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Not a repeat but a rhyme
People complaining about the plank breaking under Opus as he dawdles, unable to truly commit, would have complained just as loudly about Charles Schultz having Lucy pull away the football. Comics tend to repeat some gags, and some even develop into running gags.
Sometimes these running gags get better with age, sometimes they just get tired, and sometimes they do both. I find they have a deeper message, about how these times really are like a bad rhyme of what was bad under Ronnie RayGun, so it's only fitting that the penultimate ageing boomer returns to his naive roots.