We're Bachelors, Baby
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM | Filed under complaint, Garfield
Check out these eight Garfield comics:
AUUUUGH!
Jim Davis! What are you doing??
The first six comics are all from the same week in November of 2006. The seventh is from last September, and the eighth is from today. There is something in common between all eight comics:
"We're bachelors, baby."
Running gag, or creative genius running out of jokes? I have been of the opinion that Garfield reached the peak of funniness in the mid-'90s or so, and hasn't really been as funny since. Recently, it seems to have been picking up a little, but it's repetitive stuff like this that I'm afraid will tire me out.
I'm wondering why Liz thinks their house is messy. I hardly ever notice any clutter. Indeed, all we ever see in nearly every Garfield comic these days is a basic horizontal line representing the edge of the table or floor, and usually nothing else. Garfield will occasionally scratch the chair or the drapes, but Jon usually has them replaced by the next day.
And why is Garfield only now pointing out that they're bachelors? The word "bachelor" was hardly ever tossed about before Jon and Liz started dating. Why start now? Once they get married, you're going to have to stop using your new catchphrase, Garfield.
Sigh... and Garfield didn't even do his cute head tilt today.
In honor of all these comics, I have designed one of my own:
AUUUUGH!
Jim Davis! What are you doing??
The first six comics are all from the same week in November of 2006. The seventh is from last September, and the eighth is from today. There is something in common between all eight comics:
"We're bachelors, baby."
Running gag, or creative genius running out of jokes? I have been of the opinion that Garfield reached the peak of funniness in the mid-'90s or so, and hasn't really been as funny since. Recently, it seems to have been picking up a little, but it's repetitive stuff like this that I'm afraid will tire me out.
I'm wondering why Liz thinks their house is messy. I hardly ever notice any clutter. Indeed, all we ever see in nearly every Garfield comic these days is a basic horizontal line representing the edge of the table or floor, and usually nothing else. Garfield will occasionally scratch the chair or the drapes, but Jon usually has them replaced by the next day.
And why is Garfield only now pointing out that they're bachelors? The word "bachelor" was hardly ever tossed about before Jon and Liz started dating. Why start now? Once they get married, you're going to have to stop using your new catchphrase, Garfield.
Sigh... and Garfield didn't even do his cute head tilt today.
In honor of all these comics, I have designed one of my own:
You need to take a step back and just see the basic humour achieved here.....comics are not meant to be indepth studies of mankind. Idoit!
I happen to love the "We're Bachelors, Baby" series and always post the new ones on my cube wall.
I thought the same thing. Its just a crack on a bachelors lifestyle. Not a dissection of social sciences. It's a stinking comic that, prior to marriage, I also did. I am referencing the diet of frozen pizzas and Mac N Cheese. None of the other things Davis mentions.
If you are not mentally ill, I don't know what you are. For your information, no one an make over 12500 comics without at least a little repetition. And comics are meant to be funny, not to be "indepth studies of mankind", as Anonymous said above.
"A little repetition?" He repeated the same strip 6 days in a row!
I must agree with this one.
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad
I look bad. I feel bad. I smell bad. I sound bad. I'm bad. These eight Garfield comics ain't. I love them. Jon and Garfield are always bachelors.
You guys don't have to be such a jerk about his opinion, even though ithink he's wrong - it is supposed to just be a running gag. I also do agree the 90s were the peak of Garfield.
Also, November 2006 is my birth month/year! Not important. But it is.