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Be Our Guest

🕑 Added 2025-03-12 00:29:58 +0000 UTC

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Melissa Wilson

@Stephen… It was admittedly difficult to avert one’s eyes from the flames billowing anh the wreckage…

Carl G Knoblock

I had a calzone once, and promised myself to never repeat the mistake.

Sleepy John

Good point. I figured the line was famous enough that it wouldn’t need it, like “Inconceivable!”

Opus the Poet

Is he even in the QC universe?

Opus the Poet

That's because people were buying one and wrecking them first drive out of the dealership.

Clifton Royston

@enchantedsleeper I hadn't until last year (or the year before maybe?) IMO it's fully as good as everyone says.

Daniel Luckett

I 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?

enchantedsleeper

I love anime - but I haven't seen Cowboy Bebop.

Stephen Wells

She's made a nest.

Opus the Poet

@Veronica Jane I understand that reference but anime is still not that popular, especially late 20th Century anime.

Clifton Royston

I 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.

Rich Holmes

"Raccoon" is an odd nickname for Yay, but I'll allow it.

Lucas Werkmeister

and which Roko is _never_ going to throw out 😭

enchantedsleeper

@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

Gosh, THAT is a deep cut I'd forgotten.

ValdVin

Well, I may or may not have written a book report on the school bus in fifth grade for first-period English.

ValdVin

What about: Raccoon in the dusty airshaft? It's a pretty well-known Northampton thing.

Phil_M

I'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

legobil

You think Anh will reveal How she has det her fathers house on fire? That is what Faye did to her own apartmment.

Opus the Poet

Liked for the DoA reference. She and Billifer would be a pair. Not a good pair, I just feel they would gravitate together.

Stephen Wells

Grime sifting gently down from the celling, unclear why.

Raymond Dannelly

Idly curious if she HAD enough money, then paid for the repairs...

enchantedsleeper

I think this is the highest Like amount that I've seen outside of Jeph's Q&A xD

Phil_M

She 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

I’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…

Opus the Poet

It would serve her right. And Pintsize would have a fresh human to torment.

Opus the Poet

Something I tell my wife at least once a month if not more often.

Opus the Poet

And it's a parody of "Be Our Guest" from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Rich Holmes

Back 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

Given what we've seen of her relationship with her parents, homelessness might in fact be preferable.

legobil

Oh Anh. You are such a train wreck/disaster.

Opus the Poet

-Groucho Marx Don't forget to give attribution.

Opus the Poet

And not-so-big cities and towns in easy commute range of the Big City.

Erin Halfelven at BigCloset

Yeah, the match is not particularly close but it is a lot closer than any other combination of English sounds I could think of.

Opus the Poet

Excellent scansion sir!

Opus the Poet

She's getting dirtier /just standing there/!

Streb

A+

Melissa Wilson

& thus it is headcanon

Am Queue

.... Pintsize becomes Anh's companion AI.

Stephen Wells

I think I completely missed the Pintsize cameo, being hypnotised by the Anh trainwreck :)

Stephen Wells

IIRC the spare bedroom currently contains only a bunch of Yay's clothes that Yemisi left there.

SheepFace2000

Oh there’s that other shoe

djellafine

👏👏👏

Stephen Wells

Roko has an apartment and sleeps on the couch, I think she has a spare bedroom for an aspiring robot rights activist :)

BookBeard

DefenestratiAnh

BookBeard

I find that comparison offensive. I've been to many hell holes and they are *much* nicer than America.

Kevin Symonds

And NOW Bubbles throws her through a window?

Sharpless

Not 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.

angrytoast777

a new positive role model in pintsizes life or someone new for him to counsel.

Eleanor

Except 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.

Captain Button

Some 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

Just no calzones, they are a declaration of war.

Melissa Wilson

Indeed! Definitely wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

BookBeard

Assuming 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...

Melissa Wilson

🤣 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)

BookBeard

True, 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.

Melissa Wilson

Much obliged for the citation!

BookBeard

Tai has also been known to DJ on occasion, perhaps she was hired to work some rich girl sorority party and they met that way.

Bridgette Ryan

So every shadow it is then. Lol.

BookBeard

Huddled in the deepest, darkest hard drive of the robot jail datacenter, jumping at every shadow that even vaguely resembles Yay.

Melanie

Same

BookBeard

Not by the river per se, but yes. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=594

Bridgette Ryan

With 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?

Diptych

So 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.)

Andrea Andrew

I feel bad for her. It doesn’t matter where you come from. Being too broke to afford rent is the worst.

Daryl Sawyer

Given 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...

Roger Judd

It’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.

Zak Reichle

One of your absolute best, @BookBeard!

Daryl Sawyer

Ahhhhhh, 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...

Captain Button

Because 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.

Maurice Kessler

My 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.

Eleanor

Say no, Faye! C'mon, maintain those boundaries!

Sean Kinlin

+3 on intimidate rolls

BookBeard

Poor Pintsize, rejected from the hypothetical before he even had a chance to chime in :( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5429

ValdVin

"And two hard-boiled eggs."

Nessi505

I had to do the same in Italy with two months rent security deposit. Moral of the story: landlords blow

Brendan Luster

it's only improving

BookBeard

The traditional offering. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3408

Anthony Gaglianese

You, sir, win the Internet for today.

Melissa Wilson

Oh yes! 👏 👏 👏 🎶 “Some men hunt for sport, Others hunt for food, The only thing I'm hunting for is an outfit that looks good...”

CthonicBelletrist

Anh 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.

Melissa Wilson

Maximum points for referring to both Heathers & Daria in a single post. I salute you, Captain!

Diptych

Semi-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?

BookBeard

She'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!

Captain Button

Assuming 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.

Alcaria Swain

Usually 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.

Madeline Hunter

Your first and last month's rent. As someone who still lives in her childhood home, I'm very iffy past that, though

Shawn K. Younkin

Ewww... fly coach like some peasant?!

Captain Button

Wasn't the love hobo doing that?

Captain Button

And love her bad squeeze her and call her George?

Veronica Jane

Wouldn't the easier comparison be "like the dog from Cowboy Bebop"?

Captain Button

I'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."

SpookyPenguin

We've GOT to introduce her to George Russell. What a smugfest.

Miyaa

Yeah, bonus points for Leclerc being a born & bred Monégasque. Anh knows quality when she’s trained to see it from her family.

Veronica Jane

Security deposit *and* first and last month's rent up front? Wow, America really is a hell hole

Chris Warren

Loving Anh's stray lock of hair. That hair's got charisma.

Sleepy John

“Hello, Room Service? Send up a larger room."

Ailadi

We’ll take her home and get her cleaned up… 🤭

Ailadi

Thank you! While not guilty of misspelling, definitely was abusing the puns. The actual pronunciation is quite lovely and we appreciate being educated!

Joseph Bonnar

DM: "You've gotten me angry, folks. So here is Cthulhu in power armour! Roll for initiative."

Joseph Bonnar

Bravo, Captain! That was awnful, and I may well steal it. :)

Melissa Wilson

Full 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!”

Joseph Bonnar

Somebody tell Ahn to provide PIZZA.

Brendan Luster

parody. original attribution Montgomery Burns

Doc Gumby

*facepalm* Oh, Ahn...

Rich Holmes

My 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.

Melissa Wilson

Unfortunate 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

I really don’t want that to happen, yet I find myself utterly enchanted by your song.

Melissa Wilson

Wasn’t he at the wedding, too? I mean, it could’ve happened…

BaronHaynes

I'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.

Rich Holmes

And yet she did it. Which is more than I'd expect from a spoiled young heiress.

Brendan Luster

...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!

ValdVin

"I did research on the plane" has a lot of "I did my book report on the bus" energy.

Thomas Baxter

Doesn't ruin all of them though! Anh-cident still works...almost better in fact! It also opens up new opporun-anh-ties!

Kurt Roithinger

i 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'...

Yonatan Zunger

I 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.

Ken

Leclerc is cute. And now we know where to find Jeph mid-June. See you in Montreal!

Rich Holmes

I caught and corrected my misspelling just before you posted!

Captain Button

It is a good thing she is on a monthly allowance and not an Anhual stipend.

Emma Humphries

What god did they anger to deserve this?

Spell Craft

We have that dipthong in Inupiat, too. I learned something today!

Michael Boettger

Perhaps she could rent a van and live down by the river. Cheaper than an apartment, and is it still a thing?

Michael Steamweed

Faye isn't giving her a warm recept-Ahn.

Erin Halfelven at BigCloset

Commenters 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. :)

Kilonum

Love the F1 joke

Michael Steamweed

The Ferrari Ahncident

Diptych

Why do you have to pay last month's rent? You weren't living there last month!

Jason Zions

Trying 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)