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| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Salesman: How can I help you, madam?
/ Shelley Winters: I'd like a car in black with: underwater capabilities, intelligent computer capable of "wisecracks", super-extreme pursuit mode, good suspension for high speed leaps off underpass slash broken bridge. / Shelley Winters: He laughed so hard that he... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041116 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelly enters a store where a fat man with a yamaka reads a newspaper behind a desk]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041117 |
| 2004-11-18 | Fallon Young: Listen to this, Shelley, Ryan can instantly come up with an inadequate answer to any political problem. Rural unemployment? / Ryan Beckwith: Get people workin' on new regional cheeses.
/ Fallon Young: President Bush's poor foreign policy record? / Ryan Beckwith: Get him to chill out with... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041118 |
| 2004-11-19 | [[Shelley, on her aqua-scooter, zooms on the open ocean toward the Portuguese Man-of War.]]
/ Portuguese Man-of-War: Jaysus Christ, what is that?!!
/ Shelley Winters: Prepare to meet justice! Your reign of terr'r is almost over! / Portuguese Man-of-War: Ey! Ey! We can talk about this! I will avoid the... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041119 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Fallon Young: Are you sure we should have let Shelley go out to sea like that?
/ Ryan Beckwith: Aw, let her have her simple fun. There's joy in the simple things. If you hadn't wanted to be my lady, I was going to be a hermit. / Ryan Beckwith: Hangin' out under a primitive tarpaulin. Jus' wearin' a loose... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041122 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Jellyfish: Shelley, there is one thing you gotta understand. To these guys, I am top banana. / Jellfyfish: And maybe I told them a few little white lies 'bout how people been chowin' on Manowar steaks.
/ Shelley: Awful lies! / Jellyfish: Hell, it don't matter. Me and the guys are headin' ashore in a... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041123 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Jellyfish: BOYS, IT'S STINGIFYIN' TIME! / Jellyfish: Do not worry, Shelley.
/ Jellyfish: It is well known that the excruciating pain faes with the onset of death/dying. / Jellyfish: A bulbous nematode approaches! Abort stinging, proceed to surface for Operation "Two Legs Bad!" / Ernest: Jonesy, I've... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041124 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: Tim! Leering bearded man! We must alert the Coastguard, the Portuguese Men-O-War are mobilising!
/ Tim: Shelley, you're delerious from the oxygen. The Manowar is a peaceful critter, like an aquatic goat. / Shelley: Must... seize controls... for the good of society...
/ Ernest: Who is this wildcat,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041125 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: No, that's fine! Just leave me on the beach to rebuild our shattered society! THAT'S FINE!
/ Jellyfish: Eh... can I get a hand... here / Shelley: Man-O-war! Why haven't you started destroying humanity like what you said?
/ Jellyfish: Kind of a minor miscalculation. Turns out walking ain't just... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041126 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
/ Shelley: Please put a penny in some old man's hat.
/ Shelley: If you haven't got a penny then a bottle top will do
/ Shelley: If you haven't got a bottle top then God-bless-spew. / Shelley: Oh Ames, why do you have to give your life over to the cultivation... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041129 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelley Winters standing outside in a bathrobe on a clear moonlit night, holding eggs from the hen house in a pan]]
/ Shelley: christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
/ Shelley: please put a penny in some old man's hat.
/ Shelley: if you haven't got a penny then a bottle top will do
/ Shelley: if... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041129 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: You may not be able to tell by my calm demeanour, but I am a supernova of rage right now.
/ Amy: Hey!
/ Shelley: As a taxpayer, I deserve not to be frightened by naked men in my kitchen! / Shelley: I've put up with the filth and the sounds of unbridled romantic congress, but-
/ Amy: Shelley, why... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041130 |
| 2004-12-01 | Amy Chilton: Shelley, let's talk about this, you don't have to move out.
/ Shelley Winters: Once my ire has dimmed, we can be friends again, Amy. You just need your space to explore Planet Debauchery. / Amy Chilton: (Sniffle) but I will miss you!
/ Shelley Winters: Save your tears, stinky, they will not... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041201 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelley and Ryan are sitting on the floor playing a game of scrabble. Shelley is placing a tile]]
/ Ryan: Dang Shelley, homeless at Christmas. That's like a case of lockjaw the night before a pie-eating content.
/ Shelley: I suppose it is. Just not in any way that's immediately apparent.
/ Scrabble tiles:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041202 |
| 2004-12-03 | Fallon Young: Shel, if you want your old room back, you can have it.
/ Shelley Winters: Fallon, living with you is the best of times for a human girl. But what of the ninja infestation? / Fallon Young: Why don't you and Ryan hammer some wood over the hole they get in through. I keep meaning to do it,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041203 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Fallon: Shel, if you want your old room back, you can have it.
/ Shelley: Fallon, living with you is the best of times for a human girl.
/ But what of the ninja infestation? / Fallon: Why don't you and Ryan hammer some wood over the hole they get in through.
/ I keep meaning to do it, but you know you... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041203 |
| 2004-12-06 | Shelley Winters: Back, ninjas, back! This is a shoeing that says "retreat"!
/ Ryan Beckwith: Careful Shelley, they're just doin' their job. No need to be vicious. / Shelley Winters: It seems strange to me that a compost heap could form a gateway to feudal Japan. / Ryan Beckwith: Maybe someone just tipped... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041206 |
| Scary Go Round | Back, ninjas, back! This is a shoeing that says "retreat"!
/ Careful Shelley, they're just doin' their job. No need to be vicious. / It seems strange to me that a compost heap could form a gateway to feudal Japan. / Maybe someone just tipped a load of potato peelings on top of their nest and riled... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041206 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ryan and Shelley admire their work closing up a hole where ninjas kept coming out of]]
/ Shelley: All done! Christmas is safe from shuriken.
/ Ryan: Any dude tries to crawl through there is going to wish he was the last ninja. / [[Shelley puts a hammer in the toolbox]]
/ Shelley: So have you taken Fallon... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041207 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: My old man's the King of Tramps. The beckwith family for generations. / Shelley: There's a "King of the Tramps"? How can this be? / Ryan: It's an ancient tradition. My great-great grandfather punched some dude in the nose and stole his bag. The deal was set. There's even a trampin' code.
/ Tramping... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041208 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: See, Shelley, my old man's the King of the Tramps.
/ It's been in the Beckwith family for generations. / Shelley: There's a "King of the Tramps"? How can this be? / Ryan: It's an ancient tradition. My great great grandfather punched some dud in the nose and stole his bag.
/ The deal was set.
/ There's... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041208 |
| 2004-12-09 | [[Brown sign reads Tackleford Tip, Providing a home for soiled mattresses since 1969. TMBC Tackleford Metropolitan Borough Council.]]
/ Ryan Beckwith: Shelley, I don'tnow why you're draggin' me to the ancestral seat. The old man doesn't want to know me after I rejected the life of the road. He was groomin'... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041209 |
| 2004-12-10 | [[Down at the Tackleford Tip, where Pa Beckwith warms himself by a fire.]]
/ Pa Beckwith: Well look at you, son of mine, betrayin' the code with your washin' ways.
/ Ryan Beckwith: Pa, please.
/ Pa Beckwith: And who's this? Do you bring your bride for my approval? / Ryan Beckwith: No Pa, this is Shelley,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041210 |
| 2004-12-13 | [[At the Tackleford Tip, where Pa Beckwith lives.]]
/ Shelley Winters: What sort of coffee is this, Mr. Beckwith?
/ Pa Beckwith: That's not coffee, missy, it's brewed mud from Baker's Tarn. The percolation of natural silts and minerals gives its full flavour. / Shelley Winters: Isn't Baker's Tarn downstream... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041213 |
| 2004-12-14 | Ryan Beckwith: So after Shelley had finished pukin', I got to thinking. Maybe it would be nice for the family to get together for Christmas. You know, for baby Jesus. / Riley Beckwith: Yes, I suppose... Ryan, this Christmas list is not helpful. / Riley Beckwith: "Something pointy. Something soft. Anything... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041214 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[RYAN and RILEY are sitting at a table; RYAN is writing]]
/ RYAN: So after Shelley had finished pukin', I got to thinking.
/ Maybe it would be nice for the family to get together for Christmas.
/ You know, for baby Jesus.
/ [[RILEY picks up the sheet of paper RYAN was working on]]
/ RILEY: Yes, I suppose...... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041214 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelley sitting around at her office desk]]
/ Shelley: Think, Shelley, think. How can you reunite the Beckwith Family at this most wonderful time of the year? / [[Shelley looks at a Christmas card]]
/ Shelley: Baby Jesus, is it wrong to use my position as mayor's assistant to help Ryan? / [[Shelley... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041215 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | NARRATOR: In the 80s, Beefheart got his Magic back and kicked out some fresh jams with a new Band. / [[BEEFHEART is standing in front of a band, on a beach, holding an ice cream]] / BEEFHEART:[[singing]] Ice cream for crows! / NARRATOR: but after not bein' asked to sing on "We Are The World", he... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041215 |
| 2004-12-16 | [[At the mayor's office.]]
/ Shelley Winters: Norbert, where do we keep the tramp evicting forms? / Norbert: I don't know and I don't care, Shelley, it's snowing and they're sending us home.
/ Shelley Winters: Bah! / Shelley Winters: Precipitation cannot be allowed to stop local government!
/ Norbert:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041216 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: Norbert, where do we keep the tramp evicting forms? / Norbert: I don't know and I don't care, Shelley, it's snowing and they're sending us home.
/ Shelley: Bah! / Shelley: Precipitation cannot be allowed to stop local government!
/ Norbert: Don't you think that moving on vagrants at Christmas... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041216 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Pa Beckwith is putting up some makeshift insulation when he hears a noise]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041217 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[RYAN'S PA is putting up wallpaper in an shack]] / < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041217 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Pa Beckwith: The trail of pegs leads to...the humble Beckwith homestead? Like as not it's a Christmas miracle. A chance to fix the unfortunate happenings of my past, maybe. / [[Ryan is smoking outside as Pa Beckwith approaches him]]
/ Ryan: Pa, what the dickens are you doin' here?
/ Pa: Son, I felt...the... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041220 |
| 2004-12-20 | [[Outside the Beckwith home.]]
/ Pa Beckwith: The trail of pegs leads to... the humble Beckwith homestead? Like as not it's a Christmas miracle. A chance to fix the unfortunate happenings of my past, maybe. / Ryan Beckwith: Pa, what the dickens are you doin' here?
/ Pa Beckwith: Son, I felt... the time... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041220 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Riley and Ryan (and Friend Bat) are in the kitchen talking]]
/ Riley: I can't believe Ma just let Pa right back in after 20 years.
/ Ryan: Well, I was thinkin', maybe they have a deep and abidin' love. Or she's waitin' for the optimum moment to set about him with the rolling pin. / Ma Beckwith: So... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041221 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | RILEY: I can't believe Ma just let Pa right back in after 20 years.
/ RYAN: Well, I was thinkin', maybe they have a deep abidin' love.
/ RYAN: Or she's waitin' for the optimum moment to set about him with the rolling pin. / MA BECKWITH: So why are you here, Jim? If you decided to chip in for new school... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041221 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[RYAN, RYAN'S PA, and RILEY are working in the kitchen]] / RYAN: Pa, you seemed to get off awful light with Ma. / RYAN'S PA: Well, she was the one who didn't want to be Queen of the Tramps.
/ She said raising children on a diet of stale crumbs was wrong. / [[RYAN'S PA picks up a plastic bag]] / RYAN'S... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041222 |
| scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041222 | Ryan Beckwith: Pa, you seemed to get off awful light with Ma. / Jim Beckwith: Well, she was the one who didn't want to be Queen of the Tramps. She said raising children on a diet of stale crumbs was wrong. / Jim Beckwith: But we both understood each other's point of view. / Ryan Beckwith: I guess compromisin's... |
| scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041223 | Riley Beckwith: Ryan and Fallon have said they'll cook and stuff the magpie, Dad, so let's have a sit down. You can tell me a story about your rough and rowdy youth! / Jim Beckwith: Well, I was part of a group of roadmenders from Swatham who moved around the country. And we had a folk music band, Cock-a-Leeky... |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Christmas at the Beckwith family home. Pa Beckwith is asleep on the couch when Fallon and Riley make an announcement]]
/ Riley: In tribute to Pa's festive rebel songs-
/ Fallon: And under the influence of dry sherry
/ Riley: -Fallon and I have formed a new band. "Sweethearts of the Rodeoh-no." / [[Fallon... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041224 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Christmas time. RYAN, RYAN'S PA, and RYAN'S MA are on the couch, while AMY and FALLON stand in front of them]]
/ [[AMY is holding what appears to be a mandolin]] / AMY: In tribute to Pa's festive rebel songs- / FALLON: And under the influence of dry sherry / AMY: -Fallon and I have formed a new band.... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041224 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Small panel: Shelley is listening to music on headphones.]]
/ Text: Shelley reviews John A's albums of the year (Hereby proving that it is "okay to rock") 20 - 17
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: 20. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - "Sung Tongs"
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: I know what this is, this is the music from... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041227 |
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