Sunday, 8 September 2024
The one where it's good that Elly reminds us that she's living in the past.
Synopsis: An angry Liz is forced to write her name on her school supplies like she's the pathetic idiot with her ID tag sewed into her panties because Elly believes in school supply thieves.
Summary: This is because she won't spend John's money buying school supplies in ( Read more... )
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Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2024:
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Oh Lynn.....you've been in your fantasy capsule so long that you no longer understand what wear and tear is.
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It's not just that Elly thhinks inflation shouldn't affect the prices of things that she doesn't buy. Almost all comic strip parents created by boomers think that. What's wrong is that she also doesn't understand how much more homework the kids are given.
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This is actually camera in my house time for me. My father has been perpetually shocked at the increased cost of things my entire life. There have been many moments where he would hand me money while saying, "Go and buy one of those. This should be enough money." Then I go to buy that thing and it cost 3 times what he gave me. I tell him this and he is shocked and says something like, "The last time I bought one, it only cost this amount of money." Then I find out the last time he bought one was 20 years ago.
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Also, buying back to school clothes is something Elly doesn't look forward to either:
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"Which reminds me, mom...." unless Michael had been planning a conversation with his mother about her wardrobe, this is nonsensical. "By the way, mom, how come you don't buy new clothes" makes much more sense. But again, Lynn does not know how people talk because she never listens to people talk.
And the correct answer is "because I'm a martyr pretending to be less of a burden than I obviously am." It's certainly not because she is interested in saving money for the family's sake. The Pattersons have plenty of money for whatever they want. But Elly lives in the shadow of her decaying beauty and fears replacement, so she desperately tries to make herself out to be the person who is holding the family's finances together. She'll do anything to accomplish this except get an actual job.
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The new one might do something wacky like tell Mike to keep his mitts off a girl half his size.
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Real human: "I spent almost $600." Elly: "That comes to $589.76!"*
Real human: "How could so few clothes cost so much?" Elly: "How could a few articles of clothing cost so much?" Nobody says "articles of clothing," let alone THINK those words.
Real human: "Can we get something?" Liz: "Since we're downtown, could you buy us something?"
And yes- Elly wants to moan about the cost of things that she will not get to enjoy, she will lecture her kids on the importance of saving money, but she won't be caught DEAD in a second-hand shop because she might be seen by other people (who are also at the second-hand shop but, because they are not Elly Patterson, almost certainly have slack jaws and jagged teeth.)
*"WE got (not "I bought them") a LOT of clothes." I don't see "a few articles of clothing" in this list. I see an entire wardrobe. Elly will call the amount they bought "a few articles" when she complains about the price, but a ton of clothes when she's carrying them.
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Stupid strip speaks for itself.
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