A Daily Dose of the 1970s in Action
"I came for the cakes. I stayed for the comments." – An Official Review from “Anonymous”
A day at the fair?! I can hardly contain my excitement.
Aw. How sweet. And also how completely and utterly American.
Just in case you’d forgotten how completely and utterly American this book is. I’m a little disappointed by the lack of mention of apple pie, though.
…But in all fairness, I can’t deny the memories of my own local fair growing up and how it was full of shoddy rides, questionable games, and smelly animals.
(Speaking of “fairness”, I’m a little disappointed in you, Super Dictionary. That is a very useful and common definition of “fair” that you missed out on. Shame on you!)
A whole dollar! Oh boy.
What’s he going to do with that change?
Go down to the corner candy shop and buy lollipops for himself and Teri? Go to the laundromat and do some laundry? Stop by a vending machine?
The possibilities are just endless!
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There ends today’s page of The Super Dictionary. Will we ever find out what Ted needed that exact change for a dollar for? Probably not. But you’ll have to come back next time to find out!
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Don’t be a pig, Teri. Save some for Ted.
Oh wow! I remember this was a mystery from forever ago!
I guess it wasn’t any of those people. It was just boring ol’ Teri Trapper. (Who I guess is a good guy.)
But apparently that apple is poisoned or something, because Ted is being really insistent that she not eat it. Either that or it’s just his apple and he was saving it for later.
Answering phones is woman’s work.
Well since I don’t know what town you live in, I guess that’s entirely possible. But if you live in Gotham, that is just a lie, because Batman is the best detective in that town.
I suppose it’s pretty prudent of The Super Dictionary to include the word “detective” in their selective children’s lexicon, seeing as a good chunk of their chosen cast are detectives in one way or another.
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And so ends another page of The Super Dictionary! Come back tomorrow for more desk-jumping, note-passing, motorcycle-denting action!
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I’m sure they look just like John Travolta and Uma Thurman on the dance floor.
Maybe you’re the people they based their SWEET MOVES on.
I’ll believe that. But I’ll also choose to believe that they spent the whole night dancing with other people. I’m still convinced that their marriage is on some serious rocks.
Just one?
That’s pretty stingy, Ted. I mean, a bunch of cupcakes, fine. Some people like cupcakes instead of big cakes.
But just one cupcake?
Not only is that kind of mean, but it’s a lot of work to figure out exactly how much of each ingredient you need to make a single cupcake. Are you trying to tell Teri you think she’s fat? I feel like this marriage is failing fast.
What the…?
Okay. I noticed these things in this order when I first looked at this one:
- Why is there music coming out of Ted’s face? That’s really weird.
- Oh…I guess it’s the farmer playing his…saxaphone…?
- WTF THAT COW IS GIGANTIC.
I know that most of you probably noticed the cow first, But that’s not how I roll (apparently).
Also, that cow isn’t even in the road. And even if it was, I’m pretty sure that cars are going to get more hurt than a cow twice the size of a moose.
Wil and Ted!
Forebears of the illustrious “Bill and Ted.”
Oh I see, clarifying the previous definition. I wonder if they were always in the same class at the same time.
This could be taken…a few different ways.
I know it probably wasn’t entirely intentional, but really Super Dictionary? Taking two of the made-up-for-this-book black people in this book and using them for the word “class?”
I guess they are some of the few characters who only have one identity. And we know how The Super Dictionary feels about using secret identity names in this book. It doesn’t believe in them.
Apparently the Trappers are European!
Because America doesn’t do that cheek kiss thing.
I don’t know about you, but when I’m really happy to see my significant other, I’m more likely to kiss him on the mouth than on the cheek.
On an art note, what the hell is going on with that hand? It’s like his fingers are severely mutated just off panel. Also his shoulder. They went to all the time to do a pretty okay job of drawing his head, only to give him weird, sloping shoulders.
