We come from France
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Of course, the title is in reference to The Coneheads, the classic Saturday Night Live sketch.
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I'm just realizing that The Coneheads presaged one our (well, my) new obsessions, Nathan Pyle's Strange Planet. It holds a cracked mirror up to our world, in a way reminiscint of The Far Side cartoons. For example, compare:
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With:
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And if you think you've seen that last panel before, you have. Father's Day last year.
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