At what point are there so many Beetle Baileys that they constitute a claim that all of World War II was taken up by mildly funny office quips?
WWII lasted 6 years 1 day. The US entered 2 years late, so let’s say 4 years even. That’s 1460 days, or 2.1 million minutes. Let’s say the military life takes up all your awake time, so that’d be 2/3 approximately, or 1.4 million minutes.
Let’s take as a given that each Beetle Bailey comic describes about two minutes of real time (though some are short, just a few seconds, and some imply far more time, at least an hour). Assuming they’re made every day of the year, and they’re not particularly complicated so they probably make a few in advance to cover holidays and vacation so that seems reasonable, that’s 730 minutes every year. Beetle Bailey has been running since 1950, which is 73 years (coincidentally). That’s 53,290 minutes of time recorded in Beetle Bailey.
That means Beetle Bailey covers 3.8% of the US’s involvement in WWII, which means it is still a reasonable comic; I could see 4% of someone’s time being spent on office jokes.
Also, for reference, it will be another 1918 years (coincidentally) of Beetle Bailey before it covers all of World War II. That puts it in 3941, or 2000 years after the US joined.