I Hate Their Advertising
New Run Status: 2 ½ new-runs to go
aprilp_katje had predicted that we would have new-runs leading into the reprints of Mike going to school and she was right. In today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, we see Elly and Annie sitting on a unstriped chesterfield, which seems to indicate that we are at Annie’s house. Beside Elly is Lizzie drinking a drink out of a straw. Little Christopher is doing the same, except he appears to have legs not unlike those of a ventriloquist dummy draped across Anne’s leg. You know if Christopher Nichols were really a ventriloquist dummy, there some strips which would make more sense.
Ignoring problems with the idea that there would be a program that all 4 of these people could enjoy, the point of the strip seems to be another Lynn Johnston slam at advertising.
There is this strip from 12/28/2008, where John Patterson decided to take an idiotic stance on how to deal with junk mail and this strip on April 5, 2009, where Elly used Whiffex cleaner while listening to a TV advertisement about Whiffex. Prior to this the AMU reprints shows no strips especially attacking advertising. I can only imagine why it is that Lynn Johnston would 3 new-runs on the subject in the last year. Naturally my imagination is of a woman who, thanks to taking long vacations every month, now spends more time than ever watching television. I can imagine this woman being irritated by these commercials.
aprilp_katje had predicted that we would have new-runs leading into the reprints of Mike going to school and she was right. In today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, we see Elly and Annie sitting on a unstriped chesterfield, which seems to indicate that we are at Annie’s house. Beside Elly is Lizzie drinking a drink out of a straw. Little Christopher is doing the same, except he appears to have legs not unlike those of a ventriloquist dummy draped across Anne’s leg. You know if Christopher Nichols were really a ventriloquist dummy, there some strips which would make more sense.
Ignoring problems with the idea that there would be a program that all 4 of these people could enjoy, the point of the strip seems to be another Lynn Johnston slam at advertising.
There is this strip from 12/28/2008, where John Patterson decided to take an idiotic stance on how to deal with junk mail and this strip on April 5, 2009, where Elly used Whiffex cleaner while listening to a TV advertisement about Whiffex. Prior to this the AMU reprints shows no strips especially attacking advertising. I can only imagine why it is that Lynn Johnston would 3 new-runs on the subject in the last year. Naturally my imagination is of a woman who, thanks to taking long vacations every month, now spends more time than ever watching television. I can imagine this woman being irritated by these commercials.
posted by howard at 10:32 PM
8 Comments:
howard,
I can only imagine why it is that Lynn Johnston would 3 new-runs on the subject in the last year. Naturally my imagination is of a woman who, thanks to taking long vacations every month, now spends more time than ever watching television. I can imagine this woman being irritated by these commercials.
If Lynn had done the research, we could have also seen strips attacking children's television. The Total Drama Whatever range, for instance, would be too vulgar and juvenile even for her.
Today's strip is at least somewhat realistic. I will sometimes boycott a product or a store because of their obnoxious commercials. Sometimes I even write a letter to the company, ccing the head of their account at their ad agency. Perrier ran a particularly cringe-making ad back around 1991 and I have not drunk any Perrier since. ("It's Perrier for the holidays, Happy Holidays from Perrier!")
And don't get me started about Volkswagon's Fart-Fig-Newton campaign.
DreadedCandiru2,
If Lynn had done the research, we could have also seen strips attacking children's television. The Total Drama Whatever range, for instance, would be too vulgar and juvenile even for her.
Perhaps. I doubt Lynn watches children’s television though. Commercials are things everyone sees.
josephusrex,
Today's strip is at least somewhat realistic. I will sometimes boycott a product or a store because of their obnoxious commercials.
I agree. There are some commercials I hate too. It’s interesting to me how Lynn’s commenting on this hatred in her comic strip is something new for her in the strip.
Well, if Lynn is spending more time with the TV, she needs to acquaint herself with that Amazing Modern Invention: The Remote!
Or refill the coffee during the irritating ads. Nope, she & her friend & their impressionable kids are doomed to sit in the darkened room, soaking up whatever crap comes on....
(Maggie_Texas: no longer allowed to post with my LJ name.)
Maggie_Texas,
Nope, she & her friend & their impressionable kids are doomed to sit in the darkened room, soaking up whatever crap comes on....
It's an interesting scene, mainly because I can't recollect any other moments with Elly watching television with her kids when they were that young.
(Maggie_Texas: no longer allowed to post with my LJ name.)
Sorry.
My dad's girlfriend has a conniption if the TV isn't muted during commercials, and I picked up the habit from her. I haven't listened to a commercial in years. I won't go out to restaurants where I can hear the TV, either.
Speaking of something that enrages me -- what's with TVs being everywhere, and music being blasted so incredibly loud at restaurants? It's almost enough to make me think there's some kind of capitalist conspiracy against people actually socializing with each other, because if people aren't pathetically lonely all the time they won't buy so much :P.
clio,
Speaking of something that enrages me -- what's with TVs being everywhere, and music being blasted so incredibly loud at restaurants?
I don't like it either. The funny part is when you are in the parking lot of some place and the store has installed speakers in the lot so that you hear music from the moment you get out of your car.
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