Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 09, 2010
July 02, 2010
July 16, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling totally rad, louis! Disney Channel Boy: Hey, Louis, did you finish that homework last night? new episode Louis: Not unless our homework was to watch four hours of TV! ha ha HA ha HA HA HA ha ha Ha Boy: Uh...Well, you'd better do it in fourth period Study Hall. Louis: Study Hall is neither a "hall", nor does anyone "study" in it. Discuss. Boy: Huh? ha ha HA ha HA HA Girl: Louis, Mr. Macy said he wants the clarinets at rehearsal early. Louis: Then WE'D better go, too. ha HA HA HA ha ha Louis: Hotchy-Mama! I'd love to date HER! Boy: "Date" her?! Louis, why are you acting so weird? Boy: Making weird expressions and telling corny jokes... Louis: Speaking of CORNBALLS, here comes Mr. Ratner! HA HA HA Louis: Yo, Mr. Ratner! Someone said you smelled, but I defended you! Louis: I said, "Like CRAP he does!" HA AH ha Louis: I just thought things should be more like T.V. Boy: Oh, leave me out of your show!
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SameAsOldFfred almost 14 years ago
What is it about sitcoms that makes them so unwatchable, and yet why do we watch them anyway? What is it about our lives that makes them so unlivable, and yet why do we live them anyway? RB certainly has a tap into existential angst.
Dancing_Bug-Eyed_Plutonian almost 14 years ago
@SameAsOldFfred: If totally rad, louis! became a real sitcom, it would actually be watchable compared to what’s out there.
I admit I had trouble getting the clarinets joke, though.
Nice touch with Ratner’s elbow pads.
Tommy1733 almost 14 years ago
@SameAsOldFfred - maybe it is just a habit. Try giving up TV - I don’t miss it one bit. I watch DVDs and public TV and rarely watch anything stupid.
Nice comic, too. I love Louis’ cool gestures. He is rad after all.
SameAsOldFfred almost 14 years ago
@Tommy1733: actually I don’t watch TV. I was just being facetious.
Ashrey almost 14 years ago
I don’t watch sitcoms. They’re not funny to me. Now The Gates is good.
They don’t say ‘crap’ on Disney Channel… do they?
Tommy1733 almost 14 years ago
@SameAsOldFfred - Glad to hear it, and I hope I did not sound any more sanctimonious than I am. Isn’t it great that Tom The Dancing Bug exists?
fenneuter over 13 years ago
I’ll take a stab at that clarinets joke: When he says “WE’D better go too, maybe he was trying to stretch it into “reed” territory? Thus a pun, in a Barbara-Walters lisp.
DerkinsVanPelt218 about 13 years ago
And that’s why I think that the R-rated comedies like Dazed and Confused and Superbad can tell high school more realistically. One problem is that most “family” high school media sanitize everything, don’t make characters that aren’t stock, and don’t even cover half the cliques and social groups that exist in most high schools now.