Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 22, 2010
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Transcript:
Boy: Hey, Petey! Let's all walk like zombies and freak people out! It'll be great! Petey: Um, no. Man: There's the comic book store! Everybody stay together please! Girl: You guys! I've been there and back like twice already!
Ah, but “irrepressible youth” by definition will not be repressed. If rambunctiousness is not tolerated in the home, it will back up and burst out in other environments. Back home, Andre and Loris might be models of proper deportment, but knowing that Dan Spinnerack is incapable of and/or unwilling to rein them in, they’re taking advantage of this respite from parental supervision…
I would certainly imagine that, even in the 50’s, babysitters and substitute teachers were tempting targets for troublemaking.
(No doubt you-know-who would declare that Andre and Loris ought to be soundly spanked, but he hated this strip anyway.)