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Daddy Daughter Date Night: It's Not What It Seems
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 26
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 8 2020
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mom is going out with the girls. Nobody knows how the evening will unfold. Dad and daughter are home. Dad has a plan. The plan involves dinner. The plan involves an activity that has been described as a date in the way that dads sometimes describe things using vocabulary that sounds alarming until you understand the context, and then sounds completely fine, and then sounds alarming again because the cultural moment around that phrase is what it is. This book walks you through the evening and clarifies, repeatedly, exactly what it seems like and exactly why it's different from that.
This illustrated adult parody book exists in the territory between a completely innocent family evening and the headline that a completely innocent family evening can accidentally generate in 2024. It is a book about a dad who takes his daughter out for dinner and a movie. The joke is the gap between what the title implies and what is actually happening, and the book mines that gap with consistency and cartoon art and the patient energy of a father who has had to explain this to several people and is getting tired of it.
This Book IS For:- Parents who have navigated the modern experience of doing something entirely normal and having it sound like something it isn't
- Fans of comedy that derives its energy entirely from context and the gap between implication and reality
- Anyone who has had to preemptively clarify something innocent and found the clarification more exhausting than the original situation
- Gift-givers who want a book that makes someone do a double-take at the title before getting the full picture
- People who read the title once and formed an opinion they are not willing to revise even after reading the subtitle
- Anyone who has ever posted a photo of a normal family outing and felt they needed extensive captions to protect themselves
- Readers who need their comedy clearly labeled before they engage with it so they know which reaction to have
- Dads who have been in this exact situation and still have not recovered enough to find it funny
- Father's Day... genuinely one of the more perfect Father's Day gifts depending entirely on the dad
- White elephant exchanges where reading the title aloud to the group is half the gift
- Baby showers for people expecting daughters, because this is their future and they should be prepared
- Any occasion where the gift should cause a reaction that requires the recipient to explain it to multiple people
The funniest thing about this book is that it documents something that is simply a dad taking his daughter out to dinner, and the funniest thing about that is that simply a dad taking his daughter out to dinner has become a phrase that requires the subtitle It's Not What It Seems to navigate the current cultural landscape without incident. That is genuinely funnier than anything the book itself could have invented.
Buy it for a dad who has experienced this phenomenon. Buy it for a dad who hasn't experienced it yet but will. Buy it for anyone who finds the modern experience of doing normal things in a world that has strong opinions about everything both exhausting and, at the right distance, extremely funny. The evening is fine. The title is the whole joke. It is a very good joke.
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