One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for September 18, 2022

I think I’d better steer clear of Ted Minnow!

Ruthie’s remake sounds fun.

Squeeee!

Me too.

I thought that the opening line of the MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW theme was “Who can turn the world down with a smile?” Which I think is better!

Another song I’ve misheard was ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down”:

Actual version:

You keep on talking about your crazy nights

One of these days you’re gonna get it right

Version I heard:

You keep on talking about your crazy life

One of these day’s you’re gonna get a knife!

Here’s the funny thing about Gilligan’s Island. I’m European. My country didn’t get Gilligan’s Island when it first aired. In fact, I don’t think it’s ever been shown here.

My point is, all I know about the show, I learned from pop culture references in other shows, comics and so on. That happens a lot here. Very few of us have ever seen a single episode of I Love Lucy or The Honeymooners. There’s so much American stuff we hear about on TV and in books, but never actually experience for ourselves…

Best song reboot in a comic strip since Walt “Pogo” Kelly’s “Deck Us All With Boston Charlie”

Time to dial back on the Concerta…..

You are too much Ruthie…….and I love ya! ROTF!!!

… with Gilliland, the skipper’s tooth, the thrilling bear and his knife, the moving car, the pro fencer and Carrie Jan … here on Gilliland’s pile.

I love when she does these, Rollin B McRiver was the best

I wonder if DeTorie ever saw “Operation: Petticoat,” which starred the late Richard Gilliland?

epic

Haven’t we all mistaken words of songs? Like Bohemian Rhapsody and pork sausagees!

As we read this of course we were all singing it in our mind. Great lyrics.

Does anyone know why these are blurry? Or are my eyes getting worse. LoL Thought Sunday’s would be ok

Wonder if the whole neighborhood heard Ruthie?

What did poor Ted Minnow to face such slander?

The Gilligan’s Island theme, like many other songs and poems, uses common meter or ballad meter. That means that you can swap the tunes around between them.

Mishearing lyrics is called a Mondegreen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen