Okay, lots of little background jokes (hamburger helper, make america grape, date.com etc) but utterly no foreground joke and a very distracting dialog balloon drawing attention to the weakest background joke (demand is *high*… because he’s the jolly green giant) as though that is the main joke which…. it *can’t* be, can it???
Okay, that’s all I’ve got.
Okay, It the “The big toe is the captain of the toes” again.
the cartoonist thought “hey, there’s a lot of recognizable commercial logos with food themes, fruit of the loom, vegi-tales etc, I bet no-ones realized that and it be funny to put them all together” and as often embarrassingly the case is seen by everyone as as “so? Why on earth would you think anyone would find that interesting?”
How many of those campaigns are still extant and are not just geezer references? I stopped watching TV with commercials some 15 years ago, so I don’t know what’s still playing; on the one hand, I could see them stretching the life out of some tired, once hot campaign like the California Raisins for 40 years and counting, but on the other hand, I can’t see a tired, stretched out campaign like that actually bringing in any return, but on the third hand, I contend no one has proven that advertising really works any better than that banana in the ear to keep the alligator away, so who’s to call them to account for squandering all that money?
But back to my point: which ones would be recognized by a ten year old today?
I think the “primary” joke really is at the Green Giant’s stand: all the other recruiters are looking for actors or helpers or contacts, but he needs “all their friends” because he’s planning on slicing and dicing them into packages of food.
P.S. I have no idea what “J.I.T.B.” is supposed to mean, nor why the character behind that table looks like a snowman wearing a suit.
Jack in the Box is an American burger chain. That creepy snowman is its mascot. If you know this, it’s kind of funny as the Hamburger Helper glove mascot is at it’s stand. Not a knee-slapper, but a smirk.
I am surprised that Pillsbury is not at the job fair. They always have lots of turnover
If it weren’t for Jack in the Box (which *no-one* acronyms) and hamburger helper I’d have assumed the fairs was for fruits and vegetables. Fruit of the Loom, which fruit, isn’t really a food product. Vege-tales are not a product logo/mascot but an entertainment franchise. And Date.com, so far as I can tell, is completely fictional.
As a joke this was very inconsistent.
(BTW, the spokesman for Jack in the Box is not supposed to be a snowman; he’s supposed to be a Jack-in-the-Box… in a suit.)
And then something about blind dates. That’s a blind date in front of her table. And?
The jokes work for me, the composition of the comic muddles most of them badly, though. VeggieTales characters are a challenge to recognize from a 3/4 back angle. The Green Giant’s speech bubble is hard to track back to him. The California Raisin looks more like a blind Grimace and Jack from Jack In The Box usually wears a smile or at least a red mouth of some shape.
Jack in the Box is seeking helpers, he is talking to the logo from Hamburger Helper, Jack sells hamburgers.
The Blind Date booth is talking to a blind date.
The Green Giant, frozen food is talking to the Vegi-tales Presumably to include them in his products.
The California Raisin Board is interviewing the Fruit of the Loom logos, although he would only want to hire the Grapes.
I love the blind date gag, sue me
Why is the Job Fair sponsored by Nabisco? (or at least, that’s what it looks like) Does Nabisco own all the companies with stands? Does anyone know? I can’t be bothered to look it up.
Don’t overthink it. As Raymond explains, each booth has a pun, although I will add the “Make America Grape Again” joke with the raisin. If you’re not a fan of puns, you surely won’t like this strip.
The J-i-t-B snowman’s head has a cameo role in the very funny movie “My Fellow Americans.”
For those unaware, Fruit Of The Loom guys advertise underwear, and so seem a little out of place in this comic.
Note that in addition to the three FOTL figures (costumed humans in the actual advertising campaign) there should also be a fourth…a green grape guy.
I didn’t laugh, but there were a lot of decent jokes crammed into the one panel, so I applaud the workmanship. I didn’t recognize the FotL characters, the Veggies, or that the snowmanish guy was the Jack in the Box mascot, so it got better as I read the replies here. I don’t let the inconsistencies get in the way of my smiles.
I thought everyone seemed to be missing the other “obvious” “joke”: Tell all your friends! I.e. they will hear it through the grapevine.
Then I looked again and it seems that speech bubble is coming from the Jolly Green Giant and not the California Raisin so I guess it doesn’t make sense after all.
I feel like Raymond A. Levesque mentioned the joke, but only in passing, and no one else has. The Veggie Tales characters are at the job fair looking for employment. The Jolly Green Giant says that he has jobs for them. In fact, he has so many jobs that their friends should all come “work” for him too. But it’s just another product source for him. I’m sure I’ve seen jokes like this all over the place before.
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Um… it’s a job fair for food????
Okay, lots of little background jokes (hamburger helper, make america grape, date.com etc) but utterly no foreground joke and a very distracting dialog balloon drawing attention to the weakest background joke (demand is *high*… because he’s the jolly green giant) as though that is the main joke which…. it *can’t* be, can it???
Okay, that’s all I’ve got.
Okay, It the “The big toe is the captain of the toes” again.
the cartoonist thought “hey, there’s a lot of recognizable commercial logos with food themes, fruit of the loom, vegi-tales etc, I bet no-ones realized that and it be funny to put them all together” and as often embarrassingly the case is seen by everyone as as “so? Why on earth would you think anyone would find that interesting?”
How many of those campaigns are still extant and are not just geezer references? I stopped watching TV with commercials some 15 years ago, so I don’t know what’s still playing; on the one hand, I could see them stretching the life out of some tired, once hot campaign like the California Raisins for 40 years and counting, but on the other hand, I can’t see a tired, stretched out campaign like that actually bringing in any return, but on the third hand, I contend no one has proven that advertising really works any better than that banana in the ear to keep the alligator away, so who’s to call them to account for squandering all that money?
But back to my point: which ones would be recognized by a ten year old today?
I think the “primary” joke really is at the Green Giant’s stand: all the other recruiters are looking for actors or helpers or contacts, but he needs “all their friends” because he’s planning on slicing and dicing them into packages of food.
P.S. I have no idea what “J.I.T.B.” is supposed to mean, nor why the character behind that table looks like a snowman wearing a suit.
Jack in the Box is an American burger chain. That creepy snowman is its mascot. If you know this, it’s kind of funny as the Hamburger Helper glove mascot is at it’s stand. Not a knee-slapper, but a smirk.
I am surprised that Pillsbury is not at the job fair. They always have lots of turnover
If it weren’t for Jack in the Box (which *no-one* acronyms) and hamburger helper I’d have assumed the fairs was for fruits and vegetables. Fruit of the Loom, which fruit, isn’t really a food product. Vege-tales are not a product logo/mascot but an entertainment franchise. And Date.com, so far as I can tell, is completely fictional.
As a joke this was very inconsistent.
(BTW, the spokesman for Jack in the Box is not supposed to be a snowman; he’s supposed to be a Jack-in-the-Box… in a suit.)
And then something about blind dates. That’s a blind date in front of her table. And?
The jokes work for me, the composition of the comic muddles most of them badly, though. VeggieTales characters are a challenge to recognize from a 3/4 back angle. The Green Giant’s speech bubble is hard to track back to him. The California Raisin looks more like a blind Grimace and Jack from Jack In The Box usually wears a smile or at least a red mouth of some shape.
Jack in the Box is seeking helpers, he is talking to the logo from Hamburger Helper, Jack sells hamburgers.
The Blind Date booth is talking to a blind date.
The Green Giant, frozen food is talking to the Vegi-tales Presumably to include them in his products.
The California Raisin Board is interviewing the Fruit of the Loom logos, although he would only want to hire the Grapes.
I love the blind date gag, sue me
Why is the Job Fair sponsored by Nabisco? (or at least, that’s what it looks like) Does Nabisco own all the companies with stands? Does anyone know? I can’t be bothered to look it up.
Don’t overthink it. As Raymond explains, each booth has a pun, although I will add the “Make America Grape Again” joke with the raisin. If you’re not a fan of puns, you surely won’t like this strip.
The J-i-t-B snowman’s head has a cameo role in the very funny movie “My Fellow Americans.”
For those unaware, Fruit Of The Loom guys advertise underwear, and so seem a little out of place in this comic.
Note that in addition to the three FOTL figures (costumed humans in the actual advertising campaign) there should also be a fourth…a green grape guy.
I didn’t laugh, but there were a lot of decent jokes crammed into the one panel, so I applaud the workmanship. I didn’t recognize the FotL characters, the Veggies, or that the snowmanish guy was the Jack in the Box mascot, so it got better as I read the replies here. I don’t let the inconsistencies get in the way of my smiles.
I thought everyone seemed to be missing the other “obvious” “joke”: Tell all your friends! I.e. they will hear it through the grapevine.
Then I looked again and it seems that speech bubble is coming from the Jolly Green Giant and not the California Raisin so I guess it doesn’t make sense after all.
I feel like Raymond A. Levesque mentioned the joke, but only in passing, and no one else has. The Veggie Tales characters are at the job fair looking for employment. The Jolly Green Giant says that he has jobs for them. In fact, he has so many jobs that their friends should all come “work” for him too. But it’s just another product source for him. I’m sure I’ve seen jokes like this all over the place before.