The most recent appearance of Zits at CIDU was posted 4.5 years ago by Bill, so it seems like it’s time for a few more.
This first one was submitted two years ago by Dave in Boston, but probably got lost in the shuffle because the Arcamax link had expired(+), and Comics Kingdom (back then) had a very limited memory (something like two weeks for non-subscribers). Since Arcamax links do not indicate the date, it took a bit of detective work to find the comic that Dave had intended:
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Here’s what Dave wrote: “It seems the joke is supposed to be that the teenagers are so glued to their phones that they need to check the weather app to find out that they’re being rained on. But, it’s perfectly reasonable in that situation to check the forecast or the radar to see how long it’s going to last. And then there’s no joke. Or there’s something IDU.“
Coincidentally, Chemgal submitted this recent Zits strip as a CIDU, asking, “Just what is supposed to be in that contract?“
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P.S. I don’t have the slightest clue as to “What?“, but I have a pretty good idea as to “Why?“: Friends of ours here in Germany had photovoltaic panels installed under a “lease to own” agreement that will take 15 years for them to complete.
P.P.S. (+) The moral of the story is not to trust Arcamax links for submissions. Using Arcamax links for embedding images in comments is even worse, because the image will disappear later. If you have no other option, at least mention the publication date.
Comics I Don't Understand 
I think the teenagers are expecting the weather app to control the weather rather than just forecast it. Jeremy is trying to turn off the rain.
“The most recent appearance of Zits at CIDU was posted 4.5 years ago by Bill, so it seems like it’s time for a few more.”
Hmmm, looks like there were more recent Zits appearances, such as just last week in the Sunday LOLs, or in the OY collection of 29 June 2024: https://cidu.info/2024/06/29/saturday-morning-oys-june-29th-2024/ .
Or a standalone pairing with a Blondie, https://cidu.info/2024/05/09/nag-canceling/ .
Or another weather-related Zits, in a set of same — https://cidu.info/2024/04/30/but-nobody-does-anything-about-it/
And some seven or eight more, including one or two single-comic CIDUs. This is simply from following your WP tag-links, not a special search.
The second one is a contract saying he agrees to have grandchildren for them.
And the surface analysis of “teenagers are so glued to their phones they don’t realize it’s raining” is the joke. It’s Boomer-style low hanging Kids Today stuff.
There’s a recent NYT article on the problems of not having grandchildren to spoil.
Longing for Grandchildren When Your Child Doesn’t Want Kids – The New York Times
Jeremy’s parents don’t want to be one of these.
I do have some idea about the psychology behind that mistake.
zbicyclist: I see a business opportunity here: “Rent-a-Grandkid”, for busy parents and lonely oldsters!
No ethical/risk problems here, nosirree…
phsiii said, “zbicyclist: I see a business opportunity here: “Rent-a-Grandkid”, for busy parents and lonely oldsters!”
That’s exactly what I did. I never wanted children, although I really like other people’s children, but at some point I realized that meant that I wouldn’t get grands, either. I had returned to school at that time, and you know what grad school has? Parents who can’t afford a babysitter. Offer them free babysitting and they jump for it.
It’s how I acquired my grandson, and a couple of years later, my granddaughter.
Here in Ontario, Canada, the regulatory hurdles pertaining to rooftop solar panels are such that it appears the government would rather not allow them, but was afraid to alienate eco-minded voters. I won’t bore you with a tale of serial bankruptcies of the lessors, and the multi-year saga involving two subsequent owners of the property before I was finally (I think) off the hook. Oops, I guess I did bore you. Sorry.
I suspect the second one is a contract that Jeremy will have children someday so his parents will have grandchildren.
Remember when the United States was all about making sure that children didn’t have kids too young? Apparently, now that we lowered teen pregnancy, pregnancy rates overall lowered to the point that there are now moral panics about the lack of teen pregnancy.
Ahh, humans. We be like that sometimes.
I agree completely with Dvandom (2).
The weather app doesn’t work because the phone doesn’t work because it is all wet.
Regarding grandchildren, I guess the parents have given up on Jeremy’s older brother Chad ever having children. Remember Chad? Is he still in college? Or did he disappear like Lyman in Garfield?
Chak: Nice! The parents didn’t want them back?
Mark in Boston: Or Chuck on Happy Days, whose mysterious disappearance (he went upstairs in one episode and was never heard from again) led to the term “Chuck Cunningham Syndrome”.
phsiii, That’s the best part of grandkids. You get to spoil them, then when they get despicable, you hand them back.
The “Chuck Cunningham Syndrome” makes me think of a scene in the movie “Tootsie” which takes place behind the scenes for a daytime hospital soap opera. One of the minor characters in the story-within-a-story is a violin player with some kind of hand problem or something.
An actor wanders into a set and sees a very somber scene all set for filming: a casket, candles, etc.
Actor wanders out and asks Actor 2: Who died?
Actor 2: The violinist.
Actor: I didn’t know he was that sick.
Actor 2: He wasn’t. He asked for a raise.
Oh yeah, and do you remember the premise of “The Killing of Sister George”?
Sometimes children are just not to be no matter how much they are wanted – we know.
My middle sister has a girl and a boy (technically now I suppose – a 33 yo woman and 27 yo man) neither of whom is married or seemingly has any interest in marriage or children.
My “baby” sister, who I realized is 60, has a step son now in his late 20s – not married either, but he has medical problems so it was not expected that he would marry or have children.
Robert has 2 nieces – one is in her early 20s and the other her midteens. My money is the youngest to one day have children – or at least to be the one to help take care of us in older age.
Then again – there are an awful lot of teddy bears in the house – they should take care of us – we have taken care of them for decades, maybe our estate will go to them and whoever takes cares us and them?
:-)
I thought it was a reference to his inheritance or need for college money being delayed or reduced.
My sister said to me, “How come you never had children? They could take care of you when you are old.”
Her own two children are in their 50’s and she still has to send them money from time to time to help them out.
They are not taking care of her. She at age 70 is still taking care of them.
Pierce has a history of creating amazing (impossible) apps. I think he made (and gave away) a hoverboard app that allowed you to actually hover (or something like that). So, first joke, Jeremy is expecting his weather app to control the weather not report on it, and Pierce is checking to see why his weather control app isn’t working. Or maybe I’m over extrapolating.