What's bugging the readers On today's Alley Oop - 15 April 2020

So, I was right in my critique in the previous days that all this "parent trap" gag was nothing but nincompoopy nonsense. Today we know that this whole tale of "princess and the lookalike" is nothing but absolutely asinine absurdity.

In today's strip, the princess bids farewell to Ooola by gifting her a jewel encrusted scarab beetle, which is actually a feeble beetle bug gag. That means that the only purpose Ooola served as a lookalike was to pull a rope and make a lousy wooden cage fall on her parents, and that we're not getting an explanation as to why was a lookalike required to do that job when just anyone else could've pulled that dumb rope. I've covered this aspect and others in a more detailed manner already on the 13th of April's review and also mentioned it again on yesterday's review too.

And so ends today's installment with a bombastic bug gag and no explanations whatsoever to the essential questions bugging the readers :

• Why was Ooola, or a lookalike needed to trap the princess's parents that way?
• Why didn't the princess's parents try to escape that lousy cage that fell on them which was open from below and not locked strongly to the ground?
• Why didn't the princess's parents summon the royal guards when the royal guards would obviously always be within earshot?
• Why did the princess need to trap her parents this way, and how does it help her affair with her little green goofy alien boyfriend?
• How long does the princess ensure or expect that her parents are imprisoned? Does she plan to take over the kingdom? Does she have the support of the royal guards and the state's military and other bunch of officials for this? And where are the royal guards in the first place? Why haven't we seen even a single one of them?
• What was the purpose of this ludicrous lookalike tale anyway? Just to make a couple of staggeringly silly gags of references to some modern movies or books? To put the audience on a stupefying stupor of sheer stupidity?

And so, after wasting more than a week, this lookalike arc is over just like that, without any explanation. It appears like the entire thing was nothing but a cruel jejune joke on an already agonized audience.

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