March 19th, 2012
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The babies are horrible teases: they’ll sleep through one night, and not the next. Owen does it more (his record is three in a row so far) and Evan does it rarely. Owen will have a great night, and be a horrible monster crying every couple of hours the next. Evan will go one night only waking up once, and then waking up three or four times the next night (‘waking up’ is probably not accurate, sometimes it’s just ‘loudly stirring’ but even if they don’t wake themselves, I hear it, even through two closed doors). The twin books say that identical twins generally have the same bio rhythms and usually sleep the same :P
My mother says I was sleeping through the night at six weeks. WHAT the HELL.
An unlikely collision?
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March 19th, 2012 at 12:03 am
When Vainity sucks up, he sucks up smart!
March 19th, 2012 at 12:11 am
“He tosses polar bears.” Is the best bit of dialogue on this entire page.
March 19th, 2012 at 12:18 am
Your mother is exaggerating I’m sure. The time dilation experienced by grandmothers is amazing. You should hear some of the things my wife and I were supposedly doing at outrageously young ages. No…children can be gifted sometimes, babies are not. There’s certain developmental hurdles that just plan do not biologically happen by the time mothers claim they did.
March 19th, 2012 at 1:26 am
XD yes. All hail King Prozac.
Also….
I hope we can see girl bears soon! The non-flashback kind.
March 19th, 2012 at 2:39 am
I don’t suppose Prozac knows any Jujutsu?
Panel 9… Prozac’s a Badass
Babies. Unpredictable balls of love. Weapon of choice? Crying. Method of choice? Unpredictability. Looks like you’ve hit the perfect storm there. I wonder if Sam gets annoyed by the noise too?
March 19th, 2012 at 4:00 am
Just for that, they must have gained something from it.
March 19th, 2012 at 8:03 am
Love Vainity’s reaction.
Every child twin or not is different I have three kids my self and am the oldest of six kids. Yes we have twins both identical and fraternal in my family. I can tell you from experience that even identical twins have different patterns in life. My oldest two are twins and one was sleeping through the night at eight weeks while the other at the age of eight still dose not sleep through the night regularly. Just wait tell you start to potty train them. twins are fun.
March 19th, 2012 at 8:25 am
Is that Prozac breaking the 4th wall in panel 10? :)
March 19th, 2012 at 8:57 am
“My mother says I was sleeping through the night at six weeks. WHAT the HELL.”…
Ask your mother to look in the back of the pantry and see if she still has any bottles of that laudanum she gave you when you were a baby.
March 19th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Vanity offering tea was cute!
March 19th, 2012 at 10:50 am
@Glowworm: I bet he’s talking to both us and the other bears…what with the way we were keening for ProHulk to make an appearance. :D
March 19th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Oh…oops! I meant @Sterling Rodd!
@Glowworm: Why, yes, Vanity is adorable offering tea!
March 19th, 2012 at 11:16 am
I’ve also noticed in some panels the text bubbles appear behind certain objects (like Prozac’s ear and the steam in panel 4) but in other panels they’re in front. Is this unintentional, some kind of method of emphasis, or simply for aesthetics sake?
March 19th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
I didn’t notice your twins name till I read this comment bit, but those are the two names of my cousin’s two boys. They aren’t twins, but they are both named Owen and Evan and it confused the hell out of my Uncle and grandparents trying to remember the names for which boy.
Small world, huh?
March 19th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Polar bear tossing is a fine reason to start sucking up. ><
I wish you luck with the twins, I only have one and he didn’t start sleeping until he was about six months and that was only for maybe four hours a night. Then he slept for twelve straight hours all night every night for about two weeks, to give me false hope, then went back to waking up every hour. He’s sort of sleeping on schedule now. Eight hours every night. He is a year and a half. I am so sorry. Babies are mean little tricksters, but they are adorable – I believe it is to prevent you from killing them. ^.-
March 19th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
But…it was all done in the name of revenge. :(
March 19th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
While my mom didn’t have twins, she had three babies in three years to the day… her answer to sleep was, sleep while the babies are sleeping which might seem irrisponsible, but, it didn’t do us any harm.
Her other answer was , put a bit of rice cerial in the bed time bottle and we would sleep through out the whole night- every – night. as we got older, she would put more in, and make the nipple of the bottle bigger to accomidate the thicker fluid. Worked like a charm.
of course she also mentioned about slipping some beer into the bottle, not a lot, but when we really needed sleep, just a touch of it, or a bit of whiskey- the tinyest few drops, and bang, we would be out like a light. I remember when I was sick and she gave me a hot toddy, which I knew right away what was in it, (awful stuff)
while people might be shocked and appaled at these actions, they did NOT make us alcoholics- there was far more alcohole in the cough medication that the drs perscribed for us than what was in the babie bottles, and it did work.
Not saying that alcohol is the answer to your babies, but the rice in the bottle may be. It doesn’t even have to be a full bottle, just a couple of ounces to tide them over.
just make sure they are dried, and burped , and they will be fine, and then you can get some much needed sleep
to answer prozacs question what did we learn from this?
If Prozac would have stepped in when Nerd was attacked by the polar bears, Steve would still have an arm. If he had stood up when they harrased everyone on the shore, they would have steared clear of the smaller bears and picked on the monkeys instead.
Its not all Evils fault that this has happened. (well most of it) but Evil was just frustrated as well with what the polar bears were doing.
I think I feel the sorryest for Nerd. that pulled off hair area is really going to be itchy pretty soon…
Kath
March 19th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Oh, she said something about drinking beer before nursing them, and well, it was like they had some of it too- it also helped with constipation- that – and prune juice. You would think that babies were Klingons sometimes with the way they yell and throw things around..
:D
March 19th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
@Nicole: So adorable that you decided to use him as your avatar. I for one welcome back our welcome back our egotistical panda, even though it is causing Gay much grief.
Even though they skipped the whole Gay and Gimp does something scene, I think this arc turned out well. But how much do you want to bet that not only are Nerd, Evil, and Lech cowering in the corner somewhere, but also the polar bears? That would make my day to see that!
In celebration of this Saturdays episode, I will replace cute and cuddly Spike and instead give you Bawss Spike. I would type a remix to the song, but since that’s been done to death (literally and figuratively), I spare you the eye ache.
If Alison ever decides to do game parodies or title drops, I think she could get away with doing these:
Shadow of the Prozac
Nerd May Cry
Zoo Fighters
Resident EVIL
Just throwing some out there.
March 19th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
I love how Prozac drinks his tea with his pinky out. ^_^
And I know about babies keeping you up. I can sleep through a air-compressor in the next room, but I wake in a panic if my child coughs in his sleep. For the first few months my son would wake up every two hours. Drove me nuts.
My parents say that my older sister slept through the night at a few weeks old….I on the other hand….I had a habit of only sleeping if I was rocked….I would be fine till my dad needed to go to bed & then would start crying & screaming. My parents finally wrapped me up in a hammock & tied a string to it…When I woke up at night they would pull the string & make me rock.
March 20th, 2012 at 12:56 am
Don’t mess with a flipped out Prozac Bear!
March 20th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
My mom told me that I slept all through the night, even when I was a little tot. My mom let my aunt baby-sit me once, and she was soooo excited for me to wake up in the middle of the night crying so she could take care of me. My mother came home to a VERY disappointed sister.
March 20th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
By the way, on the off chance some of you may appreciate this:
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/395837_373590932651924_276279089049776_1496198_1335938225_n.jpg
March 21st, 2012 at 10:08 am
I think Gay needs to do something REALLY nice for Prozac to one-up Vanity’s tea gambit. He has a lot of rare talents… I’m sure he can think of something. :)
Actually, it was Lech who was kind of selfless and noble, if a bit naive, in this adventure, while Prozac pretty much had to be guilted into it. No rewards for Lech?
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:47 pm
@Alisha: Noooot looking forward to potty training (it’s not going particularly well with Sam)
@Sterling: lol, that would be a bit snarky of me!
@Duke of URL: oh man, too funny!
@iamry: no particular emphasis, just personal preference
@Aaron Plettl: No way! That’s cool :)
@Dyre: Ha, yes babies are evil. And 8 hours a night at 18 months isn’t very much either, Sam is nearly 2.5 and he usually goes about 11 every night.
@Kath: I think our problem is teething unfortunately, but I imagine alcohol would help with that too…
@Ryu: ha! So true.
March 23rd, 2012 at 12:30 am
Sooner or later someone’s going to have to tell them that twit isn’t technically a bear. Then we’ll see who’s on whose side!
…Whatever that means.
March 23rd, 2012 at 11:43 am
I totally feel your pain with trying to get babies to sleep through the night! Mine is one and he still won’t go to bed unless I’m doing the same. :) I would tell you it gets better, but it doesn’t. You just get used to it! Good luck and I love Bear Nuts! I hope you’re able to continue making many more comics in the future!
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:25 pm
@Joe England–Not a bear? Who? Vanity? Yeah, pandas are bears; they’re in the family Ursidea… though they’re not the same genus as the rest of these guys, who are Ursus. Ursus moronis, as I recall. Pandas are one of only eight extant bear species, so don’t count them out! “We need the dudes…” :)
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Family Ursidae, pardon my French. :D
March 24th, 2012 at 12:28 am
Thanks, Sterling. You learn something new every day.
March 24th, 2012 at 1:07 am
also, WTF are these guys half the size of people? I have been wondering that since forever. \
March 24th, 2012 at 2:59 am
They seem to be around child size, considering the time Evil abducted a few kiddies to eat, or the time Lech and Gay had to tandem drive a truck.
March 24th, 2012 at 6:16 am
I know that, I am just wondering why they aren’t bigger.