In my initial attempts to write a strip based on this comic, I became fixated on the 75-cent price, and had a conversation going on between the kids and their father about how Archie comics were only 35 cents when he was a kid and were now $2.99, so lemonade should therefore be in the ballpark of $2.25 a cup. I finally rejected this idea after struggling with a lame punchline in which the kids point out that their father still hasn’t gotten the $48,000 he’s been asking for his Ford Pinto (NOTE: this rejection occurred prior to my doing any actual math, and as such, the numbers presented here were obtained via anal extraction.) I finally decided to make a more general marketing-related joke, pulled out the handy-dandy “overly-smart kids” gimmick again, and here ya go.
My wife isn’t feeling well tonight and thus will not be providing her usual assessment. In lieu of this, I will plug her latest thing: She’s decided to start plugging her jewelry by making stop-motion videos. This is her first attempt, and I think it’s neat as hell.
See you guys soon,
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The line about the carefully hand-shoplifted lemon was perfect!
Please tell Mrs. Shoebox I hope she gets well soon. I always enjoy her assessments.
Speaking as an independent lemonade vendor…
2.50 a cup for personally-sweetened fresh-squeezed lemonade.
I was driving an ice cream truck the first and only time I’ve ever seen a child-run lemonade stand. I don’t think those kids could have been more excited if Spongebob and Hannah Montana stopped for a cup.
It was dang good, too. And it was $.75 two years ago, so inflation hasn’t gotten that bad.
BTW, loved the term “anal extraction.”
First time through, I figured “lemons in Michigan” would lead to a Big 3 joke.
Is the period after “McDonald’s” simply missing, or did these enterprising moppets sell it to William Shatner’s closed-caption transcriptionist?
That’s so believable.. I know kids like that.. with the kind of parents you’d expect..
Hey that’s a pretty effective advertisement! I like it.. stopmotion is great.
The comic was cute, i almost shot freshly stolen lemonade out my nose at ‘anal extraction.’