Elly looks seriously put-out that her husband has the nerve to express interest in something she doesn't know Clue One about. I suspect that she's one of those people who wish "oh stop showing off, smarty-pants" was a popular retort among people over the age of 12. I also suspect that she feels more than a little jealous when she hears a professional talk about things a professional knows about. Probably the reason reason why Lynn hated the women who worked with her husband- they had more in common with him than she did.
Elly may be wondering why John has a lack of interest in anything but those girls' dental health. A more regular guy would be looking at whatever skin they had exposed in the magazine pictures. However, Elly should be grateful John is not more interested in those types of things because it takes the pressure off her for any kind of physical affection. Instead it puts pressure on her to brush and floss regularly.
Mad magazine did the same joke. I think it was in one of the Dave Berg strips, some dentist looked at some titty mag, unimpressed, and said "her molars are in cross bite".
Elly's back to having a big nose in the flashback despite having a little one in the early strips.
Why is Jean leering at Miss Moreau? she batting for the other team now?
Can you imagine being Miss Moreau and overhearing the dentist's assistant describing you like that? I'd be on Yelp destroying the office with a review in about fifteen seconds. It's like Jean is determined to be less professional than her boss.
Jean clearly benefits from being the employee of a passive idiot who has more than his share of the Patterson Path of Least Resistance DNA; no, John should not be talking about his personal life, finances etc. in the office. But it's equally true that Jean has no business offering her own opinion on how John spends HIS MONEY. Jean has two realistic paths- keep her mouth shut, or move on to another job. This "you're an idiot, boss man" stuff works on bad sitcoms; not so much in real life.
(If I ever wanted to present a class on how television shows warp reality in the workplace, I'd have an endless treasure trove of clips to play, but I think I'd start with the first scene at the hardware store in "Welcome to Mooseport," where the employees outnumber the customers by at least 4-1 and every single one of them spends more time shooting barbs at the store owner to his face than even pretending to work.)
Lynn might actually do comments for this one. I seem to recall her talking about Rod having this type of focus IRL. On the other hand, she hates him now and might not feel like doing comments.
When we contrast the original strip:
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Elly looks seriously put-out that her husband has the nerve to express interest in something she doesn't know Clue One about. I suspect that she's one of those people who wish "oh stop showing off, smarty-pants" was a popular retort among people over the age of 12. I also suspect that she feels more than a little jealous when she hears a professional talk about things a professional knows about. Probably the reason reason why Lynn hated the women who worked with her husband- they had more in common with him than she did.
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A crap ton of people feel a cold anger when reminded how little they actuallyknow.
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Also, Lynn's cockiness makes it hard to sympathize with her. She might write bush pilots off as a bunch of yahoos but they're smarter than her.
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Elly may be wondering why John has a lack of interest in anything but those girls' dental health. A more regular guy would be looking at whatever skin they had exposed in the magazine pictures. However, Elly should be grateful John is not more interested in those types of things because it takes the pressure off her for any kind of physical affection. Instead it puts pressure on her to brush and floss regularly.
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Which makes her the dog that caught the car.
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Good analogy. Neither the dog nor Elly really wanted what the car was offering.
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Mad magazine did the same joke. I think it was in one of the Dave Berg strips, some dentist looked at some titty mag, unimpressed, and said "her molars are in cross bite".
Elly's back to having a big nose in the flashback despite having a little one in the early strips.
Why is Jean leering at Miss Moreau? she batting for the other team now?
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Leave it to her to do an inferior copy of someone else's work.
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Can you imagine being Miss Moreau and overhearing the dentist's assistant describing you like that? I'd be on Yelp destroying the office with a review in about fifteen seconds. It's like Jean is determined to be less professional than her boss.
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It's as if someone wanted to torpedo Rod's practice.
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Jean clearly benefits from being the employee of a passive idiot who has more than his share of the Patterson Path of Least Resistance DNA; no, John should not be talking about his personal life, finances etc. in the office. But it's equally true that Jean has no business offering her own opinion on how John spends HIS MONEY. Jean has two realistic paths- keep her mouth shut, or move on to another job. This "you're an idiot, boss man" stuff works on bad sitcoms; not so much in real life.
(If I ever wanted to present a class on how television shows warp reality in the workplace, I'd have an endless treasure trove of clips to play, but I think I'd start with the first scene at the hardware store in "Welcome to Mooseport," where the employees outnumber the customers by at least 4-1 and every single one of them spends more time shooting barbs at the store owner to his face than even pretending to work.)
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This is in direct opposition to a real world wherein mouthing off to the boss is a great way to lose your job.
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Lynn might actually do comments for this one. I seem to recall her talking about Rod having this type of focus IRL. On the other hand, she hates him now and might not feel like doing comments.
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