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McDonald's / Dancin' Santa Wednesday, December 11, 2002 • read strip Viewing 30 comments:

I love how Ray leans against the chair, all dissing down Beef's choice of AM radio.

I'm assuming the car doesn't have an FM receiver, due to it's age.

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Five AM-listening, self-respecting men felt you did not respect them.

Six now.

It's the same way he leans against the seat when he's upset with Beef for dodging his questions .

Why does the Santa not sing a more seasonal tune?

Probably because theres no seasonal dance of christmas, and the twist would be easy to approximate with simple motors.

Jingle Bell Rock? Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree?

My godparents' Dancing Santa sings Jingle Bell Rock, just as a corroborating data point.

I feel there is a viable market for holiday figurines who dance to alternative music, such as Tom Waits's "Goin' Out West" or Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat."

COME ON BE REAL WITH ME BABY

Coincidentally, the lyrics of "The Mercy Seat" exactly summarise my feelings towards Christmas and the animatronic horrors it brings.

SANTA DON'T NEED NO MAKEUP, HE HAS REAL SCARS; HE'S GOT HAIR ON HIS CHEST, HE LOOKS GOOD WITHOUT A SHIRT.

"Twist & Shout" knows no season.

Because santa's polyvinyl vestments were stitched by sleepless, hopeless Vietnamese widows onto a generic armature of Japanese-soldered and Cambodian-assembled hip-shakin' plastic that was programmed to blare out "American Song Number 7"?

Why is there not a seasonal dance of Christmas?
For $50 he could have bought a CD or perhaps brought some music with him for the road. But this is Ray we're talking about.

Maybe Ray is stupid with his money.

A little.

A lot

yeah, well maybe *you* and *I* should lose some weight

"Be real with me baby" is too often overlooked as a phrase to use when one is attempting to barter successfully to obtain a product and/or service.

Whenever I need something from a woman I implore her to be real with me.

Beef really does flinch when he sees people making a mistake.

He can see it coming in panel 2.

i have one of those santa things and its the most goddamn annoying thing on the face of the planet, do not put that within a 10 mile radius of anyone under the age of 5 as the thing will never stop going off. i hate twist and shout santa

and its a cover of twist and shout thats christmas themed, thats what makes it festive

lol @ it belonging to the manager's mother

Man Ray


Man Ray should indeed not purchase such a thing. Unless he wished to take a photograph of it.