Does this early Peanuts comic may provide Lucy the motivation for her endless football revenge on Charlie Brown?
Mitch4 sends this momentary CIDU in: “I was puzzled until learning that both “Mary Sue” and “plot armor” are fandom terminology.”
Hang on to your wallet, Auntie!
billr sends this in: “Not a clue”.
Todd also has a problem with this: “I just don’t get it.”
That phrase is most closely associated with Apollo 13, but there’s no brides on that mission.
The other phrase closely associated with that movie is ““Failure is not an option”. This is a line written for the 1995 film Apollo 13, spoken by actor Ed Harris as Gene Kranz, though the real NASA Flight Director never actually said it during the mission.
Gene Kranz did motivational speaking after he retired from NASA, and adopted that phrase in order to create a bond with his audience. I heard him speak at one of our corporate sales conferences. Good speaker, but in the business we were in, failure certainly was an option. In fact, we were in the process of having our stock decline from $44/share to $1.30 a share and constantly shedding employees.
Boise Ed sends this in: “Tantor is “a nervous, lovable elephant character from the Tarzan stories.” Why he would want to chew a tusk is a good question, but why the shrink is suddenly nervous is a bigger one.”
Similarly, Ian C asks: “Is this just a reference to biting his fingernails or is there an actual joke involved?”
Why steal, rather than leave them out there with a sign that says “free to good home”? How would someone stealing give him hope for the country?
A used copy of Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book can be purchased for $7 on Abe Books.
billr sends this in: “Second day in a row it’s not his usual dogs chasing squirrels, or marital ambiguities. No idea who these guys are or what this is about. Best I can come up with is the suit guy is an undertaker?”
Your editor thinks this would be more straightforward without that second line in the caption.
Mitch4 sends this in as a momentary CIDU: “Does his exclamation of “Nana! Nana! Nana! …” convey anything besides greeting his grandmother? Maybe. Somehow the musical theme from the 1960s TV series of Batman has developed a conventionalized way of humming/singing it, and of writing that, using the syllables “Nanananana..””
This is definitely not what’s being alluded to by Whamond, but this reminds me of a baseball chant. Here’s longtime White Sox organist Nancy Faust with “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Good-bye”, sung by the stadium crowd to taunt an opposing pitcher as they are being yanked from the game.
And the original:
Jack Applin writes:
“When Labor Day falls at the end of the first week”? Where does Frazz take place? In the United States and Canada, Labor Day is the first Monday in September, which isn’t at the end of a week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day_(Canada)
I’m guessing that what Mallett means is “When Labor Day is on the 6th or 7th of September”, i.e., near the end of the first week of September. But I still don’t get the joke even if that’s the intent.
So:
Is Horace dreaming of Melody beside him, and when he wakes up, his dream girl disappears?
Did they both suddenly realize they left the oven on, and Melody left to turn it off?
Did Horace come up with an idea, but the Melody left when she found out the idea just draws bugs?
Or … ?
Jack Applin sends this in: “Aslant? In what way is Edda aslant? (aslant: in a slanting direction : obliquely) She is absolutely upright. This being 9 Chickweed Lane, the answer involves sex. Panels 5 and 6 focus on her middle region, as does his eyeline. She hasn’t cocked her hip. Are her lady parts somehow aslant, and revealed by her short dress? Also–her mother?”
