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mr_pete » pro 2 years ago
I am with you, Beef. These are low narrations and untrue.
zulko » neu 2 years ago
They are a dog's narrations.
actualtaunt » pro 1 years ago
Those narrations are worst song, played on ugliest guitar
radarjammer » neu 1 years ago
I got to admit, seeing Bowie's narration would be interesting yet scary.

"aaaht-aht-aht-ah!"
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
I had Bowie's version when I was a kid, the only part he narrates is the beginning where he explains what instrument represents each character. Personally, I want Keith Richards to narrate. I would buy that in a fucking heartbeat.
shmuckeles » neu 2 years ago
if those ones don't take your fancy, you could always try the Sean Connery (1971) or Patrick Stewart (1994) version
mortshire » pro 2 years ago
only through the anonymity of internet can I admit that I had this:
[IMGS OFF]
ghostd » pro 2 years ago
I'm sold, given all of the characters are represented by a voice going "na na na na naaaa" and the wolf meets Peter by coming through the window on a ladder.
nigelchaos » pro 2 years ago
HI SAM! (Bwannawahh)
heccibiggs » pro 2 years ago
Hahahaha thank you for perfectly representing Sam's arrival riff.
falseprophet » pro 1 years ago
I've made it my mission in life to make that riff next time I 'arrive' inside a woman.
nigelchaos » pro 1 years ago
I do what I can! :-D
fuzzyshoo » neu 1 years ago
Watching that show kinda screwed up my reality for me when I was a kid. I mean there I sat, a boy of whatever age I was at the time, named Sam, thinking one day I could just climb up a ladder into a hot chick's window.

WRONG. THANKS A LOT NICKELODEON. NOW I CAN'T DRIVE A CAR.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I have always been strangely attracted to her.
spinynorman » neu 1 years ago
Ain't nothin' strange about it.
rykan » neu 1 years ago
So have I, but I'm a woman.
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Go on...
zefiel » neu 2 years ago
HOLY MOTHER OF PUSSY DO I WANT THAT
lrosetw8 » neu 2 years ago
*twitch*
overmedicated » neu 2 years ago
I think her face tells the true story of why she did that CD.

I'm thinking hostages.
farqussus » neu 2 years ago
her face says to me, "I am a gormless fucktard! haaaaaaaaaa"
gormster » neu 1 years ago
i am full of gorm. gormful, even.
i am the gormster.
trollcollins » neu 2 years ago
Oh my god, Prokofiev's corpse is probably still spinning at several thousand rpm just from having his name on the top of that.
aparrish » neu 1 years ago
The rotation is used to generate current. For several decades Prokofiev's corpse has been an important source of renewable energy in Russia.
mangtastic » neu 5 months ago
It ain't renewable if the friction caused by the rotation of his corpse causes him to eventually DISINTEGRATE.

Actually the Russian scientists probably would have quickly come up with a solution to that. Cremated, with the ashes encased in ceramic material, and used as the core of a turbine. Those Russian scientists are cunning.
dallovich » neu 2 years ago
Nooooooooo, by mistake I lamed your reply instead of chubbying it :<... I will now cry myself to sleep!
tbtabby » neu 2 years ago
That wolf is slobbering all over Melissa's boobs. As we all would in that situation.
blarghamagarky » neu 2 years ago
I love the way pre-teenish idols' of my adolescence tits look in denim overalls.
soticoto » neu 2 years ago
She didn't have any then.

... Which leads me to investigate as to whether she has any now... which would make of her a world of sex.
soticoto » neu 2 years ago
[Addendum]

I found this:
[IMGS OFF]

It distracts me quite nicely from the other picture of her with a dog... and her kid.
My childhood has been ruined by a dog and a kid.
blarghamagarky » neu 2 years ago
she looks a little downsy these days.
soticoto » pro 2 years ago
I'd still hit it.
tourach3 » pro 2 years ago
AGREED
jlynes » neu 2 years ago
SECONDED
tekende » neu 2 years ago
THIRDED
yingkaixing » neu 2 years ago
The motion carries.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
That's what she said.
jonmw » neu 1 years ago
Hmm.
I've been going through the archive with the "random comic" and this is the second time I've found you've made that exact post.

HOW MANY MORE ARE THERE
tekende » neu 1 years ago
WHY FIND OUT
cyberia » pro 1 years ago
FOURTHED
jaredwilde » neu 1 years ago
I would hit that like the fist of an angry GOD, I would hit that. I had such a huge crush on Clarissa
shadowlink_97 » neu 1 years ago
is that Clarissa Explains It All, Clarissa? god i loved her
johnnyrocker » neu 10 months ago
No mention of Sabrina yet? What the hell, everyone?
captneko » neu 1 years ago
Ah Clarissa, is there anything you can't explain to us?
fuzzyshoo » neu 4 months ago
just noticed that her left arm is coming out of the wolf's stomach
n0umena » neu 1 years ago
The Patrick Stewart one is the best one.
red_rooster » pro 2 years ago
holy mother of pussy!?
Yes!
catachresis » neu 2 years ago
I cannot relate to this particular instance but my inner dialogue with the internet has adopted the same tone on many occasions.

So has Teodor, I guess (cf: Meg White Naked)
delzhand » pro 2 years ago
Fuck smellers. Great insult.
fuzzyshoo » neu 1 years ago
I say this all the time now.
jujubeesforjesus » pro 2 years ago
This strip is exactly what happened to Onstad one night, chanelled through the personage of a depressive cat.
mikebox » neu 2 years ago
Who has this NOT happened to? The Internets KILL you sometimes.
nutmeg » neu 2 years ago
for me, i like watching Roast Beef freak out, and i think the alt-text was a reference to the film Falling Down, where Michael Douglas starts freaking out and killing people because he is having kind of a shitty day.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
Because of the people who like Music.
excusemesenator » pro 2 years ago
.....I want the Weird Al version.
dj_insomniac » neu 2 years ago
The Weird Al version is amazing. And the second half of the CD / side B of the cassette is "Carnival of the Animals: Part 2" in homage to Camille Saint Saëns.
gyrate » neu 1 years ago
Bonus points to Mr Al for adding the "Bob the Janitor" character to the story, which the original was sorely lacking.

Sadly, the above is actually true and not just your usual zany madcap Achewood messageboard-style japery.
soticoto » neu 2 years ago
I'd rather the Bowie version.
I feel a dose of hate for Beef for dissing Bowie.
charchar » neu 2 years ago
and so vehemently. Beef's lip even curls a little at that one.
rainbowbrite » neu 1 years ago
No one should diss the Bowie *sad eyes*.
overmedicated » neu 2 years ago
Oh you can go sit on a fat one.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
I probably still have a cassette tape of the Weird Al version. I have no regrets.
mysterymeat1001 » pro 2 years ago
I go through this every year with A Christmas Carol.
trollcollins » neu 2 years ago
PROKOFIEV, you fuck smellers!

I share Beef's feelings on this subject.
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
5th Symphony rocks. That's all, I'm a complete dork.
hateandwar » pro 2 years ago
I just love how worked up he gets. In the fourth panel he's not even saying or thinking anything, just thrashing about in utter frustration. Every now and again I find myself pissed off enough that I'm just waving my fists around without even conciously considering why.
molesticide » pro 2 years ago
i think he's hitting himself in the head.

that's something i do when i'm frustrated.
hyetal » neu 2 years ago
In my mind he's pounding his fist on the desk.

I do this now whenever my computer does something I don't like.
miku224 » neu 1 years ago
I have a shitty particle-board desk with a fist-sized hole in the top because of this strip.
laikalost » pro 2 years ago
Dogg, the David Bowie narration is GOLDEN.
blarghamagarky » neu 2 years ago
Yeah that statement is extra true
seymourglass » con 2 years ago
Bobby McFerrin is an American treasure. And while his Peter and the wolf doesn't consitute canonical, I'm sure it's an interesting interpretation of Prokofiev.
unsentletter » pro 2 years ago
Holy MOTHER OF PUSSY... thank you Roast Beef...
radarjammer » neu 1 years ago
Nobody disses Ziggy Stardust and gets away wtih it. Okay, except for Beef. He's fictional so I don't see how i can punish him.
chachibenji » neu 1 years ago
Honestly in panel 7 I always see the "clak" as the sound of beefs brain snapping at the thought of Peter and the Wolf via Yankovic.
desert_donkey » neu 1 years ago
fuck smellers.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
What's worse is Jack Nicholson narrating Just So Stories. That is astoundingly distressing.
mattbeetee » neu 1 years ago
When I was about 9, I went round to my (now) best friend Ben's house for the first time. After the usual childhood games and bashfully meeting his parents (constantly thanking them for any displays of moderate kindness) we went off to bed at about 11. At roughly 2.30 in the morning his dad, blind drunk, stumbled into the room, and said to me "Matthew! Shhh! Listen to this, it's so important!" and proceeded to yank me out of bed, sit me down next to a record player and he gave me an enormous set of headphones. Ben was still asleep at this point. What bellowed forth from those headphones was an entire performance of Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Christopher Lee. Throughout the performance, Ben's dad waited expectantly, eyes twinkling, watching my reaction (which rarely changed from positively befuddled). Once it was over, he ushered me back to bed and that was that.

Neither of us have mentioned it once since then, and Ben is still unaware that it ever happened. Just thought I'd share that with you.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
I would give all my crowns of shit to exchange childhoods with you
scorpio_nadir » neu 11 months ago
Considering all the alternatives that could have happened when he yanked you out of bed, that's golden.
Christopher Lee at that.
kennisiou » pro 10 months ago
I want to chubby this so bad but I'm out.

I'm sorry, sir. You deserve more than I can give.
senseihollywood » neu 1 years ago
I JUST WANTED SOME BREAKFAST!
relaxing » neu 1 years ago
Wendy Carlos & Weird Al Yankovich.
carlyle » neu 10 months ago
Last panel is funny!
aperson » neu 6 months ago
This strip made me LITERALLY laugh out loud, in a Muttley style.
fineoakstructure » neu 2 months ago
I thought Muttley tended to snicker more than laugh out loud...
redmange » pro 5 months ago
Man, I love Achewood, I do, I love it so god damn bad. But it's such an abusive relationship.

Stop trying to make me choose against David Bowie Achewood, knock that off. Just knock it off. You are asking me to choose between comedy gold and the god of Glam. Don't make me do it. I love you both. I need you both in my life.

That being said, anyone who doesn't like Bowie is just pure dogshit. I willingly put myself out for your lames, comrades.
mangtastic » neu 5 months ago
I love david bowie as well, but I still think this strip is great.

I don't think Roast Beef is mad that David Bowie narrated something he loved, I think he is just mad that there isn't a plain old recording of it with someone who isn't famous. At least that is what I tell myself.
sustainability » neu 3 weeks ago
Indeed. One does not have to hate David Bowie to wish for an unnarrated version of Peter and the Wolf. One merely needs a passing familiarity with music older than Coc... well, than David Bowie.
redmange » neu 2 weeks ago
I'm just saying this isn't the only time that Achewood has gone for the Bowie.
sustainability » neu 2 weeks ago
It's the only time that comes up when using the search function?
redmange » neu 2 weeks ago
I would swear on my mother that there have been other instances, but as I do not feel like surfing the archive (for the twentieth time) yet this year, I'll just concede this to you my man.
taiga81 » neu 1 weeks ago
maybe you're thinking of the spirit of Billy Idol?
alternatively, the archive search is incomplete, so it might not be there for that reason.
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