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2015-02-04
Mysteries of physics and language
2015-01-31
2014-08-30
Sitcom Saturday: BB, BC and B.
BC, 2014-08-27.
"You can shove that teacup between your nostrils and smash yourself in the face with a steam pipe." yells Cute Chick, pointing to someone off-panel, before walking away with a black cloud floating above her head.
"That escalated quickly." she comments, to no one.
What escalated quickly? There is literally no context for this. The previous day's strip is totally unrelated. It is a mystery.
Beetle Bailey, 2014-08-29.
Amos is going out to play golf.
"Someday we should play a round together" says Martha.
"I don't think you'd like golf" says Amos.
Martha grins slyly. "I wasn't talking about golf".
Amos is either excited or horrified, it's hard to tell.
Blondie, 2014-08-29.
"Sweetheart, your pancakes are ready" calls Blondie from downstairs.
"But I'm running late and haven't finished shaving!" says Dagwood, establishing the the conflict of the drama.
"Hold on! I just had an idea!!" yells Blondie, coming up the stairs with the plate of pancakes. "I'm surprised I didn't think of this a long time ago"
She begins awkwardly feeding the pancakes to Dagwood while he shaves.
"I know..." says Dagwood. "Think of all the times I could have slept in a little longer"
Well, that is just a terrible idea. His pancakes will be covered in shaving foam and blood from when he cuts himself.
"You can shove that teacup between your nostrils and smash yourself in the face with a steam pipe." yells Cute Chick, pointing to someone off-panel, before walking away with a black cloud floating above her head.
"That escalated quickly." she comments, to no one.
What escalated quickly? There is literally no context for this. The previous day's strip is totally unrelated. It is a mystery.
Beetle Bailey, 2014-08-29.
Amos is going out to play golf.
"Someday we should play a round together" says Martha.
"I don't think you'd like golf" says Amos.
Martha grins slyly. "I wasn't talking about golf".
Amos is either excited or horrified, it's hard to tell.
Blondie, 2014-08-29.
"Sweetheart, your pancakes are ready" calls Blondie from downstairs.
"But I'm running late and haven't finished shaving!" says Dagwood, establishing the the conflict of the drama.
"Hold on! I just had an idea!!" yells Blondie, coming up the stairs with the plate of pancakes. "I'm surprised I didn't think of this a long time ago"
She begins awkwardly feeding the pancakes to Dagwood while he shaves.
"I know..." says Dagwood. "Think of all the times I could have slept in a little longer"
Well, that is just a terrible idea. His pancakes will be covered in shaving foam and blood from when he cuts himself.
2014-07-31
Sitcom Thursday: Strips that annoyed me this week
Family Tree, 2014-07-28.
"Mo-om! No way are we going on a whole week's trip with nana!" says the red-haired girl.
The yellow-haired woman smiles condescendingly. "She'll take you wherever you want to go. Just name it!"
"OK." says the girl. "Let's go on the grand tour!"
"Perfect!" says the white-haired woman. "Grand Rapids, Grand Forks and Grand Junction."
"Not even the Grand Ole Opry?" asks the red-haired girl in disbelief.
The yellow-haired woman stares blankly into the distance, clearly thinking about something else.
First let me address the matter of names. I know that these characters have names, and I know that four of the strip's characters are called Ames, Maggie, Twig and Teddy, but I have no ideas who is called what. I went back through the archives a few months and all I discovered was that the boy (who is not in this particular strip) is named Teddy.
It does sound unnatural when characters call each other by name all the time, but there's a reason comic strips do it. It's not because the authors actually think people talk that way, it's so that the reader can work out what everyone's name is.
But the actual reason I posted this strip was the red-haired girl's bizarre request to go on "the grand tour". That's not a thing. No one would make that request. She clearly only said that to set up the response from the white-haired woman. And the joke only works if we assume that "the grand tour" is some specific thing and the white-haired woman is deliberately misinterpreting, but it isn't.
Also, why did yellow-haired woman volunteer white-haired woman to take red-haired girl and Teddy wherever they want? White-haired woman may already have been planning something, she didn't know. And what's with the emphasis on the word "the"?
B.C. 2014-07-29.
Thor is standing behind a rock on which "travel agent" has been written.
"I'd like to travel to a place that likes Americans" says BC.
"I hear Wyoming is nice this time of year." says Thor.
I don't care whether they're in the past or the future (it's definitely the future though), there is no way this strip makes sense within the setting.
Big Nate, 2014-07-30.
"Ooh, this is one of my favorite 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' episodes!" says Nate. "It's the one where -"
Francis interrupts him. "Hold it! I bet I know! Either there's a disruption of the space-time continuum, or a member of the crew is possessed by an alien entity! ... or both! It's both, isn't it?"
"Lucky guess." says Nate, grumpily.
"And... uh-oh! I feel a warp core breach coming on!"
Do you get the impression that Lincoln Pierce doesn't like Star Trek? Although I like TNG, I admit that there are certainly some things that are pretty easy to criticise about it. Francis's complaint in this strip isn't one of them though. The things he mentions did happen in the show, but not with the sort of monotonous regularity implied. The only episode I can think of that combines the elements mentioned is Cause and Effect from season 5, and I don't think that had a warp core breach.
Freshly Squeezed, 2014-07-31.
"And another thing - - the way mom treats dad." says Liz. "You'd think he was her child instead of her husband, the way she coddles him. Letting him eat whatever he wants, watch any sport on TV, doing his laundry and dishes... honestly, is that any way to run a marriage?"
"Uh..." says Sam.
Apparently Liz thinks that a mother should let her children eat whatever they want and watch whatever they want on TV? And that a wife shouldn't let her husband do those things?
"Mo-om! No way are we going on a whole week's trip with nana!" says the red-haired girl.
The yellow-haired woman smiles condescendingly. "She'll take you wherever you want to go. Just name it!"
"OK." says the girl. "Let's go on the grand tour!"
"Perfect!" says the white-haired woman. "Grand Rapids, Grand Forks and Grand Junction."
"Not even the Grand Ole Opry?" asks the red-haired girl in disbelief.
The yellow-haired woman stares blankly into the distance, clearly thinking about something else.
First let me address the matter of names. I know that these characters have names, and I know that four of the strip's characters are called Ames, Maggie, Twig and Teddy, but I have no ideas who is called what. I went back through the archives a few months and all I discovered was that the boy (who is not in this particular strip) is named Teddy.
It does sound unnatural when characters call each other by name all the time, but there's a reason comic strips do it. It's not because the authors actually think people talk that way, it's so that the reader can work out what everyone's name is.
But the actual reason I posted this strip was the red-haired girl's bizarre request to go on "the grand tour". That's not a thing. No one would make that request. She clearly only said that to set up the response from the white-haired woman. And the joke only works if we assume that "the grand tour" is some specific thing and the white-haired woman is deliberately misinterpreting, but it isn't.
Also, why did yellow-haired woman volunteer white-haired woman to take red-haired girl and Teddy wherever they want? White-haired woman may already have been planning something, she didn't know. And what's with the emphasis on the word "the"?
B.C. 2014-07-29.
Thor is standing behind a rock on which "travel agent" has been written.
"I'd like to travel to a place that likes Americans" says BC.
"I hear Wyoming is nice this time of year." says Thor.
I don't care whether they're in the past or the future (it's definitely the future though), there is no way this strip makes sense within the setting.
Big Nate, 2014-07-30.
"Ooh, this is one of my favorite 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' episodes!" says Nate. "It's the one where -"
Francis interrupts him. "Hold it! I bet I know! Either there's a disruption of the space-time continuum, or a member of the crew is possessed by an alien entity! ... or both! It's both, isn't it?"
"Lucky guess." says Nate, grumpily.
"And... uh-oh! I feel a warp core breach coming on!"
Do you get the impression that Lincoln Pierce doesn't like Star Trek? Although I like TNG, I admit that there are certainly some things that are pretty easy to criticise about it. Francis's complaint in this strip isn't one of them though. The things he mentions did happen in the show, but not with the sort of monotonous regularity implied. The only episode I can think of that combines the elements mentioned is Cause and Effect from season 5, and I don't think that had a warp core breach.
Freshly Squeezed, 2014-07-31.
"And another thing - - the way mom treats dad." says Liz. "You'd think he was her child instead of her husband, the way she coddles him. Letting him eat whatever he wants, watch any sport on TV, doing his laundry and dishes... honestly, is that any way to run a marriage?"
"Uh..." says Sam.
Apparently Liz thinks that a mother should let her children eat whatever they want and watch whatever they want on TV? And that a wife shouldn't let her husband do those things?
2014-04-11
Sitcom Thursday: Relationship Drama
Beetle Bailey, 2014-04-07.
"Sarge is really mad that Beetle is still in bed" says Pvt. Diller.
"He's going to dump him" says Pvt. Plato.
Sgt. Snorkel kicks Pvt. Bailey's bed, knocking it vertical. Beetle remains in the bed as he has put a large belt around the bed and himself, presumably as a form of protection against this very eventuality.
"It's a good thing he has his seat belt on" remarks Diller.
Well? Don't leave us hanging, Mort Walker. Did Sarge dump Beetle or are they still going out?
Hägar the Horrible, 2014-04-07.
"I sail for England today !!" announces Hägar. "Can I get you something there?"
"Please bring back another wife" says Helga.
Hägar the Polygamist?
B.C. 2014-04-08.
Curls and Peter are sitting on a rock in the middle of a vast expanse of water.
"What?" says Curls, confrontationally.
"This is why we don't go mountain climbing during the spring thaw!" says Peter.
Surely the top of a mountain is the only safe place to be if the water level has risen that high?
Henry, 2014-04-10.
Henry sees an advertisement for some "pure vegetable egg-dye" for colouring Easter eggs. After making up the dye he feeds it to a hen in the hopes that the eggs laid by that hen will be colourful.
"Sarge is really mad that Beetle is still in bed" says Pvt. Diller.
"He's going to dump him" says Pvt. Plato.
Sgt. Snorkel kicks Pvt. Bailey's bed, knocking it vertical. Beetle remains in the bed as he has put a large belt around the bed and himself, presumably as a form of protection against this very eventuality.
"It's a good thing he has his seat belt on" remarks Diller.
Well? Don't leave us hanging, Mort Walker. Did Sarge dump Beetle or are they still going out?
Hägar the Horrible, 2014-04-07.
"I sail for England today !!" announces Hägar. "Can I get you something there?"
"Please bring back another wife" says Helga.
Hägar the Polygamist?
B.C. 2014-04-08.
Curls and Peter are sitting on a rock in the middle of a vast expanse of water.
"What?" says Curls, confrontationally.
"This is why we don't go mountain climbing during the spring thaw!" says Peter.
Surely the top of a mountain is the only safe place to be if the water level has risen that high?
Henry, 2014-04-10.
Henry sees an advertisement for some "pure vegetable egg-dye" for colouring Easter eggs. After making up the dye he feeds it to a hen in the hopes that the eggs laid by that hen will be colourful.
2014-03-28
Philosophical Friday: Leave Mimes Alone
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| Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! 2014-03-25. |
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| Todd the Dinosaur, 2014-03-28. |
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| Hägar the Horrible, 2014-03-27. |
I don't know where I'm going with this, it's just something that struck me.
2014-03-21
Philosophical Friday: Human or Animal?
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| Dennis the Menace, 2014-03-14. |
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| Sherman's Lagoon, 2014-03-19. |
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| Pluggers, 2014-03-21. |
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| B.C., 2014-03-20. |
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| B.C. |
2013-12-13
Christmas che- oh wait, it's Crankshaft
A tortoise has put a bent piece of corrugated iron on top of his shell.
"I'll never understand you..." remarks a bird.
"I like the sound it makes when it rains." explains the tortoise.
B.C., 2013-12-11.
So, they should both be fired.
You know what I like best about black-and-white photography? The colours.
"I'll never understand you..." remarks a bird.
"I like the sound it makes when it rains." explains the tortoise.
B.C., 2013-12-11.
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| Crankshaft, 2013-12-11. |
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| Mary Worth, 2013-12-11. |
2013-06-07
2013-05-13
2013-05-03
2013-04-10
B.C.
B.C. and Thor are hiding behind some bushes, spears ready. In front of them stand two Camarasauruses and Barney the Friendly Dinosaur.
"Well," says Thor, "I can tell you which one I wouldn't mind takin' down."
Barney is singing, presumably a cheerful song about sharing or something.
Comic
"Well," says Thor, "I can tell you which one I wouldn't mind takin' down."
Barney is singing, presumably a cheerful song about sharing or something.
Comic
2013-04-07
B.C.
Thor has drawn a diagram of the life cycle on a large rock.
Cute Chick¹ and Fat Broad² examine it.
"Oh, wow..." says Cute Chick, "I'd really like to share that my friends!"
"I've invented the 'meme.'" thinks Thor, smugly.
Comic
¹ Actually her name.
² Yep.
Cute Chick¹ and Fat Broad² examine it.
"Oh, wow..." says Cute Chick, "I'd really like to share that my friends!"
"I've invented the 'meme.'" thinks Thor, smugly.
Comic
¹ Actually her name.
² Yep.
2013-03-19
B.C.
B.C. is standing out in a field when suddenly a flying saucer lands nearby. Before he has time to do more than flinch in shock, a door opens in the side and a ramp extends to the ground.
Out walks Peter. As the saucer flies away, Peter nonchalantly wanders off.
B.C. turns to follow Peter. "Hello?!"
"What happens on Zorpulon X stays on Zorpulon X." replies Peter, still walking away.
Comic
Out walks Peter. As the saucer flies away, Peter nonchalantly wanders off.
B.C. turns to follow Peter. "Hello?!"
"What happens on Zorpulon X stays on Zorpulon X." replies Peter, still walking away.
Comic
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