Talk:Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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Contents 1 Flaming 2 Brown-hair green-shirt man 3 "Stolen joke" 4 This isn't quite true

[edit] Flaming

Interpretation vs. Incarnation: Interpretation works too. It's an interpretation of the same type of humor in a different format. I used interpretation because the word incarnation had already been used a few times in the article. I'll be respectful and keep the change since you've expressed a preference. Please don't flame. Explain your differences without being petty or name-calling. Rmj12345 06:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brown-hair green-shirt man

The following appears in the body of the article:

"The majority of the comics feature a man with brown hair and a green shirt. He is always in the bottom-left corner of the strip when he appears (although he is always a different person)."

I've checked the archives, and while it's true that Weiner has a tendency to give his characters a green shirt, and many of these have brown hair, the included text overstates things. Also, when this man shows up, it isn't always in the bottom-left corner.

A conservative guess would place the regularity of this character-type in less than 5% of the SMBC strips; I propose the statement be removed from the article. I would have done so myself, but there seems to be some tension between some editors on this article at the moment. GreenCrayon 13:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

• Good idea. I'll go ahead and delete it, if there are no other objections. --Rmj12345 18:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Stolen joke"

Should it note that it was not a serious response? Some people think he actually accused her of stealing the joke. --Raijinili 02:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

It'd be fine with me. Rmj12345 06:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This isn't quite true

"Like many single panel comics, there are no recurring characters." Moloch was in 3 comics I believe, and there may be a few other recurring characters (not counting characters like Jesus, Batman, etc.) Perhaps this sentence should be amended. --Pdeq 12:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I suggest changing it to "Like many single panel comics, SMBC does not focus on recurring characters." That, or similar, should be appropriate. :) --Muna (talk) 17:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)