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No, anything but that!

Apartment 3-G, 2/16/05

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite features of Apartment 3-G: the Wildly Overacted Margo Reaction Shot. “The public library? Are you insane?“

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 02:05 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G. |

59 responses to “No, anything but that!”

  1. Dave Lartigue
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:08 pm [Reply]

    Yes! I literally LOLed when I saw that in the paper. YOU CAN’T TAKE A PREGNANT WOMAN TO THE LIBRARY! THERE ARE BOOKS!

  2. Kat
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:19 pm [Reply]

    Oh no! Then she’ll find out where babies come from!

  3. Tracibub
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:19 pm [Reply]

    A library’s got them there BOOKS! If she starts going throug those, she might get some strrraaaaange ideas in that head! Crap like ‘how to be a teen mom’. We can’t have THAT now can we!!

  4. pookie
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

    I’m beginning to wish they’d left Margo in the sweatshop. Her reaction shots are giving me whiplash. But I dearly love to be hatin’ on Margo!

  5. lefty von righty
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:24 pm [Reply]

    And here I thought that Margo was being sandwiched by two Shmoos.

  6. tina
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:40 pm [Reply]

    I was confused that Margo was calling Lu Ann “Mim” in the second panel, until I realized that Mim has one of those new shirts that’s purple in the front and pink in the back. Are those available from cafe press?

  7. Anonymous
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:47 pm [Reply]

    Like Margo, I was shocked to learn that Lu Ann and Mim were literate.

  8. Joe
    February 16th, 2005 at 2:47 pm [Reply]

    None of you guys are from NYC, are you? ‘The World Renowned New York City Public Library’ is actually the name of a S&M club in Soho.

  9. Tracibub
    February 16th, 2005 at 4:01 pm [Reply]

    So what is with the chamelon hair? If you look at the 2/6 comic, the pregnant gal has bright red hair…now she’s blonde?!? No red-head in their right mind would do that! (they are the same pregnant girls, right?? I’m not missing some huge plot line here, am I?)…

  10. Zipper the mule
    February 16th, 2005 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

    I understand wondering if Lu Ann were literate because of her line in the first panel.

    “Because Mim has been seeing a doctor from the beginning.” Am I missing a question someone asked? Is this all to set up the preachy second panel that’s going up on High School Health Ed Teachers’ doors across America? Coming soon to the Gil Thorpe strip near you, Margo’s advice to the impregnated teen.

    Also, Margo’s head whips around because her next line is:

    “But Lu Ann, have you forgotten this is my bikini wax night and you promised to help.”

  11. JohnnyC
    February 16th, 2005 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

    No, the bikini waxing is Tommy’s job. After a work-day of yanking adhesive tape from wounds, there’s nothing like putting on a really fresh, stiffly starched uniform and waxing your roomies.

  12. Michael
    February 16th, 2005 at 4:50 pm [Reply]

    You know what they say about pregnant girls and books, don’t you?!?

  13. Phil Mc
    February 16th, 2005 at 4:57 pm [Reply]

    Okay, didn’t anyone else find the Shmoo comment hilarious? Big ups.

  14. toddb
    February 16th, 2005 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

    Seriously though…Red hair to blonde??!! Isn’t dying your hair during pregnancy bad? Maybe they can research that at the NYCPL.

  15. toddb
    February 16th, 2005 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

    Or maybe Margo is whipping her head around because the two blondies are SCREAMING IN THE HALLWAY!

  16. Anne Nonymous
    February 16th, 2005 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

    toddb- Yes, dying your hair during pregnancy is a no-no. Different color hair, different color clothes- nobody is doing any kind of quality control here. But, wait- quality control? We’re talking Apt. 3-G here. Never mind. The comments are definitely way better than the strip.

  17. Amanda B
    February 16th, 2005 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

    What is up with this comic? Mim looks completely different in the 2/6. How does anyone follow whats going on in this strip if the characters look completely different in each daily, not to mention each panel…

  18. Dave Lartigue
    February 16th, 2005 at 6:42 pm [Reply]

    Amanda, you are obviously new to A3G. Here’s the deal: there are only two characters in the strip: Margo and non-Margo.

  19. DrBear
    February 16th, 2005 at 6:57 pm [Reply]

    It’s because Margo realizes that the library is really … a sweatshop!
    “More Dickens, mule!”

  20. Dub Not Dubya
    February 16th, 2005 at 8:21 pm [Reply]

    Josh, can we have t-shirts that say “More Dickens, mule!”? Thanks DrBear from making me laugh out loud.

  21. Dwight Brown
    February 16th, 2005 at 9:49 pm [Reply]

    Doesn’t everything just sound better when you put “The World-Renowned” in front of it?

    “Where would you like to eat tonight, honey?” “Oh, why don’t we just send out for something from The World-Renowned Pizza Hut?”

    “What’s so funny, dear?” “I’m reading the latest Apartment 3-G post on The World-Renowned The Comics Curmudgeon web log.”

    “More of The World-Renowned zippers, mule!”

  22. el st ruby
    February 16th, 2005 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

    am I the only one that thinks that Lu Ann sounds like a filmstrip? In fact, minus Whiplash Margo (TM), the dialogue is sort of like a public service announcement.
    “The baby sure is healthy! And so am I!”
    “That’s because you’ve been seeing a doctor, Mim!”
    “Doctors? Our friends in the white coats?”
    …
    also: “More babies, mule!”

  23. Incident
    February 16th, 2005 at 11:47 pm [Reply]

    If you take the motion lines as they are, Margo’s head is spinning rapidly 360 degrees!

    It’s Lucifer’s baby!

  24. Greg
    February 17th, 2005 at 1:14 am [Reply]

    No offense, generally this site has really funny commentary, but I’d think you guys would stop beating a dead joke like “more x, mule!”

  25. K
    February 17th, 2005 at 2:11 am [Reply]

    More Greg, mule!

  26. Sting
    February 17th, 2005 at 2:40 am [Reply]

    I think in the second panel, Lu Ann has actually put on Mim’s headband for a moment, and since that’s the only visual clue for Margo which one is which, she’s talking to the wrong person. So the head-spin in panel three is her sudden confusion that now the two blondes have switched places again.

  27. Sting
    February 17th, 2005 at 2:41 am [Reply]

    Also:
    More “More Greg, mule!”, mule!

  28. Holden West
    February 17th, 2005 at 3:08 am [Reply]

    Sorry, Greg–Google already has 70 results for
    the phrase, “more…well–you know…

  29. MrPerson
    February 17th, 2005 at 8:40 am [Reply]

    If you actually take those motion lines as Margo’s head spinning around, the strip actually becomes funny as hell.

    “Blonde chicks going to the public library? SHOCK! I become possessed now!”

  30. Moesy
    February 17th, 2005 at 10:21 am [Reply]

    Mim’s hair color is different in this strip because a blonde & a redhead going to the library is not near as shoking as 2 blondes & thus Whiplash Margo becomes unnecessary. And she’s the punchline!

  31. Brian J.
    February 17th, 2005 at 10:28 am [Reply]

    Is there any chance that this Lu Ann is Luann’s Luann? Because had Greg Evans known what dramatic turns A3G would take, he could have taken Luann out of the strip for a few months and had her pop up in this one, carrying a space in her name and filling one in her uterus. Losing Aaron turned her into a real slut apparently.

  32. Brian J.
    February 17th, 2005 at 10:33 am [Reply]

    Actually you know what, forget my last post. I got Lu Ann the aunt confused with the pregnant girl. Unless Lu Ann’s niece is Luann? Then we’re back in bidness.

  33. Brian
    February 17th, 2005 at 12:32 pm [Reply]

    I think Margo is so shocked because she knows the library is no place to show off new clothes.

  34. RememberByronFrost
    February 17th, 2005 at 12:56 pm [Reply]

    You guys are hilarious … and yes, these comments are WAY more entertaining than any comics….
    put me down for a case of the Dickens… mule shirts !!!!!

  35. RememberByronFrost
    February 17th, 2005 at 1:15 pm [Reply]

    Don’t know about you all, but I’m anxiously waiting for Margo to become a blonde any day now, (with a two-toned shirt to boot).

  36. Isaac B2
    February 17th, 2005 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

    I think her reaction is to the use of the phrase “world-renowned,” which clearly overstates the importance of this library.

  37. Moesy
    February 17th, 2005 at 3:28 pm [Reply]

    Josh would never make the cut in writing his own comics, he knows how to put empahsis on words correctly “the PUBLIC LIBRARY, are you INSANE?” a REAL cartoonist would have said, “the public library, ARE YOU insane?”

  38. Noumenon
    February 17th, 2005 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

    I’m on dialup and when I read, “The public library? Are you insane?” I thought it was a case of comedic hyperbole. Then the image loaded… omg.

  39. Zipper the mule
    February 17th, 2005 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

    Since we’re beating old jokes to death, does anyone else think Mim is roadside? I hope Lu Ann tells her that once she’s “been there” she ain’t coming back.

  40. Anne Nonymous
    February 17th, 2005 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

    I’m waiting for “Not-Margo” Mim’s hair to break off so she’ll become completely bald (due to the constant, weekly dye-jobs from blonde to red and back again). Then we can finally tell her apart from Lu Ann, without the headband. Can they wear name tags, or something? (She’s definitely roadside, Zipper. Probably world-renowned roadside.)

  41. Mibbitmaker
    February 17th, 2005 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

    Actually, I think the World Renowned Margo suddenly got dizzy, for no known reason. Then it immediately went away, since they’re at the library the next day.

    Either that, or the World Renowned “Not Me” from Family Circus crossed into 3G and started shaking Margo’s head as a prank. Long time coming, too.

  42. Bill Peschel
    February 17th, 2005 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

    Considering that Margo’s rotation is already stressed by the horizontal lines, do the verticle lines mean she’s rocking up and down as well? Has she turned into Margo the Bobble-Head?

  43. Toni
    February 17th, 2005 at 8:12 pm [Reply]

    Sting is right. Mim and Luann either switch shirts or headbands because the girl in panel two is wearing Luann’s shirt and Mim’s headband. WTF? I’ve never heard of this comic strip before this web page. It’s pretty classic. As in bad.

  44. RememberByronFrost
    February 18th, 2005 at 8:50 am [Reply]

    Loved the library scene from Thursday where Luann basically tells Margo that Mim is so ignorant and naive that she wouldn’t be pregnant if only she’d visited a library (read: gain ‘knowledge’) BEFORE her NYC visit… give us a break,, how stupid can this blonde be? and where is she from, some kind of prehistoric time machine? Who has never spoken to an intelligent adult in her life ? (read: including now) lol

  45. King Of All Paperboys
    February 18th, 2005 at 10:31 am [Reply]

    A thought occurs… if Mim “has been seeing a doctor FROM THE BEGINNING,” would that not mean that THE DOCTOR WAS PRESENT AT CONCEPTION? And if so, was the doctor conducting some weird teenage sexcapade research… or IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE DOCTOR IS THE FATHER???

    Now THAT would be a nice twist. I’m just saying.

  46. RememberByronFrost
    February 18th, 2005 at 10:42 am [Reply]

    I like your thinking King — it IS true that Mim has been seeing a doctor “from the beginning”.

    Hard to imagine how she managed to find her way there………….

  47. toddb
    February 18th, 2005 at 11:36 am [Reply]

    On another note, Lu Ann’s fashion sense is seriously lacking. Who wears a red button down shirt with v-neck sweater that is the EXACT SAME COLOR!

  48. RememberByronFrost
    February 18th, 2005 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

    Perhaps that’s why she tried to pawn it off on Mim in Panel 2?

  49. pookie
    February 19th, 2005 at 11:24 am [Reply]

    While we’re talking about Luanns, when will teenage Luanne and her bimbo archenemy Tiffany finally realize Aaron Hill is gay? He’s probably more interested in Gunther than either of them.

  50. King Of All Paperboys
    February 19th, 2005 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

    Right, pookie. Aaron Hill moved to HAWAII. And who ELSE lives in Hawaii? The World-Renowned JIM NABORS. I think we can all count on Aaron Hill becoming Gomer’s cabana boy any day now.

  51. Peaches
    February 19th, 2005 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

    My gaydar was always tingling around Aaron Hill. Luanne and Tiff are fag hags in training bras. Goooleee!

  52. Anne Nonymous
    February 19th, 2005 at 8:41 pm [Reply]

    Peaches- I thought I was the only one who always thought Aaron Hill was gay- not that there’s anything wrong with that!

  53. zot
    February 19th, 2005 at 10:10 pm [Reply]

    Aaron Hill: gay, gay, gay!

  54. willowy1
    February 21st, 2005 at 9:01 am [Reply]

    The next birthing related mallady – paper flea infested newborns?

  55. johncomic
    March 2nd, 2005 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

    Does anyone remember when 3-G was drawn by Alex Kotsky [creator/first artist]? Damn. No overacting, the art was refined and naturalistic… it was obvious that Kotsky was one of the all-time greats. No one since has been able to touch his work, I tell ya…

  56. Liam
    December 11th, 2006 at 10:52 am [Reply]

    THERE ARE TERRORISTS AT THE LIBRARY WHAT KIND OF WORLS IS THIS TO BRING A BABY INTO?!?!?!?!

  57. Daniel
    January 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 am [Reply]

    Kotsky didn’t really create Apt 3-G; is was created by Dallis. But Kotsky’s drawings certainly set it apart.

  58. Aviatrix
    December 8th, 2008 at 1:36 am [Reply]

    I’m laughing so it HURTS. I’m so glad that this comic is not in the papers I read to confuse me, but so happy that you have preserved it here.

    And not-native-language guy, read or don’t read but comment on something else.

    Don’t you love trying to talk to someone who left eight months ago?

  59. helloworld
    May 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

    wasn’t mim a redhead just a second ago?

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