Priscilla's Pop - TV Tropes
- ️Tue Jan 01 2019
Priscilla's Pop was a newspaper comic strip created by Al Vermeer. It was launched in 1946 and ended in 1983. Vermeer retired from drawing the strip in 1976 and was succeeded by Ed Sullivan. It was syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
This gag-a-day comic strip focused on Priscilla Nutchell, her family, and her friends. Priscilla is a schoolgirl who begs to have her own horse and likes to spend excess money. Her father, Waldo (the "Pop" in the title), saves money by eating mashed potato sandwiches. Also in the family, Hazel is the mother and Carlyle is the son and elder child. Priscilla's friends are Hollyhock, who enjoys reading books; Stuart, who is bitter at Hollyhock, and boy-obsessed Jenny Lu.
The comic strip also had a couple of color comic books in The '50s.
Priscilla's Pop contains examples of:
- Bookworm: Hollyhock. She likes to visit the library every day, twice on Saturdays
. - Cloudcuckoolander: Priscilla is a cheerful girl who once suggested alphabet soup as a solution to global illiteracy and hunger or claimed she could understand Chinese solely from hearing one of Confucius' ideas.
- Lame Pun Reaction: In one 1967 strip, Priscilla and Hollyhock observe the former's dog Oliver biting on a marrow bone. Once Hollyhock asserts that dogs like the marrow, Oliver responds in his mind that his species are "marrow-minded," and apologizes to the reader in the last panel.
- Ms. Red Ink: As mentioned, Priscilla is careless with money to the irritation of her father.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Hollyhock is much shorter than Priscilla and about Stuart's height, while nonetheless a bookaholic and likes sharing scientific facts.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Waldo's mashed potato sandwiches.