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![[1289] More Jewelry!](/comics/2021-08-26-1289-more-jewelry.png "[1289] More Jewelry!")
- Man: Yes, Richard, you can say, I’ve got it made!
- Richard: Cool!
- Hitomi: Richard, would you like a piece of my strawberry pie?
- Richard: Ooh, thanks!
- Sandra: Look, dad, I drew Woo and his kits!
- Man: Sob
- Wife: Buy me more jewelry!
- Daughter: The cops will probably show up later, just so you know…
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Let’s see how Sandra does when she’s 17…
What’s with the dotted line behind the word “Jewelry”?
Maybe the boss also wants to move in with the family.
@ mook:
Graphic error. Will fix later.
Lol, haven’t watched those clips in years.
“Honey, why is the baby on fire?”
Richard is cruel and sadistic.
I didn’t know
Well, you have to be a loving, supporting husband/wife and father/mother to have a chance at building a good family dynamic. 😛 A spouse that only cares about gifts and a daughter who doesn’t even care that she’s in trouble with the police, hints of a family that got everything except love and respect.
Is that “Buy me more jewelery” an ASDF reference?
@ Klekowskii:
Yes. See tags.
I’ve only known the Yiddish meaning of schmuck before today. Curious that the German word means “jewelry”. One learns something new every day
@ anon:
Thinking about it it was probably a coin flip that he didn’t see Sandra mentioning a need to watch out for police, atleast she’d help the rest of her family contoct alibis.
You might have got it made, Mr. Random Businessman, but Richard has got it worth making.
Whoa, this one’s stereotypes have all the subtlety of a Chick tract.
Oof. That’s a gut punch.
If he can’t afford a new trophy wife then he doesn’t really have it made! (Of course, Richard didn’t even have to buy his, she just sort of threw herself at him. How often does that happen?)
(Also, the mustache in the first panel is badly drawn — it looks like clown lips).
I can dream, Harold!
@ anon:
“Larisa is in the basement, she’s caged the local police department again, just so you know.”
Why would the cops be here?
…. wait, it’s an asdf reference….
OH GOD, THE BABY!
jb wrote:
The woman I married didn’t exactly throw herself at me but more like gathered me up.
@ Evonix:
That’s not Sandra, but the other guy’s wild daughter.
@ jb:
“(Also, the mustache in the first panel is badly drawn — it looks like clown lips).”
Now I can’t see it as a mustache! : )
The strip was funny, but I had no idea what “asdfmovie” was.
So I googled it.
And I watched it on YouTube.
Now I can’t unsee it.
And that package of muffins in my fridge is making me uncomfortable …
Heck yeah! It’s not about money, it’s about the simple pleasures in life and improving it for one another.
More proof that money doesn’t buy happiness,
it just replaces one (or more) forms of unhappiness with others :^(
Quick fix : Buy Mustacchio Man some cat ears
Interestingly enough, TomSka has gone on the record to say he’s embarrassed about that skit and that episode in general. Apparently it was circa the date of his parents’ divorce, and he was feeling bitter about marriage in general. He doesn’t find it funny any more, and wishes he could redo the entire thing with less jokes about how terrible “wives” are.
@ Me-me:
Having double-checked, either I was misremembering, or I heard about it somewhere else than I thought it did. Please disregard my earlier comment unless further evidence is found.
This comic is great and certainly brings up plenty of classic sitcoms especially black and white ones. The lest panel in German is much funnier though.
A crime has been committed. No, not referring to whatever the boss’s kid did, I’m referring to Hitomi not wearing her cat ears.
Besides, isn’t Richard suddenly wealthy from some even a few months back that was never really explored?
@ Drake:
I can think of at least three perfectly legitimate reasons why Hitomi would not be wearing her cat ears:
1) That strawberry pie is homemade and relatively fresh, and she took them off while she was baking, either to avoid staining them or (depending on the make) to avoid getting cat hair in the pie.
2) They fell off on her way to this room, and she failed to notice due to such factors as a padded landing surface preventing them from making noise and/or her eagerness to share the pie with Richard.
3) They’ve gotten dirty, are washing-machine safe, and are currently in the wash. Even if she has multiple pairs (which she does, unless the pair Sandra was wearing last page were a gift and are now Sandra’s property), it’s entirely possible she’d forgotten to run the laundry, like a normal person (or she ran the laundry and then forgot to switch it over to the dryer, also like a normal person), and she failed to realize until she went looking for her spares.
Could somebody please explain this to me? I won’t have an opportunity to watch any videos until winter…
@ Nikary Flare:
The richman is wealthier than Richard, and thinks that he has a happier life than Richard as a result. However, Richard has a loving daughter and an affectionate girlfriend, whereas the richman has a demanding wife and a juvenile daughter. Your call on whose life is really more joyful.
If you want the reference explained, specifically: asdfmovie is a series of animated videos on YouTube consisting of numerous short clips, the longest of which is barely 20 seconds. One of the clips entails a man asking his wife why his baby on fire, to which the wife responds with a demand that the man buy her more jewlery. (This is apparently a reference to The Sims.)
What struck me as peculiar was the guest smoking a cigar in Richard’s house. These days, that’s Just Not Done. Perhaps he had asked permission, but …
@ Pylgrim:
That’s only because this one’s an asdf movie reference. Google the phrase “honey, why is the baby on fire”.
If I have been following the storyline correctly, Richard’s firm was recently sold to a larger company, which yielded large amount of money, probably as part of option scheme or something similar. Considering that Richard still seems to work, the elderly guy in this scheme is his new boss. (I have understood that it is an American custom for bosses to visit their subordinates, and this is, traditionally, a major stress factor.) So, this is probably such a visit, that is going swimmingly, with Richard’s family demonstrating almost comical devotion to their patriarch. (In this case, I use “patriarch” in a good sense. My own family is almost as devoted to me, and I find this to be a very happy situation.)
Secondly, Sandra is now 13. For girls, that is usually the most difficult year of puberty, and by 14 they are already much more stable emotionally (of course depending on nutritional status and personal genetic factors). So, if your 13-year-old is as well-behaved as Sandra, you are already on the right track.
To be fair “The cops will probably show up later, just so you know…” is a phrase I’d probably expect Larisa to say. ^_-
I’m thinking Yukiya (strip#1164) knows too many guys who ended up in the situation in the third panel of this comic and wasn’t willing to roll those dice…so that’s why he went “monk mode”.
Also I wonder if everything since strip #1158 is actually Richard dreaming and he just hasn’t woke up yet. :-O
Thus what comes of smoking the Wrong kind of cigar.
@ Lurker 2:
“(I have understood that it is an American custom for bosses to visit their subordinates, and this is, traditionally, a major stress factor.)”
That has not been my experience, even when my boss was the father of one of my schoolmates. Perhaps if you’re further up the “food chain”; I’ve always been bottom rung, until recently. (Approaching retirement, I’m now mentoring a junior engineer.)
@ Brett Bellmore:
It’s a staple of old sitcoms and comic strips. How common it is or ever was in real life, I have no idea.
This could have been funny if we’d actually gotten to see this character act smug and superior to Richard over the course of a few strips so that we’d have a reason to want to see him humiliated.
As it is, it’s just yet another “haha, my characters are soooooo much better than this random strawman I invented on the spot!” non-joke.
Baeraad wrote:
I don’t think that the strip is intended to show the older guy as smug or to humiliate him. It’s statement is just that money isn’t everything.
And I think you are rather intended to pity him than to want to see him humiliated.
Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2 wrote:
I also don’t know what an ‘asdf movie’ is.
I Gather it’s some pop-culture reference and -judging from THIS reaction- I think I’d rather NOT find out what it’s about.
In fact, there are many things related to the so-called ‘pop-culture’ I have looked into and discovered it would have been better if I hadn’t.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=930#comic
@ Gavin:
And ‘gift’ means poison, in German.
Also, ‘mist’ is. . . . . well, let’s just say, outhouses smell of it.
@ Glen A. Pearce:
To which Larisa’s parents likely reply “Oh good, get the good china out, that’s if it’ll be Sergeant Renfrew and Corporal Dodge. If it’s that pair they sent the first time, just ask me for the flame-thrower.”
It reminds me of this scene from the movie Little Big Man, “I have a horse and ….”
@ Fitzsimons:
oops. the HTML disappeared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a_QqELz6cg
@ anon:
Police won’t show up at their door, not with Larissa to burn all the evidence.