Nonsense
The things in today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse which don’t make sense:
a. Letting a dog stay in the room where you want the baby to take a nap.
b. Blaming the dog for waking the baby, when you let the dog in the room in the first place.
c. Talking to the dog to give him a lecture on waking the baby, as if he can understand you.
d. Putting a baby in a crib with the crib wall set so low that the baby’s head, even when leaning almost completely over, can clear the top bar.
e. Babies that don’t pull up to look over the top bar to see something outside the crib, i.e. crib prison babies.
f. Babies with accurate throwing arms.
g. Elly
This is the second in what may be a new theme for the For Better or For Worse new-runs: Farley abuse at the hands of Lizzie and Elly. In the past, the Patterson kids have tortured Farley, and so has Elly. Now, they have teamed up. Yesterday, Lizzie played with Farley's food and as a result of Elly's reaction, he didn't get to eat his food. Today, Lizzie throws toys at Farley and as a result, Elly blames him for waking Lizzie up. We don't know the ultimate consequence of it; but it could be:
a. Farley doesn't get to sleep in Lizzie's room anymore.
b. Farley doesn't get to finish his nap.
c. Elly picks up Lizzie's toys and puts them in the same place she put Farley's food.
d. Farley is forced to promote a children's book, and possibly a plush toy too.
a. Letting a dog stay in the room where you want the baby to take a nap.
b. Blaming the dog for waking the baby, when you let the dog in the room in the first place.
c. Talking to the dog to give him a lecture on waking the baby, as if he can understand you.
d. Putting a baby in a crib with the crib wall set so low that the baby’s head, even when leaning almost completely over, can clear the top bar.
e. Babies that don’t pull up to look over the top bar to see something outside the crib, i.e. crib prison babies.
f. Babies with accurate throwing arms.
g. Elly
This is the second in what may be a new theme for the For Better or For Worse new-runs: Farley abuse at the hands of Lizzie and Elly. In the past, the Patterson kids have tortured Farley, and so has Elly. Now, they have teamed up. Yesterday, Lizzie played with Farley's food and as a result of Elly's reaction, he didn't get to eat his food. Today, Lizzie throws toys at Farley and as a result, Elly blames him for waking Lizzie up. We don't know the ultimate consequence of it; but it could be:
a. Farley doesn't get to sleep in Lizzie's room anymore.
b. Farley doesn't get to finish his nap.
c. Elly picks up Lizzie's toys and puts them in the same place she put Farley's food.
d. Farley is forced to promote a children's book, and possibly a plush toy too.
posted by howard at 11:07 PM
8 Comments:
howard,
In the past, the Patterson kids have tortured Farley, and so has Elly. Now, they have teamed up.
That's always sort of bothered me. It isn't especially funny that the Pattersons are such terrible pet owners but Lynn seems to think that having these idiots torment a helpless animal who's dependent on them is a laugh riot. She probably likes how Dick Tracy stands there and makes bad wordplay over the broken bodies of the people whose deaths he sets in motion.
In addition to the wrongness already pointed out--this strip also echoes an oldie where Liz is seen pulling, prodding, ear-yanking, and generally tormenting Farley until he gets so fed up he lets out a series of barks. This, of course, prompts Elly to appear and scold him for barking at Lizzie. I wouldn't be surprised if she ran that one next week just to complete the ill effect.
April_Patterson,
I wouldn't be all that surprised either; as I said upthread, Lynn seems to think it's riotously funny that Elly barge in and start yelling without know what she's yelling at. The only thing Farley has in his favor is that he cannot speak. Since he cannot contradict the truth(iness) Elly feels in her guts with his "lying and unfair" objective reality, he's far better off than the human victims of her sullen refusal to enlighten herself.
That's 'without knowing', not 'without know'.
Who knows, maybe Lynn will retcon the comics so that Farley is given away.
Hey, there's a real word in my word verification: "savingl."
Lynn also seems to think the idea that Liz-the-toddler/baby liked getting others into trouble is cute and hilarious. It's actually disturbing, to think a grown woman could impute such malice to a baby.
clio-1, this reminds me of when I told a then-colleague about my son, who was at the time about five weeks old, smiling at me. She goes, "They're so manipulative." (!!!)
I can't help it: Every time I see a strip where Farley is mistreated, I have to go hug my kitties.
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