@Rolando This is the second one I’ve seen where True is mortified by the memory of his lovey dovey talk towards Mrs True in their youth.
In the other one he scoffs at a woman talking to a baby in a sugary cootchy-coo kind of way, and Mrs True points out that’s exactly how he used to talk to her when they were courting.
Oh Everett. You will never live down your lovey dovey ways as a youthful swain
There was that time in the park when he was sitting by this cooing couple and he was like: “I was young myself once”: https://lemmy.world/post/18158570
mfw there’s a racist caricature printed on the same page:
Finally a solution that doesn’t involve me using a knife on myself.
On the other hand, office cat.
What’s going on with the Duffs Strip?
I get that dad walks in thinking “how dare that teacher”, and then realizes the kid was the asshole, and Mom stops him and says it’ll all work out.
Is there a punchline? Is it continued in tomorrow’s paper? It just seems like four frames of wasted space with no pay off.
I think the joke is:
- in panel 2, he thinks the teacher will be an “oldmaid who doesn’t know much about children”
- however, in panel 3 he sees she’s not an “oldmaid”, and in fact seems to know a lot about children.
That’s why in panel 4 he wants to “teach” his kid something - presumably to respect his teacher? I’m not clear on why his wife tells him to calm down.
Yeah, if it was just him walking in the door, with “I’ll teach him a lesson!” that would at least be the punchline, but her line just takes the edge off of the impact of his line, and makes me think there’s new, more interesting information about to come, but nope, that’s it.
Everett knows how it’s done, but the Duffs haven’t figured out the science of comedy yet.
Thanks for joining me in this century old comic critique! 😂
