The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for January 26, 2014

  1. 16873788307 800b4ae7a8 b
    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Im surprised they left the pillows on the bed. By the way who paid for the Spa Suite? Surely not Joy and Burl. Maybe Ma? But wouldn’t she be there too? Burl couldn’t have won employee of the year could he? Inquiring minds want to know.

     •  Reply
  2. Dsc03321  2
    mikie2  almost 11 years ago

    No weed, chablis, brownies, and afternoon delight at the spa? What a waste!Re: the plush robes, lotsa places like the Kohler Spa check the room and add the missing items to your bill, sometimes whilst you are trekking to the lobby. No one ever says anything; they just put it on your bill. For the Pennys, I’d add the cost of fumigating the room as well.I do have a bone to pick. No self-respecting Marine would ever let Burl wear anything about the USMC. A USMC Gift Shoppe? Never! Semper Fi, y’all.

     •  Reply
  3. Sunshine   copy
    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    For a tightwad couple living on a single low income, Burl and Joy seem to stay in motels a LOT…

    But like cartoon physics, and comics continuity, cartoon finances are flexible…. you have to give up the notion of rational arithmetic.

    It’s like trying to figure out how “poor” sitcom characters live in huge fancy apartments and houses.

    The Pennys may eat Little Debbies and generic cereal, and buy Scatt bathroom tissue….but when it comes to travel, they’ll spend whatever it takes……to make the joke funny.

    We just know they would stuff those robes in their suitcases, just like we know they have a kitchen drawer full of of sugar, salt and catsup packets….

    So to let us see them do it, Julie needs to draw them at a fancy motel.They’re but actors…. Julie pays their travel expenses.

    And Mikie…. anybody can buy USMC t-shirts…. at T-shirt shops, on eBay, from CafePress, all kinds of websites …

    I guess it’s a question of who challenges him or picks a fight…but over a shirt that says “Gift Shop” … would they bother?

     •  Reply
  4. Sunshine   copy
    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    loveslife… did you see my late comment to you yesterday about Timmy?

     •  Reply
  5. Intraining
    InTraining Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Is that the bathroom scale in BURL’s suitcase… or are those just the pillows ? ? ?

     •  Reply
  6. Hobo
    MeGoNow Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    You know what else the rich don’t have (and don’t need). A HAZMAT crew to deal with the noxious ring they leave around their tub.

     •  Reply
  7. Screen shot 2018 08 04 at 11.57.33 pm
    gimpysgirl  almost 11 years ago

    Julie’s on vacation. Another old strip. Still…..a goody.

     •  Reply
  8. Missing large
    ECJack  almost 11 years ago

    If the Kohler Lodge is supposed to be the American Club, an upscale resort in Kohler, WI, that means Burl and Joy were only about 30 miles from me. And I thought that odor was from the paper mill.

     •  Reply
  9. Tvman
    gmforde  almost 11 years ago

    They didn’t take the pic because it’s probably totally nailed to the wall. You’d need a crowbar to pry it off. I never see the Pennys take the bed pillows. Probably because they don’t fit into the suitcase. My dad ran a resort when we were growing up. He would have fits because back then in the 1960s, people took stuff out of the rooms all the time. I guess they felt entitled to it. It was amazing that he made any money at all. The other way they would make up for the thefts would be to raise the room rates and let somebody else pay for the junk. Maybe the Pennys got the robes as a part of their spa package.

     •  Reply
  10. Chico2small
    peggykb9  almost 11 years ago

    ECJack, roger on the paper-mill smell. I grew up in Appleton, where we could only smell them if there was an east wind.

     •  Reply
  11. Koala
    orbenjawell Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Such un-profound thievery……..SHEESH!!

     •  Reply
  12. Missing large
    hdstory  almost 11 years ago

    Thieves!

     •  Reply
  13. My eye
    vldazzle  almost 11 years ago

    Goes without saying they will take anything they can (we all know SOMEONE like that- and avoid taking them anywhere).

    As to spa-baths for 2, two normal size (not Penny size)people fit easily in a regular tub and Jacuzzi makes them nice and deep.

    My new friend has an in-ground spa that just needs a privacy screen and some other work (he already bought the filter). Better than my pool in this season, because I don’t heat it.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment