Apparently it’s National Same Sex Kiss Day or something. So have some art I drew for my wife the other day of Velma makin’ out with Hot Dog Water. You know, from Scooby Doo Mystery Inc, which is the best Scooby Doo show ever. I know, that’s not a bold claim, but it’s seriously perfect, and Maggie and I drop everything to watch it.
We ship them. We ship them hard.
Now, technically these Same Sex Kisses are supposed to be happening in a Chick-Fil-A, but just pretend the art takes place outside one at like midnight or something. Or maybe they broke in to search for clues… and love.
Actually, you know what? Screw it, let’s do this right.
My name is Cholma, and I support this art post.
When I first heard of CFA appreciation day I thought the name was supposed to be ironic, so when I first saw photos of all the people outside of Chick-Fil-As I thought they were picketing and blocking people from entering. But, as it turns out, they were actually people lining up to eat en masse. =/
A lot of people claimed they were there to protest the boycotters’ attack on free speech. Because apparently free speech now means people aren’t allowed to react negatively to what you say.
When the Southern Baptist Convention boycotted Disney in the 90s for having same-sex partner benefits, that was free speech. When people boycott Chick-Fil-A for being against gay marriage, it’s bigotry. Simple.
It all makes sense now!
Not the boycotters’. Rahm and Menino. There’s a difference.
Out of curiosity, I drove past my local CFA just to see if there were protesters or supporters or anything (I never go there, didn’t like the food even before I heard about the politics).
Place was completely empty. There were maybe three cars in the lot, and those were probably employees. And I live in the south.
Mine was ridiculously busy, same as it is every day but Sunday.
I feel a compulsion to watch this show just to find out how “Hot Dog Water” is a person’s name.
Basically, its a nickname because she smells like used hot dog water. Her real name is Marcie, and she is voiced by the person that plays the live action Velma. So this isn’t really lesbian at all, its just masturbation.
Which I’m sure the owner of Chik-fil-a is also against
It’s explained in the episode ‘Menace of the Manticore’. Hot Dog Water is voiced by Linda Cardellini, who played Velma in the two live action Scooby-Doo movies that made it into theaters.
*puts on nerd hat* Actually, it was explained in the episode “Where Walks Aphrodite.”
Oh my God I didn’t even know that. I knew she sounded familer but I couldn’t place it.
I ain’t even amurken but … ur doin’ it rite. Godspeed.
Awesome kiss, poor Shaggy, the money just dried up. Poor stoner.
WTF why Shaggy is not happy as hell while two cute chicks are making out in front of him?!
just WTF
He realizes he lost his window.
Or he thinks he’s hallucinating.
“Man…these Scooby snacks are awesome“
He’s thinking “Like, I wish me and Scoob cold show our love like that.”
Velma’s his ex in this show.
Yeah. He lost out.
Best moment: Scoob asks Shagg if he’s CHEATING ON HIM.
Ah man, I love Shaggy’s face on this!
Shaggy’s face makes this image approximately 3.7x more awesome.
You know, I was seriously thinking that Mystery, Inc. was going to get cancelled in the middle (or just never come back from hiatus) because it was too good. They changed the theme song, they don’t recycle animation as much, continuity is slightly more important, there’s a bigger recurring character cast, it’s actually a little bit scarier than it had been in past incarnations, all stuff that could make the network executives complain that the show costs too much to write/produce. But, they got me watching it again, and my kids like it (even if one of them has to hide under his blanket from the gator people) so I have to think it’s getting better ratings. I was very encouraged to see you make a point to watch it.
It also has a lot of loving backfill references to the various old shows. I love to watch for Don Knotts.
Somebody else beat me to the both-voice-characters-play-Velma-so-it’s-just-autoeroticism reference, but I really get a kick out of how they’re made sure to tweak the “if it wasn’t for you meddling kids” tagline for EACH episode – I think the closest they got was when the young girl said the line exactly, but in Latin.
Also re: the theme song, you do know it’s done by anime fan Matthew Sweet, right?
Matthew Sweet did the theme song? Why have I not heard of this?
Probably because they shrink the credits down so small on Cartoon Network. Here’s an amusing gaffe from “The Midnight Zone” episode the other day: Professor Pericles says he met Frau Abigail Gluck in the 1930′s…. that makes the damn bird at least 85 years old!!!
Yeah, I thought that was weird especially since we saw a younger, seemingly voiceless Professor Pericles land on Mr. E’s doorstep when they were both kids. I assumed Professor Pericles was a baby bird then, but man, how old does that make Mr. E?
Otherwise, that information’s fine. Parrots can live pretty long. The oldest recorded age is in the 120s.
Yeah RECORD ages, but I’m still raising an eyebrow on that one…. you’re right that he looked like a VERY young bird when he first crash-landed at little Ricky’s place, and yet much older back in the 1930′s. Maybe he had access to a Lazarus Pit?
In today’s episode, Bronson Stone uses the name Werner Herzog as an exclamation, which is a hoot since Herzog is now doing narration for this season’s Metalocalypse episodes. I still love the Hellraiser Puzzle Box throwaway in the Hodag episode – probably my favorite of the series so far.
My name is Sigurther and I approve of this message.
Also I am apparently now Skeletor which is totally frickin’ nonbabies.
Well, damn. I don’t know anything of this Mystery Inc. nonsense, but it’s Velma kissing another cute, nerdy chick. So I endorse it.
It’s a new Scooby Doo series which is actually good. I was presently surprised when I watched it, I was expecting something crappy like the new ones we ussually see.
C’mon, Shaggy would never pass the drug test to work at CFA.
My name is Atlas, and I support brunette with glasses lesbian kissing.
Andrusi, the protest was against certain high ranking politicians who origenaly demanded ChickFilA leave/not set up in their city. Disagreeing is one thing, demanding that a business not open up because you disagree with their politics…and really, I wish people would listen to or read the actual article that the MEDIA has whipped people in a frenzy about. It was given to the Baptist Times on Father’s day, and was about the importance of strong marriages and against DIVORCE. Nothing was said about gay marriage, or homosexuality. CFA doesn’t discriminate against anyone, they hire and serve gays…just not on Sunday. Because, you know, they’re closed. Wow…a company founded on biblical beliefs believes in the Bible. Whod’ve thunk it? But in today’s world, unless you’re 100% behind the ‘vocal minority’, you’re a hater, religious bigot etc. This is coming from a pro-gay atheist who happens to think for himself, not swallow whole cloth whatever the media tries to forcefeed him.
THIS! THANK YOU WOLFVA! Can we all shut the f up now about goddamn Chic-Filet! So sick of this bull crap everywhere. WHO CARES? Why does the Gay community even give a crap what the dude believes in? Its not like he said: “If you’re gay, no food for you!” The guy was just expressing his opinion, which last I checked, was okay to do in America.
BATMAN JOKES!
No, but the CEO did donate millions of dollars to organizations that actively promote “If you’re gay, no marriage for you!”, “If you’re gay, jail time for you!”, “If you’re gay, deportation for you!”, “If you’re gay, God’s judgement for you!”, and “If you’re gay, conversion therapy for you!”
You don’t listen to my warnings, do you.
How dare David use his own site to support his views. He should only do Batman jokes cause that’s what I want.
That’s you. That’s what you sound like. Also this isn’t even today’s strip so what are you even complaining about?
The usual complaint – how dare people get angry at bigots and not respect the bigot’s “God-given” right to hate based only on the fact that someone might not conform to how they think men and women should act and who they think men and women should be attracted too…
It can also be loosely translated into “I don’t understand that freedom of speech and freedom from consequences of making an ass of myself in public are not the same thing and the second one is really not a thing at all!” if you wanna go in that direction.
Yes, sometimes people get frothed up over improper facts.
No, that doesn’t mean everyone should just shut the hell up about it and go back to what they were doing. Discourse promotes discussion, discussion decreases discord, Discord is Q, and therefore talking about things greatly lowers the likelihood of Q showing up and making an even bigger mess.
Do you want that on your hands? Do you?
Oh, no I get What he’s complaining about. I just don’t get why he’s complaining about it on a Blog post and acting like it’s the new trip.
On The whole Chick-Fil-A thing I’m a Christian, I have nostrong feelings one way or another aout Gay Marriage aas i doesn’t affect me but I still support the protests.
Because while I belive in God I also believe you shouldn’t be controling other people for what you believe is truth or because you think your better any other person. Or to put it another I don’t ike people being Dicks to their fellow human beings.
Sorry for the run together words and crap on there I’m fairly certain this Keyboard is dying.
The part that you missed was all of the facts of the case.
Cute. And even thought’s that’s Velma she bears some resemblance to Ruth what with the freckles, glasses, and slightly red hair.
Oh, man. I have never seen an episode of this. I’m seriously starting to reconsider doing such.
That’s all that Velma’s ever needed to turn her from super nerdhot to full armored double nerdhot; a girlfriend! It’s so clear now!
Sweet! And an awesome show.
You know what makes it really hard for me to support the boycott? A thousand different reminders every day that Chik-Fil-A exists. They’re chicken is delicious, but even before I found out where the profits go I only ever craved it when I remembered it existed, but that was only on Sundays anyways. Now I’m craving it practically all the time but I can’t go there.
I know, right? You can’t even ignore its existence because EVERYONE’S talking about it. Constantly.
Eh, Chick-Fil-A’s chicken isn’t great anyway.
Mind you, I’m not participating in the kiss-in, or Same sex kiss day, but that’s because I don’t have a current boyfriend.
I’m a little late to reading Willis’ stuff: who is Hot Dog Water?
Nothing to do with Willis’ stuff. She’s from the new Scooby Doo series, Mystery Inc.
I wonder how many more people would be apathetic towards the whole “I’m gay, you should let me participate in your religous institutions even though it goes against your entire dogma because I said so” if the people of the “vocal minority” weren’t as bad as the people they are railing against?
Because if we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the minority gets its equal due by being polite and asking nicely. You know, while being occasionally murdered. They should just cross their fingers and hope they get treated as human beings eventually.
Because the only thing worse than being treated as less-than-human is having an emotional reaction to it.
Next you should call them “uppity.”
There’s a difference between ‘standing up for your rights’ and ‘lol I’m going to throw this in your face’.
‘Have a same-sex kiss in a Christian establishment today, because!’ is the latter.
Tolerance works both ways. If /everybody/ practiced it, what a wonderful world this would be.
Well, everybody except for Mike. ‘Cause he’s Mike.
[sarcastic] Except for Christians – THEY shouldn’t have to deal this them icky icky homos!
It’s not throwing it in Christians (and by that I mean the non-accepting let’s hate everyone who isn’t us types) faces because kissing is a normal activity humans do all the time and if these where heterosexuals it wouldn’t be a problem!
But if homosexuals/bisexuals decided they wanna kiss their same-sex partner it’s throwing their “lifestyle” in peoples faces. They wanna protest bigotry in an ironic way? They’re in the wrong obviously! Dirty homos!
But it’s so not throwing ones lifestyle in someone else’s face by demanding they must live under Christian Dogma? Something that is a life style choice? Donating money to bigoted hate groups to ensure that lifestyle is the only one people are allowed to live even if being homosexual/bisexual isn’t a lifestyle choice (and even if it was what’s the big deal)!
Christianity – A lifestyle choice with absolutely no consistency in beliefs or logical backing!
Homosexuality and Bisexuality – Natural occurring thing in many species on Earth….
Clearly the later needs to be stopped by the former… Fascinating how that works!
Note: I’m sorry towards the decent Christians I may have offended – this post contains much hyperbole. Also I personally find all religions to be silly and nonsensical so I’m not just targeting you guys… Okay that later probably doesn’t help… um yeah…
I remember when Rosa Parks threw it in everyone’s face by refusing to sit in the black-only seats. How dare she cause a scene.
I’m dissapointed, to be honest, by that response.
Rosa Parks didn’t cause a scene. She took that bus seat because it was the right thing to do. It was “this is what’s right and I’m going to do it no matter what other people think.”
It was not “This is going to offend people so I’m going to do it.” Which is the “let’s deliberatly go to a Chick-fil-A and deliberately kiss in front of people /for the deliberate purpose of offending them/.”
In order to have what’s right be ACCEPTED as what’s right, you have to DO IT in a way that’s what’s right. Do it in a way that says “I’m doing this because this is who I am, and this is how I am. Don’t do it in a way that says “I’m doing this because you’re all bigots.”
They might very well be dicks. That doesn’t mean you should be a dick back at them. I think that was the whole point of what Ghandi had to say…
>Which is the “let’s deliberatly go to a Chick-fil-A and deliberately kiss in front of people /for the deliberate purpose of offending them/.”
Should be:
>Which is what the “let’s deliberatly go to a Chick-fil-A and deliberately kiss in front of people /for the deliberate purpose of offending them/” is.
It’s almost 5:30 am. Need caffiene…
I’m pretty sure kissing in public doesn’t make them dicks. If you think it makes them dicks, I think the problem lies with you.
I’d agree with you on this Willis except for one salient fact…Chick Fil A NEVER OPPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS. They didn’t tell them they had to sit in the back of the bus, or that they couldn’t be gay. The CEO stated he was against Divorce, and believed that a strong marriage was important for the upbringing of children. That bastard! He should be drawn and quartered, right? Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you! BUT: you’re fighting the wrong battle. Why the HECK aren’t you protesting Phelps and the WestBorrough Baptist Church? HE’S the one who says homosexuality is a SIN and that the country is going downhill because of gays. NOT Cathy.
Chick-Fil-A gives lots of money to organizations that do oppress homosexuals. For example, WinShape, Chick-Fil-A’s charity wing, gave corporate profits to the Family Research Council, which lobbied our own Congress to support Ugandan legislation that murders homosexual people.
Westboro Baptist Church does what it does to entice people to hurt them so they can sue and make money. They’re trolls. Getting angry at them is what they want. And what do you mean, Phelps “is the one who says homosexuality is a sin and that the country is going downhill because of gays, NOT Cathy”? Here’s Cathy’s quote:
“We are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”
Winshape’s president said of gay people: “They are intolerant. They are hateful. They are vile. They are spiteful pawns of the enemy.”
And I’m not sure why you’re asking me to protest things other than Chick-Fil-A when I’m not protesting Chick-Fil-A in the first place. I drew a picture. I didn’t even invite anybody to do anything. Eat at Chick-Fil-A if you damn want to. Giving them $7 for a meal isn’t exactly going to affect much. Hell, more of that money will go to the gay folks they hire than to their gay-murdering charity wing.
But do please keep sticking up for the poor billionaire corporation. It’s just not right that… people… kiss in front of their restaurant? Yeah, sob story.
ilu Willis
What’s wrong with kissing your partner in a public place? Straight people get to do it, why can’t we? Seems like a double standard.
If you want to kiss your partner, that’s fine – do it wherever and whenever you want, and if anybody has a problem with that, regardless of who your partner is, that’s their problem.
Saying “let’s all go down to the place where we know we’ll offend people and rub their faces in it /because it offends them/”? Dick move.
Actually it’s probably beneficial for them, if they’re offended by the sight of two people of the same sex kissing, it’s probably because they aren’t used to it.
Frankly though, it’s not lewd behaviour so it’s a perfectly acceptable form of protest. You think they’d be any less offended from picket signs?
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the thought of Chic-Fil-A as a Christian establishment. Their target demographic is people who don’t mind the quality of their chicken just as long as it’s been deep fried. They target malls, food courts, and anywhere else where people are in too much of a rush to think about what their eating. The waffle fries are good, but they don’t make up for the pitiful excuse for factory chicken that they use and set under a heat lamp for hours on end. There’s nothing that I recall seeing in a chic-fil-a that screamed ‘good Christian values’. No crosses, no Jesus or Mary pictures, not even random bible references on the bottoms of cups or buried under the fries like In-N-Out. Just not seeing it.
Not asking to participate in your religious ceremony, asking to to be allowed to participate in a legal institution. Marriage(as long as we quibble over that word) was a legal contract first and NOT a religious rite.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure atheists and other non-Christians are allowed to marry.
There is that, but a brief study into the etymology of the word its self shows it’s original use as legal contract with the option of a religious ceremony in ancient Rome.
The word used in Judaism about the same time was of course in Hebrew and the words used was ‘Hatuna’ – חתונה or ‘Nisu’in’ – נישואים. So the word marriage isn’t even Christian because it doesn’t derive itsself from the religion’s judaic roots.
A moment of hebrew
Hatuna= Wedding
Nisu’in= Marriage
Ah right thanks, Hatuna is the ceremony and Nisu’in is the relationship it’s self.
Stop points out the flaws in the piss-poor arguments Willis – you’ll ruin everything!!! They might start coming up with good ones like – um – uh – I’ve got nothing…
Tone down on the cheerleading just a little bit, please. You mean well, but I don’t really think my comments need “Yeah, in your FACE!!!!” posts after all of them. That’s not really what I want or desire.
Sorry – you’re right. I think I was just taking out some angry personal issues in my posts…
I still love you overlordmikey.
Oh and Chic-fil-a is some pretty great stuff. Just the nuggets tho. Their sandwiches are pretty babies.
WHOOOOOOOOO!
Wait wait wait wait. Mystery Inc is back on the air?
All new episodes every day this past week.
I’ve been meaning to get into this show forever. I’ve seen an episode or two, but since I don’t watch TV (more of a book guy) I haven’t gotten around to it.
Normally girl on girl does nothing to me, but two hot nerds in glasses… Willis you cruel tease!
Still – I shouldn’t stare – it’s rude…
Question: Is it more offensive if the kissers being drawn are male? Cus there’s something sexy/fanservicey/more-publicly-acceptable about them being two cute ladies.
Like, what if it was Shaggy and Fred or someone else from the series making out in the foreground with Daphne in the background in a CfA uniform?
I guess I’m saying I don’t think you went far enough Mr. Willis. If you’re gonna stick it to the Fil-A, go full throttle into freak-em-out land!
P.S. I saw you at Phx Comicon and got star struck and nervous and ran away after buying a book and saying like two sentences. Thanks for being cool
(I said even less to Danielle Corsetto and the Looking For Group crew. Mild-mannered webcomics artists are scary!)
Offensive? Who the fuck is offended?
Well nobody *here*, obviously. I meant more that if the picture’s intent is to be offensive to anti gay crowd, would it be any bit more effective if it had some male on male action?
So I thought this was just subtext, but I paid a bit more attention to the opening sequence of the new series. They replaced Daphne hugging a picture of Fred with Hot Dog Water hugging a picture of Velma. That’s more explicit than I was expecting from a children’s cartoon these days. I thought Marceline and Princess Bubblegum was the closest we’d ever get.
Yeah, but only for 2 episodes… when Daphne came back, so did the original credits.
Still, I kinda like the Shaggy/Velma pairing for some reason…I always figured she was hiding some Jessica Rabbit figure under that bulky sweater cuz she wanted to be known for her brains. And then, somebody invoked Rule 34 and made a Flash porn of the two of ‘em based on a Mystery Inc. scene….
Ah, c’mon, there’s nothing between those two, don’t get fooled by all the fan theories on the Web. Princess Bumblegum is just a shell of what she used to be and Marceline is destined to be always alone, as harsh as it sounds.
Princess Bubblegum’s most precious possession is a shirt that Marceline gave her, that she wears to bed every night. Considering that the other main characters also came from their loved ones.
Well, you may have a point, but still, they are on not so friendly terms right now. Though, it surprises me that Princess Bubblegum was not featured in any way in “Memory of a memory”. Yet, is tragic because Marceline has so few real friends.
Who the heck is…
Wait, wasn’t she originally supposed to be dating Shaggy? No wonder he looks so pissed…
I just don’t like Hot Dog Water. Otherwise, good job.
Good to see the show is still on, good job on the art style, as always you nailed it.
People seem to be ignoring the important issue:
*Why* are there no new episodes of Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated on Cartoon Network’s schedule? Why burn through 5 episodes in a week and then nothing?
MY BODY NEEDS NEW MYSTERIES INC. is my point.
MY BODY IS READY for more mystery inc
Mystery Inc *is* on the schedule… M-F @ 2pm EDT.
Today’s episode was new
Yep, and a look at their schedule is more new through mid-August every weekday at 2, then they’re starting season 2 reruns. That time kinda annoys me for my watching though, as 2pm is either just got home from work or getting ready for work time… makes sense though as I’m not their target audience.
Gotta love TiVo!!!
Velma is not a very good kisser. It looks like she’s just smiling! HDW, however, is very on point.
I approve in general, for moral reasons, and this in particular, for wholly selfish reasons.