# Question about Blondie comic strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051 "2005-08-08T01:22:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/1 "2005-08-08T01:22:02Z")
Have you ever noticed that Dagwood’s chair is facing the TV and Blondie’s chair is perpendicular to his? She has to turn her head to the right and look over her shoulder at him. Does she never watch TV? Is it bad for a woman to watch TV? She should only be doing mending and always be ready to hop up and stir something in the kitchen? She should never relax and watch TV? Or she always lets him choose what to watch and isn’t interested in it? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/2 "2005-08-08T01:24:44Z")
> [@Lillith Fair](#): > > Have you ever noticed that Dagwood’s chair is facing the TV and Blondie’s chair is perpendicular to his? She has to turn her head to the right and look over her shoulder at him. Does she never watch TV? Is it bad for a woman to watch TV? She should only be doing mending and always be ready to hop up and stir something in the kitchen? She should never relax and watch TV? Or she always lets him choose what to watch and isn’t interested in it? She is obviously the smarter half and far to smart to be taken in by the terrible network crap Dagwood watches. She spends a good chunk of the day educating herself on Internet and in **T** ime **B** efore **I** nternet; reading. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/3 "2005-08-08T02:17:12Z")
Some blondie history [Cartoon Strip Blondie: is she a D-cup?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294100) ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/4 "2005-08-08T02:53:13Z")
It allows her to avert her eyes quickly, in case it’s going to be one of those _Lucy_ episodes where she kisses that Cuban fella. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/5 "2005-08-08T03:54:44Z")
They’re each watching their own TV, having found the ideal solution to the age-old marital problem of Who decides what they get to watch on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/6 "2005-08-08T04:28:25Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > It allows her to avert her eyes quickly, in case it’s going to be one of those _Lucy_ episodes where she kisses that Cuban fella. Not likely. [Blondie Boopadoop](http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/19/blondie.anniversary.ap/) was a _dance hall girl_, one of those _Flappers_. She’s seen it all, and _done it all_! A little TV kissin wouldn’t phase a major league skank like her. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/7 "2005-08-08T04:43:15Z")
I’m running this off to **Cafe Society** (but trying to avoid the mailman at the same time). ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blondie-comic-strip/316051/8 "2005-08-08T14:17:48Z")
GAH! ::Scott goes flying off his feet, as **SkipMagic** rushes past/collides with him. Letters go flying **everywhere**.::