Semi-random thought

[unixronin]

Garfield is to comics as MacDonalds is to food.

Discuss.

Comments

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Devoid of nourishment?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Not to mention flavor....

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Consistently substandard?

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

Greasy, stale and left too long on the shelf.

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

Totally bogus comparison.

Other than in the humor category making the comparison.


McDonalds is a "fast-food restaurant". Implies that they serve food, quickly. They serve highly repeatable food in many categories, offering options and choice, very quickly.


Garfield is a comic. Which implies a drawn artwork that's funny. (There are some "dramatic comics", but Garfield isn't in that niche.) Well, it's a drawn artwork. But it's not funny.

So, McDonalds serves food, quickly. It's not gourmet, but it's quite acceptable across a very wide range of palates.

Garfield is artwork that's not funny.

No, not really comparable. McDonalds succeeds at serving food quickly, while Garfielf fails at providing humor via art.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, that's true if you consider the product MacDonalds to be food ... I consider it "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike food".

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

Again, humor aside, yeah, it's food.

Not even that *bad* of food, if you choose correctly. But if you were forced to eat nothing but McDonalds food for a year, you'd be fine. Well, at least, no worse than when you started (For the obligatory comment about Spurlock).

But humor? Totally missing from Garfield. Not even anything Ted Rall-esque that you could point to and say "Well, if you were insane or terminally stupid, that MIGHT be funny."

[laurarey.livejournal.com]

insert obligatory comment about Spurlock here.

How do you figure you'd be fine?

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Egg Mcmuffin, salads, kid's meals. As unix_jedi said, you've got to choose carefully. But I can't tell you the last time we eat at McDonald's. I think it was in 1998 in Paso Robles, CA when I went through the drive-thru to get Goose something to eat so she'd settle down for the drive home to San Jose, CA.

[pdbonlj.livejournal.com]

Garfield can be improved: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

McDonalds cannot.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen that. I think it says something that it's actually funnier without Garfield, albeit in a slightly disturbing way.

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Well they do both provide a very consistent product. In both cases it it is consistently low quality, but it still does an excellent job of making money.

[house-pundit.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Garfield lately. Back in the late 80's, iirc, it was funny to me.

"Garfield, I know you're in my plant. I can see your tail"

Lasagna

"Okay, Monday, go ahead and do it to me." *Splut!*

"It's diet week!"

So, comparison between Garfield and McDonalds....fat?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think I sort of remember Garfield being funny once. But it was a long time ago. And I sorta remember when MacDonalds' fries used to taste good, and one or two of their sandwiches used to be ... well, palatable. (Not sure their burgers ever were.) But that was a long time ago too.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

When it was new, Garfield was funny. Sort of the way I expect McDonalds served something resembling real food.

Now both are predictable and...mass produced by formula. And yep, fat is a valid comparison, too...

[wookiee71.livejournal.com]

It's the sad state of affairs that safety and the need to not have to think is so rampant everywhere. Both McDonald's and Garfield give people that aspect. They don't have to think about what they're reading or what they're getting when they read Garfield and eat McDonald's. It's just the convenience and simplicity of thought that they choose for those moments.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

An interesting angle that hadn't occurred to me. You have a point. Looking at them that way, both are safe, comfortable and consistent.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

what does that make Family Circus? (shudder)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Gerber strained baby food?