Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 11, 2023
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Transcript:
what's new in sitcom technology now your favorite wacky-family sitcom offers exciting dvd-style extra features! cast commentaries - fascinating insights from the stars themselves! oop: i'm really good in this scene! no - watch what i'm doing! extended director's cut - chock full of deleted jokes, plot contriv-ances, crowd scenes, helicopter shots & other digressions that really pump up the laffs! man: stampede! learned annotations - analysis of the genre by bernard ubby, ph.d., author of "rob petrie's ottoman: furniture groupings in the american sitcom." ubby: consider the centrality of the sofa to the comic mise en scene. prognostications - psychics reveal the stars futures in the "where will they be then?" feature! psychic: the annoying child star will rise to dominate world culture in hideously unforeseen ways...
Cpeckbourlioux 11 months ago
I wonder how many of us remember Rob Petrie.
Droptma Styx 11 months ago
Somebody said this about directors of sitcoms: remove the sofa from the set and they’d have no idea what to do with the actors.
SteveHL 11 months ago
The calmly smiling little girl in the first panel had three bowls of Sugar ‘n’ Honey Flakes between that picture and her return in panel four.
whawn 11 months ago
That last panel is frighteningly on-point. cf. Shirley Temple, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Ron Howard…
Wilde Bill 11 months ago
I wonder if the psychics predicted that she would, one day, host Jeopardy.
Dave 11 months ago
In panel 4 the girl looks suspiciously like Alice in Cul-de-sac.
Sisyphos 11 months ago
This “new sitcom technology” is just way too much! To the limited extent that I watch sitcoms at all, I’ll take them plain and unadorned with such add-ons….