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The power of Christ compels Dolly

Family Circus, 4/6/07

I’m not a Christian, but even I know how theologically troubling this Good Friday installment of the supposedly Jesus-friendly Family Circus is. Hey Dolly, they don’t say “Jesus was an adorable baby wrapped in swaddling clothes surrounded by cute animals for your sins,” you know what I’m saying?

Several commentors have suggested that Ma Keane is attempting to exorcize the demons out of Dolly, but I think it’s instructive to compare this panel with Tuesday’s installment. The visual echoes imply that Dolly is about to get smacked with that crucifix; we might assume that its religious meaning is incidental, and that it was merely the closest heavy object to hand.

Gil Thorp, 4/6/07

The first panel of today’s Gil Thorp is just evidence of how far this strip (and by extension America) has slipped from the good old days, as “the doc” is some touch-feely psychotherapist who’s helping Tyler get in touch with his emotions and discover the reasons why he felt a need to hit himself in the back of the head with a stick until he bled; obviously his coach should be telling him to man up, push all those troubling “feelings” deep down inside, and hit other people with sticks instead. The third panel is completely incomprehensible to me. But I like panel two. I like the fact that Assistant Coach Kaz spends his spare time lifting free weights in … well, I don’t know where he’s supposed to be, exactly; it looks like he’s in the exercise yard in prison. I also like the fact that it’s totally obvious that Kaz has had some eye work done.

Apartment 3-G, 4/6/07

The “Lu Ann is being possessed or dying or something and nobody cares or even remembers she exists” bit is now becoming actively hilarious to me. And do we need any more proof that the Professor’s years of “paternal” attentions to the girls in 3G were basically driven by a desire to get into the pants of one or all of them? Now that he’s managed to somehow snag a babe even younger than them, his interest in their sordid paint-huffing adventures has vanished.

The Lockhorns, 4/6/07

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. But it is true that, thanks to Leroy’s listlessness and inattention, Loretta is like El Niño in that she comes once every three to eight years.

Slylock Fox, 4/6/07

Wow, for someone who in the next few minutes is going to die either from suffocation or from a trip through a walrus digestive system, that fish sure is looking pretty darn cheery.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 05:33 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, Family Circus, Gil Thorp, Lockhorns, Slylock Fox.

288 responses to “The power of Christ compels Dolly”

Blade Runner
April 6th, 2007 at 5:39 pm [Reply]

JP – So, the punk that got clobbered by Neddie’s anger management books is named Sid. Who is the punk chasing them? Is it Nancy?
philip
April 6th, 2007 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

RE: Gil Thorp

I think Kaz has actually stolen the eyes from the chubby kid in panel 3 and is wearing them as a trophy.

And the two guys in panel one look awfully alike. Is he talking to his own profile in a mirror?
Eric
April 6th, 2007 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

“It’s for Luann my heart is troubled?”

That’s some slick dialogue right there.
Ron
April 6th, 2007 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

Andrew Carson has drawn the worst walrus I’ve ever seen. It looks more like a human being!
Eric
April 6th, 2007 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

Also, since when does Leroy talk to other men at parties? Shouldn’t he be drunkenly attempting to impress a statuesque blonde?
Tats
April 6th, 2007 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

Andrew Carson’s draw-a-gentleman looks very… impressed with himself. If you get my meaning.
Francis
April 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

“Our team has some holes to fill…at the bucket, if you know what I mean.”
The Avocado Avenger
April 6th, 2007 at 5:48 pm [Reply]

A3G: I’m thoroughly tired of this plot that goes nowhere being stalled for a rehash by secondary characters. Guess the majority of A3G readers were overwhelmed by the fast pace of the previous strips and needed a little refresher to catch up.
cheech wizard
April 6th, 2007 at 5:51 pm [Reply]

In panel 3, Gil Thorpe seems to have shifted to some kind of alternate universe where Tiger Woods is an overweight middle-manager of some sort who can’t get his shit together. On the plus side, Earl’s still around.
Oâ€™Fogeyette
April 6th, 2007 at 5:52 pm [Reply]

Josh: I nominate your comment about Loretta for COTW. I mean, I know you’re the Pope and all, but it really cracked me up.

Kronkina from yesterthread: when I ended the previous thread by posting, I answered your rhetorical question about NYC.
kdog630
April 6th, 2007 at 5:56 pm [Reply]

Mary: But you’ve just arrived!

Vera: I’ve been here for 11 Margoin’ panels! Most of it being chatted up by Professor Chinbeard, here. I can’t leave soon enough!
Jack Drake
April 6th, 2007 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

And do we need any more proof that the Professorâ€™s years of â€œpaternalâ€ attentions to the girls in 3G were basically driven by a desire to get into the pants of one or all of them? Now that heâ€™s managed to somehow snag a babe even younger than them, his interest in their sordid paint-huffing adventures has vanished.

I’m not so sure about that… considering the leer the dear professor has, I think he may be seeing a bachlorette party in his mind’s eye – maybe that’ll be his last, best hope for a little 3G

–JD
stewart
April 6th, 2007 at 6:00 pm [Reply]

The funny thing about the walrus to me is that the first drawing is basically Ludwig the cat from Arlo and Janis!
cephyn
April 6th, 2007 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

Oh dear god, panel 2 of Gil Thorp just put the worst mental image ever in my head….the entire baseball team…holes to fill…..why gil thorp why even put that in print! Avoid the double entendre altogether! it’s not worth it!
Ferd Berfel
April 6th, 2007 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

Concerning Margo’s “From-The-Old-Country” mother, if that is what Margo is going to look like in 25 to 30 years no wonder the poor girl is permanently pissed off.
Famous Author Rob Byrnes
April 6th, 2007 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

I think panel 3 in Gil Thorp is obvious: Special Guest Star Oliver Platt!

Stunt-casting in comics is awesome!
EyeWonder
April 6th, 2007 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

Andrew Carson looks pretty rough for an eleven year old.
Harry Paratestes
April 6th, 2007 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

In the Lockhorns, Leroy is hinting that Loretta’s mouth is like El Nino: warm, moist and shared by millions of people in the western hemisphere. Wow, I hope she gargles.
Trilobite
April 6th, 2007 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

It’s strips like this that show us why Gil Thorp is the best comic strip about alien life forms who care about high school sports around.

The only improvement that could really be made would be to add at least one human character to the cast, so the rest of us can have someone to identify with.
Harry Paratestes
April 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pm [Reply]

A3G: I’m thinking that the Prof is concerned about the ‘Norwegian wood’ that he’s sporting upon hearing about LuAnn.
jules
April 6th, 2007 at 6:08 pm [Reply]

OH MY GOD Can I just say I snorted coffee all over my monitor at that comment under “The Lockhorns.” Bwaaaa-ha-ha!

I love Andrew Carson’s drawing of his Uncle Jimbo’s freakishly malformed skull.
Anonymouse
April 6th, 2007 at 6:09 pm [Reply]

Dolly’s a future Protestant {born again Christian}, I can see it right there. A future rejecter of grave images, very nice to see…

The Keane household only seems “Christian” on holidays. I guess they are some sort of cafeteria- Catholic derivative or maybe not?.. Momma Keane did have 4 kids in under 6 years.
SatanicMechanic
April 6th, 2007 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

Ok, you know what really pisses me off about today’s FBoFW??? Elly saying “Oooo, the lands too big theyd have to sever it”. WHAT THE HELL IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?? Maybe I’m just sensitive because a housing developement in my backyard is forcing me to leave my home, but can’t they just pretend they give a damn about our one and only planet? Havn’t they ever heard of land conservation easements where you give your land to the county and they give you tax cuts?
After the shit with the “Sporty SUV” (give me a break!) I shouldve expected it. What jerks.
SatanicMechanic
April 6th, 2007 at 6:11 pm [Reply]

Now I feel good enough to comment on Marmaduke- does Marmaduke look like Mel Gibson, or what?
Never teh Bride
April 6th, 2007 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

It won’t matter come September, SatanicMechanic, when LJ randomly has Elly and John move in to the little house and Michael and his brood o’ boredom are given the big house. This is just before Elizabeth becomes a mumbling bag lady, of course…having been driven insane by the fact that nothing ever goes right in her life.
Harry Paratestes
April 6th, 2007 at 6:16 pm [Reply]

#1
No, it appears to be Johnny Rotten sans hair, and he’s mistaken Neddy for Nancy Spungen (she of ‘Sid and Nancy’ fame).
Financial Panther
April 6th, 2007 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

Speaking of the Lockhorns, has anyone else seen this week’s edition of Tom the Dancing Bug’s “Super-Fun-Pak Comix”? Check out the strip called “Marital Mirth”
Mushuweasel
April 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pm [Reply]

Just how many holes is Tyler expected to fill? Maybe he’ll bring some more tree branches along, but I for one would object to the splinter potential.
gnome de blog
April 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pm [Reply]

Today’s FC is another example of Jef Keane using his power as co-creationist to pay back his older sibs for a childhood of taunts and cruelty. He exposes Dolly as unable to face up to the really hard truths about her alleged Christian faith.
Rhekarid
April 6th, 2007 at 6:25 pm [Reply]

Whenever you wonder where the characters in Gil Thorp are, the answer is always “someplace smaller than their giant plastic heads.”
Mack
April 6th, 2007 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

I’m impressed that apparently both the Lockhorns and Apartment 3-G managed to secure guest starring roles from Natasha of “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” It’s for Luann my heart is troubled…and moose and squirrel.
SatanicMechanic
April 6th, 2007 at 6:27 pm [Reply]

#25

True. Global warming will be miraculously stopped, too.
Squid Countess
April 6th, 2007 at 6:33 pm [Reply]

I don’t usually forward my deathless (undead?)prose from the end of an old thread to the start of a new one. But I am, this time. Just because it’s Gil Thorp.

gh- Re : Gil Thorp - I know youâ€™ve been caught up in the illustratorsâ€™ labor dispute, gh, but you still should have mentioned drawer # 2â€™s blatant shout-out to female NCAA basketball coaches. Look at it! You can feel the love! The editor must have made drawer #2 turn the blowdryer with diffuser into a hand weight at the last second. Not that that butched it up much.
KT
April 6th, 2007 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

(DT)GT: You don’t “shoot for basketball”, you shoot with basketball, for net! Aren’t that how game played?
Weasel Boy
April 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

The power of Dolly compels you!
treedweller
April 6th, 2007 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

Vera doesn’t have any depressing asides today. I guess the Charterstone pool party made her realize her life wasn’t as bad as she thought.

Partying with Chinbeard and Mary is the Pluggers xanax.

Oh, and “Cathy” still sucks.
Snoop
April 6th, 2007 at 6:41 pm [Reply]

Neddy’s reaction was natural. She’s paying through the nose for French and Art lessons and that bastard butchers the language like that? She should turn around, shoulder past the remnant punk and hit him again. Oublier que je, mon cul!
Kenny
April 6th, 2007 at 6:44 pm [Reply]

“Shoot for Basketball”, “Full Boat Wrestling”… either Gil Thorpe is redesigning the english language, or developing a whole new era of sports as we know it.
Kurdt
April 6th, 2007 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

Dolly will now have to go to her “prayer closet” and pray to a freaking looking Saint till she learns to behave.
She will then develop weird powers and momma Keane will be impaled against a wall with kitchen implements after she refuses to let Dolly go to the school dance.
Jeffy is already locked in the basement for bashing Billy’s head to pieces and forgetting to clean it up and the dog was sacrificed by Daddy Keane in a secret underground ritual to appease the Elder Gods.
The Keane household is falling apart….
Thats The Spirit
April 6th, 2007 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

“Oublier que je, mon cul!”

?

Ca ne veut dire rien…
Mibbitmaker
April 6th, 2007 at 6:56 pm [Reply]

SFx:

Goo goo goo joob, Shylock.
Some dude
April 6th, 2007 at 6:57 pm [Reply]

I think that today’s Family Circus is funnier w/ the exorcism theory.

And I dread to think about what Andrew Carson’s drawing would have looked like if he drew the whole body.
Tats
April 6th, 2007 at 6:57 pm [Reply]

Man, Margo’s mom rocks a mandarin collar like no one’s business. Starfleet, eat your heart out.
GotFuzzy
April 6th, 2007 at 6:58 pm [Reply]

I interpret panel 3 in (DT)GT as Paris finally owning up to the fact that she is Chubby Checker http://www.chubbychecker.com/.

Why The King of the Twist is subject to corporate transfer and has to explain that to his Pops is beyond me, though.
Mibbitmaker
April 6th, 2007 at 7:03 pm [Reply]

#41 (me): That’s Slylock, you stupid mibbit!

Goo goo goo joob, Slylock.

#38 (Kenny): Well, he’s certainly not developing a whole new era of cartooning as we know it.

At least I hope not!
Octal
April 6th, 2007 at 7:05 pm [Reply]

How is that supposed to help anyone draw even the bizarre mutant walrus shown there? I mean, really?
John C Fremont
April 6th, 2007 at 7:06 pm [Reply]

Hey, I LIKED 11 year old Andrew Carson’s picture. It’s much better drawn than that horrible walrus. Or Slylock and Max. Weber can sure draw a sexy cat, though.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
April 6th, 2007 at 7:21 pm [Reply]

If it was “Shylock”, then it should be “Goo Goo Ga Jew”.

(No disrespect meant to anyone — I say to all of you, Happy Easter or Happy No-Yeaster, whatever holiday you may observe.)
Jose Pluma
April 6th, 2007 at 7:29 pm [Reply]

The kids in FW are getting ready to graduate and have been on their senior trip to the National Art Gallery all week. The result: five days of the most cheerless expressions I have seen outside of a concentration camp. Even the docents and other visitors to the museum look unhappy. Yes, you are almost free of your stifling small-town high school and are visiting one of the most magnificent art collections in the Western Hemisphere, but life is still just a meaningless charade, leading to the empty void of the grave. I can’t imagine what they’d all look like if they were visiting the Holocaust Museum.
Breakfast
April 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

FC – Dolly possessed? Oh, of course. The devil has somehow used his wicked powers to shrink her down to the size of her Moms’ head, increasing her body mass and horribly disfiguring her face, the poor dear.
Dick, the doorbell
April 6th, 2007 at 7:33 pm [Reply]

Never mind that, Dolly. You still haven’t told me why this crucifix smells like spoiled tuna.
Carmichael the Polar Bear
April 6th, 2007 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

Pfui. That’s clearly “How To Draw Half A Walrus.”
FlaGator
April 6th, 2007 at 7:48 pm [Reply]

Archie: Ha ha! Jughead is lazy! Seriously… when’s the last time Scarpelli or Baldwin sat in a schoolroom chair? I dunno, but I suspect it was made of a split log. The invention of chair backs must seem like luxury to them.

Baldo: Get it? She wants to taste his KUMquats! HOOOOO!
TurtleBoy
April 6th, 2007 at 7:52 pm [Reply]

Slylock: I nominate Andrew Carson of Houston, Texas (no match for Rolly Church of Crete, Nebraska) to take over the artwork on Gil Thorp. Who’s to choose between freakishly misshapen heads? I’ll bet he does a better job with hands than Dick Locher of Dick Tracy fame, too.
TurtleBoy
April 6th, 2007 at 7:58 pm [Reply]

Family Circus: I believe we’re seeing the dawn of a new genre of FC cartoonery. Just as Ziggy has its unseen-mice-with-technology jokes and BC can always draw on its stock of you-know and show-me schlock, Keane’s now introduced the eerily-looming-parent-with-bludgeoning-object gag. Stay tuned next week, when Billy brandishes a Tiffany lamp as Thel looks on oafishly, and Dolly swings a sack o’ doorknobs high over Bil’s dome. Nothing’s gonna top that crucifix, though. Damn.
Weasel Boy
April 6th, 2007 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

Oops. I guess I should have read the title of Josh’s post before I commented (#35). And me holding the COTW title. I’m so ashamed.
Steve S
April 6th, 2007 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

The professor couldn’t have been interested in getting into the pants of all three of the women. Even Tommie isn’t that interested in getting into Tommie’s pants.

The guy in panel 3 of Gil Thorp has some interesting glasses, insofar as you can’t see his son’s hand through the lenses. Maybe they live in Reversistan, where the whites of eyes are black and glasses are for not seeing.
Vince M.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pm [Reply]

Slylock: Andrew Carlson draws a pretty good Norm Crosby!
Wirrrn
April 6th, 2007 at 8:30 pm [Reply]

FAMILY CIRCUS: Mama Keane is holding the Crucifix far too close to Dolly’s beady little coal-lump eyes for Dolly to focus on the whole thing at once. My guess is she’s trying to answer Dolly’s question “Mommy, what’s a circumcision?” with the best prop at hand…
Harold
April 6th, 2007 at 8:32 pm [Reply]

“Mommy, get your hand offa Jesus’s groin!”
Kenny
April 6th, 2007 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

#45 (Mibbitmaker) – let’s all join hands and pray that this isn’t a new era of cartooning.
Harold
April 6th, 2007 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

So was the tie-wearing young man in panel 3 of Gil Thorp born without eyes, or did his father pluck them out for being transferred one too many times?
kippetje2000
April 6th, 2007 at 8:40 pm [Reply]

Maybe that’s a white chocolate Jesus. On a stick. (the train to hell just went express). WWDD.
True Fable
April 6th, 2007 at 8:43 pm [Reply]

FBoFW It’s getting hard to tell the players without a scorecard. So April is the new Hot Chick Girl, and Liz is the Latest Frump who is starting to look just like Hopelessly Awful Elly.
What did I warn you about the hairstyle on April? How do you let their hair back down after they’ve seen sixteen? Those damn buns are So. Fuckin. Ugly.
And of Course Elly and John are going to buy the Stibbs’ house. How do I know?
Dah dit dit dit, dit dit dah, dit dah dit dit, dit dah dit dit, dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, dit dit, dah
dit dit dit, dit dah dah dit, dit, dit dah, dah dit dah, dit dit, dah dit, dah dah dit
dah dit dah dit, dit dah, dah dit, dit dah, dah dit dit, dit dit, dit dah, dah dit.
True Fable
April 6th, 2007 at 8:44 pm [Reply]

to #65 I must add: because most of them don’t.
Kenny
April 6th, 2007 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

WWJD? Yes, what would Josh do?
Citric
April 6th, 2007 at 8:51 pm [Reply]

Has Gil Thorpe ever made sense? I’ve never been able to tell the characters apart, or tell what they’re doing, or understand what they’re talking about. Near as I can tell, this story is about some guy with a big stick stealing the eyes of fat kids and beat himself for some sort of twisted sex game. How far off am I?
Sly Robbie
April 6th, 2007 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

It’s funny how The Family Circus would be much improved if they swapped the captions from the two installments.

Jeffy holding the hammer on Good Friday, saying “I liked seeing Jesus in the manger better,” and Ma Keane handing Dolly the crucifix and warning her: “You can use this as long as you promise not to beat anyone over the head with it.”

/Robbie
jaybrrd
April 6th, 2007 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

If only Dysfunctional Family Circus was still around.

Saturnmargoboxcar behind this link.
Trilobite
April 6th, 2007 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

#62 – Harold:

I think the dude apologizing for being transferred again is an alien: what you’re looking at are his jet-black, soulless multifaceted eyes, the only part of his actual body which is not covered by his Tubby Office Worker costume.

As an aside, do you suppose that somewhere in the world, there might exist a person who is really and truly interested in a Gil Thorp storyline? Someone who hangs on every panel and remembers character names and looks forward to finding out what will happen next? (The people involved in producing it obviously don’t count, because they clearly don’t care what’s going on.)

I just wonder what that mythical Gil Thorp-loving person is like. Would we even be able to recognize them as being from the same species as the rest of us?
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 6th, 2007 at 9:13 pm [Reply]

#18
In the Lockhorns, Leroy is hinting that Lorettaâ€™s mouth is like El Nino: warm, moist and shared by millions of people in the western hemisphere. Wow, I hope she gargles.
Ah, you do mean with mouthwash, right?
Poteet
April 6th, 2007 at 9:19 pm [Reply]

# 23 — Wow, this site really does have everything, including a mention of conservation easements. Thanks, SatanicMechanic. If I were two people, one of them would be on this site all the time, so I guess it’s good I’m not.

SLYLOCK — When I put this bizarre little strip on my list, it was with the clear understanding that I’d be seeing Cassandra Cat. I didn’t expect her to show up every day, but now she’s showing up exactly never. Where the hell is she? Is the walrus supposed to mean that she’s dead?
Buck Ripsnort
April 6th, 2007 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

FC–I’m just thinking about what li’l Raven did w/ that crucifix earlier.

Slylock: WHAT is li’l Andrew’s drawing looking at? I can hear him now: “It’s working! The Viagra’s working!”
deeeeeeeeelightful
April 6th, 2007 at 9:29 pm [Reply]

Man, for that kids sake, I REALLY hope thats not a self portrait. I mean, I knew my hometown was adept at producing ugly children, but this, this is just ridiculous!
Ferd Berfel
April 6th, 2007 at 9:38 pm [Reply]

Folks, lets dial it back on little Andrew Carlson alright?

Schlepperock Fox publishes a regular drawing contest. The strip prints a mostly empty square contaning a few random lines and squiggles. Each contestant must then incorporate Schlepperock’s palsied scrawls into a drawing of their own.

The fact that Andrew was able to convert the scratches he was given into something approximating a human shoulders, head, and face is an actual accomplishment. I doubt Mel Lazarus or the naked mole rats which ink Gil Thorp could do nearly as well.
fishmorgjp
April 6th, 2007 at 9:43 pm [Reply]

When you think about it, Dolly has a good point — it’s so much happier to see JC at his birth, his future life full of promise, compared to seeing him nailed up to a couple of beams.
Poteet
April 6th, 2007 at 9:55 pm [Reply]

# 75 — Ferd, I appreciate the info and agree with you entirely, except I think you’re being too hard on naked mole rats. It’s my understanding that naked mole rats, like most non-human animals, stick to what they are reasonably good at or have no biological choice about attempting. Whatever is inking (DT)GT is not so constrained:-).
Skooter
April 6th, 2007 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

GT – Josh,
Panel 2 is showing a rack of plumber’s friends, that Coach Kaz uses to help flush away the memories of all those losing seasons.
MonkeyHawk
April 6th, 2007 at 10:24 pm [Reply]

Dolly is learning the lesson of the season:

Don’t get hung up over Easter.
edgeways
April 6th, 2007 at 10:24 pm [Reply]

Not sure if someone already did the treatment to the possessed FC, just in case not, here is mine
Moon Mullins
April 6th, 2007 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

69 Jaybrrd: totally evil. I loved it.
Klipper
April 6th, 2007 at 10:48 pm [Reply]

Loretta’s the el nino of windbags
Her breath it rocks boats and kills seahags
she spits when she speaks
and it rains down in sheets
and leaves everyone feeling a bit ragtag
winky
April 6th, 2007 at 10:57 pm [Reply]

re gil thorp: no mystery here, gentlemen. herbie popnecker’s come to milford!

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jskoga/herbie_113_01.GIF
Moon Mullins
April 6th, 2007 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

82: I thought the meter was a bit off on your last line, so I took the liberty of adjusting it:

Lorettaâ€™s the el nino of windbags
Her breath it rocks boats and kills seahags
she spits when she speaks
and it rains down in sheets
but she’ll swallow your pee without gags.
Dicky
April 6th, 2007 at 11:31 pm [Reply]

Baldo: I don’t know, but the whole kumquats thing becomes a bit more interesting when you remember that Gregorio is the one with the kumquat fetish in the first place as indicated by this strip.

Kumquats for everyone! YAY!
Wisconsinite
April 6th, 2007 at 11:35 pm [Reply]

STOLEN JOKE ALERT!!!

Did you see today’s (April 6th) Marvin comic, about the “poker face”? (I can’t seem to find it on-line at the moment).

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else mention this, but that seemed really familiar. Sure enough, with a bit of searching I found:

http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=2847

Though I believe this is a few years old, so maybe that’s why the author of Marvin wouldn’t think anyone would remember.

Bah!
BunnÃ«
April 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pm [Reply]

OK, FBoFW, what is there to say except that it hurts to see the obvious pre-ordained plot hurtling forward. When Liz and Granthony make it official, I think it’s going to give me some kind of cramp.

Meanwhile, in the land of 9CL, is it me or is that face totally freakish and unsexy? It might just be me being gay, but Juliette’s tongue thing is a bit too lizardish for my taste.
CrabbyGenes
April 7th, 2007 at 12:06 am [Reply]

God, do I hate Michael. And I hate him even more because Johnston will let him get away with a stupid comment like that. (In the Saturday Foob, he compares buying a house with getting married by saying, to Deanna’s face, “It’s (meaning buying a house) as bad as getting married!”

In the early FBOFW, Elly seldom let John get away with saying anything as immature, stupid, and hurtful as that. She would ALWAYS call him on it. She would become incensed, and a huge realistic (and hilarious) fight would ensue. And that’s why this comic used to have an edge to it, and why it was so much snarkier in the past. I really miss that.

Of course Deanna will be a saint and let this comment pass, in spite of the horrified expression you see on her face in the last panel. Or worse, Johnston will use the unfair cop-out of the monthly letters to let us know IF Deanna takes offense (which I don’t think she will). Just like we found out ONLY from the monthly letters that Deanna got really mad that Michael would do something as stupid as leaving her to get the kids out of a burning apartment, and then going back for his manuscript and laptop. I hate the SAINTLY LOVEY-DOVEY-ness of this despicable couple!
Jimmy
April 7th, 2007 at 12:08 am [Reply]

The piranhas of Kidneystone are champing at the bit, frenziedly anticipating their next feeding. Run, Vera, run!
CrabbyGenes
April 7th, 2007 at 12:12 am [Reply]

A PS to my comment #88: I DO sound crabby, don’t I?!
Klipper
April 7th, 2007 at 12:16 am [Reply]

#84
Yeah, I had trouble with the last line. I wanted the story to flow … but I guess Loretta can swallow pee sans gag.
Perhaps I should have said

…and leaves everyone feeling all ragtag.
Klipper
April 7th, 2007 at 12:22 am [Reply]

Do you think Curtis is going to end up in his underwear in Dagwood’s bathtub .. a la Dudley in Diff’rent Strokes?
under_score
April 7th, 2007 at 12:25 am [Reply]

4/7, in brief

TDIET: squid++

Zits: ewwwwwwwww!!!!

FOOB: Mike=asshole

MarkTrail: AFLAC!
King Folderol
April 7th, 2007 at 12:31 am [Reply]

I really don’t even know what to say about today’s Family Circus. I had to go to the Chronicle’s comics page just to make sure that either a) Josh didn’t make this up or b) someone didn’t hack on to Josh’s page and put this here.

In what context would Thel possibly be holding the crucifix up to Dolly’s little head? As someone who grew up Catholic, I certainly saw plenty of those things around various households. But they generally stayed on the wall; people didn’t carry them around like good luck charms to ward off the evil spirits. I haven’t been to church in 20+ years, so I guess it’s possible that the Church is a little less doctrinare about these things. But I doubt it.

The only thing that could have preceeded this that possibly makes sense is that Dolly was walking around the house dressed like an Orthodox rabbi chanting from the Torah. Thel ripped the cross down from the wall and said, “No, we’re not Jews. We’re Christians! See!” I’m not sure Dolly’s response is going to save her from 10 minutes in time out, but at least she didn’t point out to Thel that Christ was a Jew.
april glaspie
April 7th, 2007 at 12:34 am [Reply]

Dolly, the really goy Guy that looks like Axl if Axl wasn’t so wimpy? Well he’s actually Jewish and his name is Bill Bailey. Seriously. What sort of horrible nun fantasies is this cartoon supposed to evoke? Look, mom (the threatening bitch’s) hairstyleeither scared the shit out of or put every Catholic boy into anarchist mode. I don’t know. This looks like the exorcist. People like this need to step aside and let people like Bishop Romero esplain. Oh Grampa Raygun, who’s some member of the Keane family already dealt with that. No joke. I know this is something that doesn’t generally intrude, but is this reactionary asshole actually pullling this?

Tell you what. Is mom telling Dolly that’s what happens to Jesus when he goes all wussy and becomes a liberation theologist and a revolutionary in South America? Get’s raped with a bunch of nuns by Freedom Fighters. Sorry. This just pisses me off immenseley.

Tell you what. What would happen if Garry Trudeau showed a crucifix? I believe in both Easter and Christmas. I think it’s an intelligent decision, from reading St. Augustine, Aquinas, Thomas a’Kempis, Thomas Merton, many others, but most of all the 20th Century’s greatest scientist, Pierre Teillhard de Chardin, and I think I know what I’m talking about and I know what I believe. Nobody else but my closest friends need to believe in it.

And I think I’m better educated than say, Johnny Hart. Tossing scripture into comics and acting like you’re a theologian, clams are really lame. Aholes.
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 12:35 am [Reply]

DT (4/7) — I assume that’s Queen of Diamonds behind Dick because of the delicate feminine way her pinky is sticking out. As a handgun ignoramus, I didn’t know we girls were supposed to do that, but if I ever take up a life of crime, I’ll remember.

Though now that I look again, I see it’s more of a stub than a pinky. A stub with a long pointed nail. Eww. However, if she’ll just shoot Dick through the head, all her bodily deformities will be fine with me.
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 12:39 am [Reply]

DT P.S. — And I think anyone who looks like Dick Tracy has a helluva nerve describing someone else’s appearance as “weird.”
Trilobite
April 7th, 2007 at 1:16 am [Reply]

Saturday’s batch of comics leaves me with a question: isn’t Spider-Man set in LA currently? And if so, then exactly how far are Kordok’s goons going to have to drive in order to find a river they can dump Weasel in?

…actually, upon reading what I just wrote, I’m now going to be looking for an opportunity to use the phrase “a river they can dump weasel in.” I don’t even know what that would mean, but I know it would be dirty.
Foolster41
April 7th, 2007 at 1:18 am [Reply]

#51 (Dick the doorbell): “Never mind that, Dolly. You still havenâ€™t told me why this crucifix smells like spoiled tuna.” I love that caption. I could see Dolly doing something that would get “ma” to say that.
AppleGirl
April 7th, 2007 at 1:22 am [Reply]

MW – I love Vera so much for blowing off all the nosy neighbors at the pool party. “But you just got here!” That’s funny, it seems like I’ve been here for days and days. “I’m Audi 5000, old Charterstoner dudes!”

BTW, I think Andrew Carson did a great job with his cartoon. When I was 11, I couldn’t draw as well as that.
WithoutaK
April 7th, 2007 at 1:22 am [Reply]

I know nobody ever escapes Mary’s clutches for long but it is SO satisfying to see Vera say shortly that she’s ~~fleeing~~ leaving and then split. Go Vera! Right now she just wants to know your business, but next on her list is your soul!
Trilobite
April 7th, 2007 at 1:24 am [Reply]

Turning my attention to Saturday’s Mary Worth, what the heck is Professor Chinbeard drinking, anyway?

At first, I thought that Chinbeard and Mary were actually rocked back on their heels by how deftly Vera managed to escape that god-awful party. But look at the second panel: there, he’s sporting a blissed-out, blank expression that rivals A3G’s LuAnn at her most vacuous. It’s pretty clear that he’s just having a fine time, sippin’ on a cocktail, rockin’ the terra-cotta pimp suit, showing the world that he is LAID BACK.

Presumably he’s got his mind on his money and his money on his mind, too. (Not like poor Vera, who has no money anymore, not since Von took it all away. Just before he kicked a puppy and smothered a nun, I bet. Stupid Von.)
WithoutaK
April 7th, 2007 at 1:26 am [Reply]

Oh, and #90 CrabbyGenes: Yes, but understandably crabby. MY reaction to the strip was sheer, unadulterated fury, as in “Fuck you Michael Patterson.” LJ has to be going somewhere with this because I refuse to believe she thinks this is funny, especially based on John and Deanna’s reactions. (Hee. It just occurred to me that maybe Lynn DID mean it to be funny but she only wrote the words and her team of “artists” naively assumed the proper reaction to draw was horror.)
t.a.m.s.y.
April 7th, 2007 at 1:27 am [Reply]

The holes the Mudlark baseball team have to fill include shortstop, middle reliever and gaping plot-.
Keregi
April 7th, 2007 at 1:43 am [Reply]

EWWWWW!!!!!! Ma and Pa Xits post-coital…..I need brain bleach! Pa is looking at the clock, exclaiming the time, so it must have been a “minute-man” experience. EWWWWWW
Mibbitmaker
April 7th, 2007 at 1:52 am [Reply]

4/7 FOOB:
According to the first 4 panels:

Michael: “I’m on’y thwee-anna-half yea’s o’d!” (like a ’40s Looney Tunes character)

Okay… panel 5… let’s seeeeeEEYIKES!!
—————————————–
What people are saying about Mike Patterson in today’s FOOB:

“Oooooh, myyy gaaaaaaaaaaawd…” –Ann Romano

“He’s made a huge mistake!” — GOB Bluth

“Well, now, I wouldn’t say thaaat!” — The Little Man From the Draft Board

“Even I wouldn’t be so cruel and selfish, and I’m Margo Magee!” — Margo Magee

“I’ve made a huge mistake!” — Dee Patterson

“That fellah’s gotta make him a list!” – Earl Hickey

“Say what you want about Michael Scott – he’d never do that!” — Jim Halpert (The Office)

“When I read that, I nearly had a heart attack – and various other diseases!” — Les Moore

“Mike Patterson! That’s crazy!” — Lisa Nowak

“You EEEEEEEDIOT!!” — Ren Hoek

“Atta boy, Mickey! It’s like he’s… my own son! I’m so proud!” – Leroy Lockhorn

“And I’m not gonna stop until I’ve made every damn male in my strip completely evil! NYAAAAA-HAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!” — Lynn Johnston
dreadedcandiru2
April 7th, 2007 at 1:53 am [Reply]

88 Foob: Not only will NoBalls NOT get called on it, the Sheet Shaving Enabler of Ultimate Doom will bleat how he didn’t MEEEEEEEEAN it. I’m willing to bet the Forgetful Pharmacist would stick with the turd just so she doesn’t have to hear ‘I told you so’ from Mira after she wises up and dumps the creep.
Any takers?
SanDiegan
April 7th, 2007 at 2:05 am [Reply]

#98 – I just had to de-lurk long enough to say there is an Los Angeles River. And it’s perfect, since much of it is a concrete open sewer. Except sometimes, it’s only a few inches deep, in which case Bakersfield is only a couple of hours away if you drive late at night.
Mibbitmaker
April 7th, 2007 at 2:18 am [Reply]

4/7:

S-M: Alternate dialogue for the last panel: “Ooooh, I’m so completely useless. I’ll just leave the strip. Nobody’ll even notice, anyway…”

A3G: Alternate dialogue for the last panel:

“When did this stupid soap become ‘Dark Shadows’ all of a sudden?”
“I think you’re one step away from stalking a rival cross-country while wearing a diaper!”
“The evil spirit doesn’t happen to be named Michael Patterson, does it?”

Curtis: Um… Curtis….. uh, I think the big Bumstead anniversary was, like, two years ago?? ………Oh, please tell me this isn’t free advertising for that furshlugginer Dagwood restraunt!
Mibbitmaker
April 7th, 2007 at 2:38 am [Reply]

RMMD:
Looks like they have worries least
When stuck with that Hugh Av’ry beast,
But, forget that, I am impressed
With June’s amazing talking breasts!

MW: Something you said, Toeby & Chinnybeardy? Yeah, like you guys even have to say anything to make people repulsed by you!

MT: “No, your hair said ‘was’, moron!” And, boy, that waterfowl sure is nosey, isn’t he (for a being lacking an actual nose)?
Squid Countess
April 7th, 2007 at 2:50 am [Reply]

TDIET: THE SQUID COUNT ADVANCES! It’s an Easter miracle. Total count now at four.
Cafangdra
April 7th, 2007 at 2:52 am [Reply]

Hey, that Andrew Carson ain’t bad. And he’s a hometown boy, t’boot.
Tats
April 7th, 2007 at 3:22 am [Reply]

MW: I know that hand in the last panel belongs to Toby, but I like to think a third party out of the frame is finally giving her the backhand she so richly deserves.

JP: Good for Abbey and Neddy, running through the streets of Paris and their turtleneck sweaters don’t even come untucked from their high-waisted Andrea Zuckerman mom jeans.

RM: Can we just retitle this strip “June Morgan’s Boobs” and get it over with?
deeeeeeeeelightful
April 7th, 2007 at 3:57 am [Reply]

am I the only one who see’s the resemblance between Margot’s mom and Al Franken?
bitey
April 7th, 2007 at 6:02 am [Reply]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such well drawn dejection (insert quick Google search to see if dejection actual word… It is!) as in Saturday’s Foob. Husband of Elly looks like he desperately wants to agree with that ass Michael, but has so been brow-beaten by life and wife, he merely looks on with meloncholy wistfulness. And I want to know why I suddenly can’t remember the name of the Patterson patriarch. I have no urge to find out and he will be alternately “Frank” or “Jim” in my head from now on. I hope neither one is right.
Lynngineering
April 7th, 2007 at 6:54 am [Reply]

FBOFW: Saturday’s Foob is some of the best proof in a while of Mike’s coma fantasy going on and on, as the infantile, mommy-pampered truth erupts constantly in Mike’s dreams, and here too: “almost as bad as getting married.”
Think about it – in this dream, he treats Dee no longer as a wife, but like a parent of his children, now one of the “other” parent-units (Dad) the only one who counts is of course, MOM-EDITOR. And so he rebels against the other parents-trying-to-limit-his-fun, which in his mind, are Dee and Dad! Finally it seems Dad is playing trains in Dees yard after all. At least, they’ve been doing all the “accounting”, going through everything to take care of Mike and at the same time, take care of themselves. Something Mike (again, in his coma state of course not) is unable to. The obvious fact is Mike gets the Parents house, but the way he’s been going about it, is to regress, like all the older siblings do, into stompin and screaming until they just do the decision-making for him, and along the way, he utters the truth to Dee: YOU are just a parent-unit, take care of ME! my writing! In his fantasy of course…
Vince M.
April 7th, 2007 at 7:37 am [Reply]

94: Re FC – it would make sense if this was the first installment of ‘Thel the Vampire Slayer’ – Dolly’s caption would read “HISSSS!!!”
Islamorada Girl
April 7th, 2007 at 7:41 am [Reply]

For those who you who are following Steve Canyon Redux, I’ve finally figured out who Copper Calhoun looks like: Nastasha of Boris and Nastasha fame! Does this make Steve Rocky or Bullwinkle?
AAckTTpth
April 7th, 2007 at 7:49 am [Reply]

Oh please oh please oh please let this become a divorce story line! PLEASE let Deanna take Michael for all he’s worth (not much). Michael ends up living in a “fort” made of unsold copies of his book (it’s a big fort, at least) in the Don Valley.

Least Satisfying Panel EVER. Because we know it’s going NOWHERE.
SatanicMechanic
April 7th, 2007 at 7:57 am [Reply]

#87 Bunne, Yes! I personally prefer girls with chins and some fat to the weird skinny chickweed gals.
SatanicMechanic
April 7th, 2007 at 8:00 am [Reply]

But clearly the artist of 9cl is totally hung up on this design for females and draws it merely to get some sort of bizarre thrill.
Bizarre in that the girls are so skinny it must be necrophilia.
ohyes
April 7th, 2007 at 8:08 am [Reply]

MT: “Would you mind telling me how much his insurance policy is for?”

Company president: “We have a strict company policy against divulging personal financial information about our policyholders and our friends to complete strangers over the telephone. But since Dan is no longer a policyholder or a friend – he’s dead – I’ll tell you his policy was for TWO MILLION dollars. You know, Dan wasn’t really a good worker, cheated on time sheets, commissions, petty cash. Had a gambling problem, I think. Sally’s hot. Dan was kinda buff and macho, some women like that. I hear she was a cocktail waitress in Vegas… Yeah, cocktail waitress, right…”

MT: Did you say “was”?

Company president: “Well, now she’s a millionaire. According to our file, you and his wife both saw him lose his balance and fall from a rowboat into a lake. Funny he didn’t stay at the surface, a short fall, no apparent injuries, an experienced Army swimmer in the prime of life – but no one’s seen him for several days, so we paid out TWO MILLION dollars right away, of course. There is an eyehook exemption clause, but it didn’t seem applicable.”

MT: I found an eyehook!

Company president: Too late. Sally and I are engaged. She’s under my desk right now, showing me all she learned in Vegas. And Trail … Dan really is dead. Just toss that eyehook into the lake and forget the whole thing, if you know what’s good for you.” CLICK
King Folderol
April 7th, 2007 at 8:25 am [Reply]

GT – I give Josh so much credit in the ability to make jokes about this strip. I start out with jokes, but then the a fog of incomprehension sets in and then I want to cry because I can hear another string of brain cells popping.

A3G – Meanwhile, Margo’s mother has learned to construct sentences at the Yoda School English Of.

Lockhorns – Leroy and Loretta are either at a funeral or even the non-English speaking colorist has been sucked into the maelstrom of depression that is the Lockhorns.
jules
April 7th, 2007 at 8:29 am [Reply]

TDIET: Oh Squid Countess! There’s a squid on the horizon, Cap’n!

FOOB: “It’s almost as bad as getting married!” If Deanna had half a brain, Mike wouldn’t have to worry about being married for long. THAT would shake up this strip a bit! But Deanna doesn’t have half a brain, so no worries.

MT: Hey! Dan’s insurance policy is none of that giant duck’s business! Damn nosy ducks.

MW: No, Toby…it’s because you smell bad, and Perfesser Chinbeard is totally creepy.
Calico
April 7th, 2007 at 8:31 am [Reply]

#119 – a paperback fort in Cinnamonanthony’s basement, no less.

After what Mikey said about his gramps a while back and his callous, asinine remark today about (his) marriage, I think he’s the one that needs the crucifix, not Dolly.

Like Vera, Dee needs to blow that shack while she can, while her soul is still intact.

And speaking of ooo ooo taboo things, the naked ‘rents in Zits just crack me up. I wonder if she’s always on top, or what? Ugggg!

FC – instead of chocolate chaud, why don’t you stick that sucker-no, wait-stick the whole damn bag of mallows into the microwave along with a bag of multi-colored Peeps, turn it on high for 10 minutes, leave the kitchen, and go hide in your little make n’ bake meth lab. Now there’s an Easter treat you (and Cross-totin’ Mommy Thel)won’t ever forget!
jules
April 7th, 2007 at 8:37 am [Reply]

Ah! Squid Countess, I see you didn’t need my alert after all. I should’ve known you’d be on top of things!

#122 ohyes: Bwaaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Hee hee hee…hee hee *snort* Okay. I’m okay now. Heeheehee….

(DT)GT: Is that Paris Manhands’ dad? The one who’s getting transferred, I mean. Because he looks like Paris Manhands, only wearing a tie. I suppose there will be a minor panic about Paris not being able to play softball, what with moving to Not Milford, until she realizes she can stay with Granddad. (Am I moving too fast for the Gil Thorp Universe here?) And also, does Paris have a brother? Will we have to worry about ANOTHER hole on the baseball team, till it penetrates their thick, poorly-drawn skulls that the brother can stay with Granddad too? Why?! Why does Rubin make us WORRY so?
Calico
April 7th, 2007 at 8:55 am [Reply]

Curtis – even though it’s fairly blatant prod placement, the x over today is kinda cute. However, it’s one week late!
Tomorrow, we’ll have a x over with Mary Worth schmoozing around the pool carrying a crucifix.

BTW, Toby must be smashed by now. “Wuzzz itt sumthin’ we said?” Yes, you’ve been slurring your words for twenty minutes now. Get me out of here.
Fred P.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:57 am [Reply]

RE: Foob, and those posters who have expressed their opinions about Michael and his injudicious words.

Frankly, I think you’re all a bit too harsh on Mike. Sure, perchance his comparison was a tad on the tactless side, but honestly you can’t really expect a signed author to have much of a way with words, now, can you? I must say, though, that while Deanna’s exophthalmic reaction is delightful, I particularly like the hangdog expression of soul-deadened existential dispair on Old Man Patterson’s face, as he reflects that, based on his own life experience, Mike is so very, very right after all.
Dean Booth
April 7th, 2007 at 9:21 am [Reply]

FC: The power of Christ compels Jeffy, too (SFW).
Weasel Boy
April 7th, 2007 at 9:42 am [Reply]

No, Toby, it wasn’t something you said; it was something Vera thought. Antd trust me, she’s thought a LOT.
John C Fremont
April 7th, 2007 at 9:44 am [Reply]

# 106 – Mibbitmaker, you made my day!

MT – “Do you mind telling me how much his life policy is for? Oops, sorry, I meant quack! – Wait a minute, I’m a duck not a goose, right? You know what? Forget it. Pretend I said nothing! Quack, by the way.”

Thanks to the last panel, Mark’s got me doing Was (Not Was) songs. Thank you, Jack Elrod!
Oâ€™Fogeyette
April 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am [Reply]

#122 Ohyes: BWAHAHAHA!

ZITS: I note others have commented on Dr. and Mrs. Zits lying in bed at 6 pm after apparently just having had sex. They are both also apparently naked. My first reaction: but isn’t this a family strip? My second reaction is: hey, good for them! I know that many of you find it disgusting that anyone over the age of twenty-five should have sex, let alone enjoy it, but the truth is that we remain sexual beings into old age. The only part of this that I find remotely disturbing is that Papa Zits is a dentist, and to me the thought of having sex with a dentist is really EWWWW!

F Minus: This strip is usually funny about once every two weeks. Today’s one of those days: http://www.comics.com/comics/fminus/

Preteena: Another recommendation. This is, IMHO, one of the better strips. Usually it’s just a gag-a-day, but sometimes there’s a story line. It appears that a serious story about Teena and her awkward friend Stick is about to begin. They are out hiking and a snowstorm is coming… http://news.yahoo.com/comics/preteena
Buck Ripsnort
April 7th, 2007 at 10:09 am [Reply]

4/7–Today’s A3G: Prof. Papapapaoomowmowgoros thinks I should talk to the girls more often!– Cause talking to Crazy Foreign Woman is giving me a migraine!
Islamorada Girl
April 7th, 2007 at 10:27 am [Reply]

3G: Is Luann dead yet? Please, make her dead.
queek
April 7th, 2007 at 10:27 am [Reply]

squid-tripe. o the possibilities. (squid tropes? molluscan memes? Fisherman’s Wife dreams?)

sadly, #93 seems to have said most of what I was going to say.

Candorville: FeudalBank Massacard: “what’s in YOUR wallet?”

*goes to get more brainsoap after reading Zits*
Oâ€™Fogeyette
April 7th, 2007 at 10:33 am [Reply]

MT: I just noticed that Mark has one of the flying ubiquiducks asking the key question: how much was the policy for? This was extremely clever of Mark; knowing that an insurance company would ordinarily never give out that information to a third party, he realized that a fellow fowl would be able to talk turkey with the turkey who is in charge of the company. Way to go, Mark!
SelfCalledNowhere
April 7th, 2007 at 10:50 am [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean–WTF with this week’s story? I think someone’s running out of ideas.I mean, at least one of the kids could have gotten abducted or pregnant or hurt in an accident or developed cancer or something. Sheesh.

FBOFW–What really sucks about this strip being on Saturday is that Sunday’s strip will have nothing whatsoever to do with what just occurred.

IF it’s continued, we’ll have to wait until Monday or even later to find out if that ‘Oh shit!’ look on the elder Patterson’s face came just before he dove under the table as Deanna pulled out the revolver she was hiding for just such an occasion and blasted her unthinking spouse into the next world.

There would then be a trial where everyone would have to testify to what a douche the late author had been, and Dee would, of course, say she had a raging case of PMS at the time of the shooting. That is, of course, if she isn’t (Oopsie!) pregnant again.
Harry Paratestes
April 7th, 2007 at 10:53 am [Reply]

#132 O’Fogeyette
Disturbing thought: Having sex with a dentist, who’s certainly checking out your teeth as you grimace with a good fuck face;
Even more disturbing thought: Having sex with a psychologist, who’s certainly checking out your psyche and says “tell me more about how that makes you feel” every time you moan.
Jym Dyer
April 7th, 2007 at 11:02 am [Reply]

=94= FC (King Folderol): You seem to be forgetting about the vampire problem.

=107= Foob (dreadedcandiru2): Well, you know, John Patterson has tossed off little remarks like this himself, with little consequence. Men are so dopey, but some can be trained, you see.

=122= MT (ohyes): Actually, I have little doubt that Mark Trail can get an insurance company lackey to spill the beans. This is a man with the telekinetic power to make giant bunnies speak his lines for him. With their butts.
Tabby Lavalamp
April 7th, 2007 at 11:05 am [Reply]

I don’t give a damn about sports, but even I know that’s Greg Gumbel in panel 3 of Gil Thorp.

http://www.lesleyvisser.com/images/greg-gumbel-big.jpg
stinky pete
April 7th, 2007 at 11:08 am [Reply]

132 O’F, 138 HP: Are we going to start eliminating entire portions of the populace as potential partners based on their professions? For me this would eliminate everyone but professional athletes and women who work in ice cream stores. I don’t think I can afford to be that picky.
Nina
April 7th, 2007 at 11:10 am [Reply]

#39 Prayer closet? Do I know you?
Baron Von Foobenstein
April 7th, 2007 at 11:18 am [Reply]

True Fable (#64) sez:

“FBoFW Itâ€™s getting hard to tell the players without a scorecard. So April is the new Hot Chick Girl, and Liz is the Latest Frump who is starting to look just like Hopelessly Awful Elly.
What did I warn you about the hairstyle on April? How do you let their hair back down after theyâ€™ve seen sixteen? Those damn buns are So. Fuckin. Ugly.
And of Course Elly and John are going to buy the Stibbsâ€™ house. How do I know?
Dah dit dit dit, dit dit dah, dit dah dit dit, dit dah dit dit, dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, dit dit, dah
dit dit dit, dit dah dah dit, dit, dit dah, dah dit dah, dit dit, dah dit, dah dah dit
dah dit dah dit, dit dah, dah dit, dit dah, dah dit dit, dit dit, dit dah, dah dit.”

Heh… luckily, I happen to speak Morse Code, being a Ham Radio Nerd as I am. (Just as Mrs Cleaver spoke Jive in the movie “Airplane.”) Could not agree more! I’ve often thought and spoken about the frumpy, unattractive “nun bun” sported by Elly, and now her fellow Fooblets. Must be one of those whacked out Canadian laws that they toss around amid powdered wigs in the courtroom — In Canada, when you reach a certain age, you put your hair up in a bun, you grow a big ass, and you get your lips inflated with a bicycle pump. Then around age 30 or so, you finally leave your parents’ house, but you must live down the street.

I’d love to have a conversation with someone who thinks Lynnuck’s characters are endearing. I think they are jerkoffs. (The characters, that is.)

As for Family Circlejerk, I disagree with the entry somewhere above saying that they get all Jesusy only around holidays. Not true at all. FC crams a healthy dollop of Christianity down our throats almost as often as the late Johnny Hart.

Speaking of Old Phart Hart, was it my imagination or did he blow right by Good Friday without laying some heavy handed Jesusness on us this year? What?? No preaching? No backhanded swipes at Jews?? I feel snubbed! I’ve always thought that Johnny Hart has a bitter rivalry with the Keanes over who can get more Jesusy. Mad-ass props for Jeff and Bil Keane for featuring a crucified non-baby Jesus in the funny papers. Johnny must be livid.
Nina
April 7th, 2007 at 11:21 am [Reply]

Shout out to Curmudgeon’s in today’s Real Life Adventures
Uncle Lumpy
April 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am [Reply]

In case you don’t follow the strip regularly, there’s some excellent work going on in Diesel Sweeties lately – Clango the Sensitive RobotÂ® lost his head saving his kitty (Awww. . .). Now head and body are in relationships with two different women. Start here, then click “Next Week” to get up to date.

In other news, Michael Patterson: Infantile Jerk.
Deborah
April 7th, 2007 at 11:31 am [Reply]

That’s not how to draw a walrus. That’s how to draw a walrus in a hole with a flappy fish. Shit, those stupid comics have been bothering me since I was eight years old.
Anonymous
April 7th, 2007 at 11:34 am [Reply]

Bil Keene must be 90 now and totally senile. Sundays Family Circus is even more distubing than today’s post. What’s next?
Trotzenbonnie
April 7th, 2007 at 11:35 am [Reply]

#138 – Harry
Or doing it with an astronomer who just wants to look at Uranus.

You all have me scared to read today’s comics.

Gotta go — it’s time to put the Peeps in the microwave.
Citric
April 7th, 2007 at 11:42 am [Reply]

Zits: If there were two comic characters who I wanted to know spent the day having wild and crazy sex, it probably wouldn’t be ma and pa Zits. Probably more in the Cassandra Cat direction of things.
Calico
April 7th, 2007 at 11:46 am [Reply]

#137 – Canadian Beauty, coming to a Cineplex near you.
Only, who is Mike’s fantasy female? His Mom? Lovey? Shannon?
under_score
April 7th, 2007 at 11:47 am [Reply]

132: Dearest O’F. I knew, as I held the ‘w’ key down in my comment on today’s Zits (#93), that you especially might take some offense. Since I am roughly the age of Zits mater/pater, let me assure you that I join you in saying “good for them”. Perhaps it is because I am their age that I am a little skeeved at actually seeing them, rather than just imagining them, post-coital. A little TMI. Could have been subtler and funnier, IMO, and still got the same point across.

Having a son roughly the age of Jeremy, I’ll add that the packing scenario was scarily realistic, so I enjoyed this week’s strips.

#148, trotz: bwah! I was trying to think of something involving engineers, but I think yours is now untoppable. Happy peep ’splodin!
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 12:00 pm [Reply]

Sex with a dentist: “Now you’re going to feel a little prick in your mouth”…Thankyew! …try the veal, etc.
will
April 7th, 2007 at 12:03 pm [Reply]

FW: Hopefully, the next tragedy will be Chien being bludgeoned to death by one of her unfortunate trip-mates.
Fried Froid w/ Squid
April 7th, 2007 at 12:04 pm [Reply]

Alternate captions for today:

FC – , “NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition, Dolly!”

Zits – “I swear it said, ‘for up to four hours’!”
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

# 132 — O’F, re ZITS, one of my first thoughts, like yours, was “good for them.” And I think Mom Zits is kind of appealing. I do not find Dad Zits appealing, but I have a feeling, based on my observations of him over the years, that I wouldn’t have found him appealing when he was twenty-five, either. And all that is apart from the fact that I’m of a certain age myself.
Uncle Lumpy
April 7th, 2007 at 12:11 pm [Reply]

#132 O’F, #155 Poteet -

Ah, but Dad Zits harbors an inner rock star!

I’m thinking maybe Keith Richards.
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

FW — I now have yet another reason to be annoyed with this strip. I liked art in high school. I had classmates who also liked art. I’m not claiming that was true of all of us, but unless things have vastly changed, I think this image of most high schoolers as ignorant ungrateful Philistines is unfair.

Furthermore, many schools in many non-wealthy districts these days can barely scrape up money for field trips to minor local sites of interest, let alone major museums. As long as FW is going to be depressing anyway, how about portraying THAT. Growf!! And apologies if this was said before. Sometimes I miss something.
Trotzenbonnie
April 7th, 2007 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

Sid & Nancy & Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All mentioned in the same thread.
Am I wrong to be fascinated by this?

And now for something completely funny
To cleanse your humor palate–

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070407&name=Zippy_the_Pinhead
treedweller
April 7th, 2007 at 12:16 pm [Reply]

4/7–the next panels:

A3G: [thought_bubble] “. . . if they believe that ghost crap, talking them out of their pants should be a cinch!”[/thought_bubble]

Curtis: “. . . and I’ll take my kickback in twenties, if you don’t mind.”

JP: ” . . . if they can’t hear us, maybe they’ll forget they just saw us run through this doorway.”

MW: “No, we just agreed to meet behind the pool house for a little ‘afternoon delight.’ Care to join us?”

RMMD: “Down on your knees, bitch!”

Shoe: ” . . . anything to get me out of the house for a few hours so her boyfriend could drop by.”

SM: “OOOF!” [runs into some kid's kite and falls to the ground, unconscious.] Alternate: ” . . .maybe I’ll just go back to the hotel and soak in the tub awhile.”
Tweeks_Coffee
April 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

C-shaft: Oh great, now FW is sucking Crankshaft back into it’s black hole of despair. The kid probably had an aneurism.

FC: What exactly did his parents have in mind when they give Billy a marshmallow? Is that his lunch for the day?

JP: Yes, it’s ever so important to be quiet when the mugger saw you running into that door. You wouldn’t want to, you know, call for help or anything.

Preteena: This story’s getting really interesting. What started off as a mundane tale of two kids out on a hike suddenly looks like it’s going to be about two lost hikers. Hopefully this will end with Teena having to eat her friend there to survive when they’re stranded.

TDIET: This seems like an incredibly self-centered entry. Getting pissed because someone who can cook won’t bring you free food?

Zits: That made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 12:20 pm [Reply]

# 156 — Uncle Lumpy, I do think Dad Zits is a good father and a good human being, for a comic strip character:-). So deep inside he’s Keith Richards, eh? I’ll work on that concept….
dramashoes
April 7th, 2007 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

Did Tyler hit himself so hard that his eyeballs fell out? Or is he just taking a really rough shit? Or is Gil giving him the business off panel? Let’s see you solve that one, Slylock Fox.
Frank Drackman
April 7th, 2007 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

#147 thanx for the FC preview..I can’t wait to see what Jeffy’s got in store for us..The whole easter thing used to scare the wee out of me as a kid, especially coming from a christian-jewish family that wasnt particularly observant anyway. But hey, Jesu has got quite the 6-pack abs goin on.
Len
April 7th, 2007 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

“Dr.” Sadie Cohen, of the Rudy Park strip, is requesting inquiries for her “advice” via E-mail. Who died and made Miss Sadie a bargain basement Mary Worth?

Can the Curmudgeons give her a run for her money? Or does anybody care?

http://www.comics.com/comics/rudypark/archive/rudypark-20070404.html
Douglas E. Iannucci
April 7th, 2007 at 1:00 pm [Reply]

The El Niño of windbags is akin to: the Liberace of office supervisors, the Dan Ryan Expressway of romance novels, or the Aurora Borealis of toilet paper dispensers; take your pick.
Keregi
April 7th, 2007 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

Zits: I do not find “people over a certain age” having sex disgusting or wrong or offensive. I just think the situation presented in today’s Zits was a bit like walking in on your best friend in high school’s parent’s bedroom and seeing them….well, EWWWW And to top it off, he’s your orthodontist/dentist!
Goaty
April 7th, 2007 at 1:34 pm [Reply]

Oh man. I think I’m down with something. I normally see filth and dirt and innuendo even when it isn’t there…. and today’s Zits totally flew over my head. I even read it in the real newspaper, not even on line. All of could think of was…. 6 p.m. ? Are they going to bed early? Or did they really sleep in? Is that what you do when your teen leaves? Maybe it was reading it right after Hi & Lois and the Chip bedroom scene…. I dunno… I’m probably just coming down with bird flu or something.
MonkeyHawk
April 7th, 2007 at 1:34 pm [Reply]

Alternate Good Friday FC caption:

DOLLY:
“Did he cross his legs because they had only one nail left?”
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

# 118 — Islamorada Girl, maybe Steve is Boris?
LittleGuy
April 7th, 2007 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

Gene Pool: Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent are meatless. Also, technically, Lent is over on Thursday Afternoon, transistioning into the Easter Triduum.

Today is Holy Saturday, leading into the Easter Vigil when, after Jesus dies and is laid to rest, comes back from the dead by stealing second and then hitting a two-run walkoff homer into deep center.
Squid Countess
April 7th, 2007 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

Well, I used to love WilleThompson and True Fable and Red Greenback and GE CHENNUX …and, what the hell, June Morgan’s breasts, but I know my soulmate when I accidentally stumble upon him/it on the internet.

http://www.instructables.com/id/EL0JFW5BDDETVPJA3A/

Sorry, guys!
Jim
April 7th, 2007 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

No child “left behind” — am I the only curmudgeon who noticed this photo in today’s NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/education/07child.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=education

(of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings — you’ll know it when you see it)
Jym Dyer
April 7th, 2007 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

=111= (Squid Countess): It’s a weekly alternative paper strip, not a daily, but it does up the squid count:

Bob the Angry Flower, “Consensus,” 23-Feb-2007
Jack Parsons
April 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

Silver Beaver Award

Apparently them beavers don’t retire early in the season, if you beaver what I mean.
Klipper
April 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

Curtis: “Mr. Bumstead, he tried to … he tried to touch me.”
Jym Dyer
April 7th, 2007 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

=155= Zits (Poteet): Ma Zits is hot, just ask Jeremy’s friend Hector. Who, come to think of it, resembles Pa Zits to some extent …
Gabe
April 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

147: I’m almost positive that Jef Keane does 99 percent of the strip these days.

Whether or not that makes him crazy by osmosis is up for debate.
bats
April 7th, 2007 at 2:15 pm [Reply]

For a while, I thought Mike Patterson’s huge lump o’ dough (which is about $15 U.S.) would be compromised by Deanna getting knocked up again (what is wrong with Canadian pharmacists and the inability to understand contraception, particularly for themselves?), and all the hopes and dreams of their own home would go unrealized.
After that lame-ass comment, it seems Mikey’s gonna be sleeping on the couch for a good long time. And it ain’t gonna be a comfy one, like April fold-out one.
Unless Gerald’s on it.
Dr. Shrinker
April 7th, 2007 at 2:20 pm [Reply]

#168:

Many comments here make me smile. A goodly number make me chuckle. A few make me laugh out loud.

YOURS made me burst out in an insane cackle. Perfect!

(Although, I always have had a thing for crucifixion humor. I once got fired from a job for asking a coworker if the hardware store was having a sale on nails b/c it was Good Friday)
Oâ€™Fogeyette
April 7th, 2007 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

151 under_score: Thanks for the clarification. I had thought I was making a subtle but very sharp point that no one got. Now I see that it was got. And I actually agree with you about TMI. But the truth is, I’d just as soon not see anyone of any age postcoital in the comics. Guess I’m a bad bet for comic porn. (And thank you too, Poteet.)

Thanks to everyone else for their comments on professions you wouldn’t want to have sex with. It’s an interesting list. Uncle Lumpy, you made me spew with your inner rock star (Keith Richards).

#171 Squid Countess: Oh, yeah, that guy is great! And did you notice he’s apparently into bondage and submission? The perfect cephalopod sweetie!
deeeeeeeeelightful
April 7th, 2007 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

What I’m thinking of is the fact that the family circus is actually a 12-panel serious, soapopera comic focusing on vampires, demon posession, and other mystic references, but due to the lack of space dedicated to newspaper comics, we’ve percieved it as a one panel archaic daily commentary on suburban life. What we’ve missed in these last few weeks are the demon possession of Jeffy and Dolly, the sacrificial death of P.J. with the hammer del diablo, and Billy’s rise to power as a slayer of the undead. Thelma right here is trying to exorcise the once precocious dolly, but to no avail. Too bad we’ll never actually see what becomes of our family “circus”.
Broken Skittles
April 7th, 2007 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

FOOB: It must trouble Mike to know that his wife has more balls than him.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 7th, 2007 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Wow, the force of Michael’s tactless remark actually disintegrated John’s glasses. Either that or old dad put them away for protection when Deanna starts throwing things. Screw that, John, just run.

DtM: Ah, further undermining his parents’ marriage. Good stuff. More mindgame than menace, but you gotta start somewhere.

#172, Jim. Finger-quotin’ Margaret. It’s almost too good to be true.
Sheilagh
April 7th, 2007 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

Yay for the Zits parents!

I did a double-take when I realized they were post-coital, and then I thought, that’s the most honest thing that couple has EVER done. Putting up with Junior’s endless shit with no more than an eye-roll strikes me as pretty inauthentic. Screwing like bunnies the minute he’s safely gone? MUCH better :-)
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 3:24 pm [Reply]

# 171 — Squid Countess, I’m not sure the Emperor will understand, but I sure do.
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

Michael Patterson shares Elle’s character trait of being overwhelmed by the thought of making any changes.

â€œRaisin Bran instead of Corn Flakes? Let me sit down and catch my breath. Itâ€™s all happening so suddenly. And itâ€™s the family size box! Weâ€™re really committed now!â€

Luckily theyâ€™re discussing buying a house right in Fooberville so Mike wonâ€™t have deal with a new neighborhood.
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 3:30 pm [Reply]

ZITS — One thing that has always bothered me about this strip is the total absence, except very occasionally, of Jeremy’s older brother, whose name I can’t even remember. I realize older bro is off at college, but geez, I know parents whose kid is at college thousands of miles away in another country, and they still see a lot more of her than Mom and Dad Zits ever see of their oldest. Maybe this strip portrays Jeremy’s fantasy about how older sibs SHOULD vanish once they leave for college, but it’s not realistic.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
April 7th, 2007 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Almost all of the clever things I had to say have already been said by you early-rising east-coast-living types. But there are still a few opportunities left.

9CL: Lady vet seems to be carrying an inflatable calf doll. A real calf that size—pick any of the three different sizes given— would weigh too much to carry like that. And her giraffe-like neck in panel one makes one wonder whether she is hiding the fact that she was brought up in a Thai hill-tribe.

This is much funnier because of the old lady on the park bench.

RMMD: June is an awesome ventriloquist. This could only be improved by having her drink a glass of water while her breasts talk.

RWO: She’s doing some rather amusing Easter stuff.

I’m a little late on this one, but is this the first time a main TDIET character has been depicted in a normal size car?
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

# 178 — bats, what a thought. Oh please, Lynn, not a third Patterspawn. Although probably we’re safe, because if the strip time-freezes in September, Dee would have to be several months pregnant forever and ever, and even Lynn wouldnl’t do that. I think.
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

184. Sheilagh

I agree. Also, although I seldom condone violence and abhor child abuse, I’ve secretly wished to see old Walt smack Jeremy a few times to shut his smart-ass mouth. Maybe he could just torture him dental-style, ala Marathon Man.
Pendragon
April 7th, 2007 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

Mr. Dayzee is Boris.
Steve, the flyboy, is Rocky.
Feeta-Feeta is Bullwinkle.
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

June Morgan, MDC (Magic D-Cup)
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

# 189 — “Wouldn’t.” Sorry.
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

# 191 — BWAHAHA! Good one, Pendragon. And one of Steve’s crew looks kinda like Mr. Peabody’s boy Sherman, come to think of it.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
April 7th, 2007 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

SlyFO

PC LINE
PRIDES
SNEAK
RANT, LEN
WE SHIRK
e-VAC

Since when can you go to a snake- and skeleton-infested tomb in a school bus? Other than on Funky Winkerbean’s senior class trip, I mean.
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

#171-Squid Countess: You made my â™¥ â˜¹. Oh well, I guess the old adage “Once you go calamari, you’ll never be sorry” is true.
Can we still be friends?
Squid Countess
April 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

Jym Dyer #173 While many of us here at CC note with interest the increase in frequency of cephalopod appearances in comic strips, we only count the number of appearances in They’ll Do It Every Time. I don’t know why.
vkbceb
April 7th, 2007 at 3:54 pm [Reply]

FBOFW – Deanna will just chase Michael around the house with a rolled up newspaper.
Luke
April 7th, 2007 at 4:08 pm [Reply]

I fixed Family Circus for you: Jeffy! NOOOOOO!!
Smokey Stover
April 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

Family Circus: My first reaction was to wonder what denomination they are. I always assumed they were some kind of Methodists, but that crucifix screams Catholic. My second reaction: Is Bill Keane laying out some sort of family schism before our eyes, with fundamentalist Mom bringing curses of damnation down upon evangelist Dolly?
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 4:21 pm [Reply]

FC – Mom’s gonna beat some Jesus into those little bastards even if it kills ‘em. This is one Boxcared-up comic. It’s like Stephen King has taken over the strip and is giving it the “Shining” treatment. Grandpa’s ghost hasn’t haunted the Keanes in a while and I think he’s overdue – “Kill them all, Jeffy, and join me in in paradise!”
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

201. Maybe Grandpa Keane’s ghost is busy Margoin’-up Lu Ann over at A3G!
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

How does it feel, Squid Countess, to know that as soon as TDIET hit the Chron, snarkers all over the world thought of you? Happy Holy Squid-Saturday!
Trotzenbonnie
April 7th, 2007 at 4:37 pm [Reply]

FC – I think today’s Family Circus is a follow-up to the bludgeoning by hammer incident. The only time a crucifix would ever come off the wall is if it had that secret compartment with the X-treme Unction kit inside. A priest must be on the way to give Lil’ Bil the Last Rites.

Zits – I totally missed the sex angle. I was too busy getting pissed at idea that parents are glad when their kids leave home. Why bother having them if you can’t wait to get rid of them? Sheesh.
Islamorada Girl
April 7th, 2007 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

169–Confidential to Poteet: Or. . . Fearless Leader? ? ? ?
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm [Reply]

#151 under_score & #180 Oâ€™Fogeyette:
Three Mile Island?…I don’t get it.
jules
April 7th, 2007 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

#187 Poteet – Jeremy’s older brother is Chad. Treeeeees….swayin in the summer breeeeeze…

#199 Luke – here I go for the third time this thread – Bwaaaaa-ha-ha-ha! Man, y’all are on a roll with a side of slaw!

Squid Countess, I love the squid costume! I knit and crochet myself, and had to show you this (I had nothing to do with the making of this item; this is just the sort of thing I run across while hunting up interesting knit-and-crochet things on the Interweb):

http://www.tsocktsarina.com/blog/?p=7
SatanicMechanic
April 7th, 2007 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

#157 Poteet
I hate to point this out, but the museums in Washington are free. But there are the bus fees, I guess.
AAckTTpth
April 7th, 2007 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

178 –

Now THAT would be an interesting story line.

Mike has been relegated to the “comfy accommodation”. Gerald sneaks over, having planned to meet April there, but April forgot to tell Gerald that they couldn’t use the couch. Gerald sneaks into bed to find Mike there, and hilarity ensues, Three’s Company-style. Either hilarity, or Mike and Gerald find their true love for each other, but get busted by Dee (and hilarity and a “fort” made of unsold novels in Blandthony’s basement ensues). Or Paul walks in and Mike spends the the next 20 years in protective custody in Kingston Pen for touching minors inappropriately.
Johnny Q
April 7th, 2007 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

Hey kids! Send Slylock Fox your drawing of Bettie Page!
BunnÃ«
April 7th, 2007 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

187, Poteet — The last time I remember the older brother appearing, it was as we was leaving again, and Jeremy didn’t realize his brother had been home all week. I thought that was sort of funny, and appropriately oblivious teenager-ish. Still, you’d think he would factor in a little more. Except, is it my imagination, or does Jeremy resent his brother for being perfect?

Anyway, as to all this nonsense about the parents in Zits being glad Jeremy is away, he’s a teenager, for the love of Margo. Teenagers are like cats: leave them some food and they can be pretty self sufficient. Can you have sex in the afternoon with one teenager in the house? By golly yes! First of all, he’s probably not even home anyway. Second of all, if you go upstairs, lock the door, and keep the volume down, you could go at it like monkeys for hours and he wouldn’t even wonder where you went.
Foobar
April 7th, 2007 at 5:54 pm [Reply]

168- Ha! Laffs!
Oâ€™Fogeyette
April 7th, 2007 at 6:16 pm [Reply]

#206 Red… you’re kidding, right? In case you aren’t, TMI = Too Much Information. Very useful to know when, say, your uncle starts telling you the details of the results of his colonoscopy.
parkyakarkus
April 7th, 2007 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

Re: today’s Sally Forth; I gleaned this yesterday from allexperts.com…
“Loviatar is a blind daughter of Tuoni, the god of death in Finnish mythology. She was said to be the worst of them all. She was impregnated by wind and gave birth to nine sons, the Nine diseases. She is mentioned in the 45th rune of the Kalevala(The epic folk poem of Finland).
Excerpt from the Kalevala:
“The blind daughter of Tuoni,
Old and wicked witch Lowyatar,
Worst of all the Death-land women,
Ugliest of Mana’s children,
Source of all the host of evils,
All the ills and plagues of Northland,
Black in heart, and soul, and visage,
Evil genius of Lappala,
Made her couch along the wayside,
On the fields of sin and sorrow,
Turned her back upon the East-wind,
To the source of stormy weather,
To the chilling winds of morning.”
AH-HAHAHAHAH-HAH-HAH-HAAA!!!
Hide the the livestock and Ted’s nutsack, Sal!
Loviatar, goddess of hurt, and maiden of pain has returned! Yes, the B*I*T*C*H is BACK!
AH-AHA-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAAAAAAA!!!
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

O’F: Of course! Too Much Information. I suppose my mind is still stuck in 1979. To quote Emily Litella “Oh, that’s quite different…Nevermind”.
True Fable
April 7th, 2007 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

#171 Squid Countess – Well, normally I would feel a tad defensive and jealous and spoiling for a flirt-off, but after viewing your heart’s choice, why, I know I simply cannot compete with tentacle love.
--MC
April 7th, 2007 at 6:55 pm [Reply]

Re: Zits —
So what’s Mrs. Zit saying there? Her nest wasn’t empty for very long?
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm [Reply]

Also, O’Fogeyette, there’s some weird metaphysical David Copperfield-type shit going on here at CC! AAMOF, Not my uncle, but my cousin regaled me with the results of his colonoscopy…oooEEEooo, scary! By the way(BTW), he passed with flying colons, um, er, uh…colors!
kippetje2000
April 7th, 2007 at 7:12 pm [Reply]

171 Squid Countess: Why is your soulmate kneeling with two tentacles tied behind his back? Is he perchance a victim of this War on Terror of the Deep? His captors not very smart, theyâ€™ve left 6 tentacles free!
kippetje2000
April 7th, 2007 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

218: Red: Isn’t that how Elvis died? Passing a colon?
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 7:19 pm [Reply]

Hey people, what the (Margoing) h e double Big Bertha drivers happened to the Rocky Horror Show ExtravaDanza??? I got some major “talent” chompin’ at the bit here!
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 7:28 pm [Reply]

#220 kippetje2000: My understanding was the King tried to sooth his Dr. Feelgood addled soul by downing an entire bottle of Flintstonesâ„¢ chewable vitamins. I can’t verify this….Death to Gil Thorp!
Sarah
April 7th, 2007 at 7:29 pm [Reply]

Eric must be one desperate man if he wants to hook up with Margo, who obviously has multiple personality disorder.

I was disturbed by Zits, yesterday – Walt should never be seen naked. Even partial nekkidity is nausea-inducing.

Also, you know you’ve made a mistake in your comics when it takes your readers a full 5 or 10 minutes to get your joke. (Re: Friday’s Grimmy strip about the bug that gets around.)

Maybe I am just that slow, though ;p…
Sheilagh
April 7th, 2007 at 7:35 pm [Reply]

211 Bunne says: Second of all, if you go upstairs, lock the door, and keep the volume down, you could go at it like monkeys for hours and he wouldnâ€™t even wonder where you went.

Har bloody har. Except if the damn kid is in the same time zone, you CANNOT relax — they are like heat-seeking missiles! The SECOND you get your bra off and start to purr, they show up out of nowhere and start banging on the door demanding a piece of posterboard, a ride to the mall, or fifty bucks. You have to actually pass control to another adult — Grandma, or the ex, or the best friend’s parents — and then you’re safe.
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

RE: The CC Rocky Horror Show—I even got the guy from the Dr. Scholl’sâ„¢ ad who said “I’m so gellin’, I’m gellin’ like Magellan”…C’mon people, do we have a project, or what!!!!????!!!
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 7:59 pm [Reply]

I do and I do and I get bupkis. I’m so outta this gig! I have to pay these people! It ain’t easy being me! I’m off to the Palms.
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

Arr entire bottle, aye matey!
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 8:15 pm [Reply]

So Hell bound, Dolly
Youâ€™re Hell bound, Dolly
Itâ€™s so nice to see you go where you belong.
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

Sorry, (me at #222) There was a fleck of hair product stuck on my monitor that made “an” look like “arr”…My bad!…I’ll be at the Palms…Call Marge at UTA…she’ll get your message to me
Blade Runner
April 7th, 2007 at 8:36 pm [Reply]

Red Greenback: Re the CC Rocky Horror Picture Show

I havenâ€™t seen it for quite a while, I think it was 1983 at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis with the Pork Queen (Minnesota, not Iowa).

Janet â€“ Abbey from JP. Naturally annoying.
Brad â€“ Sam Driver, or Rex Morgan. Take your pick.
Frank N Furter â€“ June Morgan. Natural Dominatrix
Riff Raff â€“ Sid The Punk from JP
Meat Loaf â€“ Krime Lord Kordok. Heâ€™s big enough.
Various singers and cast members, all dressed in leather â€“ Neddie Spencer, Bettie and Veronica, April Patterson, Angel the Hooker from Brooklyn, New York.
Len
April 7th, 2007 at 8:36 pm [Reply]

#171 (Squid Countess) — Do you like Squidward, the nerdy neighbor to Edward Scissorhands… no, I mean Spongebob Squarepants? I like how among the sea creatures, the squids are all the intellectuals (they all attend classes in modern dance!). If I lived in Bikini Bottom, I would be a squid! An overweight, self-depreciating, sarcastic, lonely squid…

But I don’t understand Spongebob’s fantasies about wanting to be a jellyfish.
Some dude
April 7th, 2007 at 8:43 pm [Reply]

MT- Mark: “Did you say WAS?”

Yes, Mark, he did, because when people are dead, they don’t own life insurance anymore.

I didn’t really mind the talking duck, though.
Blade Runner
April 7th, 2007 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

Oh, yeah, the chick in the top hat and fishnet stockings – Cherry Trail (Great porn star name, BTW)
Red Greenback
April 7th, 2007 at 8:53 pm [Reply]

#228 PeteMoss- I am SO going to the fiery pit, but I just have to add some more lyrics.

You’re going to Hell, Dolly
I can tell, Dolly
You see mangers, not the passion
Of your living God
I should bop you on the head with this here crucifix
So come around, Dolly
Hear the glorious sound, Dolly!
Dolly’ll never blaspheme again

Manger animals:
Hello Dolly!
Well, Hello Dolly!
It’s so nice to have you back where you belong
You’re looking swell, Dolly,
We can tell, Dolly,
You’re still glowin’, you’re still crowin’
You’re still goin’ strong.
We feel the creche swayin’
For the band’s playin’
“Oops, I did it again” by Britney Spears
Poteet
April 7th, 2007 at 9:06 pm [Reply]

# 205 — HAR! Good one, Islamorada Girl, but something about that idea caused a small section of my brain to explode.

# 207 — Thanks, Jules. And to think I’d forgotten that wonderful song until you reminded me…

# 208 — SatanicMechanic, have I totally missed the fact that the Funkyverse is located in or close to DC? A friend who lives there calls it the District of Calamity — is that because the Funkyverse is sending out really bad vibes?

# 211 & 224 — Thanks, Bunne and Sheilagh. These glimpses into how the other half lives are interesting.
Trotzenbonnie
April 7th, 2007 at 9:23 pm [Reply]

#221 – Red
Did I miss something? Details please.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 7th, 2007 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

In the latest installment of Pigbom http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/archive/pibgorn-20070406.html check out how she catches him.

See, this is how sexy McEldowney can geddit when the MAN ain’t holdin’ him down.
Mnemonica
April 7th, 2007 at 9:47 pm [Reply]

The insurance duck in Mark Trail is clearly a clue. Dan was covered by Aflac! Don’t they just do supplemental work-injury insurance? Dan’s going to be SO pissed when he finds out there’s no life insurance after all.

Oh, and isn’t it odd how the duck casts a shadow on the painted Lost Forest backdrop? You’d think they would set up the lighting better.
True Fable
April 7th, 2007 at 11:14 pm [Reply]

Saturday, April 7 strips:

FC Billy, where’d you get a box-shaped Peep?

MT If a mallard is going to be nosy enough to ask, then an agent must have the right to be as unprofessional as to answer.

FBoFW The jig’s up for Mike: he’s about to reveal that he regrets marrying Deanna when he could have been so much more fulfilled in a life with Josef Weeder.
And it’s just a bonus for John to look so flap-whipped in the last panel. Yes, he agrees wholeheartedly with Mike but he doesn’t dare voice his opinion: Elly is Everywhere and will punish him, probably by offering sex.
I agree with #116 Lynngineering and #128 Fred P on this ‘un.

Zits Anyone with perky breasts like her is bound to be getting a little sumpin-sumpin in the early p.m. and it looks like Jeremy’s dad has some sort of latent power himself. More power to us Certain Agers! Who says the kids get to have all the fun?
No Evil Monkeys
April 7th, 2007 at 11:21 pm [Reply]

FOOB:

You know, other families stage interventions when somebody’s in a self-destructive spiral of booze, drugs, gambling, sex, or other debauchery. The Pattersons have staged an intervention to try and convince a grown man with a wife and family and over $25,000 in the bank that it’s time to buy a house and let his baby sister have her bedroom back.
True Fable
April 7th, 2007 at 11:30 pm [Reply]

Does anyone know if the FBoFW site might change letters during the month? Because I’m hoping to read a new one from Deanna that says, “That does it, I’m divorcing that brainless, talentless mama’s boy! Our marriage is just a front! I’m going to stick him for child support like he wouldn’t believe; he’s better churn out a lot more Sheilaugh crap for the Canadian Lifetime Channel!”
Trotzenbonnie
April 7th, 2007 at 11:31 pm [Reply]

Wouldn’t a kid’s worst nightmare be their mother channeling Joan Crawford?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Marvin
Joe Bftsplk
April 7th, 2007 at 11:47 pm [Reply]

Wow, for someone who in the next few minutes is going to die either from suffocation or from a trip through a walrus digestive system, that fish sure is looking pretty darn cheery.

I’m hoping that this is our introduction to Hercule Pwalrus, Slylock Fox’s aquatic counterpart who solves mysteries of the ocean depths, with the little fish as his Max Mouse. I see great potential for a spinoff strip here.
PeteMoss
April 7th, 2007 at 11:57 pm [Reply]

235. Red Greenback

Nicely done and a pleasure collaborating with you. Next upâ€¦Bang, Bang Billyâ€™s Silver Hammer! Iâ€™m working on it but feel free to jump in at anytime!
reader-who-posts
April 8th, 2007 at 12:11 am [Reply]

MT: Yes, was, Mark you idiot. You see, when someone dies, they pay off a life insurance policy. And then tell anyone who calls how much the policy was for.

MW: Yes, it was.

RMMD: June’s breasts are so spectacular that they talk.
Mibbitmaker
April 8th, 2007 at 12:43 am [Reply]

Easter FOOB: After Mewedeth asks about an old, sacrilegious B-movie (didn’t MST3K do this one?) at church in the last panel, Mike pauses, then says, “Y’know, having kids of my own is Hell on earth!” Once the lightning bolt hit him, nobody was shocked or surprised.
deeeeeeeeelightful
April 8th, 2007 at 1:46 am [Reply]

187-Wait a second….There is a zits SIBLING? Are you kidding me? I’ve been reading this strip off and on for about 10 years now, and never once has there ever been made mention of a Zits Sibling…..Huh….how ’bout that.
Trilobite
April 8th, 2007 at 1:56 am [Reply]

Sunday’s A3G offers a rare celebrity cameo.

Basically, some boring schlub named Alan comes in out of the rain and asks to see Eric (the boring schlub we saw a few weeks ago), but he isn’t there. This is the kind of gripping, fast-paced plot development you can expect from this comic. However, Alan receives the bad news from none other than Molly Ringwald, who has apparently developed psychic powers in the years since her starring roles in classic films like “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles.”

Not surprisingly, Molly Ringwald’s look of pleasant and professional disinterest vanishes as quickly as her clever chit-chat about the weather when she realizes that this Alan guy is daydreaming about making out with LuAnn. In fact, in a stunningly realistic turn, she looks depressed and a bit nauseated by the imagery.
shane shiner
April 8th, 2007 at 2:47 am [Reply]

What really threw me off in Friday’s FOOBfest was the Patterson’s new pet monkey.
Dub Not Dubya
April 8th, 2007 at 2:55 am [Reply]

248 Trilobite: Good catch on the cameo by Molly Ringwald. Myself, being a Rhode Islander, I thought it was three-time losing Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Myrth York.
Jack Parsons
April 8th, 2007 at 4:36 am [Reply]

They’re all Nancys in France. Stinky cheese-eating Nancys. Who can afford France.

Thel is preparing Dolly for a career as a crucifix-swallower in the new fundamentalist circuses.

80: edgeways version: Dolly is having a flashback to The Lair Of The White Worm.

82: ahem! I assumed this was rude, so I have refrained from it many many times. “in the end they were all feeling quite fagged”

156: Uncle Lumpy: When you harbor Keith Richards, you harbor his dad as well. It’s a twofer.

179: Dr. Shrinker: “It’s going to rain soon. My stigmata always hurt when it rains.”
kippetje2000
April 8th, 2007 at 6:56 am [Reply]

Anyone taking the train to hell today? Looks like I’m driving. http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s289/kippetje2000/?action=view&current=badfamilycircuscopy.jpg
Fred P.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:05 am [Reply]

233: Blade Runner- re: “Cherry Trail (Great porn star name, BTW)”

I always expect nothing less than the finest porno names from Mr. Elrod. I mean, c’mon now, Jack El Rod? That’s about as blatantly phallic as Peter O’Toole!
OhLawsy
April 8th, 2007 at 7:30 am [Reply]

MW: Oh snap! Did Prof. Chinbeard just say that in front of Mary? I guess it’s best to have unobtrusive neighbors if you’re a serial philanderer. Note his faraway eyes in the last panel. “Mmmm, Vera. So unobtrusive.“
queek
April 8th, 2007 at 8:17 am [Reply]

Zits: OK, the ‘rents get it on, but it’s Sarah and Jeremy that are doing the booty dance? Nice rockin’ of the little black dress, Sarah. Jeremy seems to be stuck in Generic WhiteBoi Dance pose #1.

What is Professor Papadoowopolous doing talking to Leroy in the Lockhorns? Has Margo been one of the tall babes that Leroy keeps chatting up while drunk? *confused*

Opus: nice use of the Sunday puzzles as a reference. Next week, a visit from Slylock Fox?

Non Sequitur: just lovely.
dreadedcandiru2
April 8th, 2007 at 8:32 am [Reply]

FBoFW -240- They should also stage an intervention for Miss Lips’o'Loveliness to convince her not to bring home any more stalkers. Meanwhile, in the color panel we see StaLynn swipe from Bil Keane. On that note, I’d rather see Merrie with an oval skull than the creepy-ass kewpy doll we see today.
Calico
April 8th, 2007 at 9:15 am [Reply]

#172 – excellent find.
Can she do a head bobble?

The FC Good Friday parodies gave me an opportunity to laugh and say “D’oh!” at the same time.
Sunday’s strip continues Dolly’s transition into Sister Dorothea – I’m hoping I’ll see a few mashups based on today’s “revelation.”
What’s better than Roses on your Piano? Aw, cmon, you all know the answer to that one…
Calico
April 8th, 2007 at 9:28 am [Reply]

MW – UbiquiSquirrel alert at Chinbeardstone!
I think Rusty along with Dick’s daughter were invited to the pool party-check out Sunday’s last panel.

Why would Toby care and think it’s rude that Vera has to leave? Vera said she had to work – wifey is in her cups anyway and doesn’t notice that her husband’s comments apply directly to her and Mary McMeddles.
Blade Runner
April 8th, 2007 at 9:51 am [Reply]

JP – Neddie and Abbie just escaped the Punks, and ducked in to a dark French workshop. What’s with the pair of boots hanging in mid-air? Is this another punk who just hung himself?
John C Fremont
April 8th, 2007 at 10:09 am [Reply]

# 258 – You beat me to the squirrel alert! Curse you, Von, I mean Calico!

RMMD – Only one boob shot? Nolan, I’m a little disappointed in you.

Foob – Oh, crap…

SF – Yeah, whatever you say, Weber. I’m taking Johnny Q’s advice and working on that Bettie Page drawing.
Calico
April 8th, 2007 at 10:45 am [Reply]

#260 – hey, that’s cool-we can share the credit on da squirrel!
It amused me because Giella rarely uses that large-almost-from-the-view-of-animal style.
A footnote about Toby-darn, she is annoying me this week.
I realize now, Riiiggght Tobester darlin’, you don’t understand what the word Work means! My mistake. Can I get you another glass of Charterstone Farm and a tofu cube?
under_score
April 8th, 2007 at 10:46 am [Reply]

SlyFo: Alternative solution–Shylock feels the hoods of the cars in the lot. The getaway car is the one that is still warm. Sadly, that is the first one I though of. Curse you, Cassandra cat and your cold metal earrings!

Crankshaft: Funky’s filled to the brim, so Batuik lets the overflow morosemess spill over for what might be a comics first–the sad Easter comic. No chocolate bunnies for you, nameless bespeckled Crank-in-law! No happy memories allowed! Wallow, wallow in misery!

GetFuzzy: No sandwiches for me today. Ick. And, LOL.
Mooncattie
April 8th, 2007 at 11:20 am [Reply]

An Easter Greeting from Vera Shields: “Happy Easter Everybody!” (”Happier than the hell-hole that is my life”)
Buck Ripsnort
April 8th, 2007 at 11:31 am [Reply]

BC: So, no one else is gonna bitch about “How old was Jesus at the Crucifixion?” I don’t care how home-schooled you are, just because the answer is a number does NOT make it math!
Oâ€™Fogeyette
April 8th, 2007 at 11:37 am [Reply]

GF: Too funny today. I especially love Bucky’s pronouncement that “Ignorance doesn’t make stuff not exist.” In fact, I think I may adopt it as my new motto.
Air Forbes
April 8th, 2007 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

Sunday’s Baldo: Check out what Baldo is carrying. Tia Carmen was so caught up in flirting with the guy she met in produce, she only brought home two bags of groceries – presumably filled with kumquats. Baldo had to go out and buy some food for the family!
brendan
April 8th, 2007 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

This has been one of the best weeks for FC fun ever.
AppleGirl
April 8th, 2007 at 2:07 pm [Reply]

FBOFW – Shoes! I see people wearing shoes in FBOFW. Very glad those people didn’t go to church in their stocking feet. See, Lynn? It’s not so hard to draw shoes.
Poteet
April 8th, 2007 at 2:08 pm [Reply]

# 264 — Buck, because of you I read that B.C., and the entire strip made my jaw drop and my eyes twirl. Thanks for reminding me of all the reasons I usually avoid it:-).

BLONDIE — In today’s strip, Dagwood is belting out “Camptown Races.” And a couple of days ago, that song was featured in LUCKY COW. Isn’t that interesting?

*crickets chirping*

Okay, I’ll just let myself out quietly now…
AppleGirl
April 8th, 2007 at 2:09 pm [Reply]

254 – OhLawsy – EXACTLY! Most hilarious, ironic MW scene ever.
AppleGirl
April 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pm [Reply]

FW – Chien, this is how it is in high school. Joking around at museums and not taking anything seriously. Your classmates are having fun! Your NPR attitude will win you kudos in college. But at this point in your life, your elevated attitude towards your peers is why no one would join you for espresso and gelato.
jnik
April 8th, 2007 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

Johnny Hart is dead!
News report says he died on Easter Weekend.
Watch for all the posters saying how great his strip was.
Krazy Kat
April 8th, 2007 at 2:36 pm [Reply]

FBOFW- Ah, Easter–the day Deanna gives chocolate milk!

FC-Dolly: (in a deep, gravelly voice) ” You have to have faith for that to work on ME!!”
Miss Priss
April 8th, 2007 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

Does anyone else just want to smack Chien?
Squid Countess
April 8th, 2007 at 2:46 pm [Reply]

#231 Len An overweight, self-depreciating, sarcastic, lonely squidâ€¦
Stop looking in my windows!

#207 Jules Thanks for the link to the knit squid. I will go back to that blog. It was funny. Apparently it’s normally all about socks…?
Uncle Lumpy
April 8th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

Johnny Hart obit and photo here.
True Fable
April 8th, 2007 at 3:24 pm [Reply]

I guess now Johnny Hart will find out what God really thinks of B.C.
Uncle Lumpy
April 8th, 2007 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

#277 TF -

He’s either one very happy guy, or extremely surprised. Judging from his obit he was a really decent guy, so the remaining possibility — unsurprised but unhappy — doesn’t seem very likely.

And you’ve got to admire his timing.
Poteet
April 8th, 2007 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

# 278 — Uncle Lumpy, I do admire his timing. I’m sure many of his religious fans will also admire it. And if his family or syndicate or estate or whoever will now give B.C. an honorable funeral and then turn the space over to other strips, I’ll do my best to only remember the Johnny Hart work that I used to like in years of yore.
bats
April 8th, 2007 at 8:42 pm [Reply]

237:

Don’t think that I DIDN’T notice that!

I figured it’d be Drusilla to the rescue, but I never credit her with all the panache she has.
Lurker
April 9th, 2007 at 7:19 am [Reply]

News Flash!

Johnny Hart of B.C. fame dies at 76.
RSaunders
April 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

Dolly: “He was like that when I found him.”
Nate
October 27th, 2007 at 8:26 am [Reply]

The Professor’s expression in panel three is priceless. He’s looking at her with this expression that’s like, “You’re worried about Luann? OMG that’s so cute!”
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