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None of these people have ever once in their lives had “fun”

Apartment 3-G, 12/2/07

“I worked on my paintings there! And that’s the window where I watched the moon!! And this is the room where I spent thirty-seven interminable weeks taking orders from what may have been the ghost of a prominent late 19th century American artist, but was probably just a figment of my oxygen-starved brain! Ha ha ha! Oh, did I forget to tell you about that, what with my conveniently selective amnesia and all?” Seriously, are we just going to pretend that the whole Ghost Ryder thing JUST NEVER HAPPENED? ARE WE? Because … because actually that would be pretty great. I really hated that whole storyline while it was happening, and the last thing I want to do is watch it get rehashed by these two morons.

Meanwhile, at the tavern across town: “Yes, but we could make it more fun, Gary! I’ve just heard about this great new thing all the young people are doing! It’s called ‘sex’!”

Blondie, 12/2/07

Yes, it looks like Dagwood and Blondie are friends with … the Glamrockers? All of them? From the entire history of glam rock? What about the ones like David Bowie, who eventually moved on to other aesthetics? Does this have anything to do with the Glambaster account?

I think the key to this whole puzzle is the middle panel of the bottom row, in which Dagwood busts out some old-school breakdance moves to celebrate the fact that he doesn’t have to go sit on the Glamrockers’ couch and watch Velvet Goldmine yet again. Obviously by the late ’70s or early ’80s Dagwood had come to believe that the whole glam rock craze was worn out and too studied by half, and found refuge in the new raw and frentic styles arising from the streets of the South Bronx.

Mark Trail, 12/2/07

Normally Mark Trail’s Sunday strips exist in a world wholly separate from the daily plots, but I can’t help but wonder if today’s lavishly illustrated paean to ritualized combat is meant to serve as a sad counterpoint to the deadly conclusion to the battle for territory between Johnny Malotte and Bull Malone. Why can’t humans take a cue from our animal friends, who know how far is too far? Why couldn’t Johnny and Bull simply have forced each other to smell their knuckles by turns until one of them had enough and withdrew instead of resorting to gunplay?

Rex Morgan, M.D., 12/2/07

If there’s one constant in the world of Rex Morgan, M.D., it’s that Rex is kind of a dick. Thus, I’m actually kind of surprised that Rex didn’t take the opportunity to correct Mrs. Jail Escapee’s reference to Niki as Rex’s “son.” “I’m sorry, ma’am, maybe it’s because you’re a lowlife yourself, but it should be pretty obvious to anyone with any degree of class that this little street punk obviously did not grow up in the sort of upper middle class home that my doctor’s salary could provide. That explains why he constantly disappoints me, anyway.” Of course, he’s still a dick enough to have underdosed Mr. Escapee on painkillers before cutting his arm open. With Rex, being a dick always comes first, even if it means that he might get shot in the face. That’s just how he rolls.

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99 responses to “None of these people have ever once in their lives had “fun””

  1. wha
    December 2nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm [Reply]

    hahah Foist?

  2. Poteet
    December 2nd, 2007 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

    “Kind of” a dick is very kind of you, Pope Josh. Rex is definitely a dick.

  3. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
    December 2nd, 2007 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

    How old is Dean Young, and is he under the impression “Glamrockers” is a made-up nonsense word?

  4. commodorejohn
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm [Reply]

    Wow. It’s not every day I beat our e-Pope to two of his jokes. (Though, in the interest of modesty, I should point out that they weren’t exactly obscure or anything.)

  5. Poteet
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm [Reply]

    Now I’m trying to think of other fun couples the Bumsteads may know. The Folkstrummers, maybe?

  6. Poteet
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm [Reply]

    The Beeboppers?

  7. Poteet
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm [Reply]

    The Soulsteppers?

  8. Moon Mullins
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:09 pm [Reply]

    5, 6 Poteet:

    Doodletown Pipers.

  9. NJP
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

    One question I have about Rex Morgan – what doctor travels into the woods on what he assumes will be a routine fishing trip with a bag full of injectable painkillers and hypodermic needles?

  10. Broken Skittles
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm [Reply]

    I don’t know why Nikki looks so startled in that last panel. After all, Rex has “gone in after the slug” pretty much constantly since they finally managed to be alone.

  11. hoboclown
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 pm [Reply]

    Alan and Lu Ann are on the stairs admiring the lighting; meanwhile, Alan and Lu Ann are inside gaping at the furniture. I’ve always thought that “meanwhile” meant something was occurring somewhere else, but at the same time. More hallucinating, perhaps?

  12. Frinkenstein
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

    Criminal: We did something very bad!
    Rex Morgan: Did you wreck the car?
    Criminal: No.
    Rex: Did you rob a bank?
    Criminal: Yes.
    Rex: But the car’s okay?
    Criminals: Uh-huh.
    Rex: All right then.

  13. Shermy, the forgotten Peanuts character
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 pm [Reply]

    I’m really tempted to legally change my last name to “Glamrocker.”

  14. Jennifer
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:18 pm [Reply]

    I’m sure this has already been thoroughly hashed-out in prior threads, but I’ve been away, so…

    Is Greg Evans sick of his own main character? Is that it? Is Luann turning slowly into Judge Parker: becoming the title character who only occasionally pops in to prove there’s a reason for the name being what it is?

    To add insult to injury, Luann’s archrival has stolen center stage with the two most useless and boring supporting characters as her hapless foils.

    Is there a reason Luann and her two bestest girlfriends couldn’t be doing this storyline instead? Because that just *might* be entertaining in some tiny little way?

    I dunno… almost anything is better than watching Brad and his gang decorate things again, but still…

  15. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 pm [Reply]

    Josh
    I am not an MD, but for a script I wrote, I went to the library to discover how much to try or even whether you should try to kill the pain during surgery to remove a bullet from someone attempting to keep alert enough to hold a gun on you.

    Rex is doing the right thing. Keeping the patient mentally alert is the best way to stay unshot.

    As an aside, where is the entry wound?

  16. Ukulele Ike
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:20 pm [Reply]

    A3G: I particularly liked it when LuAnne was watching the moon.

    ‘Cause then it was Ghost Ryders in the Sky.

    You could hear his Mournful Cry.

    Yippie yi Yaaaaay…

  17. commodorejohn
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm [Reply]

    #15 ltrftp – It’s best not to wonder about Rex and “entry wounds.”

  18. Frinkenstein
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:23 pm [Reply]

    #9: Perhaps Rex is such a bad fisherman that on every fishing trip he takes, somebody gets a fishhook in the eye or blows off a limb with dynamite or nearly drowns after drinking too much and falling out of the boat. Many’s the fishing trip I’ve taken that would have been improved by having qualified medical staff along.

  19. Nekrotzar
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

    I thought Tommie was referring to Yahtzee. Or maybe cow tipping.

  20. Will Ransom
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

    Clearly, the look on Niki’s face is a conditioned response to Rex telling someone to brace themselves, he’s going in.

  21. Frank Parsnip
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

    The only way Rex could increase his dickishness would be if he, post-surgery, stood by his car as these desperados prepare to drive away in it, wearing Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses and using two weeks’ worth of panels to say goodbye.

    How Rex is smart: By not correcting their impression that Niki is his son, Rex sets them up for the inevitable scene where they threaten Niki’s life and Rex is able to laugh in their faces and say: “Go ahead and kill the whore!” In the alternative, Rex is only being threatened by a gun right now… if they knew his real weekend plans for Niki, they’d be able to hold something over his head the rest of his life.

    How Rex is mighty dumb: Even in Civil War movies in which the only surgical painkiller is a wooden mallet, only rarely are patients allowed to hold a loaded gun during surgery. Given the substantial likelihood of involuntary trigger-finger spasms, Rex should have ensured that the gun was first transferred to the woman.

  22. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:29 pm [Reply]

    CommodoreJohn
    Belated Happy Birthday.

    I had to explain my belly laugh to my wife. Who spent three hours at hospital with our 3yo who needed 4 stitches in his chin.

    She didn’t see the humour in your comment that I did.

    But she pointed out that the lady in blue right breast takes up the space usually occupied by an arm.

    I told her Rex would never have noticed…..

    She laughed.

  23. Tex LeBeauf
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

    I love how Dagwood shouts “Yes!” with his fist pumping after Mrs. Glamrocker tells him her party’s canceled without hanging up first. That’ll show the old hellkite.

  24. AndyL
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

    Tommie isn’t talking about sex. She Just means that they could put money in the jukebox.

  25. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

    Another puppy dieted, I mean died, because I did not preview.

    Sorry.

  26. Brown-eyed Girl
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

    Wow, a bad guy with a bullet in his arm and a gun in Rex’s face. It’s like Christmas in December for Rex: he can be as much of a sadistic bastard as he wants to with this particular patient. I think the look on Niki’s face in the last panel in a reaction to the unholy glee on Rex’s. If he’s got any sense at all, he’ll beg robber couple to take him with them.

  27. Justin
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:33 pm [Reply]

    I just thought of a great tagline for this blog. “Horrible name. Funny commentary.” Seriously.

    I like to think that the surprised look on Nikki’s face is not due to Mr. Escapee yelling, but instead to the horrible realization that the dream he’d had was not, in fact, a dream. Which explained the tub of Vaseline he’d found under his cot.

  28. commodorejohn
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

    #22 ltrftp – Why thanks! It was a good birthday all around, as I got to listen to one newly-acquired record (Close To The Edge) and order another (Philosophy Of The World, the ultimate in so-bad-it’s-good music.)

    Also, hope your kid is okay.

  29. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

    Do the Oryx Antelope do “Tag Team” turf fights? Or is that the lady of the turf wondering who is going to end up taking her to the
    Glamrockers?

  30. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

    Do the Oryx Antelope do “Tag Team” turf fights? Or is that the lady of the turf wondering who is going to end up taking her to the
    Glamrockers?

  31. Rhekarid
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

    A3G’s text boxes are trying to make it look like two different things are happening in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that nothing is happening. They fail, just as Lu Ann’s pretending she can remember anything but shampoo commercials before or after brain damage and Tommie’s shot at unlocking her chastity belt forged of pure Looks Like a 4th Grade Math Teacher are doomed to failure.

  32. Poteet
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

    # 13 — Shermy Glamrocker definitely works for me.

  33. wasoe
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

    Has anyone noticed that the guy with the bullet in his arm looks startlingly like Elvis from two plots ago, but with a haircut and glasses?

  34. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm [Reply]

    28
    Commodore John
    Thanks for asking.
    He is fine. 3 hour wait bothered him not at all. Grandma showed up so it was, in Brown-Eyed-Girl’s phraseology “Christmas in December”.

    I am still in brace from surgery, so I could not drive. Cell phones not allowed in hospital. I figured no news was good news. I was right.

    Talk to Niall about really bad music. He’s my go to guy.

  35. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 pm [Reply]

    #33 Wasoe
    I don’t keep track of plots, That is so DWEM. But I think he looks like Syler, from Heroes.

  36. Mad Dog Rackham
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:48 pm [Reply]

    #9 NJP: Of course he takes his works, Rex knows that the worst day on morphine is better than the best day fishing.

  37. Moon Mullins
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 pm [Reply]

    ltrftp 15:
    I am an md and I’ve been watching the latest RMMD with a great deal of amusement. The best part is Rex having his “medical bag”; when I started medical school in 1982, a vendor came into class to sell us stethoscopes, etc and they offered monogrammed medical bags. Many morons such as myself jumped at the opportunity to have a medical bag (think five-year-olds with a “doctor kit.”) I used up about a month’s spending money for that damned thing, and I think it is still in the garage somewhere, still as unused as the day I bought it.

    Put it this way: in 25 years of medicine I have yet to meet a doc who carried around a bag, much less one with anesthetics, surgical tools and pharmaceuticals in tow, like Rex has in the current episode. Its presence does add to a reasonably entertaining narrative, though, so I won’t argue further. One of the reasons I never watch medical shows on TV is that I usually say “bullshit” fifty times in the opening minutes of a show, or change the channel to save the television from being smashed. So I’m actually showing restraint with my colleague Rex here.

  38. elyse
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

    it is just me, or is today’s FOOB less of a “comic” and more of a “dangerous eating disorder”?

  39. Yahtzee
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm [Reply]

    My God, Luann is actually, literally excited to watch paint dry.

  40. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm [Reply]

    Moon
    My old man was a doctor. And a drunk. Christmas Eve of ‘58 he sewed four stitches in my eyebrow with no anesthetic (for me, anyway). He pushed a nun down (OLOM Hospital, Cincinnati) who tried to stop him.

    My 3yo’s experience at Children’s today was much nicer.

    Anyway, my old man made his living going on house calls giving B-12 shots to other alcoholics. He had the beautiful black bag.

  41. Freezair
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm [Reply]

    I can see why Escaped Hostage Lady thought Rex and Niki were related. After all, they make the exact same facial expression when startled.

  42. Wazoo
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 pm [Reply]

    A3G: “WOW, a fresh coat of paint. Really livens the place up. What is it, #140ESR Mustard Gas?”

  43. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:19 pm [Reply]

    Btw, between the IC Clonazepam , 1MG, this d#mn brace( 3+ weeks and countin), and my wife dragging me in to watch the Hallmark HOF commercials, I am getting maudlin. I don’t want to go from sapid to vapid, so I will call it a night.

  44. Girl Reporter
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm [Reply]

    RE: last thread and Gaelic. Here’s my favorite joke to tell on March 17th. Nobody ever gets it.

    Two professors of linguistics, one Spanish, one Irish were talking shop at the annual World Linguistics Conference cocktail party.

    The Spaniard asked “in Spanish, we have a word “manana”*. Do you have a similar word in Gaelic?”

    The Irishman thought. And thought. And thought some more. Finally, he said “no, we have nothing to convey such a great sense of urgency”.

    *(sorry I don’t know how to do the sqiggle thing over the middle n. -gr)

  45. Rusty
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 pm [Reply]

    RMMD: Niki is startled by the sight of Rex attempting to remove the bullet with just his tongue. He poured vodka on it first, for sterilization.

    A3G: Tommie is the first person under the age of 70 to order a sherry in a bar.

  46. Niall
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

    34. ltrftp: thanks for the vote of confidence about bad music! :) Though I am only a student; a friend of mine is the real master, who gave me three tapes’ worth of unlistenable-to-anyone-else music. One of which is The Talent Show, of which we have fond memories listening at 2am on CBC (public Canadian radio) having come in partly through it, no explanation, and we were lost, so lost.. and laughed so much, sharing commentary. We had to have it. :)

  47. Frank Parsnip
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

    A3G: If there were any justice in the world, if Tommie’s idea for “more fun” doesn’t involve leisurely sex inside a locked bar bathroom accompanied by Neil’s loud pounding on the door, it should at least involve stealing something or betting on animal-on-animal bloodsports. If the latter, then preferably rabbits with steak knives strapped to their heads.

  48. Girl Reporter
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 pm [Reply]

    The other crickets-chirping one I keep lobbing into the middle of the room:

    Mr. Girl Reporter attended a school named St. Vitus

    Whenever the subject comes up, I keep wondering aloud that the school dances must have been fanTASTIC.

  49. Uncle Lumpy
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

    #44 Girl Reporter –

    For future refereñce: ñ. Capital is Ñ This is a nice guide.

  50. Old Goat
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

    37: Ditto from a 1983 graduate. Our labcoats were our doctor’s bags. This is the first patient Rex has seen in months… and it’s a charity case. Shouldn’t Rex have made Bad Dude sign a consent form before diving into that wound?

  51. Rusty
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 pm [Reply]

    #44: Because the Irish consider even putting things off until tomorrow the height of efficiency?

  52. SecretMargo
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 pm [Reply]

    The difference between a doctor who wouldn’t think to bring hypodermics and drugs with him on a fishing trip and Rex is the same difference as the one between a father taking his son along for a pleasant camping trip and Rex making Niki his “little.”

  53. Chocohol
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 pm [Reply]

    It looks like Niki is trying to copy Rex’s signature facial expression of shock. He’s got the forehead right, but he needs to open his mouth wider and pull his head back a little more. On the downside, once he perfects it, even more people will think he’s Rex’s son based on their resemblance when something surprising happens.

  54. Godzooky
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

    Josh: “…probably just figment?” (Sorry, it’s compulsive)

    Re: Discussions yesterthread about Phantom’s kid-chasing, parachuting companion: Devil’s a wolf.

    RMMD: Anyone else notice how bright the lighting is in the bad guy’s cabin compared to the mood lighting Rex and Niki were enjoying at the other cabin?

  55. Josh
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

    #54 Godzooky — Eeps! I fixed.

    Josh

  56. browns fan
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

    I think your dad delivered my first daughter; a lot of drunk doctor’s in Cincinnati

  57. keptsimple
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 pm [Reply]

    More information on ritual combat can be found in any original Star Trek episode.

  58. AhClem
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 pm [Reply]

    #31 Rhekarid -
    I was wondering about that myself regarding A3G. On the stairs to the studio… Luann is commenting about the paint, lights and other shiny objects to Alan (that is Alan, isn’t it? I can never tell). Meanwhile, at the studio… another set of Luann/Alan clones are talking about — amazingly enough — the studio. If the two sets run into each other, will they mutually annihilate, like matter and anti-matter? Because that would be so cool.

  59. ltrftp(not so first time)
    December 2nd, 2007 at 10:50 pm [Reply]

    56
    Sure are.
    But they only child he delivered after 1949 was in a taxi. For real.
    In 1959.

  60. AeroSquid
    December 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 pm [Reply]

    A3G: Sweet ! An unstable wormhole between the stairs and the studio !

  61. Deborah
    December 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm [Reply]

    Emily Glamrocker: “I’m sorry, but we have to cancel our party tonight.”

    Dagwood: “Yessssssss! WHOOPIE!”

    Emily Glamrocker: “My husband, Tofu Glamrocker, had a heart attack. The ambulance is on its way.”

    Dagwood: (Thought balloon) “I guess I should have HUNG THE FUCK UP.”

  62. The Avocado Avenger
    December 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 pm [Reply]

    Blondie: We’re spending a lot of time talking about the Glamrockers when we could be talking about that HOTT lingerie Blondie’s wearing in the 3rd panel, and that smokin’ little Jacqueline Kennedy number in the final panel.

    FBOFW: I think putting a shag carpet cover all over your scale is cheating. At the very least, it’s tacky.

  63. Bobdog
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 am [Reply]

    #9 – It seems like there would be a good “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” reference to make as far as that goes if I felt up to it — all I’ll say is, it would be so much cooler if that were the case.

  64. Joe Btfsplk
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 am [Reply]

    #13 Shermy – I am considering changing my last name to “Glomburger.”

  65. Atomic Bird
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 am [Reply]

    I’m just looking forward to Dagwood and Blondie going to a party at Mr. and Mrs. Deathmetals.

  66. Max
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 am [Reply]

    For Better or For Worse: Clearly, Elizabeth has to say Thanks on Mike’s behalf because he’s too big of a schmuck to answer a compliment with anything less than, “If you like that one, wait’ll you see how much of my ass you’ll kiss for the follow-up!” And what the hell is with Anthony’s living room? Between his placement of the furniture and those godawful art prints, at first I thought they were in the waiting room of John’s dental office.

    Funky Winkerbean: Ooh, I can’t stand the suspense. It’s a vaguely-recognizable character with ten years added on, and potential plot-development to boot. I predict we’re in for a week-long laughfest of this guy standing on the sidewalk in front of the pizza parlor. Next week will be even more exciting, when he finally steps inside.

  67. Edgy DC
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:12 am [Reply]

    Escaped Jailbird seems to have trouble maintaining his hair length from panel to panel. In number three, he’s morphed right into John Lennon, he has.

    I do have to credit them for returning to the film noir convention of chicks on the lamb wearing bras that kill.

  68. Edgy DC
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:14 am [Reply]

    Escaped Jailbird seems to have trouble maintaining his hair length from panel to panel. In number three, he’s morphed right into John Lennon, he has.

    I do have to credit them for returning to the film noir convention of chicks on the lam wearing bras that kill.

    Blondie is, as always, a force of nature.

  69. Lynny M
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:16 am [Reply]

    No comment on the horrifying last-panel of Sunday’s FBOFW? Jesus Christ, I peed my kilt, slipped on it, and got a bloody nose the first time I looked at that nightmare from the deepest reaches of hell.

  70. Clumpy
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:37 am [Reply]

    Watching Dagwood gush gratitude while being fellated by some unseen shampoo demon in an upside-down geyser of suds and film is officially my Eyeful Of the Day.

  71. Analyzer
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:40 am [Reply]

    Tommie appears to have been changed into one of those ugly-people masks from The Twilight Zone. It’s okay, though, because Gary can probably be convinced to wish her into the cornfield.

  72. saradara
    December 3rd, 2007 at 6:01 am [Reply]

    “I’m going in after the slug, brace yourself”
    Humiliation before castration, always.

  73. Rocketboy
    December 3rd, 2007 at 7:08 am [Reply]

    I too was disturbed by the misuse of Meanwhile. Nothing witty, just creaped out.

  74. Christian
    December 3rd, 2007 at 7:27 am [Reply]

    I’ve been to a few parties where people dressed up like glam rockers and watched Velvet Goldmine on repeat. And everyone was a teenager. Odd

  75. Brick Bradford
    December 3rd, 2007 at 8:17 am [Reply]

    #9 It’s well established that doctors in popular media ALWAYS have their medical bag with them.

    Sunday FOOB–I had forgotten that Elly was once possessed by Satan. The flashbacks are helpful after all!
    And isn’t it swell of John to sit there and stuff his face in front of her while she’s dieting? And rubbing it in while he does it? Priceless.

  76. RichterCa
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 am [Reply]

    Of course Rex Morgan knows that your car didn’t die, he is, after all, a doctor.

  77. Jack Bishop
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 am [Reply]

    IANAD, but doesn’t acute pain cause muscle twitches? It doesn’t seem like a real good idea to perform unanesthetized surgery on a guy with his finger on the trigger of a gun.

  78. Craig
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:39 am [Reply]

    @ Aerosquid – The writer meant to say “Meanwhile tomorrow”

  79. Insaint
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:55 am [Reply]

    You’d think Dagwood would at least hang up first before cheering. Then again, maybe he’s trying to ensure he’s not going to get invited to any more parties.

  80. Alt Dilog
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:57 am [Reply]

    Judge Parker: Mrs Dickens: “It’s little Abbey Spencer. How nice to see you, dear. My, look how you’ve grown. Bif will be thrilled to see that killer bod of yours.”

    Abbey: “It’s been a long time, Mrs. Dickens. I want to surprise Bif with my expensive, new riding boots…and this new riding crop.”

  81. Elwood
    December 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 am [Reply]

    RM: Apparently Michael Moore has snapped and turned to a life of crime.

  82. TaxiGirl
    December 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 am [Reply]

    Sunday’s FOOB gives me a previously unknown (and unasked for, and unwanted) insight into why Elly, twenty-mmm years later, had a hard time deciding what was more important — her father, or a prime rib dinner.

  83. Muffaroo
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm [Reply]

    MT – You bleeding tease! Let me think I’m going to see some real squirrel action, and instead, all we get is another damn okapi fight, or elands, or whatever kind of dumb antelope they are. I want to see two bull squirrels butt heads on a power line over an interstate, damn it!

  84. Marion Delgado
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

    Late to the party, I have to side with Rex over Josh on this one. A band of crooks too stupid to let the moll hold the gun while the mook is undergoing surgery is not a threat that needs to be met with intelligence. And we know how Rex values his possessions – including Little Nikki. Losing a car? I am surprised Rex’s hands aren’t trembling with rage.

    Take my car? hmmm. “Hey, mook, if I give you the right amount of anesthesia, you’ll have to lay down the gun. Okay with you?” “I DON’T NEED NO #@$!%#@!$ anesthesia, doc!” “Suit yourself.”

  85. SpiffBereft
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

    If Dagwood is so resistant to hanging with the Glamrockers, why does he go to so much trouble to look like Klaus Nomi?

  86. Kyso K
    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

    Avacado Avenger: Blondie is certainly no 70-percenter when it comes to being feminine. Any of the rest of us, if we had a rack like that and knew we’d be wearing a sedate wool jacket suit, would have gone straps. But not Blondie. She knows that when Dagwood is passed out in a food coma under the table and it’s time for her to have her own dessert, Mr. Glamrocker or one of his guests deserve to see the fancy unmentionables. The woman has class.

  87. Gloria
    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

    ZOMG! ORYXES!

    The Gemsbok is seriously my favorite antelope. I squealed with joy when I saw this Mark Trail, which kind of freaked out the other people here in the staff lounge of the library…

  88. Victor Von
    December 3rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

    The mutually exclusive ‘meanwhiles’ were pretty amazing, but you guys are missing the point. Paint AND new lighting! Smell the drama!

    But seriously… “meanwhile, in the same place?” The writer’s totally huffing CO.

  89. Wayne
    December 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

    That last panel in Sunday’s FOOB reminds me of one of the more horrifying scenes at the end of David Lynch’s “Inland Empire”.

  90. frumpiefox
    December 3rd, 2007 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

    Was I the only one who initially read the escapee’s “Ahhhhhhh!” as a sigh of pleasure?

    I was?

    Um, never mind.

  91. Comixchick
    December 3rd, 2007 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

    Apropos of nothing, my kid just ran in here to find out why I’m laughing like a maniac at a “Blondie” strip. He’s 11, so trying to explain the references has managed to calm me down a bit. But damn, Josh, I needed that laugh.

  92. Meg
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:54 pm [Reply]

    I guess that’s what M.D. stands for: “Major Dick”

  93. rcousine
    December 3rd, 2007 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

    Huh. Yes, the multiple “Meanwhile”s of A3G are fun, but the obvious reason for them is that the first one would get lost in papers that throw away the throwaway panels.

    It’s still clumsy, though.

    Panel 3 of Blondie has me rooting for her return to being the principal character in this strip.

  94. BigOrangeCat
    December 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

    #53 Chocohol: “It looks like Niki is trying to copy Rex’s signature facial expression of shock. He’s got the forehead right, but he needs to open his mouth wider and pull his head back a little more.”

    Aw, give the kid a break. It’s just that Niki hasn’t been “camping” long enough with Rex. Over time, I’m sure his neck and mouth will be juuuust riiiiight.

  95. dale
    December 4th, 2007 at 3:30 am [Reply]

    Shouldn’t the heading be:
    None …. has … his (p.c. his/her) life … ?

    Righting words good must be harder than the casual observer would surmise.

  96. Art F
    December 4th, 2007 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

    Wow, Josh! KRS-1 would be proud that you know that hip-hop originated in the South Bronx. Good call, Yo!

  97. Jezebel
    December 5th, 2007 at 5:11 am [Reply]

    Oh my god, Josh, I’m so glad you made a comment on the Glamrockers – I was hoping someone else had noticed the total WTF nature of that name.

    And you name-dropped Velvet Goldmine, which is MY favorite movie, but I can see why it wouldn’t be the Bumsteads’ cup of tea. Maybe Emily Glamrocker was actually planning an all-night cocaine-fueled bisexual orgy, and while I can see Blondie as a swinger (why not, with a husband like that?), I can’t see Dagwood ever… actually, I just can’t see him having sex with anyone, and I don’t particularly want to.

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