For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 31, 2021

Heh. And people wanna say that Americans are weird??

Now just for fun, see if you can spot which of the Patterson neighbours are in each of the costumes. Which ones are Connie Poirier and Greg Thomas, Anne and Steve Nichols, and Keith and Carol Enjo?

Farley’s face! ♥

I don’t get it…what “whole new meaning” for “parents” does he mean?

Parent are just kids who have been around a lot longer.

No it doesn’t.

Thankfully Christmas is less than two months away…..

There’s a ballerina who’s dancing to heavy metal!

Whoa, is that a Josephine Baker banana skirt costume….and the gorilla is eating one of them????

Why the tutu

Cool party, but the music is to loud. …grumpy, me.

I’m guessing April is at someone ELSE’S house for the night.

Michael and Elizabeth are appalled. The source of their embarrassment is apparent. Both parents, actually.

I wonder if Mike is going to be the one to tell them to turn the music down…

The hairy armpits and the tu tu makes me think of someone I used to know.

I LOVE IT!!

It is none of Michael’s business what John and Elly do. Michael is a piece of property of his parents, and can be used, controlled, bought, and sold at their disgression.

Looks like a great party anywhere you might be. :-)

The dude in the blue tutu freaks me out. Very Scary.

Reminds me of some great Halloween parties I used to throw and some I’ve attended. Who says Halloween is just for kids?

Look at Farley’s face.. LOL

Michael is astounded that his parents are actually people who like to have fun. He thought only kids wanted that.

You don’t quit having fun because you grow old, you grow old because you quit having fun.

Had the party held a jack-o-lantern contest, their entry would have defeated the competition by a landslide. (https://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2015/10/25)

Is John dressed as Harvey?

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This is that moment we all have when we realize our parents are human beings, with lives and pasts that don’t center around us. Mine came when my mother told me how she fought with her mother and moved out on her own when she was dating my father. Dad was 23 years older than Mom, and my grandmother was not pleased about that. (Happy ending, though: ultimately they reconciled, my grandmother came to love my father, and my parents were happily married for 22 years until my Dad passed away.)

I might have been in my 30s or 40s when Mom told me about that, but I still remember how I suddenly saw her in a very different light.

Let them, no one cares.

Elly is a hula dancer when she is white. That is cultural appropriation. It is racists like Elly who make life hard for us protected classes.

Those people are having “too much of a good time.” It comes off as desperate.