Be Our Guest
Added 2025-03-12 00:29:58 +0000 UTCwe all knew it was coming
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@Stephen… It was admittedly difficult to avert one’s eyes from the flames billowing anh the wreckage…
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-17 11:18:02 +0000 UTCI had a calzone once, and promised myself to never repeat the mistake.
Carl G Knoblock
2025-03-17 05:45:35 +0000 UTCGood point. I figured the line was famous enough that it wouldn’t need it, like “Inconceivable!”
Sleepy John
2025-03-15 19:09:29 +0000 UTCIs he even in the QC universe?
Opus the Poet
2025-03-14 17:31:23 +0000 UTCThat's because people were buying one and wrecking them first drive out of the dealership.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-14 17:25:54 +0000 UTC@enchantedsleeper I hadn't until last year (or the year before maybe?) IMO it's fully as good as everyone says.
Clifton Royston
2025-03-14 04:37:39 +0000 UTCI remember looking at buying a Ferrari once. Did you know they won't sell you one if you don't take their "how to drive it" class?
Daniel Luckett
2025-03-13 19:18:59 +0000 UTCI love anime - but I haven't seen Cowboy Bebop.
enchantedsleeper
2025-03-13 13:23:42 +0000 UTCShe's made a nest.
Stephen Wells
2025-03-13 10:17:15 +0000 UTC@Veronica Jane I understand that reference but anime is still not that popular, especially late 20th Century anime.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-13 06:35:42 +0000 UTCI got pretty close to calling the Ferrari incident in the previous strip's comments on "extravagant mistakes." And yet, I admit I did not think even Anh would try to drive a sports car when she couldn't yet drive.
Clifton Royston
2025-03-13 04:12:52 +0000 UTC"Raccoon" is an odd nickname for Yay, but I'll allow it.
Rich Holmes
2025-03-13 00:49:07 +0000 UTCand which Roko is _never_ going to throw out 😭
Lucas Werkmeister
2025-03-12 23:56:11 +0000 UTC@Thunder: Imagine Faye rejecting Anh as a roommate only to wander into the kitchen the next morning and "GAH! What are you doing here??" Anh, misty-eyed: "Your roommate really IS an amazing listener." Sterner face: "But your coffee is unacceptably below par. These aren't even hand-roasted beans, are they?" Faye: "OUT."
enchantedsleeper
2025-03-12 23:00:50 +0000 UTCGosh, THAT is a deep cut I'd forgotten.
enchantedsleeper
2025-03-12 22:56:14 +0000 UTCWell, I may or may not have written a book report on the school bus in fifth grade for first-period English.
ValdVin
2025-03-12 22:45:11 +0000 UTCWhat about: Raccoon in the dusty airshaft? It's a pretty well-known Northampton thing.
ValdVin
2025-03-12 22:08:46 +0000 UTCI've said before that those two could work well together. They share a possible interest in canine roleplay. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5428
Phil_M
2025-03-12 21:21:14 +0000 UTCYou think Anh will reveal How she has det her fathers house on fire? That is what Faye did to her own apartmment.
legobil
2025-03-12 20:02:05 +0000 UTCLiked for the DoA reference. She and Billifer would be a pair. Not a good pair, I just feel they would gravitate together.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 19:46:24 +0000 UTCGrime sifting gently down from the celling, unclear why.
Stephen Wells
2025-03-12 17:50:36 +0000 UTCIdly curious if she HAD enough money, then paid for the repairs...
Raymond Dannelly
2025-03-12 15:24:21 +0000 UTCI think this is the highest Like amount that I've seen outside of Jeph's Q&A xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-03-12 14:02:09 +0000 UTCShe presumably got through college. I imagine that she’s pretty good at composing passing-grade essays on the (metaphorical) bus. (I mean, on an *actual* bus, darling?)
Phil_M
2025-03-12 13:49:43 +0000 UTCI’m now picturing them at the same college as the cast of *Dumbing of Age*. Raidah recruits Anh to her clique because of course she does, then runs screaming into the night a week later…
Phil_M
2025-03-12 13:46:46 +0000 UTCIt would serve her right. And Pintsize would have a fresh human to torment.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 13:35:32 +0000 UTCSomething I tell my wife at least once a month if not more often.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 13:25:12 +0000 UTCAnd it's a parody of "Be Our Guest" from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 13:23:08 +0000 UTCBack in the days of smoking on airplanes and seat assignments at the airport, I once was running late and arrived at the very last minute and stood in line thinking "oh god I'm getting the last middle seat in smoking aren't I". The woman ahead of me in line got the last middle seat in smoking. As for me, "We have no more seats in coach, I'll have to put you in first class."
Rich Holmes
2025-03-12 11:52:50 +0000 UTCGiven what we've seen of her relationship with her parents, homelessness might in fact be preferable.
Rich Holmes
2025-03-12 11:48:06 +0000 UTCOh Anh. You are such a train wreck/disaster.
legobil
2025-03-12 11:32:02 +0000 UTC-Groucho Marx Don't forget to give attribution.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 11:22:03 +0000 UTCAnd not-so-big cities and towns in easy commute range of the Big City.
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 11:18:38 +0000 UTCYeah, the match is not particularly close but it is a lot closer than any other combination of English sounds I could think of.
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
2025-03-12 11:17:49 +0000 UTCExcellent scansion sir!
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 11:16:02 +0000 UTCShe's getting dirtier /just standing there/!
Opus the Poet
2025-03-12 11:13:30 +0000 UTCA+
Streb
2025-03-12 10:27:46 +0000 UTC& thus it is headcanon
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 10:15:19 +0000 UTC.... Pintsize becomes Anh's companion AI.
Am Queue
2025-03-12 09:37:10 +0000 UTCI think I completely missed the Pintsize cameo, being hypnotised by the Anh trainwreck :)
Stephen Wells
2025-03-12 09:21:15 +0000 UTCIIRC the spare bedroom currently contains only a bunch of Yay's clothes that Yemisi left there.
Stephen Wells
2025-03-12 09:18:38 +0000 UTCOh there’s that other shoe
SheepFace2000
2025-03-12 07:38:53 +0000 UTC👏👏👏
djellafine
2025-03-12 07:23:15 +0000 UTCRoko has an apartment and sleeps on the couch, I think she has a spare bedroom for an aspiring robot rights activist :)
Stephen Wells
2025-03-12 07:22:37 +0000 UTCDefenestratiAnh
BookBeard
2025-03-12 07:21:49 +0000 UTCI find that comparison offensive. I've been to many hell holes and they are *much* nicer than America.
BookBeard
2025-03-12 07:10:11 +0000 UTCAnd NOW Bubbles throws her through a window?
Kevin Symonds
2025-03-12 06:32:47 +0000 UTCNot good enough at English, but to me at least, anh doesn't have much of an "ai" in it, at least not when my girlfriend calls me that. And I dare not to give an example, since I'm not native, neither when it comes to English or Vietnamese.
Sharpless
2025-03-12 06:13:34 +0000 UTCa new positive role model in pintsizes life or someone new for him to counsel.
angrytoast777
2025-03-12 04:34:41 +0000 UTCExcept Faye was actually pretty polite and respectful in her initial approaches to Marten, both in becoming friends with him and in asking to move in. Not Anh just inserting herself into peoples’ lives and relying on them being too nice to say no.
Eleanor
2025-03-12 03:40:33 +0000 UTCSome places require it to be placed in a locked bank account, with the interest goign to you or the landlord, depending on things.
Captain Button
2025-03-12 03:34:48 +0000 UTCJust no calzones, they are a declaration of war.
Captain Button
2025-03-12 03:31:40 +0000 UTCIndeed! Definitely wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating crackers.
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 03:14:01 +0000 UTCAssuming she's right about it. She could have been basing it on a month of California rent, which in Northampton would probably cover you for about a year...
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:58:13 +0000 UTC🤣 Even first class gets more expensive on shorter notice, like all the other seats, doesn’t it? (Peasant that I am, I’ve only ever enjoyed it in the context of an apology upgrade)
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 02:56:25 +0000 UTCTrue, although that sympathy is slightly muted by the fact that, if she wanted to, she could presumably afford a return ticket to the mansion she totally still has the option of living in.
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:50:26 +0000 UTCMuch obliged for the citation!
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 02:49:26 +0000 UTCTai has also been known to DJ on occasion, perhaps she was hired to work some rich girl sorority party and they met that way.
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:46:53 +0000 UTCSo every shadow it is then. Lol.
Bridgette Ryan
2025-03-12 02:42:23 +0000 UTCHuddled in the deepest, darkest hard drive of the robot jail datacenter, jumping at every shadow that even vaguely resembles Yay.
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:41:48 +0000 UTCSame
Melanie
2025-03-12 02:39:18 +0000 UTCNot by the river per se, but yes. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=594
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:38:41 +0000 UTCWith how Faye moved in with Martin... I guess karma is real in the QC universe. Which I guess we already knew. How IS Corpse Witch going?
Bridgette Ryan
2025-03-12 02:36:52 +0000 UTCSo they're just stealing a month's rent from you? Man, hang every landlord. (We do have the deposit here, but I've never not gotten it all back. They tried once, but not very hard - they claimed the grass was too long. We pointed out it was long because they didn't inspect the property until several weeks after we'd moved out.)
Diptych
2025-03-12 02:24:58 +0000 UTCI feel bad for her. It doesn’t matter where you come from. Being too broke to afford rent is the worst.
Andrea Andrew
2025-03-12 02:20:58 +0000 UTCGiven the number of people who apparently can't keep up a regular payment, it's understandable. The number of times I've had to chase down a roomate for his portion of the rent...
Daryl Sawyer
2025-03-12 02:18:01 +0000 UTCIt’s because if you get evicted they have to have a notice period and an eviction period that can easily take a month. So dishonest renters could otherwise pay for 1 month, live there for 2-3 months without paying another penny, then once evicted move into another place and repeat the process.
Roger Judd
2025-03-12 02:17:49 +0000 UTCOne of your absolute best, @BookBeard!
Zak Reichle
2025-03-12 02:17:03 +0000 UTCAhhhhhh, it's so close, but it doesn't quite match the rhythm and triggers me like a turn signal that is *almost* in sync with the radio...
Daryl Sawyer
2025-03-12 02:15:54 +0000 UTCBecause it isn't the second month's rent. You pay 2X+SD when you move in, then the 1st of every month thereafter you pay another X. If you don't pay by the 6th of the month they start the wheel to evict you. When you notify them you are moving out, they supposedly let you skip paying X for the last month, but don't count on it. When you actually out you get your security deposit back, in theory, though in practice they will always come up with a reason to withhold some of it. Many places have landlord-tenant laws regulating all this, at varying levels of fairness and actual enforcement.
Captain Button
2025-03-12 02:14:29 +0000 UTCMy eyelid's been twitching since she showed up. What was it Grogu said in the mecha armor, trying to separate the angry Mandlorians? Oh, right. No. No. No. No. NO.
Maurice Kessler
2025-03-12 02:13:30 +0000 UTCSay no, Faye! C'mon, maintain those boundaries!
Eleanor
2025-03-12 02:11:08 +0000 UTC+3 on intimidate rolls
Sean Kinlin
2025-03-12 02:10:26 +0000 UTCPoor Pintsize, rejected from the hypothetical before he even had a chance to chime in :( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5429
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:08:16 +0000 UTC"And two hard-boiled eggs."
ValdVin
2025-03-12 02:07:56 +0000 UTCI had to do the same in Italy with two months rent security deposit. Moral of the story: landlords blow
Nessi505
2025-03-12 02:06:44 +0000 UTCit's only improving
Brendan Luster
2025-03-12 02:01:46 +0000 UTCThe traditional offering. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3408
BookBeard
2025-03-12 02:01:26 +0000 UTCYou, sir, win the Internet for today.
Anthony Gaglianese
2025-03-12 01:52:57 +0000 UTCOh yes! 👏 👏 👏 🎶 “Some men hunt for sport, Others hunt for food, The only thing I'm hunting for is an outfit that looks good...”
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 01:52:42 +0000 UTCAnh gravitating to Tai during some college party for reasons I'm sure has nothing to do with being so deep in the closet she's finding Christmas presents.
CthonicBelletrist
2025-03-12 01:51:57 +0000 UTCMaximum points for referring to both Heathers & Daria in a single post. I salute you, Captain!
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 01:49:31 +0000 UTCSemi-serious; we don't do the two-months'-rent thing here, but I got that that's what they were going for. Not why they call it 'last month's rent', though. What's so special about the last month? Why is it not just the second month's rent?
Diptych
2025-03-12 01:49:00 +0000 UTCShe's... your... guest! She's your guest Put your patience to the test She shows up without a warning and she makes a bold request Was repressed, She's progressed! Though with Hanners she's obsessed Claimed she wasn't into women 'til she drunkenly confessed You detest, And protest! But at last you acquiesced Let her mop until your girlfriend confirms facts that you attest She's a pest Leaves you stressed But reluctantly impressed When the shady Dang Tech's misdeed she impulsively redressed So if the grumpy Faye Consents to let her stay She's your guest, yes that pest, is your guest!
BookBeard
2025-03-12 01:47:16 +0000 UTCAssuming this is a serious question, many landlords demand you pay two months rent up front, with the second one being for the last month you will stay there at what ever date in the future you decide to leave. Besides being able to have that money as a de facto loan, this helps weed out prospective tenants who don't have reliable finances. It might also figure in if you came in to the deal through a rental broker, who will ask the landlord for the first month's rent as their fee.
Captain Button
2025-03-12 01:43:30 +0000 UTCUsually it's just one month's rent. And cheaper places use that as the deposit. But the bigger the city, the more competition. So I'm certain there's a lot of places in big cities that are like this.
Alcaria Swain
2025-03-12 01:43:04 +0000 UTCYour first and last month's rent. As someone who still lives in her childhood home, I'm very iffy past that, though
Madeline Hunter
2025-03-12 01:40:46 +0000 UTCEwww... fly coach like some peasant?!
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-03-12 01:39:33 +0000 UTCWasn't the love hobo doing that?
Captain Button
2025-03-12 01:38:04 +0000 UTCAnd love her bad squeeze her and call her George?
Captain Button
2025-03-12 01:37:04 +0000 UTCWouldn't the easier comparison be "like the dog from Cowboy Bebop"?
Veronica Jane
2025-03-12 01:36:17 +0000 UTCI'm picturing her being one of the background figures in a clique of "mean girls." Not really suited to the role, but brought in because she fit the rich and beautiful requirements, but just a follower of the dominant queen. Like Stacy Rowe in "Daria." Then the group broke up for one reason or another* and she had to try and keep up the role by herself, and found she wasn't suited to it. * Hopefully not like in "Heathers."
Captain Button
2025-03-12 01:35:56 +0000 UTCWe've GOT to introduce her to George Russell. What a smugfest.
SpookyPenguin
2025-03-12 01:35:06 +0000 UTCYeah, bonus points for Leclerc being a born & bred Monégasque. Anh knows quality when she’s trained to see it from her family.
Miyaa
2025-03-12 01:32:59 +0000 UTCSecurity deposit *and* first and last month's rent up front? Wow, America really is a hell hole
Veronica Jane
2025-03-12 01:32:34 +0000 UTCLoving Anh's stray lock of hair. That hair's got charisma.
Chris Warren
2025-03-12 01:32:15 +0000 UTC“Hello, Room Service? Send up a larger room."
Sleepy John
2025-03-12 01:30:27 +0000 UTCWe’ll take her home and get her cleaned up… 🤭
Ailadi
2025-03-12 01:28:02 +0000 UTCThank you! While not guilty of misspelling, definitely was abusing the puns. The actual pronunciation is quite lovely and we appreciate being educated!
Ailadi
2025-03-12 01:25:36 +0000 UTCDM: "You've gotten me angry, folks. So here is Cthulhu in power armour! Roll for initiative."
Joseph Bonnar
2025-03-12 01:23:17 +0000 UTCBravo, Captain! That was awnful, and I may well steal it. :)
Joseph Bonnar
2025-03-12 01:22:25 +0000 UTCFull disclosure, I had to look up Charles Leclerc. And having done so, I am fully convinced Anh would hit that. Do you think that’s a special genre of cherry-popping kink for a professional driver? “I met this Dang heiress & she didn’t even know how to drive! Oh, yeah… You better believe I taught her. She drove my stick all night!”
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 01:21:16 +0000 UTCSomebody tell Ahn to provide PIZZA.
Joseph Bonnar
2025-03-12 01:21:08 +0000 UTCparody. original attribution Montgomery Burns
Brendan Luster
2025-03-12 01:16:37 +0000 UTC*facepalm* Oh, Ahn...
Doc Gumby
2025-03-12 01:15:51 +0000 UTCMy guess is the entertainment factor had a lot to do with it. Still, seems odd to me Tai and Anh's social circles would intersect. Maybe an interesting backstory there.
Rich Holmes
2025-03-12 01:15:18 +0000 UTCUnfortunate order of events, though… if she’d looked it up *before* purchasing a last-minute flight, she might have saved enough on airfare to actually afford rent, by waiting a few more days.
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 01:11:00 +0000 UTCI really don’t want that to happen, yet I find myself utterly enchanted by your song.
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 01:07:15 +0000 UTCWasn’t he at the wedding, too? I mean, it could’ve happened…
Melissa Wilson
2025-03-12 01:02:44 +0000 UTCI'm very curious how Tai and Cleo became friends with her. She's clearly trying to be less awful, but she strikes me as someone who was never comfortable being an awful socialite to begin with, she's just too insecure about herself to stop acting like one cause it's all she knows. I could see that being endearing/entertaining enough to outweigh the frustration.
BaronHaynes
2025-03-12 01:01:37 +0000 UTCAnd yet she did it. Which is more than I'd expect from a spoiled young heiress.
Rich Holmes
2025-03-12 00:59:55 +0000 UTC...be the guest, come and join them in the nest, Faye will make a pot of coffee, just the best! Pintsize like to snuggle, and the toaster is a puzzle, be the guest, be the guest, be the guest!
Brendan Luster
2025-03-12 00:59:07 +0000 UTC"I did research on the plane" has a lot of "I did my book report on the bus" energy.
ValdVin
2025-03-12 00:53:06 +0000 UTCDoesn't ruin all of them though! Anh-cident still works...almost better in fact! It also opens up new opporun-anh-ties!
Thomas Baxter
2025-03-12 00:52:53 +0000 UTCi totally would have pegged her as a Carlos kind of gal. and with him now off to williams, him and alex might as well be 'team swoon'...
Kurt Roithinger
2025-03-12 00:51:55 +0000 UTCI freaking love Anh. Not that I would want to have to deal with her ever, but she is such a spectacular mess that it becomes hilarious.
Yonatan Zunger
2025-03-12 00:49:42 +0000 UTCLeclerc is cute. And now we know where to find Jeph mid-June. See you in Montreal!
Ken
2025-03-12 00:49:07 +0000 UTCI caught and corrected my misspelling just before you posted!
Rich Holmes
2025-03-12 00:49:06 +0000 UTCIt is a good thing she is on a monthly allowance and not an Anhual stipend.
Captain Button
2025-03-12 00:47:52 +0000 UTCWhat god did they anger to deserve this?
Emma Humphries
2025-03-12 00:47:42 +0000 UTCWe have that dipthong in Inupiat, too. I learned something today!
Spell Craft
2025-03-12 00:47:11 +0000 UTCPerhaps she could rent a van and live down by the river. Cheaper than an apartment, and is it still a thing?
Michael Boettger
2025-03-12 00:46:35 +0000 UTCFaye isn't giving her a warm recept-Ahn.
Michael Steamweed
2025-03-12 00:46:06 +0000 UTCCommenters keep spelling her name Ahn! It's Anh. If it is Vietnamese, which looks likely, it's pronounced more or less like Ain -- like Fine in general American without the F. The "nh" digraph represents a sound rather like the Spanish ñ which English really doesn't have except in some loan words like canyon where it is represented by the "ny" digraph between vowels. I know this breaks a lot of puns which I suppose is Anfortunate but the repeated misspellings give me an itch in my editor reflexes. :)
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
2025-03-12 00:43:51 +0000 UTCLove the F1 joke
Kilonum
2025-03-12 00:43:12 +0000 UTCThe Ferrari Ahncident
Michael Steamweed
2025-03-12 00:42:32 +0000 UTCWhy do you have to pay last month's rent? You weren't living there last month!
Diptych
2025-03-12 00:40:30 +0000 UTCTrying to decide if Pintsize is going to be the enormous Chaos Monkey he always was, or the sensitive, helpful person he also always was. [Both? Both. Both is good](https://tenor.com/view/both-eldorado-road-to-gif-13431218)
Jason Zions
2025-03-12 00:39:31 +0000 UTCAnh: “I know all about Rent; I saw it on Broadway 3 times.”
Sean Kinlin
2025-03-12 00:39:31 +0000 UTCAwwww…Anh’s gonna die.
JMK
2025-03-12 00:38:42 +0000 UTCThat Anh knows she doesn't have enough money til next month is actually more than I expected her to figure out.
ValdVin
2025-03-12 00:38:24 +0000 UTCBreathe, Faye. Exhale - Anhale - exhale - Anhale…
Sean Kinlin
2025-03-12 00:37:43 +0000 UTCSHE DID RESEARCH ON THE PLANE. Big shift, upward, in my perception of Anh.
Rich Holmes
2025-03-12 00:37:42 +0000 UTCConsidering his recent side-business, it could actually go either way.
Thunder
2025-03-12 00:37:18 +0000 UTCI feel like Faye should know better than to hope for the best in these kinds of situations 😂
Aditya Rameshan
2025-03-12 00:36:41 +0000 UTCWell. She needs to sweep more.
Sparky
2025-03-12 00:35:26 +0000 UTCAnhbelievable presumption!
Wynn Donivan
2025-03-12 00:33:28 +0000 UTCOh god. She hasn't met pintsize. This shall be biblical.
Tannerbot
2025-03-12 00:33:08 +0000 UTCTen-Anh-t
Gary Levine
2025-03-12 00:32:44 +0000 UTCThe lesson is, "Never hope."
Zig Justice
2025-03-12 00:32:24 +0000 UTCThat's what you get for hoping. /s
Michael
2025-03-12 00:32:23 +0000 UTC
