Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker

[Legomancer]

"Poor little rich boy" my ass. Fuck you, you swollen-headed asshole. You invite your poor friends, Freckles and Pee-Wee, over to swim in your fucking dollar sign shaped pool filled with gold coins? How fucking rude can you get?

And what's this? Now you're pissed off at Gloria because she made you sneeze while you were tidying up your safe, resulting in money scattered everywhere? Oh no, horror of horrors! I HATE it when my TRILLION DOLLARS are all in disarray!

Christ, kid, how much is enough? You've got a dog with dollar signs all over him ("He's a DOUGH-berman!" HA HA FUCKING HA, YOU PRICK.), you've got a fucking robot maid, and you have more playhouses than you know what to do with. And you're the "poor little rich boy?" Fuck you.

Oh sure, every now and then you pretend to be concerned for other people (mostly just your friends), but it doesn't last long, because you conveniently discover that they LIKE being poor. So don't worry about it. Freckles and Pee-Wee's family might think a can of vienna sausages is a goddamn feast, but don't help them out because THEY'RE TOO PROUD TO ACCEPT CHARITY. Yeah, I'm sure Mr. Wee or whatever Pee-Wee's dad's name is would just smack that thousand-dollar bill out of your hand if you offered it to him. I'm certain Freckles makes sure he didn't get any gold coins lodged in his ass crack while swimming in the money pool, because not returning them WOULDN'T BE RIGHT.

So fuck you, you little shit. At least Reggie and Maida Munny are honest about the fact that they're greedy little bastards. And, you moron, Maida is far hotter than Gloria.

Now, as for YOU, Little Dot...

[Zebra]

I just wish Casper would go into the fucking light and leave me the hell alone!

[Trion]

Sheesh, Lego, if you're gonna bash my childhood reading material at least spell the names right.

MAYDA MUNNY

Thank you.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

As I understand it, actual Wiccan ceremonies are conducted in the nude. :confused:

So, why is Wendy The Good Little Witch wearing that hooded red jumpsuit? Makes her look like Wicca Spice. :D

[Coriolanus]

Drat it, Zebra! ;)

I never liked either RR or his ghost. So I'll side with Legomancer's rant and any mis-tori-spellings.

I clicked on the thread to insert that Simpson-nerd theory.

[dorkusmalorkusmafia]

Not bad, Richie Rich's dog, Dollar, was not a doughberman but a doughmation.

[matt_mcl]

Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker

I always thought so.

[Legomancer]

Originally posted by dorkusmalorkusmafia
Not bad, Richie Rich's dog, Dollar, was not a doughberman but a doughmation.

That's even stupider.

[Enderw24]

Matt, that's Macaulay Culkin you're talking about here. That's just so wrong, even for you.

Legomancer, according to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional.html), he's only worth 24.7 billion.

[Weirddave]

Is it just me, or does Casper look like the ghost of Richie Rich?

Judge (http://www.toonopedia.com/casper.htm) for yourself (http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/search/product_large.asp?userid=6TW8ILM77G&EAN=9780587072799).

[don nardo]

I always thought that Casper was the ghost of the Lindberg Baby.

[Eve]

I nearly choked . . . Does Pee have a sister named Wee?

I always wondered about that weird S&M relationship Beetle Bailey and Sarge seem to have. Beetle eggs Sarge on; he's never filed charges against him—so obviously he likes being pounded into a pulp by his big bearish daddy.

[Weirddave]

Oh, and FTR, Freckles and Pee-Wee's last name was Friendly.

I think they grew up to become cops whose job is to go around and lecture to schoolchildren.

[Polycarp]

Please note the irony of this thread title in a very few years. (Another one of my cryptic comments about the future). ;)

[dorkusmalorkusmafia]

Legomancer, I agree. Richie Rich is definately not literature. :)

I was under the impression that Matt_MCL and Macaulay Culkin were roughly the same age. (Nice link to the Subway system there, Matt.)

Speaking of Richie Rich, do you remember the one where him and Reggie were caught in the giant board game?

[Ukulele Ike]

What's even STUPIDER is that that stupid dog was a DOLLARMATION.

Anyone else remember the episode where Richie and Cadbury went up against a whole islandful of Communists? All the men had five o'clock shadow.

[Ukulele Ike]

And if Reginald van Dough was so loaded, how come he didn't find a plastic surgeon to build him a chin?

[Eve]

Who's richer, ya think, Richie Rich or or Scrooge McDuck?

[Ukulele Ike]

McDuck keeps his cash and valuables in vaults. Rich just has it all lying around in an ostentatious show of hideous taste.

I'd have to say the duck is more realistic.

[Infovore]

I wonder if Little Dot ever got treatment for her OCD--or Little Lotta for her eating disorder.

I think it would be amusing if somebody did an updated version of Harvey comics characters, following them into their teens. That was a screwed-up little bunch of pilgrims.

[AmbushBug]

Originally posted by Eve
Who's richer, ya think, Richie Rich or or Scrooge McDuck?

According to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional_print.html) It's Richie Rich at #2 with $24.7 billion, and Scrooge McDuck at #4 with $8.2 billion.

Santa Claus is #1, with $infinity.

AmbushBug

[Knowed Out]

There was the one time Richie and Reggie had a race around the world. They agree to a stipulation that neither one can spend any money. Reggie of course brings traveller's checks.

They bump into each other at various spots along the way around the world. Reggie always gets foiled in his efforts to bring Richie down. In the last part of the race, the leg to San Francisco, Reggie spots Richie with a Polynesian boy in a Singapore harbor. Richie tells Reggie, "I'm going to cross the Pacific in this outrigger."

Yeah. 5000 miles across treacherous tsunami-laden shark-infested ocean with a couple of backpacks of food, powered by sugar cane poles. Happens every day.

Even though the two made the bet on the condition that neither one spends any money, Reggie cheats (like he did all along the way) and gets a seat on an ocean liner. The yellow-skinned slanty-eyed Chinese captain tells him "San Francisco is honorable first stop!"

Next panel: Reggie exclaims "Hey! This is India! You said we were going to San Francisco!" The captain replies, "We go to Frisco the long way." Or maybe that was actuarry wrong way.

[Kaspar Hauser]

How is Daddy Warbucks #3? He used to lose his entire fortune about once every five years.

[Eve]

And I thought the McDuck fortune was estimated at "eight skyrillion dollars."

[monterey86]

Not many people know this, but in the 70's Richie changed his name, moved to Redmond, WA and started a Software Company. His house still looks the same though and I think he still has that swimming pool with gold coins.

[BoBettie]

I'm certain Freckles makes sure he didn't get any gold coins lodged in his ass crack while swimming in the money pool, because not returning them WOULDN'T BE RIGHT.


Man, that happens in my pool every now and again. Those coins just get everywhere! In cracks you didn't know you HAD!

[mouthbreather]

Originally posted by Weirddave
Is it just me, or does Casper look like the ghost of Richie Rich?

Judge (http://www.toonopedia.com/casper.htm) for yourself (http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/search/product_large.asp?userid=6TW8ILM77G&EAN=9780587072799).


Not just you, Bart & Lisa noticed it too (http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F21.html)


Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of
Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich]
Lisa: Hey, they do look alike!


:p

[mobo85]

Originally posted by mouthbreather



Not just you, Bart & Lisa noticed it too (http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F21.html)


Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of
Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich]
Lisa: Hey, they do look alike!


:p

Matt Groening himself believes this, so that's probably why Bart and Lisa do, too.

"Maybe he realized how hollow the pursuit of money is and took his own life."

I think Richie is referred to as "The Poor Little Rich Boy" because even though he has money, he has no friends. That isn't true, though. Richie has friends! Maybe he has nothing to do with his money anymore, after having bought everything shaped like a dollar sign in the world.

[mouthbreather]

And 'member kids, using copy and paste with your tags is a good way to make it look like you don't know how to spell a 5 letter word two times.

And that's one to grow on.

[dwyr]

I watched an interview with Groening many years ago where he was describing a story he wrote as a kid in school. It was something about Caspar the friendly boy and how he got to be a ghost. I don't think he got a good grade on it.

[dwyr]

Or Casper even.

[Revtim]

Not to sound like a commie or anything, but isn't it kind of weird to make a comic book character who's interesting soley because he is rich? Talk about indoctrination to greed...

[pravnik]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
What's even STUPIDER is that that stupid dog was a DOLLARMATION.

Anyone else remember the episode where Richie and Cadbury went up against a whole islandful of Communists? All the men had five o'clock shadow.

You beat me to it, Ike. A dollarmation dollar indeed was.

I missed the communist island, but I sure liked evil light-bulb-headed villain Dr. NR-Gee. And the time Richie accidentally invented the Harrier aircraft. Jesus, I can't believe I remember all this.

[Spudo]

Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of
Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich]
Lisa: Hey, they do look alike!
Bart: Wonder how Richie died.
Lisa: Perhaps he realized how hollow the pursuit of money really is and took his own life.

[Ukulele Ike]

The Commies challenged him to a series of Olympic-style feats of physical prowess, and cheated a lot. And Richie bested them all.

Damn, I didn't see THAT coming.

And yeah, what ABOUT that Little Lotta? I tried becoming morbidly obese in order to gain Super-Strength, but it didn't work!

[Spoke]

So then do Richie/Casper eventually go to Hell for their sins and become Hot Stuff?

Speaking of which...

Hot Stuff??? Dude get over yourself. You wear a freaking diaper.

[Sofa King]

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So... that's how the little tyke got all his money, eh?

[gobear]

I can't believe Richie Rich had the audacity to perjure himself in court before the assembled lords, testifying falsely that he heard his would-be patron, Sir Thomas More, speak against the king's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shameful! (Alnd I thought John Hurt played him well in the movie.)

[Skeezix]

Anyone here catch the Richie Rich spoof in National Lampoon back in the late 80s/early 90s? Richie ends up on trial for something or other, and the prosecution brings in some of his 'friends' as character witnesses/assassins.

"He paid me $10,000 to hold his 'Little Richard' while he was in the bathroom."

"He ordered his chauffer to back up and run over the bum he hit a second time, to make sure the guy wouldn't squeal."

IIRC, he spends a night in the hoosegow before his trial, and indeed he did prove the thread title to be true. Might still have that one waaaay in the back of a closet someplace. Dark, yet amusing.

[Michael Ellis]

Originally posted by Sofa King
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So... that's how the little tyke got all his money, eh?

:eek:

Dammit Sofa, there goes my coffee (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=136064).

[Muad'Dib]

You are all very bad people.

[FriarTed]

I got some parody comic magazine in the late 70's that actually had a story titled "Casper the Dead Little Boy" (something makes me want to say it was actually "the Dead Baby" but I'm sure that they would not have gotten away with that back then plus Casper was definitely older than a baby, tho wasn't there a Baby Ghost in the Comic later on?)-


ANYWAY... it was about little happy honest Casper & his criminal parents & when he spoils one of their evil plans, his Dad kills him-
noting that Dad is gonna cut off his ridiculous ears *CTFG is earless*

Of course, it does end happily with Casper getting his revenge from beyond the grave by popping into his parents car, scaring them & causing them to go over a cliff.

RE Wendy-not all Wiccans practice skyclad. Anyway, that might not be her Trad anyway.

[Revtim]

I'm pretty sure I saw something called "Casper the Dead Baby" many years ago as child. I would have thought it was 'Mad', 'Cracked', or possibly 'Crazy'. Actually, it probably was 'Crazy'.

[Infovore]

It was definitely "Crazy", and I believe it was the mid 70s--around 1974 IIRC. I used to have the original issue as a kid.

[Skeezix]

Same parody of RR mentioned earlier.
There were 'letters to Richie from readers' at the end of the comic. One of which was, "Is Casper really you when you die?" signed some kid, age 8 (or something to that effect.)
The answer: "No, Casper is [b]you, when you die. Now shut your pie hole, or you'll be wearing a sheet by the end of the day."
[/barely related]

[pravnik]

Originally posted by FriarTed
I got some parody comic magazine in the late 70's that actually had a story titled "Casper the Dead Little Boy" (something makes me want to say it was actually "the Dead Baby" but I'm sure that they would not have gotten away with that back then plus Casper was definitely older than a baby, tho wasn't there a Baby Ghost in the Comic later on?)-


ANYWAY... it was about little happy honest Casper & his criminal parents & when he spoils one of their evil plans, his Dad kills him-
noting that Dad is gonna cut off his ridiculous ears *CTFG is earless*

Of course, it does end happily with Casper getting his revenge from beyond the grave by popping into his parents car, scaring them & causing them to go over a cliff.


I had that one, FrairTed and RevTim!! I almost brought it up earilier. It was Caspar (or maybe Gaspar) the dead baby, from Crazy magazine. Caspar relates in a flashback to Wendy how he became a ghost..he and his mother were killed by his dad in a domestic violence episode (which also explains why he has no hair or ears; I'll leave it to your imagination). Wendy convinces him to take revenge. Gruesome and appaling, drawn exactly like an old Caspar comic book. Yet hilarious. I wish I still had that one.

[capacitor]

Also, why did they need Iona the robot maid?? Alfred didn't need a maid!! Cadbury ruled! He should have quit the instant the maid was created, and go on a trip around the world and write his memoir.

[jb_farley]

hmm. "[b]Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker[b]".

In the last part of the race, the leg to San Francisco, Reggie spots Richie with a Polynesian boy in a Singapore harbor.

sounds about right to me.

jb

[Legomancer]

Check out "Willie Wealthy" towards the bottom:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/td/2002/td020622.gif

[Baker]

Ah, gobear, but what does it profit a man if he loses his soul but gains the world? But for Wales?

[Sublight]

Originally posted by Knowed Out
There was the one time Richie and Reggie had a race around the world.

Holy shit, I remember that one...

I also have that issue of National Lampoon that Skeezix mentioned. One of the letters asked "How did Pee-wee and Freckles get so poor? Why don't you give them some of your money since you have more than you need?" Answer: "I don't know, I assume they spent principle. And what do you mean, 'more than I need'?"