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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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This strip ran on MARCH 14, to drive the joke further

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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So how many of you would deny Arnold a bowl of coleslaw?

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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They never did explain why Arnold is afraid of mayonnaise :ponder:

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:36 pm

do Arnold's parents ever show up at least in dialogue form?
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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:03 pm

Perrydotto wrote:
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do Arnold's parents ever show up at least in dialogue form?
They do actually! Here are some:

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From when Arnold's baby brother was born.

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This one has a rare appearance of Arnold's mom's hands

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I think we can guess where Arnold's personality came from :-I

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Arnold's grandma has also spoken a few times:

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:56 pm

So I'm reading Arnold's dialogues in Homestar's voice. It's eerie just how much that voice fits.

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 17, 2019 11:47 pm

Reading through the strips with Arnold's parents, I noticed that, in a couple of them, Arnold's dad is "Henry", but later on he was called "Harold".

I DEMAND THAT ARNOLD HAS FLAWLESS CONTINUITY :twonk:

(Arnold's mother being Martha is consistent, however :-I )

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Bigdog (?) » Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:04 am

Perhaps his nickname was Harry and someone assumed that it was short for Harold, not Henry.

or vice versa.

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Re: Taking a pleasant walk and accidentally sitting on a badly decomposed cow ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Aug 18, 2019 2:03 am

Here's another one where Arnold's parents set off a storyline.

Arnold's parents are anti-social :-I

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Re: Show your enlarged criminal forehead ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: IT'S BAMBI BURGER TIME ("Arnold" thread)

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After "Arnold" ended, Kevin started doing some ghost writing for another strip. He never specified which strip he worked on, but it was supposedly "Garfield", although I never got confirmation.
Just want to update this: Brett Koth, one of Jim Davis's assistants, verified on Facebook that Kevin McCormick worked on "Garfield" as a gag writer.

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Re: Show your enlarged criminal forehead ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: IT'S BAMBI BURGER TIME ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Pocket (?) » Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:00 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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Just want to update this: Brett Koth, one of Jim Davis's assistants, verified on Facebook that Kevin McCormick worked on "Garfield" as a gag writer.
This explains a lot about late-'80s-early-'90s Garfield, frankly.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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Re: Show your enlarged criminal forehead ("Arnold" thread)

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I do imagine some of the weirder "Garfield" gags from that era came from Kevin :-I

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Re: Show your enlarged criminal forehead ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My baby force-fed my horse beans and she's makin' me sleep in the barn ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My baby force-fed my horse beans and she's makin' me sleep in the barn ("Arnold" thread)

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Arnold's mom is Edna now.

You know, I'm going to pretend that Arnold goes to a different home every day without asking, say they're his son now, and whoever's living there just rolls with it because he's Arnold, it's better not to ask :-I

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