So, I’m supposed to be cheering on a kid trying to get out of punishment she brought on herself, by having another kid lie to a teacher (possibly getting the other kid in trouble too) in a way that might make her trust kids even less in the end?
But then her charming “me: super smart and pretty!” personality just makes it so easy to do.
And it’s a good thing teachers never talk in the teacher’s lounge, for example, where they might find out something that would make all this come unraveled.
So G&K are (I hope) presenting us a with Schrödinger’s Kip.
Is the Kip brain dead or is the Kip very much not brain dead and playing the helpless ditz card right back at Tiff, in spades?
The way he’s ratcheting up the ‘buzz off, Tiff’ quotient with each ‘suggestion’ gives me hope the smoke signals Kip is sending spell out, “See ya later, alligator”.
This single comic just, for me, moved Tiff from being at least a semi sympathetic character to being one of the most repellent of them all.
Leading up to it, she goes to a football game just to make a move on Kip even after he’s told, clearly, her his intent is to stay faithful to Stef.
She follows that up by showing up, uninvited, where he lives, suitcase in tow. Then play acts the poor, helpless, defenseless girl and reels off a sob story about how his girlfriend was MEAN to her so she has to run off and move back home all by herself. Unless smart, big, strong Kip has another idea…
Undoubtedly a huge new low for the character, and one I find sad and disgusting.
You give a woman a (admittedly effusive) compliment, but when she reads a little too much into it, so you make it clear you meant it as a compliment, not an invitation.
Suddenly, she’s showing up out of nowhere at your football team’s game.
And rushing down the stands at the end of the game to talk to you.
Setting off a row with your GF.
Now? She appears out of thin air where you live.
SUITCASE IN HAND.
Oh. She might “only” want to invite you to come live with her in her house.
So, I’m supposed to be cheering on a kid trying to get out of punishment she brought on herself, by having another kid lie to a teacher (possibly getting the other kid in trouble too) in a way that might make her trust kids even less in the end?
But then her charming “me: super smart and pretty!” personality just makes it so easy to do.
And it’s a good thing teachers never talk in the teacher’s lounge, for example, where they might find out something that would make all this come unraveled.