First of all, you have to wonder why in the world Mike would let anyone borrow his key in order to let someone else borrow stuff.
Mike let someone borrow his key because he was raised to be an idiot who doesn't have common sense by a braindead house-frau mother who has hobby jobs and a yokel father filled with useless advice. Not asking questions is what gets his head stuck in a girl's shower and it's what messes up his love life.
his is to remind us that Mike has enough money so that if someone pranks him, he has the financial power to just move out of a dormitory he has already paid for and move into an apartment with all the startup costs required.
when I was in college some of the students who lived off campus bought their own groceries and if they showed up at the cafeteria you'd know they hadn't gotten their allowance yet.
Mike just decides to move and his parents just go along with it, no matter what the expense is. A regular kid would have to ask parent permission first before making such a move, because John has probably already paid for the dorm for the semester.
The reason Mike is in the position he's in can be explained by the "I'm going to pack you off to camp because I'm too big a coward to learn who you are and why you fight all the time" arc:
Michael has unusually long monkey arms in that one strip. I didn't notice before because I was wondering who the hell Arnie Feldman was. he sounds like somebody out of Mad magazine.
"You know there's a camp penalty for getting your head stuck in the girls shower hut."
Seems bizarrely specific. By "you know," I have to assume it's actually written down in the rulebook the kids get and are expected to be familiar with. What if your head doesn't get stuck? What if it's the boys shower hut? Is it all good then? And what does "camp penalty" mean? Why isn't it just "penalty?" For some reason this reminds me of cheesy science fantasy movies adding the words "Space" or "Astro" to everyday items.
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First of all, you have to wonder why in the world Mike would let anyone borrow his key in order to let someone else borrow stuff.
Mike let someone borrow his key because he was raised to be an idiot who doesn't have common sense by a braindead house-frau mother who has hobby jobs and a yokel father filled with useless advice. Not asking questions is what gets his head stuck in a girl's shower and it's what messes up his love life.
his is to remind us that Mike has enough money so that if someone pranks him, he has the financial power to just move out of a dormitory he has already paid for and move into an apartment with all the startup costs required.
Next week, there's token worrying about the cost
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Elly is so dumb she thinks college students who live off campus don't have parties???
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when I was in college some of the students who lived off campus bought their own groceries and if they showed up at the cafeteria you'd know they hadn't gotten their allowance yet.
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Mike just decides to move and his parents just go along with it, no matter what the expense is. A regular kid would have to ask parent permission first before making such a move, because John has probably already paid for the dorm for the semester.
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By now, John has surrendered his virility......I mean, "checkbook" to Elly anyway so Mike can do whatever he wants.
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John is also guilty. He did take a trip with Mike to pick out locations, so Mike got the idea that his opinion outweighed anyone else's.
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The reason Mike is in the position he's in can be explained by the "I'm going to pack you off to camp because I'm too big a coward to learn who you are and why you fight all the time" arc:
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Michael has unusually long monkey arms in that one strip. I didn't notice before because I was wondering who the hell Arnie Feldman was. he sounds like somebody out of Mad magazine.
Elly clearly considers camp a punishment.
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also I have no context here. Michael and Liz usually don't fight with Brian or Dawn at all. Elly doesn't care why they were fighting but I'm curious.
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"heat frustration"?
Let Ricky from Trailer Park Boys do the malaprops, he's good at it.
Also, "Lizzie and the girls"? Dawn's the only other girl there!
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"You know there's a camp penalty for getting your head stuck in the girls shower hut."
Seems bizarrely specific. By "you know," I have to assume it's actually written down in the rulebook the kids get and are expected to be familiar with. What if your head doesn't get stuck? What if it's the boys shower hut? Is it all good then? And what does "camp penalty" mean? Why isn't it just "penalty?" For some reason this reminds me of cheesy science fantasy movies adding the words "Space" or "Astro" to everyday items.
Why can't Lynn write dialogue? Like, at all?
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