Go Team Mobile!
Posted by The Author on May 15, 2009
Hi and Lois, 5/15/09
Oh, those teenagers and their texting and their YouTubes and fax machines and hula-hoops. Since I don’t think Chip has a job (I don’t know how I came to that conclusion, but methinks it is accurate), who pays for that extravagant cell phone and the subsequent texts? Mom and Dad, of course. So why waste four cents when you can just shout at your children instead?
The final panel is a total mess. First of all, it’s summer. Are they eating dinner at nine o’clock? It’s pitch-black outside. Hi is buzzed on three post-work dirty martinis and can barely lift his fork to shovel indiscriminate food-lumps into his mouth. And Trixie is nowhere to be found. Probably she’s frolicking in the rat poison. Also, Chip’s second word balloon is flamboyantly oversized for the text inside. Perhaps in the original version of this comic he spouted out something too radical and shocking to be printed in papers. But that’s a pipe dream.
(Note: the title of this post is pretty obscure. Sorry.)
High On 'Lois' 
xy said
i think they just put blackout paper on all their windows because, you know, they don’t want the government in their business.
and don’t be sorry, the internet was invented so we could make other people feel stupid when we make super-obscure jokes.
Squid Vicious said
That’s a fantastic link! Makes me wonder what my cell phone would do if it were to “lose it.” Bang itself against a wall? Go to therapy? Throw itself out of my pocket and onto the Metro tracks?