Friday, June 14, 2024

Shakespeare in FoxTrot's My Hot Dog Went Out, Can I Have Another?

Amend, Bill. My Hot Dog Went Out, Can I Have Another?. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2005.

I'm afraid there's only one comic from My Hot Dog Went Out, Can I Have Another? that's related to Shakespeare for FoxTrot Friday this week.

And that comic is only very subtly Shakespearean.

The plot runs like this: Andy asks Peter if he's finished studying for his English final.

Peter hasn't.

But he still has time.

Here's how that plays out:


The Shakespeare comes in one of two directions. Either Peter laughably thinks he can study Tolstoy and Shakespeare in forty-five minutes—and, given the characterization of Peter and of jokes about his studying is not unreasonable—or he assumes that the author of King Lear is Tolstoy—again, not outside the realms of possibility.

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