That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 28, 2019

“And scene! Ok, strike the set. The extras get donuts and coffee.”

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Happy Thanksgiving to the readers in the U.S.

It was all fun and games until someone started talking politics.

A beautiful ‘50’s dry grey overcooked sheen there, gran! Just how we like it!

Norman Rockwell: First painted photobomb!

Life before cellphones. Note the ancient custom of people actually looking at each other. It’s eerie.

The first serving goes to the one who can keep their spoon on their nose the longest!

That’s pretty big for a turkey.

By-the-way, where’s Rover?

according to wikipedia, “an example of mastery of the challenges of white-on-white painting”…

yes, quite white…

here’s a more up to date, real world version…

https://tenor.com/view/happy-thanksgiving-carving-turkey-the-simpsons-homer-simpson-turkey-gif-11412147

Thanksgiving for freedom from want — hurry up Grams, the store sales start in an hour.

What’s everyone looking at? Certainly not the turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving.

And thankful no one saw the mess she made when she caught the turkey and cut its head off.

My mother did that

Why are all those people smiling? Uncle Fred’s not there, and the rest have made a vow not to talk about politics during Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! to all my friends celebrating the holiday.

“Hurry up. The game is about to start. “

My version of famous save from “Joy of Cooking” Woman brings the turkey into the dining room with Thanksgiving crowd around the table and promptly drops it on the floor. She scoops it back onto the platter and says, “Just a minute, I’ll be right back with the other turkey”.

What is that? A family of heads. They should invite Travis.

Slippery little buggers.

There is a Russian joke to that effect (unfortunately, the idioms don’t translate):

The waiter is bringing the chicken out to the diners when he drops it. He quickly puts it back on the serving tray, and checks to see if anybody saw – nobody did.

So he continues on. When he brings it to the table, one of the the diners asks “is the chicken fresh?”

“Oh, yes,” he replies, “It was just running”

Don’t worry. Just before she dropped it, the dog licked the kitchen floor clean.

5 second rule…

I hate to break it to everyone who is so happy that the painting is not political, but it is political. It is called “Freedom from Want” and is one of Rockwell”s four paintings celebrating Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms“ speech. It was part of the propaganda supporting the war effort—a deeply political matter.

Freedom from Want or The Thanksgiving Picture or I’ll Be Home for Christmas: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_Rockwell_-_Freedom_of_Want.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this 1943 painting. The Summary’s upper-right embedded image points to the strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rockwell_norman.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=3863 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/888/norman-rockwell 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/norman-rockwell/ 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/15 

https://www.nrm.org/about/about-2/about-norman-rockwell/ 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/norman-rockwell.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2339 (November 27, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Sure smile now. Go ahead, laugh it up. It’s all good until they find out it’s really a tofurky.

Nobody eats the skin, anyway.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’m glad my grandmother used to carve the turkey in the kitchen. One year she dropped her “falsie” into it. Until then, I didn’t think she could laugh, but the ladies were shrieking with laughter. :)

Norman wanted to have perfect dinner, so he painted it, cause his family was shity.

Steve sent me a note that he’s taking tomorrow off (next strip will be Monday).

Dang ! Happy Thanksgiving to ALL !

Leftovers AGAIN?

It’s the day after Thanksgiving so it’s now ok to tell the story behind the painting:

1- Grandma and Grandpa can no longer afford the meds they need to live.

2- Teenage boy has decided to experiment with opioids.

3- Attractive married woman is having multiple affairs.

4- Guy in the lower right corner is secretly gay but has worked up the courage to come out today to his disapproving strict bible interpretation family.

5- Turkey is loaded with antibiotics and full of insecticide from its feed and was raised in a 1 foot square pen.

“Hey, cool!—I thought we couldn’t afford a turkey this year. Can I give a piece to Sparky? Say, has anyone seen Sparky in the last few hours?”

2 or 3 men in this picture, and none helped grandma lift this 40 pound turkey !!