Funny / Shortpacked!

Unmarked spoilers below.

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• "What did you do to my lesbian?" (context)
• Burnsauce - Lynn Johnson's work condensed into a single comic.
• Mario points out the obvious.
• Robin's plan to get Ethan to have sex with Thad.
  • And next comic, things don't go well.
• Mike's Your Mom joke failing.
• Any time Aslan shows up. Any. Time.
  • What the hell is taking this thing so damn long?!
• Around Thanksgiving 2010 Willis had "a personal appeal from Shortpacked! creator, David Willis" with funny pictures of Willis (it was an ad to get people to buy Walkyverse stuff, making fun of Jimmy Wales' personal appeal). The Fazoli's Kid also made a personal appeal. Most people spent more time refreshing the page to see all the different pictures than they did reading the comic.
• Mike meets a guy who is "anti-social" (read: a huge asshole). The guy acts like he's awesome because of it and says "whatcha gonna do, really". Mike gives him an answer.
• Minimalism.
• Faz is a great source of these. His first is this:
  Faz: Contrary to what he claims, I have a graph here which shows a line clearly going up.
  Faz: At the moment, the likelihood is very low. But imagine if we increase the likelihood.
  Ethan: Every half hour I have to go back to my store and make sure Faz is wearing pants.
  Faz: Allow Faz final words to his genitals.
• They have gay BARS now?!
• Shinji. Knucks.
• Robin's...interesting analogy for coming out of the closet.
  Robin: You don't understand, do you? Comin' out is like when the Coyote walks off the cliff in the cartoons. You just keep walkin' on air until finally you look down and, BAM!, you realize yer gay!
  Ken: What's the Road Runner in this metaphor?
  Robin: COCKS!
• Ethan takes Drew to BotCon. The Osama bin Laden joke warms you up, and then you reach the actual punchline of the strip...
• This man's genitals are part of a very important business deal.
• Mike finally gets to honestly say "I fucked your mom"... ''to his own unborn child''.
• Bruce Wayne is prescribed meds to help with his issues, hilarity ensues.
  Batman: "I ordered a pizza. Gonna hide by the porch and scare the shit out of the delivery guy."
  • Part 2.
    Bullock: "He started making ice puns, so the snipers took him out."
• How'd you sleep, darling?
• "Help! Help! I'm being molested!"
• "You named her after a danged Ninja Turtle, didn't you?"
• "I'm Greg Killmaster!" "No, I'M Greg Killmaster!" "I'm THREE Greg Killmasters!"
• Although a lot of the Lucy/Malaya rivalry is just kinda sad, there are funny parts too.
  Lucy: You wouldn't hurt someone standing behind the historical Jesus, would you?
  Jesus: ...I get used for this way too much.
• "Hi I'm Daisy!"
• Robin shows Malaya just why Leslie might be so forgiving of her.
  "bbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
• The conclusion to the robber storyline, complete with an... unusual cameo.
  Robber: IT WAS REAGAN, I TELL YOU! RONALD REAGAN BROKE MY LEGS!
  Galasso: I proffer naïve, dupable citizen, that it is time this country stopped blaming Reagan for all its problems.
  Ratchet: I hear ya, pal.
• A crowning moment of Insane Troll Logic, when Ethan tries to get rid of the Customer Protection Rackets.
  Faz: Contrary to what he claims, I have a graph here that shows a line clearly going up.
  Ethan: You don't even know what that line represents!!!.
  Galasso: It represents upness.
  Faz: The graph has spoken.
• "You know how freelancing is! You're never off the clock!" - Spoken by Megatron.
• The real reason Hurricane Sandy hit New York? God wanted Community back on TV.
  God: "It's October 19th when I fucking say it's October 19th, motherfuckers!"
• God's opinions on typefaces, the rat-lovin' Goths, and Green Arrow made pretty dang clear.
  God: There's not even any Chloe Sullivan. I don't even know what you're doing.
• Any time Leslie is near a baby for too long.
• Sydney's team consists of a few people and a robot. Galasso's consists of:
  Galasso: ...a ninja, a speedster, a superhero and a lesbian.
  Leslie: I have other attributes.
• Ken's reaction to learning about the NSA's spying is pure terror. Why? Well...
  NSA man: This one sure likes singing "Let It Go" off-key to himself over and over 'till someone comes home.
  • The Alt Text adds to it: "not that I would know anything about that."
• After Shortpacked! officially ended, Willis added a comic once a year on April Fools Day. Usually. However, in 2019 he found a concept so funny he couldn't wait till the next April Fools Day: the thing Ethan loves that he must sacrifice to get a Soul Stone is a Dinobot.
  Red Skull: You cannot love a toy!
  Ethan: Yeah? Try me.
• April Fools 2020: Amber was too absorbed in playing her Nintendo Switch to realize that a pandemic was going on or that there's a new Animal Crossing game.
• The week before Thanksgiving 2021 saw not one but three new pages:
  • The implication that there's a new comic specifically to knock the April Fools 2021 comic-a Mallard Fillmore parody-off the front page of the website.
  • Lampshade hanging on how this is the first time Shortpacked! truly broke the fourth wall.
  • Since George Jetson's birthday is canonically established as August 27, 2022, that means he's going to be conceived Thanksgiving Week. When Robin muses that even one of them could be George's mother, Amber points out that neither of them have the last name Jetson. That's when Mike chooses to reveal that his middle name is Jetson, inherited from his great-grandfather.
    Amber: [tosses her clipboard aside and looks at Mike lustfully] Okay, let's do this.
• That one guy always complaining about men being pushed out of fandom is once again complaining about the concept of female Transformers, and goes so far to say that alien robots shouldn't have any gender at all. Well, you know the phrase Be Careful What You Wish For?
  Amber: Nightshade is agender and goes by they/them pronouns! [as the guy starts bleeding from the eyes] YAY! YOU WON!
• The Alt Text for this comic suggesting that the reason Ruth died in Roomies is because Blazing Saddles was made in the 70's instead of today.

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