Bil Keane has Never Seen a Child
Joly shit! That's one large-ass animal cracker!
OK, maybe he has SEEN a child, but no way has he spent significant time with one, and even less a chance that he's ever actually seen an animal cracker. Because? They aren't that big, Bil, and I don't know if they ever were. That seal wouldn't fit in your typical animal cracker box that looks like a circus train car with the little handy string for carrying it around like a purse. And? There's no seal.
So, nice . . . make a lame joke on "the seal is broken," and make it worse by showing a gingerbread man-sized, non-existent animal cracker seal. The joke is barely forgiveable, and the execution is outlandish. Lame, lame, lame.
posted by big al at 9:12 PM
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Next up, Bil Keane will explore the many adorable malapropisms spoken by four-year-old children about -- wait for it -- signet rings. On Sunday we will get a dotted line "wandering around" strip about little Billy's peripatetic ramblings through a nursing home's pharmacy.
We need some fresh blood in the Circus. How about if the kids take in a homeless child from the neighborhood. Keane could draw the little waif like a 1930s hobo.
He really has kiddified this up proper, though, with the "Y'can't." That contraction gets used all the time.
And I'm pretty sure the only reason the joke is barely forgiveable is because he "borrowed it" from someone else. I know I heard a comedian use this in his routine years ago.
Y'know it's time f'r another round'f Family Circus Mad Libs...
"Sure, Jeffy was mad that Billy wouldn't share any of his oversize-novelty animal crackers. Even more upsetting, however, was the fact that his head had become inexplicably fused to Billy's right shoulder."
Does Jeffy have a perm? Does he need to have it periodically re-activated? Are there some days where he goes with the "Wet Look" jheri-curl? This has always bugged me...
"We need some fresh blood in the Circus. How about if the kids take in a homeless child from the neighborhood"
Y'know Ye Olde Seavers of "Growing Pains" fame tried this gambit t'spice up th'show, and the homeless waif they adopted? None other than Mr. Leonardo Dicaprio.
I've always wondered too about Jeffy's hair. No one else in the family has any curl to their hair (except Grandma, and I think she gets her hair "done."). So, Jeffy is the love child of Thelma and . . .? Bozo the Clown? Rick James, bitch!? Ronald McDonald?
Was it in True Romance, someone said, Family Circus is just sitting there on the comics page waiting to suck.
How does Bil (where the hell is that other L Bill?) get away with making fun of retarded and ADHD children?
Worst. Comic. Ever.
That quote is actually from the movie "GO".
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