So! One of the annoying tics of this strip (one of oh so many) is the way Lynn Johnston so often seems to find it funny to close out a strip with a really lame pun, like so:
And when these lame puns take place, everyone involved in that strip ends up standing there, grinning like idiots at the lame wordplay. It took me a while to figure out what this reminded me of, but it finally hit me a few hours ago: these are the comic strip version of the final scene of an episode of CHiPS! Skip to the three-minute mark and you'll see what I mean.
Of course, this kind of thing was done definitively on Police Squad!:
I should figure out a way to end my posts with lame freeze-frames!
1 comment:
At least the comic strip didn't include the phrase "no pun intended". That phrase adds an exponential factor of lameness to any play on words, and can even ruin a truly clever pun.
Actually, the phrase "no pun intended" might be kind of funny if there is no pun at all. Example: For Better or Worse is a crummy comic strip (no pun intended)...
No, it's still annoying. This is a phrase that seems to be used by people who often say things like "moi?".
No pun intended.
Eric P.
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