Imagination Is A Wonderful Thing

[PhineasQP]

The new psychiatrist enters my cell. I refuse to speak at first, but eventually I tell of the beast that killed my parents so many years ago. It's clear he doesn't believe me.

I describe the blood pooled on the floor, sprayed on the walls. It's a grisly tableau I relive each time I attempt sleep.

Yes, the knife was in my hand when the police found me, but I’d grabbed it for defense against someone I’d once trusted.

The doctor repeats what they’ve all said.

“You killed your parents. The tiger isn’t real. You know that, don't you, Calvin?"

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

I normally would think this was great, but this is pretty much straight out of a Robot Chicken episode:



I think there might have also been a parody, print cartoon almost exactly the same.

[PhineasQP]

Well crud. I guess I can't get mad that someone stole my idea before I even thought of it, can I?

They even did it way better than I did!

[Varda]

I'd not heard the joke before, so I much enjoyed this one. Just chalk it up to convergent evolution?

[strawman]

Well shit, Edgar Winter did the same thing to me with Frankenstein.

[ROU Killing Time]

Iain Banks did the same thing to himself.

[Flintknapper]

I still liked the delivery even if it was featured on a post robot chicken episode.

As for Calvin and Hobbs, do they still run that comic? My wife was a big fan and has a ton of the collections from the 1990s, but I have not seen that comic in a long time. We may all be dating ourselves by referencing a cartoon that has been out of print for 20 years.

[strawman]

My good man, that is like saying we are dating ourselves to speak of last Thursday.
And you say you are old enough that you have a wife?

O, I see you didn't explicitly say that.
You said she used to be a fan.

What denomination practices that?
And what did she become?

[ROU Killing Time]

If a time traveller dates himself is that homosexual or just temporal masturbation?

[strawman]

If a time traveller dates himself is that homosexual or just temporal masturbation?

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Do you take yourself, to have and to hold, til death do you part?
-I do.

[ROU Killing Time]

My good man, that is like saying we are dating ourselves to speak of last Thursday.
And you say you are old enough that you have a wife?

O, I see you didn't explicitly say that.
You said she used to be a fan.

What denomination practices that?
And what did she become?

An air-conditioner. Haven't you read Darwin?

[strawman]

An air-conditioner. Haven't you read Darwin?

Oh, so THAT'S what we're supposed to do with him.

[Flintknapper]

lol

[Scattercat]

Does anyone else own the giant twenty-pound collector's edition of *all* of the Calvin & Hobbes strips in three massive volumes? (This is on top of my full set of the softback collections, purchased with allowances and after-school job paychecks as they came out.)

Just me, huh?

[strawman]

Got a copy at our local coffee house.

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

Does anyone else own the giant twenty-pound collector's edition of *all* of the Calvin & Hobbes strips in three massive volumes?

I do. But my family insists that they're just some old National Geographic issues for some reason. Weird.

[chemistryguy]

This is one terrific thread.

Phineas, I think you have a good case for suing Seth Mcfarlane in an temporal court of law.