Comments on: Is There, You Know, an Actual JOKE Here?

By: Steve Morris

Steve Morris — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:09:41 +0000

I think the joke in this strip is that the young lady said No twice and then enforced that with a bucket.
It’s called meaning No when they say No, and also (perhaps) there’s the element of having the last word.
Which is a little innocent playtime whistle in the background of the last panel.
I love it.

Hello again, Billo, long time no post.
Kindest regards,
Steve.

By: MJB

MJB — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:04:58 +0000

Yes, I’m with Kate C. Tina had the pan, but they both pummel Eric in the previous strip.

Have others noticed that, in Lynn Johnston’s semi-retirement, the strips ain’t very funny or interesting no mo’?

It’s too bad that she didn’t continue with Elizabeth & Anthony’s marriage, as Elizabeth finds Anthony to be realllllly dullll, and her daughter to be a continual pain in the rear. THAT would be a good strip!

By: Kate C

Kate C — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:55:04 +0000

This is the strip in question
http://www.amureprints.com/Detail.asp?ImageID=111616

I clearly remember when this storyline originally ran, and am confident that Tina was always the one with the pan. It doesn’t make sense to have Liz with it, as Tina is using it to chase Eric out of her apartment. Lynn Johnston has done stuff that makes her characters look bad before (including pretty much this entire storyline, where Liz comes off as shallow, naive, and not particularly smart), so I have a hard time believing she would go through the trouble of editing a strip to remove something “offensive.”

By: Singapore Bill

Singapore Bill — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:44:06 +0000

S.P. Charles, every good Canuck knows there is no such think as Canadian bacon; it is called back bacon.

I think the “joke” is that females are crazy, selfish, and mean and will cause you nothing but pain but that males will put up with it in total befuddlement.

By: S.P. Charles

S.P. Charles — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:15:29 +0000

More indication that the strip was edited: Who brandishes a frying pan at somebody without at least either the attempt or threat of hitting him with it? What was she doing, offering to fry him up come Canadian bacon?

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:28:44 +0000

Kate C, there seems to be some controvery about that: Many people clearly remember this one way — but when the strip was reprinted, Lizzie wasn’t wielding any frying pans. And Han shot second.

By: Kate C

Kate C — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:16:25 +0000

I’m totally embarrassed to even know this, Bill, but it was the other woman (named Tina) who brandished the frying pan (and no one was actually hit with it).

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:07:48 +0000

I guess this was a foreshadowing of how, years later, she’d attack her boyfriend with a frypan.

By: enfueago

enfueago — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:43:59 +0000

Small children being hit in the head with a bucket of sand is about a thousand times funnier than FBOW normally is/was.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:31:44 +0000

The boys are taking over the sandbox - in other words, they’re acting territorial. But when Liz defends her territory, *she* suddenly becomes the territorial one.