Hmmm… so this confirms Unity definitely has the personality of an adult, despite her childlike tendencies. Apple Jack commercials are the axiom, this strip is the proof!
Must be some form of long term advertising… The folks that make the drink pay a proxy company to sell a cereal of the same name. Whole generations that grew up on the applejacks cereal get to drinking age and buy the applejack drink, subconsciously associating it with their favorite childhood cereal. I tell you, it’s just a matter time before they launch Applejack, the superhero with strangely apple-based superpowers.
There’s some things, Sweetheart, that I just don’t get,
I mean like table manners or the Internet!
And your moods that, lately, have been going south,
And you leave a bad taste in my mouth
Just like an Apple Jacks hater …
Apple Jacks hater!
They don’t taste like apples, not a Rome or Mac,
If you get ’em soggy, they don’t taste like jack!
As for you, you’re getting double cranky now,
And without you, how
Can I avoid to be an Apple Jacks hater?
Apple Jacks hater!
Apple Jacks hater … Apple Jacks hater …
Apple Jacks hater … Apple Jacks hater …
Unfortunately bubbles doesn’t seem to swing that way. But it is weird for sweetheart to disapprove of two sapient beings striking up romance. Could unity/sweetheart actually be a thing?
Yeah. “Misegenation is a sign of the end times” and all, which I REALLY didn’t expect to hear from someone in her line of work. Unless it was just an excuse, but…
Bubbles has had perfectly consensual sexy robot times with Sweet daddy Jupiter Velvet who does seem to be masculine And a robot. So at the very least we know bubbles is attracted towards masculinity and other robots
Also A. the preferred pronoun is they for non-binary people. Bubbles may be a water cooler, but they are still a person B. you are forgetting he, we have no idea how Sweetdaddy Jupiter Velvet swings.
Hey, I appreciate your advocacy for “they.” I am genderqueer/non-binary myself. But I figure that a being who was until recently an inanimate object might actually identify as “it.” I guess since we really don’t know, I could have just avoided the use of a pronoun entirely.
I was just trying to suggest that even if Bubbles is attracted to masculine robots, that doesn’t mean Bubbles couldn’t also be attracted to female undead people.
I don’t think so, I think she’s talking about the cereal. I don’t think she’s talking about the pony, though this being Unity, I’m not absolutely sure.
Given that it’s a reference to the old commercials for the cereal (“old” being the late 80s/early 90s of my childhood), I’m pretty sure that she’s talking about the cereal.
why does the art look really fantastic today? it could just be me but it looks realy good
Sweetheart’s mouth in the second panel is an expression that doesn’t usually appear, which makes it seem like the art style is evolving.
sweetheart’s lying through her teeth, which i think isn’t something she does very often.
Wait…Apple Jacks don’t taste like apples? Do they taste like snogberries?
Hmmm… so this confirms Unity definitely has the personality of an adult, despite her childlike tendencies. Apple Jack commercials are the axiom, this strip is the proof!
“Why don’t they taste like apples? And how do they cram all that graham??”
“Why did they name a kiddie cereal after a strong alcoholic drink?”
Must be some form of long term advertising… The folks that make the drink pay a proxy company to sell a cereal of the same name. Whole generations that grew up on the applejacks cereal get to drinking age and buy the applejack drink, subconsciously associating it with their favorite childhood cereal. I tell you, it’s just a matter time before they launch Applejack, the superhero with strangely apple-based superpowers.
Er… http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Applejack
Errr….
Applejack is just a nickname for hard cider, rough cider, or scrumpie.
No brand name need apply.
Jack palsy is a term given to the shakes after lonterm drinking of applejack.
When I was a wee lad, Applejacks used to boast that they were made with ‘bits of real apple!’….
Then they started boasting that they tasted nothing like apples….
(TUNE: “Paperback Writer”, The Beatles)
Apple Jacks hater … hater … hater …
There’s some things, Sweetheart, that I just don’t get,
I mean like table manners or the Internet!
And your moods that, lately, have been going south,
And you leave a bad taste in my mouth
Just like an Apple Jacks hater …
Apple Jacks hater!
They don’t taste like apples, not a Rome or Mac,
If you get ’em soggy, they don’t taste like jack!
As for you, you’re getting double cranky now,
And without you, how
Can I avoid to be an Apple Jacks hater?
Apple Jacks hater!
Apple Jacks hater …
Apple Jacks hater …
Apple Jacks hater …
Apple Jacks hater …
Hey- we eat what we like!
That… Is an excellent question.
They taste like snozzcumbers.
Depending on who you ask, either frogskin and rotten fish or cockroaches and slime wanglers? Well, that’s one cereal off my shopping list…
Unfortunately bubbles doesn’t seem to swing that way. But it is weird for sweetheart to disapprove of two sapient beings striking up romance. Could unity/sweetheart actually be a thing?
Um… not only is it confirmed to be a thing, but Sweetheart is bigoted against interspecies romance. Her reaction here makes perfect sense.
Yeah. “Misegenation is a sign of the end times” and all, which I REALLY didn’t expect to hear from someone in her line of work. Unless it was just an excuse, but…
I know they are best friends who live together but isn’t that the actual truth rather than a euphemism?
Here. http://zerhakker.livejournal.com/21861.html
Doesn’t swing that way? Have we had any indication of Bubbles’ sexual orientation, or even if she (or it) has one, aside from “service-oriented”?
Bubbles has had perfectly consensual sexy robot times with Sweet daddy Jupiter Velvet who does seem to be masculine And a robot. So at the very least we know bubbles is attracted towards masculinity and other robots
I’m sorry Ferro-Americans
Also A. the preferred pronoun is they for non-binary people. Bubbles may be a water cooler, but they are still a person B. you are forgetting he, we have no idea how Sweetdaddy Jupiter Velvet swings.
Hey, I appreciate your advocacy for “they.” I am genderqueer/non-binary myself. But I figure that a being who was until recently an inanimate object might actually identify as “it.” I guess since we really don’t know, I could have just avoided the use of a pronoun entirely.
I was just trying to suggest that even if Bubbles is attracted to masculine robots, that doesn’t mean Bubbles couldn’t also be attracted to female undead people.
For those of us outside the US, with no idea what an ‘apple jack’ might be, the wiki of a million lies comes through as usual:
Argh. Blasted unknown post-corrupting Wiki language. The thing to look for is ‘Applejack (beverage)’.
I don’t think so, I think she’s talking about the cereal. I don’t think she’s talking about the pony, though this being Unity, I’m not absolutely sure.
Given that it’s a reference to the old commercials for the cereal (“old” being the late 80s/early 90s of my childhood), I’m pretty sure that she’s talking about the cereal.
I concur with Rex. It’s the cereal. The plural is what tells me that… personally.
I’m surprised the question is why they don’t taste like jacks.
Trinity is talking about Applejacks the cereal: Applejacks.
God, those Applejack commercials always made me ashamed to be a kid.
Okay, I’ll bite. Why don’t table manners and the Internet taste like apples?
You clearly never tasted the Internet.
…lucky you.
Internet tastes grapes anyway.
Mostly sour ones.
If this was my first time reading Skin Horse, the line “you can’t date the water cooler! Don’t be stupid!” would have read a LOT differently.
Sweetheart is being cranky and irritable. This is not exactly out of the ordinary.