Comments on: TOM THE DANCING BUG: What Strange and Disorienting Alternative Universe Has Louis Entered?

By: thermoplasticity

thermoplasticity — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:28:00 +0000

Heinz FTW- no comparison.

Also, Hellman’s/Best Foods mayo FTW- Miracle Whip can suck it.

By: benher

benher — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:44:00 +0000

You know what freaked me out? Going to someone’s house and they DIDN’T say grace and I thought “Oh no.” But also, “How nice that you don’t have to do that shit!”… and so the seeds of doubt were planted along with the HuntZ ketchup and I found my path to secular humanism.

By: benher

benher — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:42:00 +0000

We were always a Heinz family. Torches and pitchforks at dawn?

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Simply Heinz is HFCS-free and available in most supermarkets.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:19:00 +0000

Depends on which kind you get and where you are. Heinz in Canada lists liquid sugar rather than glucose-fructose (which is what high fructose corn syrup gets listed as here). Apparently Heinz Organic sold in the US is bottled in the same place and uses the same stuff. Though I’d guess it doesn’t use as much sugar as the stuff sold in Canada because Canadians like sweeter ketchup for some reason.

By: lazarus845

lazarus845 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:03:00 +0000

Disagree completely. Hunts is the only ketchup without HFCS.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:12:00 +0000

Pretty sure part of the joke is that a lot of people will have no idea what the dad is saying! I didn’t but I did surmise it was a baseball reference after reading it a couple times.

The concept here is that your friend’s house is an alien place (I certainly experienced that every time I went to a friend’s house as a kid) and your friend’s parents talk about weird things you don’t understand.

Also, see The IT Crowd – “did you see that ludicrous display last night?”

By: cycle23

cycle23 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:16:00 +0000

365 or TJs would have been too derisive.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:31:00 +0000

Hunts ketchup on the table is like screaming to the world that you don’t really like ketchup, but have to serve *something* when there are guests.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:22:00 +0000

Other People’s Houses….where they do bizarre things like say grace at the dinner table. Freaked me the fuck out.

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Is K.

By: absimiliard

absimiliard — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:35:00 +0000

It didn’t initially. (love the song though) But then I read daneyul’s reply and went “OMG, I GET IT!”

-abs is feeling more than a little dim at the moment, but he’s still not entirely sure it’s funny (to him, senses of humor are so very personal)

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:34:00 +0000

Sometimes it was fun but, yeah, what you (daneyul) said. This wasn’t an lol strip but it sure took me back.
Big sister!

By: absimiliard

absimiliard — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Oooooh . . .. . wait .. . . .

It’s about how things at your friend’s house are different (slightly) from things at your house?

-abs feels like the sun has just risen over Marblehead

By: daneyul

daneyul — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:07:00 +0000

I hated sleeping over–weird smells, weird foods, strange customs. Sometimes they even went to some place called “church” in the morning!
(Kids loved my house though–laid back and easy going. And Heinz!)

By: franko

franko — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:46:00 +0000

i’m glad i’m not the only one thrown by that line.

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:38:00 +0000

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:01:00 +0000

“That air mattress has a slow leak…”

NOOOOOOOO! ;-P

By: Carpeteria

Carpeteria — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:55:00 +0000

You should search out more of the “Louis” themed strips. They’re all along this style.

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:51:00 +0000

You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful home
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful mom

Does that help?

By: Avram Grumer

Avram Grumer — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:50:00 +0000

If you let it thaw, it loses its crunch!

By: absimiliard

absimiliard — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:37:00 +0000

Wow, I totally don’t get anything in this strip. Is there anything that’s different from reality? (I like Hunt’s)

-abs doesn’t “get” Zippy either FWIW

By: shutz

shutz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:35:00 +0000

Why? Do you eat your canned corn frozen, instead of eating it as a side-dish? If true, then I think you’re the weird one (and you’re probably from a parallel universe. GET HIM!)

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:32:00 +0000

This is the first time I’ve seen him without his snark on. It’s nice.

By: Andy Simmons

Andy Simmons — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Thank you for the explanation, sportsball fan. I must have read that sentence ten times over before I gave up and moved on, hoping it wasn’t critical to the punchline.

It was not.

By: asterios9

asterios9 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:13:00 +0000

Oh my God, the mind-warping power of the big sister cannot be overestimated. Instant flashback.

By: joeposts

joeposts — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:08:00 +0000

The horror at finding out they eat canned corn as a side dish instead of frozen. Blech!

By: Teller

Teller — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:53:00 +0000

Mr Bolling reveals an estimable funny side.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:47:00 +0000

It means that Ruben is a baseball fan*, and such little things are a delight to us fellow baseball fans.

*I only say this now after realizing that this is at least the second subtle baseball reference he’s worked into a TTDB.

By: noah

noah — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:46:00 +0000

It’s a baseball thing. Robinson Canò plays second base for the Yankees. A productive out is when a batter hits a fly or ground ball that results in the batter getting out while allowing a runner to advance.