Please Make it Stop - 1 More "Marriage Sucks" post after this one

OK; I'm back, and coming to the end of my marriage sucks challenge. 5 marriage sucks posts down, 2 to go.

Today's post is from a comic called Willy N Ethel, by Joe Martin. Joe Martin is my grandad! Also my uncle and my cousin. Well, they are all "Joe Martins," but probably not this particular one. I mean, I'd know if they were cartoonists. Plus, my grandad died last year, so it's not him. This comic started in 1979 when my cousin was 4, so it's probably not him. That leaves my uncle, but I think it's probably just some other random Joe Martin.

Can you read it? The lady says, "Ethel does all the work and all you can do is sit there and watch TV." Then Willy says, "Because unlike some people, I can wait until she finishes for my beer and sandwiches"

Yeah, yeah, the wife does all the work and the lazy husband just watches tv. Man! I thought it was getting old doing the Family Circus and writing "kids say the darndest things" over and over. These bad marriage cartoons are even worse. Don't they have plagiarism in cartoons? Are you telling me this very same joke hasn't been made over and over?

I don't understand:

• Why Ethel doesn't reach over there with her vacuum and suck Willy's face off his dumb, bald head.
• Why Ethel doesn't leave Willy (he's unemployed, so it's not like she's sticking around for the $$. Maybe it's love.)
• Why the other lady is just sitting there. Who is she? Did she come to visit with Ethel? Can't Ethel just take a little break to visit with her friend?
• Why the friend doesn't come back later when Ethel is done with her chores? Or, why doesn't the friend offer to help?
• Who are these "some people" to whom Willy refers? Is he comparing himself to even worse husbands who don't wait until their wives finish chores? Or did Ethel give the friend some beer and sandwiches and Willy is implying that he is more patient than the friend?
• Why can't Willy get up off his own lazy ass and fix his own beer and sandwich?
• Why Ethel's arm gets smaller in the 2nd panel. Is vacuuming such a good workout?
• Why the vacuum looks like a garden hose in the 2nd panel.
• Why this is supposed to be funny.

Will Ethel poison whatever she eventually brings Willy? Why or why not?

Is it funny that the husband is so lazy? Like is this supposed to be funny from the husband's point of view? Like, ha ha, dumb broad cleans up after the lazy man? Or is this supposed to be funny from the wife's point of view? Like, ha, ha, men are such lazy oafs, I hear ya! Sing it sister! Is it funny from the friend's point of view? I don't understand. WHY IS THIS FUNNY? Someone please explain.