Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 26, 2016
September 25, 2016
September 27, 2016
Transcript:
Caulfield: It's almost October. Should we be doing the baking-soda volcano experiment by now? Mrs. Olsen: Well, you don't want to peak too early. Frazz: She actually mentioned peaking too early to a roomful of 3rd-grade attention spans? Caulfield: Oh, look, a bird.
This being a normal comic-strip timeline…which means it’s like a mobius strip instead of a film reel…I try to suspend disbelief and accept that he’s always 8, and always in 3rd grade, with Mrs. Olsen for a teacher, whether the school year is starting or ending.
His asking that question makes him seem self-aware…. catching on that he’s stuck in time, like Bill Murray in Groundhog day…knowing what will happen next, all through the school year.Or else we should believe that the most brilliant child in Michigan is now about 24 and repeating the 3rd grade for the 15th time….but I don’t buy that one.
But other than one of those scenarios, how would he know about the volcano experiment every fall?
As for what it has to do with English….except for gym, don’t 3rd graders still have one teacher for everything?In my day we never had separate classes for different subjects till 7th grade….but I don’t know about nowadays.We’ve seen a few other teachers in the school, but I don’t know whether Caulfield is actually in their classes.