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2013-05-30

by shaenon on May 30, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Chris
    May 30, 2013, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Piggy is cute and all, but she ‘aint got nothin’ on Sweetheart when she was a puppy.

    • John Campbell
      May 30, 2013, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      What with the talking dog in goggles and the zombie girl with cat ears, the pig in a wig is the least cute thing in the room.

      Other things more adorable than Cunningham include, but are not limited to: baby cobras, Dr. Lee in her pajamas, and Artie operating a scanning tunneling microscope.

      • Dave Van Domelen
        May 30, 2013, 12:54 am | # | Reply

        HUGS!

      • Manifesta
        May 30, 2013, 4:12 am | # | Reply

        Plus quokkas (http://grist.org/climate-energy/utilities-for-dummies-how-they-work-and-why-that-needs-to-change/), fennec foxes (http://grist.org/climate-energy/utilities-for-dummies-part-2-why-we-need-competitive-electricity-markets-with-fennecs/) and this dik-dik (http://grist.org/article/whats-threatening-utilities-innovation-at-the-edge-of-the-grid/).

      • The Other Mike
        February 24, 2017, 1:31 am | # | Reply

        “Dr. Lee in her pajamas”
        I would argue Dr. Lee in general, but I have a thing for Asian women in glasses.

      • WJS
        September 26, 2017, 9:00 am | # | Reply

        It is a pretty strong case of an Informed Attribute, isn’t it? It’s probably one of those weird artist things; when Shaenon is trying to draw something really cute, it doesn’t turn out as cute as when she’s just drawing regular-like. I’ve heard artists talking about that kind of thing before.

    • khade
      May 30, 2013, 4:27 am | # | Reply

      But it’s a pig in what looks like a powdered wig, wearing either a dress or one of those robes worn by traditional judges, how is that not cute enough for you?

      Alternately, the adorableness might have been edited due to it being a mnemonic hazard.

      • carnackiArdent
        July 31, 2013, 10:48 am | # | Reply

        The word you’re looking for is probably “memetic”. Unless you mean he’s so adorable he wipes out people’s memories.

  2. Manifesta
    May 30, 2013, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    Also higher on the adorableness scale:
    The quokka (http://grist.org/climate-energy/utilities-for-dummies-how-they-work-and-why-that-needs-to-change/);
    The fennec fox (http://grist.org/climate-energy/utilities-for-dummies-part-2-why-we-need-competitive-electricity-markets-with-fennecs/);
    and, FTW
    The dik-dik (http://grist.org/article/whats-threatening-utilities-innovation-at-the-edge-of-the-grid/).

    • Manifesta
      May 30, 2013, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      CRUD!!! It didn’t post and didn’t post so I reposted and then it posted. Sorry. Soz buckets.

  3. Diane Castle
    May 30, 2013, 3:55 am | # | Reply

    Just as long as you don’t have a guy in a leather biker jacket showing up and calling the piggy ‘Mrs. C’. I’m just sayin’…

    • Robert The Addled
      May 30, 2013, 4:54 am | # | Reply

      Thank you. I was hoping to have forgotten that particular television trauma.

      • Dewy
        May 30, 2013, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        Heeeeeyy!

  4. Evil Midnight Lurker
    May 30, 2013, 4:31 am | # | Reply

    I’m hearing the voice of Nibbler here.

    • Dewy
      May 30, 2013, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      That works out. Sweetheart’s voice, to me, has always been Leela’s.

      • Ryushikaze
        May 30, 2013, 10:56 am | # | Reply

        Extrapolating, UNITY would most likely be Amy, Tip would be Fry or related, Moustachio would be Hermes, and Gavotte a friendlier Mom of MomCO.

        Nick is essentially Bender as the Helicopter. Not sure who he’d be in the Bee drone.

        • Altarboy
          May 31, 2013, 3:20 am | # | Reply

          A curse upon you three for planting these ideas in my head. I will now have these voices associated with these characters forever!
          Terrible
          Heh.. Nibbler piggie..

  5. Eddurd
    May 30, 2013, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “When You Wish Upon A Star”, Washington & Harline)

    When your mission’s quite bizarre,
    You go where the strange things are!
    Cuteness overload is worse
    Than we had feared …

    “See, our preciousness is great,
    Too much would annihilate!”
    It’s enough to stop your heart
    When one appeared …

     Secret files
     Tell of the strange “Old War” …
     That what we’re searching for!
     (And for his daughter!)

    Dog asks zombie girl, “Are you
    Pondering what I am, too?”
    When your mission’s quite bizarre,
    Your day … gets … weird!

    • JET73L
      March 2, 2015, 7:20 am | # | Reply

      That filk is more sickeningly adorable than Cunningham, and almost as adorable as Enthusiastic Unity with bobcat ears.

      I want to see the others. I wouldn’t mind being vaporized by their cuteness : (

  6. jdreyfuss
    May 30, 2013, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    What mission is Sweetheart on anyway? To retrieve the third nuclear device?

    • Rex Vivat
      May 30, 2013, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      To retrieve data from the old war, remember? The notes and artifact would probably be more valuable for her.

      • jdreyfuss
        May 30, 2013, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

        Thanks. I’m in the middle of studying for the bar, so I’m not concentrating as much as I had been on the ongoing storylines in Skin Horse or Girl Genius.

  7. Jacob Haller
    May 30, 2013, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    Piggie!

  8. =Tamar
    May 30, 2013, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

    Piggy-wiggy is a wiggy piggie? Could he be related to…Foot?

  9. Saberbeam
    May 30, 2013, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

    Love Unity’s expression in the last panel. Cunningham’s attempts to be taken seriously are pretty cute too.

    So for anyone who did not look it up yesterday, yes you can perform CPR on a dog, and no Unity did not seem to be doing it properly:

    http://www.wikihow.com/Perform-CPR-on-a-Dog

    Oddly enough, CPR for a dog sounds like a gentler process than CPR for humans, be they adults, infants or newborns (humans get chest compressions, dogs get cardiac massages…?)

  10. Maki_P
    May 30, 2013, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

    Aggg! Caught up at the wrong time!

  11. Shadowmehr
    May 30, 2013, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

    U.N.I.T.Y. admitting she’s always working on a different mission?

    I always suspected as much, but it’s refreshing to hear her say it.

    It also explains a lot about the last few years.

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