Star Trek IV is just sheer fun. It’s like candy! Cheers me up like nothing else.
I agree. From the bombastic main tune on (I can still hear the song in my head), it’s just a great experience. I’m also glad that it’s no longer considered shameful to enjoy nerdy stuff, unlike when I was a kid and had nobody to talk to about the stuff I liked.
Calvin was like The Simpsons where there was no real continuity and the characters didn’t age at all. In Baby Blues didn’t everyone stop aging altogether at a certain point, since the creators didn’t want to keep adding babies to justify the title and didn’t want the youngest to get too old?
In this strip on the other hand Brad mentioned his 9/11 motivation as late as 2016, when he wanted to get married on September 11th explicitly citing its significance to him.
I like ST IV because of the fun “fish out of water” story, plus we get a lot of Spock who’s my favorite character. It means I’m also a fan of ST VI because Spock gets to be captain while Kirk and McCoy are prisoners, and it’s fun watching him try and solve a mystery while keeping Starfleet Command off his back.
But my favorite Spock moment of all is in the original series where he tricks Kirk into taking some shore leave.
This strip features one of my favorite instances of comic book time, and a shining reason why you don’t tie character development into real-world events: it’s still strip canon that Brad was a lazy couch potato until he was motivated by the firefighters on 9/11. Except that event was 23 years ago, so either he’s been aging in real time while nobody else in the strip does, he was considered a “lazy couch potato” at the ripe old age of ZERO (since canonically he’s 4 years older than his sister who is currently 19) or he was completely unaware of 9/11 for almost 20 years after the event took place, and happened to watch a YouTube video or something within the past couple years that showed what happened. Either way it’s a hilarious mess.
Plus the fact that she took Art 101 like 5 times in a row, means that it’s little wonder she’s no closer to transferring to a university than she was in 2015.
This isn’t a matter of her being too logical, but rather how she’s a smug busybody towards others while exempting herself from the same standards. Remember how mad she got when Tiffany let Piro sleep over, when she herself had done the same thing? Remember how she lied to Tiffany’s face about there being a room inspection, just so she could break into Tiffany’s phone and steal Piro’s number from it? How about when she does literal curfew checks for other students (when curfews don’t even exist at state universities) while in her own room, she let Dez own a ferret, a pet that’s not even legal in the state they live in?
Bernice is disliked because she’s a raging hypocrite who looks down her nose at others while constantly excusing her own behavior, and also because she treats her supposed best friend with open contempt almost all the time. That’s a little more than “analytical in her opinions” wouldn’t you say?
The problem is that her obsessiveness towards boys was her primary personality trait, and once it was removed it wasn’t replaced with anything else. She has no goals, hobbies, passions or even interests. “Blank slate” is just her attempt to frame her utter lack of a personality as somehow a good thing.
I think she’d be well served to spend less time loafing around with Bernice (by her own timetable it’s all she does all afternoon when she isn’t walking Puddles) and cultivate some interests instead. Surely there are better ways to spend one’s life than sitting around a bedroom staring at the wall (as shown on May 2, 2021).
I don’t begrudge a person for not wanting to do exciting things all the time, but to not have any interests or passions at all? Come on now, that’s just a waste of a life.
Luann’s better than she used to be. She’s no longer obsessively boy-crazy, if only because G&K removed her libido to prevent her from having any adult fun. Also she no longer strings Gunther along just for the attention, which is undeniable character development on her part.
You’re right about Bernice though. If anything she’s only gotten more smug and insufferable.
Star Trek IV is just sheer fun. It’s like candy! Cheers me up like nothing else.
I agree. From the bombastic main tune on (I can still hear the song in my head), it’s just a great experience. I’m also glad that it’s no longer considered shameful to enjoy nerdy stuff, unlike when I was a kid and had nobody to talk to about the stuff I liked.