# I don't quite get today's "Questionable Content" strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 13, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967 "2010-04-13T17:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 137
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2723 "2024-10-03T11:36:50Z")
It’s only a 3-week skip, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2724 "2024-10-08T14:29:00Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > So, recently, Yay got caught snooping around on the Director’s network, freaked out, and noped out of there. > > And we had a time skip, and Dora and Tai got married. Which is clearly a set-up for storylines around Claire, the Director, and Cubetown; how badass must he be, if he scares _Yay_? I hope Yay comes back, though – I really enjoy their interactions with Roko, who’s one of my favorite characters in the strip. The wedding sequence feels like fanservice. Although I’m enjoying emo Sam and Dark Emmitt. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2725 "2024-10-08T15:30:03Z")
That’s an angle I’ve not seen anyone else consider. They’re all wondering if this means Yay will basically neuter themselves, like they said they might to avoid being caught. They’d rather be a regular AI and free than themselves and controlled. But yeah it did establish that the Director is at minimum on Yay’s level (and thus above everyone else). I don’t agree the wedding seems like fanservice. Basically everyone was upset that he skipped to the end. Even in the big fans. I can’t think of any work of fiction that plays up a proposal of beloved characters and then skips it all. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2726 "2024-10-08T16:53:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I don’t agree the wedding seems like fanservice. Basically everyone was upset that he skipped to the end. Even in the big fans. I can’t think of any work of fiction that plays up a proposal of beloved characters and then skips it all. I meant that in the sense that the wedding sequence does seem to be advancing any storylines; just playing around with the characters and giving the fans - and maybe Jeph himself - the payoff we want. Checking in with characters we haven’t seen in a while, like Steve and Sam. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t seem like he’s telling a story with these strips. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2727 "2024-10-08T17:56:55Z")
I never much cared for the Yay character since the Spookybot days. Making them less of a deus ex machina might go some ways towards making the character palatable to me. Having that happen via them getting casually owned by another AI only makes it better. I was fine with the wedding jump because, c’mon, we’ve all seen every wedding-related plotline in media a million times. I wouldn’t have been upset by yet another story about wedding cakes or jitters or wacky band mishaps, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out either. I suppose if someone was especially vested in the Tai/Dora pairing, they might be let down. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2728 "2024-10-14T16:40:51Z")
So Anh is Tai’s sister? And Anh is an heiress? Does that make Tai an heiress? I don’t remember that. Brian (at work, do not want to access QC) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2729 "2024-10-14T17:32:43Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > So Anh is Tai’s sister? No. The “at my sister’s wedding” is from Sven’s perspective. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2730 "2024-10-15T15:38:16Z")
I could buy Sven’s inner crisis about wanting something beyond zipless hookups but not really about being that bad at “normal” dating. And Hannelore thinking out loud what would be a literal answer of what tangibles is she an heiress to, rather than just say “my dad is a big AI pioneer and my estranged mom is an industralist CEO” is just so on-brand… years of deliberately **avoiding** thinking of herself as such can’t just switch off. (So, Anh’s initial characteristic is the person who immediately thinks the worst of everyone’s motivations? “writing awful people is fun” indeed — once in a while one likes seeing a character who just is annoying. But then I remind myself it’s 50/50 if Jeph then decides to give her some “special quirk”) ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2731 "2024-11-25T02:31:15Z")
FYI, Jeph just posted on Patreon that there will be no new QC strips in December. In part: > [@Jeph Jacques](#): > > I’m taking December off. The last regular QC comic of 2024 will be this Friday. It will resume in January. **This is not the end of QC. I promise.** > > I’ll still be posting stuff here and to the website. There’ll be a couple weeks at least of “director’s commentary” on random old strips. I spent some time today hitting the “random comic” button on my site and writing a lil’ thing about whatever comic I happened to land on. And maybe I’ll do some other stuff, I dunno. The main thing I need to do for the next 4 weeks is, for the first time since 2003, _not make comics_. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2732 "2024-11-25T14:54:41Z")
He always has the Thanksgiving turkeys and the dumb barbarian filler stuff, so it’s not really like a break is unprecedented. And it’s only a month. Hell, I still follow _Something Positive_ and Milholland has breaks like that all the time (and not for nice holiday reasons) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2733 "2024-11-25T15:25:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > He always has the Thanksgiving turkeys and the dumb barbarian filler stuff Is dumb modifying barbarian, filler, or both? I’ve always enjoyed Bembo. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2734 "2024-11-25T16:56:48Z")
Barbarian, definitely. Bembo’s fine. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2735 "2024-11-25T20:16:51Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > He always has the Thanksgiving turkeys and the dumb barbarian filler stuff, so it’s not really like a break is unprecedented. And it’s only a month. I’m glad I’m not the only one who dislikes the barbarian. Just not interesting. The turkeys are kind of a waste of time, too. At least we haven’t seen Yelling Bird in a long time. Totally happy to never see that obnoxious one-“joke” “character” again. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2736 "2024-11-25T20:19:11Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > ’m glad I’m not the only one who dislikes the barbarian. Just not interesting. The turkeys are kind of a waste of time, too. At least we haven’t seen Yelling Bird in a long time. Totally happy to never see that obnoxious one-“joke” “character” again Ditto. I didn’t mind Bembo so much, but Yelling Bird and the turkeys kinda sucked. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2737 "2024-11-25T20:54:46Z")
A slightly longer than usual hiatus (a month plus instead of one or two weeks) doesn’t seem out of place. It may seem to some unexpected right after an in-comic timeskip but it probably also provides an opportunity to resume after the hiatus with the post-skip status more clearly being the new baseline. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2738 "2024-12-02T12:04:11Z")
Anyone confused by the Dec 2 commentary? The strip (#4827) has nothing to do with the commentary as far as I can tell - the commentary is about the space station ark, but the comic has nothing to do with that. The Dec 1 commentary does match (talks about #1) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2739 "2024-12-02T13:34:08Z")
Total mismatch from what I saw, referencing Hannelore, who wasn’t even IN the strip. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2740 "2024-12-02T14:11:05Z")
I think it’s been fixed already. Or at least it matches for me. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2741 "2024-12-02T14:20:11Z")
Yes, the description matches the comic now. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2742 "2024-12-02T15:15:54Z")
Now if he could fix his spell-checker screwing up “palette” vs. “palate”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=136) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=138)