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Sweet mother of Hank Ketchum. The kid looks like he’s a spokescreature for a candy bar discontinued because it contained large amounts of Mexican insecticide. Dad is spritzing sweat to indicate irritation, which is violates the basic rules of cartoons. Unless he’s sweating because he’s having a difficult time supressing his desire to kill everyone in the house, I guess. There’s no explaining Mom, though – cantaloupe-bosom with no cleavage, which is a neat trick, and eyewear that suggests the carcass of Woodsy Owl is out back by the garbage cans. Like most women of the era, she wore the bows of her glasses outside her hair, and had a prescription so strong she couldn't focus on anything.
Strangest of all? Dad’s nose.
This bears no resemblance to any sort of a caricature of human nose, but because Dennis’ dad had a pointed beak for a sniffer, this guy has the same thing with a few changes to make it legal. He looks like one of those cartoon fish that have hardware tools for snouts. The three dots probably indicate a reflected light source, which means his head is covered with oil. Either that or he's being targeted by the Pred |