Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 03, 2012
April 02, 2012
April 04, 2012
Transcript:
Jeff: Hey, I'm Jeff. Toggle: L-L-Leo. Joanie: Let's go out on the patio. Lemonade okay? I've just made a pitcher. Alex: That'd be great, Gram. Joanie: Everyone just have a seat - be right back. Glad you're here, Leo. Toggle: M-m-me, too, ma'am. Jeff: So I thought you'd be bigger, more ripped. Toggle: Why? Alex: Because Jeff has issues. Ignore him.
I’ve read Doonesbury since Mike, BD and Mark were college students (gulp! I’m old!)Joanie was the 30-ish mother of a preschool daughter, JJ, when she fled her oppressive family life and hitched a ride to Walden commune on the back of Mike Doonebury’s motorcycle.She eventually went to law school in California, worked on congressional races, reconciled with JJ, and in her 40’s, married Rick, a reporter for the Washington Post, and had Jeff. So JJ is about 15 years older than Jeff, and they weren’t raised together.
JJ, meanwhile, grew up to marry Mike, have Alex…. and run off with the useless Zeke (who I believe worked for Uncle Duke)…….leaving Alex with Mike, who then married Kim… and THEY raised Alex.Alex rarely sees her mother, JJ, cos she hates Zeke…. (calls him Uncle Stupid.)but her father, Mike, is still good friends with his ex-mother-in-law, Joanie, who is Alex’s grandmother… Jeff and Zipper came to see her at MIT… Zipper hit on her, and Jeff went after her beautiful roommate, Drew…. the girls were NOT impressed.So yeah, Alex knows Jeff well. Clear as mud?I’m doing all this from memory at 2am — no guarantees.Feel free to correct me….