29th July 2014, 8:17 PM
Oh yes, those are real alright. A lot of those are directly from a web site currently hosting this old series, the others are from a few other places around the web, but yes, they ARE all real.
If you notice, they really aren't all that far from what Pooh would normally say in the cartoons. The intention is that he's just absent minded, not really thinking about any horribly insulting implications in what he says (there's also some pretty regressive social commentary if you want to look at it from that angle, such as suggesting that being depressed is a choice). However, that works a lot better with that kindly simple minded voice from the cartoons. In stark black and white text, it comes across as intentionally mean spirited.
Now that I've explained the joke, it isn't so funny any more, but still, this ran for about a decade from the 1970's to the 1980's. It's odd that no one seemed to notice just what an amazingly bad light this cast the Hundred Acre Woods in. It suggests Christopher Robbin isn't around mainly because he found them all too "toxic" and moved on with his life. That, or since these all represent his play-sessions and such, that he's acting out the sort of passive aggressive waspy arguments his aristocratic parents were undoubtedly involved in.
Newspaper comics have some dark undertones it seems. This is just a bit more naked than most. Remember that Garfield, as a comic, has a horribly depressed outcast in the form of Jon Arbuckle, slowly descending into madness. Garfield's antics just disguise that, as "Garfield Minus Garfield" reveals, by ONLY removing Garfield and NOTHING ELSE.
If you notice, they really aren't all that far from what Pooh would normally say in the cartoons. The intention is that he's just absent minded, not really thinking about any horribly insulting implications in what he says (there's also some pretty regressive social commentary if you want to look at it from that angle, such as suggesting that being depressed is a choice). However, that works a lot better with that kindly simple minded voice from the cartoons. In stark black and white text, it comes across as intentionally mean spirited.
Now that I've explained the joke, it isn't so funny any more, but still, this ran for about a decade from the 1970's to the 1980's. It's odd that no one seemed to notice just what an amazingly bad light this cast the Hundred Acre Woods in. It suggests Christopher Robbin isn't around mainly because he found them all too "toxic" and moved on with his life. That, or since these all represent his play-sessions and such, that he's acting out the sort of passive aggressive waspy arguments his aristocratic parents were undoubtedly involved in.
Newspaper comics have some dark undertones it seems. This is just a bit more naked than most. Remember that Garfield, as a comic, has a horribly depressed outcast in the form of Jon Arbuckle, slowly descending into madness. Garfield's antics just disguise that, as "Garfield Minus Garfield" reveals, by ONLY removing Garfield and NOTHING ELSE.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)