For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 08, 2023

could happen to anyone

But Canadian TV is the very worst in the world, even in Quebec. Crisse de calice!!

Just when I think my kids would never do that, here they come. Nevering like they’ve never nevered before!

Funny thing is Lynn admits now that she watches pornariffic HBO programming like everyone else does, lol.

American TV is waaaayyyy much worse!!!!!

Maybe I was lucky—I spent my impressionable childhood years in the 1950s when the TV language was laundered (remember Carlin’s “seven words you can never say on television”) and sex wasn’t even hinted at! Even married couples … even if they were actually married in real life (i.e., Lucy and Desi) slept fully clothed in PJs and in separate beds. The raciest literature in my house was my mother’s “True” Romance magazines. It wasn’t until high school that I discovered my dad’s cache of Playboys.

The author is trying to say that the kids will get those things from television, but we have already seen violence in the Patterson household, bad language from the parents, and hints about the other thing (since you cannot show that in a comic strip). Every generation uses the entertainment industry as an excuse. In my father’s generation, they blamed the radio programs.

It seems today, that all you see is violence in movies and sex on TV

There’s always “Hockey Night in Canada”!

“Canadian Style Magazine”…. LOL

You obviously never watch AMERICAN TV. The vast majority of shows on Canadian TV are actually produced in the USA. Canadian TV (CTV, CBC, and Global) are more culture based. There are some Canadian drama shows, but not many.

Well that certainly didn’t apply to me. I learned it all on the playground like regular people do.

Looks like Ellie has no idea what her children are watching on television. Would you call that bad parenting?

The commercials pay for the worst of the contents on the idiot box.

British TV (BBC) has the best comedy. Love the tongue in cheek, sarcasm, and parodies…

Poor blind Elly…

Cable TV…………..

And now you see exactly why we watch selected streams or something from our extensive DVD collection. I want to know what I am watching.

When I was a kid living on Shaw Island, WA we got 3 Canadian television channels using an antenna. I watched The Beachcombers and The Littlest Hobo and my mom loved The Tommy Hunter Show.

It does if you own a TV. Then your children learn all about violence, bad language, selfishness, narcissism, and even who they should have sex with. Three cheers for television.

Michael is not a bright bulb to begin with. There were strips when he demanded to know why the school he attended was not like the school portrayed on shows like Saved by the Bell.

Wow. Until I read this strip the first time, I never realized Elly’s stupidity was VOLUNTARY!

Welcome to Vermont: Canada’s Gunrunner.

And of course, St. Michael of Patterfoob spills half the popcorn while walking to the couch..

My goodness. Those Canadian and American movies with their violence and sex. Whoever heard of any British character being in such a movie?

Oh, right, James Bond.

head in the sand.

Parent’s when was the last time you watch TV?

We seem to have a new troll in our midst: Double Sided Scooby Snack

I not only recommend not feeding the troll, but I wouldn’t even read them, he’s that bad.