Comics I Don’t Understand

Ewww??

Cidu Bill on Dec 11th 2009

Keera Ann Fox: I don’t get Larry’s ew response. Tell you the truth, I’m not sure I get anything about this cartoon.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Buckets, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 24 responses so far

24 Responses to “Ewww??”

Tim Dec 11th 2009 at 12:04 pm 1

I think the idea is, “That guy’s a slimeball. I would never have voted him number one.” Like many other CIDUs, it probably sounded a lot funnier in the cartoonist’s head than it did on paper. It’s sure not an Eww the way we define them here.
Chennette Dec 11th 2009 at 01:00 pm 2

Hmm. I thought it was mildly amusing just from the car dealer’s words - very restricted base perhaps of qualified dealers from which to vote..number one in their price class…the price class could be anything…the rest of it doesn’t really add anything, other than making it obvious that the joke is supposed to be about the quality of the poll?
The Ew is definitely confusing to me.
Bob Dec 11th 2009 at 01:32 pm 3

My first thought was that the “ew” referred to “Number 1″ although “Number 2″ would be much “ewier” from a bathroom point of view. My second thought was “probably not.”
mike Dec 11th 2009 at 01:40 pm 4

Possibility 1: the joke is “anyone who would vote for this guy must be someone I would not want to know”. ha ha, what a knee-slapper.

Possibility 2: the similarity of hairdos between the salesman and the guy on the couch suggests that maybe HE voted for the salesman, and would be embarassed if anyone knew. longshot, but hey the hair is sort of funny.
Kevin A Dec 11th 2009 at 01:54 pm 5

I think the “ew.” may be a direct response to the woman’s comment and refers to the idea of knowing who voted in the poll. (i.e. “I’d rather not know anything about such people, nor that they really exist. What if, heaven forbid, one is a friend of ours?”)
Kevin A Dec 11th 2009 at 01:55 pm 6

oops. took too long editing.
The Bad Seed Dec 11th 2009 at 02:32 pm 7

I think the “ew” refers to the tv-guy’s pompadour and mustache, because you know a salesman’s appearance is soooo much more important than prices or reviews or silly things like that. It’s always wise to judge a book by its cover, especially when you’re as drop-dead gorgeous as the two judgmental schmucks sitting on the sofa transfixed by the commercial.
paperboy Dec 11th 2009 at 03:35 pm 8

Kevin A #5, that’s a dude on the left, not a woman. Maybe that helps understand the joke. (It doesn’t for me.)
Keera Dec 11th 2009 at 04:03 pm 9

Paperboy, the dude on the left (on the couch) is indeed a woman: Mrs. Bucket.

And I’m kind of leaning towards Kevin A’s theory on this one.
paperboy Dec 11th 2009 at 05:09 pm 10

Keera #9- Huh! The posture fooled me; it’s seems a mannish way to sit on a couch. Didn’t know they were continuing characters.
sal Dec 11th 2009 at 05:53 pm 11

Ther folks in the comic have a black and white TV. Who has a black and white set in this day and age?
Ooten Aboot Dec 11th 2009 at 06:03 pm 12

Sal, maybe the folks who do the coloring are on minimum wage. I wonder if the Buckets bought a car from Ted?

Incidentally, do these folks pronounce their name “Boo-KAY” like their English cousins Hyacinthe and Richard?
Mark M Dec 11th 2009 at 07:14 pm 13

I think Kevin A’s got it. My confusion initially was I thought “not me” was another way of saying that he didn’t vote in that poll, when it really meant he doesn’t want to know who voted in that poll.
Morris Keesan Dec 11th 2009 at 09:45 pm 14

Also: “Online used car outlet”??? Do people really buy used cars online? I’ve bought used cars, and even found my current car online, but I bought it from an actual brick-and-mortar dealer, after test-driving it.
cydu Dec 12th 2009 at 03:22 am 15

I don’t think it has so much to do with who voted in the poll — I think it has to do with what sort of sleazy web site would have hosted it.
chuckers Dec 12th 2009 at 03:25 am 16

Maybe it is a typo of “Er…” implying he actually did vote for the guy but doesn’t want it known.
Keera Dec 12th 2009 at 08:27 am 17

I’m satisfied with Kevin A’s explanation.

And yes, I will sit in the couch like that. Never occurred to me that it wasn’t feminine.
mitch4 Dec 12th 2009 at 10:48 am 18

Nothing unfeminine about it … but it’s not a “shy, reserved feminine” pose. It’s assertively female.
Keera Dec 12th 2009 at 10:54 am 19

LOL! I just thought it was comfortable.
paperboy Dec 12th 2009 at 12:12 pm 20

But cartoonists have to be broad in their depictions for easy understanding, even-gasp!- using stereotypes. That’s a “dude sittin’ on the couch” pose. When you draw everyone with banana noses and you can’t see the body, you gotta give a little thought.
Elyrest Dec 12th 2009 at 01:14 pm 21

I have to agree with paperboy here. I don’t read the comic and I thought it was a guy too. It does look more like a dude pose. You must be pretty cool “dude” Keera.
Keera Dec 12th 2009 at 01:26 pm 22

Well, thanks, Elyrest, but how else am I gonna show my chest off?
Kevin A Dec 12th 2009 at 02:28 pm 23

A few things:

- mike offered the same thing I said as his “Possibility 1″ and managed to post before me while I was editing.

- I didn’t look up the strip and decided it was a woman based mostly on the hair (and also the situation; I didn’t think a young man wouldn’t have such a strong opinion on a salesman). In my case, it was more the shirt than the androgynous nose and lower body that made me think it might be a guy.

- In my experience, as many, or possibly many more women sit that way on a sofa than do men. (Although Keera may have accounted for a possible skew in my memory.) I hang out with a lot of barefoot dancing, hand drumming, yoga posturing women; they may be more stretch conscious than most. Maybe it all comes down to who has the lower backed sofas.
(I know that guys sat that way in the old style bleachers a lot.)

- Keera, God bless you!
Keera Dec 12th 2009 at 02:43 pm 24

Thanks, Kevin A! The only time I sit with my feet on the floor is when I’m eating. The rest of the time, it’s definitely sofa yoga. And whatever perks that come with it for whoever else is in the sofa.