Comics I Don’t Understand

Moving Forward

Cidu Bill on Mar 1st 2010

Isn’t the issue with Toyotas that the accelerators won’t stop working?

Frosted Donut Mar 1st 2010 at 06:04 pm 1

Plus the family name is spelled (in English) “Toyoda,” because of some Japanesy character thing.

There ought to be a tag: “Comics that got enough facts wrong that I obsessed about those and never made it to the punchline.”
Jeff Mar 1st 2010 at 09:45 pm 2

For more info on the Toyota/Toyoda thing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota#Name
Carl Mar 2nd 2010 at 06:01 am 3

In addition to getting the facts wrong, the art confused me. The back of the couch looked like a panel border, and the guy under the newspaper is so well-hidden I had to struggle to figure out what he was.
Mark M Mar 2nd 2010 at 06:54 am 4

Technically, if an accelerator gets stuck, it doesn’t work. To be completely correct, you would say it doesn’t work properly, but there would be no way to work that into the joke.
Morris Keesan Mar 2nd 2010 at 01:07 pm 5

Too topical to count as synchronicity, but see
today’s Reality Check.
MB Mar 2nd 2010 at 04:42 pm 6

The reason that Toyota stands behind their cars is that they are afraid to stand in front of them.
The Bad Seed Mar 2nd 2010 at 09:55 pm 7

Actually, the joke might have been salvaged a bit if the line had been, “There’s definitely no Toyota (Toyoda) in his genealogy, because his accelerator doesn’t work at all.” Not a knee-slapper, but at least it would kinda make sense.
David A. Rooney Mar 4th 2010 at 08:45 pm 8

Toyota - Moving Forward (whether you want to or not).