In an atypical show of mercy for those who require everything be literal, Teresa one day included both frogs and applause in Frog Applause.For obvious reasons, I have avoided Gasoline Alley ever since.
Down by the dam there was a pond, part of the county fish hatchery program, with a path along a levee that separated the pond from the Bark River. As you walked up the path, leopard frogs would burst from the bank to land in the pond, creating a wave of applause that would proceed before you as hundreds of tiny green bodies slapped the still water’s surface.
Ever alert for hidden Frog Applause meaning in an Age of Meaninglessness and existential angst, influenced in my own unpublished (but of course; it’s crappy) work for the stage by inter alios Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Paul Claudel, I detect in this froggy scene of riotous applause a great hidden allegory of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly earthy Delights, in which Teresa satirizes and savages the vain hedonism of unreflective unidirectional lameness! And that’s just the first sentence!
Bill Thompson almost 8 years ago
And the crowd goes wild! Until dinner time and they meet Chef Pierre. Then the crowd goes lame.
Randy B Premium Member almost 8 years ago
YAY!!!
Randy B Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I don’t think that kind of frog can bring its forefeet together for traditional applause. They have to thump something with a foot, or call out.
Superfrog almost 8 years ago
I’m only here for the applause.
Mad-ge Dish Soap almost 8 years ago
Really big shoe. Marvelous, marvelous.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 8 years ago
It’s a Frog Standing Ovation !!!
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 8 years ago
In an atypical show of mercy for those who require everything be literal, Teresa one day included both frogs and applause in Frog Applause.For obvious reasons, I have avoided Gasoline Alley ever since.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Down by the dam there was a pond, part of the county fish hatchery program, with a path along a levee that separated the pond from the Bark River. As you walked up the path, leopard frogs would burst from the bank to land in the pond, creating a wave of applause that would proceed before you as hundreds of tiny green bodies slapped the still water’s surface.
INGSOC almost 8 years ago
They’re in for a treat, eventually they are to become the guest of honor on a serving plate..
SumoSasquatch (aka a boy named Su) almost 8 years ago
Finally, something that my walnut brain can comprehend. A good rest for tomorrow’s probable head-knocker.
Rotifer NOT GETTING RUBEN BOLLING’S PIN Thalweg Premium Member almost 8 years ago
And here all along we thought Teresa didn’t do requests.
coltish1 almost 8 years ago
And the knot goes wild!
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
Ever alert for hidden Frog Applause meaning in an Age of Meaninglessness and existential angst, influenced in my own unpublished (but of course; it’s crappy) work for the stage by inter alios Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Paul Claudel, I detect in this froggy scene of riotous applause a great hidden allegory of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly earthy Delights, in which Teresa satirizes and savages the vain hedonism of unreflective unidirectional lameness! And that’s just the first sentence!
Radish the wordsmith almost 8 years ago
“Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy”.
wilburgarrod almost 8 years ago
If I had thumbs I’d be applauding
Larry Miller Premium Member almost 8 years ago
The comic and the comments are absolutely ribbiting!
William Neal McPheeters almost 8 years ago
Do frog legs suffer from charlie-horses.
ransomknotts almost 8 years ago
I. AM. OFFENDED. After more than a decade, Teresa assumes we’re too dense to remember the name of her strip. Applause Frog, right?
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 8 years ago
!@ransomknottsFrog Applesauce.
Mad-ge Dish Soap almost 8 years ago
This egg tastes like frog legs.
ransomknotts almost 8 years ago
Sorry if my grammar (above) was garbled. The dog wanted to go outside, and I rushed without editing.