Kids Also Like Documentaries!!
Well, hot damn! The Keanes got a new tv. A nice one! It looks like a big screen, flat panel plasma display . . . and, yet, oddly, still black and white. And even more odd, the family is watching a Jazz concert.
OK, #1 I enjoy jazz. #2 I don't see anything wrong with trying to cultivate an interest in "the better things" in your chidren. But, the family sitting down to watch jazz concert on their flat panel???? Eh?
I didn't put in the caption. I bet you think Dolly is saying, "Daddy, do we have to watch this? You listen to it all the time on the hi-fi, can't we watch cartoons, or a ballgame, or Howdy Doody or something??" But she is not. She says, "Is the trumpet guy in the center Lincoln?" Huh huh. She doesn't know the Lincoln Center is named after the former President!! HA HA. And she doesn't realize "center" means the building complex itself. HA HA. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Why why why did they randomly switch from a sitting on the floor black and white TV to a black and white (?!?) plasma on April 22? Because guess what they were watching on April 30?
That's right. Golf on the old black and white. Golf. As you know, the only television entertainment children enjoy more than piano concertos and jazz concerts is golf. HA HA HA. I'm actually laughing right now. Golf, piano, jazz . . . what in the world is wrong with these kids????? I suppose the jazz may have been required, but they are watching the golf of their own accord.
So, there are two issues here:
1) Their tv. If they actually have a flat panel plasma tv, why don't we just see that one more often? Isn't it easier to draw? What's the point of randomly showing us the plasma? To shut us up about their old crappy tv?
2) Their viewing habits. I'm still baffled, but I have a theory. I know that the Family Circus family isn't supposed to age like the For Better or for Worse family does. But! Maybe they HAVE aged, it's just all the kids have one of those strange diseases where their growth and aging process is slowed. So, Billy is actually 45, in which case, he may indeed be interested in watching golf on tv. I don't know that it explains why they sit around watching jazz, though. They could just go to a jazz bar. But, I suppose that the bouncers probably wouldn't let them in. They wouldn't believe the ID that said PJ was 37, and he'd have to explain about his disease, and it would be awkward.
Read more about Jazz at the Lincoln Center here.
What are our least favorite comic strip characters up to? Odie has some more behind-the-scenes info. Who in the funnies are the shark poker players? Who rules the bowling lanes? Find out here.
Dee Patterson's feeling some good, good, good good vibrations. (and she doesn't even like the Beach Boys!)
Grandma's got some updated Keane kids standings. Along with a little gossip about Keane family planning.
Gaylord goes shopping with Broom Hilda, and hopes he'll get to shop at Yankee Candle!
OK, #1 I enjoy jazz. #2 I don't see anything wrong with trying to cultivate an interest in "the better things" in your chidren. But, the family sitting down to watch jazz concert on their flat panel???? Eh?
I didn't put in the caption. I bet you think Dolly is saying, "Daddy, do we have to watch this? You listen to it all the time on the hi-fi, can't we watch cartoons, or a ballgame, or Howdy Doody or something??" But she is not. She says, "Is the trumpet guy in the center Lincoln?" Huh huh. She doesn't know the Lincoln Center is named after the former President!! HA HA. And she doesn't realize "center" means the building complex itself. HA HA. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Why why why did they randomly switch from a sitting on the floor black and white TV to a black and white (?!?) plasma on April 22? Because guess what they were watching on April 30?
That's right. Golf on the old black and white. Golf. As you know, the only television entertainment children enjoy more than piano concertos and jazz concerts is golf. HA HA HA. I'm actually laughing right now. Golf, piano, jazz . . . what in the world is wrong with these kids????? I suppose the jazz may have been required, but they are watching the golf of their own accord.
So, there are two issues here:
1) Their tv. If they actually have a flat panel plasma tv, why don't we just see that one more often? Isn't it easier to draw? What's the point of randomly showing us the plasma? To shut us up about their old crappy tv?
2) Their viewing habits. I'm still baffled, but I have a theory. I know that the Family Circus family isn't supposed to age like the For Better or for Worse family does. But! Maybe they HAVE aged, it's just all the kids have one of those strange diseases where their growth and aging process is slowed. So, Billy is actually 45, in which case, he may indeed be interested in watching golf on tv. I don't know that it explains why they sit around watching jazz, though. They could just go to a jazz bar. But, I suppose that the bouncers probably wouldn't let them in. They wouldn't believe the ID that said PJ was 37, and he'd have to explain about his disease, and it would be awkward.
Read more about Jazz at the Lincoln Center here.
What are our least favorite comic strip characters up to? Odie has some more behind-the-scenes info. Who in the funnies are the shark poker players? Who rules the bowling lanes? Find out here.
Dee Patterson's feeling some good, good, good good vibrations. (and she doesn't even like the Beach Boys!)
Grandma's got some updated Keane kids standings. Along with a little gossip about Keane family planning.
Gaylord goes shopping with Broom Hilda, and hopes he'll get to shop at Yankee Candle!
posted by big al at 7:08 PM
4 Comments:
Meanwhile, Hagar the H. is cribbing a Ziggy in Wednesday's comic...there should be a limit on how many Ziggys they get a year. More than a certain (low) number, and the cartoonist is forced to retire and take his characters with him.
But, Dimestore Lipstick, if comics couldn't crib Ziggies, the whole funny pages would come to a crashing halt. They would have no material and be forced to come up with new . . . oh, I'm starting to get it now.
I tell ya! Nothing like Family Circus to make me chuckle and think, "Ah, I know how it is. Aren't kids cute?" My 6 year old doesn't like golf that much, but he enjoys C-SPAN and I don't know how many times he begs, "Mom, PLEEEEEEEEEEESE can I watch Meet the Press this Sunday? Please please!"
That, of course, is a big lie. I think Bil Keane is still using his kids as his inspiration, except they are all grown up, and he forgets that even though they like jazz and golf NOW, they didn't like it when they were little.
I'm blown away that they're actually watching a plasma TV. I mean, wow. Do crappy comic strip authors visit this site or something?
Please, no jokes at my expense on that last line.
The mom looks like she's REALLY into it...didn't see the punch line below but I'm sure it was really fucking funny!
John
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