After You, Alphonse

I love it when I learn something new. I've been reading The Comics:The Complete Collection and I came across this:


This is a panel from a comic strip that appeared in William Randolph Hearst's newspaper the New York Journal at the turn of the last century. The strip, by Frederick Burr Opper, is called Alphonse and Gaston and it was about two extremely polite Frenchmen named, you guessed it, Alphonse and Gaston.

So, do they remind you of anyone else?

Yep, the two goofy gophers from Warner Brothers named Mac and Tosh. Enjoy.