Do you know where your TV is?
So the message that the Cornfather relayed to jefbot in the strip is completely true – the repair shop I took my Sony Bravia to wanted to charge me $700 for a new screen from Sony! I don’t even think the TV is worth that much anymore. In fact, I spent less than that amount getting a new HDTV recently, which is bigger and better than the one I was having repaired. And when I told the repair guy not to bother, he was incredulous that I would want to come by to pick up the broken TV. No doubt he was going to harvest it for parts to repair other monitors, and maybe that would’ve been okay, but it is my dad’s Bravia after all, and I don’t remember him giving me a donor card when he lent it to me.
And yes, the first chapter of jefbot’s dream-manipulation saga is complete, but we’ll come back to that storyline in the future. It felt like a good place to push pause and get back to jefbot’s television dilemma, which has recently been resolved in my own life. Yes, I’ve been reunited with my DVR and videogame consoles, and it feels so good.
Oh man Bot, if no-one was worried about your mental stability in the face of a technological stone age well…
Let’s pray that Fallout never happens, huh?
ha! no doubt my mental stability was a bit shaken after so many weeks without a technology fix, AngelSquid. and yes, god forbid Fallout should ever happen. but i think jefbot as featured in today’s strip would make a damn good Blade Runner should that future occur.
wear these when you get to New Vegas: 😎
Nuclear apocalypse has one advantage.
80% chance of real irradiated giant monsters.
Just hopefully not fish-eating iguanas. That would suck.
an 80% chance of giant monsters is pretty good, AngelSquid. but a 20% chance of getting that lame, fish-eating iguana is a chance i’m not willing to take. 😉
Are you talking about the American CG attempt at Godzilla? Because, yeah, it was done to death when they decided to make a CARTOON out of it. They did the same with MIB.
yup. at least in Final Wars the american godzilla got his butt kicked. 🙂
JA! see JB this is what i was talking about you snapping….soon…veery soon we’ll see yo falling from the roof (of course if you are still going to repair the TV)
heheh. i almost did lose some of my sanity waiting almost two months to hear back from the tv repair shop, nicobot, but i think i saved some of it by choosing not to continue trying to get the tv repaired. we’ll see if jefbot here shares the same fate or if he ends up going off the roof. 😉
HAHAHAHAHA Jefbot is a good person, but if he need to play his games IS EVIIIIIILLLLL.
I nerver will do this… excep if I can´t play Mass Effect….
ESPAÑA GANARÁ EL MUNDIAL DE FUTBOL / SPAIN WILL WIN THE WORLD SOCCER
yeah, jefbot is mostly a good person but does have a dark side sometimes (don’t we all?), ContableEnorme. heheh. and i hear ya about Mass Effect – now that i have a tv at home again, Shepard and i are gonna be back to mining planets for element zero, soon! 😀
congrats on Spain’s World Cup win!!!
Congrats to Spain as well.
Im not a football fan myself – Its football not socker you American football brutes. – as I simply think that after 90 minutes of playing one goal is pathethic score and I cant stomach how take faul as part of the game… Ok, Im stopping my rambling now.
Just wanted to remark that nobody was more surprised at the performance of Slovakia team in their last two games more than us, other slovak people. We actualy advanced to play-off and it were very good games. Thanks for wonderfull surprise guys!
Hmm, so what WOULD one put into an assassin’s ring to take out a flat screen without damaging the monitor. Quite the dilemma. Research is necessary I think. 🙂
roofie-nanites, Tanya! you can get ’em on the black market in Akihabara.
The title is rocking! And Donor TV is hillarious.
As for reuniting with your electronics? Good for you. I also agree about getting back your electronics in cases like this. You never know when it may come in handy or spare part you need decides to steer your way.
Just one question: how did you plan on making that tv drink it?
glad you liked the title, Maryz! seemed a perfect description for the events of this strip. 🙂
and yeah, i couldn’t believe the repair guy thought i’d just leave the tv with him. it still works after all, just with the blue pixels on one side.
i leave the answer to the question as to how the tv will drink the tainted beverage up to your imagination.
Is that a Coke ring?
WOW! Umm I’m thinking the proper term is poison ring. They were uber popular in the Renissance (SP please? ). What they are used for now…Well as someone who does these types of fairs…well, imagine the mentos/diet pepsi thing on a smaller but quicker scale. A little bit on pix stix sugar into a carbonated beverage gives you a really neat foamy overflow effect.
Anything else, I wouldn’t have any idea about. I have an adiction to glitter…that’s about it.
think what’s in the ring’s roofies, the date rape drug.
heheh. Pixie and Jaeh have the right idea, Joenis – it’s a poison ring with a crushed roofie in it (that just happens to affect electronics). 🙂
wow bot you went there. poor widescreen never saw it coming 🙁
where is my fanart section? 🙁
Lying is a bad habit bot
don’t worry, jefbot’s only thinking about preying on some poor, defenseless television, dj. he wouldn’t actually do such a thing. unless it were actually possible, and then who knows? heheh.
FANart section is pretty much done, i just hit some snags with the way i was going to put it on the site, so had to do a revamp. so as not to be accused of lying, i won’t say when i expect it up, but it should be soon. 😉
that tv in the tub rang a bell with me. you got the idea way back from my comment on this strip.
http://www.jeffschuetze.com/2010/05/28/jefbot-243_disconnected/
that is AWESOME!
it’s funny – the inspiration for the strip actually came to me as i was writing the blog post for the strip you mentioned, t_d. as soon as i wrote, “the screen needs to be replaced – they haven’t found a donor TV with the right parts yet,” i immediately had the mental image from the 4th panel of today’s strip in my head. didn’t think it’d go any further than my response to your comment, as the image seemed too bzarre to make it into an actual strip, but – as you can see – i figured it out, and voila! this strip (albeit still bizarre) was born. i do like your idea of jefbot shooting TVs, tho – i might still take you up on that offer. 😉
So what exactly did you slip that TV, anyway? Nanobots?
I seriously almost peed my pants when I read this.
ha! “peed my pants” is one of my favorite compliments to get, Stan! THANKS! heheh. 😀
and yeah, those are some roofie-infused nanobots, jefbot has there. i can get you some if you want, just don’t tell anybody where you got ’em.
hahahaha……i’m thinking of doing the same thing to a MacbookPro17….stockholme syndrome anyone?
let me know if you’re ever in North America, jf#300 – i’ll be sure to keep my mbp15 locked up at night. 😉
Oh….My…GAWD! *runs to the potty* JEFF you officially made me laugh so GD hard, I had to tell everyone what I was laughing about! Totally PIMP just about.
That is definately one of your best so far.
so glad to hear you almost PIYP, Pixie! heheh.
was really not sure how people were going to react to this one. while i did get some messages from people saying, “i don’t get it,” i think the readers that did “get it” liked it a lot. this strip has definitely reinforced my belief that i should always do what i think is funny since, while some may not find a particular strip to their taste, it appears a lot of you share my sense of humor! 😀
uh-oh.. poor TV!!! I really like how your strips are related to your RL~~ ^^;;
i’d say about 90-95% of the inspiration for JEFbot comes from RL, JK! that’s both awesome and sad. 😉
Organ harvesters. A TV’s nightmare.
Eeek, there aren’t other repair shops you can visit?
strangely, not many repair shops around me will work on Sony TVs. most of the stores i talked to over the phone said it wouldn’t be worth it to fix or that they weren’t “Sony certified.” *sigh*
I love the contrast between how Jefbot looks in the second and last panels. What deviousness! We again see his brilliant acting skills in play, even if it is only an imagined sequence. We might have to start calling you Frankenbot!
BTW, I like when you do the depth of field thing like in the first panel. Very cool!
it did play out in my mind almost exactly as in the strip, Shanna! too bad there are no “electronics bars” that i could test my acting skills out, on. 😉
and i’m glad you liked the layout of that first panel! i like to give a little depth to the panels every now and then, so as not to bore you all with the side-by-side composition of the characters all the time.
TV repair shops everywhere are freaking out right now! Their scam has been revealed! I’m glad you got your TV back in one piece-
Excellent strip! I love the 3rd frame!
i did get my TV back but it’s still not fixed, Funnyshaffer. had to buy a new one, actually, for less than i would’ve paid for repairs!
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, out from the dark corners of Jeff’s mind comes… this.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt this morally conflicted over a piece of electronic equipment.
heh. don’t worry, jefbot won’t be lurking around any “electronics bars” anytime soon, Alexander. at least not until TVs become sentient, which means we still have a couple years, yet.
and wait ’til you see what i’ve got locked away beyond those dark corners, through the hallway, down the stairs and behind the locked door to the basement of my mind! then you will really know fear. 😉
I always suspected it!! Really funny strip!!
thanks, dude! don’t tell anyone.
is this what you wanted that shipment of chlorine for? to knock out a tv?! a good gravity bat would do the same thing… though you’d have more dead pixels to deal with.
hmmm… yeah, a gravity bat would be way more fun, Animie fan, but yeah, would probably defeat the purpose of knocking the TV out in the first place. heheh.
OMG, that’s so funny. We just went through something similar with our big screen HDTV. The screen needed to be replaced, but when we heard it was gonna be at least $1000 we opted for a new TV. Like your plan of attack though. Wish I’d thought of it.
$1000!? it’s ridiculous how much it costs for repairs these days, Jennifer! it’s like these tech companies don’t want you repairing or upgrading your old devices. they really just want you to buy new ones. 😛
That is priceless! I didn’t know T.V. could drink
well, i wouldn’t recommend pouring wine in your TV’s speaker holes, Eptha, but in jefbot’s mind, anything’s possible. 🙂
HAHAHAHAHA–you sick, sick man. I love it.
thanks, dude! glad you’re loving my sickness!
and yet we have not shot anything, varmints or otherwise…
i know! everything’s hooked up now but i haven’t had any time to game. i know you’re a busy guy too, but let’s try and do some varmint-huntin’ soon! (like, this weekend.)
Sunday work?
busy sunday. i take it saturday’s out?
I got to admit, bot, I had to read this one a couple times before I got it. That’s not a slam but a nod to your extremely creative brain. The tv being ruffied and placed in a tub full of ice is amazing! I love it. I love everything about this strip, man. So well drawn and super funny. …although this strip makes me wanna sleep with one eye open when you’re around. 😉
Without friends like that, life would be SOOO dull. 😉
agreed, Tanya. 🙂
i’m happy you read this one more than once then, MC! you better just hope i don’t need a kidney or a vital organ anytime soon…
Oh, well you might cause I already took one of yours. 😉
It’s really weird how your mind works, jeff… The ring though, clever. I would have gone with ninjas though. And vikings. Ninja vikings: pillaging the TV quietly.
sadly, all my ninja friends were gone for the weekend, Steve, and i don’t know any vikings. i do know some pirates, though – dang! i should’ve asked them for some help!
THE POISON PILLBOX RING!
The ultimate in storing poisons/sleeping powder in plain sight.
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The kidney stealing joke on an appliance? Wow, the donor market better start giving discounts on ice….
you just never know when you’re going to need to sedate an appliance, Rinthia. that’s why you gotta keep your ring filled with sleeping powder/tech nanites and your freezer stocked with ice.
after reading another websites webcomic for 7 hrs straight i fully believe jeffbot is perfectly sane
which webcomic was that, ebonyekinshade!? i wanna read it so i can feel the same way!
Perhaps it was Emergency Exit? Then again, Eddie is the only TRULY crazy character there. It’s also possible that my desire to make this comic more well known has caused me to make the odd connection.
Remind me never to go on a date with you….
AWKWARD!!!!
heh.
i promise to keep my screwdrivers/scalpels at home, TCG. 😉
Well, glad to hear everything worked out. BTW, remember a month or so back, when I proposed that I would pour strawberry milk into a bowl of Cocoa Krispies? Not likely to happen anymore. Turns out that I may have an allergy to artificial strawberry flavoring that gets compounded by stress. The last time I had a reaction, I had to overdose on benadryl just to keep the swelling from reaching my throat. The next time will probably kill me. If anyone else wants to take up the challenge, feel free to do so.
that sucks, NeoDarklight! i definitely don’t want you to harm yourself, even in the name of cereal science. i might have to take up this experiment myself, now. 🙂
Tell me how that works out, and remember, I can’t process milk fat, so my experiment would have been with skim.
i am so giving my tv a chaperone and a curfew.
ha! i think that’s wise, Oddbody.
OMG! This is so funny. I didn’t get it at first. But, now I do and it’s super funny.