The Lockhorns: C or D

I was late to that observation, I think.

haha wau, bcz one is a vikings fan and the other the packers how tempestuous. these occupy a pretty great space in the spectrum of terrible.

Maybe this explains everything. They were just plain passive aggressive but him being from Brainerd and her being from Stout turned it into open war.

someone shop favre's head on the counselor

Hahaha

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/TB9SN_rhKkI/AAAAAAAABgk/-ub79H-K_90/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/7843/lockhornsdrugs.jpg

xp That's actually kind of great.

IDG the "too big to fail" one for some reason.

it's an American economy joke

Aha that wd be why i didnt get it!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/TAeNQj88gMI/AAAAAAAABeM/3G63Tve11e4/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

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^ fun read btw

I like that Sunday Lockhorns is just five regular Lockhorns in a box

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/TAJUM5GSDtI/AAAAAAAABdk/MgYeyObvHx0/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

(bottom right one is !!!)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/S_0mYJFjFVI/AAAAAAAABdE/Lq87mgLEAPs/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

That's all Loretta has in life...one-upmanship.

thread rules so much - this summer I was kind of obsessed with the concept of Bunny Hoest after reading my crappy hometown newspaper for the first time in ages

like seriously is there someone out there who eagerly awaits the new Lockhorns or Howard Huge ever week?

xxpost -- Agreed there but the contrast between grinning death clown and fast food shlub also A+

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/TAJUM5GSDtI/AAAAAAAABdk/MgYeyObvHx0/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

This is also freaking me out because everywhere in the world is detailed & normal, except the interior of the Lockhorns' house, which is an empty infinite expanse of woe.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/S9bBxOmIVwI/AAAAAAAABY8/0g2LjT54W7c/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zw8HSx1AByg/S8LzweKcySI/AAAAAAAABW8/jxcW_yS1UdE/s1600/Lockhorns.gif

Oh my god!

It's become self-aware!

*husband slowly turns head towards 'camera'*

like seriously is there someone out there who eagerly awaits the new Lockhorns or Howard Huge ever week?

yes, Ziggy Nation

Have yet to find a lockhorns tattoo on the internet

there is porn though, for sure. probably incorporating howard huge somehow

jeez after 30 years or so I'm actually finding this funny.

There was a huge hit radio show back in the (before my) day w/ the same premise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bickersons

Yeah, I'm surprised at myself for laughing at a couple-few of these cartoons. There are some decent zings!

Also lol @ "It's become self-aware!"

In that Sunday strip, where did Leroy get the podium?

Acme Podium Company, of course.

Ha, as a kid I found them REALLY unsettling and depressing, and now I like them okay. Same thing with jokes like Mr. Roper on Three's Company never wanting to have sex with his wife; it was super-confusing to me as a kid that anyone wouldn't want to have sex with his wife,* but now I at least get the premise better.

What I never understood was how, every time they went to a party, Leroy managed to chat up some young hottie. And it wasn't presented like he was bothering them -- they seemed to like talking to him. He's a short, pot-bellied, bald, bitter-as-hell, middle-aged man: why are these ladies interested? And how do the Lockhorns get invited to these parties in the first place? The only explanation the text supports is that Leroy is a REALLY entertaining drunk, what with the lampshades and all that.

* Especially on Married with Children -- no idea what Al's problem was

Ha, as a kid I found them REALLY unsettling and depressing, and now I like them okay.

Me too! Between the Lockhorns and Andy Capp, as a kid I thought marriage was this scary alcoholic nightmare that no one would willingly enter into.

roast rage

loretta is an underrated style icon

as a child the sharp edges of her miserable-old-crone hair was up there with jewel staite in space cases for unattainable hair inspirations

her hornlocks are rad, true

* Especially on Married with Children -- no idea what Al's problem was
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Saturday, September 25, 2010 11:38 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I still don't get that gag. It only works if the woman the jerk is married to is unattractive, and Katey Sagal was certainly attractive to my young peri-pubescent self.

i think that was nabisco's point. i remember being confused by that, too.

she always wore leopard prints, people

http://leroyandloretta.blogspot.com/:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vheloFCFy9I/TJ6g9Xz4Y6I/AAAAAAAAAaU/hxlxKD5pEms/s1600/2010_9_24.jpg

I always thought that Al and Peggy were very much in the Ralph and Alice Kramden mode--an affectionate couple who showed it by insulting each other. One of the best sitcoms of its time, definitely.

Yeah but Ralph and Alice were clearly fucking all the time, whereas Peggy actually begged Al for sex and didn't get it, right?

All of the time! Why she didn't hook up with Ted McGinley I will never know.

I suspect that she was really asking for sex that lasted longer than it takes to melt butter in the microwave. :-) But, yeah, that is a major divergence from the formula.

http://i54.tinypic.com/xckgzs.gif

http://joshreads.com/images/0609/i060920lockhorns.jpg

O_O

http://www.joshreads.com/images/0412/i041222lockhorns.jpg

This may be the best thing on the modern comics page.

That last one is flat out brutal!

Mordy I'll put your edited strips up on my blog if you use a more appropriate font for the captions.