Send in the Clowns
I am so easily distracted, it's a joke. I should not be allowed to have a blog where I try to figure things out (like carbon dating the Family Circus for instance). But, when looking for evidence yesterday, I ran across this:
Now, despite many years of agonizing over the crap on the unfunny pages, it was the presence of a clown, and Jeffy's reaction to said clown, that prompted me to start this blog in the first place (and speaking of distracted -- when I go back to look at that original post I see that Jeffy has the dotted lines to show his movement. F.C. hasn't done one of those Sunday strips in a while. You know, the kind where Thelma tells the kid to go get something, and he makes it a round-the-'hood jaunt. Yeah, funny stuff).
ANYWAY . . . I am wondering if Jeffy is freaked out by clowns. He doesn't seem that freaked out by them here. He looks sort of bored. But, then again, is he clenching his fists? Is he tense? It's hard to tell. He does seem to understand that most clowns are actually just people playing dress up. So, why did the clown on the street scare him so much? Did he think that was a "REAL" clown? And why was he unsupervised on the street? And again, who was saying "Oops" in that original post ? Why would anyone say "Oops" when they were scared? Oh, I'm confusing myself again.
If he is freaked out by clowns (and who among us isn't?) then why did Dolly have to come back from the party and throw the presence of a clown in his face? That's mean. Oh yeah, I forgot, Dolly can be sort of a bitch. And, that, my friends, is what makes this a top of the line Family Circus. It's got character! Jeffy is known for his clownophobia, Dolly is known as a bitch, and here we get them both in the same strip. Not only that, the joke isn't half bad.
Do little girls still get dressed up for birthday parties?
Clowns sure are freaky, and they do scare a lot of kids. I mean, there is a famous clown serial killer (I know someone who went to a birthday party where John Wayne Gacy was performing!!!!). Anyway, I wonder why clowns haven't gone extinct. I guess there are more kids who think they are funny than kids that are scared of them. But they are inherently scary, if you ask me.
Now, despite many years of agonizing over the crap on the unfunny pages, it was the presence of a clown, and Jeffy's reaction to said clown, that prompted me to start this blog in the first place (and speaking of distracted -- when I go back to look at that original post I see that Jeffy has the dotted lines to show his movement. F.C. hasn't done one of those Sunday strips in a while. You know, the kind where Thelma tells the kid to go get something, and he makes it a round-the-'hood jaunt. Yeah, funny stuff).
ANYWAY . . . I am wondering if Jeffy is freaked out by clowns. He doesn't seem that freaked out by them here. He looks sort of bored. But, then again, is he clenching his fists? Is he tense? It's hard to tell. He does seem to understand that most clowns are actually just people playing dress up. So, why did the clown on the street scare him so much? Did he think that was a "REAL" clown? And why was he unsupervised on the street? And again, who was saying "Oops" in that original post ? Why would anyone say "Oops" when they were scared? Oh, I'm confusing myself again.
If he is freaked out by clowns (and who among us isn't?) then why did Dolly have to come back from the party and throw the presence of a clown in his face? That's mean. Oh yeah, I forgot, Dolly can be sort of a bitch. And, that, my friends, is what makes this a top of the line Family Circus. It's got character! Jeffy is known for his clownophobia, Dolly is known as a bitch, and here we get them both in the same strip. Not only that, the joke isn't half bad.
Do little girls still get dressed up for birthday parties?
Clowns sure are freaky, and they do scare a lot of kids. I mean, there is a famous clown serial killer (I know someone who went to a birthday party where John Wayne Gacy was performing!!!!). Anyway, I wonder why clowns haven't gone extinct. I guess there are more kids who think they are funny than kids that are scared of them. But they are inherently scary, if you ask me.
posted by big al at 10:52 PM
4 Comments:
But why the speech balloon for Dolly and the typed out speech for Jeffy? Oh never mind, I don't want to rewrite this, it makes my head hurt. I just wanted to say that, yes, little girls of a certain age get dressed up to go everywhere. A velvet Christmas dress to go to the supermarket is perfectly acceptable. In my daughter's peer group, a birthday party requires your pinkest, sparkliest outfit accented by at least 17 hair clips.
I sort of thought that might be the case (dressing up for b-day parties), but needed independent confirmation.
I was so not frilly as a little girl, but did tend to get frilled and ruffled for parties. I still do, and the poofy petticoats may be why I get laughed at so much.
I still have nightmares about the clown hypnotist from Scooby Doo. "Bedlam under the Big-Top". Sooooooo creepy!
Jeffy's a brat.
He wanted my balloon, so I told him about the clown. He peed in his pants when I later said "a REAL clown".
It was hilarious.
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