Thursday, April 5, 2018

cartoons I don't get #41

Playboy, July 1963
Cavalcade, July 1942
Is there more to this?
For Laughing Out Loud, March 1960
I guess this is based on the “hung like a horse” cliché but I've never heard “hung like a centaur”
Sex to Sexty, mid 70s
He's not wearing a suit.
Hello Buddies, May 1955
I get that it's comparing the Wall Street bull to the golden calf, but are these supposed to be real people?
Life February 16, 1905
Helen Hokinson
New Yorker December 19, 1925
Playboy, March 1970
Howard Shoemaker
The Realist, June 1961
Frederick Opper
Puck June 16, 1880
The host of the British version of This Is Your Life, I guess.
Punch, April 1984
He's saying soldiers are fighting the Germans and it's taking away his movie business but how would they be able to see the battles without seeing them in newsreels, unless he's saying he's not getting enough business anymore because there are fewer civilians now. Which one is it?
Punch September 26, 1915
Punch February 4, 1920
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  1. nanoalchemistApril 19, 2018 at 5:18 PM

    1. Just gross sexualization. The typical bit is for a lion tamer to put his head in the lion’s mouth. She’s putting in her ample bosom.
    2. IDK. She’s looking at rings. They are probably expensive, hence the hat drop. But she seems to be a “kept woman,” and so the COST of the ring shouldn’t bother him. It would make sense if the frame was flipped and she was looking engagement rings, but it’s not.
    3. She’s his nanny, and he has a crush on her. So, he’s giving her something precious, and a cool. She does NOT think it’s precious or cool, being an adult woman, and not a young boy, and so instead chastises him and takes him home.
    4. Yes. Hung like a horse.
    5. He’s not. Maybe it was in the hat?
    6. They are supposed to be real people. Moses is Tom Lawson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lawson_(businessman). He as involved in the copper mining business, hence the “Copper Plate” on the High Priest’s hoshen. The high priest looks like Henry Huttleston Rogers. The bald guy kindof looks like Alester Crowley (which if they are making a deal with the devil would fit, I guess).
    7. She’s poor, based on her accent. She is not an art BUYER (i.e. wealthy), and I assume the man is.
    8. He’s passed out. Typical rescue response would be to improve restricted air and blood flow to the head by loosening the constrictive collar. But, as a guy, he’s saying his tights are too tight and he wants them to take care of the tight constriction about his reproductive organs. It’s a “my dick is way more important than my brain” gag.
    9. They are working at a tractor factory. I cant tell if Gonzales (the guy next to the egg head in glasses and lab coat) is decked out like a race car driver, or a matador. If the former, the joke is “tractor racing! Tractors are NOT fast!” If the latter, that he would some how ole a tractor. I think Mater would approve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0s9N2dEr7s
    10. I don’t THINK its supposed to be a particular person. A lot of states were banning booze around that time, and it was right before the establishment of the WCTU. I think it’s just a comment on politicians being hypocritical. They may convene to rail against drink in the day, but retire to the bar at night.
    11. Yes, it is. But he’s surprising Jesus by bringing by Judas. Would make for good TV!
    12. Who would want to see a movie ABOUT war, if there is a REAL war going on all around them. (Hence the shattered glass). I would be like Showing a documentary about Flint water pipes in downtown Flint. “Tell me what I DON’T know.”
    13. Parent is exhorting the child to beat the horse, because the horse (pulling the canal boat) is being obstinate. I think the joke is that the parent is being quite disrespectful of the child themselves, by making them engage in physical labor like that.

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