"Join these two bears to see the adorable side of every day life!"
Tubby and Tummy is a Slice of Life webcomic by rarastories and hanhanarts that began in Spring 2020.
It is about an adorable bear couple sharing kindness with each other, their child Twiggy, and their dog Nuggy. Tubby is sweet, Tummy is an arsonist, and their love is immeasurable!
The comic is free to read on Webtoon
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Tropes:
- Absurd Phobia: Tubby has a fear of drivers. Justified, considering that Tummy's usually the driver.
- Afraid of Needles: Tubby, as shown here.
- Ageless Birthday Episode: Tubby celebrates his birthday here, but he refuses to tell Tummy and Twiggy how old he is.
- April Fools' Day: Tubby and Tummy pretend that the strip is ending. They reveal the truth in the next strip.
- Art Shift:
- The penultimate two panels of this comic become Shoujo-style.
- Tubby's new glasses make Tummy look more realistic.
- The penultimate two panels of this
- Asleep in Class: As this strip shows, Twiggy falls asleep even when he's not in class.
- Beary Friendly: The titular bears.
- Big Eater: Tubby eats so much that he causes a buffet to go bankrupt.
- Bland-Name Product:
- This comic mentions Bearflix.
- This comic mentions a Bearstation 5.
- Bearstagram, the equivalent of Instagram, is mentioned here.
- This comic
- A Bloody Mess: In this comic, Tubby walks into a room and sees that the walls are covered in a suspicious red stain. It turns out Tummy sprayed ketchup everywhere.
- Catching Some Z's:
- Comforting Comforter: Tubby gives Tummy one in this comic.
- Cuteness Proximity: Tubby's reaction upon seeing Nuggie.
- Damsel in Distress: Tummy is kidnapped in this comic, although Tubby is pretty sure that she'll quickly become a Damsel out of Distress.
- Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Tummy asks Tubby if the dress she's wearing makes her look fat. Tubby briefly struggles to find an answer, before Tummy tells him she was kidding - she already knows there's no right answer.
- Dreadful Musician: Tubby is one, as shown here, but Tummy doesn't have the heart to tell him.
- Face Palm:
- Genie in a Bottle: Twiggy finds a genie in a lamp, and wishes that he doesn't get an "F" in his finals. The Jackass Genie obliges, and Twiggy gets an F minus.
- Heavy Sleeper: Subverted here. Tummy appears to be one, but it turns out that the clock is broken, and shows random times.
- Illness Blanket: Tubby wraps Tummy in one here upon learning that she's having her "time of the month".
- I'm a Humanitarian: Parodied here, when Tummy wonders if Twiggy (who is half-plant) going vegan could be cannibalism.
- Lethal Chef: Tubby is one, as seen in this comic.
- Literal Metaphor: When Tummy says "Time flies", she's not joking.
- Literal-Minded: Twiggy thinks that getting "brownie points" means actually getting brownies.
- Loves Me Not: Tubby does this here. She loves him.
- Magic Mirror: Twiggy claims to have found one here. A sceptical Tubby claims that it doesn't work when, in response to him asking the mirror what Tummy wants for a gift, it just shows him his reflection (the implication, of course, is that Tummy wants TUBBY to be her gift).
- Must Have Caffeine: Tummy in this comic.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bearie Kondo is a parody of Marie Kondo.
- Oh, Crap!: Tubby's reaction when he realises that he left Twiggy at the grocery store.
- Pick a Card: Twiggy does this here.
- Pity the Kidnapper: When Tummy is kidnapped, Tubby tells Twiggy to call the police, despite having been warned not to, because he's worried about what she'll do to the kidnappers.
- Plant Person: Twiggy, a green bear that grew from a flower pot.
- Pyromaniac: As established in her early appearance, Tummy.
- Rainbow Lite: This comic features a rainbow that uses the first four colours (i.e. blue, indigo and violet are missing).
- Rock–Paper–Scissors: Tubby and Tummy use this method to resolve a dispute in this comic. Tummy cheats by using real scissors.
- Shout-Out: A Death Note appears in this comic. Tubby uses it to kill Tummy's insecurities.
- This one mentions The Hunger Games.
- And this one mentions Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- The last panel of this comic parodies the cover for Attack on Titan.
- Haikyuu!! is referenced here.
- A Portal gun shows up in this comic.
- Jigsaw shows up in this comic, and is given A Taste of Their Own Medicine by Tummy.
- In this comic, Tubby lifts both Nuggie and Twiggy into the air while saying "Simba", then Tummy does the same thing to him.
- Thor and Loki cameo at the end of this comic.
- The Purge is parodied in this one.
- And this one parodies The Ring.
- This one is titled There Will Be Blood.
- This one parodies Among Us.
- And this one parodies the storm drain scene from It (2017).
- After putting on glasses, Tubby turns Super Saiyan (complete with spiky gold hair) and is suddenly wearing Goku’s training gi. He refers to this as unlocking his “true potential”.
- The "Stonks" meme is referenced here.
- Tubby uses the Force here.
- This one parodies Rapunzel, and Tubby and Tummy are dressed as Flynn/Eugene and Rapunzel, respectively.
- This one mentions Squid Game.
- This one
- Soup Is Medicine: In this comic, Tubby gives Tummy a bowl of soup when the latter is sick in bed.
- That Cloud Looks Like...: Occurs in this comic.
- Trademark Favorite Food: More like favorite drink. Tummy LOVES milk tea.
- Wish Upon a Shooting Star: Tummy tells Twiggy to do this here. Unbeknownst to them, the star is actually Tubby.
