Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread

sporran · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:10 pm **Posts:** 1599

Is that a glass fridge?

Note also the milk and flour merging into one object.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:28 am

How on earth will they get out of that kitchen?

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:46 am

So Expressites wouldn't recognise an egg box without that prominent description of its contents? And why is the lazy bastard wearing a dressing gown when he wife has been up for hours?

Esqui · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:56 am

Bones McCoy wrote:

Are securicor still in business.
Didn't they disappear as part of a big international merger about 12 years ago?

They are now G4S.

So they have sent a securicor van into the future to deliver some eggs into the house of people whose items melt together

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7335

Esqui wrote:

Bones McCoy wrote:

Are securicor still in business.
Didn't they disappear as part of a big international merger about 12 years ago?

They are now G4S.

So they have sent a securicor van into the future to deliver some eggs into the house of people whose items melt together

Merger was 8 years ago: Finger on the pulse Mister Thomas.

mattomac · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:07 pm

If the price of Eggs is rocketing (Probably going up by a 1p or something) I would tend to make less things that are Egg Based.
They look pretty happy about shelling out (pun) for the eggs mind.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:28 pm

Andy McDandy wrote:

Quote:

I just noticed - he put 'shell' in bold! Awww!

One for the family albumen, there...

These are the yolks, folks!

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:46 pm

Silkyman wrote:

shyamz wrote:

Abernathy wrote:

Right so. There's a "hosepipe ban" on, so Daily Express sausage man looks for cunning ways to avoid using a hosepipe to water his garden, because he thinks, incorrectly, that the ban is actually simply on the use of hosepipes, and not (as is actually the case) the profligate use of scarce water resources that hosepipe use typically entails, and that by using other means to soak his garden with the scarce H2O he will be able to escape the ban, and sod everybody else (typical, or what?).

So what does he come up with as a practical hosepipe alternative? An elephant. Yes, a fucking elephant. Of course. Fuck you, water authorities ! There's no ban on me and my elephant ! Do I care about the astronomical feed bills, housing costs and vet's bills that keeping my hosepipe elephant will entail? Of course not ! Mwah hah hah hah !!!! Fuck you all!

Makes perfect sense. As a realistic portrayal of an incredibly stupid, venal, selfish Daily Express reader, that is.

I think we're at risk of overanalysing what is essentially a (bad)joke...

So why did the chicken get to the road in the first place?!
That and where will the elephant get the water from in the first place?

? I'm a bit confused, I don't remember writing a comment about chickens?

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2839

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:43 am

This is just crying out for a new speech bubble, perhaps raising a wry eyebrow at the nature of the US/UK relationship.

Pitiful.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:58 am

But which is the headline? Both have corner explanations?

sporran · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:10 pm **Posts:** 1599

Honestly thought the punchline was going to be something about being the US's lapdog/bitch before I saw the floating newspaper. Guess I should have known that it would be yet another cartoon about the Express's topic du jour.

Also... I know PT's struggles with planes are well documented, but what the fuck perspective is going on with that one?

Esqui · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:53 am

Andy McDandy wrote:

This is just crying out for a new speech bubble, perhaps raising a wry eyebrow at the nature of the US/UK relationship.

Pitiful.

http://imgur.com/IBO75

Sorry. Slightly NSFW.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7335

sporran wrote:

Honestly thought the punchline was going to be something about being the US's lapdog/bitch before I saw the floating newspaper. Guess I should have known that it would be yet another cartoon about the Express's topic du jour.

Also... I know PT's struggles with planes are well documented, but what the fuck perspective is going on with that one?

The steps don't match up to the door.
British PM, fell out of the door and broke both ankles.
He's crawling towards Obama who is saying "That cracker ain't gonna break no 'lympic records".

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2082

I'd love to know why they didn't end the red carpet at the steps rather than bothering to get the steps van over the top of the end of the carpet roll.

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