August 19th, 2008
#571 - Ripe
This is something that I truly believed would happen when I was a little kid and swallowed a watermelon seed. Of course, I didn’t come to this conclusion by myself, it was tortuously planted in my head by my older brother.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Okay, that’s pretty gruesome for a Biff comic.
Unexpected bodily repercussions week?
The Duck Has Spoken.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Hahaha! Oh man, Biff needs to be more careful.
I guess he’s made of rather fertile soil, isn’t he.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Biffmelons?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Well, he has applied fertilizer to himself in the past. This was to be expected.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:42 am
That…pretty gruesome.
If you don’t realise biff seem to have any internal organs. XD
August 19th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Erg… Nice way to rehash an old childhood phobia. It’s both funny and moderately disturbing!
August 19th, 2008 at 1:30 am
All we can find in our area is the tasteless, seedless variety.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:32 am
hmm imagine Biff with melons!
August 19th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Gruesome? nah…
Heheheh though it is a wonder how Biff always goes back to normal everytime something happens to him.
No matter what, he snaps right back like nothing happened to begin with.
and i remember that old lie, I dont think I ever believed it, I think I just plain didnt like watermelon.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Biff doesn’t seem to bothered by it.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Heh. Gadora raises an interesting point… but I actually prefer the taste of seedless watermelon.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Yeah, just like here:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Melons/
August 19th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Oh my gosh. Now we know how skunk melons are made.
::shudders::
August 19th, 2008 at 7:36 am
I remember this episode of Rugrats back when I was a little kid and still watched TV… Chucky swallowed the watermelon seed, Angelica convinces them all that it is going to grow into a watermelon and then the show proceeds on with the rest of them shrinking themselves and going inside of Chucky to find the seed. Used hypnosis or something to put him out..and in the end he burps it up and wakes up and then finds out he didn’t really digest his friends, they hadn’t even gotten small yet.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:08 am
@ Pierce…dang you beat me to it! When I glanced at this comic; that was the first thing that popped into my head was the rugrats episode!!
yet another good comic, Chris, bravo!
August 19th, 2008 at 8:15 am
The tooth fairy, the watermelon seed grows into a plant if you eat the seeds; this sounds like a week devoted to childhood myths and fairy tales (that still doesn’t explain the tooth fairy, I guess, since my mom said she was real)
August 19th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Agree - Childhood myths. I wonder… Will we be seeing the Easter Bunny this week..?
Oh, and my folks (especially my grandmother) used to tell me that potatoes would grow behind my ears if I didn’t wash there. I tested the theory. - It didn’t work.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Lol… I thought the same with tangerines XD
August 19th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I TOLD you Biff was made out of clay.
Also, I was a precocious little brat, so when my mom told me that the watermelons would grow I was all like, ‘That’s impossible because watermelon seeds won’t stay in your digestive tract for a very long time, and also because the stomach acid and blah blah blah etc”
She got kind of mad at me
August 19th, 2008 at 9:17 am
The melons would probably look like a watermelon with freakishly long eyebrows and mouth…
August 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
20 comments and not one mention of or guffaw over “planted in my head” in the text blurb? That’s what make a one-panel shine! Brilliant, Chris.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Come to think of it, wouldn’t the watermelon plant have trouble getting enough sunlight to grow all the way through your body to where the sunlight is?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
When I was a kid, whenever my dad and I saw a pregnant lady he always said “she swallowed a watermelon seed”
August 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I don’t think I ever worried about the watermelon seeds…I just eat them anyway.
Oranges, however…..
August 19th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I agree with Pierce, this totally reminds me of the Rugrats episode.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
things like that are ALWAYS implanted by older brothers.. (pun totally intended)
August 19th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Childhood Myth Week?
August 19th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Murifex: That is a VERY DISTURBING video with a catchy tune.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
@ Murifex - Whoa. Weird.
IT’S 12:45 BUT BIFF STILL ISN’T HERE BECAUSE I LIVE ON THE EAST COAST! AGGHHHHH!!!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
@no name: Just wait 13 minutes. Biff will come.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
lol. u live on the east coast as well?
August 20th, 2008 at 12:04 am
huh? 1:04 and no Biff? sorry if i seem kind of nagging, Chris, but it’s like an addiction.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am
OMG! I had a nightmare like this once. I was naked, and instead of hair I had…. like grass growing out of my body. When I pulled one out, all their roots pulled, and I could feel all of them!
I awoke with a mumble scream (mmmmrrrrraaaarrrrfffff) and covered in sweat. I rubbed my arms for an hour afterward.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:55 am
lol, this reminds me of an incident when I was a kid. My mom was cleaning my ears, and my dad came in and said I had something in my ear. He then reached over and pretended to be fooling around with my ear and pretended to pull an onion out of it. For a long time after that I thought I had onions growing in my ears.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Everyone Cheer, Melons are Here
Filled with Seeds that grow out your Rear!
August 31st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I use to think that too, And I also hated/loved eating eggs.. I also was terrified that if the egg wasn’t fully cooked then a little chick would grow inside me…
Weird childhood fears… 0.o
September 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
This reminds me a little too much of “The Ruins”…