Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 24, 2012

What a supportive father

Rick: “Bwa-ha-ha! M-O-O-R-O-O-N!!!” “Sorry, I’m better now.” “Snerk.”

Rick sounds as guilty as a Republican behind closed doors.

Or worse yet—a democrat in public.

“Anybody can say they’re repossesing something.”

At the risk of grand theft auto? Whuffo?

Rick: “Sorry, hold on a minute, Jeff. Honey! You owe me five bucks. It would have been ten, but it fell apart two months before even I expected it would happen.”

…Rick: “Oh, and, no, Jeff, you can’t move back in.”

Blogger rolling with laughter.

Now neither one of them is getting paid for their “writing.”

Let’s face it, he’s no Kardashian.

However, he is qualified to be an expert source on Fox.

I would go with a few Neener-neeners, myself!

Bank of America does that. You don’t even have to owe them anything.

The best part is that Jeff’s actual eviction from his mansion is yet to come. I wouldn’t really mind if Jeff married Alex and they bought one-way passage to anywhere. But they’re both too many laughs to part with. Anyway, it’s entirely possible that Jeff never left the basement. This book deal, mansion, Porsche could all be just Jeff sitting down there fantasizing like he did with the Red Rascal. So maybe none of it is real at all. . . . The basement is reality. . . . . . . . Uh, . . . Garry, you didn’t just fantasize ALL of this, did you?

“That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do itMoney for nothin’ and chicks for free”

The American Dream on credit.

Repo Man is not “pretty good.” It’s great. Especially Tracey Walter.

Ps. Need it be stated yet again that “the Arn man” (no, it’s Mike Tyson who is “the Iron man”) is a Republican, whereas Alex is a Democrat, or at least an Occupy Wall Streeter. No Ashkenazi “matchmaker, matchmaker” would be caught dead revolving in her casket trying to hook up those two! Governor Schmovernor indeed! At the very least Alex is no libertarian! Let her stick with her lawfully wedded husband, the honorable Leo. Stop trying to divorce her off to one of two monumental losers, either ex-governator Arn man Schwarzenegger, who just finished a self-serving “greed is good” book, or ex-gazillionaire Jeff Redfern, whose latest book evidently just slid him onto the well-greased skids.

Integrity will win out, whereas Republicanism will go out! Though it take ten thousand years!

The real problem is that Jeff thought it was HIS car. It’s not his car until it is paid for. Debt collectors do not take your money, they take their money. Let’s hear from one of our founding fathers, shall we? Benjamin Franklin writing to Robert Morris on December 25, 1783. The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People’s Money out of their Pockets, tho’ only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake …the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors’ Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withhold it, should be compell’d to pay by some Law.All Property, indeed, except the Savage’s temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

Repo Man is a cult classic. A fantastic film, produced by ex-Monkee, Mike Nesmith and starring a young Emilo Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. It has a certain punk style and attitude that made it stand out from the predictable Hollywood stuff of the time. If Harry Dean Stanton had arrived to repossess his Porsche, Jeff should have been honored (as well as pissed).

Rick is Jeff’s father no? He raised him yes? So if Jeff’s a moron, what’s that make Rick?

So much for Rick having taken the high road.

wow, a cold hearted bastard, payback is thick. i wonder where Jeff got this behavior in the first place. being jealous of other’s success is teh American Way!

let’s hear it for unsympathetic dads. but, but, but this is supposed to be a nice guy!! a Democratic/left of center male.

my illusions, my sense of entitlement against teh Republican way/stab, cheat,lie, and take from those you can.

what a way to start the day! all my hopes and dreams about the Liberal Establishment thrown out the window.

Doonesbury’s “liberal” dad turns out to be a Conservative!!do away with me now, so i don’t have to face teh reality of no PONIES!!!!

Rick was career-obsessed for years, and was shown in the strip as neglecting his cute kid. That’s the real bitch payback part — Rick’s still paying for that one. Jeff’s money woes don’t compare.

And yes, REPO MAN was brilliant. My heart leaps up and falls again each time I see the TV listing for “Repo Men” on what was once an educational channel.

We can debate whether Rick’s mirth is justified, in character or whatever.

But the real discussion is on the inherent merit of “Repo Man.” Fun, twisted plot. Lots of hidden sight jokes. Great quotes from great actors playing memorable roles:

“The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”“I don’t want no commies in my car. No Christians either.” “It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.”

So many more that cannot be posted in a PG forum!

Though I’ve often find it amusing, it’s been awhile since I’ve actually chuckled outloud at a Doonesbury offering. I did today.

Let’s see, what bank would send a pair of repo goombahs without any warning?

ALL OF THEM!

To protect their investment, of course. Otherwise, all the repo man would hear would be, “Car? WHAT car?”

They wouldn’t care whether the goombahs were fired upon or not.

“Just get the car, Vinny. Oh, and don’t bleed on the expensive leather seats.”

“… the Lilac bush at Walden grows the best weed in New England, … College students party with Peyote and …It HAS to be true, because Zonker… told him …!”

And it’s my job to figure out whatever it is you’re smokin’?

Dad won’t be laughing when son moves back in with him.

I have no sympathy for Jeff but I have always thought repo men should be illegal. Disgusting & barbaric.

Schadenfreude is best served cold, with a nice chilled riesling to wash it down, followed by Kahlua and apple strudel topped with caramel chocolate chip ice cream. The next morning’s bitter aftertaste calls for bloody marys, vitamin C and Pepto-Bismol.

“How about the Internal Revenue Service?”

Silly me; I thought it was the Infernal Revenue Service.

What did I miss? Why is everything being repossessed? – RGB

Even I think “Glee” is too flamboyant

“BENGHAZI!COVER-UP!”

Naah, let’s not.

“… just buy another one!”

He will if you just give him the money.

““Every question is premised on at least one assumption.”Unless it isn’t.”

Love a touché.

Ya know what’s funny? New poster (apparently) HardyHaHa taking on DT pi. Now THAT’s funny!!

@rgbourj

Having received a generous advance from his publisher, Jeff “bought” (with borrowed money) a mansion and a Porsche that he now can’t pay for because his book isn’t actually selling.

All that’s needed now is for someone to offer Jeff a movie deal.

Try to contain yourself Dad!!

Why do all these Alex/Jeff people keep forgetting that Jeff is Alex’s Uncle?

I guess it’s God’s will.

Let’s face it — Rick and Joanie have raised a self-centered moron.