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- Judging by the absurdly poor service, I suspect the Lockhorns are flying American Airlines this week (although given how well the seats accommodate the Lockhorns' freakishly large feet, they cannot possibly complain about the leg room). I do wonder sometimes if the Lockhorns are just extremely poor in selecting quality service providers (airlines, restaurants, mechanics, etc.) or it's just that they carry such an overwhelming aura of bleakness and negativity that it just causes everyone around them to become jerks. It makes you ponder: who is the real monster here? Is it the Lockhorns? Or is it the dehumanizing, alienating nature of modern society? Push.
- I find this panel to be far more depressing and tragic than funny. It is difficult to find too much humor in seeing an older couple come to the harrowing self realization that they are in the grips of terminal senile dementia and have turned their house inside out to look for something they cannot even remember. I guess the crooked mirror and seeing all their stuff strewn about is a a slightly silly sight. Thinnest of silver linings: maybe eventually both their minds will be ravaged enough by their illness for them to forget how much they hate each other and then they'd briefly fall in love again. A depressing push, indeed.
- Whenever I see a furious Loretta stomping towards Leroy, I think of the famous scene in Jurassic Park where the vibrating of cups of water foreshadows the arrival of a T-Rex. I can only imagine the other party goers ominously staring at the disturbances in their drink glasses and feeling the eerie tremors of Loretta's enraged, earth rattling stomps. In the face of such a frightening sight Leroy still commendably manages to get a quick dig in. Additionally, I also always imagined Loretta's voice and manner of speech to have sounded somewhat like Fran Drescher. Leroy scores the first point and goes up 1-0.
- Are cats really attracted to the sound of a working can opener? As someone who never owned a cat, I never really thought out this. Wouldn't the same thing work with dogs?
I guess any sort of domesticated animal will develop some sort of Pavlovian reaction (learned through Pavlov's dogs) to repeated sounds associated with food. I didn't know this was such a specific thing with cats. Interestingly enough this may be one of the few times a living creature has been attracted to food "prepared" by Loretta. Push, Leroy still leads 1-0. - Not exactly sure what the insult Leroy is going for here. Is he saying that Loretta is a "clingy" person? Maybe Loretta "clings on" too much to her mother? Perhaps Loretta has "clung on" to many of her mother's negative qualities? Or should we just take it literally and he is saying that Loretta shares many of the attributes and temperament of the Klingon race from Star Trek. I have to admit she does sort of displays a similar fanatical devotion to combat and battle when it comes to mocking Leroy. Ambiguous as it may be, Leroy still gets the point and manages a unexpected 2-0 shut out victory; possibly his most dominant performance ever on a Sunday.
Official Count:
Leroy - 119
Loretta - 137
Push - 96
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