Whoa! Tom is turning into a bit of a pervert in these last two strips, isn’t he?
Don’t worry, ladies. It’s only temporary. These are exceptional circumstances. He’s been given the keys to the kingdom, don’t you understand?
Imagine being invited to The Playboy Mansion. You’d be a little disappointed if you didn’t see topless chicks running around everywhere, right?
Well, Tom has very low standards in this regard.
Seriously, though. What’s going on in your bathrooms, ladies. I remember walking past one as the door was closing and I saw a couch in there! Do you have a cappucino machine and gossip magazines as well? Do you know what’s in the men’s restroom? 10 years of caked-on urine, a flickering flourescent light and a weird smell.
So what do you think of the story-line so far? I know we’re just three comics into it, but I’m curious if I’ve hooked you yet? Curious as to Jimmy’s anxiety about the women’s bathroom? Want to know more?
Even though I haven’t figured out the pace of the story yet, I have the major points outlined in my head. I’m trying to keep from wandering too far off the path while at the same time providing a logical progression.
If you haven’t noticed, Theater Hopper is more of a “talking heads” comic. So I’m not used to writing things that require characters to move around from point A to point B. I feel like I have to explain how Tom and Jimmy moved from the theater lobby to the women’s restroom. Eventually I’ll have to explain how they move from the restroom to somewhere else. I have to explain it because I’m not good with backgrounds. If you navigate by landmark, you’d get lost pretty quickly in the Theater Hopper universe!
At any rate, I just wanted to keep the lines of communication open because I know that the last time I tried to tell a longer story, people were wondering where the movie commentary was. That’s been suspended somewhat for the time being, but I’ll come back to it eventually. Don’t worry.
It’s been a pretty long week for yours truly. Cami is feeling better, but not before a false-start yesterday morning. Cami thought she was up to putting in a full day at work, so we car pooled. By about 10 in the morning, she was feeling pretty lousy and all of her co-workers told her to go home. So I picked her up and took her home.
She’s feeling better today, but moving a little slow. Whatever virus she had pretty much wiped her out. But she’s determined. She feels bad for not being able to help me with Henry. I feel bad that we’ve had to lean on her parents twice this week as I went to my night classes! Everyone feels bad. Everyone but Henry. He just wants to play with toys.
Now that Cami’s feeling better, she’s going to reward herself by catching up with Henry and I will reward myself by seeing Liam Neeson in Taken. I’ve been hearing great things about this action flick and I can’t wait to see it. For some reason, it reminds me of Rob Roy, where Neeson played a similar bad ass with a sense of pride. Should be good times, but I’d listen to Neeson read the phone book.
Real quick poll: The Super Bowl is this weekend and Dreamworks is going to premiere their 3D trailer for Monsters Vs. Aliens. Have you guys picked up your 3D glasses yet? I have and I’m psyched to see this trailer.
In fact, I’m so psyched about this promotion, I might actually watch Chuck on Monday night when it’s aired in 3D! I loves me a gimmick! How about you?
Leave your comments below. In the meantime, stay close to the site today. I have an important announcement regarding the Theater Hopper – Year Three pre-order and some of the other problems I’ve been having with the story lately. The good news? I’ll soon be sharing a coupon code for 15% everything in the store. Yow!
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Awesome.
HEY! WHERE ARE ALL THE TOPLESS CHICKS?!
Whu-WHAT?!
The topless chicks.
As a student of 1980's coming of age comedies, the number of topless chicks in a women's restroom is always proportionate to the inappropriateness of the situation!
Seriously - I wrote my senior thesis about it for my film class.
Okay. Fan fiction. BUT STILL!
Actually… I was in a Masonic Temple once and I went to the bathroom… and the was a POOL TABLE in the guys bathroom… A pool table… in the bathroom… and a bunch of couches… and.. well… it was beautiful.
It has become evident to me that boring bathrooms for men are a regional issue.
Liam Neeson is the reason that I consider Phantom Menace to be superior to Attack of The Clones, despite the higher levels of Jar Jar exposure.
Chuck is a great show. Maybe the 3D episode will be the first of many you see! Or have you already watched it and didn’t think much of it?
The Senator movie theater in Baltimore has couches in both restrooms. But then, it was built in the late 30’s, when movie theaters were classy places.
taken is a great action movie, saw it about 2 weeks ago, and its just wow, although im worried that it was dumbed down here in the states, because ive heard certain scenes are edited down, or used alternate takes for the u.s. release, hope its still just as good though
and the bathroom thing, yeah ive walked by some womans bathrooms and i saw a couch and it had wallpaper and other things to make it look all fancy, they always seem to get good stuff.
Okay. so for a guy that works at a movie theatre… i seriously gotta high-five you for this recent arc.. I seriously dont know what Ladies do in their Bathroom.. but i ask one question… why are females such pigs in the bathroom…?? really… at the theatre i work in… i tell my ushers to check the mens restroom once… ONCE a day… The ladies restrooms you ask? an average of about 10 times a day..
I second Jullian. I’m a manager at a very busy theater in silicon valley. Why is it, when we supply toilet seat covers (affectionately known to us as “ass gaskets”) do women still get so grossed out at the thought of using our toilets that they won’t sit down and end up missing the toilet? Is this unique to Silicon Valley? I feel bad sending people into the women’s restroom to clean it! I almost never feel bad about sending someone into the men’s restroom! I can understand needing to restock toilet paper in the women’s restroom more than twice as often as in the men’s, but why do women feel the need to leave the restroom so much nastier?
Come on, ladies! Don’t leave it so bad!
In response to Jullian Esconde’s comment, I also worked at a theatre for a long time (a few years of which were spent as an usher, and I am female) and at times, the women’s restroom checks were a nonstop torture!
I think that part of the reason that the women’s rooms got trashed so much quicker, is because of children. Little kids tend to end up going potty with Mommy, and not all Mommies care about cleanliness (especially if they are in a public place, where it is someone else’s job to clean up after their messes).
So, if you have kids, please don’t let them destroy a bathroom (especially boys who aren’t very good with “aim” in a non-kiddie toilet; make them just “sit and tuck”!)!
Also, teenage girls sometimes hang out in there, even though they’ve (presumably) paid money to not watch the movie they paid for, and they also do not care what kind of mess they make because they do not have to clean it up.
Oh, and about the couches: Those couches in women’s rooms are a mystery to me, too.
Honestly, from my previous experiences in women’s restrooms (I could tell you some truly disgusting tales), I wouldn’t go anywhere near a couch that is in the same room as toilets.
I sincerely encourage you to check out Chuck tomorrow night. The show is by far the most entertaining show on TV – the perfect combination of action, comedy, and romance. It doesn’t take a lot to get into it – you don’t need a ton of background, and it’s great escapism TV, especially for anyone who characterizes himself as a bit on the nerdy side. Watch it!
Man, being a janitor has filled me with many traumas, the largest one was realizing that the woman’s bathroom is BY FAR the grossest creation known to man. They are as a rule at least twice as terrible as mens bathrooms, plus they get full of terrible menstrual cycle evilness. Main reason, urinals really do make everything easier for everyone involved.