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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Agent54 said, 4 months ago
I see Toby is trying for the lead part in play or movie Idiocracy . And so begins the downfall.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 4 months ago
Yes. He could look it up on Google, but without the teacher he wouldn´t know what to look up ;)
John Bollinger
said, 4 months ago
Somebody had to teach people how to make computers. And program software.
icky mudd said, 4 months ago
Say NO to google. Use duckduckgo dot com(SSL).
david_42 said, 4 months ago
@John Bollinger
Yes, but Toby ain’t headed for anything but the other side of a fast-food counter.
Jeffrey Kaplan said, 4 months ago
I see Toby’s going to the same school as Charlie Brown.
whmIII said, 4 months ago
Not much in the way of initiative…
Comic Minister said, 4 months ago
Like that will happen Toby.
bob fernandez said, 4 months ago
Toby repeat after me:
“Would you like fries with that hamburger?”
That will be your mantra, if you don’t get a good education.
Number Three said, 4 months ago
Is that Binary Code?
xxx
Allan said, 4 months ago
Three nights of detention, Mr. Bucket!
Hunter7 said, 4 months ago
Sure… you could Goggle the answer… but you still need to be aware of what the correct answer should be….. and ……
…… no electronic devices except the basic calculator during exams.
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a lot more schools are heading towards iPads in class (and e-readers). The best thing about such is being able to carry your entire semester’s worth of text books on one small tablet.
No more broken backs. And apparently cheaper because you can get updates!
pschearer
said, 4 months ago
There are some pundits predicting that the Internet will burst the college tuition bubble and put most colleges and universities out of business except the most prestigious and the most vocational.
Davepostmp said, 4 months ago
I wish the Internet could teach people to spell…
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@bob fernandez
These days in the hidden Depression, you do well in school even college and you still could be getting fries with that.