Comments on: Dead Ant

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:30:35 +0000

Keera - Caulfield didn’t explain anything. He simply, out of the blue as far as Frazz was concerned, started to tell Frazz a bizarre joke. So bizarre that Frazz could neither recognize it nor even hear it completely as a joke. Yet to us, it was a parallel to the Pink Panther and ant joke. And the reader is amused because he or she has to figure out what Caulfield just said (and perhaps subconsiously wonder if Caulfield is in the least bit concerned about whether Frazz knows the original ant joke).

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:16:33 +0000

And Don Adams is the only true Maxwell Smart.

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:12:50 +0000

Sellers is the only true Clouseau.

I remember as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, watching several of the earlier, better ones on tv (big events) with my high school friends.

The ones to watch are “A Shot in the Dark”, “Return” and “Strikes Again”. “Revenge” is ok. The original PP is ok, but its tone is different from the others.

Any after Revenge are cr*p.

I never could get into the PP cartoons. Some are good, others not so much. You can get them all on DVD, along with sets of the movies.

By: Keera

Keera — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:31:46 +0000

Kevin, this still isn’t parsing for me. If Caulfield did explain it to Frazz in a missing panel, then Frazz still has no reason to pose such a question.

Oh, well, chalk this up to another one of those things I don’t get. Frazz has now joined Jesus.

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:27:47 +0000

Keera - Caulfield has just asked Frazz: “What did Henry Mancini sing when he stepped on Mrs. Olsen?” … and then followed that, in song, with his assessment [which the joke presumes is shared by Mr. Mancini] of Mrs. Olsen after she made such a correction of Caulfield’s joke. [This is independent of whether Mrs. Olsen’s correction of a 40 year old classic joke was properly judged as “pedantic”.] Frazz, of course, is giving the straight line.

(Perhaps I shouldn’t be writing after midnight.)

By: Keera

Keera — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:11:33 +0000

Kevin #35, that doesn’t explain it for me. Frazz’s question/conclusion makes no sense to me.

By: zbicyclist

zbicyclist — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:28:20 +0000

“And who can forget Bill Murrey’s:

“Star Waaaaaars!
Nothing but Star Waaaaars!….”

If you have forgotten, or never heard this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53DQgbj2mIc
(not the original video)

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:57:19 +0000

And if you’re a fan of PBS’s “All Things Considered”, now you can sing along to the theme. Here are the words:

All things considered, all things considered,
all things considered, all things con ….

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:26:45 +0000

Keera - Caulfield has just presented Frazz with a modified version of the joke question. Frazz didn’t divine the situation solely from “pedant”.

By: HM

HM — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:32 +0000

My kids’ dentist office shows dvds of the Pink Panther cartoons in the waiting room. They’re perfect because they’re short, and the parents enjoy them as much as the kids. (They also have a Pac-Man machine that doesn’t require quarters but I never get a chance to play)