Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
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Stew Full said, 7 months ago
The reality shows are getting a little to staged if you ask me
david_42 said, 7 months ago
Like anyone on or watching TV knows what he’s talking about anyway.
Allan said, 7 months ago
I remember the good ol’ days when there were only 20 TV channels, and you had to use a knob to change them!
I remember when VHS was only a few years old, and had just won the battle with BETAMAX.
I remember it. I do I do.
Number Three said, 7 months ago
‘Towing Away’ ?
LOL xxx
Comic Minister said, 7 months ago
Sorry to hear that Frank.
Neo Blakkrstal said, 7 months ago
@Stew Full
Just a little??
Greg Cravens
said, 7 months ago
It’s pretty obvious that a lot of the towing shows (WHY the $%#@ is there more than one towing show?) are heavily loaded with, if not scripts or actors, very staged situations and ’ professionally suggested comments’ made by the ‘personalities’ on the shows.
Hunter7 said, 7 months ago
oh you young whippersnappers! I remember…….. (not that old, just was that young back then) Besides, buying a TV, even a 2nd hand TV was a big deal in the early sixties. We had 3 channels. And when the skies were clear, the air crisp and with a light breeze blowing in the right direction, we had 4 channels.
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@Greg Cravens (spelt your name right!) I caught my parents watching “Parking Wars” this past long weekend. Horrors!