2007-05-25

A man wearing a cowboy hat, blue shirt, and brown vest with a large belt buckle stands facing forward, looking glum. His speech bubble reads: "Kids, Cowboy Steve's wife left him last night. Cowboy Steve is beginning to question the meaning of his own existence." A caption below reads: "Now more than ever, Steve wished he actually had a cowboy TV show." The joke: he is referring to himself in the third person as a kids'-show host persona, but there is no show, only a man talking to imaginary children about his real divorce and existential crisis. Votey: a crude line-drawing of a cowboy's face beneath a hat, cheerfully saying "Yeehaw, buckaroos" — the bygone, upbeat showman version of the same character.