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As for this comic…
This is one of those "I'm not even sure if this is funny" comics. Something about it struck me as really funny in a really stupid way, though I'm not sure the hilarity will transfer to other people's brains.
Awesome page, EG! but the first comment that comes to mind is…
Since when is McDonalds Cheap?????
Do you know any burger places that are cheaper?
Nowadays, sometimes Wendy’s. Del Taco too, if you’re not actually getting burgers.
This of course only ever applies to the value menu; EVERYBODY is expensive nowadays and McD is only barely cheaper.
Yeah, I find most burger places are ramping up prices. And frankly, I’m at that stage in my life where I don’t care as long as the product is decent. When the prices go up considerably and the product remains crummy, I take exception.
I walked into A&W a couple weeks ago and ordered a teen burger combo with onion rings instead of fries, and the lady was like “That’ll be 13 dollars.” and I was like “No, no – I only want ONE teen burger.” Then she looked at me with a mix of confusion and disdain. I think too many classy ma and pa places cropped up that actually serve decent burgers for higher prices, and so fast food joints were like, “Hey, WE sell burgers… We should be chargin’ double digit prices too!”
Yep, that’s a teen burger combo at A&W. Say what you want about McDonalds, but at least their combos are still under ten bucks.
Taco Bell is awesome.
EXCEPT….
There are way too many variations to order at a Drive-Thru, AND, every thing there is guaranteed to end up dripping on you as you drive.
I will not tell you about the trainee they had on drive thru when I went in to skip the drive thru. I cancelled my order, got my money back and left.
I completed the Taco Bell Challenge. one of everything on the main menu.
McDonalds is almost a delicacy in Brazil man. Mostly everything not gourmet is cheaper.
I’ve heard that in other countries like Japan too. If you want to get a decent Japanese lunch, it’ll cost you a fraction of the money you’d spend at McDonald’s.
I believe it depends on whether we’re talking perceived value or actual price.
When DESPERATELY hungry, Modern McDonalds food has a greasy “something” that just hits the spot. Barely.
And sadly, it is rarely cost-effective.
Near me Burger King offers TEN Chicken “McNuggets” for $1.50 US. McDonald’s wants $5 for that ! Ouchee !!
But right now I am eagerly anticipating LENT. Because that’s when MD’s has traditionally offered 2 for 1 Filet-O-Fish. I like them at that price.
On a related note, McDonald’s has a lot to answer for. In caving in to every request any Health Nazi has ever made.
Their Baked Apple Pies SUK – the old DEEP FRIED ones were to die for.
And their Fries have plummeted from burning crispy Heaven to mushly, tasteless slop. All to appease people who never ate at their outlets anyways.
I am against the modern fast food craze for pretending to be health food. I am more in support of A&W’s move to say “Our food isn’t healthy at all, but it’s real!” And you know what? A&W is doing killer business right now. (In Canada, at least.)
I do like McDonalds every once in a while. Their newer burgers are pretty good, really.
The only use I have for McDonalds is breakfast. I normally avoid the place like the plague. I don’t like the burgers, they taste bad to me, like a pale imitation of food. Though now they’re selling breakfast around the clock I am torn.
Mmm. Do they still have the McGriddle? That thing was weird food science at its most awesome.
Eggs are totally under-used in fast food.
If you ask me, eggs leave bacon in the dust.
From what I understand yes, they still have McGriddles. Bacon, Sausage, and Ham Egg McMuffins is where it’s at for me.
The burger King nuggets are smaller in size compared to McD’s nuggets. I would have to go with 30 to 50 percent smaller. Bk puts theirs in a bag and let’s them warm in the sorting rack at the end of the assembly line with the fries. I don’t know about McD’s, but it seems they keep them on their table tray until the order is prepped. And McD’s nuggets are juicier. But I thought that the 20 piece was 5 bucks.
@pat
“But I thought that the 20 piece was 5 bucks.”
You’re right about that.
And I have noticed Mickey-D’s seems to have changed the McNugget product recently – they are much better than they used to be.
I know, because they were offering a 10-Piece-bag for free with the purchase of a $25 Gift Card.
The cat knows a bargain when he sees one !
Dunno where the McDonald’s near you gets it’s stuff, but around here the Apple Pie/Strudel is as tasty as ever, and the only time I have an issue with the fries is if I order something at like, 2 a.m.
@Marika
Long after 1992, when the McDonald’s Fried Apples Pies were banished from the US due to “Health” concerns, Canada still offered them.
(good thing, too. americans are obviously so much healthier, and more svelte, since those evil fried things were banned)
Sadly, as the years went by, Canada seems to have fallen, once again, to American tyranny, and one must travel even further than Hockey-Land to munch on crunchy apple heaven: the UK !
http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/product_nutrition.dessertstreats.108.apple-pie.html
Yeah, didn’t really eat a whole lot of their “baked” goods when I was a kid, I guess. Not enough to remember what they were like back then, at least.
I’m betting from your answer that you’re not an old codger. Because you seriously need to be old to remember the fried apple pie from McDonalds. I just looked it up and was 1992 that they switched over from frying to baking. Which (I’m going to hazard a guess) might be before your time.
Mmmmmm…
All this foodie talk reminds me of my 7th life, when my human pets at the time, Ebenezer and Dot, used to bring me home leftovers of the excellent PASSENGER PIGEON WELLINGTON that Durgin Park in Boston used to make.
There’s a good reason those feathery morsels were hunted to extinction.
THEY WERE DELICIOUS !!
The pigeons don’t bake well into fried apple pies?
@pat
Silly ! Apples weren’t even invented until 1962.
They were the result of Genetic Research funded by President Roosevelt as part of the PT109 branch of the Peace Corp Project.
At least that’s what Tracee told me. She is SMART as well as BEAUTIFUL !
Also, did you know that before McDonald’s had Fast Food Restaurants he ran a FARM ?
https://youtu.be/foxfzvHyPOo
Everything I’ve learned , I’m learned from Tracee !
Yeah, aren’t they making a movie about it?
@pat
“Yeah, aren’t they making a movie about it?”
Yes, its working title is “They never fall far from the Tree”.
The Colonel is a codger. He *worked* at a McD’s in the mid-1970s.
Thats right, no typos there. All this nutty “health-food craze” was a couple centuries in th future. And sodas still all had real sugar. That really WAS the good old days.
Those were the glory days, certainly. Days of true taste. And perilous diets.
The classic fried apple pies moved to KFC. Mmmm… Sweet greasy deliciousness.
Oh KFC. May you never, ever go healthy.
But Popeye’s tastes better…
Thanks for the tip !
@pat
“But Popeye’s tastes better…”
Clearly it’s the Olive Oyl.
She’s working for Popeye now, after her Diner went bankrupt.
She allowed everyone to eat their Hamburgers today, with a promise to gladly pay her Tuesday.
https://youtu.be/NJ6xBaZ92uA
But Tuesday NEVER came !
Around here, Jack-in-the-Box’s Jumbo Jack is about half the cost of McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. Or, if feeding a number of people, buy the materials and cook ’em yourself!
Jack-in-the-Box: Another magical thing that is not in Canada.
Arugula !
I’ve been there, and there was not a single, functional tin-box-with-a-crank toy in the entire establishment. NOT ONE !
I figured at least the “Pop-Goes-The-Weasel” tune would be playing, but no.
Grrrrrr……
I’ve been to a Jack-in-the-box for one of their promotional burgers. It was largely disappointing.
I love Jack-In-The-Box.
Which, since they are a subsidiary of Ralston-Purina, should surprise no one.
Prove it. Where’s the corporate reports.
@pat
“Prove it. Where’s the corporate reports.”
WIKILEAKS
Primary source, not secondary nor tertiary.
Tracee told me so, so there !
I’m way too distracted by Phoebe’s blouse to make a McDonald’s joke right now.
That is a magnificent shirt, as well as what fills it. It very nearly has distracted me from the lack of freckles and sass.
Well, something’s gotta keep you coming back. And the freckles are MIA, so…
You bastard. Those damn freckles cut me off on the interstate. You made them, reel them in before they kill someone. Like Kenny.
Mission accomplished!
The first time I read this strip I skipped all of the word balloons until I came to Tracee’s blue speech bubble. Phoebe’s blouse really did distract me from the dialogue, and I was a little confused as to why everyone was standing around in silence, and then out of the blue McDonalds is mentioned.
It’s like if Harpo is chasing some chorus girls, then he turns to the camera to discuss quantum physics. Wait, Harpo can talk? Has he always been talking? Was I really this distracted by the 1930s chorus girls that I missed Harpo’s brilliant theory?
And who would win in a fight, Harpo or the Hamburglar? So many questions.
Hmmm….
Harpo. In a silent quantum nanosecond. No contest.
In the early films, at least, Harpo has semisupernatural abilities. His coat has hammerspace pockets, and he can conjure images on his skin. I vaguely remember an essay comparing him to Puck in Shakespeare. (Whoa!)
The Hamburglar is just an idiot. He makes J. Wellington Wimpy look like Einstein, let alone Harpo. 🙂
The Hamburglar is more of a Sisyphean figure, I’d say. He’s deep in his own way.
Harpoon would win because Oprah wouldn’t let the hamburgler get away with it.
Geez, Puey, way to make me feel my age! not only did I crack a McDonald’s joke, I didn’t even really notice the blouse.
I’m NOT getting old, and I’ll argue the point further after I’ve had my nap.
(mumble)Damn kids and their bicycles(Mumble)
Oh no, Grandpa’s complaining again. Someone get the prune juice!
@DLK “way to make me feel my age!”
Jeez it must suk to be human.
I may be on my ninth life, but I’m just getting into 3-3/4 on it. And feelin’ pretty chipper.
You guys need to invent a similar system that we catz have mastered a millennia ago.
Not only that, I mean, just think of how much time and effort you’d save by having a permanent (and very attractive) all-weather set of clothes grow straight out of your skin !
Now who is the advanced species ?
The mice. The mice are the advanced species.
LOL, Buggle! That’s just MEAN!!!!!
Eh.
Wellll, they *are* a species of hyperintelligent pandimensional beings…
@Buggle
Yes, yessss, that’s true.
You are right !
Right as rain !
Correct on every count !
(don’t anyone, anyone mess with Buggle. see that sword in her hand ? it’s a real thing. i ticked her off once (just once) on our Hamilton road trip to visit EG, and if i had a tail i swear she would have hacked it right off. wimper)
Indeed! Just ask Douglas Adams!
And don’t worry, Salem – I’ve put away my sword in favor of coffee at the moment.
Hard to go any more cheap and unsavory than name-brand with fast food. It’s so bargain-basement that there’s no way to make it nastier.
Or tastier! If only nastier and tastier rhymed. Because they should.
This 4-Panel has so much goodness, it’s hard to know where to begin.
Phoebe has a wonderful SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY blouse – gorgeous. EC really missed his calling.
And Puck’s top is classy and unique !
I’d like to see Phoebe’s feet just a bit smaller, and in four inch heels, but I do realize EC has expressed anxiety at drawing feet in the past.
Which is odd, because he has the difficult parts, IMHO, totally nailed.
BTW, the 3/4 view of Phoebe in Panel Three is just SO sexy !
I do not relish even considering this, but my human pets Janet and Baldie have just returned from an all-day bender hitting the local chain Discount Stores.
All smiles – for now.
Apparently they just scored $1000 US of horrid Christmas “GIFT FOOD” for a mere tenth of it’s “value”.
Peppermint – Popcorn – Chocolate – Pretzel – Hickory Farms – Sea Salt – Summer Sausage – Smoked Cheese – Spiced Crackas – and so much more – YUKK !!
They gobble the nastiness down, and then force me to listen to their cursing the Bathroom Scale all winter long. Sigh.
Wat the heck is wrong wit you peoples ?!!
I would think cats love Summer Sausage and Smoked Cheeses. Hmm you learn something every day. And around here, if I was to get that much gift foods I would have to spend half the price off the original, so no thank you on that aspect.
Shhhh…..
I don’t want Janet and Baldie to think they’re doing me any favors.
Hah, these pathetic little blinds are nothing, I have found a the best blond, one that actually could dominate the world if she chose to.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090828#.WGsylMs8af0
Must – Look….
that should be ‘blonds’ not ‘blinds’. Not sure if that is my fault or autospell.
@Thisguy
No,no,no.
Not blinds, not blonds, nor blondes.
The proper term is BINTS.
I, for one, did have a problem with the blinds.
Well, you can always change the blinds to drapes, provided they match the carpet.
(I’m going straight to hell for that, I just know it!)
I read the comic you posted – now going on an archive binge that’s sure to last for days…
If you liked that page, I’m sure you’ll like the rest. 😉
I love Phoebe’s facial expressions in this one – they tell a rich narrative of shock and horror.
Shock and horror is the best narrative to tell, I say.
I haven’t eaten a McDonald’s hamburger since 1970.
@Robert
Ronald grilled one for you, and it’s been under the warming lamp for close to five decades now.
Don’t worry, tho.
It will taste the same now as it did then.
(only the pickle gets a bit rubbery)
I believe you. I know what goes on in the other fast food hamburger places—I’ve worked in them.
Puck’s evaluation of Tracee can only change from ‘fake hair, fake boobs and fake tan,’ to her current evaluation of Tracee as the vote incentive as being, ‘Fake death, fake boobs, fake tenticles.’
Right?
Right.
If in doubt if it’s funny – add a funny expression in panel 4. Works 99% of the time.
I did laugh at the fact that Tracee seems to like (love?) McDonalds give how ‘cheap’ it is.
Unless that’s exactly why.
If so, she can just go ahead and carry on.
Well, she’s also cheap and unsavory. So it works.
…I like McDonald’s. 🙁 and Phoebe screams of horror will always make me laugh XD
“I’m not sure the hilarity will transfer to other people’s brains.” I’m sure I was upset about something else…? Duh must of been nothin’.
Well then, screams of horror are always good.
The Freckles have probably fled to safety on Morgan Freeman.
Truly, he is a bastion of sanctity for freckles.
“smells cheap and unsavory could apply equally to McDonald’s and Tracee, but only if Daffy got the Filet-o-Fish.
EPIPHANY! I now know why Salem likes Tracee! It’s her, er, aroma
Speaking of Epiphanies, it is kinda’ sad that Phoebe and Tracee are on the outs these days.
They used to be best buds.
Until Phoebe’s epiphany when she caught Satan (Mel to his friends) and Tracee playing “Tonsil-Hockey”.
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-228
Hmmmmm.
I’ll take your Hmmmmm, match it, and raise it to ….. ummm. I got nuttin’.
I just did a good twenty minute search, and there seems to be no synonyms for HMMMM.
I am betting this is one of those elusive, primitive, universal sounds that ALL humans share.
That HMMMM means I am thinking in every language.
Much like AHHH, GRRRR, MMMMM, and ARUGULA.
Maybe he is wondering whether to send Tracee to the gynecologist or the VD screening clinic. :p
Or just to go take a shower. We’ll never know…
@ Buggle
You, and anyone else, that needs PROOF that Tracee takes SHOWERS (awesome ones), must join Patreon for $1 (or more), and scroll down to EC’s post of Jul 28, 2016 at 11:33am.
VA-VA-VOOM !!!
If she takes a long shower and still attracts you, Meow-man, I am going to recommend a Z-Pak or 250 mg ceftrioxone, IM
@Susan
I repeat – VA-VA-VOOM !
(Tracee’s mom ?)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yyBqjkCaL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
(love them zebra stripes. Phoebe should try some)
Which reminds me of a wonderful song, that’s actually from this century – TRACEE’S MOM !!
https://youtu.be/dZLfasMPOU4
Keep it up, stay around Tracee long enough and you, too, will be needing 250 mg. of Rocephin, and for a cat, that would be no fun
Here comes the epic confrontation! Btw, I love Phoebe’s shirt – like an early Valentine’s Day!
(Why *did* Satan name his daughter Phoebe…?)
Buggle ! (scolding)
I am shocked, shocked that you are discounting the MOTHER’S role in naming the child.
Phoebe may very well be Elizabeth Taylor’s (Puck 242, 243) favorite name !
BTW, did you know E.T. was born with rare, deep Violet Eyes, as well as DOUBLE EYELASHES, which only added to her beauty (a rare genetic mutation).
http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2012/october/121012/1c4262680-g-ent-110328-taylor-lashes-4p.nbcnews-fp-360-360.jpg
Or those could just be false eyelashes on top of her real ones…
And you’re right, I should’ve remembered… It’s just that Ms. Taylor isn’t there much. Or rather, at all. It’s hard to remember her and easy to discount her. And Satan would probably have been just as whipped by her as he is by Tracee…
@Buggle
Hopefully.
Some women are BORN TO LEAD.
Why not name his daughter Phoebe?
Phoebe (given name), a female given name meaning “bright and shining”.
Lucifer (mythology), means “shining one, light-bearer”.
It all fits !
And….
Puck (mythology), one who farts in silence, and blames the dog.
(ok, I made the last one up)
Phoebe is, in terms of mythology, a name oft connected to the moon: that which is brightest in the night sky, which shines when all around is dark. So I think it fits.
Yep.
See, you knew the Lucifer-Phoebe connection from the very beginning.
You plan things WAY ahead.
A regular George Lucas without the awful PC mid-stream “corrections”.
I don’t go back and correct stuff, really. There are comics out there (I won’t point fingers) where at least 50% of the creator’s effort goes into redoing old comics to bring them up to the visual standards of the new comics. I am firmly against that kind of approach. Maybe it was the special editions that made me that way.
You don’t go back and correct what is “wrong”, because it’s NOT wrong.
That is George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s error.
They take what was great, and misguidedly ruin it.
Dayum. Really using that English degree…
53 Comments in and no one is concerned for dear, sweet Miranda ?
Or are we all in agreement that Miranda and Col are simply waiting in the wings, hoping for the best.
The best being Puck is off to Hollywood, and major Child Support Payments posting every month ?
Oh God, I dread to think of Colin as a single father…
@Buggle
Isn’t he one now ?
Well, give Puck some credit – she does contribute to some degree. And it’s not like they’ve broken up or anything…
Phoebe …. NO NO NO !!!!
Don’t do it.
DO NOT crush Miranda and Col’s future.
And, AND – with a career in Hollywood Puck may actually be able to REPAY YOU someday ! ($150K) (Puck 88).
(let it go, let it go https://youtu.be/iEKLFS-aKcw?t=60)
Um, Didn’t you mean…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGNuJ6wIes
http://www.laughspark.info/uploadfiles/funny-smiling-laughing-cat-pet-4678.jpg
“MMM! Did someone say McDonald’s?”
This is what, as PRESIDENT of the Tracee Fan Club (come on, EC, back me up for these newbies), endears me to my favorite bint.
Tracee may be many things, but man, she knows how to enjoy the simple things. Which are not always defined by the price.
A piping HOT Egg McMuffin, a freshly-made BIG MAC – smothered in “Special Sauce”, a Filet-O-Fish twelve seconds out of the fryer, these are the things of PARADISE.
*gags*
The only thing I like about that is the Egg McMuffin…
Is it me, or has Daphne developed somewhat as well.
@ pat
Daphne evolving ? Not sure.
Though I would like to see her let her hair down sometime. I don’t think that’s ever happened.
What do grown Hyenas look like, anyhow ?
Or, is Daphne more of a Jackal ? On the lam from the Toronto Zoo’s Savanna Adventure ?
The ‘Daphne hair down’ story arc (aka ‘junior prom’ story arc) is coming. Eventually.
WHAT. WAIT. HUH?!
If Daffy evolved, she’d evolve into a polecat
@Susan
Is a PoleCat something like a POLE DANCER ?
I am so IN !
I meant that she looks a little bit bigger up top as well as a bit more rounded.
Last time I suggested that Daffy was wearing a Body by Victoria bra EG sat on me. 🙁 Something about difficulties in drawing boobs
Exactly.
Character model hasn’t really altered since around comic 140 or so in terms of build. Face structure’s altered lots, though.
Plus, she might have grown a bit taller…
Height is ridiculously inconsistent in this comic. All that I maintain is rough relative size, in that Phoebe and Puck are around the same height (no matter what footwear they’re wearing), Colin is taller than them, and Daphne is shorter than them. Tracee is shorter too. But how much shorter is never really consistent.
She gets shorter when her, um, bacterial flora get over-populated and have a die-off. Till the Trichosomonas deal with the itty-bitty corpses, she smells like something from Star-Kist
@Susan
Jeekers, Susan, what is it wit you and 2017 ?
You’ve been in a fowl mood since the Eve.
New Year’s Resolution ?
Phoebe’s outfit and color scheme is kinda poppin, Geck.
And pouty-mouth Puck is kinda sexy looking too. Nice! :0
I enjoy a good Phoebe outfit. Besides, she wasn’t present in the last bunch of comics so I went into withdrawal.
Quite the twist, that Daphne and Phoebe should now be Puck’s best hope for rescue….
As far as fast food goes, I prefer burger king over the clownshack.
The last time (only time) I had Burger King was in a transit station in Rochester (I think it was Rochester) twenty years ago. I never felt the need to repeat the experience.
Huh. Their stuff always tastes good over here. Regional differences…..?
MacDonald’s was probably the best choice.
Not as though ANY fast food place is particularly known for being high quality or healthy, but MacDonald’s has featured in so many lovely documentaries like “Food Inc” and “Supersize Me”. It’s the posterboy (or is that “whipping boy”) for the fast food industry as a whole. 😛
McDonalds is a good target. Even if I feel little animosity toward the company. I just don’t eat there is all. Not a health choice. Just an “If I’m getting fast food, there are way tastier options” choice.