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.
“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.
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.
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It’s the horror of being watched. And yet, the person doing it is being so helpful….
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“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.
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It’s a reference to a Hitchcock movie, one which has been parodied SO many times by television sitcoms that it’s cliche.
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I agree with James, it is probably playing off of “Rear Window”.
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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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