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2013-05-27

by shaenon on May 27, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Andrew
    May 27, 2013, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    I’m going to guess, part Corgi, part kitten, and part panda.

    • SotiCoto
      August 22, 2014, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      Or just about anything imbued with the tiny bit of the essence of a fennec fox cub.
      Only a tiny bit, mind. Full exposure to baby fennec foxes can cause instantly fatal levels of cute-intake.

  2. Steve Jackson
    May 27, 2013, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Argh. I am provoked to guess about the plot. What is . . . HAPPENING . . . to me?

    I’m voting for an intolerably cute yet clever pig.

    • Malicron
      April 5, 2016, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

      How did you DO that?!

  3. --jt--
    May 27, 2013, 1:59 am | # | Reply

    Has Sweetheart ever made any use of her sense of smell?

    • CM
      May 27, 2013, 3:05 am | # | Reply

      Presumably it wouldn’t help her very much here. These are all animatronic robots, so they probably smell like polymers, metal, and electricity no matter how cute they are or what shape they take.

  4. Null Set
    May 27, 2013, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Are they Red Pandas?

    https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7061851392/hFD760003/

    • Rex Vivat
      May 27, 2013, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      They already saw a red panda once. Had to serve him paternity papers, IIRC.

      • Null Set
        May 27, 2013, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

        Another adorable creature the team has encountered and survived: baby cobras.

        http://i.imgur.com/wbkeF0o.jpg

  5. LogicMouse
    May 27, 2013, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    I think U.N.I.T.Y. needs an “I” in the last panel there. Or possibly a “you,” depending on who gets blamed for doing the packing.

    I’m voting unbearably adorable Rotty puppies. Or Axolotls. You can never have too many irradiated/radioactive axolotls, can you?

    • Michael
      May 27, 2013, 3:40 am | # | Reply

      I totally saw the “you” until you pointed it out. (I figured she was blaming Sweetheart, yeah.)

      • Altarboy
        May 27, 2013, 4:05 am | # | Reply

        I think Sweetheart always packs a flashlight, along with a great many things that might be needed someday.

      • maarvarq
        May 27, 2013, 7:13 am | # | Reply

        Ooh, I’d read that with “we” there. Also, to anyone fearing that Cunningham’s ultra-cuteness will go unseen, if anyone can draw weapons-grade cute, it’s Shaenon!

        • Rex Vivat
          May 27, 2013, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

          Or Irony-Chan, for that matter. She has a… reputation.

      • Danny in Canada
        May 27, 2013, 7:31 am | # | Reply

        Do more cryptic crosswords. They’re excellent for training your brain to see what words really say, as opposed to what you think they say.

        …. and I vote that Cunningham is a lemur.

    • Robert The Addled
      May 27, 2013, 4:59 am | # | Reply

      it COULD have been deliberate – Shatner-esque dramatic dialog.

      Knowing Unity’s reaction to cute – I think this is more likely.

    • jdreyfuss
      May 27, 2013, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      No one would name a rottweiler “Cunningham.” Obviously that’s a dandie dinmont or a bearded collie.

      • jdreyfuss
        May 27, 2013, 10:03 am | # | Reply

        There will be a rottweiler and he will be named Horst.

        • JET73L
          March 2, 2015, 7:04 am | # | Reply

          And his Dachshund friend, Wurst.

      • Wayne Zombie
        May 27, 2013, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t see a problem with a Rottweiler named Cunningham, our standard poodle is Dante.

    • Robert The Addled
      May 27, 2013, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Its 1348 Eastern, I just noticed that there is now an “I” in the last panel.

  6. Towering Barbarian
    May 27, 2013, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    The phrase “too adorable” is a lot like the phrase “too much fun”. There’s no such thing! ^_^

  7. BMunro
    May 27, 2013, 4:11 am | # | Reply

    I’m imagining a scenario where exposure to normal humans goes like this… http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=pony+cute+attack#/art/The-Sweetie-Belle-Problem-347992281?_sid=2fb18a44

  8. Evil Midnight Lurker
    May 27, 2013, 5:50 am | # | Reply

    Hm. Royal We, or is Cunningham a cutellective?

    • the1trueian
      May 27, 2013, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      Third option, Cunningham might be using the first person plural , simply because all the residents of the Star chamber, including theirself are that cute.

      • Rex Vivat
        May 27, 2013, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        The simplest possibility is that he is talking about himself and the (silent) rest of the creatures in the room. Everyone referred to the inhabitants of the Star Chamber in plural, after all.

  9. Manifesta
    May 27, 2013, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    Woohoo! My favorite Star Trek episode: “Is there in truth no ugly?” Is the princess a blind scientist in a fabulous dress?

  10. the1trueian
    May 27, 2013, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    U.N.I.T.Y. is making the most adorable disappointment face in the last panel isn’t she.

  11. Eddurd
    May 27, 2013, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Fat Bottomed Girls”, Queen)

     [CHORUS:]
      How … can we assist you folks tonight?
      Why … did we not bring a flashlight?
      Who … dwells in the Chamber of the Stars?
      Cute lookin’ ‘bots, you really rock the Little House!

    Says the voice, “I’m Cunningham,
    Hyper-cute is what I am!
    My appearance you would worship and adore!”
    But to say to Unity
    That she’s not allowed to see,
    All that does is make her want to see you more!
     [repeat CHORUS]

    • Wayne Zombie
      May 27, 2013, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

      Double-plus good! Queen’s been one of my fav bands since the ’70s.

  12. JohnBobMead
    May 27, 2013, 8:48 am | # | Reply

    The concept of too cute brings to mind the works of H.P. Lushcraft, transcribed by Simon Barber, of which one story is At the Mountains of Cuteness http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Authors/Simon-Barber/At_The_Mountains_of_Cuteness.txt Fear the Plush Ones!

    • Tetra Valent
      May 27, 2013, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Plush Narbonic Ur-gerbils?

    • Rex Vivat
      May 27, 2013, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      I think someone mentioned that earlier in the storyline, the first time the Star Chamber was named.

  13. Shadowmehr
    May 27, 2013, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t this a Phineas and Ferb episode? An alien gets hold of a substance that renders him so adorable that all who gaze upon must weep and worship him?

    Admittedly, in the episode I’m thinking of, the alien had the mind of a madman, so there’s the obvious difference between him and Cunningham . . . I’m rambling, aren’t I?

  14. Grantwhy
    May 27, 2013, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

    Cunningham: “Approach the bench, tall ones”

    I’m guessing “tall ones” means Cunningham is smaller than most people, and smaller than the shorter Whimsy characters we have already seen.

    Perhaps Cunningham filling the same ecological (?storylogical?) niche at Whimsy that Jiminy Cricket fills at the other company?

    Which leads me to wondering, what creature is Cunningham based on?

    Something small(ish) and terrifyingly cute.

    *ponders*

    A Chibi Tarantula perhaps? (or some other spider)

    • Storel
      November 22, 2017, 4:15 am | # | Reply

      Jiminy Cricket?

  15. =Tamar
    May 28, 2013, 1:59 am | # | Reply

    Beware of the cunning ham.

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