Teens In The Mist

hehehe

Martin Trebuch

Cute kids.

Sparky

they/them pronouns for the new kid! <3

Hoshi9Zoe

The metric system is rather sinister…

Mad Marie

hehehehehehe

Jay MacKinnon

AT FIRST I THOUGHT THE LEFT-HANDED THING MIGHT BE ABOUT THE METRIC SYSTEM, BUT WOULD AIs (EVEN AMERICAN ONES) EVEN BOTHER WITH IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS? ALSO, TESTICLES!

Yelling Bird

more than anything I love this look into AI culture!

Danielle Church

Or maybe it’s the hockey stick thing…Canadians play left-handed in higher proportions than in other places.

Mad Marie

So all the pictures I have seen of the Canadarm mounted on space shuttles show it on the left side of the vehicle. Perhaps?

Mad Marie

Something, something, poutine! Something, something Tim Hortons, eh?

drone r0m-3

I think the AI joke is that actually no AI has a "dominant side"

Jim Feldman

I heard that the nation’s original intended title had the initials “C.N.D.” but when they first wrote it down it was dictated as “C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?”

Mad Marie

So is Emmett not laughing? Everyone knows Canadians laugh like, “Eh eh eh eh eh.”

William Stark

we have a teen Marigold!!

Marc Tabor

You've been living up here too long Jeph. Catching the local ways eh.

Ellen Worling

I’m British so the only jokingly derogatory thing I know about Canada is that it’s America’s hat…

More like Gorillas in the Mist, where Faye is observing but not interfering with the wildlings.

Am Queue

Teens in the mist = Smells like teen Spritz?

Mad Marie

Emmett-bits.

Jason Zions

They are just preparing for “the great curling”.

Steve H

Sam had an honest to God real canadian friend

Bagge

That much I got, but the jokes?

Tim Hortons is a Canadian donut chain.

William Cole

OK, help me out here... What is a Tim Horton joke? Southern US minds want to know!

listen, everyone knows that to an introvert, being adopted by an extrovert IS friendship. (sometimes its the only way we can make friends)

Absentia

We’re starting 2022 off with A Serious Affliction??

Shane Wegner

I can’t help but note that it’s only implied that Faye was poking the disembodied robot butt and giggling. As opposed to other robot butts that might be close at hand.

Summer Sudbrink

Considering the uniformity of the response to a disembodied robot butt, one wonders if that's what's at the core of universal translator technology.

Doug DeJulio

Sam is a good friend. I hope Emmett comes out of their shell soon once they’re more comfortable ☺️

KingAtticus

🤣😹😂

Carrie

No. I think that was established early on in UR's existence when they refused to take Canadian Tire money from Pintsize.

W. Scott Meeks

They're enjoying poking a butt so no pity from me!

Pejo

yeah you know me

Pejo

Poor Emmett.

Darnel D Cooper

Double double butt anyone?

In 2040, a NASA spokesperson is unable to explain why the latest Mars rocket has a butt.

Dean Reilly

the hoodie is that big to hide all the timbits

Emet and "in the Mist", not sure where that Golem thing is going but let's see.

Atashkada

...and here in their natural habitat of a garage we find nerdlings at play, poking at tech as they develop the skills they will in time wield as adult aerospace engineers

SpookyPenguin

re: panel 5 - well thats how *I* made friends back in high school, so i dont see why it cant be both =w=

Waffliesinyoface

O Canada, you are the source of endless merriment and joy by just existing and putting up with our dumb jokes.

Douglas E. Smith

The butt's a double double with Tim Bits!

Matt

Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Butt!

Leak

"Faye is using the good practice of not assuming gender until expressed" +++

Martin Trebuch

I guess it's more like it's in for it's 100k mile service... but not missing...

Leak

Is Melon missing a butt again?

Bill Silvia

Canadians are often willing to be stolen. We're very easy to take care of, you know.

quack.

Mad Marie

I expect you would also accept a membered one?

Mad Marie

Faye might be using the plural to refer to both of the offscreen folks in one or more of those instances, but I think either way, Faye is using the good practice of not assuming gender until expressed.

Mad Marie

So just to be clear--did we skip over the part where Sam or Emmet say that Emmet uses they/them pronouns? Because at first I got the impression that this strip takes place right after the previous one, but then I figured that in that case, why would Faye use they/them pronouns.

Rob McBobson

It's 2022 and Jeph still has butts disease and I'm here for it

Ada Bean

Adults are just children with bills.

AlexKorobeiniki

I NEED A DISMEMBERED ROBOT ASS IMMEDIATELY!

Yelling Bird

The disembutted robot has been experiencing phantom butt syndrome all day.

Andrew

Hehe, butts

Fart Captor

I hope Sam didn't just steal a Canadian.

Ace of Hearts

BUTTS LOL

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Messin' with the Myomer Maximus makes more merriment!

BobC

Not actually clear on that. It'd be neat if they used they/them but it sounds more like Emmet and Sam are poking the butt

Eliza-Azalea, Maid of Heart

Lol: face in panel 3.

Mad Marie

Getting strong Emmett and Butthead vibes here...

Leak

Button disease: Jackie was a vector. He introduced it when he emigrated several years ago. It appears to have spread.

Michael Boettger

As it happens, poking butts and giggling is also how Faye and Bubbles spent last night.

Stephen Wells

I assume all the Emmett-Sam shippers will jump on the whole "Canadian *-friend" thing.

Captain Button

Butts

thefinaldegree

I guess maybe it's like going into a doctors office and seeing the models of brains and skeletons? Or maybe like if your doctor had actual specimens in jars?

Thomas McKevitt

It's a pandemic.

Sammitch

I'm 100% here for Questionable Canadian Content. Does that mean I'm down with Q.C.C.?

Dallas Hicks

Butts disease has spread to Canada???

Patrick R. Wade

I have always wondered that as well.

Mad Marie

If they weren't friends before, they are now. Mutual appreciation of butts is an excellent bonding experience.

TwoRavens

I now wonder if it's weird for some AIs to go into the shop and see spare parts. Like oh that arm looks like my disembodied arm. Like is it a robot equivalent to a human seeing a heart in a box?

Darth Hypno

They/them/theirs it is!

Runhildr Zaetl

Wait wait… why are Canadians left handed?

Miyaa

Sam is going to start hoarding friends like Martin.

JD

hhehehehehe robutt

Shaun

Hehe. butts

Nick Hodgson

Does Union Robotics take Canadian Tire money

Alan Wiggs

They have been adopted.

Vilinda

Yay for using they/them for the new person!

at0m