Can somebody explain the red XXX blinking and the whole last panel? Does that reference some TV show I don't know?
TIA
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2026
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It's referencing the game show Family Feud. They ask a whole bunch of people a question, in this case it's what will you be when you grow up? Then the contestants need to guess what the most responded answers were. They're allowed three wrong guesses before the other team gets a chance to jump in and try to answer.
Good luck getting a quiznos job
Hey now there are about 148 left in the United States and almost that many total in other countries
I would have been a great spongmonkey.
Lol right? How old is this one?
Apartment in the city that a an "ok musician" can afford? Now that's a funny joke.
Maybe if they have rich parents.
You can get a job in the military as a musician right out of high school and make a livable wage with a pension. You don't have to be great at it.
If your personal ethics allow it of course.
Perfectly doable if that apartment also has 12 other people in it and only one bathroom.
Or if you have a time machine and can go back to 1974
Friends was fucking wild. So so musician, waitress, and idk what the fuck half of em did, but they all had sick condos and apartments and had time to meet up for breakfast in the morning
Of the ones you couldn't name: one of them was an archeologist and professor, one of them was a successful working actor, one of them was a private chef with a catering business. So all doing pretty well for themselves, by all accounts
Either way, I am thoroughly jealous of their TV portrayal of financial status and friend proximity. Honestly if I could have breakfast with friends on the daily and hang at a coffee shop in the evenings most days Iβd be pretty happy.
at the time i remember an article that estimated they'd need $150k wage to live like that. That was decades ago, so not sure what the equivalent would be now?
The last one might be able to rent an apartment some 10km of that area...
With that last one they actually went out of their way to explain how she could afford that apartment and it was basically the old "pretending my grandma isn't dead to keep the fixed rental rate" game.
I think thatβs the real issue here. If youβre wealthy, this is perfectly doable.
From what I see itβs an paradox, where the jobs that donβt make much money (artists/teachers) tend to attract wealthy people and the high paying jobs (engineers/scientists) tend to be lower class people who need high paying jobs
It is hard as an artist seeing your friends who started out in the same circles as you, doing effortlessly well with the parental support that they have. You can't resent them for it because why would you, if your parents were able, they'd do the same.
But you thought you were equals, starving as martyrs for your respective passions.... but, they had a parachute and you didn't.
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