Hey, Charlie Brown uses it every year! Now let’s see……. Fork: It’s a frigging fork. Maybe useful in deflecting a knife, but your only real job is sticking the other guy in soft bits and wishing you had something better. Nunchucks: great as a flail, but unless you’re really good with them you’re just going to hurt yourself. Still, keep whipping them around and you have a nice open area around you! Back in panel one there’s a sai…… which is actually a BLUNT weapon meant mostly to deflect and disarm. If sharpened (some have been) they are okay for stabbing, if not great for twisting weapons away and smacking people upside the head.
Most of us were taught that sais were pointed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles despite the fact that Raphael almost never used them for stabbing (except in the Mirage comics, but God damn, that’s a whole different set of turtles there!).
And yes, nunchakus are an open invitation for untrained people to hurt themselves.
The lyrics are actually “I wanna rock”, but meh … close enough that it got the video playing in my head …
“Turn it down you say, well all I got to say to you is time and time again I say NO! No no, no no, nooooo”
Yeah, that’s a song I don’t mind having stuck in my head. But my immunity is due to having been an 80’s teen who listened to hair bands like TS and Poison, so sue me. 😛
And, yes, Hair Nation is one of the stations bookmarked on my satellite radio … do you even have to ask at this point?
I really should have included an 80’s rock band in this series, but I went with grunge/punk and came up with the Miscreants. In retrospect, they might have been a tad funnier as ‘hair metal’ idiots, but I think Spinal Tap already beat me to that!
“Gotta kick some As? Why? Don’t you like good grades?”
I love this strip, and I will add “Zulu warrior armed with plastic fork” to the list of things that I never expected to witness and saw on the internet.
I don’t think the pierced-face kid knows any more about the Zulus than I do, but I doubt that’s what he had in mind when he had his face tacked up like nails in a wood plank. Guess he didn’t get any A’s in world geography class!
Okay, I’m sorry if I seem dumb for not knowing this, but what the hell is up with the guy’s head in panel 3? Is he, like, the Elephant Man, or is it just a goth thing?
I just sort of assumed everyone was familiar with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!, or at least that one joke from it. Look it up on YouTube if you can, then return here enlightened!
Haaaaa…. Love the last one… Yes, I love me some CB… just watched the Xmas Special last night… where all his “friends” wanna stone him for buying a pathetic little tree…. which magically transforms in the end… oooo…. did I give away the ending. Sorry.
Tell them punks to get their own tree if they think they can do better! And for that matter, why did they have to complain so much about the Thanksgiving dinner he tried to make? And why not share at least ONE friggin’ piece of Halloween candy when he repeatedly tells you that the jerkwads in the neighborhood will only give him rocks?!
No wonder Chuck was so miserable. All the other kids were little A-holes!
Hey, Charlie Brown uses it every year! Now let’s see……. Fork: It’s a frigging fork. Maybe useful in deflecting a knife, but your only real job is sticking the other guy in soft bits and wishing you had something better. Nunchucks: great as a flail, but unless you’re really good with them you’re just going to hurt yourself. Still, keep whipping them around and you have a nice open area around you! Back in panel one there’s a sai…… which is actually a BLUNT weapon meant mostly to deflect and disarm. If sharpened (some have been) they are okay for stabbing, if not great for twisting weapons away and smacking people upside the head.
Most of us were taught that sais were pointed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles despite the fact that Raphael almost never used them for stabbing (except in the Mirage comics, but God damn, that’s a whole different set of turtles there!).
And yes, nunchakus are an open invitation for untrained people to hurt themselves.
Uh, rockin’ poetry!
Poetry SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
The lyrics are actually “I wanna rock”, but meh … close enough that it got the video playing in my head …
“Turn it down you say, well all I got to say to you is time and time again I say NO! No no, no no, nooooo”
Yeah, that’s a song I don’t mind having stuck in my head. But my immunity is due to having been an 80’s teen who listened to hair bands like TS and Poison, so sue me. 😛
And, yes, Hair Nation is one of the stations bookmarked on my satellite radio … do you even have to ask at this point?
I really should have included an 80’s rock band in this series, but I went with grunge/punk and came up with the Miscreants. In retrospect, they might have been a tad funnier as ‘hair metal’ idiots, but I think Spinal Tap already beat me to that!
I first heard that song in Spongebob, when I was a kid!
Always knew Chuck would snap under the right circumstances.
“Where’s that bitch with the football?!!”
OK, that made me actually laugh out loud, at work. Good thing I work the night shift, and we’re all mad down here.
“Gotta kick some As? Why? Don’t you like good grades?”
I love this strip, and I will add “Zulu warrior armed with plastic fork” to the list of things that I never expected to witness and saw on the internet.
I don’t think the pierced-face kid knows any more about the Zulus than I do, but I doubt that’s what he had in mind when he had his face tacked up like nails in a wood plank. Guess he didn’t get any A’s in world geography class!
Heaven or Hell, let’s ROCK!
Fork guy’s gonna get that thing hooked in his piercings if he’s not careful.
He might end up with EVERYONE’S weapon caught in his face danglin’s!
Okay, I’m sorry if I seem dumb for not knowing this, but what the hell is up with the guy’s head in panel 3? Is he, like, the Elephant Man, or is it just a goth thing?
I just sort of assumed everyone was familiar with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!, or at least that one joke from it. Look it up on YouTube if you can, then return here enlightened!
Haaaaa…. Love the last one… Yes, I love me some CB… just watched the Xmas Special last night… where all his “friends” wanna stone him for buying a pathetic little tree…. which magically transforms in the end… oooo…. did I give away the ending. Sorry.
Tell them punks to get their own tree if they think they can do better! And for that matter, why did they have to complain so much about the Thanksgiving dinner he tried to make? And why not share at least ONE friggin’ piece of Halloween candy when he repeatedly tells you that the jerkwads in the neighborhood will only give him rocks?!
No wonder Chuck was so miserable. All the other kids were little A-holes!
If Lucy VanPelt is in that crowd, I think she’s gonna be in trouble!
Better a Blockhead than a Bloody Caved-In Head!
This made me start singing some ol Rob Base “I wanna rock right now!”
This made some of the kids start singing, “OW! OW!! STOP IT! THAT HURTS!!!”.
I wanna rock. ROCK!!!