Wednesday, 16 November 2022
The one where Mike airs his grievances about how irritating John and Elly are.
Panel 1: As he drives Rhetta to the Pattermanse, Mike gives her a potted and slanted bio of Elly in which he describes her as the library mule who writes things no one reads, is afraid of computers and who might make something of her life if she were to complete her education.
Panel 2: She also talks a whole lot and has a braying laugh that irritates him. John, on the other hand, will probably ask way too many questions.
Panel 3: He's into dad jokes, likes accordion music and has the nervous tic of stirring his coffee. It's as if he came out of the womb a forty-year old rube who wouldn't know cool if it bit him.
Panel 4: We get the point of things when Rhetta tells John and Elly that Mike's told them all about them.
Summary: The 'punch line' is that he was supposed to say complimentary things about people whom a normal sitcom kid would be duty bound to see as the dorkiest people on the face of the Earth.
Panel 1: As he drives Rhetta to the Pattermanse, Mike gives her a potted and slanted bio of Elly in which he describes her as the library mule who writes things no one reads, is afraid of computers and who might make something of her life if she were to complete her education.
Panel 2: She also talks a whole lot and has a braying laugh that irritates him. John, on the other hand, will probably ask way too many questions.
Panel 3: He's into dad jokes, likes accordion music and has the nervous tic of stirring his coffee. It's as if he came out of the womb a forty-year old rube who wouldn't know cool if it bit him.
Panel 4: We get the point of things when Rhetta tells John and Elly that Mike's told them all about them.
Summary: The 'punch line' is that he was supposed to say complimentary things about people whom a normal sitcom kid would be duty bound to see as the dorkiest people on the face of the Earth.