 1]] | | collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume One|Volume One]], [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Omnibus 1|Omnibus 1]] | ||
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A mysterious chat message, one careless click, and suddenly [[Lucy]]'s computer is playing something she would rather die than let her pets see. Can she shut it down before [[Yashy]] and [[Chirpy]] wander in? | |||
== Synopsis == | |||
[[Lucy]] is checking her email when a chat window pops up from an unknown "huzzla8410", pushing a video link. She clicks it and wanders off to the kitchen while it downloads.<ref name=":c36p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36/p1}}</ref> | |||
When she gets back, the download has finished, and what's playing on her screen leaves nothing to the imagination. "'''THAT'S.. A PORN VIDEO!!'''" Worse, the computer has frozen up completely, and Ctrl-Alt-Delete does nothing.<ref name=":c36p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36/p2}}</ref> She hears [[Yashy]] and [[Chirpy]] chatting their way toward her door, and in the middle of the panic she even catches herself actually watching for a second, to her own immediate horror.<ref name=":c36p2" /> Yanking the power cord out of the wall ought to end it, but the video keeps right on playing.<ref name=":c36p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36/p3}}</ref> | |||
Yashy makes her grand entrance to find Lucy perched on the desk, blocking the screen with her whole body.<ref name=":c36p3" /> When Yashy gets suspicious, Lucy hoists the entire computer over her head, snapping the cord, and announces she's "Taking the computer for a walk!" The screen finally goes black.<ref name=":c36p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c36/p4}}</ref> | |||
Lucy barely finishes celebrating before the printer whirs to life, and when the cancel button gets her nowhere she smashes the whole thing on the floor. One printed sheet slips free of the wreckage anyway. Yashy grabs it, goes bright red, and demands, "Where the hell is he putting '''that''' thing?!" Lucy can only curl up into a ball.<ref name=":c36p4" /> | |||
[[File:c36_p4_panel17.png|alt=Yashy, bright red, holds up a printed page and asks "Where the hell is he putting that thing?!" while Lucy curls into a trembling ball.|thumb|Yashy's education takes a sudden leap forward.]] | |||
The next day, out walking with [[Mike]], Yashy is clearly still chewing it over. With no context whatsoever, she asks him, "Have you ever tried that on her, Flea?" Lucy stares at the ground and begs him not to ask.<ref name=":c36p4" /> | |||
== Character dynamics == | |||
* '''Lucy and Yashy & Chirpy''' — Lucy has always kept her pets carefully in the dark about anything adult; just one chapter earlier, she and Mike were shouting "Airplanes!" to convince Yashy that a lunch conversation wasn't about "Mom's private parts".<ref name=":c35p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c35/p1}}</ref> This chapter puts that habit under the worst pressure it has ever faced, and Lucy loses. Yashy walks away scandalized enough to spend the whole next day mulling the printout over and grilling Mike about it, while Lucy is left too mortified to explain anything.<ref name=":c36p4" /> It's all played for laughs, though, and the "Ma"-and-kids dynamic comes out intact. | |||
== Trivia & observations == | |||
* Veronica's commentary notes that this chapter is a remade version of a comic she drew before Bittersweet Candy Bowl existed.<ref name=":c36p1" /> | |||
* Coocoo Charms is one of Veronica's long-running fictional brands. Her commentary on the same page mentions another, the soda [[Blasto]], which hadn't shown up in BCB at the time but eventually turns up on-panel in Paulo's hands.<ref name=":c36p1" /><ref name=":c53p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c53/p2}}</ref> | |||
* The malicious message arrives over AIM. Oliver's commentary calls the page "iChat nostalgia. Or AIM nostalgia, pick your flavour!"<ref name=":c36p1" /> | |||
* Per Veronica, the laundry flashback is [[Carol]]'s second appearance ever, and like her first (way back in [[Gaming Rivalry]]) it's a flashback. As of this chapter, in fact, she had never appeared any other way: "She's not dead, I swear!" She still wears her pearl necklace, which Veronica jokes is "cramping [[Daisy]]'s style".<ref name=":c36p3" /><ref name=":c2p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c2/p2}}</ref> | |||
* Veronica's commentary on the panic page says the chapter shows Lucy isn't as stoic as she's been trying to be lately: "She can still be an anxious, emotional mess. Just like any ol' teenager!"<ref name=":c36p2" /> | |||
* The final gag, per Veronica, has always amused her because Yashy asks her question with "ZERO context, absolutely NO information". She adds, "Poor Mike, once he knows context he'd probably grab Yashy and fling her across a stadium."<ref name=":c36p4" /> | |||
== Related chapters == | |||
* '''[[Under Pressure]]''': Just one chapter earlier, Yashy loudly scolds Mike at lunch over how he's been talking about "Mom's private parts", and Lucy and Mike scramble to convince her they were really discussing airplanes. It's the same cover-up job Lucy is doing here, pushed a good deal further. | |||
* '''[[The Burden of Parenthood]]''': Yashy's habit of lobbing blunt questions at Mike goes all the way back to this chapter, where she asks whether he's been making "Mom" abort every day. Her closing question here is that gag still going strong. | |||
* '''[[Birthday Double-Team]]''': The pets-versus-porn joke soon gets a rerun from the other side, when Chirpy accidentally opens a misplaced adult magazine and innocently asks, "Is he hurting her?" | |||
* '''[[Out of the Frame]]''': The side story that follows this chapter. Lily keeps up her knowing streak there, smugly informing the assembled cast that they're "the side characters nobody cares about". | |||
* '''[[Gaming Rivalry]]''': Yashy first calls Mike "Flea" in this early chapter, and its childhood flashback is the only place Lucy's mom had appeared before now. | |||
== References == | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
{{BCB chapters}} | {{BCB chapters}} | ||
[[Category:Chapters]] | [[Category:Chapters]] | ||
[[Category:Volume One]] | [[Category:Volume One]] | ||
[[Category:Omnibus 1]] | [[Category:Omnibus 1]] | ||
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| Chapter | 36 of 127 (list of chapters) |
| Published | March 25, 2007 |
| Page count | 4 |
| Major characters | Lucy, Yashy, Chirpy |
| Minor characters | Lily, Carol, Mike |
| Locations | Lucy's house, Neighborhood sidewalks and streets |
| Collected in | Volume One, Omnibus 1 |
| Chapter navigation | |
| ← Under Pressure | Out of the Frame → |
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A mysterious chat message, one careless click, and suddenly Lucy's computer is playing something she would rather die than let her pets see. Can she shut it down before Yashy and Chirpy wander in?
Synopsis
Lucy is checking her email when a chat window pops up from an unknown "huzzla8410", pushing a video link. She clicks it and wanders off to the kitchen while it downloads.[1]
When she gets back, the download has finished, and what's playing on her screen leaves nothing to the imagination. "THAT'S.. A PORN VIDEO!!" Worse, the computer has frozen up completely, and Ctrl-Alt-Delete does nothing.[2] She hears Yashy and Chirpy chatting their way toward her door, and in the middle of the panic she even catches herself actually watching for a second, to her own immediate horror.[2] Yanking the power cord out of the wall ought to end it, but the video keeps right on playing.[3]
Yashy makes her grand entrance to find Lucy perched on the desk, blocking the screen with her whole body.[3] When Yashy gets suspicious, Lucy hoists the entire computer over her head, snapping the cord, and announces she's "Taking the computer for a walk!" The screen finally goes black.[4]
Lucy barely finishes celebrating before the printer whirs to life, and when the cancel button gets her nowhere she smashes the whole thing on the floor. One printed sheet slips free of the wreckage anyway. Yashy grabs it, goes bright red, and demands, "Where the hell is he putting that thing?!" Lucy can only curl up into a ball.[4]
The next day, out walking with Mike, Yashy is clearly still chewing it over. With no context whatsoever, she asks him, "Have you ever tried that on her, Flea?" Lucy stares at the ground and begs him not to ask.[4]
Character dynamics
- Lucy and Yashy & Chirpy — Lucy has always kept her pets carefully in the dark about anything adult; just one chapter earlier, she and Mike were shouting "Airplanes!" to convince Yashy that a lunch conversation wasn't about "Mom's private parts".[5] This chapter puts that habit under the worst pressure it has ever faced, and Lucy loses. Yashy walks away scandalized enough to spend the whole next day mulling the printout over and grilling Mike about it, while Lucy is left too mortified to explain anything.[4] It's all played for laughs, though, and the "Ma"-and-kids dynamic comes out intact.
Trivia & observations
- Veronica's commentary notes that this chapter is a remade version of a comic she drew before Bittersweet Candy Bowl existed.[1]
- Coocoo Charms is one of Veronica's long-running fictional brands. Her commentary on the same page mentions another, the soda Blasto, which hadn't shown up in BCB at the time but eventually turns up on-panel in Paulo's hands.[1][6]
- The malicious message arrives over AIM. Oliver's commentary calls the page "iChat nostalgia. Or AIM nostalgia, pick your flavour!"[1]
- Per Veronica, the laundry flashback is Carol's second appearance ever, and like her first (way back in Gaming Rivalry) it's a flashback. As of this chapter, in fact, she had never appeared any other way: "She's not dead, I swear!" She still wears her pearl necklace, which Veronica jokes is "cramping Daisy's style".[3][7]
- Veronica's commentary on the panic page says the chapter shows Lucy isn't as stoic as she's been trying to be lately: "She can still be an anxious, emotional mess. Just like any ol' teenager!"[2]
- The final gag, per Veronica, has always amused her because Yashy asks her question with "ZERO context, absolutely NO information". She adds, "Poor Mike, once he knows context he'd probably grab Yashy and fling her across a stadium."[4]
Related chapters
- Under Pressure: Just one chapter earlier, Yashy loudly scolds Mike at lunch over how he's been talking about "Mom's private parts", and Lucy and Mike scramble to convince her they were really discussing airplanes. It's the same cover-up job Lucy is doing here, pushed a good deal further.
- The Burden of Parenthood: Yashy's habit of lobbing blunt questions at Mike goes all the way back to this chapter, where she asks whether he's been making "Mom" abort every day. Her closing question here is that gag still going strong.
- Birthday Double-Team: The pets-versus-porn joke soon gets a rerun from the other side, when Chirpy accidentally opens a misplaced adult magazine and innocently asks, "Is he hurting her?"
- Out of the Frame: The side story that follows this chapter. Lily keeps up her knowing streak there, smugly informing the assembled cast that they're "the side characters nobody cares about".
- Gaming Rivalry: Yashy first calls Mike "Flea" in this early chapter, and its childhood flashback is the only place Lucy's mom had appeared before now.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 36: Crash and Burn, page 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 36: Crash and Burn, page 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 36: Crash and Burn, page 3
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Chapter 36: Crash and Burn, page 4
- ↑ Chapter 35: Under Pressure, page 1
- ↑ Chapter 53: Casting Call, page 2
- ↑ Chapter 2: Gaming Rivalry, page 2