Todd stole my joke.
Lineart Version, for those that like seeing these preserved.
↓ Transcript
[Flashback]
Benny: Heya. Great job dancing out there.
Ke Ban: Aaaah! Thank you, Benny!
Benny: Sure, sure. So... I wanted to ask you something?
Benny: How would you two like to see what dancing on the surface is like, sometime?
Ke Ban: PFFT! Did you just ask me and my SISTER out on the SAME DATE?!
Benny: I'm up for it if you are, baby.
[Present time, diner]
Todd: I’m sorry to hear about your wax wings, Icarus.
Benny: Dude, if I COULD fly straight into the sun right now, I ******** WOULD.
Benny: Heya. Great job dancing out there.
Ke Ban: Aaaah! Thank you, Benny!
Benny: Sure, sure. So... I wanted to ask you something?
Benny: How would you two like to see what dancing on the surface is like, sometime?
Ke Ban: PFFT! Did you just ask me and my SISTER out on the SAME DATE?!
Benny: I'm up for it if you are, baby.
[Present time, diner]
Todd: I’m sorry to hear about your wax wings, Icarus.
Benny: Dude, if I COULD fly straight into the sun right now, I ******** WOULD.
Benny is sayng "hecking", but that's such strong lewd language, I had to censor it.
I love Benny.
He delivered the line so smoothly…
without any realization of how badly he had just sabotaged his chances.
Dave this was perfectly done!
If Todd wanted to step-in & rescue Benny’s reputation, he could go to the girls & tell them:
“Girls? I owe you an apology. Benny asking you both out was my suggestion.
You see, I figured that if he took ANY one girl to the surface, then their parents would be upset that their child was alone with him in a place that was so far from your home. By escorting you both, each of you would be chaperone to the other. It would give the 2 of you a chance to know him better, & then decide later if you’d want to date him or not. He’d be more like a ‘tour guide’, showing you both what he’s learned about our culture on dry land.”
I could totally picture Todd “taking the blame”, here, if he thought it might smooth things over for Benny.
that would be some awesome wingman skills…
IMAO, That is so far above Todd’s Savoir-Faire rating, that it cannot happen… But, Oh, I wish it could.
Her Deviousness, however, that is not above Her security rating. That’s just the way I perceive their minds working… or not working. That is the kind of mischief that I couldn’t see either Mandy Or Selkie getting up to.
See, no, that’s smoother than it looks. That can totally end with one of the sisters sidling up later and indicating that a solitary date would be fine. Or both of them, only at separate times. Which will lead to further zany hijinks, but that’s Benny’s problem.
“Faint heart”, Benny old man!
the yiddish word for that is Hutzpah.
I salute him for bravery and the stupidity. But as Gretzky said you miss all the shots you don’t take.
Yeah, but trying to hit two targets by shooting a bullet between them is equally ineffective.
speak f or yourself Duban. I’ve made it work. but then I’m awesome and picked good targets that liked smart guys with nice abs ( I had a great set of abs when i worked construction I was a hunk.
Taking two girls dancing at the same time can work out all right, if both of the girls like to dance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nXi7mCd7JAQ
Thank you – that was FUN!
Nobody says Benny doesn’t have chutzpah
I had quite a surprise in my late youth when I discovered myself wedged between identical twin sisters. (close to 60 years ago, but some memories never die)
here here! it CAN be done (with the right sisters!)
I am just glad that what I read as welts was just blushing. I thought they beat poor Benny.
Who is Rob?
According to the tag, in this comic are Benny, Todd, the Ke sisters, and ROB. And Selkie isn’t there.
I must have mis-clicked when selecting tags. Rob is, I believe, one of the background kids in Selkie’s class
I blame those stupid pickup artist books. Though, It’s always sad to watch a kid walk into the fire after the alarm went off.
I dunno, there’s a certain Shadenfeude that happens watching a Fail during a sitcom, or romcom — when one
– as a teen performed an Epic Fail, so epic that they talked about it at the class’s 5-year reunion- and you get to watch someone do worse. In my heart, I sympathize with Benny, but my brain, it doesn’t mind seeing someone fail worse than I did,… when it comes to dating; no quarter! Jump the shark or go home.