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Month / December 2020
Happy Hanukkah
Happy Hanukkah, if you’re celebrating. (The Off the Mark isn’t here as a CIDU, it’s just a fun Hanukkah comic.)
Don’t let what happen?
Just absurdism? Just horror? Something else? From Markus.
Observational Humor
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, and other Geezers
Question 1: Is panel 5 a Geezer or a known fixture of American culture?
Question 2: Is “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” a Geezer, or perhaps an anti-Geezer? A cultural meme more likely to be known by the young?
From Andréa and chemgal.
And another one from chemgal. This one has to be a Geezer, right?
Chickens are Mammals?
There’s an Oy here of course, but . . . “chickens are mammals”???
From Andréa.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 6th, 2020
A Bounty of Bizarro!
From Andréa:
From Andréa:
Speaking of grammar:
Saturday Morning Oys – December 5th, 2020
And after the argument, she drove off in a Huff.
(If you are on a phone, you may not be able to see the Huff.)
Funnier than it deserves to be!
From Andréa and more.
An Argyle Agglomeration
From Andréa.
Bashful gorilla
Bashful guerrilla gorilla
Does anyone here know the joke about the bashful gorilla? I don’t, and can’t find it upon (an admittedly desultory) search. …
Next question: Did the audience in the 1950s know the joke? Or did some yes but some no? Edit: No, some site said these reruns were from the first two years of the comic strip, hence 1950-51 roughly. But a bit of digital magnification shows the blurry info at the left of the last panel includes what looks like a “1964”. It doesn’t matter much here, but was significant for the “Viet Nam” strip a couple weeks ago.
Next: Or was there never even a particular joke? Was it simply a tease all along? And would that matter? Would the comic strip gag work anyway, and would it be enuff?
Covid (in)consistencies, part 2
Some more covid (in)consistency comics.
From Andréa.
Here the “consistency” issue arises when the character watches old movies.
Dreams also needs to be consistent!
A GoComics commenter commented: ” Nancy (the strip) has had a bit of an uneasy relationship with the pandemic. I don’t think masks have been needed in the same way they were in, say, Arlo and Janis or Luann or Betty, but it makes it a little weird when they’re needed for the joke.”
It took me (Winter Wallaby) an exceptionally long time to parse the sequence of events in this strip.
Comics I Don't Understand 