I was reading up on the Pillsbury Doughboy (“anthropomorphic dough,” Wikipedia calls him) when I realized that the boy shares his name with the American infantry. I know what a WWI doughboy is, but as I confessed to my fambly, I had never noticed the wordplay.
And Elaine: “Do you think the Pillsbury Doughboy gets all his clothes at Men’s Wearhouse?”
It’s domestic comedy because of this previous moment of domestic comedy.
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[Our daughter Rachel says that Elaine’s quip is an example of a callback. Merriam-Webster’s examples of the word in recent use on the Internets reflect this meaning, not yet included among the dictionary’s definitions.]
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Monday, November 28, 2022
Domestic comedy
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Domestic comedy
“You’re like between a fugue state and frenzy.”
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[To the reader who tweeted a link to my blog: thanks for your interest, but I’m not quoting Van Dyke Parks in this post. Domestic-comedy posts are a matter of my wife Elaine, our children Rachel and Ben, and me. It’s all in the fambly. This one is me speaking.]
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Domestic comedy
At breakfast, re: a difference in pronunciation:
“We have regional dialects: your side of the table, my side of the table.”
[The speaker here was joking. Domestic comedy, not malice.]
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Illinoism
Need worked
Monday, August 19, 2019
Domestic comedy
[The art-supplies store had an odd-looking wastebasket.]
“Would you recognize that as R2-D2?”
“No. My knowledge of Star Trek is pretty limited.”
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[Apparently it can be domestic comedy even if, or especially if, one isn’t trying to be funny.]
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Domestic comedy
“I want to try the Glenlivet and the Glenmorangie together to decide which to buy more of.”
“Glen or Glenda.”
Happy anniversary to my partner in domestic comedy, who thought of the movie title — snap, just like that. Happy anniversary, Elaine.
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Domestic comedy
“Just so you know — it’s pronounced Stōffer’s.”
“What did I say?”
“Stauffer’s. Just so you don’t embarrass yourself in public.”
“I wouldn’t embarrass myself. It’s not like a shibboleth — except among the astronauts.”
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[If nothing here makes sense, see this post.]
Friday, October 17, 2014
Domestic comedy
“‘. . . the wine-dark fleece.’ Was that one mine?”
“No, that was mine.”
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[Not all fleeces are golden.]
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Domestic comedy
“I had them when I was young, when they were in style.”
“Were they ever in style?”
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[They? These.]
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Domestic comedy
“We should watch — we haven’t seen it in years, and gaslight is a word of the year.”
“Michael, we watched Gaslight just a few months ago.”
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[Let the record show that Elaine’s response was instantaneous.]
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Domestic comedy
“He’s the real thing — a total phony.”
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Domestic comedy
“That guy looks familiar. Everyone on this show looks familiar.”
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[The show was Murder, She Wrote. Familiar faces in new arrangements.]
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019
Domestic comedy
“Did the museum send you the app for the subtitles?”
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“Look at the color palette.”
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[People who wake up while watching TV say the darndest things. First item, during The Late Show. Second, Perry Mason.]
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Domestic comedy
“I’m just going to make a cup of coffee.”
“I’ll put water on for you.”
“I’ll continue narrating.”
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Friday, May 12, 2017
Domestic comedy
[After warbling a couple of lines of “It Ain’t Me Babe.”]
“Aren’t you glad I’m not Bob Dylan?”
“Yes — you’d be insufferable.”
“But I’d be out on the road all the time.”
“Then it’d be okay.”
“No!”
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Domestic comedy
“You’re not bringing mad money?”
“I have my phone.”
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[Mad money: “Money carried by a girl or woman with which to pay her own way home if she leaves her escort, usu. because of his sexual advances.” Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, A Dictionary of American Slang, 1975.]
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Domestic comedy
“I’m not a big fan of Errol Flynn. But at least it’s not a swashbuckling movie.”
“It’s post-swashbuckle.”
“He’s too old to buckle or swash.”
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[“It”: The Big Boodle (dir. Richard Wilson, 1957). We didn’t see it through.]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Domestic comedy
While watching the New Deal documentary The River:
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Domestic comedy
[The subject was breakfast.]
“It’s a good restaurant. It has these things called ‘eggs’?”
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[Please hear the second sentence with a purposeful bit of uptalk.]
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Domestic comedy
[Trump’s lawyers have been moaning about how many documents they have to read: War and Peace seventy-eight times a day, &c., &c.]
“Don’t these people have staffs? Or staves?”
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[Only the composer in our household would think of the musical plural.]
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