Move That Bus

Cidu Bill on Jun 27th 2008

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, In the Bleachers, Steve Moore, basketball, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Move That Bus”

  1. Ladybird Jun 27th 2008 at 12:27 am 1

    Ugh, my mother used to watch “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, so I can explain this one. When the renovation is complete, they bring the family back to the street in front of their house via limo with blacked-out windows (and maybe blindfolds). When the family piles out onto the street, the big bus from the show is parked in front of them to block their view until the BIG REVEAL. Then Ty and everyone in the universe shouts out, “Move that bus!” at the top of their lungs, followed by much screaming and crying and falling down and passing out. Thank your lucky stars you’ve never had to watch this show!

  2. Winter Wallaby Jun 27th 2008 at 12:29 am 2

    “Extreme Makeover, Home Edition” is a T.V. show where they go and fix up someone’s house to make it nicer. Here, the house that they’re fixing up is actually the “house” of the old woman who lived in a shoe.

    I’m not sure why it’s a basketball shoe.

  3. Ladybird Jun 27th 2008 at 12:33 am 3

    If the basketball-shoe reference was the CIDU part for you, then I’d just have to guess that this strip could’ve just as easily been done with any kind of modern fancy shoe - but this is a sports-related comic strip.

  4. Adam Jun 27th 2008 at 12:52 am 4

    What threw me was the “Move that Bus” comment, but I see it’s just a reference to the show.

  5. Winter Wallaby Jun 27th 2008 at 03:53 am 5

    Why do they shout out “Move That Bus”? Is there an actual bus involved? Is this some slang for something? Why do I feel so out of it? Getting old. . .

  6. Winter Wallaby Jun 27th 2008 at 03:55 am 6

    Duh, I just reread comment #1. I’m not old, I’m stupid. Gah.

  7. Ladybird Jun 27th 2008 at 04:46 am 7

    That’s OK, Wallaby, you’re probably actually much younger than the demographic that’s still watching this show. And you’re smart enough not to watch the show!

  8. Charlene Jun 27th 2008 at 12:16 pm 8

    Ladybird, I’m not sure sneering, self-congratulatory rudeness is appropriate just because somebody enjoys a form of entertainment you don’t.

  9. eeyore19 Jun 27th 2008 at 08:04 pm 9

    It was an okay show for the first season or so, until it quickly turned into “Queen For a Day” with the producers trying to find a family more pathetic than the one the week before.

    Here’s a link to The Smoking Gun where they uncover the show’s “wish list” of diseases and misfortune they’re looking for.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0327062extreme1.html

  10. Ladybird Jun 27th 2008 at 09:56 pm 10

    Wow, I had a really long crappy day, so I reeeally appreciate the “sneering, self-congratulatory rudeness” crack. Niiiiiice, thanks!

    My “sneering, self-congratulatory rudeness” is actually repulsion by the total lack of any sort of “reality” in this type of “reality TV”, where people are showered with an insane level of extravagance that’s just totally out of whack. It’s one thing to install an expensive elevator for a wheelchair-bound kid who’s never had a second-floor bedroom before, but quite another to give each kid in the family their own expensive and gaudy theme bedroom with their own wide-screen plasma TV (in addition to all the other expensive frills they get that 99% of people in this country can’t afford). It just seems to be such a misguided, ostentateous, and self-congratulatory effort to “help” people.

    Remember the single father of 7 from Camden, NJ, who recently put his huge new EHM house up for sale because he couldn’t afford the increased upkeep and taxes? It just all seems like sickening wretched excess that sets the recipients up to fail - and to stand out from their neighbors in a bad way that just has to cause some alienation. The show justifies the grandiosity because the recipients have survived hard times of various sorts, but they’d do better with a practical, fitting, and less-insanely-blinged-out house and a nice little trust-fund nest egg with the extra money.

  11. Lorraine Jun 28th 2008 at 02:25 pm 11

    preach it, Ladybird. I’m definitely with you on this one.

  12. David Jun 29th 2008 at 11:57 am 12

    The point of it being a basketball shoe is that the run-down version is an old hightop style shoe, and is renovated into the new sleeker, spaceship looking shoe. However, the original shoe was so trashed that it wasn’t immediately clear that it was an old style.

  13. Frank Jul 1st 2008 at 12:38 am 13

    The basketball shoes might might be a metaphor for the impoverished player’s home before and after signing the gazillion dollar NBA contract.

    Queen for a day sucked! Extreme Makeovers sucks! TV is not any worse - there’s just more of it.

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