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December 13, 2011
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"The Defeatist Cantaloupes" would be an excellent name for a band. Their first single would be "Violent Carrot".
Your conversation didn't just get side-tracked - it went through a wormhole!
Laughed out loud at every single panel!
Better a carrot than a parsnip if we're worried about the taste of stick.
Hi Scott,
I was wondering if you could get the real-life Rick to do a guest comic? Published exactly as he draws it. That could be quite interesting.
Another thing I thought about, maybe you could host fan-fic of Basic Instructions? I am not actually sure that this is a good idea, but I will explain it anyway. You could let your readers upload their own Basic Instruction fanfiction, which you host on the site as a separate section to the real Basic Instrctions, and then you could use any of the better ones as guest strips if you feel out of ideas. I thought it might be handy to give you a break sometimes, given that you have recently written comics about running out of ideas when writing comics. This comes with an added bonus that whenever someone says to you "you could do an instruction about [something]," you can tell them to do it themselves.
The Boss rulez! :D
I think I injured myself laughing at this one.
and the fifth panel would be you having walked away while Boss and Jenkins argue with each other over which fruit is best for being beaten with :)
Defeatist? The only thing we're sure cantaloupes can't do is elope.
Reminds me of the many, many conversations that I've had...or tried to have. Either way, this one was LOL all the way.
"Are you coming on to me?" I love mullet boss.
I regret only that I have but one "+" to give to this strip.
Please tell me you are going to follow up on the cantaloupe story! Don't leave us hanging!
As always a simply brilliant comic. You, sir, get my money. I'm gonna get my dad the desktop calender for the holiday.
Who put the can't in cantaloupe?
Note from Scott: There it is! See! Anticlimax.
Cantaloupe, if you'd kept working at it you could have been watermelon. But you just gave up, threw away everything. You make me sick.
The myth that cantaloupes are defeatist was spread by Winston Rowntree Churchill, who hated that they could pull off the bald look better than him.
Can you write a comic explaining how cantaloupes can be defeatist? Pretty please?
Note from Scott: I do have a rationale for Jenkins' belief that cantaloupes are defeatist, but it would be a huge anticlimax.
Seriously. You wouldn't be impressed.
Oh, this was fantastic! One of the best BI installments in a long time.
Yet another "All-4-frames-are-brilliant" from Scott.
I love the first one =)
Trivia: cantaloupes can substitute for bowling balls if you happen to lose yours.
I laughed at every panel. It's so impressive how you can fit three or four comic strips worth of funny material into each one of your strips. Each panel has the dialog ( and therefore the laughs) of a normal complete comic.
I found your site from Cracked several months ago and have been working my way through the achives from the beginning. I'm trying to read only a few a night to make them last.
When I get a few bucks I'll buy some of your books for friends.
Thank you for making at least one time of my every day full of laughter.
Sometimes conversations do just go like that - laughed long and hard at each panel.
I'm going to spend all week thinking about how cantaloupes could be defeatist.
I must say that the "defeatist" line in the 4th panel had me cracking up several minutes, even though I really don't know why.
Keep up the good work! :)
Buwahahahahahah, panel one had me laughing the loudest. "Are you coming on to me?"