kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Kevin Scott%Kuntz) (12/07/85)
>From: nick@sjuvax.UUCP (N. Straguzzi) >In article <800@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes: >> >> I've noticed that a recent development in net.tv is references >>to meta-humor that appears in the show "Moonlighting". Some of my >>favorite meta-humor is that which appears in comic strips, when the >>artists get up the courage to take a risk with some unconventional >>humor. An example is an old Peanuts strip that I came across in one of >>the compilation books, in which Charlie Brown and Lucy are discussing >>(or rather, Lucy is holding forth about) what Lucy's eyes resemble. In >>the last panel, Charlie Brown manages to sneak a word in edgewise, and >>says, completely deadpan: "They remind ME [my emphasis] of two dots of >>india ink." > > >In another one I remember, Schroeder is sitting at his piano listening >carefully to one key over and over. Then, he runs excitedly to Charlie Brown >and says "Hey Charlie Brown, I think I have perfect pitch!" To which CB >responds, "You mean *A* perfect pitch. That's great, but baseball season is >over and besides, you're the catcher" (or something to that effect). A >disgusted Schroeder walks away saying "Sometimes I think I ought to put in >>for a transfer to a new comic strip". > >Johnny Hart has, on at least one occassion, written a B.C. strip where the >little king from the Wizard Of Id (which he co-writes with Brant Parker) >strolls through. In another strip, B.C. asks the wise man on the mountain >"Why are we all here". Response: "To provide sustenance for Hart". There >are a lot of other examples of this type of humor in B.C. >> >But the best of the meta-humor awards has to go to Berke Breathed's Bloom >County. In one strip, Yaz Pistachio is bemoaning her parents' choice of >more totally gross than Yaz Pistachio". Opus thinks for a while and responds, >"Berkeley Breathed". "OK, name two". > -- two to the power of five thousand against and falling ...