Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for January 20, 2010
January 19, 2010
January 21, 2010
Transcript:
Clayton: Seriously, dad. Is there a way to get filthy rich without actually earning it? Adam: Well...hmm...I think I can help a bit. Clayton: Awesome! Adam: I'll need the good hose and some mud.
Kiba65 almost 15 years ago
Something to do with his big nose..Gets bigger everyday!!!!
Plods with ...™ almost 15 years ago
Where’s he going to get the rich part?
dante.deangelo almost 15 years ago
@Ji2m Adam says he’ll help out a bit — I assume that means if he gets a hose and some mud he’ll help Clayton take care of the “filthy” part in “filthy rich”
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
Don’t do it Clayton!
alondra almost 15 years ago
I can’t imagine what he has in mind.
Armand Bastionairre almost 15 years ago
?? seems patently obvious to me. “filthy” = “water & mud”
bald almost 15 years ago
this must be serious, adam wants the good hose
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I can understand how the joke could be missed, but I agree that Adam’s intent is to “help a bit” by making Clayton filthy. Had his line in the second panel been something like “I can get you halfway there”, it perhaps would have been clearer.
Not everything needs to be “1-2-3”, though. If the last panel had made the gag explicit (“…then you’ll be FILTHY!!!”) rather than implicit, you might as well have Clayton do a boffo backflop, with his feet in the air and a big exclamation point over his head (the comic strip equivalent of a sit-com laugh track). That would be good enough for Bazooka Joe, but from Adam Newman we expect more…
POPPA1956 almost 15 years ago
A “job” is not the way to get filthy rich. It’s better to be an owner than an employee. (Learning how to legally hide money from the Taxman helps). The above is based on hearsay, and not any actual experience of my own.