Bakery
Cidu Bill on Dec 10th 2009
Nicole: What exactly is going on here? The Fat Broad couldn’t tell that the bakery is now a gym ? I personally have found that gyms and bakeries have very different odors associated with them. . And is the punch line (no pun intended.. but it IS pretty cute) that the guy in spandex thought she was calling him gay ?
Filed in B.C., Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 23 responses so far
Tullia Dec 10th 2009 at 12:32 am 1
Perhaps just that the guy in spandex is hungry for rich, fatty, sweet foods and thought the Fat Broad was taunting him by talking about foods he shouldn’t have?
Or maybe at health clubs, “parfait” is a bad word, since it refers to unhealthy food? So the guy was just offended and socked her?
Either way, it’s not funny.
Kate C Dec 10th 2009 at 12:55 am 2
I also don’t get the reference to “humility.” Why is that lesson humbling?
Frank the curmudgeon Dec 10th 2009 at 12:58 am 3
@Kate C - Fat Broad is usually the 800 pound gorilla.
mkilby Dec 10th 2009 at 04:44 am 4
Mistakes happen. A customer told one of my wife’s colleagues that he needed a pair of pants drycleaned. The clerk accepted the pants, and said when they would be ready. When the customer showed up a few days later, he was given the bill and the (cleaned) pants, and then the (bank!) clerk informed him: “Just so that you know for next time: this is a savings and loan, the drycleaners is next door!”
chuckers Dec 10th 2009 at 04:46 am 5
Shouldn’t it be “creme puff” rather than “parfait”? Parfaits come from ice cream parlors, not bakeries.
bd Dec 10th 2009 at 07:06 am 6
Either way the thrust of the joke is a guy punching a woman for no reason. Classy comic strip this is.
Nicole Dec 10th 2009 at 07:23 am 7
@mkilby — mistakes do happen, and I can understand that someone might mistake similar businesses. But think about a bakery, warm wonderful smells, display cases filled with all sorts of delights. Now think about a gym, loud blaring music sweaty people, row upon row of exercise equipment. You would have to be deaf dumb and blind not to see that you were not in a bakery.
Hunt Dec 10th 2009 at 08:54 am 8
Maybe they’re harder to distinguish when everything is made of rocks.
Rasheed Dec 10th 2009 at 09:13 am 9
Maybe the foryer area stayed the same between bakery and gym? Then she wouldn’t have been able to see anything behind the front counter. Maybe the spandex guy thought she/he/it was coming on to him?
ShireNomad Dec 10th 2009 at 10:26 am 10
Now, a girl punching a guy for no reason… CLASSIC!
David Dec 10th 2009 at 11:34 am 11
Where is the bakery/gym, and who works there? In a world with only about 8 people, where every business is Peter standing behind a rock, is there an actual building with other people who have never been seen before? I suppose I should have been asking the same question about who the guys play baseball against in that running gag, but I guess the baseball scenario isn’t quite as ridiculous.
Pirk Dec 10th 2009 at 02:11 pm 12
worst domestic abuse cover story ever
paperboy Dec 10th 2009 at 02:16 pm 13
I hate strips that don’t stick to their concept; if it’s too hard to think of jokes dealing with pre-historic people, then don’t set it up like that. And don’t get me started on Sherman’s Lagoon….
Nicole Dec 10th 2009 at 02:35 pm 14
and wait a minute … in a world filled with animal skin clothing …. LYCRA ????? SPANDEX ????
Todd Dec 10th 2009 at 03:50 pm 15
I guess this is the problem that occurs when the creator of your strip dies and his descendants try to milk his legacy by reusing art from previous strips with crappy jokes.
mateus Dec 10th 2009 at 11:21 pm 16
This is actually funnier if you read it right-to-left….
Powers Dec 11th 2009 at 06:43 am 17
Todd, that would be a reasonable guess except the creator never bothered keeping to a strictly prehistoric milieu either.
Kit Dec 11th 2009 at 10:15 am 18
@mateus ~
You’re right!
Vroshnak Dec 11th 2009 at 11:16 am 19
“Double cream parfait”… is that what the kids are calling it these days?
turquoise cow Dec 11th 2009 at 02:05 pm 20
@mateus:
wow. it really is. maybe that was the intended idea and it got switched around somewhere.
The Bad Seed Dec 11th 2009 at 02:41 pm 21
@Kamino Neko - Do you have pets? Certain people used to tease me about cooking my parrot (wings, drumsticks, etc), and although I eventually learned to laugh along, I always found it as gross as talking about cooking and eating your own children.
Lord Jubjub Dec 11th 2009 at 05:32 pm 22
Mateus, I agree. The first line of the comic actually makes for a better punchline then the actual one.
Matthew Dec 12th 2009 at 10:13 am 23
I’m with Todd, and yes, it’s slightly funnier from right to left. Thus, happy Hannukah!