Two snails were talking one day about what they would do if they won the lottery. One said, “I’d buy a Formula 1 race car. Then I’d paint a big S on the top and on the sides. Then I’d drive it up and down Main Street as fast as I could.”
The other snail frowned and said, “Why?”
“Because,” the first replied, “then everyone would point and say, ‘Look at that S-car go!’”
If you are new to this comic strip, the main characters are conveniently all in this frame. From left to right (not counting the waitress): Sergio, the widowed father of two children; Gracie, Sergio’s young daughter who while very smart for her age is still a young child; Baldo, the teenage son who works hard at his after-school job, has a best friend named Cruz, a girlfriend named Estella, Tia Carmen’s empanadas, and an old car he dreams of getting running some day; and Tia Carmen, Sergio’s sister who lives with them and does most of the cooking and cleaning. Her arroz con pollo and empanadas make the family very happy.
What I think is hilarious, though, is that I went to a wedding a few years after that movie came out, and it was Titanic-themed. I wanted to sidle up to the groom and say, “You know he dies, right?”
…and that they bothered to check.