The neighbors of Arlo and Janis have rarely been assigned names or supporting roles beyond their reaction to the seemingly strange goings-on next door, as in the above. However, in this capacity they have provided a useful element over the years.
And Fade to Intermission
By Jimmy Johnson
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44 responses to “And Fade to Intermission”
Having different neighbors is nice in that you can really play off their reactions in a different way to make that joke better. A few strips have the same neighbors and they become a part of the strip, but I think it is funnier this way
One of my many all time favorites.
The neighbor gag I like best was the one that had Arlo and Janis walking past the neighbors and being met with huge grins. Then Janis tells Arlo, “I told you they could see our deck.”
Most people (including Arlo here) get the quote wrong. It starts “As God is my witness…”
For the record, I also enjoy doing random song/movie quotes when I am working in the yard.
I’ve often quoted The Man in Black to my daughters: “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
I don’t think I’d have noticed that if you hadn’t commented, and I’m usually the one making the nitpick. Thanx!
This is one of my favorites as I watch beef prices soar: “Soylent Green is people!”
Mike:
Instead of a direct quote, I assumed it to be an allusion.
I could be mistaken, though.
Who can forget the infamous punch line with Janis saying “I told you they could see the deck from their kitchen window”
“It’s a cookbook!!”
As God is my witness, I thought radishes could fly.
Lately, it seems that whenever I comment, the blog closes down. Quae cum ita sint – Cicero’s favorite phrase – I won’t comment today.
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Gotcha!
Age test:
“When the eel in the reef gets your heel in its teeth, that’s a moray.” First saw that in a 1-sentence ltr. / ed. in Smithsonian Mag. in a Nature Conservancy waiting room in Arlington, VA, in ’85 or so, from a former Bemidji MD, Dr. Joel DeWeese, then resident in CA.
Peace,
Spider Robinson has several verses around those puns in one of his Callahan novels, which is the first time I had seen them.
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You’d think that their neighbors would be used to them by now, unless nobody stays in that house for very long.
Change ’85 to ’96. Also, 1 of the 2 Chesapeake osprey eggs hatched.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/osprey-cam-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace,
emb
Dino Paul Crocetti sang the original August 1953 – I guess it has been much parodied.
It is quite a complement that 30 years later people would get the reference.
Try that with any of todays songs.
A few years back our tenant put in a cover crop (too wet to get corn or beans in) of Field Radishes.
They were about 2 inches in diameter and 6 to 8 inches long. 100 acres of Sweet and tasty.
Re 6-26-21 real-time cartoon: I’m not a fisherman, but Janis could wait on my table anytime. Especially if ML loans her that 35-percent-tip blouse.
Interesting article, but check out the graphic even if you don’t read it.
https://medium.com/writing-for-your-life/where-are-we-really-on-the-sci-fi-movie-timeline-3aa9b7ac038d
Stuck again, aren’t we? I’m dubious about this going through. (And I’ll have to fill in the blanks at the bottom.)
Make that ’96 or so.
Peace,
What about the correction, “Make that ’96 or so.” makes it worthy of “moderation”? It was moderate already. emb
Re 6-28-21 real-time cartoon: Apropos, I suppose, of nothing, the driving time from Camp Hill AL to Perdido Key FL (on the Redneck Riviera) is four hours.
Re 6-28-21 real-time cartoon (II): I can (vaguely) remember when I was much younger that I got stiff and sore from being active. Now, as do Arlo and Janis, I seem to get stiff and sore from being inactive. How’d that happen?
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