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1. 8 days ago on Fred Basset

   I was coming in to say just that!

2. 15 days ago on Fred Basset

   Ugh, summer colds are the WORST. Hope you feel better soon.

3. 17 days ago on Fred Basset

   How about those old ads for…how shall I put this…feminine hygiene products? Just once I’d like to see an ad with a guy strolling through a field of flowers, with a voiceover saying, “Jock itch is a problem that affects us all…”

4. 17 days ago on Fred Basset

   Now you’ve got me thinking of a paint commercial from when I was a kid—but it was local to the Philadelphia area. A neighbor kid came up on Phillies player Tug McGraw painting his house and asked, “Hey, Tug, is Mrs. McGraw making you paint the house today?” “Oh, no!” Tug answered. “I’m doing it because I like using MAB paints, blah blah blah…” Then his wife poked her head out the door… “Frank Edwin McGraw, you still haven’t painted the front!” Tug smiled sheepishly. The kid said, “Catch you later…Edwin?!”

5. 17 days ago on Fred Basset

   Fellow brown-eyed girl reporting here. I see where you’re coming from, but when I was a teen in the eighties I did like this one contact lens commercial that featured a hazel-eyed woman closing her eyes, then opening them to reveal they were bright blue. I just liked it visually.

6. 17 days ago on Fred Basset

   I guess it’s a coin flip…you’ve gotta weigh the side effects you may or may not get versus the relief the medication WILL give you for whatever condition you’re struggling with. That’s why these ads always say to discuss the medication with your doctor.

   One thing I like about many commercials (for medication and otherwise) is that quite a few use songs from musical theater! I bet Fred would like the PetSmart one that used “I’ll Do Anything” from Oliver.

7. about 2 months ago on Peanuts

   I remember seeing this strip animated on the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show in the eighties (a Saturday morning animated show that animated various single strips and strip sequences). Knowing this strip well, I was rather pleased by the fact that in the animated version, Charlie Brown was smiling when he delivered that last line…which makes more sense than the blank look he had in the last panel. After all, wouldn’t he be pleased that Snoopy was so thrilled with his “cooking”?

8. 4 months ago on Fred Basset

   Right?! My friend and I saw Dune Part Two last night. I had to have dinner at the theater because we didn’t have time to eat beforehand. An order of impossible nuggets (it’s Lent, no meat for me on Friday), a separate side of curly fries, and a regular-size bottled water: twenty-two bucks! (As for my friend, they’d unfortunately sold out of the sandworm souvenir popcorn bucket.)

9. 5 months ago on Fred Basset

   This seems to be an older strip, so maybe it’s Benny Hill they’re watching? (I always found it funny even when much of it went over my head as a kid, but others may beg to differ.)

10. 6 months ago on Peanuts

    These strips were inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s “Young Peoples’ Concerts” that used to be televised. Schulz said that whenever the camera panned over the audience, each and every one of those kids looked as though they wished they were somewhere else. Lesson to be learned: if you want to get kids interested in classical music, don’t drag them to concerts like this. Show them Bugs Bunny cartoons!!!