The Perry Bible Fellowship has a new home in G2.

I think maybe part of the funny is that the reindeer doesn't give a fuck/his blank expression?

In Finnish folklore at least, Santa has a wife. Presumably the lady elves have husbands too; the other elf kids don't look like Santa, so they must've been sired by male elves. The joke is to contrast the image of Santa as a kid-friendly do-gooder with the idea that he is secretly (hence the wink) an adulterer. This contrast is emphasized by making the one who discovers the truth be one of Santa's reindeer, i.e. someone who's generally (and in this comic strip too) depicted as an innocent animal.

Really, guys, this isn't rocket science!

Point is, I refuse to believe it isn't rocket science.

But anyway, speaking of the latest PBF strips, I thought this one was really good, and most reminiscent of the strip's "classic" era:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF262-Dreamcatcher.png

Such a simple idea, yet it's funny, poignant, and perfectly executed.

i like how it can take a few secs/mins until some of the jokes sink in properly. that one took me a short while to understand what it was about.

is the joke here just that the whistle is low-class and unsophisticated, or is there another layer that i'm missing?

http://www.pbfcomics.com/263/

lol yeah, that was my take, though i'm not sure what the # sign on whistle's lapel signifies.

sharp...

Santa is a viking at impregnating elves; also a Viking; the case continues

the most obvious signifier with the whistle vs clarinet(?) is class or status for sure, i.e. a cheaper maybe more low brow less refined version of the same kind of thing. however the comic is titled Harmony so race would maybe fit the pun better, but the whistle doesn't seem as strong a choice for that.

maybe it's a dog whistle

Dad is despairing that she's marrying beneath her

...............LOL

Goldwhistle?

clarinet(?)

bassoon.

Well the whistle has only the one note, really, compared to the elegant range of the basson.

that's a bassoon, not a clarinet, which is one of the instruments that is often the butt of orchestra jokes (basically it's like the tuba/viola of woodwinds)

basically it's a multilayer class/racial social standing joke

this one, a few back, is an all-timer imo

http://www.pbfcomics.com/261/

I'd forgotten how great some of these are: http://www.pbfcomics.com/222/

lol that's a good one

that's a joke I can see a lot of artists coming up with but not being able to pull off. that look of anguish on the final panel is so good

omg http://www.pbfcomics.com/252/

hahahahahahahaha http://www.pbfcomics.com/185/

this really is the best contemporary comic strip

http://www.pbfcomics.com/214/

Someone's gonna have to explain this one to poor innocent me. I suspect the yellow and black pamphlet has something to do with it...

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

love that one btw

that's one of my (50 or so) favorites

Ha, I was scratching my head over that one just today. Didn't even notice the pamphlet!

I guess he was boning up on her.

this really is the best contemporary comic strip

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, December 19, 2014 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely the best comedy need threads devoted to explaining the jokes to people

Eager to hear Whiney's top 10 favorite Jeff Foxworthy jokes

If youuuuuuuuuuuu don't understand a comic strip about Santa fucking his elves.... You might be an ilxor

hark, a vagrant is the best contemporary comic strip

lol Whiney

I am afraid to admit how irrationally angry I got when the bassoon strip was misidentified as a clarinet; I blame it on only getting 3 hours of sleep

"In Finnish folklore at least, Santa has a wife."

I was going to ask why Santa having a wife would be a particularly Finnish thing, but it just struck me that American Santa folklore is pretty much Coca Cola ads and a murdering Tim Allen.

I think Tuomas was just speaking from his own culture and not presuming to be an authority on American traditions.

Genuinely not sure how people could fail to get that strip, though. I'm putting it down to them *wanting* there to be more b/c the joke's a bit rubbish.

like a lot of PBF strips, the best thing about it isn't the joke but the way a certain element is drawn. element being a reindeer itc.

Much like the priest-kings of Nemi, Tim Allen's Santa will be murdered in turn.

Yeah, I mentioned the Finnish thing only because I wasn't sure whether American Santa is supposed to be married. In most of the movie depictions I can remember he seems to be kind of a loner.

first blush was "oh, santa's fucking the elf moms" but the first panel threw me. looks like two elves are asleep and one is winking. admittedly took me way too long too notice middle elf has a santa face.

xpsts

yeah, so much of what makes PBF funny is just facial expressions.

In an age where so many comic strips are really badly drawn this definitely sets it apart.

xxxp

I wonder if the Santa spawn is meant to murder his workmates and replace them with his as yet unborn siblings while Santa's away. That would explain the wink.

Only Dasher escaped to tell thee...

I'm not sure that the elf is supposed to be winking. Who would he be winking at, and why? I think the artist got caught in a problem where he had to give Santa a conspiratorial expression, and he had to make the elf resemble Santa.

Genuinely not sure how people could fail to get that strip, though. I'm putting it down to them *wanting* there to be more b/c the joke's a bit rubbish.

― emil.y, vrijdag 19 december 2014 19:28 (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Raises hand. Thought there would be more to it given the depth and eye for detail earlier. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Isn't "Santa winking" a sort of iconic thing, or maybe even part of the coca cola santa.

ie pbf used the winking to denote "this is Santa's child"

tuomas, which loner santa movies are you referring to?

Santa Driver