Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 21, 2016
October 20, 2016
October 22, 2016
Transcript:
Arlo: There is a certain old-world romanticism in separate bedrooms!
Arlo: I'd have to knock on your door!
Janis: Is that you, Brad?
Arlo: I guess you've heard about Angelina and me!
Janis: Yes, I'm so sorry!
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.
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.
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.
shatterblast about 8 years ago
Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie
donrparty about 8 years ago
now we know what janis has fantasized about
Doctor_McCoy about 8 years ago
I thought her name was Robin.
timzsixty9 about 8 years ago
role playing fantasy in 3…2…1…!
Cincoflex about 8 years ago
I love that Arlo is so sweet he just rolls with it, hee!
TrudyQ Premium Member about 8 years ago
Good one Janis.
redstart about 8 years ago
More like Brad and Janet . . .
uffdaphil about 8 years ago
Love the light bulb moment in panel three.
DDrazen about 8 years ago
They could always go medieval, when everybody slept naked. (Source: Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror”)
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member about 8 years ago
I am not purposefully being a dunce here, but I do not “get” where the Pitt/Jolie reference came from:
.
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?
.
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.
.
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.
rroush Premium Member about 8 years ago
So who will Janis be? Jennifer Anniston?
JP Steve Premium Member about 8 years ago
Jennifer would have been my choice — Angelina looks way to much like my old school chum (boy) to get me excited!
Darsan54 Premium Member about 8 years ago
No. There is absolutely no romantic notion about separate bedrooms. I can’t imagine ever sleeping away from my spouse.
BlueIris Premium Member about 8 years ago
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.
Alphaomega about 8 years ago
Janis is Jennifer tonight.
DebUSNRet about 8 years ago
Love it!
nferg Premium Member almost 8 years ago
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.