Toothpaste for Dinner: Adventures in the Giggle Zone


Yeah, this strip is kinda like that. It's called "Toothpaste for Dinner" and it is a series of one-box comics delivered daily by a very intense-looking fellow named Drew.

The comic is awesome, but the thing about it that amazes me is that the delivery method Drew came up with in his website is exactly what is necessary to help you enter the transcendent meta-giggle zone. In his "archive" section the strips are delivered as a continuous scroll, which allows you to read an entire month's comic just by dragging the scroll bar (or rolling your mouse wheel, if you're so inclined).

This creates a layering effect that anyone who has ever watched a Mel Brooks or Zucker-Abrams-Zucker flick will recognize immediately, where the jokes come so fast that there is at once a filtering of the stuff that isn't very funny and a simultaneous layering of the good stuff so that by the time you're at the bottom of the page you're giggling like a fool.

Okay, so there are folks who enjoy getting the giggles like this, and folks who don't. I would consider this strip the geek-themed acid test for this particular kind of humor. At some point it becomes funny for reasons that make no sense whatsoever and you really don't even care to try to explain it, and that's okay.

Want to try it? Go to March... Then come back and tell me what you think.