WolfieToons by Dave Wolfe

WolfieToons by Dave Wolfe
Showing posts with label Breaking the Fourth Wall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breaking the Fourth Wall. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

And The Walls Come A-Tumblin' Down!

And PANTS, too!!

I think Belinda is getting spanked for breaking the fourth wall.  


(And it's adorable!!)

You know what the "fourth wall" is, right?  That's the imaginary boundary through which we watch the characters in a play or movie, or even those in comics or legit literature!  

And of course, "breaking the fourth wall" is where those characters acknowledge that you are watching them, and address you directly!




But it's not really a bad thing.  It's been done for dramatic and comic effect since Time Immemorial by the finest of people.  Why, Billy Shakespeare did it--




(That's Sir Ian McKellen as Richard the Third letting us in on his plot!)


George Burns used to do it on TV!




(I wonder if he was reminiscing about Bill spanking Gracie in a publicity photo for "International House" in 1933?) 




Woody did it a lot!



Ferris Bueller did it!




Dave and Maddie did it!




John Byrne had She-Hulk do it!




Even Mike as Austin Powers did it!




Let's do it-- let's break the wall!








(Bulldog Drummond and his phone will make sure we can catch up later.)