Guest Blogger DavidO here, reminding you that I have the reins this week; TFHacket didn’t suddenly get really unfunny.
So here I am, with the unenviable task on snarking on the parents of a newborn baby! I might as well be twirling my mustache and kicking puppies while I do so, but on with the strip!
“He likes it when I rock him to sleep,” says Jess, showcasing some amazing parenting skills in today’s strip. Is that going to be the theme of this week? He likes to eat when he’s hungry. He falls asleep when he’s tired…
So far, we haven’t seen much of little Skyler other than in faraway shots. Tombat is not known for drawing babies, I’m very curious to see if we get a closer look at the lil’ guy and just how weird he’s going to look.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Pure sap, 100% corn…what can you even say about this one? Possibly the blandest FW of 2013. It’s only Tuesday and he’s already out of “baby makes three” gags…gonna be a loooooooong week.
I see Tom is desperately clinging to the “Darin and Jess have just been married for a couple of years and are basically kids, NOT a decade and DON’T have monstrously delayed development” paradigm.
Yes, every man who was born after 1930 or so wears pajamas. No, Wait, No! No man born after 1980 or so ever wears striped pajamas! AAAUGGH, it’s so bad that it hurts!
I’ve actually punched grown men who have made this joke in real life. I may have even accused them of stealing/borrowing it from Funky Winkerbean at some point in the strip’s history, so now I’m not sure who to hold responsible for this groaner.
Many out-of-touch markers in today’s installment. As GPTA stated, striped pajamas? Pajamas of any kind on a man in his 30’s?
Oedipal competition for his wife’s affection? With a newborn? WTF?
The apartment is big enough for a dresser and rocking chair? I call bullshit on this. You know they’re sleeping on a foldout couch, and the kid’s crib is a milkcrate with a blanket in it.
Funky Winkerbean is a reality-based comic strip that depicts Affordable Care Act issues affecting young adults who don’t have a pot to piss in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner as they try to pay off the maternity care bills.
Is Stupid considered a pre-existing condition?
It’s funny because Darin already resents the attention Jess give to their child.
Yes, it does seem rather unbelievable that Pete would spring for a 2 bedroom apartment, and that Darin and Jess, two moochers who lived with friends until they were into their 30s, (“We stay until they throw us out” or some such) somehow were able to afford and move into a two bedroom that, until now, was beyond their needs and presumably means as well.
Anyway, yeah! Kick that baby’s ass, Darin! He’s blatantly coveting and playing with your wife’s tits!
Wonder if Jess will cut her hair, or if Batiuk will make jokes about “baby pulls the hell out of Mom’s hair with his ironclad grip”. Or if he’s not even aware of this common occurrence for new mothers with longish hair.
That photoshopped panel with DSH John’s face superimposed on Durwood Jr.’s little head reminded me so much of an old joke…
A recent new mother came home to her newborn and husband, who had been watching the baby…mom went to check on the baby, and said, “Hey, this doesn’t look like our baby!” Dad replied, “It isn’t…don’t you remember telling me to make sure I changed the baby?”
Can’t you just see Little Durwood Jr. meeting his grandfather?
“wave at your anally-retentive grandpa…he wrote books about your other grandparents who are dead!”
“And now I’m thirsty, so whip ’em out, babe.”
The poor baby is only pretending to be asleep, so he doesn’t have to hear any more tales from the Westview Book of the Dead.
I just noticed Fred’s image in the masthead. Does this mean we’ll be treated to a charming aphasic Thanksgiving Toast this week?
So i wonder–are we skipping the tired band turkey week entirely, or more unimaginably, just going to do it next week instead?
Well, if your wife has insanely low self-esteem, I suppose this is one strategy. Kind of a creepy strategy, but one nevertheless.
Too bad there wasn’t enough room to show DurrHurr’s slippers, those maroon velvet kind with the crests on the front.
John: Good call. It’s so ridiculous how he tries to pretend they’re “just kids starting out” when they’ve been together since high school…a minimum of seventeen years ago. Perhaps it’s all “beady-eyed nitpicking” in TB’s opinion, but he’s the one who “time jumped” ahead ten years and can’t keep his stories straight anymore.
“Tombat is not known for drawing babies,….”
He’s also not known for drawing people not dying of cancer, people who know how to smile without smirking into a hatchet face or happy people in general.
bill: Or people that look their age or attractive women.
-bill: Or people that look their age or attractive women.-
or writing.
Come to think of it, the only thing Tombat is known for is inflicting misery on as many fictional and non-fictional people as humanly possible.