Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for November 12, 2010
November 05, 2010
November 19, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling The Mind-Bending Adventures of Percival Dunwoody Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909 Percival: Egad! What a marvelous invention! Whatever do you call it? Man: A BUTTER CHURN! Again, Mr. Dunwoody: you traveled BACK in time! It's 1872! Percival: Good lord! In that case, I've created a time-paradox I must rectify immediately! Percival: As much as it pains me, I must now find and kill my own grandfather! Man: What? But why? Percival: I hate that foul-smelling old coot! Do I need any more reason than that? 2010 Percival: Take that, Gramps! Now the space-time continuum is safe from your halitosis! BAM Grandfather: Huh? Percival: My stars! Is that tiny thing a music-listening device? Woman: My iPod? Yeah... Percival: What wondrous times!! How very small your butter churns must be in this age! Man: Help! There's been a murder! Percival: And behold! What a delight fully novel fad! I must show it to my grandchildren! Come! 1928 Percival: Hi, it's me! I'm talking! Good day! Man: Mr. Dunwoody, cell phones won't work in 1928! There's no network! Percival: What is a "cell phone"? This is a SNUFF BOX! Woman: Look at that, Mabel! The latest fad! Woman: Hello, Snuff Box! How are you? I'm quite fine! Percival: Great Scott! She's being filmed! Percival: When later generations see that film of her engaged in futuristic fad of Snuff-Box-Talking, it will create ANOTHER time-paradox! Percival: Hello, I am YOU, five minutes from now, here to PREVENT that time-paradox! Percival #2: Well-played BAM Next: But was he too late?
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jnik23260 about 14 years ago
The story would have looked better if Grauman’s Chinese Theater was in the background.
3hourtour Premium Member about 14 years ago
…right out of today’s ..er..yesterday’s news..
SameAsOldFfred about 14 years ago
It’s certainly not too soon…
BrianCrook about 14 years ago
Interesting: Ruben Bolling is consistent. He follows a great cartoon, like last week’s, with a lame cartoon, like this one.
mrsullenbeauty about 14 years ago
Love it. What a fun way to incorporate a weird piece of topicality into a comic strip.
aardvarkseyes about 14 years ago
It’s the best explanation I’ve heard so far.
pschearer Premium Member about 14 years ago
What I want is answers to two questions: 1) Why would someone, seeing that woman in the Charlie Chaplin film, jump to the idiotic conclusion she must be a time traveler from the future? And 2) Why would news networks jump all over the story and put the idiotic theory on TV?
Oh, I think 2 just answered 1.
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
I hadn’t heard of the Chaplin movie in question, so I had no idea that this strip was in any way topical. I just thought it was funny. “Percival Dunwoody: Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909” is one of my favorite of Bolling’s recurring characters.
(Frankly, I’m awful tired of “Lucky Ducky.”)
Having now looked at the link from “The Circus”, I can agree that it looks amazingly like someone talking on a cell phone. And I have no doubt that’s exactly what it is - someone doing something that looks amazingly like talking on a cell phone… Fun.
arye uygur about 14 years ago
I supposed that “Tom the dancing Bug” has a new cartoon every Sunday, so I only looked at Sundays. However, a few days ago I logged onto TTDB to see if I missed any additional comments, and found a new “episode.” So, which day is a new one come posted?
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
The new “TTDB” cartoons appear on Fridays.
arye uygur about 14 years ago
Thank you, fritzoid
h_lance about 14 years ago
(Frankly, I’m awful tired of “Lucky Ducky.”)
The first Fritzoid comment I’ve ever differed with.
This week’s Dunwoody is a classic, though, because of the “butter churn” panel. The rest of it was fairly entertaining, as well.