Funny / Concerned

• "Okay, okay, guys. Enough goofing around. Let me know when you're ready to roll." "We ARE rolling! You're on LIVE!" "What? Uh."
• This line in the next strip:
  Random Citizen: (to Frohman) Don't drink the water. It's $2.95 a bottle.
• What is Frohman's first reaction upon seeing the G-Man for the first time? Why, to ask if he knows where the nearest T.G.I. Friday's is!
  • invoked Speaking of the G-Man, there's the Running Gag that his Stealth Hi-Byes and creepy moments of quietly watching someone from the far distance in this comic are all hilariously terrible due to his awful skills at hiding, with one of the more notable examples being the G-Man yelling at Frohman "Look! An Archvile!" followed by him hanging for dear life from the top of a streetlamp.
• "As I strolled slowly away in sheer terror..."
• Anything involving the lost Counter-Strike server.
• Or did it always bend this way?
• Frohman's interactions with water mines, particularly here, are always hilarious.
• In the October 28th, 2005 entry, "Incoming shovel!"
• Read it, then look in the notes.
• Judith Mossman's rapid descent into Suspiciously Specific Denial when Frohman mentions Dr. Breen's telecasts to her at Black Mesa East.
• The mere fact that even D0G gets so annoyed by Frohman's antics that he helps Judith Mossman lock him out of Black Mesa East.
• This exchange when Frohman gets a little too enamored with the Gravity Gun, which he later realizes is probably part of the reason why the Resistance kicked him out of Black Mesa East:
  Judith Mossman: Gordon, is that you? It's late. Come inside.
  Gordon Frohman: There is no Gordon, Judith. There is only... The Claw.
• The hilarious Irony in that Frohman finds the pre-Zombie infested Ravenholm to be utterly hellish and insufferable.
• Breen's incredibly blunt reaction to the letter Frohman sends from Ravenholm.
• Frohman jumping a forty-foot gap after getting spooked by one of the Headcrab infectees in Ravenholm.
  Frohman: Is there a bathroom I could use?
• Aggh! It's got a friend!
• The surveillance photos from the lighthouse.
  • It's also worth noting that, for whatever reason, one of the pictures on the roll of film shows Dr. Breen using the restroom.
    Combine Soldier: Oh! Um, see... Crap. Now I'm definitely fired, aren't I?
    Dr. Breen: Oh, yes. Out of a cannon, in fact.
• The G-Man congratulating himself for a perfectly-executed G-Peep.
  G-Man: Hm? Something under the... sand?
• The notes for this comic.
• Frohman finds out that the metrocops are looking for a certain scientist. Recognizing Dr. Kleiner from the description, he (not so) immediately finds a mook and leads him to the doctor's lab.
  Frohman: Ah-hah! Didn't think you'd ever see me again, eh, "doctor"? Now if you'll excuse me, I believe I hear a stunstick warming up, and for once, I won't be the one getting hit by it!
  (Behind Frohman, the mook has removed his helmet and revealed himself as Barney)
  • From the following strip:
  Barney: Get ready to start a new chapter in your life. It's called point insertion and it features this stunstick in an unforgettable starring role!
  • Also, the "apology letter" and Frohman's evil faces that follow.
  "Dear Dr. Breen. Help! I've been taken prisoner by an alcoholic and a stereotypical absent-minded professor! Send Striders!"
• The Combine's Onion-esque attempts to cover up Freeman's massacre at Nova Prospekt.
  • Sharp eyed viewers may also note that the obituaries run from pages 14 to 38.
• The culmination of the Running Gag where Frohman always orders too many of something online. Namely, his attempts at preventing the Resistance from getting any more supplies via hacking the Citadel's purchasing website ends up giving them more weapons, ammo, and medkits than they could ever need.
  Barney Calhoun: (impressed) ...Wow! Sorry I doubted you, Gordon!
  Gordon Frohman: (despairing) Why, oh why, can't I do anything wrong?!
• Frohman's reaction when he realizes that his attempt to peacefully surrender to a group of Metrocops only instead sparked the Resistance's revolution.
• Frohman's time as a Resistance medic gets considerably easier when he realizes that he should just start giving medkits out instead of actually trying to fix people and instead kill them on accident. It works rather well... until someone with depression comes in asking for consultation and asks if "We could, just, like rap about something, y'know?".
  Gordon Frohman: (while trying to shove a medkit down the poor guy's ear) Rap about this, hippie! Rap about the medkit I just pushed into your brain!
  Depressed Rebel: Ow! Man, can't I just, like, get a hug, man?!
• Frohman's Tranquil Fury upon meeting Gordon Freeman for the first time and realizing that Freeman has "his" Gravity Gun.
  • There's also something hilariously surreal about the next few strips, where an exasperated Frohman actually serves as the Straight Man to his fellow rebels' Hero Worship of Freeman:
    Unnamed Rebel: Hey, Dr. Freeman! Don't forget to reload! (in an aside to Frohman) Didja see that? I just helped Dr. Freeman!
    Gordon Frohman: He's using his friggin' crowbar!
• "A flashback? We're in the middle of a war... so you'd better make this quick."
• After hearing how Frohman accidentally replaced the Xen crystal with cheese (causing the Resonance Cascade) in Half-Life 1, one of the rebels wails about them having all wasted so much time listening to "this mentally challenged Keyser Soze!"
• Frohman reuniting with his twin brother Norman during the revolt against the Combine in City 17.
  Gordon Frohman: (while trying to remember Norman's birthday) June 6th! Uh, no! It's in May, right? March? I know it's on a Thursday... Damn, ask me something else!
  Norman Frohman: No need. It's definitely you.
• Henderson's report on how the battle against the rebels is going. Shortly following this is easily one of the best sequences in the entire comic.
  Henderson: Bad news, sir... The Overwatch nexus has been taken, ground forces have been wiped out, and the Striders have been defeated.
  Dr. Breen: Anything else?
  Henderson: Someone apparently ate all your ranch-flavored SunChips. But not to worry, sir! The Citadel is sealed up tight! No rebels will be getting in here!
  Intercom: Bad news, sir. Gordon Freeman is inside the Citadel.
  Henderson: ...When I said "in here," I meant, you know, in your office. No rebels will get in-
  Gordon Frohman: (literally waltzes right into Breen's office) Hey, Dr. Breen! The door was open so I figured I'd just come on in! Oh, hi, Mr. Henderson!
  Dr. Breen: (grimly holds his hand out towards Henderson) Henderson... You've failed me for the last time...
  (Copious Beat Panel follows)
  Henderson: ...Bad news, sir. You can't use "The Dark Side" to "Force choke" me.
  Dr. Breen: Just once you could pretend!
  Gordon Frohman: Well, my throat is sorta scratchy. But it could be all those SunChips I just ate.
• Dr. Breen asking how long complete idiots usually survive, then remembering Frohman is literally standing right behind him.
  Dr. Breen: ...Keep the men on high alert.
• You got Frohwned!!!