Momma: Existential despair edition
Momma, 6/13/06
I think if Samuel Beckett were to write a comic about the meaningless empty void at the heart of a lonely, embittered old woman, it would look something like this. He’d leave out the reaction shot in the third panel, though; Momma’s depressing hobbies speak for themselves.
Dennis the Menace, 6/13/06
While appreciate the fact that Dennis is annoying Mr. Wilson with some 50 Cent or Korn or whatever the hell it is kids listen to today to annoy old people, and the fact that Joey is continuing to wear that incomprehensible pink belly shirt, I have to say that after some exhaustive research I’ve come to the conclusion that this panel contains no jokes of any kind. Ignoring for the moment the fact that nobody actually calls it “kids’ music”, the sentence is set up so that it seems like “drives grownups crazy” is supposed to be some play on words, despite the fact that it so clearly is not. Instead, Dennis is just saying “We like music that they don’t!” Mr. Wilson should punch him.
Mary Worth, 6/13/06
“I have to hand it to you Kelly! Living with a knife-wielding stab-frenzied maniac like me! I know it isn’t easy!”
Seriously, I hate to call for a savage knife attack, but it’s the only thing that would liven this up. She’s got one too — maybe they can manage to kill each other off, Hamlet-style.
Hi and Lois, 6/13/06
Note to Hi and Lois: if you draw your punchline and then have to have a character explain it, it’s probably time for a rethink.
In Finger Quotin’ Margo news, it looks like even Hollywood superstars are trying to get in on the action. Check out the video below; around the thirty second mark, you’ll see Britney Spears perpetrate the most misguided finger quotes in the history of television journalism.
(This is the first time I’ve tried to put one of these YouTube thingies on my site, so let me know if it causes something to go horribly wrong.)
Bill Peschel
June 14th, 2006 at 12:43 am
What’s most horrible about Momma — this particular strip, not just all of them — is that the joke falls apart when you know that the key is used to open the wall panel that lets you get at the box, not the box itself.
Either that, or Momma has walking dementia and she’s spent the last 40 years visiting the masoleum and shaking her dead husband’s ashes.
a grammar nazi
June 14th, 2006 at 12:43 am
“Without whom you cannot live,” please.
dlauthor
June 14th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Jeez. You know Lauer’s sitting there during that whole interview, hating Katie Couric with the hateful hating hate of a thousand suns. Of hate.
Brad
June 14th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Did I just see Britney Spears do some Finger Quotin Margo action??
dasboot
June 14th, 2006 at 1:03 am
Just a question. Why isn’t the interviewer wearing any socks? and the loafers?
NJP
June 14th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Mark Trail is apparently so eager to stay close to home, he flies all the way to New York City to find out what his next assignment will be, when a 15 minute phone conversation or email probably would have sufficed. I know nature is his only true mistress, but I’m starting to wonder if there’s something else going on.
Mibbitmaker
June 14th, 2006 at 1:59 am
Joey really looks like Hitler in this one. Maybe his full name is Joseph Schickelgruber, and it just runs in the family.
Mibbitmaker
June 14th, 2006 at 2:13 am
6/14:
Rose is Rose is Rose: It wasn’t the wishing well, it was the squirrels from “Mutts”.
Classic Peanuts 1993: Uh, Spike, that’s not your experience, it’s Snoopy’s in “Snoopy Come Home” (I wonder if Lassie ever sued over that one?)
FC: Billy Keane, junior protectionist.
FOOB: A hint that the long-awaited Grampa dropping dead is coming soon?
BB: Don’t look now, Sarge, but the flowers are sleeping.
A3G: Either Tommie’s being spared any more head bobbles, or they’re just happening off-panel. We should know if the next time we see her, she’s dizzy. Like Lu Ann already is, as shown in today’s strip.
SF: There’s a rash of teenage boys going bald?? Is that like preteen girls reaching puberty? Hilary? Faye?
Adouble
June 14th, 2006 at 2:25 am
Is Matt Lauer wearing a Mark-Trail-inspired electric blue suit?
Len
June 14th, 2006 at 5:42 am
Waitaminnit! Isn’t this a Miss Buxley Wednesday?
Beetle is not alone in that flower bed!
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060614&name=Beetle_Bailey
dalton
June 14th, 2006 at 6:01 am
Hey, enough with the hatin’. Celebrities are people too! It was an accident, alright?
Federline, yo.
roydrink
June 14th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Congrats Joel, you’ve even got the Brittney entering the finger quoting Margo contest. Who’s next? Cheney, or lord help us, the Prez?
Len
June 14th, 2006 at 6:40 am
Bill Ellis on the intercom:
Miss Wallace, hold my calls. Mr. Trail and I will be exploring each other’s private parts for the next hour or so.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060614&name=Mark_Trail
Where the heck IS Lost Forest, anyway? Mountain goats, hillbillies, and alligators? What does Mark do for Bill Ellis? Don’t say, “anything he wants!”
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
June 14th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Hey, give Lou and Kelly a break. At least they’re making salad!
And as seen in this strip, they’re also chopping fresh vegetables to eat later.
Dennis Jimenez
June 14th, 2006 at 7:40 am
6.14.2006
FBOFW – How can you be in two places at once when you’re really no where at all.
RMMD – Well, Ms. Irrelevant, if that is in deed your name….
SF – And the boys? That I’m HIV positive.
Monkeys Uncle
June 14th, 2006 at 7:51 am
I would love to see Lou and Kelly grab those knives and go at each other Kill Bill style. That might pump some life in to that strip. Well no, probably not, Still I would like to see one or more of them die in a knife fight.
nancypaaants
June 14th, 2006 at 7:52 am
I don’t “get” Mark Trail. (Finger Quotin’ Margo action) Um…perhaps I missed the original message, but when did Britney Spears start looking completely like trailer trash? Shorts and a halter top? Anybody?
yellojkt
June 14th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Dennis is probably playing that Gawd-awful Kidz Bop music but the writers dare not use a trademarked phrase lest any actual topicality sneak into this timeless chestnut.
yellojkt
June 14th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Mark Trail had to fly to New York because his next assignment is photographing the mating habits of bears in Chelsea.
Martini-Corona
June 14th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Comment 1) above: You just made me snarf coffee.
That is all.
JudeMorrigan
June 14th, 2006 at 8:27 am
MW 6/14/06:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Thelonious_Nick
June 14th, 2006 at 8:45 am
yellowjkt beat me to it, but I was going to suggest that Dennis and Joey are listening to actual kid’s music. Like yellowjkt said, KidsBop or Barney or something. Dennis’s parents should invest in a Wiggles CD, which is actually bearable for adults, at least for the first 100x or so you have to listen to it.
Smitty Q. Smedlap
June 14th, 2006 at 8:45 am
My favorite part of the vid clip is when Stone Whatshisname comes on at the end and uses the same serious tone of voice and mannerisms as he would’ve had the clip been of airliners crashing into the WTC.
dlauthor
June 14th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Curtis: The elephant in the room here, of course, is that Helen Keller was white. Next, Michelle will be trying to replace Zhang Ziyi in that live-action Mulan movie.
Spidey: Ah, of course. The ol’ “super-thin” trick. Never has a woman been so happy that her husband was such a shiftless layabout that he broke into a movie studio and stalked her rather than doing something resembling work. Like FIGHTING SUPERVILLAINS.
Pluggers: I’m getting a trifle worried by all the recent submissions from Massachusetts. Have the red states eschewed Pluggers? Do they not have newspapers there any more?
Mister Boffo: Got an outright chuckle from me today, which is rare these days from this strip.
Mallard: Wait, isn’t the “sitting in front of the TV, looking disgruntled at all the zany liberal hijinks” motif a common one for Mallard? So what color is that pot again, Tinsley?
Heart of the City: Same mostly-dry vein of humor as Mallard, but manages to wring a couple drops out, and avoids the word-balloon-free lecture.
Foob: If … we’re, you know … “dust to dust.” Yay, another Foobologism. And why is Elly suddenly so shy about saying “dead”? She’s the one who started this soul-sucking misadventure in the first place, and it’s not like El Scrotochin isn’t up-front about the whole thing.
F Minus: Another laugh today. Partly because of his facial expression. This strip’s good, but only when it turns dark.
Adam@Home: Well, for once it’s not a coffee joke. I’ve considered trying this little trick, but I’m not so keen on getting kicked in the junk under the covers.
Prickly: Oh, good. I was waiting for one of the usual suspects to start slamming Al Gore. I’m surprised it was Stantis first, but I guess Tinsley’s building up a head of steam toward “and if you sit too close to the TV, you’ll ruin your eyes!”
What’s extra special about today’s Prickly is that it assumes we all agree, whether we’re coyote-scribbles or girl-scribbles politically, that he’s a scary guy. Whereas if you actually _see_ Al’s movie, he’s way more personable than the miscreant currently sitting in his office. But then, Stantis is still making “lock box” jokes — which, in the era of massive Bush deficits, is somehow supposed to be funny, I guess. Besides, if we held all our politicians to stuff they said while campaigning six years ago, we’d still think the current prez was going to bring integrity to the White House.
Jim Anderson
June 14th, 2006 at 8:53 am
“They call it kids’ music ’cause it sounds like the bleating of GOATS!”
Da Scrodfather
June 14th, 2006 at 8:54 am
MW: Was it bad eyesight or bad art that make Lou appear to be wielding two knives at once? OR he’s going to go all vegematic -fu on Kelly! Has this strip ever had an action scene?
Ron
June 14th, 2006 at 8:55 am
“FOOB: A hint that the long-awaited Grampa dropping dead is coming soon?”
Also, way to work the guilt chip there, Lynn! “Don’t you want to be with us?” Yeah, what do you want to be buried with a deadbeat like MOM for? If she loved you, she wouldn’t have left you for Heaven!
BassoGap
June 14th, 2006 at 9:08 am
MW – Ok…has anyone, ever, chopped veggies on the far side of the counter from the sink and garbage can? When there’s nobody on the other side, using the main appliances? Kelly and Lou are *both* on the wrong side of the counter. Oh, and in Panel 1, Lou’s left arm is about 4 ft. long.
Foob – And you, Mrs. 2nd Wife, will get buried in Tuktiyuktuk, as we don’t allow non-blood relations into the family plot.
GF – Can’t wait to see what kind of game show this will turn out to be…certainly not what Rob’s expecting.
RMMD – “Who are you?”? She’s an evil being from the planet Skankon, and has too-sensitive-to-this-star-system’s-light eyes on her forehead. You got into a car with her, dumb ass. Didn’t your parents teach you, Troy, not to ride with strangers? She does own a car with the most spacious interior ever, though.
SF – I was going to write that she tells the boys she’s one of them, too. But I think Dennis Jimenez, (#15, above) gave the definitive answer for the day. Any relation to Jose?
And Nancypaaaants (#17), when hasn’t she?
PBS – There aren’t many comic writers you might expect to see use the word “bougainvillea”. Pastis and Conley are about it, really. Poor Jorge. Love Manny’s repeated “Sir”, too.
PreTeena – Actually, I was hoping the punchline would involve the football team, not the school calendar…
(DT)GT – 10k students? No football, but basketball scholarships? Been around 800 years? Wow…I didn’t know Oxford even *had* a basketball team, did you? Rowing, cricket and probably rugby, though. Oh, and mixing in the baseball analogy as a measure of college basketball success? He’d better go look up The Rocket’s stats, I think.
9CL – Now it’s going to get interesting…does he tell her? I’m thinking he doesn’t, not for a while.
BassoGap
June 14th, 2006 at 9:09 am
MW – Ok…has anyone, ever, chopped veggies on the far side of the counter from the sink and garbage can? When there’s nobody on the other side, using the main appliances? Kelly and Lou are *both* on the wrong side of the counter. Oh, and in Panel 1, Lou’s left arm is about 4 ft. long.
Foob – And you, Mrs. 2nd Wife, will get buried in Tuktiyuktuk, as we don’t allow non-blood relations into the family plot.
GF – Can’t wait to see what kind of game show this will turn out to be…certainly not what Rob’s expecting.
RMMD – “Who are you?”? She’s an evil being from the planet Skankon, and has too-sensitive-to-this-star-system’s-light eyes on her forehead. You got into a car with her, dumb ass. Didn’t your parents teach you, Troy, not to ride with strangers? She does own a car with the most spacious interior ever, though.
SF – I was going to write that she tells the boys she’s one of them, too. But I think Dennis Jimenez, (#15, above) gave the definitive answer for the day. Any relation to Jose?
And Nancypaaaants (#17), when hasn’t she?
PBS – There aren’t many comic writers you might expect to see use the word “bougainvillea”. Pastis and Conley are about it, really. Poor Jorge. Love Manny’s repeated “Sir”, too.
PreTeena – Actually, I was hoping the punchline would involve the football team, not the school calendar…
(DT)GT – 10k students? No football, but basketball scholarships? Been around 800 years? Wow…I didn’t know Oxford even *had* a basketball team, did you? Rowing, cricket and probably rugby, though. Oh, and mixing in the baseball analogy as a measure of college basketball success? He’d better go look up The Rocket’s stats, I think.
9CL – Now it’s going to get interesting…does he tell her? I’m thinking he doesn’t, not for a while.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Today’s winner in the “What the Hell is the Writer Talking About?” contest goes to……..Crock:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/crock.asp?date=20060614
tefflan
June 14th, 2006 at 9:16 am
I think it’s “you live with the person with whom you cannot not marry with.” Wait a second…maybe it’s “you marry the person with whom you can’t live with.” That doesn’t sound right, either. “You marry the person without whom you…” Let’s see, you don’t want a dangling participle or a preposition that just sits there on the end of the sentence…’Dangling’…haw haw haw, that sounds funny. Almost as funny as ‘dipthong.’ You know what a ‘dipthong’ is, don’t you? It’s something Jamaal wears with his ‘wifebeater’ as he thumbs through priceless first editions at Rex Morgan’s house. He’s a dipshit, and he wears a thong, and so he’s a ‘dipthong.’
I kill me sometimes, haw haw haw.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 9:18 am
#30 – You know, I kind of like that expression. “Her hump looks like a deer caught in the headlights.” I’m going to try to work it into everyday conversation as often as possible.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 9:18 am
#30 – You know, I kind of like that expression. “Her hump looks like a deer caught in the headlights.” I’m going to try to work it into everyday conversation as often as possible.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 9:24 am
#32, 33 – Arrgh, darn this stupid constant “server is busy or unreachable” message.
Brian Schlosser
June 14th, 2006 at 9:26 am
re #30…
Crock… WTF? Really, WtF.
That comic makes no sense, at all, even accidently. Does one have to be an actual camel to understand that joke?
Jimmy
June 14th, 2006 at 9:30 am
That movie makes me hate Britney Spears even more than I ever thought possible. Not as much as Ashlee Simpson, but close. Nice finger quotin’ action though
David V. Matthews
June 14th, 2006 at 9:55 am
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060614&name=Mark_Trail
Once again, Mark Trail recycles art from the strip’s golden (?) age. Note Elrod’s primitive art in the first two panels, then look at the final panel. Mark and Bill have better inking, and the last-panel Mark even looks younger!
David V. Matthews
June 14th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Actually, now that I look more closely, today’s Mark Trail probably uses recycled art in its LAST TWO panels. Note the delicate cross-hatching behind the airplane. Jack Elrod hasn’t cross-hatched in years.
Jim C.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:19 am
In today’s Trail,
“Mark Flies To New York To Learn About His New Assignment”
The panel shows a jet flying to the right side (of the panel). It also shows a hawk flying to the left. New York is in the east. The right side of a compass is east.
Mark Trail was carried by a hawk to New York.
Jim C.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Oh, don’t listen to me.
I actually meant the jet flies from right to left.
I’m as bad as Elrod.
Joan
June 14th, 2006 at 10:23 am
#30 and #35, I think I have it figured out. The writer wanted to base the joke on the catty remark, “Of course she’s had work done. She (or “her face” or “her expression”) looks like a deer caught in the headlights.” But because of some misunderstanding or sheer denseness, the writer doesn’t comprehend that the expression refers to the surprised look of a deer in high beams being similar to the lifted-too-far-eyebrows of someone who’s had a facelift and that the joke can’t possibly be applied to a camel’s hump.
GoBobbyGo
June 14th, 2006 at 10:23 am
A3G: I can’t figure out why Lu Ann’s not freaking out. I mean, I don’t know which is worse, the mannequin coming to life or the mannequin knowing her name, but either one seems pretty freakout-worthy.
SF: I’m new to this one (or, at least, I haven’t read it in at least a decade), but THAT girl, with THAT haircut, has never played softball before? Sure…
Curtis: I’m a couple days behind, but on Monday, since when is Miss Piggy on Sesame Street. Especially since Michelle was 4 back in, what 1957?
The Quigmans: mycomicspage sent me yesterday’s comic today. Boy, the brains sure are creepy.
The Fusco Brothers: I think there’s something seriously wrong with me that I find today’s strip funny, but there you go. St. Andre? Agnostic? Tee-hee.
Even Foxtrot seems funny today. Maybe I didn’t get enough sleep?
Sylvia: Not really funny at all, until the very last line.
Clear Blue Water: Can someone explain this Isaac person to me? And the things around his(?) eyes?
Lio: I’m liking this more and more every day. Thinking about him getting that monster into the box…
Herman: Not really Crock-level, but definitely a WtF moment here. Don’t you think if you built a machine into an elephant you’d have to design it with a high tolerance for peanuts?
Zach Hill: Put the Ace of Hearts on the two??? Come on, you can’t even be bothered to get the details of SOLITAIRE right?
Jump Start: If you had a relative that you were TERRIFIED to get in the car with yourself, wouldn’t you put your foot down before you let your kids ride with her? How much could not hurting her feelings be worth?
A&J, Dilbert, yesterday’s GF: Boy, I’m seeing poop everywhere. First with the BM spoon yesterday (thanks, everyone, for the correct explanation), then it’s my first thought when Arlo says “Everything passes eventually”. But I can’t be wrong about the last panel of Dilbert today. That really IS about poop, right?
9CL: No wonder Fr. Durly didn’t recognize her. He’s obviously reading the braille edition of the newspaper…
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 10:26 am
#26 – Scrodfather: Action in MW: Well, there was the instance where Ritzilla knocked a glass of water on to a waiter. Also, I once saw in an old archived picture from like 10 years ago where Dr. Jeff grabbed Mirthless Mary around the waist from behind. Now, after you get those nasty dry-hump thoughts out of your mind through years of therapy, remember that you asked the question.
#24 – dlauth, not to disagree entirely, since I do respect Al Gore and agree with a surprising amount of what he says, but you’ve got to admit that he makes Frankenstien look like a smooth operator.
RMMD: So Dr. Troy just left his car at the intersection?
Mark Trail: The message to go to NYC must have come via telegraph, since they don’t have phones in Lost Forest. They can’t install phone lines, because that would upset the natural wildlife. They were going to install cell towers, but that Jean-Luc Picard guy blocked them in court. Plus, any construction crew would, by definition, get lost in the forest. MT could have used one of those packets with “this message will self destruct in 5 seconds”. Why is his boss in NYC anyway?
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 10:28 am
#26 – Scrodfather: Action in MW: Well, there was the instance where Ritzilla knocked a glass of water on to a waiter. Also, I once saw in an old archived picture from like 10 years ago where Dr. Jeff grabbed Mirthless Mary around the waist from behind. Now, after you get those nasty dry-hump thoughts out of your mind through years of therapy, remember that you asked the question.
#24 – dlauth, not to disagree entirely, since I do respect Al Gore and agree with a surprising amount of what he says, but you’ve got to admit that he makes Frankenstien look like a smooth operator.
RMMD: So Dr. Troy just left his car at the intersection?
Mark Trail: The message to go to NYC must have come via telegraph, since they don’t have phones in Lost Forest. They can’t install phone lines, because that would upset the natural wildlife. They were going to install cell towers, but that Jean-Luc Picard guy blocked them in court. Plus, any construction crew would, by definition, get lost in the forest. MT could have used one of those packets with “this message will self destruct in 5 seconds”. Why is his boss in NYC anyway?
And like any rational human being, I think Brittney is an idiot. But since I watched the video without my speakers turned on I can only think that she’s a very attractive one.
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Blandie: Didn’t Dagwood get fired by Blandie because he ate up all the profits? And now he’s starting a sandwich shop? If you have to declare bankruptcy and go tail-between-the-legs back to Mr. Dithers, you may be in for some abuse that would make all the previous ass-kicking and verbal dressdowns seem like a picnic.
#26 – Scrodfather: Action in MW: Well, there was the instance where Ritzilla knocked a glass of water on to a waiter. Also, I once saw in an old archived picture from like 10 years ago where Dr. Jeff grabbed Mirthless Mary around the waist from behind. Now, after you get those nasty dry-hump thoughts out of your mind through years of therapy, remember that you asked the question.
#24 – dlauth, not to disagree entirely, since I do respect Al Gore and agree with a surprising amount of what he says, but you’ve got to admit that he makes Frankenstien look like a smooth operator.
RMMD: So Dr. Troy just left his car at the intersection?
Mark Trail: The message to go to NYC must have come via telegraph, since they don’t have phones in Lost Forest. They can’t install phone lines, because that would upset the natural wildlife. They were going to install cell towers, but that Jean-Luc Picard guy blocked them in court. Plus, any construction crew would, by definition, get lost in the forest. MT could have used one of those packets with “this message will self destruct in 5 seconds”. Why is his boss in NYC anyway?
And like any rational human being, I think Brittney is an idiot. But since I watched the video without my speakers turned on I can only think that she’s a very attractive one.
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Blandie: Didn’t Dagwood get fired by Blandie because he ate up all the profits? And now he’s starting a sandwich shop? If you have to declare bankruptcy and go tail-between-the-legs back to Mr. Dithers yet again, you may be in for some abuse that would make all the previous ass-kicking and verbal dressdowns seem like a picnic.
#26 – Scrodfather: Action in MW: Well, there was the instance where Ritzilla knocked a glass of water on to a waiter. Also, I once saw in an old archived picture from like 10 years ago where Dr. Jeff grabbed Mirthless Mary around the waist from behind. Now, after you get those nasty dry-hump thoughts out of your mind through years of therapy, remember that you asked the question.
#24 – dlauth, not to disagree entirely, since I do respect Al Gore and agree with a surprising amount of what he says, but you’ve got to admit that he makes Frankenstien look like a smooth operator.
RMMD: So Dr. Troy just left his car at the intersection?
Mark Trail: The message to go to NYC must have come via telegraph, since they don’t have phones in Lost Forest. They can’t install phone lines, because that would upset the natural wildlife. They were going to install cell towers, but that Jean-Luc Picard guy blocked them in court. Plus, any construction crew would, by definition, get lost in the forest. MT could have used one of those packets with “this message will self destruct in 5 seconds”. Why is his boss in NYC anyway?
And like any rational human being, I think Brittney is an idiot. But since I watched the video without my speakers turned on I can only think that she’s a very attractive one.
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Sorry for the multiple posts. My computer doesn’t update screens like it should for reasons that have baffled my IT people. I didn’t believe the messages that kept telling me that I had already posted that.
Donny Baker
June 14th, 2006 at 10:38 am
RE: #26
Yo, Scrod-daddy. That’s not a second knife; Lou’s morphing into Wolverine.
Donny Baker
June 14th, 2006 at 10:39 am
RE: #26
Yo, Scrod-daddy. That’s not a second knife; Lou’s morphing into Wolverine.
Donny Baker
June 14th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Apparently I’ve got the same issue. My bad.
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 10:47 am
And, now that I have heard it with the sound turned on, Brittney says “You have to agree that the tabloids have gone a little ‘far’ on me lately.” Flagrant violation of the “Clean Air Quotes” bill passed by the House & Senate, expected to be signed into law by the President later this week, effective retroactively to whenever the interview was conducted.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 10:51 am
#39 – How does the direction of the plane tell you if it’s going east to west or west to east? Doesn’t it matter on your perspective? If I’m standing north of the plane and it’s flying east it’s moving from my right to left, if I’m standing south of the plane it’s moving left to right while flying east.
In fact it could be flying north or south as well.
Jonathan
June 14th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Since when did “Thirsty” Thurston sober up? Must be the new PC movement on Hi and Lois – damn her for taking up that real estate career!
Aiken Rhett
June 14th, 2006 at 11:05 am
(DT)GT – Oxford, schmoxford, #29… I’m taking the bragging rights when Davis heads to the lowcountry. College of Charleston all the way!
http://www.cofc.edu/about/brief-history.html
The Paradox
June 14th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Either that, or Momma has walking dementia and she’s spent the last 40 years visiting the masoleum and shaking her dead husband’s ashes.
LMAO! If that doesn’t win comment of the week, we’ll have a travesty of Florida 2000-proportions on our hands!
Lyman-Returns
June 14th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Stone Phillips cracks me up. The man makes a zillion dollars a year being the host of Dateline. Qualifications? Looking like a Ken doll, wearing a suit, reading a teleprompter. No other experience necessary. At least Lauer does actual reporting every so often, even if his stories are of the “Let’s see what celebrity X is doing now” variety.
MW-A knife fight would be sweet, maybe one like the knife fight between Sting and Kyle MacLachlan in ‘Dune’. “Why delay the inevitable? You WILL die of clogges arteries!” If it ended with Kelly using the weirding way to smash Lou’s corpse into the floor, I would cut that strip out and hang it on my fridge forever.
dlauthor
June 14th, 2006 at 11:32 am
43/44/45/46: See, that’s what I thought about Gore back in 2000, but you know what? Civilian life _has_ loosened him up. See the movie, or his recent appearance on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, he might never be the guy that Pluggers would want to have a beer with, but we can see where that got us.
42: I also thought the same thing about Monday’s Curtis. I’m sure Miss Piggy has turned up in guest appearances at various points since the late ’70s, but … well, wrong damn show. I let it slide, though, because I loved the horrified expressions on the various Muppets’ faces — particularly when you consider how ridiculous it is for Big Bird’s mostly immoble face to look horrified in that way.
moose
June 14th, 2006 at 11:42 am
“You marry the person who you can’t live without!”
The Lynn Johnsonization of the funny papers continues.
MaryAnnTheRest
June 14th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Has anyone been reading La Cucaracha lately? It’s been supertacular lately. The banner in today’s first panel is great incidental humor. Plus I LOVE yesterday’s Lou Dobbs pinata.
Library Cat
June 14th, 2006 at 11:52 am
#21
I second that! They’ve got to be kidding us. Now we have to listen to that hag spouting marriage-weight loss-makeover platitudes during a three week dinner while they recount the whole non-story for the eighteenth time. I think I’m out.
FBOFW: Elly’s mother is way up in Vancouver. Well who the hell left her up there? I remember when she died and Gwampa moved down to the Big Smoke or whatever; they used to just visit infrequently. Those were days, let me tell ya. But what an invitation, “Please, please come be dead with us.” The very problem of Mom being buried in another town should tell Elly that buying a family plot isn’t such a great idea. Hell, Gwampa could end up with wife number three in Mtigawkywaky.
treedweIler
June 14th, 2006 at 11:54 am
I think this was a legitimate use of finger quotes (by Britnee). See, it sounds like they went a little far in pursuing her for a story, but she really means she was giving the paparazzi a roadside and they pushed it into “something more.” Thus the baby. Which she has a hard time loving because it came from such a dark place, so she gets a little careless. Hey, accidents happen.
Jim C.
June 14th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
BigJoe,
You’re kicking me when I’m down. :)
Sure, it all depends on perspective. I guess if You The Reader are in Maine, this is possible. I just think a lot of people would wonder why he’s jetting from the wilds of Bermuda to New York? (Or perhaps the massive Mark Trail fanbase in the UK would disagree)
What I also mangled was that, and I think Scott McCloud would back me up, proper storytelling in sequential art leads you from panel to panel. The jet is flying away from the next panel, the hawk to the next panel. A poor choice by the artist leads a smartaleck like me to surmise that Trail traveled by Hawk.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Today’s “two different comics using the same punchline” are The Lockhorns and F Minus.
The big shock is that The Lockhorns version is a lot lamer.
BigJoe
June 14th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
#61 – Okay Jim, not to beat a dead horse (or hawk), but all I meant was if you were standing on the ground and the plane flew by it wouldn’t matter which state you were in, the plane could be to your left or right when it flew by as you viewed it. Think of two people standing a mile apart facing each other and the plane flying “between” them up above.
MossMoses
June 14th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Is Skanketta Irrelevant driving a convertible or something? The perspective in the panel one inside the car’s eye view is skewed to the point where the car’s roof must be at least 10 feet high or else there is no roof.
Mark, it’s your editor, Rusty, from Woods and Wildlife magazine calling on the telephone for you from New York. Mark Trail telegraphs better than Western Union.
Jives
June 14th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
How much is momma paying for this safety deposit box?
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Given the preponderance of enormous mutant animals living in Lost Forest, and the fact that MT and friends have never been savagely ripped to shreds to line a bird’s nest the size of the Orange Bowl, I have to assume that Mark Trail is in fact Beastmaster of LoFo. He rented Lord of the Rings last weekend and decided that if Gandalf could fly via Giant Eagle Express, he could do the same with a hawk. Next weekend, he plans to watch part III, which gives Mark the idea to amass an army of oliphants, tree trolls, giant alligators, beavers, muskrats and ferocious chipmunks the size of an SUV. They will lay seige on NYC. Mark Trail will rule supreme over all humans, animals and whatever sort of thing is Don Trump’s toupee! Bwah ha ha ha!
bootsybooks
June 14th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
“Skanketta Irrelecvant” sounds like Britney’s new name! We all know that a couple million dollars is the only thing keeping her and Kev from an episode of Cops. How did Stone Phillips make it through high school with that name AND looking like a Ken doll?
9CL: I just started reading this one. At least the priest is fantasizing about a grown-up.
Phantom: last panel, stripey ass shot! Love love love!
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Can someone really explain what the hell happened in MW? I know the basics, that Lou and Kelly had a fight because Kelly wanted to lose weight and Lou didn’t. Then after far too long a discussion with Mary during a powerwalk, Lou apologizes. Kelly credits Mary with saving her marriage. But Lou didn’t apologize for anything except being a cantankerous plugger. He didn’t apologize for trying to stuff Kelly’s face into a plate full of pecan pie (or was it the potatoes all rotten? I don’t remember).
What is this non-descript story all about? Is Lou a chubby-chaser? Because, that would be cool – well, as cool as you can get in Nary Mirth land. Is he going to continue his gluttonous gourmand ways? Because that would also be sort of cool, in the sense that he hears conventional wisdom and chooses to deliberately reject it. What “advice” did Mary give to save the marriage? You mean “Your husband is a fat pig and knows it”? If I dispensed that kind of advice, I’d be like Thorax with hair.
Dan
June 14th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Maybe I’m not up on my safety-deposit-box rules and such, but isn’t the only person who can put something IN the box the person who possesses the key? That is, I couldn’t just ask someone to deposit some diamonds into it, could I? It’s not a post office box.
Because if that were true, then who the heck does Momma think is going to put anything in there, assuming also that she’s the only one with a key? Which she forgot, anyway?
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
People “air quote”, but they don’t (air parentheses). What’s the difference?
To answer my own question – because if you did an air parentheses, you’d look like a pretentious moron.
I have to again ask “What’s the difference?”
JEdens
June 14th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
# 7 – Even more scary – Joey looks frighteningly like Mister Wilson.
bootsybooks
June 14th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
There’s no gesture for air parentheses. When speaking, the equivalent would be a pause, parenthetically speaking, of course.
King Folderol
June 14th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
#8 – No, I think Hillary is pointing out that they will eventually go bald. But, yes, this makes no sense. If you’re going for long term insults, tell the girls that they are eventually going to get fat and their husbands won’t want them. Or, if you’re really going for the big insult, point out to everyone that eventually the sun will explode and life as we know it will end. That’ll show ‘em!
#18 – Yeah, that’s what I thought. Dennis is listening to some sort of crappy music that’s marketed for kids, not Korn or Disturbed or something like that. I think Mr. Wilson just wants to die, anyway: Dennis could be playing Perry Cuomo and Mr. Wilson would still have that reaction. He just wants to be euthanized already.
Momma, nobody’s putting anything in your box anymore…you aren’t a hot young thing anymore, you know.
6/14:
Baldo – Why does it look like Baldo’s riding a little kids’ bike?
Overboard – Why are the rabbits bigger than the people? Radioactive rabbits? And yet I can accept the fact that they talk…
FC – That’s not the punchline, Billy! The correct punchline is, “We Fundamenalist Christians don’t believe in Mars since it’s not in The Holy Bible.”
That’s much funnier.
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Dennis: No one has mentioned the size of the box. What’s up with that thing? It harkens back to circa 1979, where everyone was hoising these suitcase-sized stereo systems on their shoulders and pretending that they were casually walking around with them. That is, until they figured out that although carring around 20 lbs of dead weight plus 8 D-cell batteries looks cool, your shoulders get sore before one side of the casette tape is done. Enter the Sony Walkman.
So, what are Dennis and Joey doing with that relic? It looks to me like they found it in Mr. Wilson’s attic and are making a very poor attempt to abscond away with it.
Hogenmogen
June 14th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Family Circle-Jerk: Yes, Billy, you should only by American. Take that Japanese television and smash it immediately. Dump Arabian gas on the Chinese made clothes that you wear and burn them – preferably without taking them off first.
EricW
June 14th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Y’know, re: the “kids music” thing, Dennis and Joey COULD be listening to Radio Disney…or maybe they have the Banana Phone song on repeat play. As it makes the 15th go-round, Mr. Wilson reaches for the meat skewers to gouge his eardrums out…
Goober
June 14th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
MW: Another dinner with Mary? Wow, the excitement never stops! But it appears, in the first panel, that Lou and Kelly have learned to incorporate their new healthy eating habits into their fantasy life. Where is Kelly about to shove that corn cob?
Curtis Rocks
June 14th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
#30:
I thought it was a play on the old Joan Rivers joke that if (insert aging actress’ name) gets another face lift she will have a goatee. So this camel has had so many face lifts that her sex organs are now on her hump.
yellojkt
June 14th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Little tiny kids bikes from WalMart are what all the ‘bangers ride around on. Baldo is on his way to work his shift at the crack corner for the Crips.
tefflan
June 14th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Re: the direction of the plane. I was in the Air Force for twenty years. Believe me, it doesn’t matter which way the plane is going, eventually you’ll get to your destination, even if you have to fly all the way around the planet to do it.
Hawks don’t go to New York. Now, if you can just find a pigeon, you might just get there if you follow it long enough.
tefflan
June 14th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Crock
“Her humps, her humps, her lovely lady lumps” look like a deer in the headlights.
MossMoses
June 14th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
68: Hogenmogen, the real story behind this treacly episode is feederism. Lou doesn’t just like plumper lasses with fat asses, he goes for fetish fatties who enjoy him stuffing their faces in plates of slop and covering their nude, zaftig bodies in the slop prior to sex. The food preparation going on now is part of their foreplay.
tefflan
June 14th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Don’t worry, Mr Wilson. Soon, all that fat you carry around and your high blood pressure from being an old bastard will cause you to have a massive heart attack and you won’t have to listen to Dennis and Joey playing Britney records any more.
Len
June 14th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
#78 — The version I heard was, “She’s had so many face-lifts, the dimple in her chin is her navel.”
But how would a camel’s koozie on her hump resemble a deer caught in the headlights? Something more like “a beaver on a Bactrian.”
Dumb camels!
juan mortyme
June 14th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Re: #3 That’s another beer soaked and cigar singed keyboard to add to the junk pile.
juan mortyme
June 14th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Re: #3 That’s another beer soaked and cigar singed keyboard to add to the junk pile. LOL and spew.
Curtis Rocks
June 14th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
#84 – I don’t know, I am not an expert on Camel sex organs. Now sheep on the other hand….
tefflan
June 14th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
If, overnight, the paparazzi decided to leave all “notables” alone, they would absolutely go crazy. They love the attention, no matter what they say. My suggestion for movie stars, singers, and the like: stand there and let them take all the pictures they want. Show them your baby. Whatever. Sign autographs. Tell them where you are going to be. Let them find you. Soon, the price of Bradgelina’s baby will be $1.35, with tax, instead of half a million wasted dollars. Less lives will be endangered by reporters trying to get pictures (right, Princess Di?). The Baldwin mob won’t have to punch out as many snoopy photographers. Hell, autograph a stack of pictures and hand them out free. Walk barefoot on the urine-soaked floor of a ladies’ john at a truckstop, Britney, that always makes the front page. Let the photogs get pictures of you getting your gammaglobulin shots. Make it easy for them. If you do, THEN they will leave you alone, sweetie.
Len
June 14th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
#42 — Isaac is a black, gay, male — and Eve’s (the Mom’s) best friend. He believes that he is a super-hero named “Fluff Boy,” and the thing around his eyes is his mask. There are several other super-heroes living in the Florida city that Clear Blue Water takes place in, but we only see the private life of Isaac/ Fluff Boy.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/clearbluewater;_ylt=ArVQpw_BiZ9kcsHpszbsum0DwLAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Hank Kimble
June 14th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
#15–Firesign Theatre, eh? Don’t crush that Pluuger, hand me the pliers!
tefflan
June 14th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Careful Hank…thirty years have gone by, and you don’t want to be in trouble…might I suggest, “Don’t crush the vertically challenged person, hand me the pliers?”
Dennis Jimenez
June 14th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
I think we’re all bozos on this blog.
Hank Kimble
June 14th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
One last FST reference, You think Zits takes place at Morse Science High?
Hank Kimble
June 14th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
MORE SUGAR! Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Dan
June 14th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Morse Science, Mule!
Daniel
June 14th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Hehehe! Joey’s gonna grow up to be a total twink! :D
MossMoses
June 14th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Grandpa Foob has outlived his usefulness and needs to die. Here is one possible scenario – He gets testicular cancer of the chin and has one of his chinticles removed, making him horribly deformed but the cancer has already spread to the entire chin scrotum sac. He succumbs shortly thereafter. No need to discuss burial plots with wife or Foobs. Just bury him by the Farley Tree (lest we forget).
yellojkt
June 14th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
According to Prizzi’s Honor, westbound jets fly right to left and eastbound jets fly left to right. If Jack Nicholson isn’t the ultimate word, I don’t know what is.
Hank Kimble
June 14th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
#7– Wouldn’t have understood the Schickelgruber reference had not I watched the History channel. The depths of the knowledge of most who post on this website astonishes me.
Hank Kimble
June 14th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
or is it “whom”?
Ferd Berfel
June 14th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Woden’s Day
9CL – Well, that certainly lets the cat out of the bag. Is it just me or does anyone else find the idea of a priest hiding behind a tree in a public park ‘reading’ a blank newspaper just a wee bit creepy? Is he waiting for the day care center outing to arrive?
FBOW – Do it Lynn. The the love of humanity, just do it. Ol’ Scrotum Chin is begging you to kill him off. He’s been stuck in your disease for decades now and he wants out!
GA – Slim’s on a nature walk? Huh? The only time this guy wants to see animals is when they’re dead on his dinner plate.
GF – A Rob vs. Bucky showdown on a quiz show Satchel invented? This has all the hallmarks of mind-bogglingly amazing greatness. It’s going to be a “Can’t Miss” strip for the next week or so.
(DT)GT – Been around “like 800 years”? I guess this kid didn’t pass any history courses at Milford High either. Good thing he can play hoops. And what 18-year-old is going to be talking about that frightfully egotistical moron Roger Clemens? Clemens is in his forties, his knock ‘em dead days occured before this kid was even a glint in the eye of the guy two bar stools down. Shouldn’t he be talking about a more current frightfully egotistical moron like Pedro, Santana, Kazmir, or Zambrano?
RMMD – Skanky Irrelevant. That beats Smitty Smedlap hands down.
SF – I see Mommy has rubbed off on her little angel. Here’s hoping she gets her face pushed into the back of her head by the first schoolmate she tries to insult. A forceful “attitude correction” at the same age would have done Sally a world of good.
Preteena – Meanwhile in a strip with child characters that act more like actual children, I think Jeri’s in for a bout of summer school. That would be a nice big bite of the Reality Sandwich for a girl who, like too many girls her age, is on the fast track to becoming yet another failed Paris Hilton clone complete with a lost education, tattooed ‘license’ plate on the small of her back, and chlamydia.
SarahJayne
June 14th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I saw someone else mention Hitler, but I think Joey is a dead ringer for Chris Kattan’s Gay Hitler. Hmmm…funny, I always figured Dennis somewhat of a Homophobe.
Bill Peschel
June 14th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Because of my discussions with my wife about Rex Morgan, my 9-year-old daughter has started reading the strip, and asking questions such as “Why is that man reading the newspaper so surprised?”
Thank heaven she didn’t ask, “Daddy, what does ‘Brokeback Golf’ mean?”
Anyway, yesterday, she was telling me about the woman’s short hair, but when she was trying to name her, started mumbling.
You probably guessed it by this time: she was trying to read “My name is irrelevent” and stumbled over the last word.
Perhaps with a little rewrite, I can sell this to Jef Keane.
Bill Peschel
June 14th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Advance cartoon notice: Be prepared for plenty of tossed salad in Thursday’s MW.
You have been warned.
dlauthor
June 14th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
No one’s mentioned it yet, so I feel I must draw attention to the … thing following Momma in the first panel. It may be the most crudely drawn object in the history of ever.
Mibbitmaker
June 14th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
#99: I got the Schicklegruber from old Looney Tunes and 3 Stooges shorts. You never know where your depths of knowlege might come from.
#90: How ’bout: (in Spiderman) She’s no fun, she fell right over!
(I just can’t be left out of a FST-fest)
Tommie’s Dream â€Dateâ€
June 14th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
That Mark Trail strip was weird on so many levels. First, he says his boss has summoned him to New York in order to send him back to Lost Forest. Who’s paying for this pointless trip? Then, lest we had a memory lapse between panels one and two, the second panel reiterates that Mark in fact is flying to New York and shows us the plane in case we disbelieve it. Then, to stretch the narrative string well beyond the breaking point, Mark has a pointless dialog with his teeny boss.
As somebody said, why does Mark Trail have a boss in New York? I never thought about his occupation, but I guess I always assumed he was kind of a freelancer – forest ranger – farmer who somehow lived without visible means like the Phantom.
Marc
June 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Today’s MW, I’m still enjoying the ever-changing configuration of the Stirlings’ kitchen. The perspective though..not so good. The ingredient eating Frise salad has devoured beets, homemade croutons, and carrots. At today’s angle, Kelly looks like she is taking a bite out of the world’s most shallow sink. I also enjoy the fact that this is the storyline that will NEVER EVER end. AND!!! Mary is coming over for dinner! Yay! Another 3 week fork-fest! Last year at this time believe, Rita was on a drinking binge, and The Forths were searching for Kitty. This year’s summer storylines leave something to be desired.
Fred P.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
ok, well here’s what I never got about Spiderman, the whole “Spidey-sense” thing. Don’t get me wrong, I love spiders. I mean, I know that they’re like bugs and all, but they eat other bugs. Bugs that I can’t even stand, including those vampiric flying syringes the MOSQUITOS, (super-villains of the arthropodS), plus they lay out some pretty boss webs and lurk about craftily until the time comes to suck the life out of some unwary gnat. So what I’m saying is that, sure, they’re bugs, but as far as bugs go spiders are pretty much where its at. Unless they display the bad taste to build one of their vile little webs RIGHT IN MY KITCHEN, where I’m bound to walk sooner or later! Well I couldn’t let this pass, I tell you, so I started rolling up my newspaper. Now if there ever was a time for this little dude’s Spidey-sense to tingle, brothers and sisters, this was it. We’re talking five alarm spidey sense, ‘cuz I was rollin’ that paper and slappin’ the table! My Goodness, I was gonna teach that hairy little freak a lesson in manners, good god yes I was! But he jus’ sat there, like life was all just peaches and flies, and watched me thru his fifty thousand eyes.
So I whapped him! I whapped him good! Even with his fifty thousand eyes, he never saw it coming! Spider sense my ass! He just sat there! He’s just a spidey smudge now, all over Hints fom Heloise.
Therefore, unless and until more empirical evidence is forthcoming, I am compelled to provisionally withdraw my belief in Spidey-sense- and by extension the whole Spidey panoply of alleged Spider-powers such as swinging around from skyscrapers on a gossamer thread of web.
Jim Walsh
June 14th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
No doubt Dennis and Joey are listening to “High School Musical.” And what’s the deal with Joey’s little Hitler moustache?
Bill Peschel
June 14th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
“So I whapped him! I whapped him good! Even with his fifty thousand eyes, he never saw it coming! Spider sense my ass!”
COTW!
From the hardest-working commenter on the CC!
lilybdcsa
June 14th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
I loved the “Hints from Heloise” part. Wonderful. It was just like being there.
mumbles
June 14th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
FOOB: Just when I thought this strip couldn’t get more morbid, it does. I believe tomorrow the gang will be discussing the “other details” Grandpa refers to, including the crew-cuts, purple shrouds, and Nikes.
Shannon
June 15th, 2006 at 2:19 am
As much as I would like to make fun of Britney for this, I’m wondering if there’s some creative editing going on here. It’s hard to tell with these low-rez YouTube clips, but it seems to me there’s some lip-flap going on during the wide shot (the one where we see the finger quoting).
I’m wondering if some editor cut to a wide to break the promo up visually, leaving the audio from the previous shot. I can see how an editor cutting a promo for a sit down interview would go out of his/her way to cut in any kind of movement at all.
I think the only solution is for someone to actually watch this interview and see if she finger quotes inappropriately. Any takers?
*crickets*
Hello? No one wants to take one for the team?
*crickets*
Sigh. I guess there are some things man was not meant to know.
Dan
June 15th, 2006 at 7:36 am
#102: “Clemens is in his forties, his knock ‘em dead days occured before this kid was even a glint in the eye of the guy two bar stools down.”
You do know he won the Cy Young two years ago, right? And led the majors in ERA last year?
Oh, I’d say he’s still knockin’ ‘em dead.
Hogenmogen
June 15th, 2006 at 8:55 am
In the Millenium edition of Trivial Pursuit, the answer to half the baseball questions is “Roger Clemens” (the answer to the other half is “Big Unit Johnson”).
BassoGap
June 15th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Nah, any fan of “Wings” knows the answer to all Trivia Pursuit questions is “Ann Margret”…
Roger Clemons, winning 20 every year? He’s won 20 or more 6 times in 22 years (23, as he won’t make it this year, either), and only 3 times since ‘91. True, that’s better than anyone else over that period, but it’s not what Trey considers the perfect analogy for an NCAA basketball program’s success.
Doug Hunter
June 15th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
I like how you “dismantle” comics and analyze what makes them funny or flat. I just checked out your comics violence page, too, –great stuff, especially how you explained the political cartoons.
PJ
June 15th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Something did go wrong with the YouTube display: I SAW BRITNEY SPEARS!
I think my eyeballs are bleeding.
Anonymous
June 19th, 2006 at 8:57 am
You lost me with your Dennis the Menace diatribe. Kids are not Grown-Ups. Grown-Ups are not Kids.
“They call it KIDS music because it drives GROWN UPS crazy”
If you accept the premise that every person is either a Kid or a Grown-UP, which is a premise by which Dennis the Menace lives, then the joke, as lame as it is, is obvious.
Also, Mr. Wilson is exactly the kind of old, crotchety, behind-the-times kind of guy who would use a term like ‘kids music’.
Randy
June 20th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
“As somebody said, why does Mark Trail have a boss in New York? I never thought about his occupation, but I guess I always assumed he was kind of a freelancer – forest ranger – farmer who somehow lived without visible means like the Phantom.”
Actually, Mark is supposed to be a writer. He is very famous, although nobody ever sees him actually writing anything.
Think of Mark as sort of like Truman Capote. Mark evidently fried his mind writing his masterpiece, and lives on continued advances for new work that never appears and fees for appearing on talk shows.
Ashley Mei
January 9th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Ummm… first of all, I’m not reading all of your comments which is why I don’t know what’s going on. Second of all, I searched”momma” just randomly. So don’t ask me why I randomly posted this comment here. But yes, these comics are very funny indeed. I always wanted to read comics, but my sister
wouldn’t let me read them. At least NOW I can on the computer.Oops. I did return. but on with the comics, they’re funny.