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May 26, 2007
Deep Hurting
Please...someone...stop this.
Do you guys remember that show "Mystery Science Theater 3000?" Shrubville owes a ton to that show - a different venue of course, but we still slog through something terrible and try to mine a few laughs from the tragedy of what we're seeing. We just try to add a political slant to things. I guess that makes Sacki our Crow.
Anywho, there was one episode MST3K did that almost killed the cast. Dr. Forrester had sent up a movie to the Satellite of Love that was soooo bad, soooo terrible, that he referred to the experiment as "Deep Hurting." Even halfway through Dr. F considered stopping the experiment - the movie the bots and Joel were watching was so impossibly horrible that even he didn't want them to have to suffer through the whole thing. But they continued on, all the way to the end.
That's where we're at with Prickly City right now.
Three panels today. The first: a "free Paris Hilton" line, something you know Stantis has been aching to make for weeks now. Ah yes, relevancy. Then - get this - a SHERYL CROW TOILET PAPER reference. That's right - a flip remark, meant to be taken in a joking manner, exploited by the right-wing bloggers to show how crazy she is even though she was MAKING A JOKE, finally makes it into Winslow's mouth. Never you mind that this comment was made on the heels of Karl Rove telling Crow that he doesn't work for her, he works for the American people (um, hey stupid, she IS an American citizen), something that Stantis mysteriously avoided mentioning since he thought making Winslow demean Bill Clinton by having him make balloon animals was much more worthy of a strip.
By the way, Sheryl Crow tried to clear that up back on APRIL 24th. Yes, over a month ago. Guess Stantis missed that part - what, you mean the right-wing blogs didn't correct themselves?
Oh but it gets worse. Much worse. After Paris Hilton, and Sheryl Crow T.P., we get Carmen asking Winslow if he'd "shove a toaster up (his) nose" if a "celebrity" told him to. First off, what the f*** is wrong with Stantis and his creepy obsession with shoving stuff up his nose? Remember when Winslow shoved a banana up there? The guy has issues. Secondly, it's more of Bush Republican Stantis's hatred of those eeeevil Hollywood Celebrities - unless it's Fred Thompson, of course, because he's dreamy. Thirdly, Winslow still hearts hot chicks. Zzzzz.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to DEEEEEP HUUUURTING.
This strip is beyond stupid. If Winslow is listening to Crow, why would he waste the T.P. on a sign to Free Paris? She told him to only use one square when wiping his ass, not to waste it on signs that only Carmen will see.
You know what - forget it. I'm not going to try and make sense of this. Because Stantis didn't. He could care less. He thought he'd be "clever" and ram together everything he loves - referencing tabloid subjects and whining how they get too much attention as he's giving them attention, then taking people out of context because he read it on a right-wing blog somewhere, then talking about shoving things in his own orifice because he's got some weird fetish.
The Democrats in Congress, by passing that Iraq spending bill, are basically saying "let's wait until 2008 - THEN we'll really do something." I guess we here at the Ville of the Shrub are adopting that same mentality. Just wait until January 2009 - when Bush is out of the White House, and editors won't feel obliged to carry the Worst Comic Strip Ever just because he happens to be a Bush Boy Conservative. Then we'll happily retire from pointing out that Scott Stantis Gets Paid For This.
