Shop with April and Talk About Aphasia
I am suddenly gaining a certain degree of sympathy for Elly Patterson and her complaints about shopping with April. Today’s For Better or For Worse has April spending time in a men’s clothing store fondling ties and talking how she can’t figure out what to get Grandpa Jim when she goes to visit him. Why she can’t call up Iris and ask her what Jim needs, I don’t know. Pattersons are never very practical when it comes to things like that.
Ultimately April picks nothing, just as yesterday, after kvetching about Eva’s spending habits, April also bought nothing. If I were Eva, I would be close to saying, “Why are you in this store, when you told me earlier you don’t have enough money to buy anything?” Of course April might respond, “Get off my back. You like to try on clothes you don’t buy. I like to fondle men’s ties, I don't buy. My sister Liz said that there is something about a man’s tie that is very 'feelic’.” Then Eva would say, “Phallic.” Rim-shot.
What we are really after here is a reintroduction to Grandpa Jim and his health problem to be handled in soon-upcoming strips, which hasn’t been described in detail for some months. Most likely we are going to find that Sunset Manor, for which Iris has had Jim on the waiting list for 2 years is finally going to get that vacancy for Grandpa Jim. Given the time that is left before September, this is all that is left to do for Jim, aside from kill him off, which Lynn Johnston has sworn in interviews she doesn’t plan to do.
In real life, seniors have a great difficulty with allowing themselves to be taken to a place like Sunset Manor; because it is an acknowledgement that they are moving to the last place that they will live. There is an opportunity for Lynn Johnston to address those themes in a heart-warming way which will charm audiences everywhere. But more likely, it will be a crass joke like her first attempt.
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing how many rude and crude “death” jokes, Lynn Johnston is going come up with.
Ultimately April picks nothing, just as yesterday, after kvetching about Eva’s spending habits, April also bought nothing. If I were Eva, I would be close to saying, “Why are you in this store, when you told me earlier you don’t have enough money to buy anything?” Of course April might respond, “Get off my back. You like to try on clothes you don’t buy. I like to fondle men’s ties, I don't buy. My sister Liz said that there is something about a man’s tie that is very 'feelic’.” Then Eva would say, “Phallic.” Rim-shot.
What we are really after here is a reintroduction to Grandpa Jim and his health problem to be handled in soon-upcoming strips, which hasn’t been described in detail for some months. Most likely we are going to find that Sunset Manor, for which Iris has had Jim on the waiting list for 2 years is finally going to get that vacancy for Grandpa Jim. Given the time that is left before September, this is all that is left to do for Jim, aside from kill him off, which Lynn Johnston has sworn in interviews she doesn’t plan to do.
In real life, seniors have a great difficulty with allowing themselves to be taken to a place like Sunset Manor; because it is an acknowledgement that they are moving to the last place that they will live. There is an opportunity for Lynn Johnston to address those themes in a heart-warming way which will charm audiences everywhere. But more likely, it will be a crass joke like her first attempt.
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing how many rude and crude “death” jokes, Lynn Johnston is going come up with.
posted by howard at 10:40 PM
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howard:
In real life, seniors have a great difficulty with allowing themselves to be taken to a place like Sunset Manor; because it is an acknowledgement that they are moving to the last place that they will live. There is an opportunity for Lynn Johnston to address those themes in a heart-warming way which will charm audiences everywhere. But more likely, it will be a crass joke like her first attempt.
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing how many rude and crude “death” jokes, Lynn Johnston is going come up with.
I should think we'd get our daily requirement of imbecile ghoulishness when we do see his last star turn. I can also imagine the snip-snip-snip of safety scissors in kitchens continent-wide as Kool-Aid Drinkers get ready to tape the strips in question on their fridges or mail them to relatives.
I can also imagine the snip-snip-snip of safety scissors in kitchens continent-wide as Kool-Aid Drinkers get ready to tape the strips in question on their fridges or mail them to relatives.
This will be when Lynn Johnston delivers the strip where the message is, “How great is Elly because she cared enough to put her father in a home.” That one will get snipped a lot.
I do hope there is some follow-up to this; like an actual visit.
I'm so tired of the characters talking about Grandpa and all he can't do, about the "visit" thing which we seldom see the characters actually do (unless they want something and want to show off) and all the "boo-hoo I have a grandfather who has had a stroke, along with all my other problems" type of strips we have been getting.
You know, if I used the criteria that all a person has to do to be great is to talk about doing great things and then spout psuedo-words of wisdom, I'd be a frickin' saint.
debjyn
I do hope there is some follow-up to this; like an actual visit.
There should be. Grandpa Jim has yet to be placed in Sunset Manor, and Lynn is running out of time to tell that story.
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