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“Now don’t you kids forget—stay away from old Mr. Weatherby’s place.”
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I read the disqus comments and still am not sure I get what is going on here. I thought maybe it had something to do with that nursery rhyme, but that doesn’t seem to work. The one explanation in the comments seems to require more intimate knowledge of another comic, which I do not 🤷♂️
Anyway, it seems if these two could combine houses, they would each have a better overall quality of shoe!
I think the joke here is just that she’s warning her kids to stay away from the weird old man’s house, which is kind of a trope on its own, and then merged with the nursery rhyme. The house she’s warning the kids to stay away from is a squalid, rundown house as you might expect, but it’s funny (presumably, ymmv) to think about what that would look like as a shoe.
I think the Archie references in the Disqus link are just amused by the coincidence that the random name Larson picked is close to the Archie principal, but that probably wasn’t intentional.
I was way over thinking this haha.
