Daycarelessness



I so love how Jessica’s gone from zero to sixty on her “documentary” project…Shrimp Sauce can only stand there looking pathetic, cradling their infant son. “So are we going to get daycare…?” As if they could even afford daycare. What’s even more professional than enlisting an unpaid college intern as your production assistant? Why, schlepping along your months-old baby as your “sound man.” WAAAAAA!!

25 thoughts on “Daycarelessness”

  1. Happy Anniversary to SoSF! I love the C&D letter you threw in there too. Here’s hoping for many more!! Hands down the premier FW site on the web.

    I get it. Skyler is screaming, probably over the prospect of spending all day (again) with Jessica while she annoys the townsfolk regarding her father, John Darling. So because he’s making sounds he’s the SOUND GUY! Ultra-f*cking hilarious. And if she needs a “standing around stupidly guy” or someone to ask pointless questions, Boy Lisa has her back. I sure hope she’s not planning on driving around with that papoose on her back though, as that will probably end very poorly at best.

  2. I suspect Skyler is screaming due to his preternatural realization that he is going to spend his existence (I can’t call it “life”) in Westview. A greater vision of Hell is beyond the imagination of Bosch, Dante, H.P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker combined–no matter how many beers they’d downed during their weekly poker game.

  3. Who exactly is she going to “interview”? If she ever does film this documentary, I can’t imagine it’ll be anything more than 4 hours of Les reading “Fallen Star”. It’s already beyond credible that Batiuk believes any of his fictional characters would really give two shits about John Darling, but I guess he figures since he already succeeded in making them believe in Lisa as a sacred image… It’s really about time he scraps Funky Winkerbean altogether and move on to the strip he really wants to do: a “Three’s Company”-style farce in which Les shares house with the ghosts of Lisa and John Darling.

  4. As a lady who’s been on her fair share of video shoots for like the last seven years, my immediate reaction was to yell “nnnoooOOOOOO!!!!”

  5. Sorry, apparently I pressed enter too soon out of panic. Allow me to elaborate. If your child accompanies you on your shoot, either your film will be ruined, or your son will die of neglect. There is no in-between.

  6. Right, because there’s NO WAY your baby will need undivided attention in the next sevetal hours. I think I know why your teenage A/V geek quit.

  7. Her documentary will be several hours of people she’s interviewing going, “John who?”

  10. Darin: “Welp, bye bye while you go off with your squalling baby! It’s a pity your only options are paying for daycare or taking him all over creation with you!”

    Jess: “Um, yeah, about that…I was just kidding. Are you -sure- that you or Ann wouldn’t be able to watch him for a while?”

    Darin: “Me?!? I’m a MAN, dear. Men don’t watch babies! And Ann is totally a coach now or something. Even though she really wanted to be a writer. It’s weird. Welp, off to a super-busy day of writing new pizza apps!”

    Jess: *SIGH*

  11. Thank you for the time and effort you’ve spent these past four years providing a space for us in which share our irrational obsession with this weird little comic strip. If Batiuk wasn’t such a stiff, he’d give you a tip of the Funky felt-tip for providing proof that somebody actually pays attention to his work.

  12. NEWS ITEM: “Archie Andrews, everyone’s favorite, freckled denizen of Riverdale, will die a hero’s death in an upcoming issue of Life With Archie, as he sacrifices his life to save a friend’s, the CBC reports.”

    Killing off a comic’s titular character? Tom Batiuk, are you listening?

     

  13. Somehow I can’t help but feel Frank Castle is involved in Archie’s death

  14. Jessica, who admittedly does not want to finish (ahem… start) her John Darling documentary, decides to tote her infant son along on her quest to finish it. Her infant son, whose cries and fundamental needs will slow down and possibly sabotage her interviews…

    Smooth move, Jessica. That’s almost too clever for FW.

  15. As for today’s strip, I’m glad she didn’t say he’s her producer. Marvin has enough poop jokes as it is.

  17. Happy Anniversary!! I’ve been lurking here since the classic “Lisa phones it in from beyond the grave” arc (I followed a link here from the Funky Winkerbean page of the tvtropes site). It’s been a heck of a ride for sure.

    As for today’s strip, hmmm. Yes, Slager, I would be insulted too at the suggestion that the job of producing a documentary could be adequately performed while carrying a four month old baby on your back.

  18. @oddnoc, when I first read your post I thought you were talking about the current story line and went WOW there’s a major league masochist. Then I realized you were celebrating this blog and was greatly relieved. However; the sad truth is this story line probably go on for at least four more years … whimper.

  19. She’s taking as long to make that documentary as James Cameron did “Titanic.”

    I’m hoping that, while she’s doing research on the documentary, she discovers that John Darling isn’t really her biodad. It was actually Frankie. That would make her and Durwood half-biosiblings. That would be interesting, that is, if somebody else besides Batiuk wrote the story.

  20. “and what is your strongest memory of my father, John Darling.”
    “Well, i think”
    WAAAAAAA!
    “That”
    WAAAAAAA!
    “My most indelible
    “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
    “you know most people just annoy you with pictures of their baby, you’ve taken it one step further.”
    “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

  21. Yeah, kudos to TFH.

    So, help me out with this arc. John Darling ran until, what, 1990? If you take the time jump into account, that’s at least 34 years in the past. Boy, nothing sad about a man and woman in their mid 30s living hand to mouth like a couple just out of college.

  23. The anniversary logo is awesome. I like to think that the whole “Dinkle Anniversary” arc we had to suffer through was created just so Batiuk could provide that scene for this site.

  25. I’d say it’s long been established that Jessica is a “documentary filmmaker” in the same way that George Costanza is an “architect.”

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