Cockroaches and Lorraine being… well, Lorraine.
A classic page!
Having interacted with the rock group Fanny, a band from the early ’70s that was composed of only women, has taught me that the rock ‘n’ roll game was a boys-only club and still is for the most part. Bud’s expressing his view as well as mine in the second panel. And a recent run-in with a rather large cockroach in my home’s shower inspired this page as well. We do not have a cockroach problem, but my youngest son’s rental home is a haven for them. His home does not have a washer and dryer, so it seems one of the little bastards hitched a ride with his dirty laundry and ended up in my shower one morning. That will wake you up but fast as it was a big fucker too!
Speaking of Jeff’s pants, this song, “Jeans On” by David Dundas, was created as a jingle for a blue jeans TV commercial and became a one-hit wonder for the singer/writer in 1977. Most do not remember this song, but once you hear it, you’ll remember it for sure (if you’re old enough that is). It’s a real toe-tapper too.
NOTE: For those of you new to the comic, I post rough sketches of the pages and then as I update the inking and coloring during the week I update this page with the finished product. I am seeing lots of new visits to the comic’s site and figured I should explain how I operate around here.
Cockroaches…I remember one trip to Lajes in the Azores, I’d passed out in my room in the Transient Barracks after a 20 hour patrol down in an Argus (CP-107, look it up it was a good A/C) then overwing fuelling several thousand gallons through the same type of nozzle you fill a car with and topping up the engines with quart cans of oil (at 60+ gal/engine) and woke up to the biggest cockroach I’d ever seen about three inches from my nose. Apparently, from the size of the crowd gathered in the doorway, I make a lot of noise beating one of that size to death with a combat boot. 🙂
Jeans On — I do remember that song fondly. Even a music video clip; must have seen it on tv three decades before YouTube. It did have a strong blue jeans commercial vibe to it, but I didn’t mind, it was whimsy and aesthetically well done.
You don’t see original jingles so much anymore, especially ones that are good enough to be turned into full length songs for airplay outside of ads.
Mostly now they grab whatever the copyright’s expired on (or cheap to get the rights to) and throw it into a commercial that has nothing to do with the tune used.
It’s particularly jarring in some cases, especially well known tunes from years gone by that have absolutely no relationship to the product on offer…I’m looking at you, car commercials 😛
Now for a blue jeans commerical, there’s only one tune/video that fits, and I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t used in one 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCu7LHBrwEc
Fear the arthropods of doom hahahaha for 320 million years they have been on this earth. “Roaches were here before us and here after us because they eat crap.” Al Bundy second episode of the first season. Too bad they don’t have roach hotel roach check in but they don’t check out mohahahaha. Better yet call Kelly Bundy the Verminator with the sexy costume ‘Casa la vista buggies.” and poor Bud dressed as king roach. roaches survived the Permian Triassic, the Triassic Jurassic, the Cretaceous Paleogene and Eocene Oligocene extinction events climate change, volcanism, asteroids and mass glaciation can’t stop them. But they are roach declines in Russia, the wood feed roach of Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia is endangered and Sinanda cave roach is extinct in the wild. I never take you to a arthropod show insects and spiders over 4 inches even a 12 inch centipede you have to see the jaws to believe. Roaches are eaten in Mexico and Thailand used as medicine in China even owned stared in movies. Madagascar hissing roaches featured in the 1975 movie Bug, the1977 movie Damnation Alley. I the 1990 comedy Joes Apartment they had taking roaches reminds one of William Burroughs book the naked lunch and Franz Kafka Metamorphasis. Plan 9 could sing the jazz band from Toronto the Shuffle Demons get out my house roach the roach out smarts them. I saw a German roach but he was a disappointment he didn’t goose step to Prenbenlied (song of Prussia). Nor dis he wear a pickelharbe helmet sport a handle bar mustache like Kaiser Wilhelm 2. To prevent food poisoning roaches do that I threw him out into the lawn and clean the apartment so he’ll never return though with the birds and spiders fat chance.
Yup, once it started playing I remembered it – but not till then. That’s a common exprience, though. I occasionally watch MTV 80’ies, and it happen time and again that they start a song with an artist whose name is totally unknown to me and I go ‘Why are they digging up such an obscure guy/gal/group?’. And then the song really gets going, and I go ‘Oh yes, you heard that one everywhere back in 198X’ – but I’d clean forgotten (or quite probably never knew) who the artist was
At least the tile is intact.
Love the dark shading (and the cracks in the tile).
I wonder if small fire breathing dragon things eat cockroaches ?
Then again these are New York cockroaches so it might go the other way…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoRuIZEJpU