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2014-10-24

by shaenon on October 24, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Manifesta
    October 24, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Ginny, she’s trying to tell you that she’s not getting any. The poor dear probably works 24 hours a day.

    • Mauricio Lemos
      October 24, 2014, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      It’s all the opposite. She’s complaining that now that she blasted to the top she’s no longer servicing. She’s unhappy. Handing Virginia some water may be the first service she has done to anyone in a long time.

      • jdreyfuss
        October 24, 2014, 7:24 am | # | Reply

        I got the same impression. She seems frustrated with the direction her life has taken.

        • Gyrre
          December 1, 2014, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

          Well said, Higgins

  2. edddddthemadgenius
    October 24, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I love bubbles, she’s so cute… <3

    ooh! since ive got a scanner now ill draw bubbles, violet and android!nick together!

    yayyyy skin horse!

  3. kag
    October 24, 2014, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Is she saying that being in charge (as opposed to fulfilling other’s needs) is as annoying to her as the situations the rest of ex-SH are in?

    • Smurfton
      October 24, 2014, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      Yup! That’s how it looks to me.

  4. Clifton
    October 24, 2014, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Now that she is a top executive, she hardly gets to serve water to anyone! It’s a hard life at the top.

  5. Rex Vivat
    October 24, 2014, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Huh. Five out of six. What about Gavotte, then?

    • dornbeast
      October 24, 2014, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      “What does this hive have to say about Colony Collapse Disorder?”

  6. Ron Armstrong
    October 24, 2014, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    I think Brita Bubbles wants to go home! :>)

  7. Delta Echo
    October 24, 2014, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    Poor Bubbles is living a bizzaro version of the Peter Principle: she was so good at helping people that she rocketed all the way to the top – where she can’t do anything at all for anyone.

    • jdreyfuss
      October 24, 2014, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      That’s exactly what the Peter Principle is. She was so good at every job below that she’s been raised to the level where she no longer has the required skills to advance further. In her case, it’s the top job.

  8. dornbeast
    October 24, 2014, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    Suddenly I’m wondering whether anybody actually does understand what she’s saying, or if they just interpret what she says according to their own inclinations.

    (Imagine the film Being There with Bubbles in the Chance the Gardener role.)

    • BMunro
      October 24, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure Mustachio as a fellow machine understands her correctly, but you may be right about other people.

    • mickeyf
      October 24, 2014, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Isn’t that what we all do with everyone?

  9. Dr. Steve
    October 24, 2014, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    Huge hare rite; commune vacation bang fought wit con fusion!

    • Efogoto
      October 24, 2014, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      A big bunny ceremony will do that to you.

  10. Robert Nowall
    October 24, 2014, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    Government bureaucracy: you never get assigned the jobs you really want to do. Probably this is the first time Bubbles served water to anyone since Skin Horse broke up. (Probably they don’t know she’s a drone, either…where is her water cooler body?)

    • Brushtail
      October 25, 2014, 11:28 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure she’s still in government, I was under the impression they had all gotten shuffled off to various public and private organizations.

  11. Eddurd
    October 24, 2014, 7:59 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Tea For Two”, Youmans & Caesar)

    Service is my only joy!
    My only joy is service, boy!
    I live to serve!
    I serve, unswerv-
    Ingly!

    When other folks serve me,
    Their actions unnerve me!
    The gal at reception
    Excels at protection!
    Her phone application
    Performs extirpation
    On Lee!

    My underlings won’t let me go!
    I try to serve; they just say, “No!”
    So here you go,
    Some H2O
    From me!

    I don’t like to be the boss!
    But for the words, I’m at a loss!
    Vocabular-
    Y’s rather spare,
    You see!

    • mickeyf
      October 24, 2014, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      Lovely Ed, as Usual!

    • bellringer187868
      October 24, 2014, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      Nothing wrong with *your* vocabulary, Brah!

  12. Jacob Haller
    October 24, 2014, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    Bubbles makes some solid points here.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 24, 2014, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      Ice?

  13. Guesticus
    October 24, 2014, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    Yah, Bubbles is totally not feeling the joy in the last panel 🙁

  14. Stewart C Baker
    October 24, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    I love that she’s still staying true to her water-dispensing roots.

  15. mickeyf
    October 24, 2014, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    For one moment last night I was afraid she had been the big boss all along, and under cover. But clearly not…

    • Anson
      October 24, 2014, 9:58 pm | # | Reply

      Just for the silliness of it, I like the idea that Mr Green (who used the Violet drone) was Bubbles (who now inhabits the Violet drone) the whole time. As far as nonsensical plot twists go, can’t get much better than that.

  16. Andy4Hire
    October 24, 2014, 11:45 am | # | Reply

    Today’s strip is so adorable I can barely think straight (not that that’s easy at the best of times).

    But … am I the only one wondering how Bubbles and Sweetdaddy Jupiter Velvet would react if they bumped into each other while Bubbles was in android form?

  17. Dave
    October 24, 2014, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

    For a depressing moment I was afraid that the only reason she’d excelled was because with everybody’s reality filter in place they were always hearing only what they wanted/expected from her. Then I remembered that everybody’s still at least working in shadow-gov, so it’s probably just that Bubbles kicks so much ass.

    • irdburns
      October 24, 2014, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

      Of course she does 🙂

  18. Delta Echo
    October 25, 2014, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    @jdreyfuss: Oh, she has the skills to advance – it’s just that she no longer has any…well, JOY in her position. She doesn’t WANT to advance – or even be at the level she’s at – but she’s TOO competent NOT to be.

    The Peter Principle is “promoted to the level of incompetence”; the Bizzaro Peter Principle in play here is “promoted beyond the level of happiness BECAUSE of sheer competence”.

    (And this was in my mind before seeing the current strip, I’ll note – which proves exactly my point.)

  19. Waffle Sorter
    April 5, 2015, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    Interesting, that when she does the words out of order she has to use separate boxes. Or, well, does use separate boxes. (“Does” and “must” are different concepts, after all, and one does not necessarily imply the other.)

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