Continuing with last week's theme of putting the child of woe to bed, here we have Gomez doing This Little Piggy on Wednesday's toes, as Morticia looks on while learning on the wall just inside the doorway.
"This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none, this ltle piggy went wee wee wee all the way home, and this little piggy...
For anyone familiar with the show, there is octopus art on the foot of Wednesday's bed, Pugsley had a pet octopus.
As an aside, does anyone know what the font used in the caption is called?
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16 Comments
cerement@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 36d
Matrix by Emigre – definitely not the original font, Matrix wasn’t created until 1986
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 6 pts · 35d
Yup. Specifically, the Matrix II Tall OT Reg font: note the below-the-baseline ┰.
addie@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 35d
And that very unusual lowercase 'g'. https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Matrix-II lets you compare them all.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 35d
I think the OT variants are missing there. The closest, Tall Regular, is not quite the same, the T is prolonged rather than moved. I found Tall OT Reg at https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/matrix-ii#details-section%20matrix-ii-ext-ot-narrow
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 35d
Here is the strip from the book Addams Family Album published in 1947.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 35d
This book was published in 2010, not surprising they used a modern font.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 36d
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 35d
I'm not familiar with TLP as a children's goodnight tale, I think the Czech version uses peas rather than pigs. What's funny about this variant? Or just the juxtaposition of this being the well-known (not back then) horror family?
addie@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 35d
Joke is, that he's counted six toes on her foot. Normally TLP stops at the one that went home.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 35d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Little_Piggy
The joke here is that Gonez keeps going, suggesting that Wednesday is polydactyl.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 35d
I completely missed that, thanks for the clarification!
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 35d
Thank you for reminding me of The Addams family. There's a lot of gold in there for editing.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 35d
Is the wall art a reference to some deep lore, or just random weirdness?
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 35d
looks like Mark Gruffalo
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 35d
The creature on the left appears at least similar to the creature toy near the bed. I believe the humanoid is seen in other art elsewhere, but I will not swear to that.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 34d
These comments have been unusually educating for a simple comic strip.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 35d
How far would this game have went if the text didnt stop there?