Saturday, 14 September 2024

[dreadedcandiru2]

The one where we're reminded the only joy Elly allows herself is bellowing about how no one cares.

Synopsis: After praising herself for other people's accomplishments, Elly brags about how enjoyable it is to feel under the gun all the time.

Summary: All success is due to Elly's being indispensable. All failure is due to no one listening to Elly.

Comments

[howtheduck]

First of all, since when has the bookstore had a cat in it?

Second of all, what in the world happened to Moira Kinney? As a reminder, this is how Moira looks. These could very easily be three completely different women, considering how different they look from each other and not just Moira.



Third of all, why is Elly equating the happiness of getting rid of her kids with the happiness or Christmas? While Elly has generally rejoiced at back-to-school time, Elly hates Christmas.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Of course someone who can only remember the negative hates Christmas. To a perpetual victim who's never allowed a victory like her, Christmas means children making a mess that they aren't in the same mindless rush to clean as she herself is:



and wallowing in greed because they don't want socks and shorts under the tree:



and John being a churlish twerp who sees her as the biological adjunct of a stove:



and above all, getting fat:





What renders this all an even bigger joke is that she's not actually the one really paying for things.



so doesn't really have much to complain about.

[chocolate_frapp]

Why is Jean so interested in John's sex life???

Since when does fat=no hips?

[dreadedcandiru2]

Elly doesn't ever realize it but Jean has made it her life's work to browbeat John about the way he treats her. She probably blames Elly's belief that being able to feel her hipbones means having hips on his being a shitty husband.

[jjamele]

Jean is a character in a garbage sitcom where the employees regularly show glaring disrespect to the boss.

[dreadedcandiru2]

John must have been sending someone a coded message when he praised Moira for firing Kortney because that meant everyone else knew that they too could be let go.

[chocolate_frapp]

John doesn't deserve any respect.

[aprilp_katje]

Lynn and Elly confuse "having hips" with having protruding hip bones.



Edit: Here are the comments that Lynn published when the strip was reprinted:

Lynn's Comments: This was written when I actually had palpable skeletal outcroppings. I had hips and shoulder blades and ribs I could strum in the mirror. Today, I'm lucky to be able to feel anything structural through the padding.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Since she's her, she's constantly floored by how most of the human race thinks of hips.

[aprilp_katje]

I feel like she probably never got the memo on this.

[jjamele]

Last strip:

Actual human: "Liz, where did you learn that? Your father?"

Character in this strip: Walks away from person singing to yell out the doorway to someone who is not there, asking a question that can be answered quietly in the room. Why is Elly acting like she's not allowed to talk to Liz?

[dreadedcandiru2]

Because she too acts as if she's in a Grade Z sitcom produced in Toronto.

[jjamele]

"I finally did it" followed by a list of things other people did in spite of Elly, not because of her.

[dreadedcandiru2]

That's s classic her. Everything good is said to only be possible because of her and everything bad is someone else's fault.

[chocolate_frapp]

Elly looks like a junkie in that last strip....

[dreadedcandiru2]

And now, I find myself singing the payoff line to Mother's Little Helper by the Stones:

And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper,