Educating Merrie
One of the things I love to do in April’s Real Blog is to take something presented in the strip with an obvious meaning behind it and then turn it around. Today’s strip was devoted to bad-mouthing the Kelpfroths and a sudden and startling realization that Merrie was hanging on Lovey Saltzman’s every word. Considering that Lovey is probably raising Merrie and Robin, it was interesting to see this demonstrated via Merrie’s final joke, which was very Saltzmanesque and not Pattersonlike. The other thing it demonstrated was that the Pattersons and Lovey’s boorish behaviour of calling the Kelpfroths names behind their back, is a characteristic they wish their children to emulate. So, I decided via Mike, to take the Merrie phrase and turn it into a Melville Kelpfroth praise-a-thon. It was quite enjoyable and was startlingly easy. Melville Kelpfroth has won virtually every battle he has been in against the Pattersons and Lovey. He may be hairy and wear his underwear outside, but he stands up for himself. Oddly enough, I think Melville is a better role model (except for the smoking).
posted by howard at 12:27 AM
2 Comments:
LOL--I LOVED Merrie's discourse on winner-Mel vs. weak Daddy! And her identification of Lovey as another mother was perfect, as well! :)
Thanks. The Pattersons have always had these pseudo-moms wherever they went, but they continued the practice when Mike and Dee are supposed to be the parents. As a parent, I don't have any real problem with this. You take your help where you can get it. But 4 years later, Mike and Dee don't seem to be improving as parents and Lovey appears to be more of a hindrance than a help. The whole business where they were using Lovey's home remedies instead of a doctor's advice for Robin's earaches was just odd, particularly considering Deanna's profession.
Lovey is more grandmother than landlady, and I think it is to the Patterson's detriment. The unsafe aspects of their home would infuriate real parents as endangering their children, but it is accepted for Lovey, because she represents for Lynn, I don't know, the grandmother who was too feeble-minded to get repairs done on her house? My grandfather got like that in his old age. After my grandmother died, the only time things got fixed around the house was when my mom visited and found something was broken. He was so grateful to my mom when she would fix something. But for the rest of us, we wondered why my grandfather had lost the ability to call someone up for repairs.
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