Suggested wine pairing: Head & Shoulders.
Thus concludes another
SHAMPOO WEEK.
I leave you with this thought for make great business: Why is Head & Shoulders the top-selling shampoo brand in the world? Because people, famously, have heads and shoulders. They can relate to the product. (This is also the secret to Mountain Time’s immense success.)
The remaining question is: would it sell in the Mushroom Kingdom? As Head & Shoulders has antifungal properties (as does Mountain Time), Toad would probably die if he used it—if I understand Toad’s biology, which I almost certainly don’t.
Thanks for another great Shampoo Week! I think I say this every year, but it’s a perfect occasion for reflecting on the passage of a year, which more widely-regarded holidays fail at because they distort time around themselves. It sneaks up on me and surprises me with its memorable theme.
I’m glad it doesn’t sneak up on you, though, since you’re the only person in the world who actually has to expend effort preparing to celebrate Shampoo Week. So, thank you!
This week is like a shampooing for the soul: very bubbly and smells great. Great job once again, and where do i get one of these cups?
Let’s talk about the *really* important issue brought up by this comic, though: ARE there, in fact, too many bricks?
So the left half of the newspaper is generic news, but the right half is the New Lancaster Gazette?
All in all, this has been another fantastic Shampoo Week. In fact, it might be the best Shampoo Week of 2021. Not sure though.
Ahhh so that’s what Pert stands for in Pert Plus.. perception! :D
I’m not super into those crosswalks but y’know whichever direction you wanna walk I can live with it.
Stephen: In several years, but not so much this one, Shampoo Week has taken on horror themes as a lead-in to Halloween. The characters in this one are Chris and Debbie from Friday the 13th part 3, and panel three is a direct quote.
I’m not sure if that has anything relevance to what you said, but there it is (jeffgoldblum.gif)
21st: I wish I knew, man. When my grandma died, all I wanted to inherit were some of her plastic cups, but here I am without them. I’m not good at acquiring cups.
Xin: I’ve seen new buildings being finished with a “brick” veneer to make them look nice. I suspect there are actually far fewer bricks than we think.
Circle: I definitely need to redesign the Gazette, but it just *might* appear this way in a future episode I’ve already made, so the redesign will have to come later.
Also, I’ve checked with Vegas, and the odds are 1:3 that this is the best Shampoo Week of 2021.
Cold: Not everyone is a pedestriasexual. It’s fine.
mmmm… crosswalks
Hey, clicking the “random” button today led me on a bit of a rabbit-hole.
So: Shampoo week 2010. It includes the comic “Outdoor Miner”, which is presently at this URL: http://mountaincomics.com/comic/outdoor-miner/ . This appears to be both the 3rd and final comic of shampoo week from that year. However, previous days in that week have comments indicating there should, in fact, be *four* strips that shampoo week, and I’m not under the impression that the following strip, Mountain Time 217, is one of them. Furthermore, “Outdoor Miner” has words at the top that say “click here to read the finale”, but as far as I can tell there is no link anywhere near there to click. Where did the finale go?
But wait! Mountain time 217? SEVENTEEN? Glancing at the archive, I see Mountain Time 200, then the “Unstartled Giraffe” series, which is 12 strips long, and then I count 5 strips before Mountain Time 217. That is: “Outdoor Miner” SHOULD be “Mountain Time” #217 by my count, assuming that the “finale” either doesn’t actually exist or is not a numbered mountain time; if it does exist and it is/should be numbered, then Mountain Time 217 is actually #219. In either case, the 500 happening occurred starting with the 501st/2nd strip, MT 1000 was 1001/1002, and *this* strip is either 1096 or 1097. Unless I’m mistaken, of course, or managed to miscount three different times, or something else.
Mainly I just want to know whether that finale ever existed, and if so, where it is?
Thanks for the heads up! Turns out the image map was broken because of a change to the backend, so it had probably been like that for years. It works now, though; the finale is clickable.
As for why #219 isn’t #221 (or even #222, if that shampoo finale counted): A wizard did it.
However, there have been a couple “Not Mountain Time” episodes that were later deleted, but DID up the episode count without revocation (balancing the episode count somewhat, but also making it fuzzier). According to WordPress, there are 1106 published posts (!) with nine (others?) relegated to the drafts folder. I don’t know what to make of that.
There’s obviously one way to know for sure, but I’m not doing it, and nobody else should either.
Thanks for indulging my dumb ramblings, and furthermore fixing the link :)
Now that I’ve clicked that link, I’m pretty sure I was able to access, and did read, that finale on my initial archive binge of Mountain Time, because of how familiar it looks. But I’m glad to have access to it all the same.
“There’s obviously one way to know for sure, but I’m not doing it, and nobody else should either.” ~ Isto Combs, 2021
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At the risk of making some kind of implicit statement about the state of my life by doing this on a Friday night, I’ve copied the entire list of comics from the archive into an Excel file (removing things like the annual headers). This yields a 1106-row file, so, uh, so far so good.
The numbered comics wander from their “real” position by various amounts along the way. Everything up to comic #55 aligns with the rows in the file. There’s an obvious break after that: Mountain Time 59 arrives seven comics later, on row 62, so it’s suddenly three places behind. This pattern holds until #113. 116 to 180 are all on the “correct” rows. 190 to 200 are ahead by one place, which means that Mountain Time 200 is currently posted as the 199th comic in the archive. Then, as noted above, seventeen comics follow, the last of which is Outdoor Miner, and after that, Mountain Time 217, which is actually in its correct position at row 217.
There’s a bit of fluctuation in both directions throughout the archive after that, with the last two numbered comics (Mountain Time 1000 and 1002) positioned at rows 1004 and 1006 respectively. The 500 Happening does actually start on row 500, though. Whew, I sure am glad I’ve only charged myself with the utterly pointless task of looking into this, rather than the utterly pointless task of coming up with a way to fix it. Although, can any undertaking that culminates in re-reading The Unstartled Giraffe truly be said to be pointless?
Thanks for the investigation! Man, I really gotta fire the guy who numbers these things. Off by 11?!
Now I have the utterly baffling task of figuring out what to do going forward. It sounds like it’s time…
…for shenanigans.
I noticed this on my last re-read, I should have said something.
Please let me know about any problems with the site*! FYI, you can just comment on the episode that has the problem; I see new comments on ANY comic at the top of my list (and I do respond to them).
*I know the archive search engine doesn’t work. That’s on Oh No Robot’s end, and he stopped that project ages ago. I just don’t have the time or patience to dig through code to remove it.
search engine actually kinda works for searching those transcripts that exist. you just need to replace the date with “comic” in the URL of the page it sends you to.
Just woke up from a dream in which Mountain Time was instead titled “I am Catching a Plane”.
That’s clean, serene, and terrible for SEO. I love it.