Those poor gators that live in the swamps manage to eat by killing some prey with a “death roll”.
The ones with money prettify it up and eat at a restaurant with a fake French name that reminds you of the same thing.
Instead of “Le Croissant de Death”, you could go with Le Croissant de Lune and merge both the original form of “croissant” with the drawing in the panel (but would be incomprehensible as a gag).
I think this is less about the bread product and more about the maneuver that an alligator uses once it has clamped on to its prey. It performs the maneuver to disorient its prey, drown its prey, or further damage its prey. The maneuver is known as the Death Roll.
Presented here is a much more staid, fine dining situation made fancy by translating to a pseudo French.
Using real French would be too confusing, since a bread roll is “petit pain” rather than “croissant.” The punchline (“death roll”) would be pretty much completely lost and “pain” would be a huge red herring.
I’m baffled by the overall composition. Why is it mostly occupied by the vast expanse of the almost featureless brick wall?
Alligators are western hemisphere critters. Crocs, other than Rene LaCoste & Eleonore, aren’t exactly French. The art – Mais Non! In sum, the attempted joke is not hard to understand. The execution is not of French efficiency.
This isn’t Louisiana, eh? :-)
Alligators are exclusively New World, but crocodiles are found in Africa and Asia and Australia as well as the Americas. They like continents starting with “A” (that aren’t Antarctica). Absent from Europe.
Didn’t we already go through the alligator / crocodile thing? One will see you later and the other after a while?
@Danny Boy, agreed on the composition. I don’t know much about this panel, but I found a reddit thread on this one, and there they have an image of this as a “standard” aspect for a 3-panel strip:
I think it looks better that way, but it seems odd to me that a single panel gag comic would be initially composed for that format.
Seeing if I can embed it…
@ Darren – That clipping is very interesting, both for the format, and also the coloration. Comics Kingdom provides the “panel” (portrait) version, which matches the colors in the clipping. Arcamax shows the landscape version, but has a different color palette:
Maybe this is a play on the term “Laissez les bons temps rouler” or “Let the good times roll”? But here the gators’ “good times” involve eating unsuspecting humans, because they’re in a restaurant?
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Those poor gators that live in the swamps manage to eat by killing some prey with a “death roll”.
The ones with money prettify it up and eat at a restaurant with a fake French name that reminds you of the same thing.
Instead of “Le Croissant de Death”, you could go with Le Croissant de Lune and merge both the original form of “croissant” with the drawing in the panel (but would be incomprehensible as a gag).
I think this is less about the bread product and more about the maneuver that an alligator uses once it has clamped on to its prey. It performs the maneuver to disorient its prey, drown its prey, or further damage its prey. The maneuver is known as the Death Roll.
Presented here is a much more staid, fine dining situation made fancy by translating to a pseudo French.
Using real French would be too confusing, since a bread roll is “petit pain” rather than “croissant.” The punchline (“death roll”) would be pretty much completely lost and “pain” would be a huge red herring.
I’m baffled by the overall composition. Why is it mostly occupied by the vast expanse of the almost featureless brick wall?
Alligators are western hemisphere critters. Crocs, other than Rene LaCoste & Eleonore, aren’t exactly French. The art – Mais Non!
In sum, the attempted joke is not hard to understand. The execution is not of French efficiency.
This isn’t Louisiana, eh? :-)
Alligators are exclusively New World, but crocodiles are found in Africa and Asia and Australia as well as the Americas. They like continents starting with “A” (that aren’t Antarctica). Absent from Europe.
Didn’t we already go through the alligator / crocodile thing? One will see you later and the other after a while?
Thanks, MiB, it did come up that way not too long ago– https://cidu.info/2023/06/19/ox-what/ comment #7
I’d rather be on a roll than in a bun.
See ya later crocodile….
@Danny Boy, agreed on the composition. I don’t know much about this panel, but I found a reddit thread on this one, and there they have an image of this as a “standard” aspect for a 3-panel strip:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1e5o06h/what_an_i_missing/
I think it looks better that way, but it seems odd to me that a single panel gag comic would be initially composed for that format.
Seeing if I can embed it…
@ Darren – That clipping is very interesting, both for the format, and also the coloration. Comics Kingdom provides the “panel” (portrait) version, which matches the colors in the clipping. Arcamax shows the landscape version, but has a different color palette:
Maybe this is a play on the term “Laissez les bons temps rouler” or “Let the good times roll”? But here the gators’ “good times” involve eating unsuspecting humans, because they’re in a restaurant?