Issue 43 commentary

This is one of the rare issues written almost entirely by me, which results in it being lighter on the jokes. For the most part, I stole the "punchline" of the issue from an episode of The League of Gentlemen, the one where Charlie starts to fall in love with Tony. The original joke was about calamari--I improved upon it by changing it to steak!

I thought it was good to do some actual character development. Sure does look like Sappho's life has sucked so far, doesn't it?

Marlene's lines:
"This ends now, you bitch!"
"I've had it up to here with your evasions, your lies, your shit! Always acting like you can't understand me!"
"Hey! Is that some sort of ethnic slur?"

P.S. Sappho can no longer watch Barney without noticing how the oldest girl on the show hugs Barney a lot more than all the other kids.