Unca $crooge sends this one in, noting “This seems like two different conversations but maybe there is a connection that I don’t get.”
The Dinette Set is in reruns, so this could refer to some current event we’ve forgotten, although this comic didn’t tend to refer to current events.
That’s another fine meta you’ve got us into!
For a comic strip not generally* done in “realistic style”, this shows a lot of detail to convincingly set the scene!
[*] Though they occasionally go hyper-realistic by using a photo panel!
Suggested by Dirk the Daring, who notes “Me thinks David Sipress has never left the city. The cow and pig in the background aren’t too bad, but up front we seem to have a cow with pig nose and maybe a pig with a cow tail. Or maybe not.
The gag itself is pretty good though.”
As a commenter at GoComics hints, that Mr. Wilson better not be Dennis Mitchell’s neighbor!
Yes, this was a Sunday strip.
It’s almost clear and obvious – turns out the loud / parent.disturbing / teen-typical music booming thru the speakers is not what Zack is listening to thru the already-donned headphones. Because instead, he is hearing. . . what, exactly?
I was going to say, it seems suggestive, but then turns out not. But is that an internal contradiction?
Note the man on the right is a psychiatrist.
The blonde is, of course, his sister. Don’t forget to read the signage on the wall.
