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by Paul Taylor on February 10, 2011 at 12:00 am
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  1. ShadOBabe
    February 10, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    PIE!!! XD

    • SoWhyMe
      February 10, 2011, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      Just one slice. Did they all lose their appitites? Even Tina seems to have lost her cheerful disposition as quickly as it came. I guess that Monica can be a real downer sometimes.

      • Eee
        February 10, 2011, 8:52 am | #

        Tina might be cutting the pie in that scene. That’s an activity where you tend to stop smiling and focus, both because you want the slices to all be the same size and you don’t want to cut off any fingers. Especially yours…

      • illiad
        February 10, 2011, 7:10 pm | #

        I’m sure you must have seen this scene on TV… Why show the pie all cut up, on plates, when it is much better to show the *start* of ‘dishing out’ the pie…

    • Akamar
      February 10, 2011, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      :3 Pie~

      • Fatuncle
        February 10, 2011, 4:54 am | #

        “A good Pi makes the world go round!”
        – Archimedes

      • Xiutecuhtli
        February 10, 2011, 6:44 am | #

        When come back, bring pie.

      • The Old Wolf
        February 10, 2011, 6:47 am | #

        Me like pie…

      • ShadOBabe
        February 10, 2011, 9:10 am | #

        Everyone loves pie!! XD

      • MerchManDan
        February 10, 2011, 7:19 pm | #

        Yes!

    • CeltJono
      February 12, 2011, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

      You seem to like.. Pie…

      • ChaoticBlues
        February 15, 2011, 6:03 pm | #

        Pie can make it all better!

  2. Jim
    February 10, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Love the expressions. The apple pie looks tasty, too!

    • Bucc-i
      February 10, 2011, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think thats apple pie. I am hoping its peach! My fav.

      • Paula
        February 10, 2011, 1:38 am | #

        I don’t think i have ever tried peach pie.
        is it just peach or other fruit/spices added?

      • Fatuncle
        February 10, 2011, 5:21 am | #

        Both. Cooks dot com has several recipes, both plain peach and such variations as peach-and-strawberry.

      • Fatuncle
        February 10, 2011, 6:30 am | #

        Whoops, sorry.

        http://www.cooks.com/

      • Julie
        February 10, 2011, 12:24 pm | #

        As much as I love peach pie, I’d rather she have something more fun…like strawberry rhubarb. 🙂

      • Fairportfan
        February 10, 2011, 12:32 pm | #

        So would Terre Roche…

      • Fairportfan
        February 10, 2011, 12:33 pm | #

        Oh, no wait – i think that was strawberry apricot pie…

      • bmonk
        February 10, 2011, 3:13 pm | #

        I agree. I’m also partial to apple custard. (If you want another type, ask again in five minutes.)

      • bmonk
        February 10, 2011, 5:29 pm | #

        Now it’s Juneberry. With a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

      • Artemisia
        February 10, 2011, 9:22 pm | #

        Lemon meringue, Apple, or Strawberry rhubarb pie… mmmm I’m getting hungry just thinking about it

    • Jim
      February 10, 2011, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      SNIFF! SNIFF!

      Mmmmm. Smells like apple pie, to me. 🙂

  3. ProleBoi
    February 10, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Apple pie really DOES make everything more manageable, BTW. In a pill, it’d be the antidepressant of choice 🙂

    • Paula
      February 10, 2011, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      Only if its warm and smothered with pouring cream (personally).

      • hswoolve
        February 10, 2011, 12:28 pm | #

        For myself, I’d lean towards clotted cream (same thing?) or some french vanilla ice cream myself on top of warm apple pie.

    • kramegame
      February 10, 2011, 11:16 am | # | Reply

      Are you suggesting we make pie flavored medicine? that would be fantastic

      • MerchManDan
        February 10, 2011, 7:10 pm | #

        As a Space Cadet, “you could pop a pill that tastes like pumpkin pie…”
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ahWWH0lB0

    • Artemisia
      February 10, 2011, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

      GENIUS alert the Doctors we will enter a day where doctors prescribe apple pie… it’s so crazy it just might work

  4. ProleBoi
    February 10, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    The use of past tense here is interesting… almost as if we’re witnessing a flashback. Hmm…

    • ProleBoi
      February 10, 2011, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      …and I love the sulky expression on Shelly’s face.

      • Paula
        February 10, 2011, 1:48 am | #

        ‘its my punch up and i’ll sulk if i want too’ 🙂

      • SoWhyMe
        February 10, 2011, 2:17 am | #

        ♪♪♪ Sulk if I want to
        Sulk if I want to ♪♪♪
        You would sulk too if she tried to kill you … ♪♪♫♪

    • Jabberwonky
      February 10, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      The dialog and the fact that it is separated from the speaking panels gives it an odd distance.
      I like sulky Shelly, too.

  5. Atomic
    February 10, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    C’mon now…. Group Hug!

    • MerchManDan
      February 10, 2011, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

      They just had one a couple of strips ago. Of course, I wouldn’t object to another.

  6. Fairportfan
    February 10, 2011, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    You know – if that pie is stiff/strong enough for that knife to stand up that way at that angle … i’d be real careful just how i bit into it at first…

    • Jabberwonky
      February 10, 2011, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      A firm pie is a well packed pie…

    • D. Walker
      February 10, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      No, it works if the pie is thick enough. I just did it myself in my kitchen with a leftover half-a-pie.

      The crust is supporting some of the weight of the knife, but serves more to keep it from slipping. Most of the support actually comes from the thick, gooey, viscous fluid filling. Plunge a knife into jello, it stays. Similar sort of situation, particularly if you hit a nice chunk of fruit or something to weigh the tip down even more.

      Not to say it’s terribly stable, but it will stand for several minutes with no trouble, and possibly for hours. Chill it and it could last a lot longer.

      ~D.

      • Fairportfan
        February 10, 2011, 1:25 am | #

        But the way it’s leaning is putting the full weight of the handle (which, if it’s a good knife, is a solid chunk of wood) on the edge against the filling/crust, and the angle it’s leaning at will cause it to cut more readily…

      • txmystic
        February 10, 2011, 6:58 am | #

        For goodness sake, Fairportfan, it’s PIE!!! Delicious, gooey, pie that is thick enough to hold the chunkiest of cutlery…

      • Julie
        February 10, 2011, 12:27 pm | #

        Actually, if it’s a good knife, it wouldn’t be a solid wood handle. The tang would continue all the way through the hande, and the wood (or other grip material) would just be sandwiched on either side. 😛

      • Fairportfan
        February 10, 2011, 12:32 pm | #

        Okay. Speaking metaphorically there…

      • Opus the Poet
        February 10, 2011, 10:15 pm | #

        Actually that’s a couple of chunks of wood in a good knife, on either side of the full tang.

      • Paula
        February 10, 2011, 1:50 am | #

        I have to ask.

        Was it the comic that made you eat the pie or just coincidence.

      • jae
        February 10, 2011, 7:12 am | #

        You just *had* to describe the pie in such a visceral way, did you? Man, now I want pie. 3.14159265 There, yummy!

    • Jay-Em
      February 10, 2011, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      Apparently You never tried my Mom’s rhubarb-pie. Firm, whole-grain pastry with deliciously sweet rhubarb/vanilla pudding filling. It could not only hold a knife up straight, but also could function as a foundation for a house.

  7. SoWhyMe
    February 10, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    You know, now that I think about it, “the pie is a lie” would have been catchier. But they didn’t consult me.

    • txmystic
      February 10, 2011, 6:59 am | # | Reply

      NO, the cake was indeed a lie, hence the pie…

    • kramegame
      February 10, 2011, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

      no. the cake is a lie.
      the pie is a lie is too poetic.

    • Artemisia
      February 11, 2011, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

      but they don’t got no pancake mix,
      hence the Pancake mix is also a lie

  8. DJ
    February 10, 2011, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Mmmmmmmmm… pie!

  9. Little Sister
    February 10, 2011, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Is that a slice of humble pie?

    • Fatuncle
      February 10, 2011, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      Technically, humble pie is a meat pie, made from the umbles, or leftover parts of the animal that the poor could afford. The term is medieval in origin.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_pie

    • Xiutecuhtli
      February 10, 2011, 6:46 am | # | Reply

      I just checked with Marriott and Frampton. They said no.

      • Fatuncle
        February 10, 2011, 4:02 pm | #

        Thank goodness for Google – I hadn’t a clue about what you were saying, not being a fan of that kind of music.

  10. Little Sister
    February 10, 2011, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    It should be from the expressions I see.

    • ProleBoi
      February 10, 2011, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      Well, Tina’s, anyway. M appears to be trying to smooth ruffled feathers, while Shelly is feeling angry and (at least a bit) manipulated, at a guess. Granted, that’s a lot to get from facial expressions; I think Nudge is still there, but out of view, as no pie has been eaten… and Nudge usually isn’t known for either her tact or manners.

  11. NOTDilbert
    February 10, 2011, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    TOLD ya. Pie solves so much.

    • NOTDilbert
      February 10, 2011, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      Hmm, the backgroud of the second text box looks very Celtic, not Messoamerican………foreshadowing?

      • ProleBoi
        February 10, 2011, 2:08 am | #

        Today’s strip definitely exudes a grimness, a sort of ‘veteran home from the war’ vibe. Almost foreboding, as opposed to foreshadowing. It’s very still, yet builds tension. Did I ever mention how much I like this strip?

      • Xiutecuhtli
        February 10, 2011, 7:02 am | #

        Yes–IIRC, that’s a fragment of one of the Gospel pages in the Book of Kells.

      • Danzier
        February 10, 2011, 3:28 pm | #

        Which is an awesome movie that I reccommend everyone watch! 😀

        (No, nobody paid me to say that. It’s my genuine opinion.)

    • Jay-Em
      February 10, 2011, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

      It used to in our family……

      • Jay-Em
        February 10, 2011, 12:21 pm | #

        “Pie-solutions” I meant…

  12. Paula
    February 10, 2011, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Im just going to assume thats the 2nd pie tina has gotten out. They have already consumed one.

    Nudge looks like she has left the building so would explain the reactions of Shelly and Tina. Theyve both calmed down from their nudge rage and are remorseful/reflectful. Tina because she doesn’t want to hurt anyone (remember how freaked she was when she found out she ‘might’ have? – before she was told she had done..) and was about to knock heck out of someone – even if it was a trickster demi-goddess. Shelly cuz Monica yelled at her without seemingly wanting to know why Shelly was angry and lets face it, Shelly in the past (from what I recall) has had a tendancy to overreact but she has gotten better so Monica was treating her like she was the ‘old’ Shelly and not the shiney new improved Shelly.

    Either way the speech Monica just gave, the recent story line has taken me to not liking Monica to really liking her again – so Kudos Mr Taylor 🙂

    • Julie
      February 10, 2011, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      Or perhaps Nudge will open her mouth in tomorrow’s page, and we’ll see that she was trying not to draw attention to herself until the knife was safely out of Tina’s hands.

  13. The Origami Guy
    February 10, 2011, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    And so our intrepid cartoonist has offered us… a piece of the pie….

  14. The Old Wolf
    February 10, 2011, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    Me want new Wapsi book…

  15. txmystic
    February 10, 2011, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    Funny the Celtic background is mentioned…The text of that particular frame is meant to get everyone looking forward…towrds the challenges and adventures suggested by the background. Well done!

    And I do not get a sence of forboding as much as anticipation, but I’m a natural optimist…

  16. jae
    February 10, 2011, 7:27 am | # | Reply

    Nice strip, Pablo. As I was reading and scrolling down… hmm, no Nudge. And then the knive, sticking out of something… *ah* it’s just pie. Nice flow, really well done.

  17. W.
    February 10, 2011, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    That’s the most subdued I’ve ever seen Tina. Shelly is in a very closed stance. Nudge is nowhere to be seen. I wonder if she rebuffed the pie and left? All in all, a very big contrast to how this scene started with Tina and Shelly in a good mood having a nice chat about a stone and whether or not Tina was getting any.

  18. bmonk
    February 10, 2011, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    I just wanna know: in order to get a piece of the pie, do I have to answer a trivia question correctly?

    • dadman
      February 10, 2011, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      Three questions, actually:
      1] What is your name?
      B] What is your quest?
      iii] What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

      • Danzier
        February 10, 2011, 3:33 pm | #

        What do you mean–an African or a European swallow?

      • illiad
        February 11, 2011, 4:21 am | #

        No 2.The larch.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4

    • Danzier
      February 10, 2011, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

      Yes. Here’s your question:
      What is a lie?
      A. Cake
      B. Pie
      C. Peach Cobbler
      D. Santa Clause
      You have 5 seconds…Go!

      • bmonk
        February 10, 2011, 5:30 pm | #

        A purple spotted giraffe looks out the rain-speckled window.

      • bmonk
        February 10, 2011, 5:32 pm | #

        (I hope that gets me the chartreuse-colored slice of pie…)

      • SoWhyMe
        February 10, 2011, 7:57 pm | #

        But, the chartreuse color is from the fuzzy mold growing on it.

  19. Jay-Em
    February 10, 2011, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

    Well..Monica-Mom has reason enter the quarrelsome 3 again.

    I wonder where Nudge went. Orr is she just rubbing her sore body, waiting to antagonize everyone again?

  20. Computer Matthew
    February 10, 2011, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

    So what’s it feel like being a GGG?
    Do it feel like warm apple pie?

  21. kingklash
    February 10, 2011, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

    -?-
    Nudge Pie?

    “Something always goes wrong when it gets to the blueberries. Oh, well. I’ll get it right sometime…”

    • dadman
      February 10, 2011, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

      She had it coming. Stupid gum-chewer. 🙂

      • Danzier
        February 10, 2011, 3:35 pm | #

        I always thought the bigger problem was that he said not to try it and she grabbed it anyway.

        She still deserved it.

      • kramegame
        February 10, 2011, 4:34 pm | #

        Damn, now i want pie and to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory….

      • kingklash
        February 11, 2011, 11:35 am | #

        The problem was she was a Nit-Wit.

  22. Jim
    February 10, 2011, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

    Okay. Now I’m hungry for some warm pie, and a big cup ‘o joe.

  23. Spirit of the Chihuahua
    February 10, 2011, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

    The amount estrogen I’ve been getting from the recent strips has been enough to jump start my period. What happened to all of the guys? Why do we mainly see them when one of the girls is about to get laid? Any way we can get a brief return of Owen? Or the wise bar guy we haven’t seen in ages? Or even Topez?

    • SoWhyMe
      February 10, 2011, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

      Wrong strip for a testosterone fix. The males are all bit players in this drama. In many ways this is a “chick flick” kind of thing with just enough action to keep it interesting. Of course there is also the fan-friggin-tastic plot and art. I also like the occasional “cute” and frequent humor. Also, it’s the females, for once, taking the lumps.

      • Spirit of the Chihuahua
        February 11, 2011, 5:32 am | #

        I’ve read this in the beginning and it catered to the ‘Chick flick’ ideal and the guys were around even as the plot began to develop. It’s just sad to see the guys usually on their backs in bed or on the floor.

  24. Lee
    February 10, 2011, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

    You know, I never noticed that Tina’s place had Aztec-themed tablecloths before. Or is that a Formica top? Either way, somebody’s now certain to tell me it’s been seen in 300 previous strips and I just haven’t noticed.

    • SoWhyMe
      February 10, 2011, 8:03 pm | # | Reply

      I’m afraid so. As best I recall, it showed up right after the first appearance of Nudge (While she was still in Tina).

  25. Alex
    February 10, 2011, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

    I vote that it’s Multipie

    Each slice is whatever the slicer most desires at that moment.

    • SoWhyMe
      February 10, 2011, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

      So someone can slice off a piece stuffed with thousand dollar bils? Or maybe 24k gold?

      • Opus the Poet
        February 10, 2011, 10:20 pm | #

        That magic is food only. 😛

  26. chuck
    February 10, 2011, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

    Is no one curious about the flashback commentary saying that they became something due to “multiple Brandi’s plan”? That she didn;t feel the need to apologize? Does anyone feel like it makes Brandi sound like she’s going to turn bad? In a maniacal way?

    I hope I’m just reading too much into it. I like Brandi too much to watch her become a bad person (bad construct…. whatever!)

    • ProleBoi
      February 11, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Wasn’t it Brandi who wrote the book to instruct herself that Phix knew was in the Library, and that inadvertently recorded many of her iterations?

      Sorry, that was a tortured sentence, I know.

      • ProleBoi
        February 11, 2011, 12:33 am | #

        For the iteration-recording, I’m thinking of when in one strip she presses a leaf in the book, and in another, she holds the book up and many leaves fall out.

  27. mattjaco
    February 11, 2011, 10:41 am | # | Reply

    Pie is a metaphor. All those individual apples, becoming part of a larger whole- different than any individual apple. (Chopping and peeling required.)

  28. Centaur1971
    February 11, 2011, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

    Speaking of pie, it looked like Shelly was ready to start a rhubarb at any moment.

  29. GaijinGuy
    May 30, 2012, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

    The cake may be a lie, but the pie is delicious.

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