Wednesday, 4 September 2024
The one where Brian makes with the pedestrian wordplay.
Synopsis: Lynn reminds us that she has pretty much no idea how men behave when Mike and Brian talk about how immediate marriage feels when a peer gets married. This occasions a bad pun on the part of the idiot who marries into a foreign culture because of the pea-brained racism that's only in ( Read more... )
1. "My whole WIFE ahead of me" sounds like a lame fat joke. It's not funny in the slightest, and I think it's a pretty accurate observation to point out that in this strip, the more contrived the punchline, the bigger the open-gaped laughing mouths. A laugh track does not make the joke funny, Lynn- and a roaring laughtrack does not make the joke epic. No matter how long the canned applause went on, it was just Fonzie walking into the room and the actual audience was just waiting for the story to get going again.
2. The selfishness of Dee and Mike, projected on to Dee's mother, is beyond the pale here. We are supposed to believe that a big, beautiful wedding that makes Mira happy would "ruin" Mike and Dee's plans. These people are acting as if they are being pressured to move, or give up careers, or have children, or a hundred other things of real, lasting consequence. They aren't. They are being asked to make Dee's mom happy at Dee's mom's expense. And this is tearing them apart because it's not what THEY want. These people are still in third grade.
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