Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for March 31, 2019

who’d want to read comics he’s describing? that’d get letters to the newspaper editor to take comics off the comics page

Pete isn’t reading the same comics I’m reading.

Ok…. I went to get Tony’s question…

Though, once again, I feel like I stepped through the looking glass….

cos it’s only vaguely related, if that, to today’s strip.

He’s asking “What’s on TV?”

Is he really asking whether or not the current program contains “naughty” language?

I don’t watch TV any more, not since the country went digital and my antenna stayed analog….

so honestly, I haven’t a clue.

But I can tell you that I’ve seen a few comic strips lately where the language would curl your hair, were you of particularly fragile construction…

which I have to admit (though perhaps shocking some of you), I am not.

But those are web comics…. anything intended for publishing in newspapers is much more censored….

as are we, who post on GoComics…. even if the language IN the strip where we’re commenting is rough.

So it’s the newspapers, trying to keep their content saleable for family consumption….

and sites like GoComics, which is run by a publisher who sells content to newspapers, and so attempts to do the same…

that keep Peter from expressing himself in ways pretty common to his generation

Tony asked, about 6 hours ago

What’s on TV?

Seriously?!?

We just switched from regular to daylight saving time, the cat wouldn’t even let me sleep as long as usual because she loudly insisted on fresh food which resulted in me opening a new can because I was too tired to realize that there’s already an open can in the fridge… different kind, so not all is lost.

All that before I had my mug of coffee. Maybe I should switch from regular to atomic for the next few days…

Get a forking TV-guide on paper or look it up on the internet yourself – we don’t watch TV live often. The few shows we’re interested in are downloadable. SNL should be available now, and I’m looking forward to “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver – tonight in your time zone, tomorrow morning in ours.

Nothing worth watching.

There are a few comic strips on GoComics that have gone as far as using the f-bomb and a few other words. I won’t name them because I enjoy those strips and don’t want them censored.

And thank goodness there is somewhere I can go and NOT be overwhelmed with foul language and innuendo. Suddenly I’m noticing inappropriate language in commercials.

A very thin layer of dust.

I was on TV once. It was a local kid’s show. I was 6 and won the bean bag toss. And because I won I got Cooties. (the game)

Apparently someone forgot to tell Wiley that he’s not allowed to put profanity in his comics or that he’s supposed to avoid controversial politics.

To feature items in the news would be a non sequitur. Just ask Wiley.

Tony, you’re showing your age with the test pattern.

We like it that way. Leave the controversy to the political cartoons.

We come here to kick back and get away from that crap.