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A Catch-All Phrase

🕑 Added 2020-06-11 01:15:28 +0000 UTC

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Niskara

I like to imagine her having a voice like Female Shepard from Mass Effect.

Dan Curtis

a good quote from my second favorite Cornetto trilogy movie, robot also means slave.

One little detail that has always irked me a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Origin_of_the_term_'robot' Given the origin of the word, wouldn't AIs find it extremely offensive?

Some Ed

Sometimes "racist asshole" is just a way to be a bit more precise about the manner in which they're an asshole. Other times, it's being overly precise, because I've met plenty of assholes who were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, antisemitic, transphobic, technophobic, and misanthropic. Some of them didn't like animals too much, either.

Y'know, I'm getting to the point where I'm rather curious about what Bubbles is supposed to sound like. I'm trying to picture the perfect voice for her just dryly calling them assholes right now...

Mark

Mrs W is/was a Baptist, and at the least didn't approve of alcohol while her husband was alive. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=503

David Austin

This is soooo good!

Aigots

Joey Baker

These last few panels have made my heart genuinely happy.

Travis Wedding

Bonus comic idea!

Gary Walker

I want a comic where Faye's mom gets baked with Claire's mom.

Matt

The deep memory of all the goings on of YEARS of JJs comic constantly blows me away. Gotta be tough for the creator.

Matt

The world needs to be a lot more like Mrs. W.

Evgeniy Semyonov

This is one of the occasions where alcohol can be useful - Bubbles and Mrs. Whitaker could get close really fast while dissing various assholes over a glass/app of real/emulated alcohol. They both could really do with some mild "girls night out". On the other hand, they seem to get along just fine already.

Mark

I think that the lines are meant to be wrinkles, not a 'stache. Jeph was drawing Mrs Augustus with the same for a while, and I found it disconcerting.

Summer Sudbrink

Anti-“seam”-ites?

Chris Crowther

And it was at that point that Mrs Whitaker went "ooh, I like her".

Jaysyn

Luddites

Lightsabr2

I still read Bubble's text in the voice of Orisa from Overwatch. Can't help it.

SpookyPenguin

Seems a cool mom

Bryan Brake

I kept trying to clean dirt off my monitor... dat mom 'stache doe...

Bagge

I note that she blew right past the "dating a girl" thing to be confused about the "dating a robot" thing

Bagge

I think Faye's mom might benefit from some time with Momo. She is good at discussing these things

Astrid

at least mrs. whitaker has gone through another daughter coming out as gay. seems like she's dealing with it better this time.

Daryl Resplandor

So Mrs. Whitaker is confused but supportive. That's certainly one of the better outcomes.

Brian

We still have a few days left in the week, don’t worry.

Brian

This went better than expected

Jason Rock

Yeah, I think they'll get along fine.

Shawn K. Younkin

She did say "Skullfucker" in reference to another AI's name.

Sleepy John

Over at Skin-Horse, the zombie benefit fundraiser is Lurch for the Cure.

Sleepy John

I think that is the first time Bubbles has ever used profanity. And I can't think of a better situation for it.

awgiedawgie

If you're referring to Faye's mom, she wasn't burned. She just got through saying she's <i>not</i> bigoted against them. She's just saying that calling such bigots "assholes" is indeed a slick (and fitting) burn.

drone r0m-3

I think "assholes" for people who are bigoted in general is perfect.

David Hall

I love the progression of Bubbles’s facial expressions through the comic, and the one in panel 7 is perfect.

David Austin

I LOVE IT! What a classic BURN ! :)

Matt Grayson

Are voice bubbles reversed in a mirror?

Niskara

Already scoring brownie points with mom. Nice!

Shawn K. Younkin

LOL- I greatly appreciate the self awareness to know that you just been burned, but also be like "Yeah, I deserve that."

Czarzhan

You're seeing an AI, too? ;)

R L

Burn²

Brendan Jones

Some nonsense between mates has annoyed me today and this gave me a proper laugh. Thanks Jeph.

Tamara Macadam

the nerves indeed

Ted Van Roekel

Amanda is going to utterly flip.

Henry R. Seymour

I believe that it is mirrored on her mom's side.

Miyaa

So when does Amanda join in and yell “OMG, you finally got it!” to both Faye & their mom. (Also, I would like to nominate “Genevieve” as Faye & Amanda’s mom’s name.)