Every Geezer Here Sent Me This One as a ”Geezer Strip”
Cidu Bill on Aug 18th 2009
A few weeks ago, my 16-year-old son came out of his room wearing an unbuttoned sweater-vest over a t-shirt. I greeted him with, “Hey, Ralphie boy!” and my wife laughed and he looked at us as if we were from Mars. But that’s okay, because we’re used to it.
Filed in Art Carney, Bill Bickel, Hey Geezers! Comics!, Honeymooners, Hulk, Jackie Gleason, One Big Happy, Rick Detorie, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far
yellojkt Aug 18th 2009 at 09:58 am 1
To the moon, Alice! To the moon!
Scott Aug 18th 2009 at 10:21 am 2
Doesn’t he go by Edward Norton?
rain Aug 18th 2009 at 10:48 am 3
“Don’t make me angry, Ralphie Boy! Ya wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!”
Nicole Aug 18th 2009 at 11:35 am 4
Hey, I didn’t send it in — does that mean I am NOT a Geezer ?
Morris Keesan Aug 18th 2009 at 12:00 pm 5
I didn’t send it in either, but I’m enough of a geezer that I had to think for several seconds to figure out who this “Ed Norton” is, and then wondered what happened to Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno.
(and this is not a strip I read, but shouldn’t that be “One Big Happy” and not “One Bog Happy”, in the keywords?)
Nicole Aug 18th 2009 at 12:29 pm 6
Oh … I got it right away. I was just thrilled that I didn’t fall into the geezer catagory cause I didn’t send it in
Kate C Aug 18th 2009 at 01:37 pm 7
I found this strip funny, not because of the Honeymooners joke (which took me a second but I got), but because of the general tone, the way it captures the many times I’ve seen someone (of any age) make a joke that is so hilariously amusing to them, and baffling to the children around them, who look around akwardly and, like Ruthie does, re-ask their original question.
Judge Mental Aug 18th 2009 at 02:14 pm 8
Well the guy delivering the punchline is in fact a geezer. Does this fact make it *more* of a geezer joke, or, on the contrary, does his preclude it from being a “geezer joke” as defined by CIDU?
Rasheed Aug 18th 2009 at 03:45 pm 9
I’m just glad he finally got rid of that thing on his head.
For the record, Honeymooners were still being rerun late at night when I was a kid, but my familiarity with Art Carney at the time was pretty much limited to the time he played Santa when he was trying to avoid artic oil companies. I did make the Art Carney/Edward Norton connection around the time of Death to Smoochy.
Donna F Aug 18th 2009 at 07:13 pm 10
I second Kate C’s amusement and the reason for it.
Marshal Aug 18th 2009 at 08:44 pm 11
Can’t remember the channel but Honeymooners is still being rerun as of
just a couple of weeks ago.
Mitch4 Aug 18th 2009 at 09:59 pm 12
@Scott: Yes, the contemporary actor does generally go by Edward Norton, at least in official credits. But it’s not too unusual to see him called Ed Norton either.
Endro Aug 19th 2009 at 11:22 pm 13
The joke is that he knows who those actors were and the kid’s only interested in ‘yes’ or ‘no’ maybe?