by CIDU Bill

Pumpkins

pumpkins

    1. He’s… a pig?… because he’s selling tickets tickets to a group whose name Pumpkinhead finds offensive?
    2. The horse needs its own ticket?
    3. And don’t you hate sitting behind somebody who’s always standing?
    4. So in the Argyleverse, $50 for front row concert tickets is expensive? In the real world, $50 won’t get you front row tickets to hear me sing.
    5. Oh, and Andréa sent me this for the Oy tag. I probably should have led with that.

 

28 Comments

  1. Unknown's avatar

    Perhaps the insult is in response to what the horseman thinks they are planning to do to him if he attends the concert (it’s right there on the poster).

  2. Unknown's avatar

    It’s a drive-in music theater?????

    (see everyone is in cars).

    Hard to tell if the he’s calling him a pig for charging a lot for the tickets and the joke is the band is about pumpkins and he’s particularly fond of talking heads,

    or if the joke is he’s offended by the smashing pumpkins and is calling the ticket person a pig for it and liking the talking heads is a coda.

    …. but if he’s offended by the smashing pumpkins then why’d he buy the tickets, Bart? why’d he buy the tickets?

  3. Unknown's avatar

    I think the “pig” comment is because the Headless Horseman thinks it is insensitive to suggest he see the smashing of pumpkins. However, a talking head WOULD be of interest to him.

    On the other hand, $50 WAS a heck of a lot of money in 1820 (the publishing date of “Sleepy Hollow”).

    As for “two tickets” I haven’t a clue.

  4. Unknown's avatar

    In the Argyle Universe are either the Smashing Pumpkins or the Talking Heads still performing? Are they still performing in our universe?

    … and…. Why’d he buy the tickets, Bill? Why’d he buy the tickets?

  5. Unknown's avatar

    woozy, I supposed he bought the tickets to see the opening act, the Talking Heads, since he has… a talking head.

    Which, you know, so do we…

  6. Unknown's avatar

    The Talking Heads are no longer together (their last reunion performance was in 2002), but the Smashing Pumpkins are still around (there was a hiatus from 2003 to 2007, but they’ve been around since). The original guitarist and drummer just returned, and they’ve got a new album coming out in a couple weeks.

    (I actively dislike the promo video I’ve seen from the new one, and Corgan has kinda gone nuts, so I actually kind of wish they weren’t, but they are still around.)

    And, Bill…the point is they’re JUST heads. You know, the sort of thing the Headless Horseman collects.

  7. Unknown's avatar

    The thing that annoys me is it could have been a decent joke but the way it is written the dialog and set up is just too stilted.

  9. Unknown's avatar

    Nothing says ‘I’m out of touch’ like saying ‘rock is extinct’… The particular subgenre they played might be…probably should be…but rock certainly isn’t.

  12. Unknown's avatar

    I’m still trying to figure out in what universe Talking Heads and the Smashing Pumpkins would be on the same bill, let alone where TH would be opening for the Pumpkins.

  15. Unknown's avatar

    Andrea, I think we still have room for another pumpkin joke. If not they taper off after the seanson.

    But there is never room for a π (pi) = “pie” joke.

    10,279 pi = pie jokes are 10,278 ½ too many.

  23. Unknown's avatar

    What really stinks is the cover bands at the local casinos cost more to see than the originals back in the day when they were just starting.

  24. Unknown's avatar

    Woozy – I thought the cars were in the parking lot as the building is roundish like an arena.

    Ja – I figured that when was flogging tickets like this one offers two of them so the pumpkin, err, person, can bring a date. It did not occur to me that the second was for the horse.

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