Sunday, March 16, 2025

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Brutus is lounging in a chair with his feet up on the ottoman and smoking a pipe as Gladys walks by carrying a vase(?). She stops to look at Brutus. "Oh, I love to see a man with a pipe," she says. "It looks so macho...so virile!" "Thank you, my dear!" Brutus responds as Gladys walks away. Brutus begins smoking the pipe and bubbles begin flowing out of it, drifting through the room until reaching Gladys, who stops to look at the bubbles, angrily confused.
December 7, 1986
Hey, I get it. Who doesn't love a man smoking a pipe?
Neil Goldman from Family Guy smoking a pipe.
Mm. This just exudes sex.

Why is Gladys carrying around that vase? Or, I guess it could be a giant urn.

Brutus is on the phone. He's on his cell phone but that doesn't explain why he is holding it up to his nose instead of his ear. He is standing in a room with a big bowl of apples on what I'm going to assume is a credenza. The phone rings and then an automated voice answers "Hello, you have reached customer service. All of our representatives are currently busy. Your call is important to us. Your approximate wait time is twenty minutes...Your call is important to us. Your approximate wait time is fifteen minutes...Your call is important to us. Your approximate wait time is ten minutes...Your call is important to us. Your approximate wait time is five minutes..." Brutus gets less and less thrilled with this phone call with each passing panel. "Your call is very important to us. Our offices are now closed. Please call back another time..." Brutus just looks angry in the last panel.
I've commented before on how the cell phones in this strip look like the turtle communicators from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And repeatedly commented on why these characters never hold the phone up to their ear. This strip features both of those tropes. I do appreciate that it seems like Chip is phasing out landlines in the Thornapple household. Maybe the Sansom household has ditched landlines.

What is with the apples? I've never been more upset at a McGuffin.





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