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May 23, 2006
The Good Ol' Days...If That's What You Want to Call Them
Today it feels like Stantis heard a joke a few weekends ago, decided to steal it, and then shoehorned it into this week's storyline. I mean it's not a bad joke - Andy Griffith lines are "heh" worthy - but it has a complete been there/done that sort of feel. At least he's not talking about hamsters and weasels as metaphors for what's happening in Iraq.
I think the bigger hint of things to come is that Opie the Alien is a Barry Goldwater fan. Makes sense - Goldwater was a UFO fan. But where on Stantis's polltical spectrum do Opie and Goldwater stand? Well Goldwater is known as having helped "revolutionize" the Republican party, many saying he was 16 years too early since he was a big reason Reagan ended up in office in 1980. What's funny though is that it's actually the Democratic party that has a lot more in common with Goldwater's conservatives (and apparently Stantis's) than Bush's cronies. Goldwater was pro-choice, was in favor of socialized medicine, was for re-regulating big energy and media outlets, guaranteeing a minimum wage (and most likely raising it more than every 9 years), and wasn't one of these Religious Righties who think people should wait for marriage to have sex. Funny to think how the political winds change over time, and how Scott Stantis claims to be a conservative when his boy Bush's popularity ratings are down around 30%. He might just have to vote for Al Gore in 2008.
Please god, let Al Gore run in 2008.
So what do you guys think will happen this week with the new character that will only be around for a week because Stantis won't know what to do with him? Will there be more fat jokes? Or will he talk about "conservatives" and how they used to stand for something (that something being what many Dems stand for today)? Please put the comments section to good use with your suggestions, since they're always better than what Stantis comes up with.
Comments
My guess: it will turn out that Dio, Kevin, the turtle guy, and all of the other one-week characters were abducted by the aliens.
The obvious story line would have the true conservatives abducted by aliens, leaving us with all these whack-a-loon "peace through tax cuts, prosperity through intelligent design, happiness through bans on contraception" politicians we have now. But that is too clever for Stantis.
Posted by: Annie at May 23, 2006 11:03 AM
Maybe a Gore/Kerry ticket; that way those losers could get it out of their system before 2012.
Posted by: Sacki at May 23, 2006 11:56 AM
Nah, I think Stantits might link this to the illegal aliens "storyline" he had going recently. With some sort of ha-ha "punchline" to go along with it.
Posted by: FredN. at May 23, 2006 02:42 PM
Maybe all the one-off characters are working behind the scenes on a myspace page for Shrubville.
Posted by: j kendall at May 24, 2006 12:15 PM
