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March 31, 2021

Parent traps

Baby Blues, 3/31/21

Look, as a guy with a Gen X beard situation myself (though I finally ditched the goatee for the full mountain man during the quar), I get why it's absolutely perfect for "Good Ol' Stan," Darryl's douchey college pal whose visit Wanda has been dreading all week, to have a prominent and douchey beard when he finally makes his first on-panel appearance. I won't even quibble with the individual decisions to have his hair be light brown, to have him wearing a mask, and to have Darryl's underpants tucked under the beard in the aftermath of the epic wedgie he's received. But taken together? To produce what appears to be a wavy light brown stain near the waistband of Darryl's tighty-whities? That's just bad decision making and you can't convince me otherwise.

Hi and Lois, 3/31/21

Look, all you people who call Hi and Lois "unfit parents" just because they leave their infant unsupervised, both indoors and outdoors, for hours at a time: would an unfit parent bother to carefully place that infant several inches into the shade, which is a great place to leave her for several more hours, since we all know that shade remains in the same place over the course of the day? Check and mate, haters!

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