[This? This is why Jade's always gotten away with so much where John would have been devastatingly sassed. Because she's cheerful and cute and Dave's a huge fucking sap. It's really unfair.]

It'd probably get interpreted as horrendously racist against some tentacled alien species, and then what're we gonna do? Sorry, sirs and madams and whatever other genders your particular race consists of, we did not mean to feed into insulting and archaic stereotypes about squid-based lifeforms. It's just that Jade really likes Squiddles and had to share that shit with the entire universe. Jesus.

[Being released at least gives him the freedom to drop a hand onto her head and give it a good rub between the dog ears. Like a cross between a noogie and a petting, almost.]