In the first panel, we see Michael turn off an alarm clock on the side of the bed. Notice the shape of Michael's headboard. That's a pretty nice headboard for a dorm room bed.
Then in the second panel, the perspective is from the point of view from behind that headboard with the chest-of-drawers now on the left. From this perspective we can see the bed is next to the wall and facing another wall. In other words, this is a viewpoint from within the wall against which the bed has been pushed.
When we get to panel 4, it appears that Michael gets up for his classes after everyone else in his dormitory is already up and dressed. Frankly, this is not surprising to me. When I was in my university days, the roommate I had who was by far the worst student (because he drank himself unconscious every night) intentionally scheduled all his classes to be after noon. For some reason, I can easily imagine Michael being the exact same way. This is because he has managed to sleep through his door being removed and the noises of everyone else in the dormitory getting up and moving around. Sounds a lot like a kid who is experiencing an alcohol-induced deep sleep.
Lynn is probably nagging Aaron by proxy about his drinking (and the other bad habits) in order to force him to mend his evil ways. That didn't work when she got on his case about cleaning his room and it didn't work when talking about the dope.
Right. Back when Aaron put stuff on his social media, he talked about how getting off the dope and becoming Mr. Healthy was a major change in his life. It almost assuredly did not come from his "hire a housekeeper to do the housecleaning" mother.
1. It looks like the headboard got taller and floats around the room, or the bed was replaced by an open doorway.
2. As you note, none of this works in real life unless Michael has been drugged (by his "friends," or self-induced.)
3. The absence of a door causes a crowd to gather around the room without a door? Not a lot going on at this school, is there? This is a gag Lynn uses later when a conversation about shaving sheets attracts everyone in the house except John because the occupants are apparently wandering around looking for stimulus to keep their brains from completely atrophying.
We're dealing with sitcom logic. Hawk......Jillings drugged Fra.....Mike stupid and the rest of the 407.....other students don't exist outside of watching antics that irritate the other surgeons.
It worked in MASH because of the whole "do nutty stuff as a way of releasing tension because of the war" concept. Elly is thoroughly obnoxious but even she isn't going to create as much tension as a damn war is.
it's the same basic concept as the "gross valentine" story arc. it MIGHT have made sense if we actually knew what the questions were but Lynn is much too lazy a writer to think of any real ambiguous questions. Or remember any.
And nobody knew it like Mark-Paul Gosselaar. It's why he joined the cast of NYPD Blue: he doesn't like the role that made him famous. His favorite podcast is Zack Morris Is Trash for a reason.
In the first panel, we see Michael turn off an alarm clock on the side of the bed. Notice the shape of Michael's headboard. That's a pretty nice headboard for a dorm room bed.
Then in the second panel, the perspective is from the point of view from behind that headboard with the chest-of-drawers now on the left. From this perspective we can see the bed is next to the wall and facing another wall. In other words, this is a viewpoint from within the wall against which the bed has been pushed.
When we get to panel 4, it appears that Michael gets up for his classes after everyone else in his dormitory is already up and dressed. Frankly, this is not surprising to me. When I was in my university days, the roommate I had who was by far the worst student (because he drank himself unconscious every night) intentionally scheduled all his classes to be after noon. For some reason, I can easily imagine Michael being the exact same way. This is because he has managed to sleep through his door being removed and the noises of everyone else in the dormitory getting up and moving around. Sounds a lot like a kid who is experiencing an alcohol-induced deep sleep.
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Right. Back when Aaron put stuff on his social media, he talked about how getting off the dope and becoming Mr. Healthy was a major change in his life. It almost assuredly did not come from his "hire a housekeeper to do the housecleaning" mother.
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She was Mrs Enable-to-have-something-to-complain-about.
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She certainly was not Mrs. Unable-to-have-something-to-complain-about.
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I wonder if they're pissed off at having to deal with Joe Fake ID and his staggering in plastered?
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It would have to be bad if Weed was complaining about someone else staggering in plastered.
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That's for sure.
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1. It looks like the headboard got taller and floats around the room, or the bed was replaced by an open doorway.
2. As you note, none of this works in real life unless Michael has been drugged (by his "friends," or self-induced.)
3. The absence of a door causes a crowd to gather around the room without a door? Not a lot going on at this school, is there? This is a gag Lynn uses later when a conversation about shaving sheets attracts everyone in the house except John because the occupants are apparently wandering around looking for stimulus to keep their brains from completely atrophying.
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We're dealing with sitcom logic. Hawk......Jillings drugged Fra.....Mike stupid and the rest of the 407.....other students don't exist outside of watching antics that irritate the other surgeons.
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It worked in MASH because of the whole "do nutty stuff as a way of releasing tension because of the war" concept. Elly is thoroughly obnoxious but even she isn't going to create as much tension as a damn war is.
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Here, we just have a moron kid who thinks that communists, idiots and Satan come up with exam questions.
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it's the same basic concept as the "gross valentine" story arc. it MIGHT have made sense if we actually knew what the questions were but Lynn is much too lazy a writer to think of any real ambiguous questions. Or remember any.
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And nobody knew it like Mark-Paul Gosselaar. It's why he joined the cast of NYPD Blue: he doesn't like the role that made him famous. His favorite podcast is Zack Morris Is Trash for a reason.
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It's like Welcome Back Kotter. Only four of the sweathogs talked.
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