[0642] Roundabout IV
└ posted on Monday, 15 December 2014, by Novil
- Nigel O’Sullivan: I’m afraid I have to file a report for the destruction of state property.
- Ye Thuza: I’m afraid I’ll have to remind you of where you were on August 1, 2014.
- Ye Thuza: … And, more importantly, what you were wearing.
- Poster: BronyCon – Room party
- Nigel O’Sullivan: Your super-sexy cutie mark ignites my heart just like a spark.
- Applejack: Ooooh… Dashie!
- Nigel O’Sullivan: All you have is circumstantial evidence!
- Ye Thuza: If the hooves fit, the jury won’t acquit!
![[0642] Roundabout IV](/comics/2014-12-15-0642-roundabout-iv.png "[0642] Roundabout IV")
When exactly did the description change from “Sandra and Woo: a webcomic about love, food and other important stuff” to “a webcomic about the never endingselfishness of uninteresting side characters”? The last Arch which in any way advanced the overall story was the one about the animal fotographer, ending in strip 619, nearly 3 month ago.
And no, i don’t wanna discuss any moral implications of this strip, nor did it make me laugh or surprise me or offend me or is in any way interesting. It’s just plainright boring and not what Sandra and Woo used to be.
@ Lukkai:
thoughts like that is what gets people into trouble
Bwahaha,okay, that was hilarious.
I’m a “brony” myself – I think the show is fantastic, both in it’s quality (good animation, great music, and voice actors/actresses that are phenominal… I mean COME ON John D’Lancie for Luna’s sake!) and that it has a great pacing and set of lessons kids can learn from – it’s a childrens show I can watch with my young Niece and NOT want to commit Sepuku during (unlike the Backyardigans or Dora… *shudder*)
To that end, lol, that would be an epic bit of blackmail! I’ve never been one for taking my admiration of the show to quite that level… though I do have a sleeping Derpy vinyl cling on my car 😀
I’m…I’m not sure this could ever work…
I mean…aren’t Rainbow Dash and Applejack both voiced by Ashleigh Ball?
@ sun tzu:
Those who lobbied to make the playground “safe” did not even use, nor enjoy it (again, parallels with a recent event anyone?). Those who used it didn’t need it to be made “safe”.
Also, Ye Thuza seems to believe you find safety in your own ressources, and through experience, not by imposing limitations on others. You can still push this thing slowly without brakes, you know?
“Who the hell died and made Ye Thuza dictator-for-life?!”
If you meant “made Ye Thuza someone who doesn’t take kindly on being imposed things”, I’d say a lot of Burmese people. Probably good people too.
The “innocent police officer” is a friend of the family, this has been disclosed on many occasions.
But are you implying that he is afraid of being seen in public doing something he enjoys?
OH NO! It’s like he’s afraid of his hobby being tempered with by judgmental people who do not enjoy the same things as he does… oh wait, that sounds familiar…
@ Frank:
Not that Ye Thuza is holding the thing in her hand in the first two panels. It’s the speed brake.
Also, I cracked up so hard with this one.
I couldn’t help but giggle so hard at this XDDD
prime_pm wrote:
so? Mel Blanc did essentially every voice anywhere near Bugs Bunny (including his sometimes love interests Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck…)
What does this have to do with “Sandra and Woo?” Seriously. MLP? Blackmail? This story arc is so far removed from the realms of good; that it has basically established Ye Thuza as a villain. She’s blackmailing in order to allow the playground equipment to be potentially damaging for kids.
I’ve been able to put up with almost every arc in Sandra and Woo, even some of the weaker ones; but this one, just goes above and beyond in being bad. I mean; “Yay, Blackmail with MLP” because, you can do that? Right?
Seriously, this would result in prison time for damage of public property, and blackmail. End of story, but I’m sure Ye Thuza will be fine, because nothing bad ever happens to their family; and if it does, they pay back in ridiculous ways.
@ SmartAlec105:
I’m gonna go with Rainbow Dash.
@ sun tzu:
Actually, this sort of thing is often decided by unelected bureaucrats. Take the new school lunch regulations. Do you think Congress passed a law that explicitly stated the exact amount of whole grain that needs to be in a school lunch? Or did they just pass a law that says things like “The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as the Secretary may deem necessary to carry out this chapter”?
Funny how Ye Thuza is deemed selfish for her actions, yet arguably censorship and restrictions are done more for selfishness than it is for the children.
Just saying that attentive parents do fine without censorship and restriction because they actually parent their children. Whereas the negligent parents don’t really want to bother raising their kids and impose both censorship and restrictions as a substitute for hands on parenting.
Bwa-HAHAHAHAHA!!!
I just discovered S&W two weeks ago and ripped through EVERY past strip. It is one of the best things on the internet, and this strip is one of the best. I love all the characters – and am of the opinion that arguing about character focus, brony love, or even the release schedule is pointless. Just go with the S&W love, people!
And oh yeah… I am so totally smitten with Ye Thuza! SHE’S the kind of girl I’d take home to mom.
Keep up the good work, Oliver and Powree!
Well, everyone has a Dark Secret…..
Crow wrote:
But if he stuffed his costume, it’d be all the more delicious blackmail material.
SO! Lets vote!!! Is he Dash or Applejack???
Ha ha ha ha!!!
And the Brony folks get their panties in a bunch for the representation of ‘all Bronys’ in 5… 4… 3… 2…
@ Eric:
I don’t know who you think Bronies really are, Eric, but there have been quite a few Bronies already posting comments, and nobody’s been butt hurt over anything. Really, most often the people who are not Bronies get butt hurt over Brony stuff just existing. We’ve been called almost every name under the sun, and anything that could be used against us has been used against us. We just brush it off, now. Well, the actual adult Bronies, anyway. I’m sure you could probably upset some 10 year old that just found the show last week.
This was so unexpected.. and yet so darn good! 😀
@ Beanzoboy:
Don’t give us too much credit. I’m pretty sure those inclined to be butthurt have long since jumped ship from this comic, leaving only the thick-skinned, even by our fandom’s standards. They most definitely exist elsewhere.
@ prime_pm:
Yes, she does voice them both… And yet she posted shipping fanart of them for World Pride Day.
@ Lucario:
Not so much a matter of few characters as few protagonists. They’re the tomboys of the ‘Mane 6,’ more formally referred to as the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony (at least up until Season IV), the protagonists and viewpoint characters for most episodes. Rainbow Dash is easily distinguished by her multicolored hair, and Applejack by her freckles, Stetson, & ponytail. Other episodes may focus on Twilight Sparkle’s dragon assistant Spike or on the Cutie Mark Crusaders (younger siblings of two of the Mane 6, plus a third’s fangirl) for more child-viewpoint stuff, but the Mane 6 are the centerpiece, the ones who get to smite evil with a giant rainbow.
In summary, they’re important characters, though there are fans who can name every background extra and give a brief run-down of their psychology. Most of that’s just fanon though.
@ sun tzu:
Seconded. This would have been a VERY funny strip…had Ye Thuza not revealed herself to be somebody who blackmails people to get what she wants. I am very certain that cop didn’t do anything to her or her family beforehand to warrant her BREAKING INTO HIS HOUSE AND SNAPPING PICTURES WITHOUT HIS CONSENT.
Jesus, man, are they trying to make me hate Ye Thuza? I really don’t want to. Because what you did? It’s what the BAD GUYS do.
@ Kittamaru:
Yes, but that’s Derpy. She’s Derpy.
@ NotASpy:
Wait, he let her FINISH THE JOB before she needed to use the blackmail? Ooooooooh, I don’t think the hitting on a girl while dressed as a girl (even if she is a tomboy) is the thing making Nijel let Ye do anything.
I think that came out as just a jumble of words.
@ knite:
Okay, so you are saying he was hitting on a guy who was dressed as a girl while dressed as a girl himself? I think I know a couple of brains that would break… MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MAKE HIM APPLEJACK!
@ El Rodrigo:
What makes you think he was the original target, or that that was his home? I bet she was sneaking up on someone else in that story, and just happened upon a cop in a reckless daredevil’s costume.
@ sun tzu:
hey hey hey, stop saying that, remember there’s always two sides of the coin, your side, and the side you can’t see unless you accept the other side. SO technically, you’re right, but the other side is also right, because there really is no “wrong” answer. Plus, what a child does is grow up and learn from experience, if they always stay in safety, there is no learning. To note, my father lived in a very mountainous rural area, and all he would do was explore. He grew up as one of the strongest kids around (at least that’s what he says) and he became the best dad I could ask for. And a question, why are you so obsessed with the government? Just because it has some good aspects to serve a majority of people, doesn’t mean it’s corrupt free. Some examples are the British, the Corrupted gilded age of america, and not to mention the recent ferguson affair (because despite being charged as self defense, he still has the balls to ask for help to marry a woman while still on court, seems a bit like insult). So yea, stop preaching about how democratic your government is, corruption runs rampant anywhere, why? Because people like you are content to let it run that way.
@ Samwise Clemens:
But you never saw them together banging
@ El Rodrigo:
oh screw off with “bad guy” crap, nobody likes it, go back to history and look at all the corrupt people that lined history yet still were “good.” I mean, give me a break, is that all you see? Good? Bad? How about looking at this from a third person perspective. It never said it was their house, it was a brony con. What the hell is blackmail? In the name of your Justice? Hell batman did a better job a beating crime with a bat than that cop.
@ Strife:
You just haven’t seen Wrong until you’ve seen a 350 pound man with a full beard wearing Sailor Moon.
Ye Thurza is breaking the rules of the society that took her in and made her welcome. I’m surprised at the number of people who are OK with that. Then she compounds her antisocial activities by forcing someone to commit a crime. I a’m ASTONISHED at the number of people who think that that’s acceptable behavior.
My vote? WELL DONE, OLIVER & POWREE!!! Love the surprise brony joke! 🙂
Yeah, I read about this in the news too, only in a lot of places the roundabouts were welded completely stationary, the swings weighted so that they can’t swing, and the teeter-totter given legs to basically make it a bench.
When does the class-action lawsuit for destruction and vandalism of public property start for the perpetrators of this latest “safety” law?
“If the hooves fit, the jury won’t acquit”
Did anyone see the OJ Simpson reference there? lol
Hans Rancke wrote:
Be aware that “the society” isn’t a collective consciousness, but made out of different individuals. The ones who made her welcome and the ones who decided to brake the roundabouts are probably different individuals.
@ Hans Rancke:
Noone is forcing him to do anything. He has the choice to either 1: Help Ye Thuza 2: Watch as photos of him in a pony suit get on the internet 3: Attempt to arrest her for destruction of public property 4: Put the photos on the internet himself
Lathiyades wrote:
Still blackmail. Still a shitty, shitty thing for Ye Thuza to do.
Obvious wrote:
Um I’m pretty sure she’s in Saudi Arabia.
I just had a thought. What if it was Una in the vent, and Ye as Applejack?
At first, I thought he was Big Macintosh, due to his build, which would imply incest!… kinda, only costume-wise.
There was a post here, it’s gone now. (Silent Hill reference.)
@ Crystalgate:
Thank you. It would be nice if more people thought like this and less that the whole of humanity is a bunch of large hive minds. When will people realize that it isn’t the one versus the many but that the one ARE the many! You can’t reach one hundred without first having one.
You know the cool thing about those people that lobbied to make the playground “safer”.
They went through the proper legal channels that are completely open for anyone to use to get the government to hear their case instead of going out and vandalizing public property and blackmailing local law enforcement officials.
Hats off to you playground “safety” people for remembering that the government does listen if you go through the right channels. You’re the real heroes.
Wait! Did she just blackmail a police officer???
Well, looks like a few people are butthurt about Ye Thuza’s actions for some reason. Not sure how anyone could be, the entire situation is just there for comedy, and a small slice of social commentary. I mean, unless the butthurt people have never watched cartoons and don’t understand comedy, or they don’t understand the real world enough to appreciate the social commentary. I dunno. 😛
@ Crazy Roth:
It looked to me like she was just finishing up in part 3.
*tosses a pack of salt into the comments section*
Seems like a few people here desperately need to take a grain or two.
Seriously people. Sandra and Woo as a whole, but especially anything with Ye Thuza, is often (the latter usually) just wacky and for the lolz or obvious satire.
So stop treating this comic, and especially the Ye Thuza arcs, as if it was autobiographic or a supposed manual on how to live! You’re just making yourself look really stupid.
Jerry wrote:
Oh, Sailor Bubba was awesome! I’ve hardly ever laughed so hard from a cosplayer. Seriously, two thumps up!
Now, Man-Faye on the other hand… Well, didn’t help that that guy was even heavier and chose her skimpiest (apart from the bikini) outfit. That was just… no.
Ye Thuza probably has dirt on everyone in the city.
Just wish that the like botton so i can like your post….damn :’D@ Switch Master:
My Problem is not the message of the strip (it’s just in no way funny, it’s as funny as if she would beat him up for interferring with her ways), my problem is that the focus of sandra and woo seems to have changed so much from telling a great story about some children growing up and a kick-ass racoon to a cluster of single comic strips or mini arcs, not advancing the overall story and not at all being more then trying to be funny in a pretty… blunt way.
@ yayXD:
Sorry, I honestly can’t understand that rambling load of nonsense.
@ Carmeops:
What’s wrong with fursuits? The furries who wear them are just trying to be closer to their fursonas
@ BlueAnubis:
Kinda weird though when you think about the fact that they have the same voice actor
Man, be proud of your Brony-ness. Let the world know!
No one’s really pointed it out but I very much appreciate the whole reference to the “if it doesn’t fit you must acquit” from the OJ case…