In general, today's panel lacks a unified concept to draw what is, even by Dinette Set standards, a very busy panel into a single unified whole. The best that can be said about it is that the garden-variety Dinette Set cheapness joke is deployed as a foreground for a trash-dumping exhibition of book title marginalia ideas that, for whatever reason, could find no other home.
In general, the jokes fall into one of a few categories:
- Jokes at the expense of the cultural elite: such as David Sedaris' Barrel Fever, The Devil Wears Hanes, Told By An Idiot.
- Jokes at the expense of the nearly illiterate: Full House: the Best 41 TV episodes, Reading Books for Dummies, Biography of The Olsen Twins.
- Jokes that should have been reconsidered: C is for Cheap, Reading Books for Dummies, The Little Ice Age.
- Da Cubs? I assume that's a reference to the decades old "Da Bears" SNL joke? The point, however, escapes me.
- Whatever Joy's shirt is supposed to say, the last three letters of the cut-off word appear to be "THF". Off the top of my head, I can't think of a word that ends "THF".
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Did you see the panel where these two turds bought their grandson a DVD player for his birthday, then ordered him to leave it at their house, "so you can watch your DVDs over here, because we don't have one?" The Penneys have never done anything nice or selfless for another living thing. I want them to die.
I am very pleased with the self-righteous poker in the mid-right of the frame. If only more people could poke so righteously, the world would be a better place.
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