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[Golfhaus]

I don't watch movies very much, because I start to get mentally invested in the characters. I don't want to watch them go through the problems in their lives that make up the plot of the movie. I think this is why I like the Austin Powers movies. When it's bad for Austin, it's not so bad at all.

Reading this strip gave me that twinge, the "oh lord, I know it's going to be okay for Beef, but I don't want to see it unfold" feeling.

On the other hand, I can't take a man seriously who refers to taking a shit as "do[ing] some plop plops." Especially when talking to one of his boys. Give the chocolate turtle some fuck*ng respect, Showbiz.

[Doc]

Saying something positive about her is ashes and turpentine in my mouth.

It's ok man, we can hate Molly and Showbiz.

[colmore]

I've never understood the anti-Molly sentiment around here.

[oball]

Well, you see, a lot of Achewood fans identify closely with Roast Beef, and resent the fact that he has found love while they are still stuck in their computer chairs like beached whales, pasty and bejowled, subsisting on a diet of low-joule soda and Doritos, destined to be desperately, pathetically alone for the rest of their lives.


Or maybe they just don't like the way her character is written.

[Doc]

Well yeah mainly the former.

Also she's a bitch.

[JorgeFabregas]

I've never understood the anti-Molly sentiment around here.

Yeah, me neither. I'd figure that it involved resentment for neuro-typicals or women, but most of that camp doesn't seem like the type.

I didn't realize that Showbiz (maybe) has his left leg raised. That somehow makes the scene extra raunchy.

[littlefallsmets]

I dunno, I just see a lot of Beef and Molly in my relationship with my girlfriend...

She's loopy, she's into weird boring things and into basically stuff too much in general but she really loves him and helps serve as a buffer between him and a reality he can't really take all that well.

Like there's a series of trade-offs, you know, when you're as broken as Beef is.

I think that's the thing... a lot of guys who are really like Beef don't want to admit that being Beef-like is being fundamentally broken and so... they don't like that for someone like Molly to come in and love him is to fundamentally shave away some of his Beefness.

But... y'know... if Roast Beef was allowed to be completely himself, he would be looooong dead.

Sometimes when you're really broken, compromising is how you fix yourself enough to get by and it ain't actually a bad thing at all.

[Ruddy Ruddy]

Did Beef foresee this plan?

[Arachno-capitalist]

Points to Ruddy for bringing the foreshadowing.
And : "Also apparently fifty hundred scared baby birds were born somewhere close by"
Is an A+ line.

[Ben-San]

Notice how he still thinks he's going to be the best man? 

Not only is his plan reliant on being the best man, it's reliant on Beef continuing to give him money after he pulls this shit. He's gotten so fixated on "if Beef marries her, I won't get money anymore" that he hasn't considered any other possible reasons for him not to get money anymore.

[fnord]

[...] stuck in their computer chairs like beached whales, pasty and bejowled, subsisting on a diet of low-joule soda and Doritos [...]

Are we sure yet if bejowled is a real word, like, say, aeolist.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Should we post a poll?

Do you like Molly?
Yes
No

[wombat]

And : "Also apparently fifty hundred scared baby birds were born somewhere close by"
Is an A+ line.

This happens every morning in my backyard at this time of year. I'm living a Roast Beef nightmare.

[jaydub]

I think implicit in pubescent male (or arrested development male) imaginations is the idea that women can't possibly take a shower without getting busy with themselves.  This is probably fueled by the fact that most pubescent males can't take a shower without polishing the bayonet.  Maybe twice.  Morning and evening.  Showbiz probably had that finger comment spin through his head while soaping up and couldn't resist.