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Ok, maybe not JUST hit me, I was thinking about it ever since I saw thursday's comic, but still

Ralph, I know this is your strip, and I know it takes a corse you want it to, but I think it would be hilarious to see nip and Tuck having to deal with a little sister/brother. I can see so much hilarity coming from it!!!

Depending on whether the mood's been broken too badly. Gotta put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on that door... And a padlock, maybe.

Judging from the "shut the door, boy", comment, I don't think ma and pa are too fazed.... heh. Priceless, again.

no, I don't think it has, and if it has for tonight, what about tomorrow night


*shakes head slowly* I'm sorry if that got a bit explicit, still, I'd like to see Nip and Tuck with a little sister, maybe, it be interesting

Judging from the "shut the door, boy", comment, I don't think ma and pa are too fazed....

Well, considering that they're lying in front of the fireplace in their skivvies, with one of Lucy/Ma Todd's bra straps in Roy/Pa Todd's teeth (nice bit of detail there, Ralph; that really made the "deer in the headlights" expressions hysterically appropriate!), there's really not much else they can say... It's not like they can explain their way out of it, after all.

My guess is that after Tuck beats a hasty retreat, Roy & Lucy will probably be thoroughly mortified for about five minutes, then start laughing their tails off over the whole incident. Roy will then get up, grab a couple of tools, install a deadbolt or a chain latch on the front door, and the snuggling will eventually resume... punctuated by occasional snickering. ("Lord, did you see the look on that poor boy's face?" "Hey, woman, it ain't my fault; I already had "the talk" with him!" "Well, maybe you better do it again, 'cause it obviously didn't take the first time!")

Now, as to what Thelma is going to do, I haven't a clue... but somehow, I suspect she isn't gonna let Tuck forget this anytime soon.

solarfox wrote:"...I already had "the talk" with him!"

That dialogue is just plain wicked, SF - I love it! I bet Ralph is kicking himself for not coming up with it on his own.

For today's comic: Nip was adorable... and considerably less clueless than we've been led to believe. Chalk up another mark for resiliency though, this one mental.

Naw, I think that's what caused his destructive tendencies. Most kids who see their parents *ahem* "commence the process" will probably have something wrong with them later on. Then again, no one has studied how it would affect five-year-olds, and they'd probably be severely criticized for it. Plus there's the fact that Tuck, who is probably in his late teens, has a very different mentality than when he was five. Lord knows how Nip would've reacted.

Thankfully I think my parents are too old to really do anything when all us kids leave. Three of us are in college (two living at home), and the fourth one is in high school. It's gonna take a couple years before we're all gone, and I don't think that is on their minds quite as often as it was earlier in the marriage. But then, what do I know? I don't even have girlfriend yet!

Oh, I don't know, Strange -- I can remember (somewhat hazily, as five- and six-year-olds' memories generally are) a couple of similar incidents in my past, and I don't think it messed me up in any significant way. I think at that age, a kid's mind just tends to file such incidents under "more weird things grownups do" unless the parents freak out and make such a big deal out of it that the kid gets the idea there was something unspeakably nastybadevil going on. (Note that I am speaking of accidental... er, "exposure"; deliberately doing it in front of the kids is another matter entirely.)

As far as Nip's mental resiliency and lack-of-cluelessness -- well, kids who grow up on a farm do tend, in general, to acquire at least a vague awareness of "what it's all about" much earlier in life than city boys, simply because the livestock doesn't particularly care where, when, or if they have an audience or not; thus, sooner or later the kid will witness something requiring appropriate parental explanation. Odds are, though, he probably doesn't remember the incident in today's strip, or at least not well enough (or consciously enough) that it would come to mind when he was trying to figure out why his Pa wasn't taking any fishing or hunting equipment with him on the little weekend campout.