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Awkward [[Two oboists are at a Double Reed Con]] / Oboist 1: I'm an oboist. / Oboist 2: Me too. / Oboist 1: Student at Fridonia. / Oboist 2: I'm at Laurier. / [[Awkward moment]] / [[Another awkward moment]] / Oboist 1: You know what's awkward? Burping into your oboe. / Oboist 2: I know, right? / {{I KNOW, RI...
Michael Sweeney Adam: Michael Sweeney played on that recording. / Megan: Michael Sweeney...I've heard he has small reeds. / Adam: Well, you know what they say about small reeds... / {{No, what? Small shapes?}}
My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle: The cane in Spain grows mainly in the plain. / Henry Higgins: I think she's got it! I think she's got it! / {{Everything is funnier if you ask, "What if an oboist had written that?}}
Air Oboe Jim: I want the dynamics the opposite of what is written. You're going to crescendo going down the scale. / vroooOOOOOOOM / Like a plane, taking off! / Jim: I am so professional. / {{You enjoyed making the plane sounds, Jim. Don't deny it.}}
A Late Welcome. Aimee - Year 1 / Aimee: .... / Aimee: (I seem to be in a cartoon.) / Aimee: (I must be in an oboe comic.) / Aimee: (Stay calm...stay calm...stay...) / [[Aimee collapses on the ground]] / [[Dani arrives and looks down at her.]] / Dani - Year 1 / Dani: Well, I'm going to shoot up now. / Aimee: .... / {{4...
 
Contra Megan: Here's your part for the Grainger, Nate. / [[Nate is perplexed, as the part reads "Double Bassoon".]] / [[Nate shows up to rehearsal with two bassoons.]] / Andrew: You know it means contrabassoon, right? / {{Contrabassoons make me *incredibly* happy.}}
This or That Is it... / An oboist / or / A bassoonist? / Is it.... / A double reed tool / or / A French Medieval Torture Apparatus? / (or both? / Is it... / The sound of a half-scraped reed being crowed / or / A broken penny whistle / or / Five people making strangled cries at the same time, non of which occur in a diatonic...
Patty! patioboe (10:28:08 PM): Well, I have my motto, of course: learn to play well on bad reeds. There ya go! :-) / renegadeoboe (10:29:07 PM): It's perfect! Now just to deal with the "playing the oboe" part. / patioboe (10:31: 57 PM): Sometimes I think it helps, too, to think more about the air and less about...
Dudu Carmel Masterclass Dudu: I want you to kiss your reed. / Heather: You want me to stick my tongue down my reed? / Dudu: FIRST date. / {{ ;) }}
Must Obey Prof: Can anyone tell me why the orchestra tunes to 'A'? / Moy: Because the OBOE WILLS IT! / {{Mwahaha! All bow down before the oboist, or I shall tune you flat!}}
 
From Beyond the Grave Moy: So, I almost died today, saving my oboe. I knew being an oboist was high maintenance, but really, KNIVES were involved! / Ren: Wow. Well, Moy, what good is an oboe when you're dead? / Moy: Well, I told Jim that if I died, he could have my oboe--- / [[Moy's oboe is gone.]] / Moy: Ren, you told...
Old Reeds and Hot Makeouts Person 1: I've sat in a chair George Washington sat in. / Person 2: I've worn one of Wayne Gretzky's jerseys! / Ren: I've played on reeds Dick Woodhams, John DeLancie, and Marcel Tabuteau MADE! / Person 1: Um. Didn't our old music teacher say that sharing reeds was like making out? / Person 2: I think...
Wind Machine Moy: Ooo! We're getting a wind machine? / Moy: Of course...only a machine can harness such a power, for it is too pure for humans. If I could control this device... / Moy: I could rule the world! All who oppose me will fall! Mother Nature herself will bow down before ME! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!! / Wind Machine:...
That's Vibrat-OH Moy: Then I auditioned at Laurier. It didn't go so well; I think I got in because of my vibrato. / Moy's friend: Vibrato? Do I even want to know what that is? / Moy's friend: At least tell me you don't...insert it anywhere in your person. / {{And you got into SCHOOL because of it?}}
Formal Analysis PERIOD / Antecedent Phrase Consequent Phrase / Basic Idea /Contrasting Idea Basic Idea/ Cadential Idea / Half Cadence Perfect Authentic Cadence / SENTENCE / Presentation Phrase Continuation Phrase / Basic Idea/Basic Idea Fragment/Fragment/Cadential Idea / Perfect Authentic Cadence / OBOE / Rehearsal...
 
Eboe Ren: I just can't get used to playing that in 5/2! My reeds just aren't working out for me, and I need to regrind my knife. I sound like crap! Why am I even in MUSIC, sometimes I just don't know... / Ren: I need to stop being so emo. / Heather: You're not emo. You're oboe. / {{I may have to make a t-shirt...
Graphing the Mean Graph illustrating Quality of reed, Imagined Ability to Fly, and Mastery of the English Language as a function of Time in the Oboe Studio Making Reeds (in hours) / {{Whatever you do, *never* spend 24 hours straight making reeds. *Ever*.}}
Mineral Oil [[Dani walks up to counter with her arms full.]] / [[Dani drops her armload on the counter, revealing several different types of mineral oil]] / [[The cashier looks shocked.]] / Cashier: I'm so sorry. / {{For those who don't get it, Mineral Oil is commonly used as a laxative, not just for sharpening...
Giggle [[Out-of-panel giggling]] / [[Further out-of-panel giggling]] / Moy: *giggle* / Ren: You know, if I didn't know that she's watching Stargate, I'd be really creeped out right about now. / {{DAMN how I love SG-1!}}
If I Fall, Catch My Oboe. OBOE / Rehearsal Phase Performance Phase / Good Idea/Bad Idea Panic/Panic/Panic/Cadence / [[images depict Moy in all phases, and keeling over in the last one, an oboe catcher nearby.]] / {{Don't worry, someone caught it.}}
 
Fearful Performance. Ren: *nervous vibrato* / Jim: I can *hear* your *fear*. / {{Can you hear my fear?}}
Standing on the Dominant Punting the Mediant / Standing on the Dominant / Poking the Submediant / Sitting on the Subdominant / Stealing the Leading Note / Expanding the Tonic / Bombing the Supertonic / {{This is me, bored in Theory.}}
Fleeting Thought Have you ever noticed that the upside-down dotted eighth/sixteenth figure looks like a face? / {{You'll see them like that forever, now.}}
Lesson Jim: You need to exhale when you play. / Jim: Because if you don't, the air will just keep building up and building up-- / Jim: --until you EXPLODE! / Jim: And then there would be guts and stuff all over the place. And then I'd have to clean it all up...I don't want that. / {{'She essploded jus'...
Oboe Feather [[Ren leaps for feather]] / <> / [[Ren is Mario]] / {{*Mario Flying Music*}}
 
Bhosys Dick: I found one kind of knife that I just fell in love with. And I thought the guy was going to die, so I just kept buying them. / Justin: How many do you have now? / Dick: Oh, 180 or so. / Justin: ... / Dick: I'm a sick, sick man. / {"At least I don't have twenty gougers!}
Feathers pt 2 Super Ren: Wow! That was one hard sonata! / Mushroom-guy: I'm sorry, Ren, but the reed you seek is in another castle. / [[Mushroom-guy looks innocent]] / Ren: I'm switching back to a swab. / {{The epic battle was the sonata.}}
Herpes Jim: Let me try your reed. Are you healthy? / Heather: Yeah, I just have a few cankers. / LATER / Jim: Are you sure your cankers aren't herpes? / Heather: Of course not...at least I don't think so... / PANIC / Heather (on the phone, looking at the Wikipedia on Herpes): Are you SURE Mom? / Jim: Oh, it...
Learning to Ride High Jim: How do you learn to play your high notes well? It's like asking how to learn to ride a bike. You sit on the bike and pedal. You just do it. / Lora: Can we have training wheels? / {{If you're going to use analogies, Jim, make sure there are no loopholes. We *will* find them.}}
Fan Mail pt 2 Psycopath Bassoonist: Hi there, is this Obohemia? / Moy: Oh no... / <<*dance music*>> / [[some of the clothing formerly worn by crazy bassoonist is seen flying in the air. Ren and Moys faces show varied levels of disgust.]] / [[Moy is writing a letter angrily. Ren is shaking in the far corner]] / Moy:...
 

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