It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
Muir, of course, is trying to demonstrate how truly broad-minded he is, no not racist, not racist at all, but his attempt is this bizarre effort at the old joke form that just baffles you the more you read it. (The Ukrainian ethnicity is being used as an identifier alongside the Christian and Jewish religions, because, well, because Muir doesn't think about things.)
He might be buying into the Russian propaganda that Ukrainians are "Nazis", thus making it weird that a Ukrainian would hang out with a Jew...?
ReplyDeleteMaybe, though honestly, Muir seems to have largely just fallen in love with the joke format more than thinking about how it works.
DeleteWhich reminds me of how a few weeks back we were pondering the meaning of the "Why hasn't Gore gone public?" line from 11/5/2002. Your take was that Muir just has a punchline in mind and works backwards from there, even if the lead-in line he comes up with doesn't make sense. (Plenty of writers work backwards that way, but the "making sense" thing is a high priority.) I can't say, but we all agreed that we couldn't figure out what the line was supposed to mean. Which is significant, I think, since you're pretty deft at interpreting Muir's jibberjabber when I'm just left baffled.
DeleteActually, now that I look at that strip again, Jan's line in panel two doesn't really seem to make much sense, either. She just asked Damon how his high school experience was, and he responds "poor", to which she replies "See? That's why Gore's against vouchers." Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't really follow.
My GUESS is it relies on the reader doing a lot of heavy lifting to connect the dots, i.e. --
"Hi, I'm Al Gore. You hear that guy just say his high school experience was poor? That shows the public schools needs better funding, which is why I oppose vouchers because they suck money out of the system."
But that's just me guessing. None of that is stated, and it's not implied clearly enough. If that was even the point Jan is supposed to be making in the first place. If it isn't, well.....put that one in the "Huh?" column, too.