Originally published 28 January, 1956, the first line seems very pleasant and typical… Then the second line creeps up behind you.
Once again, we have Thing watching over the family, they are up on the balcony.
Interesting or coincidence that they used the name Weems in this strip and in the Wednesday series as the name of the Principal.
I have barely watched Wednesday, so I missed that detail. I highly doubt it is a coincidence.
Isn’t that Uncle Fester on the blackony?
No.
Once again, we have Thing watching over the family, they are up on the balcony.
I need a diagram, all I see is Kilroy
That is Thing.
Isn’t Thing the hand?
Since they didn’t offer more information, and you genuinely asked a valid question I’ll bite…
In the OG strip, Thing was a full body character that Iived in the walls. The hands version of “Thing” was developed for the TV show.
Oooh! Now the whole “keep your back to the wall” has a great double meaning
Yep, but your Kilroy joke is spot on. Lol
Not in the strips, there is a lot more info in this post, and this post sadly because slrpnk is down, the images may not be available. But there is discussion about Thing throughout the comments.
Both posts are of the same images in two different communities with two different discussions. I will try and figure out which images I posted and upload them again.
lel Pugsley is just starting to plan mischief.
Lel? Laugh Extra Loud?
I would assume it treats lol as a word, not an acronym, and then applies a vowel shift to the o for an accent, then writes it with an eye-dialect.
Etymology: lol, with the o replaced by an e.
Lel
Used instead of lol; when you’re too dank for lol
Is that Thing before it lost the rest of its body? Because I see eyes and a nose.
EDIT: Huh. TIL. Well, I suppose Thing the hand could be left over from the full-body version in the strip after an accident, or… not an accident. Climbing around in the walls would be much easier if one were just a hand. “Oh, the places I’ll go, and the things I’ll see!”
In the strips Thing always had a head and body shown except for one strip where they are inside a record player.
There is a lot more info in this post, and this post sadly because slrpnk is down, the images may not be available. But there is discussion about Thing throughout the comments.
Both posts are of the same images in two different communities with two different discussions. I will try and figure out which images I posted and upload them again.
