A Pressing Dilemma

Grumpy Bird

I never expected to be Cathy'd here

Ronald Burdick

I guess I've lived a very sheltered life,.. I've never even heard of Cathy Guisewite, or seen any of her comics, so, it's no wonder I don't recognise, or know who she is...

Ronald Burdick

ok, I'm old, and I still don't know what a "cathy" reference is?? soooo, what is it??

Sarah Roberts

Cathy reference??? Awesome!

Eric Burns-White

Cathy Guisewite retired in 2010. She brought her strip to a close at the same time. In its 34 year run it was a groundbreaking move forward in the depiction of independent women in an independent lifestyle, to the point where Guisewite was invited onto the Tonight Show among other places to discuss it, and her highly modern perspective. Note at no point am I saying your implied impressions of the Cathy strip were wrong. Your memories are completely accurate. Just consider what that meant for female depictions in newspaper comics in particular <em>before</em> 1976.

Cole Blackblood

We had it in the newspaper comics in the early 2000s

Boris Pelakh

Jeph, are you even old enough for Cathy references? I don't think I 've seen it since the early 90s.

Matthew Reiter

Typo in panel 3: "imprecison".

Darnel D Cooper

Yay is coming along nicely,.... Elliot needs to chill, I wonder if Yay has a broad variety of frames,.... I've seen three distinct types all on the slim side - Is their a heavy lifter, a small precise, or even a battlebot? This Universe has so much potential. ........ Poor Marten.

Evgeniy Semyonov

..."light social poke" and rolls 20.

Paul Zagieboylo

Wore this style all through college. It really is perfect!

I'm a fat northern plains Native, I'd sweat too much in that outfit but it's good advice.

Veronica VanCleave-Seeley

I'd love to see Elliot with the actually ACK face!

Mark

I think that Mrs A has a bit more chill than that.

Jeffrey Anderson

amen

Jeffrey Anderson

Except Desire is very adept, indeed a master of understanding human emotions, Yay seems to be working things out. But in looks, I'm totally with you.

Go with the classic unbuttoned button-up over a t-shirt and jeans, Elliot! Roll up the sleeves for an even more casual feel, and if you wear a belt you can button up and tuck it in to lean more "business casual" if you overestimated how casual the occasion is. It's the ultimate social camouflage outfit.

Clifton Royston

Elliot might do better after a short RST.

Brian

As soon as I saw “ack”, I looked at the bottom to see if you were actually making a Cathy reference.

Dylan T

Do...do other people not stick themselves with hangers?

Danya Michael

More likely he'd learn about her callers and look in awe at her, saying "TEACH ME YOUR WAYS."

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

AAACCK! Thbbbfftt!!!!

Bagge

Yay is conforming to a stereotype and doesn't like it.

Andrew Mitchell

The dinner date's still on but the actual meal is probably take out.

Patrice M Christian

"Ack" makes me think of Bill the Cat from Bloom County.

Joseph Bonnar

Forgive me my suspicions. Eliot meets Clinton's mom and turns out to be one of her more frequent gentlemen callers... (I'll go hide now.)

Chuck Dee

I feel both sides of that conversation...

Yelling Bird

GODDAMMIT, GET TO THE DICK STUFF!

Runhildr Zaetl

Flashback to Dora and Tai’s first date! ❤️

same

Carl Fink

Has anyone mentioned that Yay is clearly a disguise for Desire of the Endless? (Note: if Jeph is reading this: I am not calling you unoriginal. I'm making a joke.)

Thomas Halpin

My mother and my aunt Ruthie were, at the height of the comic's popularity, basically each Cathy.

Cole Blackblood

Hehehe... Cathy reference. You're doing great, Yay!

Jeremy Tighe

I had forgotten that Cathy was even a thing

Giant Speck

CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE! ACK!

Verteiron

Since dinner didn't happen maybe they should just go to the fancy bar and rent outfits.

Simon Green

SYN!

Ashley Thomas

i hope he doesnt overdress and make it weird at the moms house. he should ask yay for opinions on his outfits.

Summer Sudbrink

Not that any of his clothes are on hangers. They're just mixed in with the pile on the floor. :)

Alacrity Fitzhugh

ack fft

doorbender

Do you have a puppy named puddles?

LH

... what's the second leading cause?

Mad Marie

That would of course be an absurd outfit. One wears white tie and tails when dressing for dinner.

Ack!! Reference... I guess it had to happen eventually, even in QC.

Melissa Smits

I think Yay would be fun on a road trip.

Cody Renton

Jeph if Elliot doesn't show up in a morning coat and top hat... I wanna say I'm cancelling my pledge but somehow it being the dress code at the Revelation makes it less funny

Rob McBobson

I knew that Spookybot could be spooky, but I didn't know they had "triggering your social anxiety" as part of their repertoire of frightenings.

Dallas Hicks

And here I was hoping it was a Bill The Cat reference but Cathy makes more sense here.

BobC

Nack!

Alex Kosnett

And they know a skilled personal shopper in town.

Simon Green

YOU LAUGH BUT HANGERS ARE THE LEADING CAUSE OF WARDROBE RELATED TRAUMATIC EYE INJURIES

drone r0m-3

Ack!

Jennifer Doyle

There is, and most of them are in high school

Ting

Elliot talking to Yay in TCP

Joel Bateman

Well, Elliot. You can ask Yay for outfit help. They do have on point styles, after all.

Michael Lazare

I just had a vision of a future comic where Elliot shows up dressed super nice and Clinton's Mom immediately starts hitting on him over dinner.

GodsInTheCogs

I can't tell if I wanna BE Yay, or date them

jimbo

come out of the closet, El

Mark Thomas

It's been quite a day for AI putting their feet in their mouths...

Michael Boettger

Someday, Yay will reach a deep and abiding understanding of human behavior. Then the Robot Apocalypse.

thelibrariancat

I understood that reference.

Melissa Smits

I sometimes wonder if there's a group of people who have never seen the comics in newspapers

JD

Yay tries....

BeatButton

ack