recognise anyone?

I actually saw the movie that panel was based on. It was the best part of that movie, and damn near the best here.

There's no "actually" about it. Anyone who hasn't seen The Gold Rush has had a deficient education.

The saddest thing is when charlie chaplin does a wonderful thing with his dinner rolls, but it was all a dream and he's actually by himself in alaska on new year's eve and the woman he loves has stood him up.

that movie was so heartbreaking, i don't care what happens in the last five minutes.

ah...well that sounds right...I award u a chubby for your efforts...btw this is one of the best tricks for entertaining bored children at wedding receptions, wakes, etc...

Was this only at lunches that involved Potatoes or Muffins or just with any old type of food?

In a high school cafeteria I'd say the odds are pretty good that you WERE eating footwear, or something that had once been worn on feet, anyway.

Old-tymey slang is the best slang of all.

Agreed. This strip is just downright fucking delightful due to this flustered exchange.

Stealth Simpsons references incoming

Robert Downey Jr, though, actually believed they were dancing feet.

Huh, I always figured it was a Buster Keaton thing because of Benny & Joon. I thought it was cool but figured it was a reference to something. Never really thought to research it further.

Benny & Joon not only references Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin, there are also Harold Lloyd references and even a small nod to Singin' in the rain.

Harold Lloyd shot some mad erotic nude photographs. Even some in 3d. Dude was a straight player.

"Look, I'm Karl Malden.... now I'm Princess Leia - 'Luke! Luke! Use the force!"... I'm on a roll... now, LITERALLY, I'm on a roll..."

Actually Chaplin stole that bit from someone else, apparently. Some fat guy in a movie predating Gold Rush by a few years. I SAW IT ON PBS IT MUST BE TRUE

Especially since the song from CSI is "Won't Get Fooled Again."

Won't Get Fooled Again is the song from CSI: Miami.
Baba O'Riley is CSI: New York.
Who Are You is CSI: the other one.

They are all exactly the same so I can understand the confusion.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall has a running gag involving a primetime TV series called "Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime."

That movie was pretty hilarious.

Maybe my dick realized that you're the devil!

...or something along those lines.

are you fucking kidding me

CSI loves them some Who.

At a live trivia contest, Baba O'Riley was picked specifically for the dumb shits who were going to write down "Teenage Wasteland." (That was a working title for the song.)

Also title of a rejected song from the Lifehouse project. Hardcore Wholigan and proud.

my dad used to say that shit every day as i left for school.. "dont take any wooden nickles"
also lil nef is a baller

No, I think he doesn't understand that his friend's name is also the name of a Who song.

No, he doesn't. He was referencing that because of the "Who's on first?" joke, which he thought Ray was doing some nonsensical variation on, because he does not know about The Who.

The idea of the strip, as I understand it, is that LN is lying about where he will be when he goes out.

Would he really know about Abbott and Costello and Charlie Chaplain, but not The Who?

Wrong.

What is key here is:

LN misunderstanding Ray =/= funny.

LN stone cold playing Ray by being much savvier than he is = funny.

This or ANY day. There WAS no Baba O'Riley. The name is taken from Townshend's guru, Meher Baba, and the minimalist composer who gave them the idea for the intro, Terry Reilly.

THIS NEEDED TO BE SAID FERVENTLY

when did Ray become so jive

he was always a little jive but this strip is just full on

next time I get two muffins, i'm doing that.

end of story.

hang out at retirement homes

I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right I don't need
To be forgiven

(Psst...See what I did there?)

Wicked sack can be hard to handle.

He is a teenage wasteland.

imagining ray playing with forks and muffins is the funniest thing to me in the world

Right here. I'm hollering.

Was there any question?!

That's the joke I read.

Lil' Nephew's knowledge of classic pop culture is rather unsettling.

Especially as he knows about old time film stars and wooden nickels, but not the Who. There is a strange gap here.

I just can't approve of this enough.

This got a 5 for me for "Have fun being in or near the house." Hahahahaha I'm so saying that to my dad the next time I go out.

Nadsat comes to mind.

How hilarious is "Have fun being in or near the house"?

A: really hilarious.

damnit, i said b: somewhat hilarious

Seriously, I cannot tolerate Little Nephew.

I figured you would've at least come to like him a little over the course of nine months

Try reading his blog without wanting to eat a pile of glass. I have a lot of love for most of the Achewood characters, but something about Little Nephew rubs me the wrong way something awful!

Yeah, I don't ever bother to read his blog. It takes more effort than a gladi8orrex post and isn't as worthwhile.

Oh christ, of course this strip comes up while I'm listening to Baba O'Riley. I know no one cares, but there's some kind of unspoken internet rule that you have to mention when something like this happens.

this. is. the best strip. ever. almost. i think. it might be. lemme go read all the other ones.