From the 1950s to the 2010s you could pump out sitcoms like this for a living. At least this particular comic makes it so blunt as to highlight the absurdity, and subverts the expectation a bit by having the stupid dad express some real human emotion.
If we ignore the wife being a cunt, I wouldnt let my dad try to fix a toaster. Things that run on Transformers with lower voltage is free game but anything with parts that runs directly on main power is going in the trash* or a proper repairman.
21 Comments
CluckN@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 2y
imagine in the 1930’s you could pump comics out like this for a living.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 2y
From the 1950s to the 2010s you could pump out sitcoms like this for a living. At least this particular comic makes it so blunt as to highlight the absurdity, and subverts the expectation a bit by having the stupid dad express some real human emotion.
sundray@lemmus.org · 26 pts · 2y
I feel like a 30's dad wouldn't cry so much as repress his emotions and drink though.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y
Don't forget beating the wife and son! The "golden years" as it were.
ech@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
1930s? That was like peak "Man of the House" era. The dumb dad trope wasn't a thing til later in the 1900s.
5in1k@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I read the 100 years ago today sub, 100%. Though it needs more tophat.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 2y
Oh :(
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
:'(
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2y
To be clear folks, this is an anti joke. Dissecting it is a waste of Fediverse storage space.
wallmenis@lemmy.one · 34 pts · 2y
I'm dad...
sundray@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 2y
Same :'(
gibmiser@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Ha... ha. :(
Fisk400@feddit.nu · 19 pts · 2y
If we ignore the wife being a cunt, I wouldnt let my dad try to fix a toaster. Things that run on Transformers with lower voltage is free game but anything with parts that runs directly on main power is going in the trash* or a proper repairman.
*by trash I mean recycling station.
Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I'd be more concerned about ripping into anything with a capacitor. Microwaves are absolutely off-limits if you don't know what you're doing.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y
I can hear the laugh track from here
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Taking things full circle, in this one wife = bad
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
Damn, that one hit home way too close.
grue@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y
Dad's stupid what?
sundray@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 2y
Dad's contraction of the words "dad" and "is" :)
lordmauve@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Indeed it's.
sundray@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 2y
Barely related, but I wish the English-speaking world would bring back 'tis and 'twas.