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2014-12-26

by shaenon on December 26, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Dave
    December 26, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    I love that the drone’s hair is done-up like Sweetheart’s tail. 😀

    • Bartimaeus
      December 26, 2014, 6:14 am | # | Reply

      I know! It’s great.

  2. maarvarq
    December 26, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Look upon my thumbs and temble, world!

    • ribbles
      December 31, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      Temble is a meme.

  3. darius404
    December 26, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    ….I think she can pull it off.

  4. Manifesta
    December 26, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I knew it! To my dog, I’m nothing but a food dispenser with car keys and opposable thumbs.

    • Darkstarr
      May 19, 2016, 3:26 am | # | Reply

      No, that’s how us kitties see you two-leggers, nyao. Dogs also see you as someone to pet them and lay in the lap of as well…

      • awgiedawgie
        January 24, 2020, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

        My kitty couldn’t care less that I have car keys, but she certainly expects me to pet her and to provide my lap for her relaxation as well.

  5. Marisa Mockery
    December 26, 2014, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    The question is, can she eat it?

    • oneuniverse2
      December 26, 2014, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      Good question. I was wondering how fast her tail would be thumping if Sweetheart was still in her own body.

  6. Wolfgang
    December 26, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    She seems to have the mad scientist laugh down quite well, actually. I love her serious expression in the first two panels.

  7. datasstrophe
    December 26, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, good for you Sweetheart, but what are you going to *do* with an opened can of dog food? We all remember Nick’s coffee shop incidents.

    • Classic Steve
      December 26, 2014, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      She could carry it over to her canine body and reawaken in it.

    • GammarayCanon
      December 26, 2014, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

      Remember, Sweetheart doesn’t eat dog food, Unity is the one who does.

    • Frank
      December 26, 2014, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

      Who said it was dog food?

      • matteo
        December 29, 2014, 10:10 am | # | Reply

        Ellmann’s own?

  8. Benedict
    December 26, 2014, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    It’s always really fun to see the drone take on new personalities. Sweetheart’s, what, the fourth person to inhabit that thing? Violet Bee’s flirty angle, Nick’s disheveled grumpery, the water cooler’s carefree dedication to service, and now Sweetheart’s mom chic? …Tempted to do fanart of various characters as the violet-drone.

    • Robert Nowall
      December 26, 2014, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      Don’t forget Mr. Green, and Princess Whimsey.

  9. palenoue
    December 26, 2014, 1:59 am | # | Reply

    Will she go totally crazy with power and _hold_ her coffee instead of tipping it over? Tune in tomorrow.

  10. Miyaa
    December 26, 2014, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    Wait until she starts chasing cars.

    • Frank Hightower
      December 26, 2014, 5:14 am | # | Reply

      Taxi, follow that car!

      • Miyaa
        December 26, 2014, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

        “It keeps them on their toes.”

  11. Jerry Aethers
    December 26, 2014, 3:00 am | # | Reply

    I am honestly amazed at how many have inhabited this drone now, and each time it is still uniquely different, despite being the same. The drone needs it’s own character entry with a gallery of who’s who.

    • roberttheaddled
      December 26, 2014, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      I’m reminded of a Restaurant at the end of the Universe quote –

      “The People – The Things….”

      “The Things are people too”

      “The People – The Other People…..”

    • Claire
      December 26, 2014, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      We need a wallpaper with all the different incarnations; maybe even with all the main cast giving her a try!

      • GammarayCanon
        December 26, 2014, 9:29 am | # | Reply

        Mustachio would be hilarious.

    • Rex Vivat
      December 26, 2014, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      Shaenon’s a wiz with body language. It’s like the time in Narbonic where there were three identical versions of Dave going around and you could still tell who was in which.

  12. Shen
    December 26, 2014, 3:12 am | # | Reply

    LOVING the doggytail hair <3

  13. Frank Hightower
    December 26, 2014, 5:09 am | # | Reply

    Oh God, I could laugh at this all day!

  14. alphaghoul
    December 26, 2014, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    we all should have seen this coming.

  15. Eddurd
    December 26, 2014, 8:07 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “O Come, All Ye Faithful”)

    I’ve thumbs! In your face, fool!
    Now I’m grasping objects!
    My thumbs are, my thu-umbs are
    Op-po-o-sable!

    Cans I can open!
    Now I am in-vin-ci-ble!
    With thumbs, these cans I open …
    With thumbs, these cans I open …
    With thumbs, these cans I open!
    Cripes, I’m good!

    • roberttheaddled
      December 26, 2014, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      I imagine the Pat Benatar song “invincible” would have been over the top?

      I could see her infiltrating the Institute to that song (Invincible) now that I’ve read the lyrics. Runners up would probably be the ‘Get Smart’ theme or something else suitably goofy.

  16. Robert Nowall
    December 26, 2014, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Thumbs. What would we do without them?

  17. Robert Nowall
    December 26, 2014, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    “I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman!”

  18. Zobot257
    December 26, 2014, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Welp, now she’s unstoppable. Where will this madness end?!?

  19. Shadowmehr
    December 26, 2014, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    Are we sure she’s acting here?

  20. Dave
    December 26, 2014, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    A sad thought occurs; wouldn’t this spy operation give the enemy a chance to reclaim the Drone. Bubbles needs it! 🙁

    • rylen
      December 26, 2014, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

      So far everyone who has tried the drone has decided it didn’t mesh with who they were. I suspect we’re seeing a sophisticated metaphor.

  21. Ron Armstrong
    December 26, 2014, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    The song from “The Avengers Age of Ultron”, “I’ve Got No Strings”
    seems very fitting now!

  22. Jen Steffen
    December 26, 2014, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if she’ll give the drone back when the operation is over now that she’s got a taste for thumbs.

  23. Saberbeam
    December 26, 2014, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

    The hair and the sweater are just so Sweetheart’s style 😀

    @Ron Armstrong: “I’ve got no strings” is originally from Disney’s (somewhat creepy) classic, “Pinocchio”. And you’re right, it does seem fitting.

    To the tune of “I’ve got no strings” from Disney’s Pinochio

    Now I’ve got thumbs,
    On this body,
    And I will laugh, so evilly,
    I’ll use thumbs, to open cans,
    Just because now I can.

    Hell yes!
    Thumbs are the best,
    Nothing will be stopping me,
    Now the whole worlds mine,
    Thumbs make conquest so easy.

    Now I’ve got thumbs,
    On this here drone,
    Now I can throw, myself a bone,
    I’ll scritch and scratch, my own belly,
    ‘Cause I’ve got thumbs on me.

  24. Clifton
    December 28, 2014, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    I just noticed the thmp thmp thmp of the walk echoes the end of the last strip!

  25. Kitirena
    May 19, 2016, 3:30 am | # | Reply

    @Sweetheart: I felt the same way the first time I realized what I could do in human form, nyao. Ain’t it great?

    “Animals came from miles around,
    So tired of walking so close to the ground.
    They needed a change, that’s what they said;
    Life is better walking on two legs!”
    –Oingo Boingo, No Spill Blood

    Elfman took the words right out of my mouth, nyao! Life really IS better on two legs!

  26. jdreyfuss
    January 24, 2020, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    That couldn’t be mistaken for anyone but Sweetheart. She’s got the determined look, the barely contained rage coming out in her posture, and as someone already pointed out, her hair done up in a spitz tail.

    • Rex Vivat
      January 24, 2020, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      And the fixation with the trivial, and the completely out of whack sense of priorities.

  27. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 7:00 pm | # | Reply

    The big puffy sweater really completes the “Sweetheart” look.

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