At the library today, my son brought me a pile of books he’d pulled off the Comics shelf, including a Garfield collection. I flipped through, because I generally think of Garfield these days as lame. These actually weren’t terrible, but I ran into this strip:
I Googled it when I got home, and sure enough “Ed’s Dong Repair” was a Google auto-suggestion. I didn’t even have to finish typing it. Ah, it’s so easy to forget how much I love the Internet.
1.) It’s particularly troubling that they make house calls
2.) Nowadays, people would probably buy a replacement model (with an eye to an upgrade) than fix a broken one.
I wonder what the context was of that panel? There must have been a family friendly back story.
It is quite funny.
My guess is the doorbell only went ding instead of ding dong, and the editors were too sick of the strip to notice it ended horribly, horribly, wrong.
You’re right about that.
Well guessed. Actually, the full strip is in the OP’s link, if you scroll down. Pic for those who can’t be bothered to scroll.
That’s what I guessed as well. It’s the only thing that came to my mind.
Yes, but G-G is still brilliant.
That strip was actually funny for about the first 15 month it was out, which IIRC, was around 1978. It was about stupid things cats do, and anyone who owned a cat could relate, but those jokes ran out pretty fast. I’m shocked it’s still in production.
It lost its appeal and most of its humour when Garfield started acting like a small person with a body hair problem instead of a cat.
Those are good, but I prefer where they just remove Garfield’s text balloons. Makes it all the more surreal.
