I think Robyn has now left her mark on L.A., and of course, now Richard has big balls… I pissed off the Dennis DeYoung fan club a few comics back, let’s see how the Carpenters fans chime in on this one. I really doubt Carpenters fans read THIS comic. Now, I did tone this one down, as I was going to have Robyn smack Karen Carpenter around, but being as Karen passed away tragically, I decided to take on her brother instead. So, I’ve got that going for me…
AC/DC’s 1976 “Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap” was named after a Saturday morning cartoon! The term “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” is an homage to the cartoon Beany and Cecil, which Angus Young watched when he was a child (gasp, that makes him as old or older than me!). One of the cartoon’s characters was named Dishonest John, and carried a business card that read, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Holidays, Sundays and Special Rates.” I LOVED Beany & Cecil and they make an appearance in the rarely seen “First Fifty” 1977 comics that I did way back in 2007. These “rare” comics are now tucked away in the Subscriber area… mainly as they suck big time, but they are fun to look at once in a while.
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Ha! Great tidbits of info there. Fun page today.
Yes! Yes! YES! You have no idea how much I longed to do exactly that back in the day. What an irritating dweeb he was. Reasonably talented player, but so lame-arse in his tastes that he might as well have not been any good. And as for that ghastly caterwauling sister of his…eww, don’t get me started.
I think when I look back at the worst offences of vanilla MOR pop music in the ’70s, I’d put the Carpenters even lower down the food chain than, say, the Osmonds. Now *that’s* scary o_O
My personal view is that the statute of limitations on Karen Carpenter’s immunity from pop culture mockery ran out a long time ago.
Of course, I used to do Rocky Horror Picture Show, and we’d shout out “it’s the Karen Carpenter story!” when the skeleton showed up during the intro to “The Time Warp” so maybe my standards aren’t the ones to go by.
Depends on what you do with her, I suppose. All those anorexia “quips” only have so much mileage.
Much more fertile ground in the rather stunning similarity of brother to sister. Why I could probably get six issues of skiffy clone magic out of the album art alone. Then there’s the whole “Prince and Pauper” thing to be reworked.
Oh Yes, Bennie & Cecil!! I can still hear them singing “Raggmopp”: R, A, G, G, M, O, P, P, RAGGMOPP, doliut, do da doot do…. oh yeah.
And you guys (yeah, you too, Byron), LEAVE MY GIRL ALONE!!!! 😛 It possible to like other types of musics and artist than just hard rock!
Now Robyn needs to find Karen Carpenter, and her life will be complete.
Of course, the fact that Karen Carpenter played the drums contradicts the whole set-up for the reason the director ended up in the hospital in the first place. 🙂
I guess I’m not the only one who didn’t see that coming… That was really funny!
DJ you dirty guy!!!!
On the subject of drummers, anger, and girls who rock…
Back around 1990, I got kicked out of one of the bands I’d played with. I had taken the mic away from the singer when he got drunk during a gig and started cussing out a heckler in the audience. Being as I was already on the shit lists of the rhytmn guitarist (who had been dating my best friend, and then broke up with her just before Valentine’s Day, for which I gave him endless hell) and the drummer (who was a fervent Baptist… and I was a radical Pagan), they guys backed the singer up when he gave them the “him or me” speech.
Fast forward a few months. The singer gets drunk at another gig, falls off the stage, gets canned. The rhythmn guitarist gets his cousin to take over. She’s pretty hot. Drummer gets a crush on her. It’s not reciprocated. Drummer stews about this. Finally loses his shit at her. During a gig. In the same place where the drunk ex-singer had fallen off the stage. The drummer gets so mad he throws his drums at the singer. Gets fired. The guitarist and his cousin come to my place. I get re-hired for the new lineup.
Only in rock-n-roll, right? 🙂
On the subject of drummers, anger, and girls who rock…
Back around 1990, I got kicked out of one of the bands I’d played with. I had taken the mic away from the singer when he got drunk during a gig and started cussing out a heckler in the audience. Being as I was already on the shit lists of the rhythmn guitarist (who had been dating my best friend, and then broke up with her just before Valentine’s Day, for which I gave him endless hell) and the drummer (who was a fervent Baptist… and I was a radical Pagan), the guys backed the singer up when he gave them the “him or me” speech.
Fast forward a few months. The singer gets drunk at another gig, falls off the stage, gets canned. The rhythmn guitarist gets his hot-girl cousin to take over. Drummer gets a crush on her. It’s not reciprocated. Drummer stews about this. Finally loses his shit at her. During a gig. In the same place where the drunk ex-singer had fallen off the stage. The drummer gets so mad he throws his drums at the singer. Gets fired. The guitarist and his cousin come to my place. I get re-hired for the new lineup.
Only in rock-n-roll, right? 🙂
I so identify with Robyn,
Me and him both never saw that coming. 🙂
You cartoonists must be thinking alike today. This is the second Big Balls refernce I’ve heard today. 😀
http://www.woodyafterhours.com/2009/12/07/its-an-acdc-song-honest
I was going to say the same thing George. So I’ll make the same comment I did over at woodys’ I always thought in that song he was singing “Dirty Deeds done to Sheep”
it’s like MAGIC! she gonna pull a rabbit outta his ass next?
Ugh! Magician’s secret tricks: misdirection and a very, VERY low blow.
Dirty Strips, Done Dirt Cheap! (yeah, I typed the same thing over on the “Woody After Hours” wall…guess we all have AC/DC on the brain today).
Script from Beenie and Cecil show, for preview of following show:
Cecil is getting the crap knocked of him and action stops.
Cecil turns and looks into thecamera and asks:
“Do You think there is too much violence on television?”
turns back to action and fight continues.