Beetle Bailey, 4/10/11
Good lord, can you believe that Beetle Bailey of all strips deployed the hip, cutting-edge slang phrase “bust a move”? Note that the creators put this bit of street lingo into the mouth of the strip’s sole black character, as they obviously felt it would be unrealistic otherwise.
Hagar the Horrible, 4/10/11
Hooray for continuity! This strip references the fact that Hagar, as established by occasional references over the years, is illiterate. It also references the fact that he’s a drunkard who hates and fears his wife.
This entry was posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 09:36 am and is filed under Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible. | 84 responses to “” Mardou FoxApril 10th, 2011 at 9:40 am [Reply]
That puddle that General Halftrack slipped in is nowhere near the punch bowl. Is Les Moore at this dance, too?
Baka GaijinApril 10th, 2011 at 9:45 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#Y180) on Luann: The law of conservation of comic suckitude is an empirical law of physics. It states that the total amount of crappiness on a comics page remains constant over time (i.e. is conserved over time). Hence Blondie and Dick Tracy moving into the entertaining category this week means something else has to move into the lousy category or, in the case of Luann, further into the quagmire of yuck, to maintain comic entertainment homeostasis.
Baka GaijinApril 10th, 2011 at 9:54 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#Y182): Oh, God, my worst nightmare! In a hospital forecourt being accosted by an EVILSCARYCLOWN where the nurses are standing around doing nothing! Nothing! NOTHING! AND IT’S TOUCHING ME! AAAAHH! The guy in the checked coat ain’t doing me no good, either, unless that toddler’s getting ready make like Marvin.
I’ll bet one of those nurses is named “Liza.”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 10th, 2011 at 10:09 am [Reply]
darn it.
my squee was postjumped. (True Fable, in particular, needs to look in yesterthread, but there’s some mighty kewt links there for all.)
Baka GaijinApril 10th, 2011 at 10:20 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#4): No there aren’t any kewt links! It’s an evilscaryclown WITH A BEDRIDDEN CHILD who can’t possibly get away! No squee there. OK, if it were Rusty Trail, maybe it would be a fair fight.
TheTJApril 10th, 2011 at 10:23 am [Reply]
Man, Hagar without his helmet just looks wrong. I wonder if there’s any relation between him and that fuzzy guy from BC?
TheDivaApril 10th, 2011 at 10:26 am [Reply]
C’shaft: Stupid punny punchline, stupid punny name, AND a depressing reality of modern life! Batiuk gets the hat trick!
DT: Speaking of punny names, if you’re going to use one like “Dhatkham,” could you at least try to make the character in question look Indian? I mean say what you will about Locher, he did make Miss Sue Doku look like someone who could possibly, in the right light and if you squint a little, pass for Japanese.
FW: Hey, remember Coach John “Jack” Stropp? The one who died of cancer? Yeah, he’s still dead. And his sole legacy is a long string of crimes against the English language. It’s like seeing a preview of Crankshaft’s funeral.
(And lest you think Bull’s reminisces are supposed to have any humor or happiness to them, note that Coach Stropp bears the same joyless, weary, waiting-for-Masky-McDeath-to-take-me expression that has become the standard for all Funkytown residents.)
JP: “Then he found out I was living a horrible lie, and we broke up. But hey, doesn’t mean it won’t work for you!”
Marvin: ….Promise? (I shouldn’t get my hopes up. I’m pretty sure Marvin’s parents took one look at the little hellspawn and immediately devoted their lives to making sure the same thing doesn’t happen again.)
MW: Restraining orders, Drew. They’re not just for battered women anymore.
SM: Hey Peter, do you really think you should be mentioning “web-swinging” within earshot of the cabbie who is very creepily eavesdropping on your conversation? You’d better pray he thinks it’s code for an auto-erotic asphyxiation fetish.
MattFApril 10th, 2011 at 10:35 am [Reply]
Re: Hagar. Is the joke that it took Hagar two days to climb the hill to the tavern? Or that he got there two days earlier and then blacked out? Well, whatever. Ha Ha.
Peanut GalleryApril 10th, 2011 at 10:51 am [Reply]
MT – The final panel features a camel and a cigarette lighter. Subtle.
But I love the way the deer is staring at the peppers, apparently wondering if they will be useful for treating its stomach problems.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 10th, 2011 at 10:51 am [Reply]
@TheTJ (#6): I think the relation is likelier between him and Curtis. Given how Browne depicts the Viking era, it’s hardly a stretch to envision Hagar pillaging Ethiopia.
CloudbusterApril 10th, 2011 at 10:54 am [Reply]
A researcher says that the 4/10/2011 Luann was the most boring comic strip ever, because nothing happened.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 10th, 2011 at 10:57 am [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#5): Baka Gaijin, kewtness just for you.
tb4000April 10th, 2011 at 11:00 am [Reply]
BB: Mrs. Gen. Halftrack is completely unfazed by her husband’s mangled lower extremities, so long as the old bait and tackle are still in order. And with that visual, I slowly gouge mine eyes out.
John C FremontApril 10th, 2011 at 11:16 am [Reply]
S-M – Tom Joad drives a cab? In New York? Well, he did tell his ma he’d be everywhere.
(I think the sight of Peter Parker in his cab is what finally made him mean mad.)
pugfugglyApril 10th, 2011 at 11:21 am [Reply]
MW: Drew’s schedule has cleared up a lot this week since Liza flaked out on her rounds and ‘forgot’ to give all those patients their shots. Actually, it’s two birds with one stone, as that cute pathologist with her eye on Drew will be busy all week now in the morgue…
FW Funerals in Westview start with the traditional enumeration of the deceased’s failures, so everyone can understand how heart-breaking and pointless life is. Today, all of coach Stropp’s former players get up to tell, in detail, every game they lost under his watch…
And btw “It’s not over until they take their pant legs off, one at a time”? Is coach expecting the team to get literally raped, and is giving them advice as to when to just give in and get it over with???
S. StoutApril 10th, 2011 at 11:25 am [Reply]
The General’s wife is cutting-edge herself, having worn her high heel slippers to the spring formal.
AaaaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 11:30 am [Reply]
I got so curious about Mark’s airplane that I wrote a whole blog entry about it.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 10th, 2011 at 11:33 am [Reply]
Dick – Smek IV! Like a dream I had once, this strip takes place in “Blecchworld,” where everything is some kind of MAD parody object.
Annie – Well. It’s somehow reassuring to see, in a time when many Sunday comics show up on Dean Booth’s Time Tunnel as ‘not found,’ that the plucky red-headed orphan is still held captive by the Butcher of the Balkans, and “Daddy” Warbucks is still looking out that window. Here’s looking for you, kid.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 10th, 2011 at 11:35 am [Reply]
Luann – “Danger! Deadly Turmoil! Terror! Slander! Sleaze!”
And that’s just the comics page.
Fred – Angela, get off the phone now and help Fred hang himself.
Slylock – Today the U.S. Postal Service announced a new “Slylock Fox” commemorative First Class domestic stamp, consisting of a Sunday strip provided by the Houston Chronicle, enlarged slightly so as to meet the USPS’s minimum size.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 10th, 2011 at 11:36 am [Reply]
Hi – Ditto’s blush reveals an involuntary reflex to the pleasant voice of a girl, and the discovery that he’s more of a one-tool player.
Family – All the kids are running through the spot where Les was standing.
@bats :[ (#y145): I really hadn’t thought that the RMMD plot would go into kidnapping/ransom territory…how do you folks figure stuff like this out?
Kidnapping? I figured they were going to run off with his ‘97 Subaru and figure they’d gotten as much as they were going to get.
April 10th, 2011 at 11:40 am [Reply]
RMMD: This is a really sad story, considering Dex’s mental capacity.
ElkMeadowApril 10th, 2011 at 11:40 am [Reply]
@Professor Fate (#y185):
MW: Dinner tonight? How long is her damn shift anyway? 20 minutes? Most nurses I know work very very long hours. 12 hours shifts in some cases. Mabye she’s just some mental case that wanders about the hospital pretending to be a nurse.
Maybe she wandered over from the Rex Morgan universe.
Fester MorgensternApril 10th, 2011 at 11:40 am [Reply]
I have a question for the people who have been reading the comics much longer than I have. Has Hagar ever done continuing storylines, at any point in its history? I would probably like it if it did.
ElkMeadowApril 10th, 2011 at 11:41 am [Reply]
@Aaaaaaaaviatrix (#21):
It is. Cue would be nicer to him. Maybe.
AaaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 12:00 pm [Reply]
@Dr. Weird (#158): “Connect the dots” puzzles started around 1900, and the resulting metaphor is pretty natural. I can’t imagine anyone old enough to remember Datsuns to have first encountered it in connection with the 2001 terrorist attacks, but then before I went to Ohio I couldn’t imagine pronouncing “dot” the same as the first syllable of Datsun. But they do! They’re both [dæ?].
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 10th, 2011 at 12:02 pm [Reply]
@Aaaaaaaaviatrix (#17): Seems to me the Stinson or the Piper are equally credible starting points, given the way it shapeshifted once Elrod got his mitts on it. I do recall the original cowling looking more refined, like the Stinson, in the same way that Locher’s tiger was actually recognizable as a tiger in its first couple iterations.
Joe BlevinsApril 10th, 2011 at 12:03 pm [Reply]
Zombie Ziggy reminds us all that GOLF spelled backwards is FLOG.
AaaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 12:09 pm [Reply]
@Aaaaaaaviatrix (#25): That last character was meant to be a flap, not a question mark. I should have just used a t.
Jim NorthApril 10th, 2011 at 12:13 pm [Reply]
DT: Holy crap, today’s Crimestopper’s Textbook is brilliant. I never thought of that.
Even more brilliant in today’s Dick Tracy is that Lizz’s shirt seems to be sliding ever further down her shoulders. All of a sudden I’m thinking that’s a trend well worth another round or two of Locher-like recapping.
9CL: KITTY! Heheh . . . my cat (who unfortunately still lives with my parents because my apartment doesn’t allow pets) is a teeny tiny little thing, so I named her Runt. But even though she’s the tiniest of full-grown cats, she still somehow manages to out-shed every single other cat in the yard combined. Just one stroke of her back and you’ve got a handful of fur. Ten minutes of petting and you’ve got enough to make a whole other cat. We all figure she must not have anything else inside her body except more fur ready to come out like tissues being pulled from a box.
AaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 12:15 pm [Reply]
I am doubly grateful to the Dick Tracy creators today. Once for a Crimestoppers tip I may actually use and twice for aiding my trauma recovery by not showing The Pouch reaching inside his eponymous anatomy.
Scott BotApril 10th, 2011 at 12:18 pm [Reply]
Argh, I have to be careful, I almost wound up inadvertently reading Hagar the Horrible. It’s tough keeping a vow of No Hagar when you frequent this forum.
AaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 12:21 pm [Reply]
If little Sophie mucks out those horses every evening after cheerleading practice, usually unassisted, she’s not quite the spoiled little rich kids we’ve been making her out to be. That’s dirty, physical work. Or maybe she just goes out there to shoot up, with the chores thing being a ruse.
commodorejohnApril 10th, 2011 at 12:32 pm [Reply]
A3G – So now he’s just going straight in for a feel while she says “let me guess!” A damn-near suicidal move, but crazily enough, it seems to be working!
Bizarro – Most of these “Sunday punnies” things don’t really amuse me as much as Bizarro’s usual strangeness, but the “griller” panel got a solid chuckle.
Crankshaft – So here it is: a Crankshaft featuring nothing but a couple of shit puns about a terror attack. If there were only cancer involved somewhere, it’d be basically the ultimate Batiuk strip.
DT – Ohhhhh, Liz is stylin’.
FG – Attack of the Kirby dots!
FW – Just in case you had entertained some brief hope that “randomly killing off a barely-remembered character to remind you that Cancer is out there, waiting to get you” was a one-time thing.
JP – What’s with all the chiaroscuro? I’m half-expecting Abbey to produce a cat to stroke sinisterly.
MW – Wait, what? Liza got through a whole strip without an alarming stalkery thought-bubble? What parallel universe did I wake up in this morning?
Phantom – Wait, so all of a sudden the Sundays are running concurrently with the dailies? Huh.
Pluggers – Pluggers will just slap terms on any damn thing if it crosses their brain. Pluggers have absolutely no filtering mechanisms.
PV – You might think the ravens are there for sinister effect, but actually they’re just asking directions to that nice piece of carrion in the middle of the wood.
Ripley’s – So I looked up the Thai Elephant Orchestra – they’ve got a pretty neat thing going.
SF – I. LOVE. THIS. STRIP.
Shoe – So, uh, yeah, Shoe just had Cosmo admitting that he can’t get it up and pisses himself. I think I need to go ice-pick that image out of my brain, back in a jiffy.
SM – So yeah, even the strip itself is trying to remind Peter to actually do some superheroing once in a while. I think that says it all.
kkarenbApril 10th, 2011 at 12:36 pm [Reply]
Rocky Stoneaxe (@Y171) – I see a slight difference between Baby Blues and FC – the father in BB is more or less ignoring the little monsters while they trash the grocery store, while I’m sure that Bill and Thel would think their little imps were adorable if their kids did the same thing. (The Keane kids would be making funny little malaprops.) As for BB, the father is doing the shopping; the mother is not there, so why didn’t he leave the kids with her? Why do any parents drag their kids to the grocery store if they can’t behave? /rant over/
Crankshaft – “Pat Downs?” A bad pun about an averted terrorist incident? Not funny.
MT – I like how he made sure he had a couple of animals looking at the peppers.
FOOBed againApril 10th, 2011 at 12:38 pm [Reply]
@Aaaaaaviatrix (#32): I was wondering about that too. I guess they don’t want her completely spoiled, so she has chores she has to do.
mollificentApril 10th, 2011 at 12:42 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#33): Somehow I thought of you while reading today’s Sally Forth. I just knew you’d like it. I have a couple of other friends who would also giggle maniacally. :)
commodorejohnApril 10th, 2011 at 12:45 pm [Reply]
@mollificent (#36): “Just remember, honey, you’re still young. You don’t have to tackle the bigger questions like Kirk vs. Picard until you’re older, no matter what anybody says.”
AaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 12:47 pm [Reply]
Mark Trail preparing to shoot his Sunday strip:
Pink shirt – BUTTONED
Ways we can eat it – LISTED
Aggressive behaviour – REFERENCED
Nearby animals – THREE MINUMUM
Baffling inaccuracy – CLAIMED
Strange irrelevancy – INSERTED
“Am I crouching awkwardly enough? Okay, roll film!”
NoahSnarkApril 10th, 2011 at 12:50 pm [Reply]
In an attempt to recycle jokes and punch up the humor value, the Walker’s plan on seeding the dance floor at Camp Swampy with land mines.
Baka GaijinApril 10th, 2011 at 12:52 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#12): I can only assume that cute little puppy just ripped a clown to shreds of bloodied multicolored fabric. Way to go, puppy dog!
@Aaaaaaaaviatrix (#17): Um, yeah, you spent way more time on figuring out what plane that is than the artist did drawing it. Magnitudes more. Good on ya!
@Jim North (#29): I’ve met dogs with fur like that, too. Makes you wonder what evolutionary advantage it provides.
bats :[April 10th, 2011 at 12:59 pm [Reply]
@Mardou Fox (#1): dang, if Les is at the party, and his urine is that color, I think he needs to make an appointment with Rex Morgan, M.D.
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#20): I drive a 1987 Subaru…trade up for a ‘97 model? You bet! :D
@Jim North (#29): dammit. BMcE knows just how far to push us, to that hairy (ahem) edge when we’re about to swear off 9CL forever…and then there’s a kitty!!
Chip WhittleApril 10th, 2011 at 1:12 pm [Reply]
Beetle Bailey intrigues me because of how angry Mrs. Halftrack is at her husband’s slipping and falling, possibly “busting” something. It wouldn’t stand out if she were all Lockhornian about her husband getting drunk and humiliating himself, but he really obviously slipped in a puddle of something and couldn’t regain control, and she’s angry with him over this. What’s behind that, other than the default “legacy cartoonists can’t imagine spouses who don’t hate each other” motif?
Jim NorthApril 10th, 2011 at 1:13 pm [Reply]
@bats :[ (#41): It’s almost disturbingly Kaufman-esque in a way.
wossnameApril 10th, 2011 at 1:19 pm [Reply]
MT – WTF is that thing over the Elrodball? At first I thought it was a headless torso, with the Elrodball on its abdomen, waving. (See what I mean?) Eventually I realized it was a camel straddling the Elrodball, although I can’t imagine why a camel would want to do such a thing.
Doones/RMMD – OK, we have a benchmark for how to set a ransom amount: Red Rascal is worth $90. I’d say RR and Dex get about equal scores on the annoyingness, stupidity, and obnoxiousness portions of the test. However, Berna wants Dex back, I guess, more than the Redferns want RR back. So let’s say $110 for Dexter.
Congrats to MaryAnnTheRest and all the funny folks on all the floats! And belated birthday greetings to Esther Blodgett. I’m just catching up, having spent a delightful Saturday having breakfast with bourbon babe and True Fable, and then going to the zoo and eventually out for a great dinner with bb,u. She is on her way home now, assuming Delta is doing what it’s supposed to.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 10th, 2011 at 1:35 pm [Reply]
Luann: I like how the modern family is all tense with lots of worrying news on the TV, while in 1954 they’re all relaxed and wholesome. I guess the “duck and cover” exercises spurred by the feeling of imminent nuclear holocaust at the time only took pace at schools.
AaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 1:56 pm [Reply]
@Frank Lee Meidere (#45): That Luann strip has an interesting They’ll Do It ever Time vibe. If that, and not the ranting I hear here, was all I knew of the strip, I’d be tempted to subscribe.
Jim NorthApril 10th, 2011 at 2:02 pm [Reply]
@Frank Lee Meidere (#45): They had every reason to be relaxed, what with McCarthy out there getting rid of those goldurn Commies and making America safe!
AmateurApril 10th, 2011 at 2:09 pm [Reply]
MW: So that’s how you get a man. I should be taking notes. *sigh*
Of course, this is Mary Worth world. Do this in real life and you’d get Maced.
TheDivaApril 10th, 2011 at 2:15 pm [Reply]
@Jim North (#47): And don’t forget, they can shop and eat out and the like without fear of running into those pesky colored people.
The KluteApril 10th, 2011 at 3:16 pm [Reply]
Man, Beetle Bailey sure knows the human condition. I know when I see an old man flail about and then wind up in a twisted pile on the floor, unable to get up, I too think “DANCING MACHINE!”, not “OH GOD SOMEBODY CALL AN AMBULANCE!”
Red GreenbackApril 10th, 2011 at 3:18 pm [Reply]
Pat Downs… Get it?
MarsApril 10th, 2011 at 3:31 pm [Reply]
People still say “bust a move.” It’s not hip anymore, but it isn’t retired either.
PoteetApril 10th, 2011 at 3:59 pm [Reply]
PLUGGERS — I saw a fair number of Burma Shave signs in days of yore, and part of the fun was that the ending “Burma Shave” sign came AFTER the verse, not as part of it. Maybe there were exceptions. I don’t remember seeing any.
Dr PalindromeApril 10th, 2011 at 4:01 pm [Reply]
General Halftrack is just overcompensating for not making the cut for the comic strip dance party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1VIvldVJc
… great, that song is gonna be stuck in my head all day.
RhekaridApril 10th, 2011 at 4:31 pm [Reply]
Meanwhile, General Halftrack’s men applaud wildly to his face at the fact that he will never walk again.
Makya McBeeApril 10th, 2011 at 4:33 pm [Reply]
General Halftrack is not hip. If anything, he’s dislocated one. But my favorite part is the guy in the background who, arms in the air, shouts out to the heavens in pure jubilation at the prospect of his senile boss having multiple broken bones and internal bleeding.
PoteetApril 10th, 2011 at 4:40 pm [Reply]
MT — Hey, wait a minute. There’s food information everywhere. This strip is supposed to be about wildlife. Just this once about peppers, okay, but this better not become a regular thing.
MW — So did Liza ever bother to start her shift, or are her patients moaning and passing out one by one while she tries to set herself up with one of the most undesireable men on the face of the earth?
AaaaaaviatrixApril 10th, 2011 at 4:45 pm [Reply]
@Poteet (#57):Oddly, when the Crimestopers tips got relevant, I had this weird expectation that Mark Trail Sundays would too.
Mardou FoxApril 10th, 2011 at 4:51 pm [Reply]
@bats :[ (#41): It’s pretty cool to think of people from the Funkyverse trying to get help for their cancer (and other problems) from Rex Morgan, M.D. He so wouldn’t care! He would really be the perfect doctor for Funkyville. He would never be able to cure anyone… and he wouldn’t give a flying f* about it, either.
AustriaApril 10th, 2011 at 4:52 pm [Reply]
BB: Aww, isn’t that cute! Walker and Browne still think that the music at dances is provided by live bands. And that people still, y’know, dance.
BC: Okay, this is pretty clever. I like it.
reFOOB: OH THOSE SELFISH MEN WHATCHA GONNA DO
no seriously shut up
FW: Honestly, when I die, I hope people will recall my jokes at my funeral. I’m serious. I could be all “doom cancer Masky McDeath bwaaah” right now, but everyone else has already done that.
MW: “Now get back to your shift.”
MG&G: Heaven help me, I laughed out loud. Curse pop culture.
Mutts: Did anyone happen to catch last Sunday’s strip? Did they do a Jane Goodall thing then? Because I know her birthday was April 3rd. If not, well, better late then never, I guess.
PBS: Hey, look. Me got footstool.
SF: YESSSSSSSSS
Walker of DogApril 10th, 2011 at 5:25 pm [Reply]
@Poteet (#53): Pluggers can’t get anything right. And they’re damned proud of it, too.
MT: Pepper spray, riot control, camels… Mark, if you have something to say about Hosni Mubarak, just say it.
FW: We’re not going to get an up-close shot of the corpse? First we missed out on the embalming, and now this.
Belated congratulations to all the riders of floats, especially Hibbleton, S Stout, and Red Greenback.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 10th, 2011 at 5:27 pm [Reply]
@Aaaaaaaviatrix (#25): As I recall, Reader’s Digest had the joke (back in the 70s) that the Japanese turned to the Germans to name their auto company, and said they needed a name in three days. “Ach!” said the Germans, “Datsun?”
@bats :[ (#41): I drive a 1987 Subaru…trade up for a ‘97 model? You bet!
I should have said ‘97 Saturn Wagon. I had one of those until last year; bought it new.
9: Thing is, I don’t even like the cat.
Rana the Pedantic Wet BlanketApril 10th, 2011 at 5:50 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#40): I think intensive shedding serves a defensive function, rather like a lizard shedding its tail to escape.
My cat’s a slick shorthair, so she doesn’t shed too much around the house, but a trip to the vet is guaranteed to produce drifts of fur – on me, on the vet, in her carrier, all over the examining table, floating through the air…
MyUsernamesMudApril 10th, 2011 at 6:02 pm [Reply]
It’s kind of weird seeing Killer play the sober, sensible friend to Beetle’s staggering, nihilistic drunk.
AlisonApril 10th, 2011 at 6:04 pm [Reply]
The General’s wife sure looks mad at him for slipping and mangling himself, damn.
AmateurApril 10th, 2011 at 6:13 pm [Reply]
MT: Cayenne peppers are good for the stomach. This deer will demonstrate by eating some and then pooping from here to the interstate.
bats :[April 10th, 2011 at 6:17 pm [Reply]
@Dr Palindrome (#54): I’d forgotten this one…great to see it again.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 10th, 2011 at 6:31 pm [Reply]
BB:
By the looks of it, Gen. Halftrack busted a move-
ment.
April 10th, 2011 at 6:42 pm [Reply]
@Amateur (#66): You know, that’s really such an excellent explanation for the way they look when they jump.
SequiturApril 10th, 2011 at 6:43 pm [Reply]
MT: Mark’s gonna be in trouble with his wife. He left out the Cherry Pepper.
Hmmm. Cherry Pepper would be a good name for an exotic dancer.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 10th, 2011 at 6:45 pm [Reply]
@Sequitur (#70): And her mack daddy’d be Pops Cherry?
Jim NorthApril 10th, 2011 at 6:55 pm [Reply]
@Écureuil Écumant (#71): And their security analyst will be Pat Downs.
Esther BlodgettApril 10th, 2011 at 7:03 pm [Reply]
@Aaaaaaaaviatrix (#17): I know nothing about planes, but loved your entry! And good luck on the interview!
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 10th, 2011 at 7:13 pm [Reply]
@Sequitur (#70): just don’t call Cherry by her last name.
AnonymousApril 10th, 2011 at 7:48 pm [Reply]
Not featured:
BLONDIE – Mr. Dithers likes Blondie’s Jalapeno-Pastrami sandwich?
FAMILY CIRCUS – Never walk towards a puddle after getting off a school bus.
CLASSIC PEANUTS – Soap carvings were well done in 1964? Even Linus’ ship soap sculpture was turned into a canoe after Lucy washed her hands with it.
Red GreenbackApril 10th, 2011 at 7:50 pm [Reply]
Hey Mudges, I was traveling for a few days last week w/no internets (dropped my laptop and the LCD went all Batiuk on me) Anyboohoo, in catching up, I just saw I was on the float (Thank you Josh and thank you Walker of Dog @61 for the nice compliment)
And belated happy birthday wishes, Esther Blodgett!
April 10th, 2011 at 7:57 pm [Reply]
Beetle Bailey-Human legs don’t bend that way or in that many pieces.
Mary Worth-Here is another question for you and your answer will not be no, “Will you marry me?”
Peanuts-I wonder how big Linus’ soap boat was and how many times and how long Lucy was washing her hands.
Baka GaijinApril 10th, 2011 at 7:58 pm [Reply]
@Amateur (#66): Good one! COTW-worthy.
@Red Greenback (#76): Welcome back and Mary Worth would be so proud that you beat your Internet addiction.
LiamApril 10th, 2011 at 7:59 pm [Reply]
Blondie-Mr. Dithers is rather considerate wanting to fire an employee at home and embarrass him in front of his family rather than doing it at work.
Red GreenbackApril 10th, 2011 at 8:10 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#78): So would Helen (hic) Clark.
seismic-2April 10th, 2011 at 8:44 pm [Reply]
BB:Show of hands: What had you rather see happen in that pool of spilled liquid on the dance floor, General Halftrack busting a move, or Miss Buxley moving a bust?
JP: Ah, so that’s who’s been filling Abbey’s cavities all these years. We knew it wasn’t Sam, of course.
RMMD: The art in the final panel disturbs me greatly. It’s not so much that Rex is apparently having phone sex with Berna, it’s that the unseen photo in the frame on his desk suggests that he may actually be looking at her picture while he does it. EEEEWWWWWW!!!!!
Rocky StoneaxeApril 10th, 2011 at 8:55 pm [Reply]
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#y174, 175):
Still More Weird Sound Effects (Sunday Edition!):
Rose is Rose — CLICK
Jump Start — TAP x 6
Non Sequitur — BLINK
Dog Eat Doug — WIGGLE x 6
Alley Oop — MUNCH! x 3… ZAP!
The Knight Life — LAP x 4… POOF
Soup to Nutz — WAP! BAM! BONK!
Liberty Meadows — WHAP WHAP WHAP
Dogs of C-Kennel —
http://www.gocomics.com/dogsofckennel
Garfield —
http://www.gocomics.com/garfield
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tb4000April 10th, 2011 at 8:55 pm [Reply]
Luann: Yes, 1954 sure was a soothing time to be alive, if you were middle class and white.
commodorejohnApril 10th, 2011 at 9:00 pm [Reply]
Jesus, I can’t believe I missed today’s Luann. Oh wait, I can totally believe that, obviously my brain must have been trying to protect me. Seriously, this notion of the ’50s as a perfect era of idyllic True America-ness is such laughable horseshit that Back To The Future was satirizing it… *checks watch* 25 years ago. Greg Evans, what the hell. Just what the hell.
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