Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 07, 2010
Transcript:
Miss Bliss: Now I'd like everyone to do a drawing called "What I'm Going to Do for My Summer Vacation"! We'll pin them to the wall when you've finished. Alice: Oh, boy! Noise: DRAW DRAW GRUNT COLOR DRAW... Miss Bliss: OK! Let's hang them up! You're all going to watch television? Kevin: Mine's Hi-Def!
grapfhics over 14 years ago
no child left inside
Scio over 14 years ago
Kids these days…
When I was young we only had PAL and we LIKED it!
Fortran Premium Member over 14 years ago
PAL? PAL?! Why, when I was a kid, we had to live with NTSC. None of that fancy higher resolution for us!
peteysgrrl over 14 years ago
Love the grunts!
dianecliff over 14 years ago
Four channels plus a fuzzy PBS.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
We had 2 English & 2 French stations when I was a kid. Talk about choices.
WaitingMan over 14 years ago
Of course we all read “Cul de Sac” looking at a TV screen.
Plods with ...™ over 14 years ago
Couldn’t get rid of that Commodore 64, WaitingMan?
JanLC over 14 years ago
Analog TV only, but we lived near LA, so we got 7 channels. No UHF, no cable (PAY TV? Horrors!) On the bright side, we got Beanie & Cecil when it was still a puppet show, Sheriff John, Engineer Bill, the OLD Mickey Mouse Club………
cleokaya over 14 years ago
I love those sound effects in panel two.
Lawrence Stetz Premium Member over 14 years ago
Well this is depressingly realistic. Wait, Not one of them is playing video games?
Lyons Group, Inc. over 14 years ago
When are children going to realize that TV, video games, and the internet are not your playmates, your real friends are?
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
Agreed, cleo…panel 2 cracked me up!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
The whole strip cracked me up!! Sadly true, and yet SOOO FUNNY! Thanks Richard!
WyattMute over 14 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg
EDIT: Not spam! It’s related to the strip. It may take a stretch of the attention span, it’s nearly 11 minutes long! (also relevant. I’m being cryptic intentionally so people watch this.)
DonVanni over 14 years ago
In my day, we didn’t have these fancy remote controls. If we wanted to change the channel, we had to walk across the living room to turn the TV knob, in five feet of snow, uphill, BOTH ways.
DawnAvril over 14 years ago
Heck, we had to walk to my aunt’s home - we didn’t have tv.
ellisaana Premium Member over 14 years ago
We didn’t have a TV until after I was 10. My brother and I played a lot of records (78s) and listened to Sky King, and Sergent Preston of the Yukon, on the radio.
bergamot over 14 years ago
I regret spending so much time watching t.v. as a chold , I’m so glad my sister’s raising her daughter without a t.v. in their house .
vldazzle over 14 years ago
I love how they’re all admiring their work in the last panel. Our family was one of the first to have TV, but it was in the early 50s (when I was already in HS).
Cecin'estpasunepipe almost 10 years ago
I use my summer vacations just lying in bed reading, and talking on the phone for hours, and reading comics and emailing everyone I know and learning new stuff and playing badminton and, of course, watching TV.