For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 17, 2021

better get yourself a Pepto Bismo, El

Kinda like eating at the mall’s food court. Just to remember what it was like to eat as a teenager!

The “Binge”.

Like right now, at 1:31 am, because I can’t sleep.

Panel 5: You can always count on Lynn for some potty humor.

Wheel of Fortune and Funniest Home Videos are recognizable programs that Lynn Johnston is taking a shot at. As for the others:

1. I can’t tell if the Donald / Dolores one is about Barbara being fooled into marrying a woman dressed as a man who decided she wanted to wear Barbara’s clothing, or one of those comedies where the man dresses up as woman (like Bosom Buddies), or a forward-thinking look at gender identification comedy that would play well in today’s TV market.

2. Sadly, blood-soaked asparagus is probably not about a cooking show.

It’s never been something I “have to” — or even wanted to — do.

Hawkins Cheezies and Coke. Every once in while…..

Whenever you feel down chocolate really helps.

Junk food for bloodstreams and junk TV for eyeballs & brains. That’s a steady diet for most of the world where there’s electricity.

How true, only mine is U Tube.

We can still catch Wheel of Fortune, cheesy soap operas, Law and Order and America’s Funniest Videos today! If this strip wasn’t re-written, its got amazing legs!

Lynn has a great comment about this strip on her website:

Lynn’s Comments: Sunday pages gave me the opportunity to stretch things out. It was especially enjoyable when I could come up with TV jargon and funny game show dialogue. “I’ll take a P” and the subject of cross-dressing were against the censorship rules, but in a case like this, it was lost in the mix. Great fun.

https://fborfw.com/strip_fix/

In memory of Alex Trebek, Lynn could do a strip where Elly is a contestant on Jeopardy. She loses because she cannot answer the last question. The final panel could say “Unfortunately, the day after Elly dropped out, they had a class which discussed the same subject as the Final Jeopardy question!”

Which is a bigger stomach ache, all the food or the TV shows?

I understand completely – indulgent de-stressing

I’ll take a “p”? I’m shocked!

Thank goodness I’d rather grab my Kindle.

Years ago, I’d have me-days. I’d go out, buy all the trash mags, chocolate, wine, whatever. Come home, flop on the bed in comfy clothes, and proceed to read that trash with whatever was on on tv. While pigging out. That routine stopped the day one of them put a photo of poor little Jon-Benet’s body in. Uncensored. Never. Again.

This reminds me of The Tappit Brothers’ solution to funny noise car problems: “Can you turn up the radio to where you can’t hear it?”

Yup. Sometimes a good veg out is just the thing to take the edge off. …by veg I mean potato chips, any thing called crisp and pure sugar evil.

I get that. At the same time, it’s a poignant reminder of what an intellectual wasteland the mainstream media has become.

With me, it’s a Big Mac. Once or twice a year, I get a mad craving for one. Halfway though it, I wonder why and throw the rest away.

It’s chocolate or nothing, for this girl. Some old costume period movie on TV, and hot tea.

I’d rather do that then get drunk. That’s just my preference though…

Notice she doesn’t have the nerve to do it where there’s anyone else around.

I heard Lynn once say that this Sunday strip was a sneaky way to slip “I’ll take a P” and reference crossdressing past the censors.

Every year at the county fair I used to get a funnel cake, loaded with grease and powdered sugar. About halfway through it, I’d find myself wondering why I thought that would be a good idea.

Which number is greater, the national debt or Elly’s blood pressure?

Have you ever had a refrigerator full and yet there’s nothing to eat?

Either there nothing on TV you want to watch or there’s five or six at one time. I hate when that happens!!! I usually flip from one to another and repeat…

Especially in 2021.

Last one to find the Pepto Bismo is a rotten egg!

Blood-soaked asparagus? The rutabaga did it.

Once in a while. Okay. Especially now……

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I have never done that.

I have, but my snack and screen choices were different.

I miss newsprint comic strips, because they didn’t have a Comments section full of inane remarks. :-D

Fortunately for me when I need that kind of decompression I have light books to read.

well… we have all been there