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Schnitzelbank

by Paul Taylor on October 30, 2017 at 8:09 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Atsali, Castela, Nadette, Skylar
Location: Franz's Tokyo Beer Garden, Gilchrist Home

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Discussion (51) ¬

  1. Jeff Weiner
    October 30, 2017, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

    Gee, I hope Atsali calms Nadette’s worries, with a nice, big stein of their best beer on a surprise visit.

  2. All-Purpose Guru
    October 30, 2017, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    Oh. My. God.

    College life comes SLAMMIN’ home.

    • Akamar
      October 31, 2017, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      College was NOTHING like this for me…

      • All-Purpose Guru
        October 31, 2017, 1:40 am | #

        We didn’t have actual succubi but some of the girls I knew came DAMN close. My school was one of the top party schools in the U.S.

      • Random Guy
        October 31, 2017, 3:47 pm | #

        BYU was not nearly this much fun

    • Akamar
      October 31, 2017, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

      I think BYU tries not to be that much fun? I dunno, I didn’t make it in. Just as well.
      I went to a local community college and an art institute. I think we were all too broke to do this.
      Or I was just too insanely busy/tired to notice any of this.

      • Hadrian
        June 11, 2021, 11:28 pm | #

        Yeah, “the no-fun-allowed ‘university'” is pretty much the unofficial nickname of BYU, AFAIK, and I know that despite being neither USian nor Mormon ^^” (though I have to admit that keeping an eye on fundies and on ‘Murikan politics is a big hobby of mine)

  3. All-Purpose Guru
    October 30, 2017, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

    …and, for those of you not familiar with the song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7aAV5XHUkE

    • Avenger Reloaded
      October 30, 2017, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks Guru. Context is appreciated.
      I am curious as to why Atsali thought she needed the job given the other info just introduced.
      To me it seems like she’s just making sure her roomie is not alone. At least she’s having fun with it.

      • All-Purpose Guru
        October 31, 2017, 12:05 am | #

        I have a feeling that Atsali and Skylar are mainly doing this because it’s a fun thing to do. Relatively safe, make good money, spend some time partying with the locals.

        We know that ‘Sali doesn’t need money but Skylar is probably less well off.

      • The Aussie Bloke
        October 31, 2017, 8:10 pm | #

        Probably wanting that bit of independence, the feeling of not relying on family for money. God knows I could do with some of that right now…

    • All-Purpose Guru
      October 30, 2017, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

      For those of you who know me, you KNOW I would have pulled up the Animaniacs version of the song…

      • Dennis
        October 31, 2017, 8:41 am | #

        What the hell are you talking about. There is no other version other than the Animaniacs version.

        NO OTHER VERSIONS!

    • B0mar
      October 31, 2017, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Heh!

    • Forewarned76
      October 31, 2017, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

      Why can I see the girls doing the last part as a First Strike on a rude customer

    • Bergfried von Gestern
      November 2, 2017, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      I’m deeply dismayed how those Animaniacs turned this children’s song into a stripper tune.

    • Hinoron
      March 24, 2021, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, the Animaniacs is where I remember hearing it as a kid.

  4. BuccaneerRex
    October 30, 2017, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

    That’s some international friendship song!

  5. Robert Nowall
    October 30, 2017, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

    Boy, whoever quoted that yesterday sure called it.

  6. Tiger tomcat
    October 30, 2017, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

    Hopefully ‘Sali has her siren powers under control, otherwise there might be a lot of soreheaded salarymen from drinking to much brau und schnapps. 😁😄😋

    • Hinoron
      October 30, 2017, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

      Pretty sure she does by now. We saw her struggling with it more as a Jr. High student.

  7. jwhouk
    October 30, 2017, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

    EI DU SCHOENE
    EI DU SCHOENE
    EI DU SCHOENE
    SCHNITZELBANK!

    • Sunny
      November 1, 2017, 4:47 pm | # | Reply

      A wedding ring is a dangerous thing.

  8. gyrre
    October 30, 2017, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

    That’d be interesting to hear with Japanese mixed in.

    • Random Guy
      October 31, 2017, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

      AI DU SHONEN
      AI DU SHONEN
      AI DU SHONEN
      SHNITZLE-KUN

  9. All-Purpose Guru
    October 31, 2017, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Check out http://www.marycagle.com for another cartoonist’s opinions of life in Japan. Especially the bar life (toward the end of the run.) Mary Cagle taught English in Japan for several years and documented the experience in this comic. (Check out her other comics, too!)

  10. A.Sarras
    October 31, 2017, 6:52 am | # | Reply

    Sorry, but WTF is a “Schnitzelbank”???

    This from an Austrian …

    • Dave
      October 31, 2017, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      Literally a “chip bench” or “shaving bench”. In English it’s called a “shaving horse”. In either language, it’s a tool used by woodworkers of various sorts. It clamps a piece of wood in place so you can shave and shape it with a drawknife.

      • A.Sarras
        November 2, 2017, 6:03 am | #

        So, for those native German speakers it would be “Hobelbank” …
        Except Swiss ones, but well “native speakers” 😉

    • Michael
      October 31, 2017, 9:56 am | # | Reply

      same here. Never heard that “Schnitzelbank” before and I am from germany.
      But I counter with:
      O du schö-ö-ö-ner We-e-e-sterwald, Eukalyptusbonbon.

    • Paul Taylor
      October 31, 2017, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzelbank

  11. The Old Wolf
    October 31, 2017, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    Ist das nicht ein Otto von Schnitzelpußkrankengescheitmeier?
    Ja das ist ein Otto von Schnitzelpußkrankengescheitmeier?
    Ist das nicht ein terribly long name to have to try and say?
    Ja das ist ein terribly long name to have to try and say?
    O du schöner
    O du schöner
    O du schöner
    Schnitzelbank!

    • All-Purpose Guru
      February 22, 2018, 2:26 am | # | Reply

      Thank you SO much for spelling that, I would have NEVER gotten it right. I don’t even know how to type an esszet on this silly keyboard.

  12. archer
    October 31, 2017, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    why is her tail showing?

    • Great Scott
      October 31, 2017, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      because it wants to…

    • wildfox
      October 31, 2017, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      It’s a para themed bar. Imagine not having to hide your true form and the local populous thinks it’s a supernatural costume. Sort of like having a vampire work at a Halloween store. Hiding in plain site. It’s brilliant actually. Having people blind themselves to the truth because of preconceived notions.

      I wonder if one of the non paras figures it out that the Backfire Effect would invalidate the truth for him/her.

    • Sheik
      October 31, 2017, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      I believe there may be a horn showing as well.

  13. Reb
    October 31, 2017, 11:10 am | # | Reply

    OK – I’m curious. I speak German (fluently, as in, every day) and have NO idea what a Schnitzelbank is. Schnitzel is meat (usually pork) breaded and fried in a frying pan. A bank is a bank (as in $$) or a bench. Or is the point that it means nothing?

    • Paul Taylor
      October 31, 2017, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzelbank

      • Reb
        November 5, 2017, 4:35 pm | #

        Thanks!
        Definitely a German-American thing, seems to have died out in Germany (I asked around a bit). I’ve noticed that happens a lot – the traditions that our immigrant forefathers clung to and taught us faithfully have long since been dropped by the people in the countries they originated from. But who cares? FUN!

  14. Vorlonagent
    October 31, 2017, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    Astali probably gets great tips too. Mythbusers did an experiment to see if bust size affected tips and had their girl working a small shop like a sandwich shop two different days. One “stock” the next with a bit of help. She got better tips for the same job when bustified. From women as well as men.

    Yeah sure that’s the US, but are things that different in Japan?

    • Sheik
      October 31, 2017, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

      It’s worse in Japan if their anime is any indication.
      The Astoundingly Bountiful Bust is one of the top ten worst cliches in anime.

    • Correllian
      October 31, 2017, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

      IIRC, though I could be wrong, tipping isn’t really the norm in Japan.

    • All-Purpose Guru
      February 22, 2018, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      There is a restaurant in Hawaii and Japan called Anna Miller’s where the uniform is um, designed to show off one’s bust.

      It’s not a “breasturant” like Hooter’s or Twin Peaks but from what I’ve heard the attitudes are just as bad, it just has slightly more modest dress, as one would expect in Japan.

  15. MidnightDStroyer
    October 31, 2017, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, it sure looks like Atsali got a crappy job.
    Yeah, it sure looks like she hates it.

    (He said, voice dripping with sarcasm)

    • Guesticus
      November 2, 2017, 6:56 pm | # | Reply

      Dette doesn’t know what job she has

  16. Forewarned76
    October 31, 2017, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    The only thing Atsali hates about her job is when her Dirndl explodes from too much bouncing

    • Michael Birks
      November 1, 2017, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      One word. “Lydia”.

      • All-Purpose Guru
        February 22, 2018, 2:33 am | #

        Didn’t Aunt Monica take her there at least once? I remember something about carbon fiber and nanotubes.

  17. Guesticus
    November 2, 2017, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

    As other have said, Sali isn’t working because she needs the money, she’s doing it be supportive of her new friend and to be more sociable

  18. Centaur71
    April 18, 2022, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

    Dammit, now I’m thirsty for a pint…

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