For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 14, 2019

har-dee-har-har, Mike

Good thing that I had better sense than Mike here. Comments like that to Mom and it would not make a difference whether or not I could tell them apart. I would not be eating either of them. At least not that night.

As my own mother used to say, you’re cruising for a bruising, Michael!

It’s not wise to insult the mother who could add an extra ingredient to your portion Michael.

“You can be replaced with a bruise in shoes, kid.”

I’m surprised she didn’t tell him: ‘’Try both and tell me’’

Ha Ha Ha

Aannnnd Michael joins Larry (PBS) on the porch.

I don’t know will you?

Shouldn’t he be doing a tonguey laugh and/or have his hands in his pockets?

Never…and I mean NEVER insult the person who prepares your food. Words of wisdom…and experience.

While Elly is doing her usual slow burn, the oddest part about the last panel is that Michael does not have a smirk on his face to tell us readers that he knows he has just insulted his mother’s cooking. There has been a running joke that Elly is a terrible cook that has been shown on many occasions going back 10 years now. There has also been a running joke that the casseroles Elly makes are just the leftovers from the week with some cheese on top. I wonder if we have reached the point where Michael genuinely can’t tell the difference between dog food and his mother’s casserole.

Pick one and offer it to Farley. If he eats it is the dog food, if he refuses, casserole.

I’m reminded about an old cereal commercial, (Grape Nuts I think). Some guy would eat parts of a pine tree and then push the cereal a better thing to eat. He did this for several years till he died. So I guess he has taken root in his next life.

So Mike, eat the casserole. It is better than pine-nuts.

That’s it kid. Piss off the person who watches you sleep.

Not once your eyes swell shut…

You’re gonna pay for that one, Kiddo.

This is Michael’s last appearance in the strip. But he’ll occasionally send letters from military school.

How appalling a remark. He no doubt thinks he’s smart. He’s not. He’s an idiot. Elly should put the casserole in the frig and let him go without.

LOL. I love how Michael doesn’t even seem to be snarky. Elly’s cooking is THAT UNAPPETIZING.

amazing how snotty and disrespectful the kids are portrayed in this comic

“That will be your challenge!”

That’s a fair question!

Will others be able to tell you from your friends after she beats the tar out of you???

This one made me chuckle out loud.

Canadian Comedian, Ron James, says his retirement plan is to eat a little bit of cat food everyday – so that, when he’s 80, it doesn’t come as such a shock!

The nose knows!

Har dee har har – reference to “The Honeymooners” where Alice fixed a glob of cat food, the men found it and were eating it telephone conversation: Trixie: Did you fix the cat food? Alice: Yes, I have the cat food ready, but the boys are eating it! Ralph: Did you hear that? Norton: Yeah, but this is good stuff!

OK Michael, how about you start making your own meals?

I knew what Michael would say. Elly did set herself up for it.

If she was smart she’d simply say – “whichever” and let him stew.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you…

lots of thin skins here

Life’s an adventure.

Michael is the epitome of the intelligent teenage smart ass. Love it.

When I was in high school, my Mom went back to work (during my freshman year) and I was given a Betty Crocker cook book, told I had a week to learn how to cook (I did not know how to boil water at the time). I learned and subsequently learned well enough that I did dinner parties for family friends and made enough to buy a new motorcycle for my senior year. I learned that you do what you have to, devil takes the hindmost!

Supper, not dinner? Must be Canada or rural America.

You mean to tell me Farley gets a hot meal for dinner? My folks’s dog only got that in his 16th-18th years. Some special recipe the vet came up with for senior dogs.

And don’t forget to wash the dishes

According to my mother’s viewpoint, “That boy is cruisin’ for a bruisin’.”

Smartmouth your Mom…not in MY Mom’s house!

Maybe Michael wants to be told to make his own supper from now on. He probably wouldn’t sulk about it the way Lizzie did when complaining about cheese sandwiches got her sentenced to making her own lunch from then on.

Take the one you like the best.

never understood the parents who made such a fuss about eating all your food when they know full well many foods are unliked or a source of sensitivity and allergies. my parents did not believe me about my sensitivity to onions until the day I could not hold them down and threw up in my plate. do not eat onions to this day but love garlic. my father was the opposite…loved onions but garlic made him throw up.