A Catch-All Phrase

I like to imagine her having a voice like Female Shepard from Mass Effect.

Niskara

a good quote from my second favorite Cornetto trilogy movie, robot also means slave.

Dan Curtis

One little detail that has always irked me a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Origin_of_the_term_'robot' Given the origin of the word, wouldn't AIs find it extremely offensive?

Sometimes "racist asshole" is just a way to be a bit more precise about the manner in which they're an asshole. Other times, it's being overly precise, because I've met plenty of assholes who were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, antisemitic, transphobic, technophobic, and misanthropic. Some of them didn't like animals too much, either.

Some Ed

Y'know, I'm getting to the point where I'm rather curious about what Bubbles is supposed to sound like. I'm trying to picture the perfect voice for her just dryly calling them assholes right now...

Mrs W is/was a Baptist, and at the least didn't approve of alcohol while her husband was alive. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=503

Mark

This is soooo good!

David Austin

Aigots

These last few panels have made my heart genuinely happy.

Joey Baker

Bonus comic idea!

Travis Wedding

I want a comic where Faye's mom gets baked with Claire's mom.

Gary Walker

The deep memory of all the goings on of YEARS of JJs comic constantly blows me away. Gotta be tough for the creator.

Matt

The world needs to be a lot more like Mrs. W.

Matt

This is one of the occasions where alcohol can be useful - Bubbles and Mrs. Whitaker could get close really fast while dissing various assholes over a glass/app of real/emulated alcohol. They both could really do with some mild "girls night out". On the other hand, they seem to get along just fine already.

Evgeniy Semyonov

I think that the lines are meant to be wrinkles, not a 'stache. Jeph was drawing Mrs Augustus with the same for a while, and I found it disconcerting.

Mark

Anti-“seam”-ites?

Summer Sudbrink

And it was at that point that Mrs Whitaker went "ooh, I like her".

Chris Crowther

Luddites

Jaysyn

I still read Bubble's text in the voice of Orisa from Overwatch. Can't help it.

Lightsabr2

Seems a cool mom

SpookyPenguin

I kept trying to clean dirt off my monitor... dat mom 'stache doe...

Bryan Brake

I note that she blew right past the "dating a girl" thing to be confused about the "dating a robot" thing

Bagge

I think Faye's mom might benefit from some time with Momo. She is good at discussing these things

Bagge

at least mrs. whitaker has gone through another daughter coming out as gay. seems like she's dealing with it better this time.

Astrid

So Mrs. Whitaker is confused but supportive. That's certainly one of the better outcomes.

Daryl Resplandor

We still have a few days left in the week, don’t worry.

Brian

This went better than expected

Brian

Yeah, I think they'll get along fine.

Jason Rock

She did say "Skullfucker" in reference to another AI's name.

Shawn K. Younkin

Over at Skin-Horse, the zombie benefit fundraiser is Lurch for the Cure.

Sleepy John

I think that is the first time Bubbles has ever used profanity. And I can't think of a better situation for it.

Sleepy John

If you're referring to Faye's mom, she wasn't burned. She just got through saying she's <i>not</i> bigoted against them. She's just saying that calling such bigots "assholes" is indeed a slick (and fitting) burn.

awgiedawgie

I think "assholes" for people who are bigoted in general is perfect.

drone r0m-3

I love the progression of Bubbles’s facial expressions through the comic, and the one in panel 7 is perfect.

David Hall

I LOVE IT! What a classic BURN ! :)

David Austin

Are voice bubbles reversed in a mirror?

Matt Grayson

Already scoring brownie points with mom. Nice!

Niskara

LOL- I greatly appreciate the self awareness to know that you just been burned, but also be like "Yeah, I deserve that."

Shawn K. Younkin

You're seeing an AI, too? ;)

Czarzhan

Burn²

R L

Some nonsense between mates has annoyed me today and this gave me a proper laugh. Thanks Jeph.

Brendan Jones

the nerves indeed

Tamara Macadam

Amanda is going to utterly flip.

Ted Van Roekel

I believe that it is mirrored on her mom's side.

Henry R. Seymour

So when does Amanda join in and yell “OMG, you finally got it!” to both Faye &amp; their mom. (Also, I would like to nominate “Genevieve” as Faye &amp; Amanda’s mom’s name.)

Miyaa

I think you call people who are bigoted against A.I. members of the Q.C. subreddit.

Henry R. Seymour

Faye has her right arm extended, but it looks like it's her left hand that's holding the phone? Am I seeing this wrong?

Antoine Leblanc

Who is?

Kenneth Carlile

And Bubbles drops the mic!

Michael Boettger

I can only hope that me coming out to my mum goes as well as the top 2 panels...

Bonnie Fiddis

You could always use the Discworld term for someone who's bigoted against the undead: vitalist

Crushogre

I was totally expecting a "but" and for this to be sad.

Dylan T

Heheheh. Burn.

I love Faye's mom so much xD

Nicholas Lopez

Nice

Jackie Horn