Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 19, 2019

Please, don’t give Jeff Bezos anymore ideas, even if they are 25 years old.

Uh-Oh. BD usually wears the helmet in this family, Boopsie. But I bet you can do a lot of damage in the next fifteen minutes!

Woah, this strip was ahead of its time.

What is they say, the longer you are married to the same person the more you look alike. With the helmet we won’t be able to tell who is who.

This can go south very fast. I saw two elderly sisters burn through their entire savings in about two years of continuous HSN bingeing. They were left literally penniless.

Perfect for her. Boopsie shops so hard that she leaves bruises on her credit cards.

FOX had a one season wonder show call ‘VR5’ about a woman’s adventures in virtual reality. The ‘5’ meant all five senses.

Isn’t that the same guy Zonker delivered the brownies to?

I think I’m going to like this episode!

Jeff Bezos read this many years ago

Are they even still in business?

Sort of like the Infinitely Indexed Memory Bank from “Earth Vs the Flying Saucers” only with incredible bargains!

Check this out: What they actually were saying about virtual reality in 1993. mentalfloss.com/article/61962/nightline-explains-virtual-reality-1993

And just the year before: mentalfloss.com/article/56396/what-virtual-reality-looked-1992

Humm. This has interesting implications. I think I sense seeds of the Oasis here. Yes, that was a Ready Player One reference.

1993?

We used to have an MTV like station which was the beat of the city. Then the home shopping club took over and it became the bore of our city!

Don’t do it!

Saw a short movie about something like this… Woman in a loveless marriage was addicted to home shopping. Her husband really got on her case about a whole closet of mixers, cookware, etc, with new deliveries coming in every day. This day the driver came with a shipment of lovely carving knives… it did not end well.

Too bad BD never removes his helmet. He might accidentally grab the wrong one on his way to work. That would be fun to watch.

Making it easier for a woman to shop. What could go wrong?

TAANSTAAFL

Hard to believe this strip is 26 years old…