- The probability of being a second place winner is only marginally smaller than winning the grand prize, and this comic has no memory, so just let them win the damn sweepstakes, for God's sake; the rest will make more sense.
- The reader is supposed to believe they interview the second place winner on camera?
- Is the joke supposed to be that Burl is not good on camera? Why would the reader find that funny or surprising?
- The marginalia exhibits an entirely unnecessary amount of sweepstakes skepticism.
02 July 2007
Where's Ed?
In today's Dinette Set, the idea that Burl and Joy have won a sweepstakes is the thing which is the least insulting to the reader's intelligence:
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I thought it was the "Prize Patrol", not the "Winner Wagon".
Also, I think second prize is somewhere in the 50-100k range. Not bad. The Pennys should share some of that lucre with their fans.
The strip makes it seem like they don't care that they've won... how can you both be famously miserly and completely indifferent to suddenly acquiring a reasonably large sum of money? Of course, a fair amount of it will have to go to fixing Burl's arm, which he's somehow turned in a completely inhuman direction.
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