Birthday Double-Team

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.

Birthday Double-Team
(Intermission)
Chapter	"37.1" of 127 (list of chapters)
Published	May 1, 2007 (2007-05-01)
Page count	2
Major characters	Paulo, Chirpy, David, Lucy
Minor characters	Sue
Collected in	Volume One, Omnibus 1
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Synopsis

Paulo and Chirpy get a shared surprise birthday party, confetti and all. Chirpy is over the moon about it, having assumed everyone forgot her birthday entirely.

David hypes Paulo's gift with an actual flash of lightning behind him, promising something that'll "rock your world~". Paulo tears into the wrapping in a frenzy, then stares blankly at a box of "Fluffy Love Chocolates".

It turns out David mixed up the presents, since the chocolates were meant for Chirpy and Paulo's actual gift was a magazine. Paulo bolts across the room, but Chirpy is already holding up a centerfold and asking, in complete innocence, "Is he hurting her?"

Chirpy's pressie comes with some follow-up questions.

Lucy arrives with the birthday cake just in time to see Paulo yanking the magazine out of Chirpy's wings. She drops her half of the cake and looms in for an explanation, and Paulo is already out the door.

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.
• 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.
• Under the second page, Veronica mock-scolds David about the gift and insists "The spreads are of women holding hands, OKAY? >8(".
• The chapter debuts two of Chirpy's nicknames: "Meanie-Kitty" for Paulo and "Boy-Doggie" for David. The Paulo one returns, respelled "Meany-Kitty", in Return.

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".
• Crash and Burn: Only one full chapter earlier, Lucy was frantically hiding a porn video from Yashy and Chirpy. 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.
• Flying Lessons: Chirpy's origin story, where Yashy rescues an abandoned egg and raises the hatchling in Lucy's household.