But even then I assume that it’s late September right now which mean his birthday just happened and it would still be 2 years since he would turn 17 next year.
Maybe the problem is the Lessick’s grandfather? I imagine that Howard’s not allowed to watch any R rated stuff in the house or go outside except for school (strict old man! – hence the “escape” comment). His high school buddies keep telling him stuff about the show, maybe even showing him some youtube videos in their phones, and he goes crazy for the boobs, sex and violence.
So this is his anxiety-ridden non-greeting to his sister: “Yeah yeah, hi and stuff, now can I get to the Game of Thrones Marathon already?”
Yeah, my parents (actually just my mother, but they’re practically a single entity where rules are concerned) were pretty strict about it. Once I turned 18, though, pretty much all bets were off. In fact, tying back into the strip’s topic, me and my parents (my parents and I, dammit) just got finished watching the first two seasons of GoT on DVD as a family.
Oh, you youngsters have it so easy. When I was a minor, “porn on the computer” would have consisted of ASCII printouts. We had to make do with catalogs, illicitly-acquired PLAYBOYs, and in some cases, National Geographic.
Now they just pipe it into your house along with the utilities. :p
I did, having been an irritatingly guilt-ridden kid. Although luckily my Dad insisted I watch most of his R-rated sci-fi movies with him when I was little.
I was going to say me, but I looked it up and the R-ratings 17+ debuted when I was 10. I just don’t think there were any R-rated movies that caught my interest until Animal House came out in 1978. And I was already 17 or over by then anyway. But to make up for that, my friend and I stayed over and watched it twice in a row w/o paying for another ticket.
My folks were much more OK with R-rated comedies, as opposed to violent movies, a philosophy I can agree with. Once I hit my teens or so, they largely trusted me to seek out my own entertainment.
My parents took me to see “Animal House” as a toddler. (No sitter, I’m guessing.) My mother was mortified by the first topless scene. I remember none of it. (Until I saw it at college – nigh-mandatory, as much of it was filmed there.)
The first R rated movie I saw in theatres was Robocop. My dad dragged my mom and I to see it and my mom covered my eyes during the super gorey scenes (I was 7 at the time). 😛
My folks were weird about what they allowed. South Park debuted when I was in my mid-teens, and my sister was 11 or 12, and we’d sit down and watch that as a family.
Also, I was the youngster of my graduating class, so it happened to pass that when they took the entire 11th grade on a field trip to see Saving Private Ryan, it meant my school took me to an R-rated movie on my 16th birthday.
The age is 17 here in the U.S, but I’d already seen R-rated stuff many times before then.
The first time I can say for sure was when I saw the Matrix at age 11. That was with adults, but not entirely “supervised”.
I saw the approximate equivalent of an R-rated movie earlier than that when I saw Airplane, which is shockingly rated G, but nowadays would either get PG-13 or R for its sexual humor.
The first R-rated movie I saw without adults around was T2: Judgment day at 14 or 15.
Discussion (217) - “Escape”
AHR
Oh god I want to strangle him. Nicely done, Willis!
Kernanator
And betting is now closed! Thank you so very much for playing!
Yotomoe
I still say the correct answer was yesterday’s strip.
Mr. Random
No, yesterday he was random. Today he is an asshole. Randomness will be abided but assholishness shall be punished to the fullest extent of mob law.
Kernanator
Mr. Random knows where it’s at.
GoldStarz
Yesterday he was an asshole too, we just didn’t know because it was but a prelude of the assholier things to come.
GoldStarz
That’s Howard.
Kernanator
That’s Our Howard!
Yotomoe
Not mine. I demand a paternity test.
Aizat
I would raise mine differently.
Doctor_Who
Mine neither, he looks nothing like me.
/Still not ginger.
GoldStarz
Well he must obviously look like his other parent.
arjay2813
i liked that he liked GoT, until this morning, now i’m with you
Aisling
I want to help!
Shark_Spoon_HOOHAHA
He’s a charmer, isnt he?
DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
Wellllll, the bullies like him….so to speak…
JebJeb
Kinda want to strangle him. Or crack something over his head in hopes massive head trauma changes his personality.
Yotomoe
Y’know, from conscious to un.
Geminia999
Soooo, he needs to watch Game of Thrones that much? I’d think he’d be up to date. Also, wouldn’t he need to wait 2 years, not 1?
Aizat
Nobody got time for that.
Kennerly
Maybe he’s homeschooled. It would explain the poor social skills.
Ryorin
Dude, not cool.
Aizat
Or he could have a very short attention span.
begbert2
Alternatively he could have gone to a public school. That would explain his poor social skills.
Seriously, the dude is 16. And a nerd. At *best* he’s got a nerd social group to not learn how to talk to girls in. At worst, well.
Kernanator
At worst, he doesn’t even have that much and doesn’t even have friends.
StClair
at that age, the nerd social groups tend to [i]reinforce[/i] the bad ideas (including how to talk to girls), because no one knows any better.
StClair
reinforce
(stupid trained fingers)
Crimson Magic
His Grandpa probably doesn’t let him, and this is one of Howard’s few chances to escape his authority.
Ryorin
He might have a late-autumn birthday. I had a friend who turned 18 during our first year of college. It’s not the most common thing, but it happens.
Geminia999
But even then I assume that it’s late September right now which mean his birthday just happened and it would still be 2 years since he would turn 17 next year.
Or maybe he just skipped a grade or something?
Kernanator
Late September is not the same thing as late autumn.
(Late November birthday here)
Geminia999
Ah, miss read it as august.
Jarrod
I had a friend in college who turned 17 during his first semester of college. Lots of early admissions are possible.
inkwell
I have a friend who didn’t turn 18 until January of our first year of college.
Maybe Howard is a less successful Dougie Howser.
Animal
Mrs. Animal graduated high school two years early and went to college when she was just barely 16. Because she’s a genius.
For further evidence: She married me.
begbert2
Bears take all the good ones.
That’s going to be the excuse I use next thanksgiving.
Animal
Yeah, well, it wasn’t easy – I had to go all the way to Iraq to find her.
Fernando
Maybe the problem is the Lessick’s grandfather? I imagine that Howard’s not allowed to watch any R rated stuff in the house or go outside except for school (strict old man! – hence the “escape” comment). His high school buddies keep telling him stuff about the show, maybe even showing him some youtube videos in their phones, and he goes crazy for the boobs, sex and violence.
So this is his anxiety-ridden non-greeting to his sister: “Yeah yeah, hi and stuff, now can I get to the Game of Thrones Marathon already?”
Morgauxo
I don’t think he has any high school buddies.
Taigan
Howard has gone five whole minutes without mentioning Star Trek. This is, indeed, a strange new universe.
Ragnal
You, with the black hair. You’re not helping her point.
Plasma Mongoose
Hands up anyone who actually waited until they turned 18 to watch R-rated stuff… anyone?
Aizat
Nope.
Kennerly
My dad let me watch American Werewolf in London when I was 3.
Animal
My Dad let me watch “Howdy Doody” when I was three.
Kernanator
Me, though mostly because of my parents.
Plasma Mongoose
You poor devil.
Kernanator
Yeah, my parents (actually just my mother, but they’re practically a single entity where rules are concerned) were pretty strict about it. Once I turned 18, though, pretty much all bets were off. In fact, tying back into the strip’s topic, me and my parents (my parents and I, dammit) just got finished watching the first two seasons of GoT on DVD as a family.
Plasma Mongoose
Until this strip, I didn’t even know that GoT was R-rated as I just haven’t felt the desire to even try watching GoT as of this time.
kateastrophe
It is more than R-rated. It strays toward X-rated pretty often. It’s NC-17 at the very best.
saltchocolate
Me, too — same reason.
JebJeb
My parents tried… Until I turned 11, then they just gave up.
Plasma Mongoose
I pretty much was able to watch anything uptil 18+ rated once I became taller than my mother when I was 12ish.
Wonder Wig
*laughs*
Yotomoe
Once I found out how easy it is to find porn on the computer all bets were off.
StClair
Oh, you youngsters have it so easy. When I was a minor, “porn on the computer” would have consisted of ASCII printouts. We had to make do with catalogs, illicitly-acquired PLAYBOYs, and in some cases, National Geographic.
Now they just pipe it into your house along with the utilities. :p
Luzahn
I did, having been an irritatingly guilt-ridden kid. Although luckily my Dad insisted I watch most of his R-rated sci-fi movies with him when I was little.
Aizat
Does Hokuto no Ken counts? Or MK4?
Plasma Mongoose
Yes as many parents assumed that all animated stuff is for kids.
Aizat
No, not anime, the manga. I read it when I was 5 years old.
brionl
I was going to say me, but I looked it up and the R-ratings 17+ debuted when I was 10. I just don’t think there were any R-rated movies that caught my interest until Animal House came out in 1978. And I was already 17 or over by then anyway. But to make up for that, my friend and I stayed over and watched it twice in a row w/o paying for another ticket.
AgentKeen
Are you kidding? My parents almost encouraged it (with their supervision and approval) while I just wanted to watch cartoons…
Tanarin
Not I. Been a fan of the Alien franchise since I was 8, and, watched many many R-rated movies before then.
Rex Hondo
My folks were much more OK with R-rated comedies, as opposed to violent movies, a philosophy I can agree with. Once I hit my teens or so, they largely trusted me to seek out my own entertainment.
Cagooner
My parents are the complete opposite.
They think the jokes are “inappropriate”, even though
we live in America, where 12 year olds say that stuff.
StClair
My parents took me to see “Animal House” as a toddler. (No sitter, I’m guessing.) My mother was mortified by the first topless scene. I remember none of it. (Until I saw it at college – nigh-mandatory, as much of it was filmed there.)
Doctor_Who
Started when I was seven when my cousins were babysitting me and rented a Nightmare on Elm Street.
Scared the shit out of me and still one of my favorite movies of all time.
The original, not the remake. Remake sucks.
Dierna
The first R rated movie I saw in theatres was Robocop. My dad dragged my mom and I to see it and my mom covered my eyes during the super gorey scenes (I was 7 at the time). 😛
Quinctia
My folks were weird about what they allowed. South Park debuted when I was in my mid-teens, and my sister was 11 or 12, and we’d sit down and watch that as a family.
Also, I was the youngster of my graduating class, so it happened to pass that when they took the entire 11th grade on a field trip to see Saving Private Ryan, it meant my school took me to an R-rated movie on my 16th birthday.
SHAZAM
I know I watched something 15 (that’s what we have in the UK) before I was 15 but honestly I have no desire to see much 18 rated stuff.
Totz the Plaid
The age is 17 here in the U.S, but I’d already seen R-rated stuff many times before then.
The first time I can say for sure was when I saw the Matrix at age 11. That was with adults, but not entirely “supervised”.
I saw the approximate equivalent of an R-rated movie earlier than that when I saw Airplane, which is shockingly rated G, but nowadays would either get PG-13 or R for its sexual humor.
The first R-rated movie I saw without adults around was T2: Judgment day at 14 or 15.
jaimehlers