Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 19, 2013
September 18, 2013
September 20, 2013
Transcript:
Gene: We're pulling up the vegetable garden! Gene: It didn't do so hot - too much rain! We're really disappointed! Gene: This gardening is hard work, maybe harder than the restaurant business! Gene: Gus says we'd be jumping from the frying pan into the fire!
The text in the last panel is confusing to me. I’m no grammar expert (nor Nazi), but I’m reading it as future tense — something that they’ll do in the future will land them in the fire from the frying pan.
Did Mr. Johnson perhaps make a mistake? To my mind, if the text were changed to either “Gus said we’d be jumping …” or to “Gus says we’re jumping …”, then it’d make more sense.
Not a big deal, but it caused me mentally “trip” and get distracted from what I expect was intended to be the punch line.