Oh Phoebe: how adorably infuriating you are. This (along with the button-fly jeans) is yet another example of the girl’s penchant for all things early 90’s in nature. For those who don’t know (because the reference IS a little dated), the last panel is a play on C+C Music Factory, the band who performed ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’ (better known as ‘Everybody Dance Now’). You know the song, I guarantee. I wish I could hum it to you. The band was fundamentally twitty, just like Phoebe.
Like most allusive jokes, if you don’t get the reference, you probably won’t find it very funny. Oh well.
Lol! Got it in one! I still love that song. But it makes Puck’s reaction even funnier if you get the reference.
I really love bad, bad early 90’s dance music. Love it to a level that is sinful.
Noooo! The cursed song is stuck in my head now XD Ah, the 90’s…
My daughter makes me listen to that song again and again in the car. (Yeah, I have C+C Music Factory’s first album on MP3 in my car. I’m willing to admit it.) There’s a small part of me that is a lot like Phoebe, and my daughter inherited all of it.
First album? You mean they made a second? God help us all….
Their second (and third) album were less successful, and by less successful, I mean ‘no one bought it.’ Then Cole sadly died, and the magic was no more.
I hope that they didn’t sign a 360.
Darn you! I scrolled my mouse pointer over the cartoon strip and out popped that reference to that god awful Technotronic group….
How did I ever survive 1991 music?
I love early 90’s dance music. I realize that is a sin, but hey, I thoroughly wear it with pride. Now SHAKE THAT BODY!
Gonna make you sweat.
Fun fact, when I started doing comics, I was working with a dude called Phil, and we were known as Papi and Dez, which eventually got corrupted into P & D Manga Factory
That just makes you all the more awesome.
I listened to 2 Unlimited in the 90s.
Yet somehow this particular group evaded my notice.
The 1990s may well have been the worst decade in musical history since, I dunno, whenever it was that Attila the Hun ruled Central Europe.
I dunno. Attila the Hun played a mean kazoo.
Trust me, the early 00’s were WORSE.
I would tend to agree. The early 2000’s honestly was a real dumpster fire in terms of many genres, and it really did kill modern music as the dominant cultural force that it was.
Personally, I think Satan adopted Phoebe. There’s just no way, NO WAY, she’s blood kin to Satan. LOL.
Well, I think she just got a bunch of recessive nice genes. It happens.
LOL. Good one.