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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Gym class finds [[Paulo]] in a sorry state, sneezing through warm-ups while [[Daisy]] tries very hard not to look at the results. When [[Mike]] offers to take him to the nurse, Paulo insists he's fine. Then he absentmindedly reaches over to wipe his nose on Mike's scarf and grabs nothing but air. Mike hasn't worn the thing all week, and Paulo is only noticing now. Mike starts to explain what happened to it, then works out the real story mid-sentence: "So you've been using it to '''WIPE YOUR SNOT?!'''"<ref name=":c24p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p1}}</ref>
Gym class finds [[Paulo]] sick and sneezing through warm-ups. He reaches absentmindedly to wipe his nose on [[Mike]]'s scarf and grabs nothing but air — Mike hasn't worn the thing all week. Mike starts to explain what happened to it, then works out the truth mid-sentence: "So you've been using it to '''WIPE YOUR SNOT?!'''"<ref name=":c24p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p1}}</ref>


A flashback shows where the scarf went. An angry crowd mobbed a bruised Mike over having "messed around with two girls by mistake", with Paulo grinning behind a baseball bat and [[Katie]] raising her fists. The crowd finished the job by pelting him with raw eggs to a chant of "cheater cheater cheater". Not wanting to make his mom wash the mess, Mike dumped the egg-soaked scarf in his locker and simply never took it home.<ref name=":c24p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p2}}</ref>
A flashback shows where the scarf went. An angry mob once beat and egged Mike over having "messed around with two girls by mistake". He dumped the egg-soaked scarf in his locker and simply never took it home.<ref name=":c24p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p2}}</ref>


Back in the present, Mike flatly refuses to go fetch it for Paulo's nose, but [[Tess]] is happy to help, leaning in with a tissue and a "Blow for me honey ♥". The flirting gives Paulo a spurting nosebleed on top of the snot. Now caked in blood as well, he shambles zombie-style after a horrified Daisy, begging for help.<ref name=":c24p2" /> The [[Gym Teacher (High School)|gym teacher]] cheerfully converts the chase into the day's mile-lap speed test and threatens to fail them all. Daisy begs [[Lucy]] to stop Paulo, and Lucy obliges with a single punch to the face. Paulo goes down cold, and Lucy's fist comes away coated in the mess for her trouble.<ref name=":c24p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p3}}</ref>
Back in the present, Mike refuses to go fetch it for Paulo's nose. [[Tess]] leans in with a tissue and a flirty offer instead, giving him a spurting nosebleed. Caked in blood and snot, Paulo shambles zombie-style after a horrified [[Daisy]].<ref name=":c24p2" /> She begs [[Lucy]] to stop him, and Lucy obliges with a single punch that puts him out cold.<ref name=":c24p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p3}}</ref> Paulo, as it happens, was not the only culprit. [[David]] confesses eagerly, [[Sue]] admits she used the scarf on sticky cafeteria food, and Daisy sheepishly owns up to loving how soft it feels on her nose.<ref name=":c24p3" />
 
Paulo, as it happens, was not the only culprit. When Lucy asks after the scarf too, Mike demands to know who else has been using it, and the confessions roll in. [[David]] volunteers eagerly, [[Sue]] admits she used it whenever the cafeteria served something sticky, and Daisy hums guiltily before spilling it: "It's just so soft! Feels nice to rub your nose on it.. Especially when I have a cold.." While Mike seethes, Lucy calmly wipes her dirty hand clean on his back, since she had to improvise somehow.<ref name=":c24p3" />


Flashback "cases" lay out the rest of the evidence. The worst is David's, who once burned his hand on a spilled beaker in science class and wiped the smoking thing clean on Mike's scarf. The fumes knocked Mike out on the spot.<ref name=":c24p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p4}}</ref>
[[File:c24_p4_panel9.png|alt=David grins and holds up his smoking, fur-stripped hand, shouting "GOOD AS NEW!!", while Mike lies collapsed on the table foaming at the mouth.|thumb|David's approach to chemical burns leaves a little to be desired.]]
[[File:c24_p4_panel9.png|alt=David grins and holds up his smoking, fur-stripped hand, shouting "GOOD AS NEW!!", while Mike lies collapsed on the table foaming at the mouth.|thumb|David's approach to chemical burns leaves a little to be desired.]]
Three flashback "cases" then lay out the rest of the evidence. Lucy once wiped a swatted fly on the scarf while Mike beamed about the nice weather. Sue used it to mop up her spilled milk at lunch, swearing everyone to secrecy. And David, after burning his hand on a spilled beaker in science class, wiped the smoking thing clean on Mike's scarf and knocked Mike out with the fumes.<ref name=":c24p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c24/p4}}</ref>


Back in the gym, Mike learns that the lab incident actually landed him in the hospital, while Lucy is mostly annoyed she had to finish the lab alone. He finally snaps with an "'''I HATE YOU ALL!!'''" and storms off to run his laps, Lucy wiping the last of the mess onto his tail as he goes. Tess remarks that she wouldn't be surprised if Mike kills them all one day. Lucy is too busy admiring her freshly cleaned hand: "Good as new!"<ref name=":c24p4" />
Back in the gym, Mike learns that the lab incident actually landed him in the hospital. He snaps with an "'''I HATE YOU ALL!!'''" and storms off to run his laps. Tess remarks that she wouldn't be surprised if Mike kills them all one day.<ref name=":c24p4" />


== Trivia & observations ==
== Trivia & observations ==

Revision as of 13:12, 21 July 2026

Wardrobe Malfunction
Chapter24 of 127 (list of chapters)
PublishedSeptember 25, 2006 (2006-09-25)
Page count4
Major charactersMike, Paulo, Lucy, Daisy
Minor charactersTess, Sue, David, Gym Teacher (High School), Katie
LocationsRoseville High School
Collected inVolume One, Omnibus 1
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It takes Paulo a whole week to notice Mike has stopped wearing his scarf, mostly because he's used to wiping his nose on it. The story of where it went involves an angry mob, raw eggs, and some very guilty friends.

Synopsis

Gym class finds Paulo sick and sneezing through warm-ups. He reaches absentmindedly to wipe his nose on Mike's scarf and grabs nothing but air — Mike hasn't worn the thing all week. Mike starts to explain what happened to it, then works out the truth mid-sentence: "So you've been using it to WIPE YOUR SNOT?!"[1]

A flashback shows where the scarf went. An angry mob once beat and egged Mike over having "messed around with two girls by mistake". He dumped the egg-soaked scarf in his locker and simply never took it home.[2]

Back in the present, Mike refuses to go fetch it for Paulo's nose. Tess leans in with a tissue and a flirty offer instead, giving him a spurting nosebleed. Caked in blood and snot, Paulo shambles zombie-style after a horrified Daisy.[2] She begs Lucy to stop him, and Lucy obliges with a single punch that puts him out cold.[3] Paulo, as it happens, was not the only culprit. David confesses eagerly, Sue admits she used the scarf on sticky cafeteria food, and Daisy sheepishly owns up to loving how soft it feels on her nose.[3]

Flashback "cases" lay out the rest of the evidence. The worst is David's, who once burned his hand on a spilled beaker in science class and wiped the smoking thing clean on Mike's scarf. The fumes knocked Mike out on the spot.[4]

David grins and holds up his smoking, fur-stripped hand, shouting "GOOD AS NEW!!", while Mike lies collapsed on the table foaming at the mouth.
David's approach to chemical burns leaves a little to be desired.

Back in the gym, Mike learns that the lab incident actually landed him in the hospital. He snaps with an "I HATE YOU ALL!!" and storms off to run his laps. Tess remarks that she wouldn't be surprised if Mike kills them all one day.[4]

Trivia & observations

  • All four pages of the chapter were published on the same day, March 22, 2010.[1]
  • Paulo's spurting nosebleed at Tess's flirting is a deliberate anime nod. Veronica's commentary crows, "LOOK AT THAT NOSEBLEED JUST LIKE IN ONE OF MY JAPANESE ANIMES".[2]
  • The chapter as presented is a redraw of the original pages. Veronica's commentary on the punch page recalls that in the original run, the blood and snot kept jumping between Lucy's left and right hand, forcing several rounds of editing and rescanning.[3]
  • Mike's "I HATE YOU ALL!!" is word-for-word what Lucy said to the group back in Enter High School.[4][5]
  • This is only the second appearance of the gym teacher, who debuted running the dodgeball class in A Difficult Choice.[6]
  • The original artwork of the chapter's first page was later sold through the BCB store as part of the "Best Buds" original-pages pack, paired with the first page of Buddy System.[7]

Related chapters

  • A Difficult Choice: The flashback restages the cheater mob from this chapter, where Paulo turned the whole school against Mike over the Sandy reveal, baseball bat and all.[8]
  • Left Behind: Mike's scarfless streak ends here, when Tess gives him a new orange-and-yellow scarf. Paulo marks the occasion by summoning the cheater mob all over again.[9]
  • Unrequited: The abandoned scarf turns up again much later, still sitting dirty in Mike's locker. It's even drawn in its original blue, standing apart from the chapter's coloring.[10]
  • Feline Filibuster: Lucy revives this chapter's central gag by loudly blowing her nose on Mike's scarf at the lunch table.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 24: Wardrobe Malfunction, page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 24: Wardrobe Malfunction, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 24: Wardrobe Malfunction, page 3
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 24: Wardrobe Malfunction, page 4
  5. ↑ Chapter 21: Enter High School, page 2
  6. ↑ Chapter 22: A Difficult Choice, page 5
  7. ↑ . 2015-06-12 https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/121311960916/how-popular-are-the-original-pages-packs-in-the. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ Chapter 22: A Difficult Choice, page 4
  9. ↑ Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 6
  10. ↑ Chapter 51: Unrequited, page 2
  11. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 2
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