In today's
Dinette Set, it's once again hard to understand exactly what's the joke is supposed to be:
- The mere existence of Memorial Day candy?
- That, somehow, Memorial Day candy does not satisfy Joy's requirements for candy?
- That Burl does not understand the concept of time?
- The irony between the current staleness of Memorial Day candy and the future staleness of Hallowe'en candy?
There are, however, a few things which are certain:
- There's no humor to be mined out of the irony between the current staleness of Memorial Day candy and the future staleness of Hallowe'en candy.
- The artist has become overly enamored of the "it's gotta be {insert theme here} time somewhere" motif.
- The artist has become more realistic when it comes to her attempt to get free stuff by mentioning products in the panel.
- The shambling horde of evil dark zombies which inhabit Crustwood's supermarkets are about to go to war against a shambling horde of good white zombies.
2 comments:
I think that Burl's comment is supposed to mean that the Hallowe'en candy wouldn't get stale if it were on the shelves because they would buy it, and then they would consume it in a gluttonous frenzy long before Hallowe'en, and then buy more. The kjoke being that these fictional obese people buy and consume mass quantities of garbage at all times. It's one of the comedy classics, like, this dog is too fucking big, and this short guy with the big nose is really really sad.
My theory is that Burl thinks food never goes old as long as it's on the supermarket shelf; it only starts spoiling once you bring it home. I sometimes find myself tempted by this fallacy as well.
If that's actually the joke, it would have thought it was funny. Have you ever heard someone tell a joke, and then have to explain it afterward? It never ends up funny. That's the Dinette Set, every day.
And rather than "good white zombies", I think they are the same roving pack of undead we've seen before, illuminated by the FBI helicopters and spotlights.
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