The Brothers Warner
Today’s strip is kindof a callback to an early influence on me: the old school Warner Brothers cartoons. I’m talking about Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Roadrunner, and the whole Lonney Tunes crew. I love those cartoons, and one of the ones that always stuck with me through the years is the one where Bugs is starring in a movie, and Daffy is jealous, so Daffy gets cast as the stunt double. Which of course means every time something bad is about to happen to bugs, someone off camera yells, “Cut! Send in the Double!” And then Daffy gets blown to smithereens.
I love how it starts off as kindof innocuous, like Daffy getting hit on the head with an anvil or something, and by the end of the cartoon, he’s getting blown up, and at one point, Bugs is piloting a plane that careening to the ground, and it stops in midair, Daffy flies in and trades places with him, and proceeds to the most horrendous plane-crash ever. Comedy Gold.
Ah, I love the violence against cartoon animals… I just wish that in my own life I had a tiny man off in distance that could shout, “Cut! Send in the double!”And then someone else could come in and get chewed out by the boss, or rejected by the girl, or accidentally burned by the george foreman, then fall backwards into a model airplane I struggled to build for months, and knock over a bookshelf and have the books fall all over them as a girl rejects them over IM.
Sigh… I am Daffy…
May 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
HA! You ARE Daffy!!!
Oh wait a minute…………..
Damn, I am too…..
I feel depressed now…..
Oh yeah, BTW, I had a mild heart attack on Monday night. just sayin’.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Dude, you can’t throw something out there like that all innocent–are you allright? I hope it’s nothing serious…
May 21st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
If I were a cartoon, I like to think of myself as Underdog. (The cartoon one, not that crappy-ass live-action bullpoopy that was recently thrust upon us. Though I do like Jason Lee.) Or maybe, much to my chagrin, I’m more like The Inspector than I’d like to admit. (2 Points to the person who guesses the reference.)
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
I throw it out innocent, because I try to make jokes about it.
Yes, I could have been terminal, but I wasn’t. I have to admit it hurt like hell, but I realized that life is too precious to waste.
I will continue to do what I do best.
And I know you will too. GREAT WRITING & GREAT COMICS.
awesomness.
p.s. don’t worry it’s nothing serious. I was mostly stress induced.
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Chris – Underdog was a favorite of mine as a kid, but wow, that movie looked terrible… I wish Hollywood would stop mining my childhood when they look for things to pee on…
I’ll go for the points – the Inspector – the one from the Pink Panther cartoons? I think they did some cartoons with just that character, too… Or, are you talking about the ever-amazing (and also hollywood butchered) Inspector Gadget? I had a crush on Penny when I was a kid. What was she, his daughter? I used to make little versions of her ‘computer book,’ and then pretend to use them to solve crimes. too bad your average PDA is twice as powerful as her computer book ever was… but where do you think they got the idea for PDAs?
Pat –
I’m glad you’re ok, man! Keep makin’ the comics, stay alive, don’t get stressed…
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 am
Yes, you got the points…The Insector from the Pink Panther.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
YES! POINTS!
All the points will be MINE!