Wheel of Fortune and Funniest Home Videos are recognizable programs that Lynn Johnston is taking a shot at. As for the others:
1. I can’t tell if the Donald / Dolores one is about Barbara being fooled into marrying a woman dressed as a man who decided she wanted to wear Barbara’s clothing, or one of those comedies where the man dresses up as woman (like Bosom Buddies), or a forward-thinking look at gender identification comedy that would play well in today’s TV market.
2. Sadly, blood-soaked asparagus is probably not about a cooking show.
We can still catch Wheel of Fortune, cheesy soap operas, Law and Order and America’s Funniest Videos today! If this strip wasn’t re-written, its got amazing legs!
Lynn has a great comment about this strip on her website:
Lynn’s Comments: Sunday pages gave me the opportunity to stretch things out. It was especially enjoyable when I could come up with TV jargon and funny game show dialogue. “I’ll take a P” and the subject of cross-dressing were against the censorship rules, but in a case like this, it was lost in the mix. Great fun.
In memory of Alex Trebek, Lynn could do a strip where Elly is a contestant on Jeopardy. She loses because she cannot answer the last question. The final panel could say “Unfortunately, the day after Elly dropped out, they had a class which discussed the same subject as the Final Jeopardy question!”
Years ago, I’d have me-days. I’d go out, buy all the trash mags, chocolate, wine, whatever. Come home, flop on the bed in comfy clothes, and proceed to read that trash with whatever was on on tv. While pigging out. That routine stopped the day one of them put a photo of poor little Jon-Benet’s body in. Uncensored. Never. Again.
Every year at the county fair I used to get a funnel cake, loaded with grease and powdered sugar. About halfway through it, I’d find myself wondering why I thought that would be a good idea.
Have you ever had a refrigerator full and yet there’s nothing to eat?
Either there nothing on TV you want to watch or there’s five or six at one time. I hate when that happens!!! I usually flip from one to another and repeat…
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
better get yourself a Pepto Bismo, El
Orcatime over 3 years ago
Kinda like eating at the mall’s food court. Just to remember what it was like to eat as a teenager!
Enter.Name.Here over 3 years ago
The “Binge”.
Geophyzz over 3 years ago
Like right now, at 1:31 am, because I can’t sleep.
Foob over 3 years ago
Panel 5: You can always count on Lynn for some potty humor.
howtheduck over 3 years ago
Wheel of Fortune and Funniest Home Videos are recognizable programs that Lynn Johnston is taking a shot at. As for the others:
1. I can’t tell if the Donald / Dolores one is about Barbara being fooled into marrying a woman dressed as a man who decided she wanted to wear Barbara’s clothing, or one of those comedies where the man dresses up as woman (like Bosom Buddies), or a forward-thinking look at gender identification comedy that would play well in today’s TV market.
2. Sadly, blood-soaked asparagus is probably not about a cooking show.
gammaguy over 3 years ago
It’s never been something I “have to” — or even wanted to — do.
Zykoic over 3 years ago
Hawkins Cheezies and Coke. Every once in while…..
Yardley701 over 3 years ago
Whenever you feel down chocolate really helps.
TheCoosBayBachelor over 3 years ago
Junk food for bloodstreams and junk TV for eyeballs & brains. That’s a steady diet for most of the world where there’s electricity.
Billys mom2022 over 3 years ago
How true, only mine is U Tube.
artheaded1 over 3 years ago
We can still catch Wheel of Fortune, cheesy soap operas, Law and Order and America’s Funniest Videos today! If this strip wasn’t re-written, its got amazing legs!
uniquename over 3 years ago
Lynn has a great comment about this strip on her website:
Lynn’s Comments: Sunday pages gave me the opportunity to stretch things out. It was especially enjoyable when I could come up with TV jargon and funny game show dialogue. “I’ll take a P” and the subject of cross-dressing were against the censorship rules, but in a case like this, it was lost in the mix. Great fun.
https://fborfw.com/strip_fix/
The_Great_Black President over 3 years ago
In memory of Alex Trebek, Lynn could do a strip where Elly is a contestant on Jeopardy. She loses because she cannot answer the last question. The final panel could say “Unfortunately, the day after Elly dropped out, they had a class which discussed the same subject as the Final Jeopardy question!”
[Unnamed Reader - 8bb645] over 3 years ago
Which is a bigger stomach ache, all the food or the TV shows?
grocks over 3 years ago
I understand completely – indulgent de-stressing
Super Fly over 3 years ago
I’ll take a “p”? I’m shocked!
smokysilver.so Premium Member over 3 years ago
Thank goodness I’d rather grab my Kindle.
PammWhittaker over 3 years ago
Years ago, I’d have me-days. I’d go out, buy all the trash mags, chocolate, wine, whatever. Come home, flop on the bed in comfy clothes, and proceed to read that trash with whatever was on on tv. While pigging out. That routine stopped the day one of them put a photo of poor little Jon-Benet’s body in. Uncensored. Never. Again.
PoodleGroomer over 3 years ago
This reminds me of The Tappit Brothers’ solution to funny noise car problems: “Can you turn up the radio to where you can’t hear it?”
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Yup. Sometimes a good veg out is just the thing to take the edge off. …by veg I mean potato chips, any thing called crisp and pure sugar evil.
BlitzMcD over 3 years ago
I get that. At the same time, it’s a poignant reminder of what an intellectual wasteland the mainstream media has become.
Back to Big Mike over 3 years ago
With me, it’s a Big Mac. Once or twice a year, I get a mad craving for one. Halfway though it, I wonder why and throw the rest away.
summerdog over 3 years ago
It’s chocolate or nothing, for this girl. Some old costume period movie on TV, and hot tea.
TheFiddleBackSpider over 3 years ago
I’d rather do that then get drunk. That’s just my preference though…
dv1093 over 3 years ago
Notice she doesn’t have the nerve to do it where there’s anyone else around.
dv1093 over 3 years ago
I heard Lynn once say that this Sunday strip was a sneaky way to slip “I’ll take a P” and reference crossdressing past the censors.
MontanaPhil50 over 3 years ago
Every year at the county fair I used to get a funnel cake, loaded with grease and powdered sugar. About halfway through it, I’d find myself wondering why I thought that would be a good idea.
rebelstrike0 over 3 years ago
Which number is greater, the national debt or Elly’s blood pressure?
paranormal over 3 years ago
Have you ever had a refrigerator full and yet there’s nothing to eat?
Either there nothing on TV you want to watch or there’s five or six at one time. I hate when that happens!!! I usually flip from one to another and repeat…
exitseven over 3 years ago
Especially in 2021.
mnd5241dmn over 3 years ago
Last one to find the Pepto Bismo is a rotten egg!
stamps over 3 years ago
Blood-soaked asparagus? The rutabaga did it.
raybarb44 over 3 years ago
Once in a while. Okay. Especially now……
Barnabus Blackoak over 3 years ago
?
stillfickled Premium Member over 3 years ago
I have never done that.
cmxx over 3 years ago
I have, but my snack and screen choices were different.
Sojourner over 3 years ago
I miss newsprint comic strips, because they didn’t have a Comments section full of inane remarks. :-D
Thinkingblade over 3 years ago
Fortunately for me when I need that kind of decompression I have light books to read.
Julie Atchley Premium Member over 3 years ago
well… we have all been there