Happy Birthday Grandpa Jim Part IV
Today's strip is basically the end of the converstion from yesterday, along with Iris sniping about Jim giving advice. I churned out some posts involving advice and did the Eva perspective of what it would be like to be in a band where the other girl was constantly harping about how it was better with Becky. When you think about it, even though April is still mourning the loss of Becky to Rebeccah, it is pretty cold to Eva to ask her to sing with your band and let her know she is not as good as the previous person. I used Jeremy to feed another storyline to susannamoodie on Zandra Larson, since without the the_berserker able to post, the only way she has to relate to April's Real Blog is through Jeremy.
Tomorrow's strip: Another in the continuing series of we'll tell you something happened instead of showing you. Meredith has musical talent. How do they know this? Shirley Temple, for example, demonstrated talent by being able to carry a tune and being able to tapdance by age 3. As for me, I know my girl and boy have musical talent for much the same reasons. Well not the tapdance part. There could be an amusing story there, where Merrie sings at the top of her lungs, while the Kelpfroths bang the floor and Deanna doesn't care because her girl has musical talent.
John has gone so far in the car-buying as to indicate which car he wants, and it is remarkably the same as Elly's. There's got to be a story there about how Elly got her way in car choices.
Then there is that bear. Merrie plays with it. Robin plays with it. My kids at that age would have never shared a toy like that, and I suspect Merrie and Robin don't either. Seeing Merrie and Robin fight over a toy would actually be a pleasant change over the way they have been portrayed.
All those plot opportunties missed, in favour of showing grampa Jim falling asleep, which he did at his birthday party last year too. Yes, Lynn. You should never miss an opportunity to repeat plot devices, instead of doing new ones.
Tomorrow's strip: Another in the continuing series of we'll tell you something happened instead of showing you. Meredith has musical talent. How do they know this? Shirley Temple, for example, demonstrated talent by being able to carry a tune and being able to tapdance by age 3. As for me, I know my girl and boy have musical talent for much the same reasons. Well not the tapdance part. There could be an amusing story there, where Merrie sings at the top of her lungs, while the Kelpfroths bang the floor and Deanna doesn't care because her girl has musical talent.
John has gone so far in the car-buying as to indicate which car he wants, and it is remarkably the same as Elly's. There's got to be a story there about how Elly got her way in car choices.
Then there is that bear. Merrie plays with it. Robin plays with it. My kids at that age would have never shared a toy like that, and I suspect Merrie and Robin don't either. Seeing Merrie and Robin fight over a toy would actually be a pleasant change over the way they have been portrayed.
All those plot opportunties missed, in favour of showing grampa Jim falling asleep, which he did at his birthday party last year too. Yes, Lynn. You should never miss an opportunity to repeat plot devices, instead of doing new ones.
posted by howard at 12:17 AM
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Yes, Lynn. You should never miss an opportunity to repeat plot devices, instead of doing new ones.
LOL! Right, and I guess you just can't go wrong with Gramps dozing off at his own party. ::gag::
It is those kinds of things that make me wonder if Lynn is actually writing the stuff or if the Lynnions are repeating stories Lynn wrote because they feel certain she will approve of them.
It's reminiscent of sitcoms that try to play it safe by modeling themselves closely on established hits--only to produce lackluster programming no one cares about.
BTW, if Gramps does end up dead tomorrow, I'm fairly scrod. I don't think it's going to happen, but I have an idea of how I'll handle it if it does occur.
I would love it if grandpa died tomorrow. It would such a shock. However, considering the big buildup grandma Marian got and Farley got and even Mr. B, I seriously doubt grandpa Jim will go tomorrow. But I can always hope.
Yup, more likely we'll just have the arc wrapped up with the usual groanworthy pun, maybe have an April party strip on Sunday, and then something else Monday. Perhaps more in the "Mike is a nice guy, after all" ilk.
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