I had to go check on Wikipedia: Cynthia, canonically, is 11 years old.
But making the butler a creep who makes off-color jokes to little girls was definitely worth it to get that amazing pun into the world. I definitely haven’t heard it thousands of times from teenage boys on the Internet.
Andrew, thanks for getting the “facts” on Cynthia’s age. I think the older guy is actually her grandpa, father of her tycoon dad, and sort of her ally in rebellion. The strip had a series of what we now call “dad jokes” being given by the dad, and then nicely topped by a remark from the grandpa, and thus suitably labelled “grandad jokes.”
The “Speedbump” entry was quite clever, I thought.
And here with today’s strip is another example of the grandad-topper pattern. Though not such a good one, sorry to say.
Gene Weingarten, one of the co-authors of Barney & Clyde has a substack that I highly recommend. In it he once had a contest inviting submissions in what he called “Dad jokes vs Grandpa Jokes”. Note that the strip included here says in the corner “Thanks to Chris Doyle”
An art band I follow (costumes, weird things for the front man, like kazoos, noise makers for a party, singing scat, etc.) broke out a saw and was playing it. Sounds theremin-ish. Hadn’t seen him play it in a while.
After the performance, I went up to him and uttered,
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An Arlo Award for Barney & Clyde!
I had to go check on Wikipedia: Cynthia, canonically, is 11 years old.
But making the butler a creep who makes off-color jokes to little girls was definitely worth it to get that amazing pun into the world. I definitely haven’t heard it thousands of times from teenage boys on the Internet.
Andrew, thanks for getting the “facts” on Cynthia’s age. I think the older guy is actually her grandpa, father of her tycoon dad, and sort of her ally in rebellion. The strip had a series of what we now call “dad jokes” being given by the dad, and then nicely topped by a remark from the grandpa, and thus suitably labelled “grandad jokes.”
The “Speedbump” entry was quite clever, I thought.
And here with today’s strip is another example of the grandad-topper pattern. Though not such a good one, sorry to say.
Gene Weingarten, one of the co-authors of Barney & Clyde has a substack that I highly recommend. In it he once had a contest inviting submissions in what he called “Dad jokes vs Grandpa Jokes”. Note that the strip included here says in the corner “Thanks to Chris Doyle”
https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-invitational-week-58-praise-the
An art band I follow (costumes, weird things for the front man, like kazoos, noise makers for a party, singing scat, etc.) broke out a saw and was playing it. Sounds theremin-ish. Hadn’t seen him play it in a while.
After the performance, I went up to him and uttered,
“Long time no saw.”