0058 — A Fuck You Friday at Scobler's
Added 2024-03-29 17:00:09 +0000 UTCI think I had five versions of every panel of this one. Watch the In-Universe tier for those "director's cut / bloopers & outtakes" panels later today!
If you have deep knowledge of Roast Beef and Molly, let's guess together, below, what dishes they had ordered at Scobler's Family Dining that day. I will chime in and say what I think the best guess is, but if the guesses are not going well, I will eventually tell the truth about their dishes that they ordered.
Comments
Thank you for the kind words! First strip to read? I suggest the North Korea Magical realism arc, but that's just today. The most downloaded of all time is Ray Gets Sort of Stoned.
Chris Onstad
2024-05-01 00:48:08 +0000 UTCI got an actual out-loud chuckle from that line too, and then breathe-recited it a couple of times to feel it out
Daniel Stewart
2024-04-03 02:03:01 +0000 UTC"Click-pimp who majored in front-facing camera at the university of western confirmation bias" is the most eloquent but succinct way I've seen anyone sum up the current sorry state of social media. Thank you for that.
2scrogz
2024-04-01 22:25:37 +0000 UTCChris, I was reading through one of the books and I saw that you described the "we buried french fry today" strip as "so far from 'canon' that it should have gone in an appendix" and that these strips were like banging together cutouts of the characters in your backyard. Just wanted to say that I have always though this strip is a wonderful wrap-up to the overarching Ketel One joke with Ray and I truly love it. If I was going to get one of those framed strips (do you still do those?), it would be this one, though since it is dependent on many previous strips for context, I wouldn't display it, but keep it in a box of curiosities, to witness privately, and chuckle inwardly. In any case I was reading that commentary and saying to myself "No, Onstad! This strip is great!" so I hope your opinion has changed on these earlier strips. They live in a beautiful space between the extreme obtuseness of very early "Philippe is standing on it" strips (the main obstacle to introducing anyone to Achewood tbh) and the more coherent story-driven later strips. Regarding that, do you have a suggestion on the best strip to have someone start reading Achewood? Some suggest the party. This book I have starts at the dirtiest dudes strip that introduces the cats, which I think is a good option as well. Just curious about the answer to this from the comic horse's mouth (did we never get a horse character?!) Thanks always for bringing joy to me and many others. The french fry strip is high art. (Or at the very least, the highest of low art. Maybe we can split the difference and call it medium art. Though I think if you were to apply the high classification that would be perfectly acceptable.) xo and thanks again Soda Man
Datura
2024-04-01 15:46:25 +0000 UTCYay the banter is fully back!
Luke Harper
2024-03-30 15:47:04 +0000 UTCDidn’t see that last panel comin at all, and it was perfect.
Cody Richmond
2024-03-30 12:59:24 +0000 UTCJesus Christ each panel goes harder than the previous
Lionstooth
2024-03-30 02:36:19 +0000 UTCMolly is trying to eat "clean" these days, so she ordered the poke bowl that uses watermelon in place of tuna. Roast Beef had the smash burger and fries with the bottomless cobbler sundae for dessert because he is a hypocrite.
Jacquelyn R Walters
2024-03-30 00:29:05 +0000 UTCMOLLY. Delivering the punchline that is both funny and fucking depressing. Oh Molly, I'm so sorry this is where you wound up.
Jacquelyn R Walters
2024-03-30 00:24:50 +0000 UTCThird panel Ray is so happy I love it
Meadow Green
2024-03-29 23:30:38 +0000 UTCOutstanding Onstad <3
trashdo
2024-03-29 23:26:53 +0000 UTCThis reminds me of when Roseanne came back on TV and the old cast members were mean to each other with fresh jokes that made me sad for the time when I enjoyed watching it because nothing else was on TV.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-03-29 23:20:48 +0000 UTC"click-pimp" is going in my glove compartment
Don Rowe
2024-03-29 22:28:01 +0000 UTCBetween his depression and stomach issues and general cheapness, I think Beef probably got some plain pasta noodles with some olive oil (not butter) on top. This is on the kids menu but not the main menu, but Molly sweet-talked the waitress into letting him have a "full size" portion. In practice he'd have been ok with the kid-size portion anyway.
Aaron Kimball
2024-03-29 22:15:15 +0000 UTCBeef got a burger with absolutely nothing on it. Just meat and bun. Molly got Southwestern Chicken Strip Salad, dressing on the side.
Jeff Holt
2024-03-29 21:31:42 +0000 UTCI just love the fact that Ray took the time to garnish his bottomless cobbler sundae, will he save the flag and re-use on his next bowl??
C C
2024-03-29 20:57:18 +0000 UTCRoast Beef ordered a lean pork dish that the kitchen got wrong, so he agonized over whether to eat it or send it back. In the end he just picked at his side of asparagus, asked for a to go box, and threw his entree away in the bathroom trash.
Stephen Heintz
2024-03-29 20:34:28 +0000 UTCRoast Beef would order today's special of goulash but would end up eating the saltines that came with Molly's soup instead.
Amy Lewis
2024-03-29 20:27:28 +0000 UTCMolly wanted something nice for going out for lunch so she got a soup and salad, Caesar and vegetable, and spoiled herself by also getting a half honey ham and swiss. Roast beef , not trusting a sit down restaurant with a mascot ordered a plain water grilled cheese that came with a small pre-packaged bag of chips. Each item simple enough to inspect for any foul play.
NotAnon
2024-03-29 20:26:09 +0000 UTCMy hunch is that Molly had something like trout with a baked potato and unsweetened iced tea.
Stephen Heintz
2024-03-29 20:21:02 +0000 UTCBeef: A single slice of toast, a smiley face drawn on it in the wrong kind of ketchup. Next to it, two lemon slices and a single poached egg, no pepper. The cook spilled a drop of molten butter on one corner of the toast which has caused the smile to run and it now has the appearance of Dracula's O-face. Molly had the blue plate special, hold the corn.
Funkulus
2024-03-29 20:14:31 +0000 UTCI just watched what I thought was a pretty modest lunch jack my Continuous Glucose Monitor just south of 200, so I ain't handicapping anyone's order. I passed up the Cacio e Pepe Roast Potatoes and everything.
blair
2024-03-29 20:12:35 +0000 UTCI think Roast Beef's tummy would be too upset to eat. He might order something just to choke it down in front of Molly. My guess? They split a cobb salad, then got a sugar cookie* on the way out to the parking lot. *It has a smiley face on it
Nathaniel Keen
2024-03-29 19:52:18 +0000 UTCDamn, this has Implications for my own life
RBM
2024-03-29 19:50:50 +0000 UTCBeef ordered a “third cheapest item on the menu”. Everyone knows that the second cheapest is a trap for dudes who don’t want to look cheap by ordering the actual cheapest thing on the menu, and his General Ways make ordering the actual cheapest thing a shameful decision as well. Molly had the pot roast sandwich.
professor husband
2024-03-29 19:04:26 +0000 UTCthis is a heater
Brent Karwatowski
2024-03-29 18:41:00 +0000 UTCRay WOULD be into TikTok. TikTok is like if Ray Smuckles were a platform.
Oppido
2024-03-29 18:32:51 +0000 UTCI don't know what beef ordered, but do know that he was not in a good enough mood to do the hamburger with no fries thing from his childhood books. Does he feel shame that he ever did it at all? Perhaps.
kdusjjdhxksj
2024-03-29 18:31:33 +0000 UTCIn my kitchen there’s a drawer dedicated to tiny American flags.
souvlaki Alabama
2024-03-29 18:27:07 +0000 UTCDJ Ray got pretty chubby this year
Finbar Clougherty
2024-03-29 17:54:35 +0000 UTCFuck diabetes on a Friday and every other day. Diabetes is not invited to my bottomless cobbler sundae party.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-03-29 17:52:03 +0000 UTCToo much truth all at once, too raw
Matthew Harris
2024-03-29 17:51:51 +0000 UTCmolly dropping a hard truth
Zen Window
2024-03-29 17:51:08 +0000 UTCA masterpiece
Lennon McAuliffe
2024-03-29 17:43:00 +0000 UTCI feel like this hot sauce was researched on the internet as a low-sodium alternative to Tapatio. Beef does not like it, but is committed to finishing it.
A. Hamster
2024-03-29 17:38:21 +0000 UTCI used to know a guy who insisted that to test out the quality of any restaurant you should order a dish of scrambled eggs, unseasoned, because there's "nothing to hide behind"
Sedric And Charlie
2024-03-29 17:36:31 +0000 UTCMaybe he's not quite at "thanked mushrooms in water" but he's on that trajectory.
Oppido
2024-03-29 17:35:39 +0000 UTCI feel that Scobler’s would be a place of calorie dishes, crafted from wet and dry applications of bleached flour. Molly has divorced herself from her religious upbringing, yet still finds comfort in some of the traditions. It is a Friday during Lent, so she orders the fried cod with buttermilk biscuits and French fries as her two Country Sides. Beef orders plain white toast and a Diet Coke.
A. Hamster
2024-03-29 17:35:14 +0000 UTCBeef: Some kind of grilled chicken breast with mashed potatoes. In the end, he left a halo of uneaten meat and potatoes where the side salad touched it, because he knows Scobler's relies on pre-washed lettuce, but all sorts of contaminants can re-enter the salad between the factory rinse and his plate. Molly: Liver and onions, being the closest thing to the hearty offal fare she grew up with. Beef needles her that no-one ever orders the liver, so it's probably been sitting in the fridge for a whole week.
Ste & Danni JM
2024-03-29 17:35:12 +0000 UTCMolly is back, with a zinger!
Walter Biggins
2024-03-29 17:33:57 +0000 UTCMolly w/ the slam dunk on this FYF
Cf Duddy
2024-03-29 17:33:16 +0000 UTCThose three beautiful magic words: bottomless cobbler sundae.
EndgamerAzari
2024-03-29 17:32:42 +0000 UTCWhatever became of Nice Pete's rewrite of the Bible starring Ray as the New Jesus https://achewood.com/2007/01/22/title.html
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2024-03-29 17:31:54 +0000 UTCI think we saw with T what happens when Ray helps someone "get psychiatry"
GruntyGinMan
2024-03-29 17:31:39 +0000 UTCMolly! ❤️
Ismini Roller
2024-03-29 17:29:28 +0000 UTCCalamity Junkie enamel pin, please.
Erik Dunham
2024-03-29 17:21:11 +0000 UTCIt's a Heavily Encoded "I Love You" Friday
Oppido
2024-03-29 17:20:11 +0000 UTCStarting to think Teodor the right-thing-to-say-knower might really have been the better choice for Molly, here.
Oppido
2024-03-29 17:18:41 +0000 UTCgo suck off a lemon dick is gonna live in my brain for a little while
Alex Kay
2024-03-29 17:18:22 +0000 UTCBeef and Molly’s turn is one of the Actual Saddest Things in a litany of other ones.
Alex Russell
2024-03-29 17:18:11 +0000 UTCBeef: Egg whites. Pepper, no salt. Rye toast. They give him two slices, but he only eats half a slice. Sometimes he adds hot sauce, but it's from a bottle that he himself has brought from home, and he has to be sneaky about it because it gives him an upset stomach and he's cranky all day. He hates it when Molly reminds him of that fact, and, in turn, of his own crumbling body, the ever-ongoing march he makes towards the grave, and how if he's lucky his death will be via a sniper bullet to the brain that will steal the kill from the Big A. As such, he tries to sneak the sauce (artisanal, more vinegar than pepper-forward, not a good addition to a proper meal but fine for what Beef decides to feed himself) onto the eggs. Molly can see it happening and generally decides to say nothing. Beef knows that Molly knows, and each time knows that this may be the day that he gets called out for his tragic attempts at subterfuge, and that the ensuing argument would be the thing that leads to a week of sleeping alone that turns into a month and a lawyer and a one-man dinner date of sleeping pills in the nearest creek bed. I feel as though Molly orders corned beef, because she thinks it tastes good.
Distant Egg Song
2024-03-29 17:15:50 +0000 UTCThere’s our girl!
Elyse
2024-03-29 17:15:31 +0000 UTCFucking hell beef
Ben Wissett
2024-03-29 17:12:31 +0000 UTCAvacado toast on dry whole grain.
boothnavy
2024-03-29 17:11:04 +0000 UTCYou've still got it, Onstad.
Josh Egbert
2024-03-29 17:09:42 +0000 UTCBeef ordered a plain egg white omelette, hold the flavor
Alex McCown
2024-03-29 17:07:07 +0000 UTC
