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>From: nick@sjuvax.UUCP (N. Straguzzi)
>In article <800@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes:
>>
>>	I've noticed that a recent development in net.tv is references
>>to meta-humor that appears in the show "Moonlighting".  Some of my
>>favorite meta-humor is that which appears in comic strips, when the
>>artists get up the courage to take a risk with some unconventional
>>humor.  An example is an old Peanuts strip that I came across in one of
>>the compilation books, in which Charlie Brown and Lucy are discussing
>>(or rather, Lucy is holding forth about) what Lucy's eyes resemble.  In
>>the last panel, Charlie Brown manages to sneak a word in edgewise, and
>>says, completely deadpan:  "They remind ME [my emphasis] of two dots of
>>india ink."
>
>
>In another one I remember, Schroeder is sitting at his piano listening
>carefully to one key over and over.  Then, he runs excitedly to Charlie Brown
>and says "Hey Charlie Brown, I think I have perfect pitch!"  To which CB
>responds, "You mean *A* perfect pitch.  That's great, but baseball season is
>over and besides, you're the catcher" (or something to that effect).  A
>disgusted Schroeder walks away saying "Sometimes I think I ought to put in
>>for a transfer to a new comic strip".
>
>Johnny Hart has, on at least one occassion, written a B.C. strip where the
>little king from the Wizard Of Id (which he co-writes with Brant Parker)
>strolls through.  In another strip, B.C. asks the wise man on the mountain
>"Why are we all here".  Response: "To provide sustenance for Hart".  There
>are a lot of other examples of this type of humor in B.C.
>>
>But the best of the meta-humor awards has to go to Berke Breathed's Bloom
>County.  In one strip, Yaz Pistachio is bemoaning her parents' choice of
>more totally gross than Yaz Pistachio".  Opus thinks for a while and responds,
>"Berkeley Breathed".  "OK, name two".
>
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