Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (54) ¬

1. 
   Jen Aside

   August 24, 2011 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

   Because they wear steel-toed shoes?

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     Digidestined of Trust/Megaligo Ranger-Silver Dragon Knight (Tim)

     August 24, 2011 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

     So true. I have steel toed shoes for work and they don’t hurt at all. Though I’ve put my foot in the door with sneakers on and it doesn’t hurt usually.

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       DCHorror

       August 24, 2011 at 2:24 am | # | Reply

       Depends on the level of slam.

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         Xalticus

         August 24, 2011 at 12:14 pm | # | Reply

         Also depends on what the door is made out of, most Apartment/Condo front doors I’ve encountered have been very heavy/solid Metal & wood composition, ones that if you tried to use your foot to stop them wearing only sneakers, you would lose your foot.
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     David Herbert

     August 24, 2011 at 2:31 am | # | Reply

     Actually, I’ve done it a few times and never gotten hurt. I was only wearing leather shoes.
2. 
   Plasma Mongoose

   August 24, 2011 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

   Works a lot better if you wear boots rather than sneakers.

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     Aizat

     August 24, 2011 at 2:32 am | # | Reply

     Also works better if the other guy didn’t try to close the door while you are putting your foot in the door. I know, I’ve tried.

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       Maarvarq

       August 24, 2011 at 9:51 am | # | Reply

       … or if you take the opportunity to push against the door to stop them from shutting it again. I thought that was an understood part of the manoeuver.

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         SuziRoo

         December 22, 2011 at 12:41 pm | # | Reply

         I believe it’s only understood if you’ve been taught to do it or if you’ve had someone slam the door any way. RA training: 101.
3. 
   Aizat

   August 24, 2011 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

   Because the people on the other side of the door is dumb enough not to close door after someone put their foot in the door?
4. 
   Doctor_Who

   August 24, 2011 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

   At least he looks like he got a shave and a haircut.

   /Two bits.
5. 
   Punchinello

   August 24, 2011 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

   Jacob’s hand is white in panel 5.

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     David Willis

     August 24, 2011 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

     It is not. Sorta brownish.
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     Im_A_Gold_Bug

     August 24, 2011 at 5:19 pm | # | Reply

     His hand has the same 3 colors as his face in the previous panel.
6. 
   YakkoRex

   August 24, 2011 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

   Youch! Another television reality smashed. Next we’ll find out that those Axe commercials are phony as well.

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     palaeomerus

     August 24, 2011 at 2:57 am | # | Reply

     Those commericals are real, but they use deranged women in them who actually want to take the guy to a cliff and throw him off so Pele will give them winning lottery numbers. The volcano goddess, not the Soccer player.

     The women are humanely tranquilized before they can murder the actor and returned to the asylums they were rented from on work release. Then the commercial crew usually murders the actor themselves in order to sell his organs on the back market. Also he usually smells like Axe at that point so it is considered a kindness.
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     gwalla

     August 24, 2011 at 11:49 am | # | Reply

     Trope subverted!
7. 
   Bo Lindbergh

   August 24, 2011 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

   It doesn’t work if you waste time just standing there talking instead of moving forward.
8. 
   Beyla

   August 24, 2011 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

   The trick is to not care that it hurts.
9. 
   Ravux

   August 24, 2011 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

   Come on Jacob, she wants you to come at her. Are you going to deny her that?(I am fully aware of what I just typed)

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     Aizat

     August 24, 2011 at 2:33 am | # | Reply

     I think Jacob’s feeling guilty for shagging her mother.

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       gangler

       August 24, 2011 at 2:57 am | # | Reply

       He shouldn’t. I’m sure Amber would be thrilled to hear that her mother was enjoying a better caliber of man.

       “Way’to get back on the horse, Mom. Euphemism fully intended.”
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     taekwondogirl

     August 24, 2011 at 9:15 pm | # | Reply

     Come at her, bro!
10. 
    Cholma

    August 24, 2011 at 12:35 am | # | Reply

    One wonders how long Amber has been waiting outside Jacob’s door.
    (okay, *I’m* wondering)
11. 
    Ter

    August 24, 2011 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Amber, that shirt isn’t helping things.

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      iamtyping

      August 24, 2011 at 1:47 am | # | Reply

      Haha my thoughts exactly.

      • 
        Dannysmartful

        August 24, 2011 at 9:03 am | # | Reply

        That would be an awesome t-shirt if it was real. The front can say, “Come at me bro” and the back can say, “I can take it!” (LOL)
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      Pie

      August 24, 2011 at 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      Frankly I thought her shirt was the funniest part of the strip. It just fit the scenario perfectly.
12. 
    Hello, Mr. Anderson

    August 24, 2011 at 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Aaaaaaand…. epicfail
13. 
    palaeomerus

    August 24, 2011 at 2:52 am | # | Reply

    Somebody get Amber a pair of steel-toes stat.
14. 
    Wix

    August 24, 2011 at 2:54 am | # | Reply

    You’d think with his affection towards her (even with his trying to repress and run from it) that he would be hesitant to slam the door on her foot. Then again fear makes people do stupid things, I mean look at [insert inappropriate political figure here.]
15. 
    Zanosuke_Kurosaki

    August 24, 2011 at 2:54 am | # | Reply

    Silly Amber. That only works on TV because the person behind the door is being nice and not doing what you just went through. (Also, it’s that thing called “the plot.”) Ouch. >.<
16. 
    Arkadi

    August 24, 2011 at 4:37 am | # | Reply

    OW. Just OW >_<
17. 
    DRM888

    August 24, 2011 at 5:06 am | # | Reply

    I was hoping you’d bring Jacob back sooner or later.
18. 
    ALostProphet

    August 24, 2011 at 5:53 am | # | Reply

    Oh. Great. More Jason

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      Wix

      August 24, 2011 at 11:39 pm | # | Reply

      the Mike glaring icon is appropriate for your comment, too
19. 
    Omniscientearl

    August 24, 2011 at 6:10 am | # | Reply

    Actually, that kind of went like that episode of Futurama. The professor did the same thing to Mom, but he was to senile to realize he should have taken his foot out of the door… “Why am I here, and why does my foot hurt?”

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      Pie

      August 24, 2011 at 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      Yes! I thought of that episode as well.
20. 
    Doctor_Who

    August 24, 2011 at 8:07 am | # | Reply

    This is the point at which she needs to get her super-strong boyfriend involved.

    Sure, he won’t like to be helpful, but maybe the fact that he’ll be making Jacob miserable and that breaking and entering is a crime will convince him.

    And then they can share tips on mom-defilement.
21. 
    ryan

    August 24, 2011 at 8:19 am | # | Reply

    amber, they use stunt feet with YEARS of experience on tv. also stunt doors.

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      Bryn

      August 24, 2011 at 8:31 am | # | Reply

      Stunt doors get paid by the hour, the union makes things really expensive for the average door-foot-jammer.
22. 
    Atheist Black Gay Woman

    August 24, 2011 at 8:32 am | # | Reply

    Is not the feet is the leg, or the arm. Of course It will hurt but the door would not close, as the leg is far more stronger than just a feet.
23. 
    Martin S Smith

    August 24, 2011 at 8:59 am | # | Reply

    I’m assuming Jacob’s completely naked behind that door. And with a whole host of erm ‘friends’.
24. 
    timemonkey

    August 24, 2011 at 9:07 am | # | Reply

    So we’re back to Jacob then? Damn.

    How is he even still there? Wasn’t he so out of control he couldn’t hold his job? How’s he paying rent?

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      TehJammah

      August 24, 2011 at 11:36 am | # | Reply

      The apartment is obviously rented out by a female landlord…
25. 
    PaulW

    August 24, 2011 at 9:28 am | # | Reply

    This is why you don’t stand in the hallway yammering while you got the foot in the door. You shove that door open, take the perp down, read him his Miranda rights, eat his donuts, and THEN you sit down and have a heart-to-heart about his sex addiction.
26. 
    Paul1963

    August 24, 2011 at 9:37 am | # | Reply

    When the “foot in the door” trope started, most people didn’t wear shoes made out of cloth and soft plastic 90% of the time. Good, solid 1930s brogans could probably stop the average apartment door.
    And, yeah, you’re supposed to push on the door as well. The idea is to keep the door from latching, after all.
27. 
    Shifty

    August 24, 2011 at 11:47 am | # | Reply

    Also on TV, the characters pushes the door further open after using the foot in the door and put their body across the threshold enough that the door can’t be closed. Amber: FAIL.
28. 
    spammy McSpamster

    August 24, 2011 at 4:34 pm | # | Reply

    “Singularikitty didn’t eat Amber’s Mom”

    ‘Cause she’s still in there with Jacob.

    nom nom nom

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      Plasma Mongoose

      August 24, 2011 at 9:32 pm | # | Reply

      Singularikitty is still inside of Robin in a battle of warring metabolisms.
29. 
    Jason

    August 24, 2011 at 8:34 pm | # | Reply

    Her foot must just be to small
30. 
    Zem

    August 25, 2011 at 4:45 pm | # | Reply

    There’s no way she doesn’t read tvtropes.org. I call fake!
31. 
    Ren

    September 11, 2011 at 10:53 pm | # | Reply

    Ah Cinemax. The channel you never want to find while channel surfing in the middle of the night. Weird stuff comes on that channel at night(Hot stuff for all of you who are 18+ ). I wonder if why Amber even knows about that. Or has Mike been watching it? XD
32. 
    Rachelle_R

    September 16, 2011 at 10:34 am | # | Reply

    It’s a good thing they’re in San Francisco. If she’d have stuck her foot in the door here in Texas, technically Jacob would have been within his legal rights to shoot her for forcing entry into a residence.