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zut alors
14 years ago
At first glance this appeared to be a direct steal from 2006 episodes of The Bold and The Beautiful but then I realised it was impossible. Because characters in The B & B all tend to marry family members and there isn’t any of that going on above. And where the hell did Remigio suddenly spring from?
Whenever First Dog writes ‘to be continued…’ it is absolutely guaranteed not to be. You can bet a sheep station on it.
JamesG
14 years ago
Pure 100% Polly-unsaturated Genius.
Juffy
14 years ago
Hrmm…in the second panel, shouldn’t the chip bucket be dreaming of the..err…round yellow fried thing (Rodrigo) rather than the hot dog (Juan) if she (the chip bucket) is secretly in love with Rodrigo?
Or is it just that all the wimmins love sausage? *ducks*
[Goddamit Juffy, you are right – I have fixed it – no one will ever know]
This is exactly the sort of thing I was worried about.
The federal election starts going to hell in a handbasket and FDOTM is reduced to a blubbering heap on the couch.
Watching daytime TV soaps….In Spanish!!!
The end is nigh… 🙂
richie ben
14 years ago
This incisive satire of the election campaign should be made compulsory reading for all political science degrees, and possibly it could be the subject of a coursework master’s course as well.
Clearly Maria is Julia Gillard, Juan is Tony Abott. Leonarda, the jealous sister, is Laurie Oakes in drag. Rodrigo Montes de Oca is Barnaby Joyce. Remigio is, of course, Jasper the Rudd family cat in disguise. Once these simple transpositions are absorbed, it is at once clear that the episode is searing expose of the election debate at the highest intellectual level. The author has promised that the series will continue, and who would doubt the word of FDOTM. I can honestly say that this cartoon is at least as enthralling as the current election campaign on either side.
The only cultural reference that mystifies me is why Leonarda is portrayed as a bucket of chips, but that may be a typographical error, and it could be that the referent is really refugee ships. Or perhaps the ship of state, or perhaps Chips Rafferty.
At first glance this appeared to be a direct steal from 2006 episodes of The Bold and The Beautiful but then I realised it was impossible. Because characters in The B & B all tend to marry family members and there isn’t any of that going on above. And where the hell did Remigio suddenly spring from?
Whenever First Dog writes ‘to be continued…’ it is absolutely guaranteed not to be. You can bet a sheep station on it.
Pure 100% Polly-unsaturated Genius.
Hrmm…in the second panel, shouldn’t the chip bucket be dreaming of the..err…round yellow fried thing (Rodrigo) rather than the hot dog (Juan) if she (the chip bucket) is secretly in love with Rodrigo?
Or is it just that all the wimmins love sausage? *ducks*
[Goddamit Juffy, you are right – I have fixed it – no one will ever know]
This is exactly the sort of thing I was worried about.
The federal election starts going to hell in a handbasket and FDOTM is reduced to a blubbering heap on the couch.
Watching daytime TV soaps….In Spanish!!!
The end is nigh… 🙂
This incisive satire of the election campaign should be made compulsory reading for all political science degrees, and possibly it could be the subject of a coursework master’s course as well.
Clearly Maria is Julia Gillard, Juan is Tony Abott. Leonarda, the jealous sister, is Laurie Oakes in drag. Rodrigo Montes de Oca is Barnaby Joyce. Remigio is, of course, Jasper the Rudd family cat in disguise. Once these simple transpositions are absorbed, it is at once clear that the episode is searing expose of the election debate at the highest intellectual level. The author has promised that the series will continue, and who would doubt the word of FDOTM. I can honestly say that this cartoon is at least as enthralling as the current election campaign on either side.
The only cultural reference that mystifies me is why Leonarda is portrayed as a bucket of chips, but that may be a typographical error, and it could be that the referent is really refugee ships. Or perhaps the ship of state, or perhaps Chips Rafferty.