tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281037623847496564.post8973252028083157775..comments2023-10-25T05:32:37.447-04:00Comments on The Comics Section: Shoe: How is it that people always die in alphabetical order?Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00900524204429831341noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281037623847496564.post-83335600937067619252010-05-30T21:30:06.266-04:002010-05-30T21:30:06.266-04:00Also, I realize I'm super-late to the party he...Also, I realize I'm super-late to the party here, but I'd like to point out that I remember when this joke was executed much better in an episode of Three's Company in which Jack Tripper proposed changing his name to Jack Zipper in order to live longer. A gag this silly really stands or falls on the delivery, and while newspaper comics and live-action TV are radically different media (and John Ritter could sell lame jokes like nobody's business), Shoe here doesn't even really bother to put the joke in joke format.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com