16 thoughts on “I’ll Buy That for a Dollar!”

  1. This seems like such an old man joke. “Stuff at the dollar store isn’t a dollar anymore!”. I’m pretty surprised, now that I think about it, that he hasn’t done a long epic about how expensive comic books are these days.

  3. Sigh, you know what all this “slice o’ life” observational “gag-a-day” stuff means, right? It means we’re due to fall off a cliff, a steep, steep cliff with nothing but inky darkness at the bottom. Either that or Bantom has finally conceded defeat and will just run out the string with years and years of jokes like this one. We’re all doomed either way.

  4. Funky’s dickish complaint will be null and void once he whips out his checkbook to pay for his dollar items. Actually, I’m kind of surprised he didn’t just drop a couple of one-dollar bills on the counter without being bothered by the formality of a register, cashier, sales tax and receipt:

    “But, Sir! I didn’t ring up your order!”

    “It’s a DOLLAR store, Nitwit! TWO items, TWO dollars! Stop trying to be a hero!”

  5. Leather jacket guy is slipping out of the store without paying for his stuff while bag-boy is distracted by Funky The Menace. It’s the perfect crime!

    But all snarking aside, I love dollar stores. 🙂

  6. Well, I could do with a spate of bad gag-a-day strips until he does his stupid cross-over with Dick Tracy. That’ll give us something almost pleasant to think about when we’re in the middle of the very awkward and ill-conceived bullying saga of sanctifying Nate Green.

  7. The fact that a dollar store even exists in Westview – the land of falling leaves, crappy pizza, comic books, retirement homes and cancer – is notable enough.

  9. “In my day it was a nickel store where everything was a dollar.” — Ed Crankshaft

  11. Durr hurr hurr.Tomorrow, Flunky goes into an antique shop and asks what’s new. Durr hurr hurr. Then he runs around the house cutting off… wait for it… MATTRESS TAGS! And how about that airline food, huh? Durr hurr hurr.

    By the way, am I the only one to notice it’s been “all about Flunky” for about a month now? That is, other than the Odie and Codie Bullying Preview the other day. Just enough Flunky to remind us what an uninteresting character he is.

  13. Love the new header TFH!!

    Hadda Mae Kapupe: It was a Funky-centric year all around, the Winkerbeans dominated 2014. There was a stretch early in 2014 where we saw something like 8 out of ten weeks worth of them.

  14. Sometimes, a situation that seems absurd can actually have a reasonable explanation behind it. To keep an accurate count of their inventory, most stores have a system where the registers record what the items actually are, not just the price. Maybe the item is missing its UPC barcode, and the cashier needs to enter that information or a number from the item’s shelf tag; it wouldn’t be enough just to enter “$1.00,” even when the cashier KNOWS that’s the price of the item. “Price check” is just a convenient, easily-understood shorthand to call another employee, rather than “UPC check” or “Item number check”…

  16. @Erich: But such an explanation does not satisfy a Winkerbean or a Batiuk because it means that they have to shut up and be inconvenienced.

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