Guns N’ Reese’s
Cidu Bill on Apr 26th 2010
Granted New Jersey has always been at the forefront of zero tolerance overreaction, but this just seems way too specific.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, CIDU, Dan Piraro, New Jersey, comic strips, comics, guns, humor | 22 responses so far
Jeff S. Apr 26th 2010 at 12:19 am 1
I get the overall joke, but not the candy part. Like you said, it seems too specific. On a semi-unrelated note… I found all 17 objects.
george Apr 26th 2010 at 12:26 am 2
After I saw this cartoon I saw a recent “Simpsons” episode (now on Hulu) where Homer’s candy apple is mistaken for a gun in a bank “robbery”. Related?
george Apr 26th 2010 at 12:28 am 3
On second look, there’s an alien on the kid’s shirt that looks like the aliens from the “Simpsons”, too.
Marshal Apr 26th 2010 at 01:14 am 4
Has there been a robbery or such using a candy gun recently?
I know that a licorice gun shows up in at least one movie and the
occasional TV show. And although I could not find it I seem to remember
some candy maker still made licorice items like guns.
Use a candy gun to rob a candy store?
Jeff S.,
Yeah, I found all 17 as well. I think it is cheating on his part
to just use multiples of some of the objects. It would have been
neat if he could have come up with 17 different candies.
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Julie Apr 26th 2010 at 08:33 am 5
I remember seeing a movie (maybe a TV show) where someone used a candy bar to hold up a convenience store. But, I’m having trouble remembering where I saw it.
Rainey Apr 26th 2010 at 08:55 am 6
I seem to recall that chocolate was used to craft “guns”, “grenades” and “dynamite” in films. (Probably in reality, too.) Although, one “Perfect Strangers” episode made mention of a butterscotch grenade.
Frank the curmudgeon Apr 26th 2010 at 09:02 am 7
They try to outlaw everything in New Jersey. From sunny side up eggs to …. I don’t live in N.J. but they give ideas to the cretans that run Massachusetts.
mitch4 Apr 26th 2010 at 09:13 am 8
“All Cretans are liars” ?
mitch4 Apr 26th 2010 at 09:14 am 9
(… said Epimenides of Crete.)
Father Bruno Di Frocco Apr 26th 2010 at 10:22 am 10
Can we agree that there’s a difference (a big one, I understand) between cretins and Cretans?
KL Apr 26th 2010 at 11:11 am 11
I think Charlie Sheen kidnapped Kristy Swanson using a candy bar in the movie “The Chase” … but that was like 15 years ago and was set in LA, not NJ.
Molly J Apr 26th 2010 at 01:24 pm 12
There was an internet meme making the email joke rounds some years ago describing the frustrations of being a parent. One of them was worded along the lines of “You forbid your child from having any toy weapons. He bites his toast into the shape of a gun.”
That’s the first thing I thought of. Guess that would be illegal in NJ, too.
Molly J Apr 26th 2010 at 01:33 pm 13
Wow. Apologies for the double post but I just did a quick Google for the email thing I mentioned above (it’s here, BTW http://www.naturist-christians.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=6137) and discovered that the “toast chewed into the shape of a gun” story has been stolen (or, to be charitable, “also experienced”) by a widespread sampling of internet humanity — from NRA members to advice columnists.
Frankie Darro Apr 26th 2010 at 04:56 pm 14
Interesting… This particular Bizarro was in our Sunday comics, not Saturday. It was larger, too (more visible shelf space). And it had 22 hidden objects instead of 17. I got a bigger laugh out of that than I did the “official” joke.
Mark in Boston Apr 26th 2010 at 05:38 pm 15
After you commit the robbery you can eat the evidence.
turquoise cow Apr 26th 2010 at 06:09 pm 16
As a lifelong resident of New Jersey, I can say that this does not surprise me in the least.
Frank the curmudgeon Apr 26th 2010 at 06:11 pm 17
@Mitch 4 & Father B
The Moving Finger types; and, having typed,
The dangers of relying of spell check for words that are not part of my active vocabulary becomes apparent. Though there is a view that favors cretin is a derived from Crete where hyperthyroidism was once a significant problem.Then there are others that contend cretin is a derivative from the name of the former Canadian PM.
mitch4 Apr 26th 2010 at 08:32 pm 18
Good one, Frank. And I think you were even Fair and Balanced (C). P.S. It’s amusing to hear speakers with certain British accents pronounce “cretin” with a short /e/. Such a cretin, he’s got me frettin’.
RHJunior Apr 27th 2010 at 05:47 pm 19
People are idiots, politicians are professionals at it.
They’re children. The purpose of play, even “violent” play, is to help them understand and cope with the world– and to learn the difference between make believe and reality.
We’re adults. Our job is to teach them the difference between make believe and reality.
When we behave as if toy guns and play violence are the same as the real thing we only confuse, frighten and mis-teach children. Their understanding of reality and fantasy in relation to violence is muddied, and worse, they are forced to internalize and suppress their fears and aggressions rather than let them out through the pressure-valve of innocent play.
The appropriate response when a child points a toy gun at you and goes “bang bang” is not a five minute ivy league lecture on the intrinsic violence and evil of guns. The appropriate response is to slap your hand to your chest and yell “ya got me, pardner.”
Bob in Nashville Apr 28th 2010 at 07:56 pm 20
I took the very specific example out of the blue to be the joke. Funny to some in the tradition of Monty Python.
pepperjackcandy Apr 29th 2010 at 08:11 am 21
It’s the “New Jersey” part that confuses me. I work in the toy department at Wal-Mart and all of our — bright orange — cap guns come with a slip of paper that says that they’re not for sale in the State of New *York*.
onewhoreads Oct 19th 2010 at 03:21 am 22
More than one child has been shot by police who saw a “gun” or “knife,” which was later revealed to be a candy bar. Or, rather, police have shot more than one child they claimed to have seen holding a “weapon” and investigators discovered a candy bar, but no weapon, at the scene.