Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 21, 2013

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    But if they break the wall, don’t they cease to exist? I mean, if the wall is broken, doesn’t all their improbabilty leak out?

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    artybee  over 10 years ago

    If THEY break it, then that means YOU can come inside!

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    Sherlock Watson  over 10 years ago

    Would Lucy be interested in meeting Zebra Neighbor? He could really use a girlfriend.

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    Superfrog  over 10 years ago

    Well, I’m sure that the characters are real. I can see them right there on my screen but I’m pretty sure that there’s no such person as Superfrog .. and some of these other names seem a bit dubious…. so.. OH MY GOODNESS.. I just recognized that we’re a fictional audience!! .. probably.

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    Linguist  over 10 years ago

    We are all fig newtons of the artist’s imagination.

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    firedome  over 10 years ago

    ishy versus captain eddie?

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    Varnes  over 10 years ago

    Baslim the begger, Oh, how I really would love to see one of Wiley’s bears eat Rat….Dreaming is free, eh?

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 10 years ago

    You’re pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules. They’re more like guidelines anyway.

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    GROG Premium Member over 10 years ago

    If you break it, you bought it.

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    rockngolfer  over 10 years ago

    Arlo and Janis’ Jimmy Johnson does it too.

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    scarbro  over 10 years ago

    Albert the alligator in Pogo used to light his cigars by striking a match on the 4th wall….first time I noticed the wall between us and them, as a kid, a while back.

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    jreckard  over 10 years ago

    The fourth estate doesn’t know there’s a fourth wall.

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 10 years ago

    I notice that’s not been happening much in animatedcartoons lately since the Cartoon Network series Chowder (2007-2010). Probably the best (and only) TV series that broke the fourth wall (quite often) was Moonlighting (1985-89). Is are there any others that has been doing that since then?

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    emjaycee  over 10 years ago

    Love Rat with the dynamite and plunger.

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    cripplious  over 10 years ago

    About the fourth wall one word in its defense. DEADPOOL!!!!!

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    gjsjr41  over 10 years ago

    Looks like they found that giant turkey that one guy was looking for a while back.

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    sheridan1952  over 10 years ago

    Harvey Korman talked to the camera in Blazing Saddles

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    Dr.silly  over 10 years ago

    @unicornstar-

    What did those two win that Wiley would be jealous of? Is there some sort award for comic strips like the Oscars and Emmys?

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    dabugger  over 10 years ago

    , and there are so many of them…..

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    dabugger  over 10 years ago

    , and there are so many of them…..

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    ChessPirate  over 10 years ago

    You took the red pill, didn’t you?

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    Albert Sims Premium Member over 10 years ago

    George Burns broke the fourth wall in the early 1950’s on “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”.

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    Caddy57  over 10 years ago

    Maybe we are fictional and THEY are real!……Sorry that was uncalled for I know…..now I will go back to my corner and be quiet!

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    rmbdot  over 10 years ago

    I don’t watch as much TV as I used to, don’t know current examples of breaking 4th wall.One of my personal favorites from the past was an episode of Northern Exposure where one of the regulars and the guest star are about to have a duel to the death – pistols at 20 paces. They’re just about to start when everyone else breaks character. One actor says “We can’t have this scene. We can’t kill off a regular and it wouldn’t work going forward to have him be a killer!” Everybody goes “Yeah!” and looks around at each other, kind’a lost “What do we do now?” One of the actresses says “Let’s just skip to Scene 42, I liked that one in read-through” So – the next thing we see is all of them back in the bar (scene 42 being toward the tag end of the episode) back in character like nothing happened.

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    jahoody  over 10 years ago

    @Linguist…..that’s the best one of the bunch today!!!

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    sheridan1952  over 10 years ago

    I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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    mistercatworks  over 10 years ago

    George Burns even broke a fifth wall. He commented on the show while watching the living room on a TV set in kitchen.

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    Varnes  over 10 years ago

    I’ve seen Frazz wipe the fourth wall with his squeegee…

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 10 years ago

    You mean I’m not real?

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    pcolli  over 10 years ago

    Another of my comments has disappeared….won’t bother repeating it, as it was a bit metaphysical.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 10 years ago

    All MATTER is an illusion.Energy is quite real!

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    Linguist  over 10 years ago

    Shakespeare and many other great dramatist, successfully employ breaking the Fourth Wall in the asides to the audience. When done properly, not only does the audience willingly suspend their disbelief but feel that they are being brought into the action.

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    alviebird  over 10 years ago

    Smokey and the Bandit, when Bandit looks at the camera and smiles before driving off.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbEoZLGt-4g

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    punslinger  over 10 years ago

    That’s very good!

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    DFront Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Not cool, Wiley.Creativity has no rules.

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    archangel2244 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Hey I like those guys.

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    jnik23260  over 10 years ago

    I’d like to see one of Wiley’s bears eat Lio!

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    Breaking the Fourth Wall is like placing dynamite – it’s one of those things that should only be left to qualified professionals. Groucho Marx was one of the greatest ad libbers ever on TV or film, and he was a master of breaking the Fourth Wall.In the film “Horse Feathers,” as Chico is about to begin playing the piano, Groucho stands up and tells the audience, “I have to stay here, but” and urges the audience to go into the lobby until it’s over. In another film, he broke the Foruth Wall, addressing the audience with dialogue inspired by the play S"trange Interlude" – in which the characters addressed the audience. When Margaret Dumont, (Groucho’s best straight man) asked him what he was doing, Groucho apologized and said he was just having a strange interlude.

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    jnik23260  over 10 years ago

    Come to think of it, Wiley, how about a “Danae and Lio” crossover by Halloween? Of course it should include the “Gravesites”.

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    EDinWAState  over 10 years ago

    Verisimilitude… dude !

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    Darkeness1d  over 10 years ago

    Can i marry you? That is Sinfest.

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    @Wiley and Number Six: bravo!!!

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    rmbdot  over 10 years ago

    The “wall” in this case being the boundary between characters and their worlds, it reminds me of a short graphic novel someone wrote a few years ago. Holmes & Watson visited by Dr. Jekyl, cross through some other author’s London (Dickens, maybe?), look for Mr Hyde, end up in the Rue Morgue – all because they were in books stacked up beside each other on someone’s shelf.

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    lin4869  over 10 years ago

    Love it! snerk

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Having too much fun at comic con are we?

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    Caddy57  over 10 years ago

    Ummmm did anyone else notice that were turkey from a few days ago is back? and danae didn’t even freak out!

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    Corey Cohen  over 10 years ago

    Yay!!

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    primalcoach  about 10 years ago

    Anyone notice they’re riding Moby Tom?

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