Comments on: Red Light Special

By: Ooten Aboot

Ooten Aboot — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:50:41 +0000

I thought Cicero was Mutt’s son.

By: Lola

Lola — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:49:18 +0000

But where is the starting point? Cicero? Let’s face it, if it’s even a block he’s an idiot but by comic logic, that’s better than NYC or Detroit.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:09:14 +0000

And once Mutt bought a motorcycle and crashed it into a car that very night. He thought the two headlights coming at him were two motorcycles and tried to drive between them.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:21:16 +0000

Justin Wilson also told a joke (an old one, no doubt) about a drunk who followed railroad tracks thinking it was a ladder.
Anyhow, Jeff should go into long distance running, being able to keep up with a truck all the way to Chicago.

By: Ooten Aboot

Ooten Aboot — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:24:37 +0000

In panel one, the boss pointed out a fixed red light. Later, Jeff mistook a truck’s tail light (there was often only one tail light in the old days) for the one that marked his boundary.

Perhaps it was foggy. I recall a story, from about the same era, of the driver who was crawling along a road in thick fog, following the white line, when suddenly he found himself in the ditch and realized the white line was on the back of a skunk. That may have been another M & J strip.

By: Jim Moore

Jim Moore — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:15:13 +0000

This is an old vaudeville gag. You can also see it in the Three Stooges short, “Three Little Pigskins”.

By: George P.

George P. — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:46:55 +0000

It’s a construction site early in the process, since they are digging the foundation.

By: jjmcgaffey

jjmcgaffey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:31:02 +0000

It’s Mutt & Jeff…critical thinking definitely doesn’t enter into it. The funniest thing about M&J for me is the way the two of them switch roles - the “dumb one” can be either of them, in any particular strip. Though Jeff (short one) gets it most often - and frequently wins thereby.

By: furrykef

furrykef — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:24:35 +0000

It’s also implausible for him to follow a truck all that way without realizing it was a truck the whole time. I don’t think this particular strip was written with critical thinking in mind.

By: James Pollock

James Pollock — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:13:42 +0000

He was supposed to be keeping watch on a building… from the spot where they’re standing in panel two (probably the loading dock for a warehouse, although I also get the idea of mine, or possibly a construction site based on the background art.) down to what is probably the end of the block.

But when he walked down to the red light that marked the far end of his domain, it moved away from him, and he kept following it, because it was a taillight.