Charles Addams

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[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Little help ?


( only joking, readers ! )

[Mini]

Little help ?


( only joking, readers ! )

I think the joke is that there's the outline of a UFO parked outside. Of a barbers!

[Cuellar]

Awww - find this incredibly sweet!

[Twit 2]

_{That is horrible. Sorry.}

That's ace.

[gatchamandave]

_{(note the time)}

Post credit scene for What We Do in the Shadows

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[jobotic]

Awww - find this incredibly sweet!

What a great name. Orkins.

When I have a chauffeur I shall call him Orkins, and that shall be his name.

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_{I do think this time I really am running out of good ones.}

[Annie Labuntur]

I wouldn't say that's particularly bad though. An illogical joke, but it has something to say about subservient staff brainwashed into not thinking for themselves, and the suicide is typically dark.

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[Ghughesarch]

Oh, that really didn't need the last frame!
But thanks for all these, Manticore, my little bit of pleasure every day

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According to this article, the 'gun in a violin case' idea only entered the US national consciousness around 1930, which wasn't long before the cartoon, so maybe Addams thought it needed spelling out!

https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-concept-of-Thompson-submachine-guns-inside-of-violin-cases-come-from

[Ghughesarch]

Just realised I'm puzzled by the outward sloping Windows. What are they travelling in? An airship?

[Mr Banlon]

Just realised I'm puzzled by the outward sloping Windows. What are they travelling in? An airship?

Not sloping outwards. It's a Greyhound bus.

[manticore]

As I'm nearly running out of really good ones, have some puzzles. Cross-dressing conjoined twins reading McCall's magazine in a dressing room? Eh? And why do they look so miserable? Might need Attila for this one. (1957)

[Dusty Gozongas]

Possibly some reference to the Hilton Sisters? Still reasonably famous (and exploited as ever) but things were umm "winding down" for them at around that time.

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[Annie Labuntur]

The joke is probably that McCall's promoted itself as the magazine of Togetherness - the slogan's under the masthead here.

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[Isnt Anything]

Oh i like that !

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[Ferris]

??

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It hasn't scanned very well - the sign says 'HARTSDALE' which may be a clue. It's a cover picture from 1980.

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_{Okay I like this one. There may be a few left.}