Even though I have lived in neighborhoods with Neighborhood Watch, I’m not sure exactly what Neighborhood Watch is supposed to do. I think you’re supposed to call the police if you see something suspicious, like a moving van at someone’s house when they are only on vacation and not moving away.
This cartoon is someone else’s idea of Neighborhood Watch. He watches you like a stalker and gives you helpful tips.
It’s the horror of being watched. And yet, the person doing it is being so helpful….
“Neighborhood Watch” was Bill’s header. The cartoon is just a guy stalking but apparently being unaware that stalking is something he shouldn’t do. And he’s not being hopeful; he’s being judgemental. I don’t get this. But I think it has something to do with the way everyone follows and judges everybody on social media and how there is no privacy any more. But… I still don’t get it.
It’s a reference to a Hitchcock movie, one which has been parodied SO many times by television sitcoms that it’s cliche.
I agree with James, it is probably playing off of “Rear Window”.
I really don’t think it’s meant to parody Rear Window. Maybe if they had made the guy look like Jimmy Stewart’s character and put him in a wheelchair. Seems to me it’s just shock value, something that could easily have been used in Mad Magazine.
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Even though I have lived in neighborhoods with Neighborhood Watch, I’m not sure exactly what Neighborhood Watch is supposed to do. I think you’re supposed to call the police if you see something suspicious, like a moving van at someone’s house when they are only on vacation and not moving away.
This cartoon is someone else’s idea of Neighborhood Watch. He watches you like a stalker and gives you helpful tips.
It’s the horror of being watched. And yet, the person doing it is being so helpful….
“Neighborhood Watch” was Bill’s header. The cartoon is just a guy stalking but apparently being unaware that stalking is something he shouldn’t do. And he’s not being hopeful; he’s being judgemental. I don’t get this. But I think it has something to do with the way everyone follows and judges everybody on social media and how there is no privacy any more. But… I still don’t get it.
It’s a reference to a Hitchcock movie, one which has been parodied SO many times by television sitcoms that it’s cliche.
I agree with James, it is probably playing off of “Rear Window”.
I really don’t think it’s meant to parody Rear Window. Maybe if they had made the guy look like Jimmy Stewart’s character and put him in a wheelchair. Seems to me it’s just shock value, something that could easily have been used in Mad Magazine.