Lordy Lordy Look Who’s Grody
on February 22, 2016
at 1:59 am
Originally the caterpillar in the last panel was going to say: “I sure hope Marlin Perkins isn’t filming this,” but even I thought was too old of a reference. Plus it wouldn’t make much sense as Marlin is quite deceased.
Discussion (15) ¬
About Marlin Perkins:
No, I wouldn’t have gotten (is that the correct tense?) the reference, although I should know him as I watched his show whenever I could when I was a little child.
Guess I didn’t care that much about the host of the show.
My mid-fifties mom and uncle were just reminiscing about Marlin Perkins over this past Christmas. My less-than-thirty self didn’t know who he was before that conversation.
So this comic is not sponsored by Mutual of Omaha?
Adam wishes it was supported by ANYONE…
Life begins at Grody.
So what you’re saying, Adam, is that I’m too old? Because I absolutely would have gotten the Marlin Perkins joke.
Also, I make jokes about Carmen Miranda’s head that nobody gets, either.
So you went from a bug, to a different type of bug…. Okay.
Is Bug having a random muscle spasm in the first panel? I’ve had those and my WTF expression is almost the same. The last panel – does bug have his tongue out while lying on the ground?
I’m also nearly 40 and i don’t think i would’ve gotten the Marlin Perkins reference.
You should make a Stephanie Arne reference. She is the current host of Wild Kingdom as of 2013.
I would have gotten Marlin Perkins, but not Stephanie Arne. How about David Attenborough?
And yes, sad but true. After 50, “all systems go!”
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for *not* having mouseover alt-text on Bug Martini. I feel like everyone does it just because Dinosaur Comics and xkcd did; it doesn’t work right on mobile, and it ruins my comfortable “position mouse over Next button, click periodically” minimum-effort reading routine, which I’m sure you can appreciate.
(Jeffrey Rowland of Overcompensating does the follow-up joke in small print under the strip, which I always thought was a brilliant compromise, but then he *also* does a *different* follow-up joke in alt-text? I don’t even know.)
bug looks so weird without the antenna’s.
bug looks so weird without the antenna’s.
Can we go back to comedy, without this depressing documentary stuff? Thank you. — Signed: an almost 40 years old guy