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This strip is obviously referencing the lyrics to the classic Fats Domino song “Blueberry Hill”
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=YxZ5iVhQ6iI
But the lyrics go:
I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
…Thanks. Some of these references are a bit beyond my popculture knowledge. That song was published in 1940.
i only know this one because i saw a video like 10 years ago of Putin of all people singing it
If you grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and saw all those time life ads for oldies then you have heard of fats domino.
innnnn the country ooooooooof?
Boxcar Willie. I read a pulp book series about travel between universes where they took the popular stuff on one world and hocked it on another. That was the reason that boxcar wilie albums existed.
…what
What, never heard of the country of Boxcar Willie?
I remember the first time I saw this comic, sometime in the nineties, I think. My dad explained it to me very similarly to how you did here.
There was a similar comic, which currently I can’t find; I don’t even remember if it was Far Side, but the art style in my head matches. The comic in question features two dogs hopping around a hillside covered in blueberries with one declaring to the other “you were right! This is thrilling!” I read them far enough apart in time that I think my dad had to explain it to me again.
In trying to find the latter comic, I discovered that Putin performed a cover of the song in 2010. Odd. Wiki page mentioning this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_Hill
My parents listened to old music, so I naturally got the reference immediately.
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See Futurama episode about Susan Boyle. Which they must have leapt on, ASAP, since the episode only premiered a full calendar year after her flash-in-the-pan fame.
That’s also the “shut up and take my money” episode, somehow.
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The issue with this comic is that it’s a reference more than a joke. You can see why it would be funny, but that’s not the same thing as being funny. You have to dissect the frog.
The gags that stand up are ones where ten years later you watch an old movie and go “Oh that’s where that’s from!”
i mean even if you don’t know the reference it’s still clear what the joke is, “drill” and “hill” rhyme and “blueberry hill” very much sounds like something you’d sing about (i mean the beatles sang about “strawberry hill”)
