“Probably a CIDU for some. It was for me, but, it turns out it was easily Googled.”
Certainly was a CIDU for me!
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I don’t remember the specific line, but I know what Clue is. Both the board game and the film.
I got it right off. That movie is quoted a lot in my household.
…and to make a long story short…
Too late!
Identifying the correct source of the (movie) quote† resolves the extent of Ayo‘s cluelessness, but it does not necessarily explain the joke in this strip.
P.S. (†) – It‘s the very last quote in the linked list.
P.P.S. I‘m sure that there was (once) a fairly large collection of CIDU posts featuring Questionable Content, but they must have all been before Comicgeddon. There’s only one other QC post left now: Bill posted it nearly four years ago.
It’s less CIDU and more Geezer.
So, in the movie of Clue (which is mined for a lot of internet memes, such as Madeline Kahn’s “flames” speech, or Tim Curry’s “Communism was always a red herring,” line), the nebbishy Mr. Green (played by Michael McKean) has a running bit where he codes as effeminate and possibly gay. In at least one of the endings, he’s revealed to be a federal undercover agent, with the whole effeminate nebbish thing being part of his cover. And having solved the case, he boldly proclaims, “I’m going home to sleep with MY WIFE!” Because, you know, he’s actually straight.
In the QC strip, of course, her proclamation works unmodified because she’s married to another woman. She’s one of the strip’s original characters, and while her age is somewhat indeterminate (this is not a real-time-aging strip, but people do age) she’s definitely of a different generation than new employee Ayo (who is a college freshman…well, was until she dropped out).
The main joke, even without understanding the Clue movie reference (and frankly, just about everyone in the strip was born after Clue was in theaters, but it’s a meme thing) is that She Is Now An Old. The original hip young college student cast are all now Grownups, and Old.
I still don’t get it, but I never played Clue. My wife will explain it to me. But it was a pleasure to see QC here, two days after I finished a binge-read of Jeph Jacques’ 5,200 comics. I found the strip in 2012, binge-read then, joined a forum of marvelously diverse readers and met a few face to face. I lost touch in years after that, but on the latest read, I rediscovered how the creator of the comic has preserved and developed kindness, care, diversity, humor and groan-worthy puns. Many of his characters are “AIs,” sentient beings, who interact as equals with humans, their status preserved in the Constitution if I recall correctly. It means that noisy bulldozer at the building may have a name, speech and feelings. It’s often lewd and crude, but it’s been a lot of fun and food for thought.
So far as I know, the board game Clue has nothing to do with this meme.
The movie was shot 40 years ago. The only thing I recall being of note from the movie is that there were several alternative endings with different perps.
I’m trying to put in the URL for the relevant clip from Clue, but the comment block doesn’t seem to like URLs in general or YouTube in specific. If the link fails to go through, just search on “Clue (1985)” and “I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife” and you should get the clip.
Wow, that dialog certainly makes me glad I didn’t go see the movie. I do remember enjoying the game when I was a child.
The new block format “embed” always “sits and spins” for me, unlike image links. I’ve learned to just hit “Comment”.
Clue: On Stage is currently touring. It is apparently based on the movie, so the concept is not completely dead. It’ll be several months before I see it, so not sure if this particular line is present.
Some people have seen it and some haven’t. It has nothing to do when being old.
I had the game when I was a child. It was one of those problem games – there had to be more than 2 people playing it to be able to play it. (If only two people playing if one had not “done it” then the other person playing had to have done it.) It was rare there were more of 2 of us to play – and I have since found out from my middle sister that she hate that I “MADE” her play games with me in general. (Other sister is 12 years younger than me so too young to play a game like this when we use to play.)
I remember getting my dad to play once. Dad was always completely logical and about the smartest person I knew. He would solve who had done it with all sorts of ideas which had nothing to do with the game. (He once solved an unrelated “Man from Uncle” game which had a jigsaw puzzle as a clue as there was smoke coming from an ashtray and Napoleon Solo in the picture. He figured out that Solo had burned whatever it was that was missing solo based on the fact that Solo “does not smoke”. Somehow I don’t think that was what was intended – but he was right about who it was.)
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I don’t remember the specific line, but I know what Clue is. Both the board game and the film.
I got it right off. That movie is quoted a lot in my household.
…and to make a long story short…
Too late!
Identifying the correct source of the (movie) quote† resolves the extent of Ayo‘s cluelessness, but it does not necessarily explain the joke in this strip.
P.S. (†) – It‘s the very last quote in the linked list.
P.P.S. I‘m sure that there was (once) a fairly large collection of CIDU posts featuring Questionable Content, but they must have all been before Comicgeddon. There’s only one other QC post left now: Bill posted it nearly four years ago.
It’s less CIDU and more Geezer.
So, in the movie of Clue (which is mined for a lot of internet memes, such as Madeline Kahn’s “flames” speech, or Tim Curry’s “Communism was always a red herring,” line), the nebbishy Mr. Green (played by Michael McKean) has a running bit where he codes as effeminate and possibly gay. In at least one of the endings, he’s revealed to be a federal undercover agent, with the whole effeminate nebbish thing being part of his cover. And having solved the case, he boldly proclaims, “I’m going home to sleep with MY WIFE!” Because, you know, he’s actually straight.
In the QC strip, of course, her proclamation works unmodified because she’s married to another woman. She’s one of the strip’s original characters, and while her age is somewhat indeterminate (this is not a real-time-aging strip, but people do age) she’s definitely of a different generation than new employee Ayo (who is a college freshman…well, was until she dropped out).
The main joke, even without understanding the Clue movie reference (and frankly, just about everyone in the strip was born after Clue was in theaters, but it’s a meme thing) is that She Is Now An Old. The original hip young college student cast are all now Grownups, and Old.
I still don’t get it, but I never played Clue. My wife will explain it to me. But it was a pleasure to see QC here, two days after I finished a binge-read of Jeph Jacques’ 5,200 comics. I found the strip in 2012, binge-read then, joined a forum of marvelously diverse readers and met a few face to face. I lost touch in years after that, but on the latest read, I rediscovered how the creator of the comic has preserved and developed kindness, care, diversity, humor and groan-worthy puns. Many of his characters are “AIs,” sentient beings, who interact as equals with humans, their status preserved in the Constitution if I recall correctly. It means that noisy bulldozer at the building may have a name, speech and feelings. It’s often lewd and crude, but it’s been a lot of fun and food for thought.
So far as I know, the board game Clue has nothing to do with this meme.
The movie was shot 40 years ago. The only thing I recall being of note from the movie is that there were several alternative endings with different perps.
I’m trying to put in the URL for the relevant clip from Clue, but the comment block doesn’t seem to like URLs in general or YouTube in specific. If the link fails to go through, just search on “Clue (1985)” and “I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife” and you should get the clip.
Wow, that dialog certainly makes me glad I didn’t go see the movie. I do remember enjoying the game when I was a child.
The new block format “embed” always “sits and spins” for me, unlike image links. I’ve learned to just hit “Comment”.
Clue: On Stage is currently touring. It is apparently based on the movie, so the concept is not completely dead. It’ll be several months before I see it, so not sure if this particular line is present.
Some people have seen it and some haven’t. It has nothing to do when being old.
I had the game when I was a child. It was one of those problem games – there had to be more than 2 people playing it to be able to play it. (If only two people playing if one had not “done it” then the other person playing had to have done it.) It was rare there were more of 2 of us to play – and I have since found out from my middle sister that she hate that I “MADE” her play games with me in general. (Other sister is 12 years younger than me so too young to play a game like this when we use to play.)
I remember getting my dad to play once. Dad was always completely logical and about the smartest person I knew. He would solve who had done it with all sorts of ideas which had nothing to do with the game. (He once solved an unrelated “Man from Uncle” game which had a jigsaw puzzle as a clue as there was smoke coming from an ashtray and Napoleon Solo in the picture. He figured out that Solo had burned whatever it was that was missing solo based on the fact that Solo “does not smoke”. Somehow I don’t think that was what was intended – but he was right about who it was.)