Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 19, 2019

Popcorn in bed? Really bad idea.

I wish you hadn’t mentioned popcorn. It’s 1 AM.

Nothing like marriage to put an end to romance.

Ibn Sina (doctor, psychologist, philosopher, strong contender for the title of most brilliant man ever – look him up) said love was a form of insanity, and marriage the best cure.

(That’s Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā to us lesser mortals. A Latin translation of his Canon of Medicine was a standard textbook for about three hundred years, and his portrait hangs in the Hall of the Avicenna Faculty of Medicine in the University of Paris.)

If I’m going to eat something while in bed with a woman it’s not going to be popcorn.

It sounds like Arlo took her for granted once too often.

Crush up a Viagra and put it on the popcorn instead of salt.

40 years married. The real craziness is staying together when you realize you do not (choose one or more) like, understand, agree, compromise, respect-each other. But you just do not feel right without the other. THAT is crazy.

Romance? That’s one of the first things to go as you age.

We have never had a tv in our bedroom. Granted we have only been married 28 years. There are so much better things to do than watch tv! So far in my experience, I’m calling BS on the death of romance in marriage.

C. S. Lewis says the “deliciously plain prose and businesslike intimacy of married life” prevent us making an idol out it.

https://books.google.com/books?id=JXMiD5e90mUC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=%22businesslike+intimacy%22+marriage&source=bl&ots=sNUgQXbjj7&sig=ACfU3U3B4CweMR_GmYx_6HRYRxmPSFnhtQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUosncyvXiAhWOTt8KHQowD10Q6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22businesslike%20intimacy%22%20marriage&f=false

I think the smile on Janis’ face in the first frame means they already just had sex. Arlo wasn’t sleepy, so on comes the TV (he once observed that “a gentleman waits at least 15 minutes afterwards, before he turns on the TV”). Janis loves Arlo just the way he is, so she offers to make him popcorn. Sounds ideal to me; everybody is happy.

“Oops.”

MM makes for a very active love life and CBL makes those aches and pains go away.

Oh oh! Didn’t wanna hear the ‘used to’ part.

Recolored comic from early Dec 2017.

Oh ha ha. Arlo, that old hound dog, can sniff a hint of romance from here to the moon.

Her responses to his advances don’t exactly encourage romance!

Some say that the one food that reduces the sex drive is wedding cake

From the looks of the first panel, they just finished having a good time.