Original Commentary
Our clock/radio/cd-player isn't much better.

Modern Commentary
We don't have that clock/radio/cd-player any more.
Why Italian? Because I didn't like the idea of the island nation of Hippedown (which is where this comic takes place) taking place on a definable spot on the map. If I said it was French or Spanish or such, then you'd expect it to be in the general vicinity of places that speak those languages. Italian is a widepread language in fewer places so I figured that would make it more difficult to pin down.
Turns out there's a sizeable Italian-speaking community off the coast of Brazil; I was not aware of that at the time. - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Yes. They have a clock/radio. It's in Kimberly's room.

Kimberly is being a bit unreasonable here, but they had said "no furniture" and who knows what Brisbane might have gotten up to if left unchecked. Maybe tomorrow he'd get a TV or a desk or such, and then the rent money is spent on things you didn't really need.

Or she's going from having her own place where she is in control of things to a state of shared control and she's not liking that. - Terrence

Modern Commentary
And we're back to the living room, with the blue walls. The bedrooms are grey.
The implication is that the issues are what caused the previous tenants to leave - together or separately. I'm not sure that's true. Lola is a gossip and would tell you if you asked her, but Brisbane and Kimberly have bigger things to deal with right now. Like moving the rest of their stuff.
In the original script, Kimberly wasn't there and there was another comic where Brisbane gave Kimberly her key. Not sure why we were going to do it that way initially- Terrence