CIDU note: So what was their plan? Or is it merely a non-coordination mixup. The usual TV story would be that they planned to go to town and do something wild.
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Sorry, but I don’t understand the question underneath Crabgrass. Whose plan?
Powers, on TV the two kids would be using each other as cover story, when in fact they are not planning to stay home at either one’s place. They would instead go out and have an adventure.
(This plan depends on neither family having occasion to call over to the other house to speak with their child about something. Or to avoid that, a third comspirator is required, who does not go on the adventure, but stays by her own home phone to answer and say the adventurers, supposedly staying over, are already asleep)
But here we don’t see that the boys had an underlying plan, except maybe the sincere intention of sleepovers. They just got confused about whose turn it is.
I’m just wondering why the Crabgrass moms are arm wrestling left-handed.
In the first comic, the woman(?) in the foreground seems to have beheaded the guy (penis shown) and used his head to decorate her bathwater, presumably to compare it to “beheading” those stems to decorate it with flowers.
Of course, flowers aren’t a plant’s head, since they don’t have heads They’re its sex organs. For actual symmetry, she’d have to decorate her bath with his dick.
Ha, Carl Fink, good pointers for a relaxing bath. OTOH, removing old blooms from flowering plants is, in gardening parlance, “deadheading.”
Thanks for the explanation, Mithc. I’m familiar with the TV Trope you mention, although I think the kids would be older teenagers, and probably girls.
And pretty clearly that is not what is going on in this Crabgrass. The boys did not have a scheme going on. But I think it’s still unclear just what did happen — simply a mixup, forgetfulness?
I agree with Carl Fink @3, but would also like to point out that the comic has more than just a touch of “Arlo”.
P.S. Mike Petersen posted that “Crabgrass” strip at The Daily Cartoonist on Wednesday, describing a similar strategy in which both he and a friend would intentionally invite each other to dinner on the same night, allowing both of them to “double dip”; see: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/07/24/csotd-cynical-takes/ (scroll down to just a little past the halfway point).
P.P.S. Re: “Liō”: Gary Larson once wrote about an incident in which he was almost strangled by a pet boa constrictor. I think it happened before he started drawing The Far Side, but still, one might think of it as premature poetic justice.
I wouldn’t worry as much about the very abstracted drawing challenging family-friendly norms with anatomical suggestion, as much as the comment that directly used rather vulgar anatomical slang.
An alternate explanation of the sleepover plan: There was no plan. Miles just decided he wants to sleepover. He hasn’t asked Kevin yet, or Kevin’s mom. Meanwhile, Kevin also decided to sleepover, but hasn’t told Miles yet.
Each mom was delighted to foist off her bundle of joy for a weekend, and in the end they armwrestled to see who had to take care of them both.
In that Crabgrass, who is she calling “Wallace”? Yes, I do see the Wallace the Brave selection, but that’s a couple toons farther down.
it’s Kevin Beecham(?) and Miles Wallace, so the Wallace is his Mom.
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Sorry, but I don’t understand the question underneath Crabgrass. Whose plan?
Powers, on TV the two kids would be using each other as cover story, when in fact they are not planning to stay home at either one’s place. They would instead go out and have an adventure.
(This plan depends on neither family having occasion to call over to the other house to speak with their child about something. Or to avoid that, a third comspirator is required, who does not go on the adventure, but stays by her own home phone to answer and say the adventurers, supposedly staying over, are already asleep)
But here we don’t see that the boys had an underlying plan, except maybe the sincere intention of sleepovers. They just got confused about whose turn it is.
I’m just wondering why the Crabgrass moms are arm wrestling left-handed.
In the first comic, the woman(?) in the foreground seems to have beheaded the guy (penis shown) and used his head to decorate her bathwater, presumably to compare it to “beheading” those stems to decorate it with flowers.
Of course, flowers aren’t a plant’s head, since they don’t have heads They’re its sex organs. For actual symmetry, she’d have to decorate her bath with his dick.
Ha, Carl Fink, good pointers for a relaxing bath. OTOH, removing old blooms from flowering plants is, in gardening parlance, “deadheading.”
Thanks for the explanation, Mithc. I’m familiar with the TV Trope you mention, although I think the kids would be older teenagers, and probably girls.
And pretty clearly that is not what is going on in this Crabgrass. The boys did not have a scheme going on. But I think it’s still unclear just what did happen — simply a mixup, forgetfulness?
I agree with Carl Fink @3, but would also like to point out that the comic has more than just a touch of “Arlo”.
P.S. Mike Petersen posted that “Crabgrass” strip at The Daily Cartoonist on Wednesday, describing a similar strategy in which both he and a friend would intentionally invite each other to dinner on the same night, allowing both of them to “double dip”; see: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/07/24/csotd-cynical-takes/ (scroll down to just a little past the halfway point).
P.P.S. Re: “Liō”: Gary Larson once wrote about an incident in which he was almost strangled by a pet boa constrictor. I think it happened before he started drawing The Far Side, but still, one might think of it as premature poetic justice.
I wouldn’t worry as much about the very abstracted drawing challenging family-friendly norms with anatomical suggestion, as much as the comment that directly used rather vulgar anatomical slang.
An alternate explanation of the sleepover plan: There was no plan. Miles just decided he wants to sleepover. He hasn’t asked Kevin yet, or Kevin’s mom. Meanwhile, Kevin also decided to sleepover, but hasn’t told Miles yet.
Each mom was delighted to foist off her bundle of joy for a weekend, and in the end they armwrestled to see who had to take care of them both.
In that Crabgrass, who is she calling “Wallace”? Yes, I do see the Wallace the Brave selection, but that’s a couple toons farther down.
it’s Kevin Beecham(?) and Miles Wallace, so the Wallace is his Mom.
[Face-palm!] Thanks, guero!