I just now noticed the ‘Twisted Blister’ on the back of the jacket . . .
Sure, and Chex cereals were my grandmother’s favorite. Which still doesn’t turn two words that happen to sound alike into a joke.
Maybe the hand gestures mean something?
(Is the guy in the car signing “I love you”?)
Before a band goes on stage, they first do sound checks, making sure all the electronica is plugged in and connected properly, and the volume settings are right.
TRUE fans show up for sound checks, which are usually multiple hours before show time.
Imagine around 4:00pm, a handful of people milling around the venue, and the roadies are getting everything set up. The lights are up and hooked up, the pyrotechnics are all hooked up, the instruments are all laid out, the amps and speaker stacks are all set up. The band members come out and play bits of their songs to make sure that everything is set up correctly. It’s a relaxed time, because there’s nobody there who doesn’t need to be there, and there’s still time to fix any problems that show up.
“(Is the guy in the car signing “I love you”?)”
No. He is signing “you guys rock!”
Once again… File it under “yes, that’s it”.
Chex are definitely “old people” cereal. Looks like these rockers are more county fair circuit than arena tour, if you catch my drift.
Worrying about being old people and thinking pointing out that others are old people in the hope that people seeing you pointing out other people are old somehow will mean you aren’t old is definitely more “old people” than actually eating chex.
Chex (as long as it wasn’t Corn Chex) were my favorite cereal before I had had an age with more than 4 factors. But I can’t stand them now.
The guy in the car is throwing the horns to the metal band as he drives by their tour bus. It’s all pretty clear to me.
The other guy at the table isn’t eating anything. Maybe he placed an order for the cereal also but then decided he wasn’t actually very hungry and thus cancelled Chex? (Or maybe he asked they serve him an invisible bowl full of the transparent version, Blank Chex.)
The two possibilities are about equally likely, I think, so — Chex and balances.
(Sorry, it’s Friday and I finished a nagging project last night and thus feel like Being Silly this morning. I’ll go away now.)
How popular are Chex in Prague?
Don’t overthink it.
The guys here are on a tour bus — you can see the driver.
What do bands do before they go on stage? They do sound checks. What do they eat for breakfast before a concert? They eat Sound Chex. That’s it.
Yep — they’re roadies (or possibly the musicians themselves, but they look roadie-er) on a tour bus.
This is a chuckle from me. YMMV
So the consensus is that he has taken what in any other comic strip (Peanuts had Snicker-Snacks, Foxtrot has Self magazine with a picture of the reader on it) would be a throwaway extra detail gag and made it the centerpiece of the strip?
@ larK – Don’t forget Calvin’s “Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs“!
P.S. @ Shrug – I don’t know about Prague, but Kellogg’s and Nestle each get about a third of the cereal aisles in Berlin. Even so, the selection is severely limited (in comparison to American supermarkets). I’ve never seen Chex, Rice Crispies, Captain Crunch, Life, or Alphabits here.
@Shrug, I think I love you!
Sibilance, Sibilance……..
@Kilby: I actually removed Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from my post because they weren’t strictly a throw-away joke — there was at least one cartoon exclusively about them (and which actually developed a theme commenting on children’s breakfast cereals).
“So the consensus is that he has taken what in any other comic strip … would be a throwaway extra detail gag and made it the centerpiece of the strip?”
Um, you are aware this is Strange Brew we are talking about, aren’t you?
@woozy: apparently not. Until I just looked right now, I thought this was the one with the #%@! squirrel. Of course, now I’m even more disillusioned, when what I thought to be one lame strip is actually two, and one of them is REALY, REALLY lame…
Are those teeny tiny amps in his spoon? They don’t look like Chex, even this-quality-of-art Chex…
“Sound Checks” sounding like “Sound Chex” (or vice versa) isn’t all of it (to me). Andréa nodded to the many varieties of Chex (Wikipedia lists 22 of them).
The adding on to a lengthy list is, to me, what makes it funny.
billytheskink – I think you snuck one through.
Now I’m hungry. I’m going out for a bowl of Strawberry Smiggles.
@ MiB – That was really gross. I wish I had waited until after breakfast before I watched it.
How did this one not get an “oy” tag?
I enjoy some Wheat Chex on occasion.
I don’t want to suggest that you, as an intelligent agent capable of making your own decisions, cannot reach a different conclusion after weighing all the evidence available and applying your own experiences, opinions, and general outlook on life.
But Wheat Chex are godawful.
Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, Rice Chex, Chex Mix powder, a can of nuts. Mix them all together with some melted butter. Consumer with Lambrusco. My dinner of choice.
That would be ‘consume’ . . .
Per Meatloaf (the performer, not the food) in “Roadie” – everything works if you let it and the roadies make it go.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, Corn Chex, Sound Chex, Chex Mix, Sound Mixers . . .
I just now noticed the ‘Twisted Blister’ on the back of the jacket . . .
Sure, and Chex cereals were my grandmother’s favorite. Which still doesn’t turn two words that happen to sound alike into a joke.
Maybe the hand gestures mean something?
(Is the guy in the car signing “I love you”?)
Before a band goes on stage, they first do sound checks, making sure all the electronica is plugged in and connected properly, and the volume settings are right.
TRUE fans show up for sound checks, which are usually multiple hours before show time.
Imagine around 4:00pm, a handful of people milling around the venue, and the roadies are getting everything set up. The lights are up and hooked up, the pyrotechnics are all hooked up, the instruments are all laid out, the amps and speaker stacks are all set up. The band members come out and play bits of their songs to make sure that everything is set up correctly. It’s a relaxed time, because there’s nobody there who doesn’t need to be there, and there’s still time to fix any problems that show up.
“(Is the guy in the car signing “I love you”?)”
No. He is signing “you guys rock!”
Once again… File it under “yes, that’s it”.
Chex are definitely “old people” cereal. Looks like these rockers are more county fair circuit than arena tour, if you catch my drift.
Worrying about being old people and thinking pointing out that others are old people in the hope that people seeing you pointing out other people are old somehow will mean you aren’t old is definitely more “old people” than actually eating chex.
Chex (as long as it wasn’t Corn Chex) were my favorite cereal before I had had an age with more than 4 factors. But I can’t stand them now.
The guy in the car is throwing the horns to the metal band as he drives by their tour bus. It’s all pretty clear to me.
The other guy at the table isn’t eating anything. Maybe he placed an order for the cereal also but then decided he wasn’t actually very hungry and thus cancelled Chex? (Or maybe he asked they serve him an invisible bowl full of the transparent version, Blank Chex.)
The two possibilities are about equally likely, I think, so — Chex and balances.
(Sorry, it’s Friday and I finished a nagging project last night and thus feel like Being Silly this morning. I’ll go away now.)
How popular are Chex in Prague?
Don’t overthink it.
The guys here are on a tour bus — you can see the driver.
What do bands do before they go on stage? They do sound checks. What do they eat for breakfast before a concert? They eat Sound Chex. That’s it.
Yep — they’re roadies (or possibly the musicians themselves, but they look roadie-er) on a tour bus.
This is a chuckle from me. YMMV
So the consensus is that he has taken what in any other comic strip (Peanuts had Snicker-Snacks, Foxtrot has Self magazine with a picture of the reader on it) would be a throwaway extra detail gag and made it the centerpiece of the strip?
@ larK – Don’t forget Calvin’s “Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs“!
P.S. @ Shrug – I don’t know about Prague, but Kellogg’s and Nestle each get about a third of the cereal aisles in Berlin. Even so, the selection is severely limited (in comparison to American supermarkets). I’ve never seen Chex, Rice Crispies, Captain Crunch, Life, or Alphabits here.
@Shrug, I think I love you!
Sibilance, Sibilance……..
@Kilby: I actually removed Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from my post because they weren’t strictly a throw-away joke — there was at least one cartoon exclusively about them (and which actually developed a theme commenting on children’s breakfast cereals).
“So the consensus is that he has taken what in any other comic strip … would be a throwaway extra detail gag and made it the centerpiece of the strip?”
Um, you are aware this is Strange Brew we are talking about, aren’t you?
@woozy: apparently not. Until I just looked right now, I thought this was the one with the #%@! squirrel. Of course, now I’m even more disillusioned, when what I thought to be one lame strip is actually two, and one of them is REALY, REALLY lame…
Are those teeny tiny amps in his spoon? They don’t look like Chex, even this-quality-of-art Chex…
“Sound Checks” sounding like “Sound Chex” (or vice versa) isn’t all of it (to me). Andréa nodded to the many varieties of Chex (Wikipedia lists 22 of them).
The adding on to a lengthy list is, to me, what makes it funny.
billytheskink – I think you snuck one through.
Now I’m hungry. I’m going out for a bowl of Strawberry Smiggles.
@ MiB – That was really gross. I wish I had waited until after breakfast before I watched it.
How did this one not get an “oy” tag?
I enjoy some Wheat Chex on occasion.
I don’t want to suggest that you, as an intelligent agent capable of making your own decisions, cannot reach a different conclusion after weighing all the evidence available and applying your own experiences, opinions, and general outlook on life.
But Wheat Chex are godawful.
Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, Rice Chex, Chex Mix powder, a can of nuts. Mix them all together with some melted butter. Consumer with Lambrusco. My dinner of choice.
That would be ‘consume’ . . .
Per Meatloaf (the performer, not the food) in “Roadie” – everything works if you let it and the roadies make it go.