Pinny is correct. The joke works best if the shedding is being done by a cat instead of a dog. But neither one is a fit for the Shining. Now you could have Cujo for the dog, and there was a cat in Pet Semetary. But now I am over thinking it.
This works just fine without the caption. Wayno’s flirting with squirrel territory here. Of course, Bill still wouldn’t get it, because it’s a cat owner thing.
Around the time that The Shining was published, there was a big trend of other horror novelists (or their publishers) naming things after gerunds. Things like The Gathering, The Harvesting, and so on.
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I think this is meant to be wordplay on Stephen King’s “The Shining”.
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Pinny is correct. The joke works best if the shedding is being done by a cat instead of a dog. But neither one is a fit for the Shining. Now you could have Cujo for the dog, and there was a cat in Pet Semetary. But now I am over thinking it.
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In The Shining, he couldn’t go out because of the weather. In The Shedding, he can’t go out because of the cat hair. No deeper than that.
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And he’ll never finish rolling the cat hair off his pants. No matter how much you get rid of, there’s always more.
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I also am assuming that this is that “Shedding” sounds like “Shining”.
And after a joke of that caliber, Wayno is *NEVER* allowed to complain about Jimmy Buffet or (*anything* on the planet) ever again!
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The joke is that cats are monsters.
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This works just fine without the caption. Wayno’s flirting with squirrel territory here. Of course, Bill still wouldn’t get it, because it’s a cat owner thing.
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Around the time that The Shining was published, there was a big trend of other horror novelists (or their publishers) naming things after gerunds. Things like The Gathering, The Harvesting, and so on.
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The Ring, The Thing.
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I guess Bizarro gets cats.
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