Proof 15: Heavy Rotation

Printed 6-17-2004

Re-used 8-5-2004


I LOVE this one! Buddy used the "Hallucinator's Club" joke on June 17, 2004, then re-drew it and resubmitted it on August 5, 2004, a mere two months later. Could it be it just wasn't funny enough the first time and he felt all it needed was the extra audience member? Or is this like a radio media conglomerate playing and re-playing mediocre music over-and-over until it's burned into our collective psyches and eventually embraced as a pop icon?

I'm just axin'.


This gag was also used July 7, 1999 but it originally syndicated on 5-14-87. That means the same joke has been used four times. Here's how the original looked, all the way from 1987:

And, yes, it's a gag that I wrote.

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