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.
I've been operating under the impression that Skylar is a wiseass. This comic, however, seems to suggest that he's just stupid.
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.
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