The Dinette Set enacts one potential sequence of events leading up to a Darwin Awards nomination.
Possibly a reference to the Emmy Awards which aired yesterday. Possibly to give readers a warm feeling as they imagine Burl and Joy being sucked upwards into a funnel cloud.
Marginalia which improve the human genome:
- The "America's Funniest F-4's" reference is a complete mystery to me, as is the F-3 reference on Burl's mug. This is not the first time we've seen a reference to "F-numbers" in The Dinette Set; it appears to be some sort of obscure running gag. Anyone got a theory?
- Anyone able to recognize the name of the VHS movie on top of the DVD player? I'm thinking it is "Here, Lassie." But that's a guess and doesn't conform to the name of any Lassie movie on IMDB.
- What happened to the portraits of Burl and Joy atop the TV? Both look like they are in the early stages of melting, like those Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark after they opened the Ark of the Covenant.
3 comments:
I assume the Fs are simply a reference to the Fujita or F-Scale which measures the magnitude of a tornado. F-6s are technically the largest tornados but are never seen. F-4s would be anything but funny...
Thank you! Having only lived in Blizzard, Hurricane, and Earthquake areas myself, I am woefully ignorant regarding tornados.
They need to publish this comic with footnotes when it appears outside Illinois.
The VHS title is "Here, Lassie" but according to Imdb it doesn't appear to be a real Lassie episode.
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