Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 21, 2016

Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie

now we know what janis has fantasized about

I thought her name was Robin.

role playing fantasy in 3…2…1…!

I love that Arlo is so sweet he just rolls with it, hee!

Good one Janis.

More like Brad and Janet . . .

Love the light bulb moment in panel three.

They could always go medieval, when everybody slept naked. (Source: Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror”)

I am not purposefully being a dunce here, but I do not “get” where the Pitt/Jolie reference came from:

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What I mean is….how is Arlo saying “I’d have to knock on your door.” logically lead to Janis replying with her “is that you, Brad?” comment…. especially with such wide-open eyes?

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Perhaps if Arlo had been shown to knock on something, perhaps the side table or the headboard while he was talking to Janis… then her reply would make a little bit more sense to me…. she would be replying in jest, suggesting that Pitt had been her secret amore.

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And then, even in my above scenario, how does that get to Arlo having some sort of fling with Jolie? There is something I guess I am missing about this interplay that is confusing to me. To me, it almost reads more like they are both aiming for a “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” moment.

So who will Janis be? Jennifer Anniston?

Jennifer would have been my choice — Angelina looks way to much like my old school chum (boy) to get me excited!

No. There is absolutely no romantic notion about separate bedrooms. I can’t imagine ever sleeping away from my spouse.

I regard the separate bedrooms thing as an upper class mostly European thing. If you read old novels, it was not uncommon for married upper class people to have separate bedrooms.

Janis is Jennifer tonight.

Love it!

I would have to go with panel 2 – Janis is channeling Janet (and FrankNFurter) from “the Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Panel 3 – Arlo does not want to be FrankNFurter, so …. Panel 4 – he changes the conversation so that he is Brad Pitt.