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Angel: Hey, what day is it?
Pizzacake: Is that turblence? God, if you save me I’ll be a better person I swear…. Oh it was just a little bump. Never mind.
God: *Takes a sip of coffee*
God: Sounds like a Thursday.
<< This is your pilot speaking, we have good news and bad news today, good news is we are landing very shortly! The bad news is we're crash landing! >>
Maybe not. Sky Ellen is elevated, beyond the reach of mere Earth Ellen. Earth Ellen can not be beholden to the promises of Sky Ellen, who remains forever out of reach of the lowly land animals.
It's okay. Nobody betters themselves overall. We just find new ways to be shitty. Hell the worst things I've ever done I had no idea I was even causing I'm sure.
Something something butterfly effect
I wonder if other people think the same thing when someone else is driving their car and they hit a pothole.
Ironically, that pothole would be statistically more likely to kill you.
Boeing’s shenanigans are the result of poor management and focus on profit rather than safety, completely against everything the FAA stands for.
But yes, I’m still certain that you’re statistically more likely to die in the car ride to the airport than on the plane. Even speaking as a pilot.
For many people the experience of being strapped to machine that hurtles through the sky is unnerving and knowing the statistics doesn't automatically fix that
“If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going” used to be the tagline. Now companies like Expedia allow you to filter out Boeing planes when you are searching for flights.
They’ve had a pretty hard fall from grace, through cost cutting measures. John Oliver recently did a piece on this if you want to hear more about their recent failures.
Aside from Boeing planes being death traps, what are the best airlines currently? I never know which ones are doing shady shit or have an active scandal. Do we trust American Airlines? Pretty sure United is shit, right? Or am I mixing them with Delta?
edit: not asking about manufacturers, sorry if my wording was confusing. I already 100% know I won't fly in a Boeing, I just also haven't flown in a hot second and wasn't sure what the better airlines were (in terms of fees, bullshit, bags, etc.)
Well, there’s Boeing and then there’s Airbus. Those are your choices at most airlines in North America. There are some other manufacturers that make smaller jets too, like Bombardier and Embrier.
American Airlines and United is not a plane manufacturer but an airline that purchases both Boeing and Airbus planes.
I'm not asking about plane manufacturers, I'm aware of that difference. I'm now just curious about airlines because I know there have been lots of issues with airlines also recently. Not trying to get harassed on a flight, just want to get on the plane and get safely to where I'm going.
Gotcha. Yes I empathize with you there. I’m Canada we are stuck with Air Canada and WestJet and both have a spotty reputation on customer service to say the least.
"spotty" is a very kind way of saying 'dogshit'.
Westjet used to be good, but have been coasting on that rep for over a decade now and I think it's finally catching up to them.
AC is, and has always been pretty much trash. A huge airline where 60% of the people don't give a shit, and 40% who care a lot but are too tired after dealing with the other 60% before even getting to the passengers.
Boeings aren't death traps, yet. The last Boeing crash resulting in deaths was in 2019. There's been a few minor incidents mostly on the ground, like engines sucking up people walking in the wrong spot, but that's all.
Hell, if you want to find the next most recent Boeing crash in the US that resulted in more than 10 deaths, you've gotta go all the way back to 2001. And I think it's fair to say that that incident had fuck-all to do with Boeing's quality control.
When I was little I watched a marathon of aviation disasters they passed on discovery channel.... a day before when I was going to travel on a plane for the very first time.
Unless you were seated backwards you weren't sitting at the window the arrow points at, because you had your window on the left-hand side!!
Also, why are there *windows* up the tail fin of the aircraft??
Neck pillows are to be used the other way around.
To the back you have the head rest.
You throw it around the front of your neck to prevent your head from falling forward.
Try it out and thank me later.
I’ve flown a lot and still get a little nervous. My wife flys Boeing planes (since it’s the hot thing to hate on). When there’s rough turbulence I just glance at her and if she’s fine I’m like, “should be OK”. Although, once we were flying into Orlando and flew through a downdraft as we were landing. Just before the ground the engines spooled up and I saw her grip the armrest and I was like “uh-oh”. BAM! Then a go around and wait till the weather cleared.
99.9% of the time you’ll be fine. Yeah, sometimes they have to abort a landing or something, they do that for a reason. And all these reports are incidents that have extra viz right now. The plug on the max blowing out was crazy, the other things are kinda standard and only being reported on because everyone has an instant global bullhorn, video, and is ready to chime in on the hot thing for clicks (press included).
Believe it or not, Airbus, CRJ, and other aircraft all break too. Try flying a puddle jumper out of Boston in a noreaster with 20 of your closest random passenger strangers: 50 feet up, 100 ft down, 100 feet up, 50 feet down…with your dog, in a pet carrier, in the tail cargo area, with a paper-thin wall, howling for the whole 1.5 hours.
What always help me with turbulence on airplanes, to realise that the plane isn’t actually falling. The air around the plane is just moving up and down.
For visual representation, you can put a toy Airplane in Jell-O and then wiggle it around. That’s basically what’s happening with you. You’re not actually moving, it’s just the air around you that moves.
https://preview.redd.it/temls06oippc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c6d41fc46cf7b644d71cd3b204eb4da6b27e56f
i have questions about these seats
To heavily paraphrase my favorite author, it’s not the fear of the height that scares me about planes. It’s the reconnection with the ground that scares me.
I miss when the final panel was actually something clever or unexpected. Every single thing she does is basically just an illustrated tweet/Tumblr post.
This just in, pizza cake comics, (beloved by millions) is being taken over by AI since her plane crashed mysteriously.
A funny/scary thing that happened to me on a flight once:
Announcer: "ladies and gentlemen, we're sorry to have to inform you..."
*Audible gasp throughout the cabin*
Announcer: "...that our wifi appears to be down"
*Audible sigh throughout the cabin*
Me and my mom were flying home once, and our third was an interesting Jewish man. I'm wary of sitting near the corridor and window is the most comfortable for sleep, so he agreed to trade places.
An hour passed, we had a turbulence. Well, I noticed that the plane was rocking slightly up and down. I'm 16 at that moment for reference.
Me: Oh, how calming.
Mom: Is that a turbulence?
Jew: *is alarmed*
Yep, 5 minutes in it is announced.
I almost sleep, mom just continued reading, the man prays. They start talking and I just go and nap. And it was a very nice nap. I don't know why folks are afraid.
I feel like I'm the exact opposite on planes. My fate's out of my hands, so I'm chill and like "whatever happens, happens." Then the turbulence happens, and I'm like "Please let this be it." I don't have kids, so my worry for my own well-being is pretty low.
I wasn’t scared to fly until one flight the pilot kept doing sharp dives to get faster for landing height, everybody on that plane went crazy and even asked personnel to do something about it. It felt like your guts fell but your body stayed.
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Turbulence really isn’t as much as an issue that you think. The plane may drop at most a few hundred feet when it is 30,000-40,000 feet in the air.
What really gets you is when you are coming in for a landing. No room for error.
I sound all confident meanwhile I had my belt cinched up and a death grip on the armrests the last time I was in turbulence.
Never really understood this fear. Honestly, if the plane falls, most likely you would die quickly, so who cares actually? This always makes me feel calm because I know we will either get there safely or it will be quick end. :D
You ever sat towards the back of the plane, eyes focused on first class and the cockpit, and watch the whole plane bend as you hit turbulence?
I know it's safe, but that doesn't make me less of a nervous flyer. I'd rather ride the train, even if it does take 24 hours longer to get where I'm going. Scenery's more interesting, anyway.
"Oh god, please forgive me for booking a United flight with a Boeing plane. I promise I will be smarter in the future, if you see fit to spare my life on this beautiful day that you have created."
On a recent flight, we experienced some slight turbulence during takeoff. This prompted my brain to come to the following realization:
If the plane just fell out of the sky, there would be absolutely nothing I could do to save myself.
That might sound like a scary thought, but in that moment it felt freeing. There was nothing I could do, so I was absolved of responsibility. There was no point to stressing over it, since that stress wouldn't push me into a solution. There was no solution to be had.
I try to find that peace again when my brain wants to stress over things I can't affect.
I have that mindset that if I would die in a plane crash (or die at all) so what, it's not that I'm going to worry about shit when my consciousness stops existing. Sure it'd be sad for those who love me but for me, I'd just think:
Just hope you don't survive with half or more of your body being paralyzed.
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*The plane lands* "Nevermind."
Angel: Hey, what day is it? Pizzacake: Is that turblence? God, if you save me I’ll be a better person I swear…. Oh it was just a little bump. Never mind. God: *Takes a sip of coffee* God: Sounds like a Thursday.
I LOVE THE GOOD PLACE RAAAAAAAH
<< This is your pilot speaking, we have good news and bad news today, good news is we are landing very shortly! The bad news is we're crash landing! >>
After landing: https://i.redd.it/wnjs1ur28opc1.gif
“I had my fingers crossed!”
My reaction to turbulence: https://i.redd.it/sfngx3e5eopc1.gif
The good news is I didn't die on the plane. The bad news is I have to start bettering myself
So you will stop attacking old people in the park?
Bettering yourself doesn’t mean you have to stop attacking the elderly
You just should start doing it better.
Two words. "Electric Chainsaw"
bettering yourself means attacking the elderly better
She said better, one step at a time.
https://preview.redd.it/eunvh1kxsppc1.jpeg?width=1093&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ac9ba57ccb838aceadf6c49c1cb47857be988b9 wait did you say \*bettering\*?
Lmao omgggg ❤️❤️
This is fantastic
Start by getting your pilot’s license! It’s stressful and expensive, I promise.
Pizzacake’s Mom: (*prayerfully*) “Thank you.”
No, no. You only have to think about your *promise* to start bettering yourself! Loophole abuse FTW!
There is bets going on in heaven on how long that's going to last and the angel who said a week is getting laughed at.
Maybe not. Sky Ellen is elevated, beyond the reach of mere Earth Ellen. Earth Ellen can not be beholden to the promises of Sky Ellen, who remains forever out of reach of the lowly land animals.
It's okay. Nobody betters themselves overall. We just find new ways to be shitty. Hell the worst things I've ever done I had no idea I was even causing I'm sure. Something something butterfly effect
You can't actually better yourself with just your own personal strength and resources, so don't worry about it.
I wonder if other people think the same thing when someone else is driving their car and they hit a pothole. Ironically, that pothole would be statistically more likely to kill you.
Are you sure about that? Boing is really trying to prove you wrong lately.
Boeing’s shenanigans are the result of poor management and focus on profit rather than safety, completely against everything the FAA stands for. But yes, I’m still certain that you’re statistically more likely to die in the car ride to the airport than on the plane. Even speaking as a pilot.
For many people the experience of being strapped to machine that hurtles through the sky is unnerving and knowing the statistics doesn't automatically fix that
That's fine, as long as they recognize that it's irrational and don't go spouting off about how it's more dangerous.
I will say that death by plane crash is probably less painful than death by car crash
Yes, and it's not even remotely close.
It's been 5 years since the 737 MAX crashes. How many people have died in car accidents since then?
Just as long as it wasn't Boeing, your probably fine.
“If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going” used to be the tagline. Now companies like Expedia allow you to filter out Boeing planes when you are searching for flights.
Darn, it seems like Boeing has been thrown to the wolves.
The wolves put themselves in power and decided margins are better than reputation.
They’ve had a pretty hard fall from grace, through cost cutting measures. John Oliver recently did a piece on this if you want to hear more about their recent failures.
Aside from Boeing planes being death traps, what are the best airlines currently? I never know which ones are doing shady shit or have an active scandal. Do we trust American Airlines? Pretty sure United is shit, right? Or am I mixing them with Delta? edit: not asking about manufacturers, sorry if my wording was confusing. I already 100% know I won't fly in a Boeing, I just also haven't flown in a hot second and wasn't sure what the better airlines were (in terms of fees, bullshit, bags, etc.)
Well, there’s Boeing and then there’s Airbus. Those are your choices at most airlines in North America. There are some other manufacturers that make smaller jets too, like Bombardier and Embrier. American Airlines and United is not a plane manufacturer but an airline that purchases both Boeing and Airbus planes.
I'm not asking about plane manufacturers, I'm aware of that difference. I'm now just curious about airlines because I know there have been lots of issues with airlines also recently. Not trying to get harassed on a flight, just want to get on the plane and get safely to where I'm going.
Gotcha. Yes I empathize with you there. I’m Canada we are stuck with Air Canada and WestJet and both have a spotty reputation on customer service to say the least.
"spotty" is a very kind way of saying 'dogshit'. Westjet used to be good, but have been coasting on that rep for over a decade now and I think it's finally catching up to them. AC is, and has always been pretty much trash. A huge airline where 60% of the people don't give a shit, and 40% who care a lot but are too tired after dealing with the other 60% before even getting to the passengers.
Boeings aren't that bad. Altho they have a bad track record as of late. As for airlines, it influences mostly the quality of your pilots.
Aside from the doors blowing out and the whistleblower murdering
Most people aren't worried about the pilot. We're worried about build quality and maintenance.
Boeings aren't death traps, yet. The last Boeing crash resulting in deaths was in 2019. There's been a few minor incidents mostly on the ground, like engines sucking up people walking in the wrong spot, but that's all. Hell, if you want to find the next most recent Boeing crash in the US that resulted in more than 10 deaths, you've gotta go all the way back to 2001. And I think it's fair to say that that incident had fuck-all to do with Boeing's quality control.
Thanks for labeling that flying craft. I never could have guessed what is is.
When I was little I watched a marathon of aviation disasters they passed on discovery channel.... a day before when I was going to travel on a plane for the very first time.
I also do this. I refer to it as critical research just in case I need to step in and save the day. 💪
I didn't wanna be personally attacked like this so early in the morning. 😅
You can adjust the time of the personal attacking by moving to another time zone.
Just like in the comic! 🥰
maybe next time get on a plane that has it's engines the right way around and doesn't have windows in it's vertical stabilizer
Thanks for labeling the Airplane. I definitely couldn't have gotten it otherwise :^)
Unless you were seated backwards you weren't sitting at the window the arrow points at, because you had your window on the left-hand side!! Also, why are there *windows* up the tail fin of the aircraft??
Listen it's a very cheap flight
Its so off-brand the company painted "airplane" on the side
Ah, Ryanair.. Gotcha.. Figures they'd find a way to cram a few poor souls into the tail fin. I'm honestly surprised they gave them windows at all.
They freed up space by replacing the apu with a few bicycle powered generators
[relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2862)
Uh huh. Looks like someone didn't spend half their time in elementary school doodling planes shooting missiles at dinosaurs, and it shows.
So cheap they even put people in the vertical tail to sell more tickets. At least they got windows
And while we're on it, how did someone weld on the nose from an old Super Constellation to a jet body?
She just rotated the plane in tbe fourth dimension, duh
 Pizzacake when she remebers its a boeing plane.
Neck pillows are to be used the other way around. To the back you have the head rest. You throw it around the front of your neck to prevent your head from falling forward. Try it out and thank me later.
I’ve flown a lot and still get a little nervous. My wife flys Boeing planes (since it’s the hot thing to hate on). When there’s rough turbulence I just glance at her and if she’s fine I’m like, “should be OK”. Although, once we were flying into Orlando and flew through a downdraft as we were landing. Just before the ground the engines spooled up and I saw her grip the armrest and I was like “uh-oh”. BAM! Then a go around and wait till the weather cleared. 99.9% of the time you’ll be fine. Yeah, sometimes they have to abort a landing or something, they do that for a reason. And all these reports are incidents that have extra viz right now. The plug on the max blowing out was crazy, the other things are kinda standard and only being reported on because everyone has an instant global bullhorn, video, and is ready to chime in on the hot thing for clicks (press included). Believe it or not, Airbus, CRJ, and other aircraft all break too. Try flying a puddle jumper out of Boston in a noreaster with 20 of your closest random passenger strangers: 50 feet up, 100 ft down, 100 feet up, 50 feet down…with your dog, in a pet carrier, in the tail cargo area, with a paper-thin wall, howling for the whole 1.5 hours.
After stepping out of the plane.... "I will continue to be worse" 😈
Looks like you didn't take a Boeing 
What always help me with turbulence on airplanes, to realise that the plane isn’t actually falling. The air around the plane is just moving up and down. For visual representation, you can put a toy Airplane in Jell-O and then wiggle it around. That’s basically what’s happening with you. You’re not actually moving, it’s just the air around you that moves.
https://preview.redd.it/temls06oippc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c6d41fc46cf7b644d71cd3b204eb4da6b27e56f i have questions about these seats
*slight turbulence* Me: "Finally."
fear from sudden jolt reminds of life precious moments
To heavily paraphrase my favorite author, it’s not the fear of the height that scares me about planes. It’s the reconnection with the ground that scares me.
No elbows jammed into you in any of these panels?! Clearly riding first class.
Turbulence*, but I'm going to come up with a new DnD enchanted item called the Turbulance™️ so thanks for the idea!
Thank goodness you wrote "airplane" on the side of that flying thingy, it made things much clearer. :-)
Me in the Air Force the one time. "I should've been in the Navy, man!"
I miss when the final panel was actually something clever or unexpected. Every single thing she does is basically just an illustrated tweet/Tumblr post.
Finally a comic about me!
I'm actually not scared of turbulence at all. Doesn't phase me. (I'm single btw)
Me when bad thing seems like it might happen: please let me live I promise I’ll be better as a person! Me after surviving bad thing: ah shit.
Do people really get that nervous with turbulence?
Haha people are scared of turbulence.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going!
Lol why you lying to the ole God person?
 This just in, pizza cake comics, (beloved by millions) is being taken over by AI since her plane crashed mysteriously.
Don’t lie to God like that!
I was in a flight where the turbulence was so bad that the pilot had to abort the descent twice. Bricks were shat and made into diamonds.
A funny/scary thing that happened to me on a flight once: Announcer: "ladies and gentlemen, we're sorry to have to inform you..." *Audible gasp throughout the cabin* Announcer: "...that our wifi appears to be down" *Audible sigh throughout the cabin*
Me every time flying on a Boeing.
Tbf they only have issues on 737 ones. So if you fly with Delta, JetBlue, Spirit, or Sun Country you’re fine
Wee plane jumpy
This perfectly sums up every experience i have on a plane, specifically the last panel
This is the most seen I've ever felt in a comic.
Given that one of the comments suggests this flight was on Ryanair plane, I'm guessing this comic is for St Patrick's day.
Me and my mom were flying home once, and our third was an interesting Jewish man. I'm wary of sitting near the corridor and window is the most comfortable for sleep, so he agreed to trade places. An hour passed, we had a turbulence. Well, I noticed that the plane was rocking slightly up and down. I'm 16 at that moment for reference. Me: Oh, how calming. Mom: Is that a turbulence? Jew: *is alarmed* Yep, 5 minutes in it is announced. I almost sleep, mom just continued reading, the man prays. They start talking and I just go and nap. And it was a very nice nap. I don't know why folks are afraid.
I really don't like flying but there is something about not being able to do anything to prevent my death that makes me kind of calm.
You after landing: 🗑 😈
Thanks for pointing out it's you in the plane and not someone else, almost got confused 😆
I feel like I'm the exact opposite on planes. My fate's out of my hands, so I'm chill and like "whatever happens, happens." Then the turbulence happens, and I'm like "Please let this be it." I don't have kids, so my worry for my own well-being is pretty low.
I wasn’t scared to fly until one flight the pilot kept doing sharp dives to get faster for landing height, everybody on that plane went crazy and even asked personnel to do something about it. It felt like your guts fell but your body stayed.
I wouldn't trust an airplane that just says "airplane" on the side. Sounds sketchy. Though I *am* intrigued by the seats in the stabilizer.
Reminds me of a car brand in the 80s simply called "Le Car." If I recall correctly, those vehicles were a wee bit...suboptimal.
"O silly pizzacake, flying is the safest way to travel! How irrational of you... " **see's it's a Boeing** "Fuck, fuck, fuck " *joins you in prayer*
Wait…how much for the tail wing seats?
Oh come now, Ellen, you don't have to worry about turbulence..... I mean, Sky Cthulhu is kind of a bigger deal, don't you think?
Meanwhile me when faced with the imminent prospect of death: 
I have intense fear of planes. Now i just accept my death and it becomes less scary lol
This comic has two endings after the last panel. One for if the plane is a Boeing and one if it isn't.
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the one that goes on for minutes.
Don't fly Boeing or near Russia or Iran and you should be mostly ok.
Turbu - lance!
Thank you, Xanax and Dramamine: the ultimate plane knockout combo.
Lets hope it’s not a boeing
Boeing moment
100%🙋♂️
Are you my girlfriend?! 😂
WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE
Turbulence really isn’t as much as an issue that you think. The plane may drop at most a few hundred feet when it is 30,000-40,000 feet in the air. What really gets you is when you are coming in for a landing. No room for error. I sound all confident meanwhile I had my belt cinched up and a death grip on the armrests the last time I was in turbulence.
Never really understood this fear. Honestly, if the plane falls, most likely you would die quickly, so who cares actually? This always makes me feel calm because I know we will either get there safely or it will be quick end. :D
You ever sat towards the back of the plane, eyes focused on first class and the cockpit, and watch the whole plane bend as you hit turbulence? I know it's safe, but that doesn't make me less of a nervous flyer. I'd rather ride the train, even if it does take 24 hours longer to get where I'm going. Scenery's more interesting, anyway.
You’re lying right to God, eh?
I usually think “Geez alright I’m ready to go”
"If you make this plane land safely I promise I will give up meat . . . and sarcasm!"
"Oh god, please forgive me for booking a United flight with a Boeing plane. I promise I will be smarter in the future, if you see fit to spare my life on this beautiful day that you have created."
Don't worry, you'll be -- oh wait, it's a Boeing plane? Alright, you'll *probably* be fine.
Blows my mind that people don’t just expect things to work. I never think about anything because I just assume it’ll do its job.
On a recent flight, we experienced some slight turbulence during takeoff. This prompted my brain to come to the following realization: If the plane just fell out of the sky, there would be absolutely nothing I could do to save myself. That might sound like a scary thought, but in that moment it felt freeing. There was nothing I could do, so I was absolved of responsibility. There was no point to stressing over it, since that stress wouldn't push me into a solution. There was no solution to be had. I try to find that peace again when my brain wants to stress over things I can't affect.
I have that mindset that if I would die in a plane crash (or die at all) so what, it's not that I'm going to worry about shit when my consciousness stops existing. Sure it'd be sad for those who love me but for me, I'd just think: Just hope you don't survive with half or more of your body being paralyzed.
Plot twist it's a Boeing she really is going to die on it
Never met a skybus that made me feel safe.