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[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago
[-] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago

Yeah unexpected darkness there

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 4 months ago
[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Kermit misses the whole arm in there.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

he's not the only one. 😢

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You had Jim Hensons arm in you? That's a story for an autobiography.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

it could have been. I got a gym membership, but maybe I misunderstood.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Sorry I'm officially lost here.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

"gym" is pronounced "jim", not "gei-hm"

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Man I wish we could get like a bummer tag for posts so I know what not to click on :(

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I'm glad you can feel that way. I, on the other hand, can't. I just wish I could have a way to not see the sad and fucked up stuff on here all the time.

[-] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Fucking love Butters. This is his best quote in the whole show. Just pure wholesomeness.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, and seeing the lowest bottoms of the human existence every time you scroll your newsfeed doesn't make you more sensitive to it, it numbs you to it.

This comic is sad in the way that the Fry's dog episode is sad. It's devastating the first time you see it but the more you think about it the more you realize that there was/is no other message, they're just saying death really sucks, and yeah it does, but that doesn't mean it's healthy to relive it over and over and over.

[-] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Didn't Jim Henson die a completely preventable death, too? He had strep throat that went untreated for several days and it caused organ failures from toxic shock syndrome.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dr. David Gelmont announced that Henson had died from Streptococcus pneumoniae, an infection that causes bacterial pneumonia. However, on May 29, Gelmont reclassified it as organ dysfunction resulting from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. Gelmont noted Henson might have been saved had he gone to the hospital just a few hours sooner. Medical expert Lawrence D. Altman also stated that Henson's death "may have shocked many Americans who believed that bacterial infections no longer could kill with such swiftness." A lack of familiarity with this possibility, combined with the then-recent deaths of prominent men (including Rock Hudson, Liberace, Roy Cohn, and others) whose AIDS deaths had first been publicly euphemized as other illnesses due to AIDS's pervasive stigma, led to a false but widespread rumor that Henson had died of AIDS--a rumor that was swiftly and directly refuted by Dr. Gelmont. Frank Oz believed the stress of negotiating with Disney led to Henson's death, stating in a 2021 interview: "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick." Henson was cremated and in 1992, his ashes were scattered near Taos in New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pneumoniae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pyogenes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So he pulled a Bob Marley, then. Also known as a Steve Jobs.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

As far as the other comment suggests, it wasn't so much a case of choosing to die or choosing a ridiculous "treatment" but just getting unlucky with having step go real bad in a hurry.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Except Henson wasn't a jackass in real life.

[-] BuckenBerry@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He did cheat on his wife.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago
[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

Taste your bro's cock before it's too late, bros.

[-] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Wait, lemme message my bro real quick

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I don't think that's an actual Penny Arcade comic... But it's something they would publish.

Was this a guest artist filling in for them? This sounds like exactly the kind of joke their guest artists would do.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was done by whoever does Haus of Decline. It's not an official guest comic, but it is an affectionate parody.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

As sad as the loss of Jim Henson has been to the world, Ernie continues to be performed on Sesame Street by others willing to stick their hands up his butt. (I'm just saying.)

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago
[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

jim henson was the voice of ernie. frank oz voiced bert

e. they replaced him https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Sesame-Street/Ernie/

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Jim Henson performed Ernie and he died.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Who keeps putting all these tears in my eyes?

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

Their tub has three knobs?

[-] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 29 points 4 months ago

Hot, cold, and tub/shower selector is what I assume

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago
[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Your diverter is a knob? Interesting. I've only seen them as a little pull handle, usually on the spout.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

My tub had 3 knobs. Middle one sends water to shower head instead of the tub. You wouldn't know unless you grew up in a house with 60s style plumbing

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

the mythic Third Temperature which only muppets can feel.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Hot, cold, felt

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

"R-r-rubber ducky y-y-you're th-the one..."

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Man, I hate you.

[-] froh42@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 2 points 4 months ago

I had this dream. But instead of Bert and Ernie it was me and my dad.

this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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