Walt’s supposed to be an XXL? And Momma Keene is supposed to be thickset and squat??Or is something else going on in the Zits strip?Does Momma Duncan (damn, her name is right on the tip of my tongue) think that Walt will appear to be thinner if he wears XXL pants. Though they don’t seem to be XXL pants.
Okay, I don’t even know if this is a CIDU. And I’m not even going to try to figure out the right acronym for that.
With movie tickets as high as $12 each ($17 for 3D/IMAX) — and that popcorn they’re holding would be six bucks easy — is the price of a gallon of gas really a factor in keeping anybody from going to the theatres?
What’s the actual joke here? I think most parents of teenage boys quickly understand the internal logic of Jeremy’s comment, and generally accept it. Does this really warrant Jeremy’s Mom throwing food at him?
This is, of course, a trope familiar to all readers of For Better or For Worse: Elly was forever throwing things at her husband and children at the slightest provocation.
We were discussing just the other day how straight-A student Jeremy sometimes seems to have an IQ well below that of a normally funtioning human being… Continue Reading »
Jim Moore: “No matter how ‘gadgetized’ kids are, is the artist really saying that there are no coloring books, no homework, no paper ANYTHING for these kids to have come across?”
Similarly and more annoyingly (because Jeremy is 16 years old and an A student, albeit selectively stupid):
Could Bob Dylan possibly have imagined that close to a half century later, allusions to his video would still be going strong (or for that matter, that he would as well)?
This actually does reflect teenager logic: phone calls take longer to deal with and can easily sit in voice mail for long periods of time. Texts get more immediate attention.
Of course that leaves us with the “then what’s the joke?” problem…