Birthday Double-Team
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| Birthday Double-Team | |
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| (Intermission) | |
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| Chapter | "37.1" of 127 (list of chapters) |
| Published | May 1, 2007 |
| Page count | 2 |
| Major characters | Paulo, Chirpy, David, Lucy |
| Minor characters | Sue |
| Collected in | Volume One, Omnibus 1 |
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It's a joint surprise party for the comic's two April birthdays, and David has a gift Paulo will never forget. Unfortunately, he also bought one for Chirpy, and he's not entirely sure which box ended up in which wrapping paper.
Synopsis
Paulo and Chirpy get a shared surprise birthday party, confetti and all.[1] Chirpy is over the moon about it, having assumed everyone forgot her birthday entirely.[1]
David hypes Paulo's gift with an actual flash of lightning behind him, promising something that'll "rock your world~".[1] Paulo tears into the wrapping in a frenzy, then stares blankly at a box of "Fluffy Love Chocolates".[2]
It turns out David mixed up the presents, since the chocolates were meant for Chirpy and Paulo's actual gift was a magazine.[2] Paulo bolts across the room, but Chirpy is already holding up a centerfold and asking, in complete innocence, "Is he hurting her?"[2]
Lucy arrives with the birthday cake just in time to see Paulo yanking the magazine out of Chirpy's wings.[2] She drops her half of the cake and looms in for an explanation, and Paulo is already out the door.[2]
Trivia & observations
- Veronica's commentary explains why the parties got combined: Paulo and Chirpy both have April birthdays, with Chirpy's falling a few days before Paulo's, so she folded the two celebrations into one chapter rather than drawing two. That's also why poor Chirpy assumed everyone forgot.[1]
- The same commentary starts to say the last birthday chapter was Lucy's, then remembers that David already has an entire chapter dedicated to his February birthday, Onwards to Adventure.[1][3]
- Under the second page, Veronica mock-scolds David about the gift and insists "The spreads are of women holding hands, OKAY? >8(".[2]
- The chapter debuts two of Chirpy's nicknames: "Meanie-Kitty" for Paulo and "Boy-Doggie" for David.[1] The Paulo one returns, respelled "Meany-Kitty", in Return.[4]
Related chapters
- Lucy's Birthday: The previous birthday intermission, in which Paulo and David threw the surprise party for Lucy instead. That one also ended with chocolates at Paulo's expense, when Mike handed Lucy a heart-shaped box labeled "Paulo".[5]
- Crash and Burn: Only one full chapter earlier, Lucy was frantically hiding a porn video from Yashy and Chirpy.[6] This chapter runs the same gag again, and this time the pet sees everything.
- Yashy's Birthday: Lucy's other pet got the same treatment in her own intermission. Yashy spent that morning moping that her birthday was "Ignored, forgotten, cast aside.." right before the surprise cake came out.[7]
- Flying Lessons: Chirpy's origin story, where Yashy rescues an abandoned egg and raises the hatchling in Lucy's household.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Birthday Double-Team, page 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Birthday Double-Team, page 2
- ↑ Chapter 33: Onwards to Adventure, page 1
- ↑ Chapter 45: Return, page 10
- ↑ Lucy's Birthday, page 3
- ↑ Chapter 36: Crash and Burn, page 2
- ↑ Yashy's Birthday, page 1
- ↑ Chapter 6: Flying Lessons, page 2