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DUMBING OF AGE: COMIX ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN READ SHEET MUSIC
Posted on January 18, 2013 by David M Willis

238 thoughts on “DUMBING OF AGE: COMIX ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN READ SHEET MUSIC”

  1. SkepticJ

    Without pulling out my guitar: Barney’s “I Love You” song, yes?

    1. John Harmon

      Have some internets.

      1. SkepticJ

        When it comes to that song, there are no winners. 🙂

        My sister is 13 years younger than me, and she was at just the right age when Barney was in full force…

        1. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

          I MUST be tired. I should’ve known that pattern backwards and forward. I hummed it too fast I guess.

        2. Gus Snarp

          I had to count it to get it right.

        3. Tucker

          I love the Me Gusta Sarah is almost pulling in the last frame. It’s easily the best part of this strip.

        4. kiapdx

          More of a -_-“

        5. ComicGeek11

          It’s definately a No Me Gusta :3

        6. Zeptometer

          if it were anything like a me gusta face I would fucking drop this comic.

        7. Jererry

          Joyce might find it cute. Sarah, absolutely should not gusta in any way, shape or form.

        8. lauren

          Funny. I knew the song right away but could not for the life of me figure out what the joke was as I seem to have been able to successfully purge that terrible children’s show from my brain (phew) and was like “How does ‘The Old Man’ fit into the conversation???”

        9. Bob

          Thank you! I thought I was the only one who thought ‘This Old Man!’

        10. Halloween Jack

          Not at all.

        11. Tan

          You poor bastard. Have an internet cookie for your suffering.

        12. Tan

          Apparently my avatar is now suggestiveJoe. I’ll have to keep this in mind for future commenting.

        13. Roborat

          I got lucky, my kids hated Barney, and my daughter was just the right age for Sailor Moon (otherwise I would have had to watch it by myself).

        14. Tioras

          I’m lucky to have missed out on that craze. I hummed it and heard “This old man, he played one….”

        15. jesslin

          Thank you. I was desperately trying to figure out what playing knick-knack had to do with dinosaurs. I wondered if it was a regional verse-thing. Now I know it’s just an age/avoidance of kid-crap-thing. I’m good with that.

        16. dunder

          Yeah, I figured “knick-knack paddy whack give the dog a bone” got Dina’s interest. Y’know. ’cause she likes bone.

        17. Bickendan

          That’s the angle I had with the melody, but uh, your comment could easily be interpreted the wrong way…

        18. Furie

          Old and British here. I didn’t have a chance.

        19. Snograt

          Um, I’m old and British too (pushing fifty, as it happens.) Sadly I’m all to aware of that damn purple monstrosity and I knew that the music would be his theme tune, but worked it out afterwards just in case.

        20. Rin

          I got the same thing. I guess Barney makes a little more sense.

        21. Rin

          Though it had never occurred to me that Barney and “this old man” had the same melody.

        22. Mister Mercy

          Same here

        23. fundersam

          I read “This Old Man”, too. XD
          Way back, in the 90s, I had this computergame with children’s songs. The songs had illustrations where the people were – that’s right, I think you can guess – dinosaurs. Ta-da.

    2. Doctor_Who

      Yup. Took me a sec. Had to hum it out loud.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I cannot carry a tune, so I had no idea what the song was.

        1. SkepticJ

          I love that your Gravatar just changed to Evil Osaka.

        2. Shade

          I can’t either, but I guessed it. Just the only thing I could think of that would make Sarah make that face.

        3. Kas

          Same here… I considered dragging a musical friend over, but a quick hum of the song and I figured it seemed about right.

        4. Pyr05

          Nobody expects you to carry a tune Plasma. They’re heavy, and instantly encumber your movement. As such, I commend you on your desire for both speed and dodging. You have optimized yourself for dodgeball.

      2. Ziaheart

        I figured it was but hummed it to make sure.

      3. Link

        More like Humming of Age, from what it looks like in the comments.

    3. DanielleM

      I figured it was the theme song.

    4. SuziRoo

      First thought: Barney. Second thought: Surely not. Third thought: Check the comments. Fourth thought: Really?

      1. tahrey

        Yeah, it’s been years since I did any proper sight-reading, and being a 31 year old Brit I only know of Barney and his songs second-hand, but it’s quite clearly that one. Hard to mistake something so simplistic 😉

      2. tahrey

        Though thanks to the aforementioned background I -did- (like many others) have a brief moment of “when did ‘this’ old man have a pet dino?”

    5. Edward

      I hummed it out dead on accurate, but couldn’t put a name to the song.

      So there is hope people. It’s possible you may one day forget about Barney too.

      Now if we could just keep comic strip writers from reconstituting him again.

    6. Ivan

      This old man, he played one,
      He played knick-knack on my thumb;
      With a knick-knack paddywhack,
      Give the dog a bone,
      This old man came rolling home.

      1. smilr

        That is precisely what I was thinking. Then I though “what does this have to do with dinosaurs?”

        I had to come here and read the comments to figure out it’s Barney.

      2. Aric

        Thanks, I’m glad I’m not the only one too old to immediately think of Barney’s theme song first.

        1. Opus the Poet

          Unfortunately there is a crossover age where we had kids that would watch Barney and Friends, so older people than you know it also.

      3. casual observer

        That’s what first came to mind, and I was like; “There are no dinosaurs in that song!”

      4. cjmaloof

        I wondered if I’d forgotten a verse. “This old man, he played four-us…”

        1. HEYOUGUYZ!

          OH NO! A TYRANNO SAW(R) US!

        2. Leorale

          Yay

    7. BD

      Geez. I misread that as the Godzilla March…

    8. Kitschensyngk

      OH OF COURSE!! I hummed it and immediately thought of “This Old Man.”

      I’m a 90s kid, I should have known…

    9. Aisling

      Yay for comments or I would have never got the joke! lol

    10. leoatrox

      This would have been much better.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DZo3cdxdK4&index=2&list=FLesvHTw0K6KAQDJCQaq8A6w

  2. Jen Aside

    GAH I barely can read music, and I can still tell that’s “Barney” DX

  3. Sir Robin

    Ok, someone needs to translate the song for me

    1. otusasio451

      I love you. You love me. We’re a happy family.

      1. Sri

        I’m glad you posted the real third line. All I could hear was the parody we sang at Girl Scout Camp. ‘I hate you. You hate me. Let’s hang Barney from a tree.’

        1. DiDi

          Ha! I wasn’t in Girl Scouts. But Elementary school had another parody version we sang.

          With “Let’s get together and kill Barney” as the 3rd line.

        2. emeraldbeacon

          “…with a twelve gauge shotgun,
          *BANG* he’s on the floor!
          No more purple dinosaur.”

        3. Audiophillie

          Elementary school was a frightening place, in retrospect.

        4. Rognik

          At least we only sang about shooting dinosaurs, instead of actually carrying them like they do in today’s elementary school. *shudders*

        5. michaelANOFF

          My primary school had:
          “I love drugs, drugs love me,
          Crack cocaine and ecstasy,
          With a sniff sniff here and a puff puff there,
          now I’m in intensive care!”
          ….
          I grew up in an odd place.

        6. Blitz

          Today’s kids carry dinosaurs to school?

          That hardly seems fair. How did I miss out on this?

        7. Hylleddin

          “Deck the halls with gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la”
          “Light a match and hear the screams…”

          That was a favorite at my school. “children are innocent” my foot.

        8. Roborat

          Today’s elementary school kids bring birds to school?

        9. Jesse

          We had a similar one at my primary school:

          Sorry kids, no more fun
          I shot Barney up the bum
          With a shotgun, bang-bang
          Barney’s on the floor
          No more purple dinosaur

        10. Yarrr

          And the Animorphs one:

          You kill me
          I kill you
          We’re an alien family…

        11. Jackson

          And there’s the first alternate elementary-school version that I heard:

          I love you, you love me
          Homosexuality
          People think we are just friends
          Actually we’re lesbians

          …which, come to think of it, is actually not entirely unfitting for Dumbing of Age, depending on what your ships are.

        12. zfshiruba

          Our ‘Kill Barney’ song was set to Joy to the World.
          Joy to the World
          Barney’s dead
          We Barbequed his head
          Don’t worry about the body
          We flushed it down the potty
          And round and round it goes,
          and round and round it goes
          And round and round and round it goes

        13. Mada

          Oh my god I actually remember this one….

        14. Raibean

          I had “with a big shotgun and Barney on the floor, no more stupid dinosaur.”

        15. Raye J

          In my school, it was “Take a baseball bat and whack him on the head. Don’t tell Mommy, Barney’s dead”

        16. katamanda

          Funnily at my school in the UK we had a teletubbies song set to this tune.

          “I love Po, Po love’s me
          Let’s tie Dipsy to a tree
          With a knife thought his belly and gun to his head
          Sorry La-La, Dipsy’s dead”

        17. Rokk

          At mine we had

          I love Po, Po loves me,
          Come on guys lets kill Dipsy
          With a great big BANG
          And a bullet to the head
          Sorry LaLa Dipsy’s dead

        18. Rognik

          Ugh, Teletubbies. That was easily Barney’s rival this side of the pond. Couldn’t stomach either of them, but being a teenager, didn’t have to.

  4. Aizat

    Since I can’t read sheet music, I’m going to guess “Barney”?

  5. Wonder Wig

    Flintstones… meet… the Flintstones….

    1. NCP19

      They’re a modern stone age familllllyyyyyy…

    2. Rognik

      Sadly not. That’d be a quarter note followed by at least a half note (if not a dotted half note). I can read the music, but I was never very good at transposing.

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    My guess: The Move’s Brontosaurus.

  7. Beefcube

    I heard that as “This Old Man” at first, and now I realize that’s where Barney got the song from. Huh.

    1. Jon P

      Likewise. I was trying to da-doo-daaaa, da-doo-daaaa my way to getting the tune, and got “This Old Man”. Only once I read the above comments did I understand Sarah’s consternation.

      1. MarcinMN

        Yeah, I thought of “This Old Man” too. Which made me think, “Is there a dinosaur in that song??…” I’m too old to be in the Barney generation, so that’s probably why I didn’t think of him first.

        1. Eposi

          They are the same melody, just different tempo

        2. Rognik

          This only man/He played 5743/He played knicknack on a brontosaurus…

    2. Vert

      Same here. Never knew that.

  8. MM

    What does “This Old Man” have to do wi–

    …Ohhh. I get it. (And hey, I can still sightread! Cool!)

    1. Joebo

      Was going to leave the exact same comment, decided that it would be a good idea to see if I was the first person to make that connection on this thread. Glad that I checked.

  9. Beefcube

    I heard that as “This Old Man” at first, and only just realized that’s where Barney got the song from. Huh.

  10. Phyc

    Thank you, you all saved me from flipping out. Now that I know my soul can rest in peace.

    Well not really. The Barney songs are lingering in my head.

    1. MarkReed

      Your avatar makes that comment WAY better.

  11. General Tekno

    Yeah; took me a sec to get it – haven’t read sheet music in years.

    Brilliant though!

  12. Enkai

    OMG, Barney. Sadly, I’m not the first person that got that, but OMG, a music punch line, and I love it.

  13. Uniqueantique

    Barney steals all music from other sources. Nothing original about the disgusting obnoxious purple, totally smary dino.

  14. Regalli

    The sad part is, I took violin for three years, voice lessons for four, and a semester of piano on top of all that.

    I still cannot read sheet music whatsoever.

    1. Birke

      I was in choir for four years and guitar for two, and I can’t read sheet music either. Anything I sang or played, I had to listen to it and memorize it.

      1. Regalli

        Same. Fortunately I have some scarily good memory when it comes to music.

  15. Casey

    I’m music illiterate so thank you guys for letting me in on the know ^_^ As a child I’d be happily singing a song and kids would be like “HAHA YOU LIKE BARNEY!” “…Actually I listened to my brother and sister’s records from the 60s so this song is quite a bit older than Barney. How do *you* know that song is from Barney unless you actually are the one who watches Barney?” …I got beat up for out logicing kids…

  16. Mo

    Don Was is rolling in his grave. Assuming he’s dead.

    1. Maestro

      He’s still alive. He’s only 60.

  17. Inara

    There must be more dinosaur-related songs – I wonder if “Godzilla” would be close enough for Dina’s liking? Actually, I think I would be terribly entertained by Dina’s opinions on Godzilla.

    1. begbert2

      Wait, I didn’t thing Godzilla was even supposed to be a dinosaur. Sure, he’s big and reptilian and has atomic breath like a dinosaur, but I thought he was supposed to be either a mutated lizard or something more akin to Cthulhu.

      1. begbert2

        Whoops. Somebody fix closing italics tag, please?

      2. Mal

        I just want to close the italics.

        1. Mal

          I think the “be” did it? Bah. This probably won’t fix it, either.

        2. Jackson

          Maybe this will fix it.

      3. Bill M.

        Godzilla is a dinosaur… a Godzillasaurus to be exact. The normal Godzillasaurii are just not as atomic.

        Also, I was hoping she’d learned the theme song to Denver the last Dinosaur, which was also kid-themed, but didn’t stop being entertaining when you started growing hair in places it normally didn’t before.

        1. Kamino Neko

          Godzillasauri. One i. It’s not Godzillasaurius. Or avoid the whole ‘how to pluralize Latin’ mess and use Godzillasauruses. English plurals are always valid in English. (Improper foreign pluralization is one of my pet peeves. Drives me up the blessed wall, it does.)

  18. Aras Pabedinskas

    Barney, HA

  19. petsinwinter

    She can play TWO? All I got is ode to joy, translated from memory off of recorder (the woodwind). On second thought that sounds much more impressive on paper than it probably really was.

  20. Doctor_Who

    I had an album as a kid called “Wee Sing Dinosaurs” that I bet Dina would have liked. And My brother had a collection of songs from that Dinosaurs Jim Henson show.

    1. Regalli

      I remember having a couple cassette tapes about dinosaurs. Don’t quite remember their names, though. Just some of the songs about vegetarian dinos and Compsognathus and such.

      1. begbert2

        I had a couple of cassette tapes about dinosaurs! They were called Slugfest and Overkill.

  21. Robin Lionheart

    More comix only for people who can read sheet music:

    http://forum.makemusic.com/attach.aspx/20658/not%20in%20the%20scor
    e.jpeg

  22. Aras Pabedinskas

    Actually, looking at this art a second time, it appears that Sarah is… slightly pleased at this. It’s like in her head she’s saying “I should have guessed” and just sucking in the delicious punchline. If that was what you were going for, nice! If it wasn’t… NICE!

  23. Robin Lionheart

    Another comix only for people who can read sheet music. (But for those who don’t, this may help.)

    1. Egg

      LOL! I actually suck at reading extended stuff, but the intervals/rhythm were a big tipoff.

  24. Syngraphea

    As a member of that “happy family,” I approve of this message. XD

  25. kaze

    Is it weird I thought of “denver the last dinosaur” ? that song is always stuck in my brain for no reason.

    1. David

      Denver the Last Dinosaur has some majorly creepy overtones.

      I mean, he’s your friend and a whole lot more.

      He’s showing you a world you never saw before.

      Let’s just say a lot of grown-up kids’ relationship statuses with Denver are probably “It’s Complicated.”

      1. Maestro

        …but ohhh man, the taco pizzas.

      2. mouseanderson

        Taco pizza’s yum, pedophilia ick

      3. MLBlue

        Welp, there goes my childhood. I really liked Denver the last Dinosaur as a kid. Interesting what they can get past kids heads.

  26. Samuel

    Was hoping it was the theme/arrival music for Godzilla. Dina should know that one too

  27. 3DSarge

    I laughed harder at this than I probably should have.

  28. Kurai Seraphim

    I had a feeling it was Barney from the notes, but I really, really wanted it to be Denver the Last Dinosaur.

  29. isitsevenyet

    I feel very smart, now, that I am able to read sheet music and got the joke right away. XD

  30. isitsevenyet

    Oh, and I don’t know if anyone else has pointed this out, but that last measure isn’t really accurate. Not that it really matters for the joke or anything, just something I noticed.

  31. Darth Cariss

    I’m surprised that so many people in the comments had any idea what to read that as.

  32. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

    I’m glad I can still read sheet music. Not all that hard though once you practice enough

  33. Kamino Neko

    Gah…for some reason, I kept missing a quarter note in my head, so not only did I not get it, when people explained it, I kept thinking ‘that doesn’t fit…’

    Stupid brain is full of stupids.

  34. Kelly

    I still think reading music is impossible and everyone is just making it.

    1. slicedtoad

      I agree. I can hum any simple tune I want while staring at that sheet music and they all feel right.

  35. Ray Barrington

    I was betting on “Walk the Dinosaur” by Was/Not Was

  36. Robert

    I’m guessing Dina is playing the Flinstones music. either that or the land before time.

  37. Lancer

    Took me a bit because I can read sheet music but don’t really know what the key for the piano is like since I’m a saxophonist. Good one though =3

    1. Rognik

      The piano is in the key of C. It’s to the piano that all other instruments take their keys, I think. Even so, I don’t think a problem of transposure is the real issue here…

  38. Raen

    Repeat after me:

    “With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, he pulls the spitting high-tension wires down…”

    1. Raen

      Or better yet, just teach her the whole T. Rex oeuvre.

      …or don’t. I just pictured her playing “Get It On” and my head burst.

    2. Xydux

      GODZILLA!

      (P.S. That’s Blue Oyster Cult, just in case you didn’t know. I wasn’t sure, due to the T. Rex comment.)

    3. Sorcyress

      I might’ve accidentally read your comment to the tune of the Barney Theme Song. It almost fits, if you have no sense of scansion. Yeeeeah.

  39. diremoi

    No Open the Door Get On the Floor Everybody Walk the Dinosaur?

    1. HiEv

      I was thinking the same thing, but it’s probably hard to make that sound good on piano.

  40. Dash

    So, nobody else read this and thought Knick-Knack Paddywack first?

    I swear, I’m not that old…

  41. MasterClockwork

    Yes, I can read sheet music. However, I did not need to read it to know exactly what song she was going to play. Another dinosaur song, please, do you think this is a game son?

  42. The Pink Spartan

    I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me until I looked at it again and noticed it was 4:4. Clicked -instantly-… and what is worse? The entire single episode of Barney I ever watched played in my head afterward.

  43. Romanticide

    Hell I have no idea about reading music yet I guessed right being Barney… it just had to be XD

  44. Bill Murphy

    I love you, you love me.
    Ho-mo-sex-u-al-i-ty.
    They all say that we’re just friends,
    Ac-tu-ally we’re Les-bi-ans.

    Sorry, but that’s all I ever hear during the Barney song. I was on Wayy too many grammar school bus trips. 😉

  45. BumblebeeZ3

    Until seeing the comments, it didn’t even occur to me that Barney was a possibility, I was thinking it was Denver the last Dinosaur, because she is probably too young for Dinosaucers. maybe even too young for Dinoriders…which I now see was the same year as Denver according to wikipedia. And she would actually have been born at the right time to have watched Barney growing up. Well crap, I feel kinda old now.

  46. Chad from Canada

    I can’t read music at all, but by counting the notes while thinking of the tune, and using situational logic… I figured it out in about ten seconds. It really wasn’t that hard. Sarah’s implied face-palm helped.
    Oh, and she should learn Walk the Dinosaur, and the theme to that old puppet show Dinosaurs.

  47. Tenn

    I could sort of make out the tune in my head, but never having seen Barney, I couldn’t tell what it was.

  48. Earl

    No no no! That song is This Old Man and will always be This Old Man there is no Barney! He never existed, understand?!!

  49. mez

    I don’t quite get this.
    I read the sheet music to play ‘This old man’, which to my recollection has no dinosours. What dinosaur music is written to this tune?
    Everyone is saying it is the intro to barney, but barney’s intro is written to ‘Yankee doodle’. This sure isn’t the intro to barney.

    1. HEYOUGUYZ!

      that’s what i said…

    2. HEYOUGUYZ!

      that’s what i said… although this old man does have a bone in it.

    3. Whittier

      It’s not the opening song. It’s the song he sings towards the end of the show. The altered lyrics are:
      I love you, you love me/We’re a happy family/With a great big hug/and a kiss from me to you/Won’t you say you love me too

      1. mez

        Ah, yes, now it clicks. Feel a little foolish

        Didn’t watch it that much as a kid. I was right into dinosaurs, just not people in suits.

  50. Jesse

    I thought it was Barney, even though sheet music is gibberish to me.

  51. Squeeeble

    I hate you, you loved me
    Barney gave me HIV
    So I cut off his bollocks and shot him in the head
    Now the purple bastard’s dead

  52. Barabajagal

    Coupled with a much slower tempo and lack of Barney based music knowledge I had to rely on the comments. In my head the Barney song goes higher on the last note of the 2nd bar. Maybe I never had a childhood.

  53. Sam

    DINAH

    I CAN’T

  54. Maycroft

    I think I was better not knowing the song…

  55. Jesus DeSaad

    Not knowing how to read notes I thought it would be “Denver The Last Dinosaur”.

  56. Blur

    I don’t know sheet music. The little bit of guitar I play is through tabs.

    But I put two and two together and saw the pattern. Slowly, slowly I figured it out. The whole time my brain kept saying “You sure you want to know? It’ll only cause unneeded suffering.”

    But I had to know. And now?

    I wish I didn’t. You were right, grey matter. You were right.

  57. TK

    Huh. Having read the comments, it is OBVIOUS that it is Barney. But when I read the music, I read it in cut time, and the tune is a dead ringer for “This Old Man” … Never made that connection before. Or if I did, I buried it.

    I actually think that original Barney has merit, but after a change in voice actors, new characters, and a general futzing it became repugnant. But OG Barney? Not so bad.

    1. Whittier

      The biggest critique against the show has come, not against Barney himself, but of the extreme overacting by the child actors.

    2. Regalli

      By OG Barney, do you mean the dark purple one? From what Wikipedia tells me was “Barney and the Backyard Gang”? Because I remember having a video of that one but as far as I can tell they didn’t actually air on television.

  58. Hoop

    yeah i guess “walk the dinosaur” is A: too synth heavy and B: too “a one hit wonder from a decade before you were born” to be appropriate here, isn’t it?

  59. Gus Snarp

    Hurray for high school band! I’m a terrible sight reader, but at least that’s an easy song. I got to get the joke!

  60. sarpiedon

    Willis you sick, sadistic bastard…

  61. Fady

    That’s “I Love You”, isn’t it.
    That’s the bloody Barney song.
    *Check the comments*
    Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

  62. CK

    I laughed louder because it made me feel smrt.

  63. Anthony

    Is that… Sakura, a Japanese folk song?

  64. drs

    I love you
    You love me
    Pedobestiality

  65. Anthony

    Or maybe… theme song from Columbo?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-JR2jr48Jc#t=25s

  66. Blade dog and destroyer

    pricless

    1. David

      Well, watch where you walk near chainsaws.

      1. Narf

        HAH!!!

        I get it!!

  67. Doug Dean

    Guess I’m showing my age. I couldn’t figure out what “This Old Man” had to do with dinosaurs — until I read the first comment.

  68. Alain

    I can’t read music and I’m pretty close to being tone deaf, but just looking at Sarah’s face it had to be Barney.

  69. PlatyPius

    Looks like Barney to me…

  70. Chiatroll

    This comic right after the creator of barney the dinosaur gets arrested for attempted murder.

  71. Kafloobop

    I feel like in the third panel the emphasis should be on “one” instead of “other”.
    Then again what do I know.
    This comic was really funny to me because I have a friend who can play most of the songs from Ocarina of time on the Piano fantastically, but absolutely nothing else.

  72. Richie9999

    Woohoo! Those semesters of music theory, all of my practicing on cello and bass have finally led to this moment of triumph! I can read what you have written and its… the Barney theme song?

  73. Bionic

    It’s “This Old Man,” containing the line “give a dog a bone” (oblique dinosaur reference).

    I know not of this “Barney” of which you speak…

  74. Reepicheep-chan

    I suppose Barney is an obvs enough punchline to guess even without knowing anything about sheet music, but even my really basic elementary school knowledge of music was actually enough for me to pick it out. Like, I look at that and my brain goes: medium length note, slightly lower medium length note, slightly higher longer note, repete, four regular length notes getting progressively lower, first set of three over again, yep that is that “I love you” song alright.

  75. jacob

    just coming to post that this is my favorite comic in the series so far.

  76. TinyDoctorTim

    It’s hard to express how silly I felt when I realized Dina’s song was a reference to Barney the Dinosaur. I couldn’t figure out at first why she would have memorized the “Knick-knack, paddy-wack” song.

  77. TinyDoctorTim

    P.S. DYW!

  78. Martigro

    I got it! I got the reference!

  79. Raymond

    Derived the punchline just from the setup ( “What’s another dinosaur song that would be really lame and embarrassing to know? Oh, probably a Barney song.”) Sightreading just clarified whether it was “I love you, you love me…” or “Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination…”

    1. Jeff K!

      Yeah, but if Willis had used the “Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination…” tune, everyone would have confused it for the Roger Ramjet theme!

      … or is that just me?

  80. Andrusi

    Italics, whee!

  81. Whittier

    BARNEY. Oh. I only thought “This Old Man.”

  82. Roborat

    Yea, saw this coming, still funny though. Why did the comments change to italics?

  83. Ellie

    Wow, I got the joke without having to play it on my keyboard!

  84. Carla Benton

    I can’t read sheet music, but I got it.

    Bravo!

  85. BaronHaynes

    Sarah and Dina’s Hat are in agreement in panel 4.

  86. mouseanderson

    Almost got traumatized by this one. my older daughter watched this when she was little.

  87. MLBlue

    Ah, the late 90s. During the Web 1.0 days, it was the in thing to make fun of Barney. I remember this one site dedicated to just fake shooting a picture of barney until it was a bloody mess. Good times?

  88. Con Johnner

    Am I the only one surprised by her not knowing “Walk the Dinosaur”?

  89. KHNO

    I can read sheets, but I recognize shit. Even after reading the comments. Meh – I only can tell from the notation it’s not Casimir ‘s begining, because thos one would be (approximative rythm because of fucki ascii)
    o -q- q
    ______________l _____ l_ l______________________
    d
    2________________________q_q_o_______________
    33 o 33 33
    _ ‘ ‘_____l__ ‘ ‘_____ ‘ ‘__________________________
    l d
    2__d_o_______________________________________

    _____________________________________________

    1. KHNO

      Fatch, the spaces are gone, my sheet is wasted, and so were my lass twenty minutes

    2. Megan Wetzel

      Seriously dude? I know sheet music on an elementary level, and I got this, You’ve got to be over thinking it. hum it out loud maybe?

  90. Megan Wetzel

    This is freaking awesome lol. I’m a musician, and I site read it and hummed it out loud, and it cracked me up. Kudos for the staff work haha!

  91. Naz

    What about Denver the last dinosaur?

  92. ilvos01

    I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME, WE’RE ALL ONE BIG FAM-I-LY

  93. Brady Kj

    I tried humming this and it sounded like Jaws for two measures. It’s a marvel that some people can read sheet music.

    BTW, wasn’t “I love you” stolen from Mr. Rogers?

  94. Piper

    Good thing the notes go below the range of my bagpipes. Otherwise I would play it … and the world would suffer greatly.

  95. AckAckAck

    Why every comments are italic?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Someone forgot to add the to the end of their sentence.

      1. waldosan

        i didn’t know the internet worked that way…

      2. taekwondogirl

        And you forgot a word in there. :p

        Someone forgot to add the close tag for italics at the end of their sentence.

  96. Plasma Mongoose

    “add the [/a] to the end”

    1. waldosan

      just keep it how it is, it’s like everyone is talking like their evil geniuses or something. i’m picturing all these words being read by a somehow english speaking Norio Wakamoto.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Ah, the guy who voiced Mechazawa from Cromartie.

  97. waldosan

    am i the only one to notice that Joe’s shirt from two or three comic strips ago is the same shirt that Dino-Girl-Wonder here was wearing at the beginning of this particular web comic? i sense some Hanky Panky, i sense that dino-girl who’s name i seriously forgot is getting more action than any of our other main characters, except for Joe, becuase he hasn’t been gilt tripped by Joyce hard enough.

    i sense that dino-girl-wonder, and joe, are in fact: a thing.

    1. waldosan

      SCANDALOUS!

    2. begbert2

      When you forget the names, it’s good to check the tags.

      For example, from this comic you can learn that the asian girl’s name is Sarah.

  98. Shadowcthuhlu

    Somebody should introduce her to Doctor Jane. Lot’s of Dino’s there.

  99. Pyr05

    I’m waiting for Dina to break out into the ‘Dinosaurs’ theme song.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx9Wg03arxQ

    If you want that show to cause you to lose your shit, watch this when you’re over-tired and can’t fall asleep. Guaranteed to keep you up for the next few weeks petrified.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vu0WqGYw7M

  100. Leslie

    hahahaha…. Had to pull up a flash keyboard because I was too lazy to walk into the other room… Well played… (no pun intended?)

  101. Pinja

    Sarah and Dina have a nice unexpected friendship

  102. JA

    “I hate you, you hate me
    Let’s get up and kill Barney
    With a two by four
    Barney’s on the floor
    No more purple dinosaur”

    ^Sung my us in 2nd grade.

    1. Jeff K!

      We always sang it as
      “I hate you, You hate me,
      We all ha-ate Ba-arney!
      With the bang of a shotgun,
      Barney hits the floor!
      No more purple dinosaur!”

      Slight differences in cadence, you see.

      1. waldosan

        up here representing from new york it was always

        “i hate you, you hate me
        let’s all gang up and kill barney
        with a 22 shotgun shoot’im in the head,
        now we’ll say that barney’s dead”

  103. Jerrod Kane

    My mind firmly had “Walk the Dinosaur” to the other tune..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGzetPIm_mM

  104. Raphnarock

    Why not anything Land Before Time related. I honestly gave that more thought than Barney.

  105. Chronos

    This old man, he played 5,348,193,209…

  106. Patrick

    I’m just glad I wasn’t the only one wondering what “This Old Man” had to do with dinosaurs. Fortunately, I’m way too old for Barney.

  107. Goldug

    Actually had to take out my piano app to recreate it in order to understand the song, though I had a hunch that it was this song. It’s not known in my country, so I’m impressed with myself that I even knew the song 🙂

  108. Wixvhen

    Even Dina frowns at Barney

  109. Fluffy

    And for those of us who can read sheet music but didn’t get the joke…
    Nothing.

  110. Romanticide

    Barney es un dinosario que fuma mariguana, y cuando se hace grande el picha las caguamas. El viene a fumar cuando lo necesitas y siempre te va ayudar si siembras cocaíiina.. XD

  111. Hinoron

    I just youtubed the JP theme to refresh my memory… isn’t it actually mostly strings (and brass, admittedly)?
    Seems like Dina ought to have been able to play at least some of the major parts on her violin.

  112. hiddenijafist

    Dang it. i had completely forgotten that show until I read the comments. now my week is ruined.

  113. dave92

    I played the song because I couldn’t figure out what it was by reading it.

    You son of a ***** you made me play the Barney theme song in public.

  114. JohnnyO

    I am a singer and I had to hum to figure out what it was.

    DAMN YOU WILLIS

  115. AustinS

    Huge nerd… and band geek. I love this comic, but the sheet music just made my love for it increase by 158%

  116. fatemaster1

    Even without being able to read sheet music I should have guessed that there was only one dinosaur related song that could trigger that reaction.

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