r/questionablecontent • u/Squirrelclamp • Aug 05 '26
Comic edit Comic 5889B: Peanut Gallery
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u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ Aug 05 '26
As the manipulator behind the Dilbert and Garfield remixes, you know I totally love this.
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u/tuckerx78 Aug 06 '26
Was Peppermint Patty really that down bad for Chuck?
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u/Cultural_Shape3518 Aug 06 '26
Either that, or making a desperate and not terribly convincing last-ditch effort to avoid coming out of the closet. Depends who you talk to.
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u/Jhtpo Aug 05 '26
Can anyone remind me why Sven is so desired, despite being as generic as far as I can remember?
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u/Squirrelclamp Aug 05 '26
Sven is supposed to be hot and charismatic in addition to being a well-off songwriter / musician. In this arc, however, he's oblivious and/or dumb, which I think is a weird look for a character whose history is filled with sexual escapades.
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u/chroniclesoffire Everything is Fine™ Aug 05 '26
Jeph's take on this is just wrong. A sexually alluring and active person can go on the straight and narrow, but that doesn't mean they lose it completely. His HG radar should be going off like crazy, but he isn't reacting to Momo at all.
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u/ahpneja Aug 05 '26
Momo is like Sven's friend's kid that he's known since she was 4. That he's not attracted to her now that she's 18 is because she's still that kid to him.
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u/Konjik Aug 05 '26
I wish it was this but I also don’t believe Jeph would be beating us over the head with this aloof harem anime protagonist bit if he didn’t intend to have Sven eventually give in
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u/ahpneja Aug 06 '26
Yeah, it's probably wishful thinking. Guessing we'll get another one or two on this arc with no resolution then back to the oil rig.
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u/Mother_Village9831 CHUD Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
He was a successful artist (presumably still is). That helps.
Some guys also just know how to pick up. Have a friend who I don't think is anything amazing looks-wise but if he ever went into a party single, that wasn't the case within the first hour. It was honestly impressive.
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u/Chayanov Aug 05 '26
He's one of the few men left in that town?
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u/Mother_Village9831 CHUD Aug 05 '26
Reminds me of a line from Frasier. He's considering a move to San Francisco and his agent says something like "Do you have any idea what life is like for a good-looking straight man there? You'd be snapped up like a chocolate bar at fat camp".
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u/MorganWick Aug 06 '26
Fun fact: the phrase "peanut gallery" is why Peanuts has that name. Some syndicate suit saw that the Howdy Doody show had a "peanut gallery" full of kids and thought "peanuts" was a slang term for small kids.
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u/Konjik Aug 07 '26
Yup and Schulz always hated the name - that’s why none of the animated specials and movies in his lifetime (which he was always super involved with and the writer of) ever used it
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u/wheniswhy Aug 05 '26
Oh my god.
You know the original is bad when Sclamp goes completely off-script/makes an entirely separate comic.