Jon and Kate

Cidu Bill on Mar 26th 2010

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They obviously don’t need more attention. What’s the joke?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jon and Kate, comics, humor | 15 responses so far

15 Responses to “Jon and Kate”

  1. Marshal Mar 26th 2010 at 01:01 am 1

    First time I have heard them mentioned in quite awhile.
    So maybe they do. Do they even have a show anymore.

    Last thing I heard was possible divorce or something
    and that would be from overhearing some radio DJ talking.

  2. Dr. Shrinker Mar 26th 2010 at 01:39 am 2

    Does the fact that it’s really a PREYING mantis have anything to do with this?

  3. CaroZ Mar 26th 2010 at 01:43 am 3

    No, it’s a praying mantis:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis

    And I still don’t get the joke. It would have made more sense if it had stopped at Panel 2.

  4. Fnord Mar 26th 2010 at 02:10 am 4

    Maybe it’s supposed to be that the prayer worked?

  5. jjmcgaffey Mar 26th 2010 at 04:26 am 5

    Or that it didn’t? Panel 2 has a couple of pretty standard - what would you call them, hopeless prayers? Praying for world peace isn’t going to make it happen (not prayer alone). So maybe it’s another hopeless prayer? Mother Goose & Grimm (took me a minute to remember what strip that was) very seldom makes much sense to me.

  6. chuckers Mar 26th 2010 at 05:39 am 6

    This comic was from several moths back when J&K were getting WAY too much press time so the mantis is being facetious at best.

  7. Dave Van Domelen Mar 26th 2010 at 07:53 am 7

    Simple, really. He wants at least ONE of his prayers to be answered, and the others seem…unlikely. So with this one, he gets to not bat 0.000.

    Also, consider how mantis relationships tend to go, and you can see how he might be interested in seeing more of J&K….

  8. Charlene Mar 26th 2010 at 09:21 am 8

    Sarcasm. When the strip was published, they were massively overexposed.

  9. mister obvious Mar 26th 2010 at 09:30 am 9

    In the first panel, the mantis looks like he’s praying. In the second, he opens his eyes and drops his arms to talk to Ralph, but then resumes the praying position in the third panel. You can guess what the mantis is really praying about.

  10. Pete Mar 26th 2010 at 12:42 pm 10

    Jon and Kate who?

    Seriously- I don’t know. I’m British, perhaps they haven’t had so much publicity over here. Anyway, I don’t know who they are.

  11. Elyrest Mar 26th 2010 at 12:57 pm 11

    “Jon and Kate who?”

    Pete - You are very lucky. They are from a reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ that aired on TLC (The Learning Channel) here in the US. The show was about a (now ex) couple who have eight children - twins and sextuplets. You are very lucky that you don’t know who they are. I am embarrassed that I know this much as I have NEVER watched the show, but they have been all over the media and almost impossible to avoid.

    We will now say a short prayer for TLC which (along with Bravo and A&E) used to be good channels.

  12. paperboy Mar 26th 2010 at 05:46 pm 12

    One of the worst things about media-monsters like J&K is that I get into pointless, time wasting discussions about how pointless and time-wasting is the attention they get.

  13. turquoise cow Mar 26th 2010 at 09:29 pm 13

    @elyrest I haven’t heard TLC called “The Learning Channel” in quite some time. I suppose they changed it to avoid being sued for false advertisement. I’m waiting for The History Channel to do the same, because I haven’t yet figured out how Ice Road Truckers relates at all to History.

    IMO, all these channels should just be called “The Lame Reality Show Channel.”

  14. George P Mar 27th 2010 at 03:14 am 14

    But every channel has become a lame reality channel.

    Someone made an Adam Lambert joke yesterday that I got, even though I’ve never watched American Idol, and I haven’t discussed it with anyone, and I don’t watch any programs or read any magazines or frequent any Web sites where this kind of thing is discussed. Our culture is so saturated with this stuff that it’s unavoidable.

    I have no idea what John and Kate look like, but I had heard of the show and that they broke up.

  15. Paperboy Mar 27th 2010 at 06:25 pm 15

    Turquise Cow#13- I’m with you there. What happened to the idea of niche channels? Even AMC no longer plays “classics”.

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