tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779496577046359314.post4104895775483094751..comments2023-09-25T04:00:33.749-07:00Comments on Doug Funnie is Crazy: Episode 40, Part 1: Doug's Math ProblemPorkchophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02967246740118354413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779496577046359314.post-79362091524107796182011-12-02T18:34:25.962-08:002011-12-02T18:34:25.962-08:00I'm both glad and saddened that Doug hasn'...I'm both glad and saddened that Doug hasn't realized by now his parents just don't care about any of their children, and are more or less absent in their lives. It's been several years since I've heavily watched the series, but I am an avid reader of these wonderful analyses, and it seems to me his parents are strangely absent from almost everything, despite them having relatively menial, easy jobs. When his parents are involved they usually appear to actually be the instigator, or at least, aggregator, of Doug's conflict. Clearly, Judy fared poorly from her upbringing as well. It seems likely then that the cause of Doug's psychoses are not merely neurological. That is, these fantasies and hallucinations are really the fears and hopes of a severely abused, and/or neglected child, and stem from psychological, rather than mere physiological causes. While this may be a simple panic attack, Doug seems to display the same behavior a child would if afraid of being beaten or in other ways abused. Doug's pattern of action seems to be one of such terrific fear in this, as well as the episode with the breaking of the vase, as to compel him to do anything, however irrational. The events in question may have even ended in a darker way than Doug described, as he never explained the resolution of the large ink and white-out stain on what looks to be carpet, the phone ripped out of the wall, or even the fire, as we can all agree it probably wasn't put out by an anthropomorphic dog, which would have all justified punishment, although the kind the Funnie parents dish out might leave marks. Instead of being vivid hallucinations, I think they may just be the fantasy writing of a sad child. That said, Doug's more casual or even rebellious attitude towards his parents in other circumstances, like when he directly went against his father's wishes when they built a kite together, though these events may also be a kind of wish fulfillment, may point to a childhood of mere neglect. In many of Doug's negative fantasies his parents either: no longer love him, display severe disappointment, show incredible anger, and/or have an outright hatred for him. This may point to the fact that, much more than just needing pills, Doug, and Judy, may need to be moved into foster care, and their parents put into prison.WO-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10687249979582132489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779496577046359314.post-7417922193621518082011-11-23T12:34:25.978-08:002011-11-23T12:34:25.978-08:00At least Bart imagined he was comfortably inside t...<i>At least Bart imagined he was comfortably inside the train. Doug doesn't know how to do the problem and the trains collide and the fantasy ends.</i><br /><br />Oh that was a fun episode! When that train collide, only Bart make an a-hole of himself on the classroom floor!<br /><br />http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae342/dougfunnieiscrazy/Dougs%20Math%20Problem/06.jpg<br />You have to admit that's one arty fantasy!<br /><br />http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae342/dougfunnieiscrazy/Dougs%20Math%20Problem/07.jpg<br />I felt the bigger problem here was in how the envelope wasn't colored in a darker shade of yellow to suggest the letter inside was folded halfway to give the impression that you couldn't dread past that first line. Certainly wasn't worked out just right.<br /><br /><i>Reaching for tissues to clean that up, he knocks over some ink.</i><br /><br />We never do see Doug working with a dip pen with Higgins Drawing Ink much in this cartoon. :-P<br /><br /><i>"I don't know why I was so scared of that stupid letter. It's amazing how much pain I went through to avoid something painful that turned out to be pretty great."</i><br /><br />If only reality worked that way. Every time the mail comes I dread getting another creditor's bill that my folks may pick up first. It's never a happy ending. :-(<br /><br /><i>And there's no way Doug could read half of the letter using the sunlight in real life. At best it would just block the sunlight only.</i><br /><br />Best I usually get is jumbled lettering that is either upside down or rightside up depending on how the letter was folded, and usually the envelope itself should be watermarked from the inside to prevent you from doing so.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779496577046359314.post-15913002613973182402011-11-23T07:26:03.508-08:002011-11-23T07:26:03.508-08:00First show of the final season of the Nick version...First show of the final season of the Nick version, and our favorite sixth grade psychopath waste no time having a panic attack.<br /><br />I can't believe it was so much of a struggle for Doug to open that letter. I've opened many letters, and for the most part, I've found it pretty easy to open them.<br /><br />And there's no way Doug could read half of the letter using the sunlight in real life. At best it would just block the sunlight only.<br /><br />Finally, I've watched this episode for the longest time, and I didn't know steam could hinder writing in a letter so badly.vnisanian2001https://www.blogger.com/profile/10573983486399817130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779496577046359314.post-46839020584194814862011-11-23T05:57:27.954-08:002011-11-23T05:57:27.954-08:00Mrs. Wingo gave Roger a pretty lenient punishment ...Mrs. Wingo gave Roger a pretty lenient punishment for cheating on the math test. Just about any of the teachers I had in grade/high school would've, at least, given him a 0 on the test. More likely, they would've also called his mom about it. <br /><br />On the other hand, Mrs. Wingo might actually be the most caring teacher in the world to suggest tutoring for Doug after he failed just one test. Any other teacher would've just scratched her had and been like, "Hmmmm, what happened to him here?" and then moved on to grading the other tests, probably seeing at least two or three other failing grades on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com