He Sits too Close to the TV.
I forgot to rate Drabble.
Creepy Clown rating: 4.5 Creepy Clowns (1 C.C. = awesome comic; 5 C.C. = it sucks).
I really hate Drabble. There's just no way around it. I briefly considered giving it 5 creepy clowns, but it doesn't ever seem to make me irate. There isn't spousal abuse of any sort going on, and the kids aren't too cutesy. Otherwise, it just sucks. I think I explained why I hate it well enough. Let's spend a few posts just examining it.
This one isn't particularly bad, but it'll do for now.
OK, it's just not very funny. The best comics mine humor from situations we all face --the attitude of teenagers, pointless bosses, endless bills, balancing home and work. Even some of the dumbest comics put our everyday problems in a different place and time -- so Hagar fights with his wife, Broom Hilda is scared of a doctor, and the cavemen in B.C. play baseball.
But what's this? Too many remotes? That's a problem we can relate to -- one for the DVD, one for the VCR, one for the TV, the universal remote is difficult to program. But that's NOT the problem here. The problem here is that they are all old and don't work. Why don't they work? I don't think of remotes as particularly fragile, so how has he broken so many of them? I count nine broken remotes. Can anyone relate to that? Are there a lot of people out there with an overabudance of broken remote controls?
Have the batteries all gone dead? Why don't they replace the batteries?
I think there are endless jokes about the inconvenience of too many remotes -- one for each device. They are no longer funny, but at least we can relate. Who can relate to NINE BROKEN REMOTE CONTROLS?
He says you can tape them all together and use them. Then why are they not taped together in the first panel? Every time he sits down, does he have to pull out the tape and attach all the remotes? Yeah, I know they aren't taped together in panel 1, because that would give away the "joke."
But . . . see the "joke" is just that this guy is so stupid. And I won't go into further detail about what makes stupid people funny, and what makes them annoying. This guy is annoying and it's just not funny.
Creepy Clown rating: 4.5 Creepy Clowns (1 C.C. = awesome comic; 5 C.C. = it sucks).
I really hate Drabble. There's just no way around it. I briefly considered giving it 5 creepy clowns, but it doesn't ever seem to make me irate. There isn't spousal abuse of any sort going on, and the kids aren't too cutesy. Otherwise, it just sucks. I think I explained why I hate it well enough. Let's spend a few posts just examining it.
This one isn't particularly bad, but it'll do for now.
OK, it's just not very funny. The best comics mine humor from situations we all face --the attitude of teenagers, pointless bosses, endless bills, balancing home and work. Even some of the dumbest comics put our everyday problems in a different place and time -- so Hagar fights with his wife, Broom Hilda is scared of a doctor, and the cavemen in B.C. play baseball.
But what's this? Too many remotes? That's a problem we can relate to -- one for the DVD, one for the VCR, one for the TV, the universal remote is difficult to program. But that's NOT the problem here. The problem here is that they are all old and don't work. Why don't they work? I don't think of remotes as particularly fragile, so how has he broken so many of them? I count nine broken remotes. Can anyone relate to that? Are there a lot of people out there with an overabudance of broken remote controls?
Have the batteries all gone dead? Why don't they replace the batteries?
I think there are endless jokes about the inconvenience of too many remotes -- one for each device. They are no longer funny, but at least we can relate. Who can relate to NINE BROKEN REMOTE CONTROLS?
He says you can tape them all together and use them. Then why are they not taped together in the first panel? Every time he sits down, does he have to pull out the tape and attach all the remotes? Yeah, I know they aren't taped together in panel 1, because that would give away the "joke."
But . . . see the "joke" is just that this guy is so stupid. And I won't go into further detail about what makes stupid people funny, and what makes them annoying. This guy is annoying and it's just not funny.
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