Cat on the Head
Not a lot in today’s For Better or For Worse. We see the shtick with an animal jumping on other animal’s head and then running away. That joke is so tired; I have no idea why Lynn is repeating it again. Tomorrow’s strip is just the same, although April is mocking Elly’s screaming, which is a little different. This is the second time Elly has started shrieking at Shiimsa on the shelf, and I have no idea where it is going.
I am not sure if Elizabeth is even back from her trip to Mtigwaki yet. I am pretty sure that Elizabeth is going to cry on Elly’s shoulder or repeat the joke she did to Elly when Howard assaulted her, and she told her mom by listing a lot of things that happened, where “Paul was cheating on me” is mixed in there, and then adds something about burning some food, which gets Elly’s attention.
The oddest part about the combined family in the Sharon Park Drive house is that we see April, Mike, and Elizabeth; but Deanna and the kids are nowhere to be seen, aside from the Robin-eating-dog-food sequence. The real dynamic of family life all combined together would be more like what was described in the January Pets letter, where the kids are chasing all the animals to play with them. I wonder if all these times without the grandkids running about, they are really supposed to be over at Connie Poirier’s house. It’s hard to say. Lynn is going to her storytelling troublemakers of cat and April, when showing her actually having to deal with her grandchildren on a regularly basis would be much more fun. We have never seen Elly with one of her grandchildren misbehaving, and it would be very interesting to see their reaction, if Elly started screaming in their face, like she does to April in tomorrow’s strip.
I am not sure if Elizabeth is even back from her trip to Mtigwaki yet. I am pretty sure that Elizabeth is going to cry on Elly’s shoulder or repeat the joke she did to Elly when Howard assaulted her, and she told her mom by listing a lot of things that happened, where “Paul was cheating on me” is mixed in there, and then adds something about burning some food, which gets Elly’s attention.
The oddest part about the combined family in the Sharon Park Drive house is that we see April, Mike, and Elizabeth; but Deanna and the kids are nowhere to be seen, aside from the Robin-eating-dog-food sequence. The real dynamic of family life all combined together would be more like what was described in the January Pets letter, where the kids are chasing all the animals to play with them. I wonder if all these times without the grandkids running about, they are really supposed to be over at Connie Poirier’s house. It’s hard to say. Lynn is going to her storytelling troublemakers of cat and April, when showing her actually having to deal with her grandchildren on a regularly basis would be much more fun. We have never seen Elly with one of her grandchildren misbehaving, and it would be very interesting to see their reaction, if Elly started screaming in their face, like she does to April in tomorrow’s strip.
posted by howard at 10:53 PM
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We have never seen Elly with one of her grandchildren misbehaving, and it would be very interesting to see their reaction, if Elly started screaming in their face, like she does to April in tomorrow’s strip.
See, that's probably why Lynn doesn't present Elly dealing with this situation. She wouldn't know how else to have Elly react, yet she realizes having her do this would prevent people form thinking that Elly puts the "grand" in "Grandma." ;)
Elly has been consistently screaming at the animals, John, and April. Now that Liz and Mike are in the house, they may be targets too. I guess I would simply be satisfied to see the kids and see someone interact with them, as if they still existed.
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