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If only “Oogie” and “Onion” could get together

Curtis, 11/17/06

You know, many once-great works of continuous narrative art reach a certain point where they, for reasons mysterious to us on the outside, feel a need to add an adorable character whom everyone hates. Though this is a move to keep things fresh, it ends up disgusting fans and ruining everything. So, for instance, the Flinstones had the Great Gazoo, and Scooby Doo had Scrappy Doo, and now Curtis has “Oogie.” Except that this is Curtis, so I’m not sure “ruined” is really the right word here.

Apartment 3-G, 11/17/06

Wow, Gina is the most socially inept person who’s ever managed to get out of high-school alive. The only thing I can think of is that she’s a serious method actor, and her character was just punched in the jaw before coming on-stage.

They’ll Do It Every Time, 11/17/06

You know, I like to think that I’m a pretty close reader of TDIET. In fact, I probably spend more mental energy parsing its panel every day than 99 percent of the people in this country. And yet I can’t tell you exactly what it means when the narration begins with the phrase “Living on the edge,” as it does fairly regularly. Nothing even remotely edgy happens in the panels that contain this phrase; it’s just the usual litany of insane, petty rants and human degradation. Today is a good example, though it might indicate that Ma and Pa are on “the edge” of death; they certainly have the stunned stares of a couple who are suddenly coming to grips with their own mortality. I gotta say that if my dad were sitting around inside with his eyeglasses up on his forehead, I’d be looking into homes, too.

Mark Trail, 11/17/06

“Man, if only we had some way to, I don’t know, explosively propel tiny metal projectiles into them, thus killing them! But where would we get such a thing? I guess we’re just going to have to tie them up to death.”

Family Circus, 11/17/08

“It’s a little channel I like to call ‘Ambien,’ and it’s on 24 hours a day, honey!”

109 responses to “If only “Oogie” and “Onion” could get together”

  1. Weasel Boy
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

    Those FC kids all need to get some Breathe Right strips.

  2. neographite
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

    A TDIET question: does anyone else hear the voice of The Simpsons’ Duffman every time there’s an “oh yeahhhhh!” in this comic?

  3. Kenny
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

    Those guns are for show, i’m sure!

  4. Steve S
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:09 pm [Reply]

    Since it’s Curtis, I’m also not sure “fans” is the right word here.

  5. Steve S
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:12 pm [Reply]

    #2 Neographite:

    Or Kool Aid Man.

  6. Old Fogeyette
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:14 pm [Reply]

    A3G serious question for discussion: when was the last time you ever saw or heard or read someone use the term “spinster” outside of a Jane Austen novel?

  7. Harry Paratestes
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

    A3G: What is the point of an exchange between a passive-aggressive spinster and a bimbo whose hair curls are caused by men using her hair for grips during oral sodomy parties? What is the sound of one hand clapping?

  8. David V. Matthews
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:22 pm [Reply]

    Cuss-word Saturday!

    In today’s Fox Trot, we hear “folk this and folk that.” Peter Fox (great porn name, by the way) must be listening to “Bodies” by the Sex Pistols.

    In today’s Crankshaft, Crankshaft the old fart says the word “farts.”

  9. kingklash
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:23 pm [Reply]

    I’d thought I’d seen ’bout everything,
    But Curtis makes me want to flip off a nun.

  10. Hysterical Woman
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

    “Oogie” looks like a rip-off of Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. Disney going to sue somebody!

  11. Chromium
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

    You know, it just occurred to me that “Curtis” is basically a huge ripoff of “Tiger.” It’s the same formula, we have a cool(?) main character in a funky hat and his idiotic younger brother; the only difference is that whatever humor was in “Tiger” has been carefully removed.

  12. Joe
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

    Why do these alleged young people in TDIET look roughly the same age as the senior edge-living citizens they’re directing their condescending advice to? I guess when you’re as old as the Pyramids, even the Sphinx looks like a snot-nosed half-lion half-brat.

  13. Snicker
    November 18th, 2006 at 3:54 pm [Reply]

    What the -! Does Curtis’s writer take a day off today or something? The only quotation marks I see surround a made-up name!

    Whoever’s going to fill in is going to get fired when the writer comes back. I imagine the collected volumes of the comics will present the corrected dialogue:

    Curtis: Barry, why don’t you tell me – your own “brother” – the “truth” about “Oogie” – that it doesn’t exist!

    Barry: But, Curtis, “Oogie” does exist! Really!

    Curtis: Yeah, “sure,” and I “saw” a “penguin” fly!

    Curtis: I’m going to go “sleep” on the “couch!”

    Barry: “snif”

    Barry: “Guess” what, “Oogie?” My “brother” “saw” a “penguin” “fly!”

    Oogie: “Den ah snuffed ‘im!
    I snuffed ‘im! Woo!
    He looked at me wrong,
    so ah snuffed ‘im!”

  14. Dasmarius
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:00 pm [Reply]

    #2 –

    Or someone with a grandparents fetish… I just looked at that “Oh Yeah-h-h…” and thought “Oh my sweet God.” Pretty soon that dog behind them, both Mom AND Dad, and the kids are going to enter this huge incestual orgy for the benefit of the narrator.

    Oh Yeah-h-h, indeed.

  15. Jennifer
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

    #10 Hysterical Woman
    I have another charge for that lawsuit. The last panel’s dialog is almost completely stolen from Dumbo from the scene with the crows teaching Dumbo how to fly.

    It is word-for-word until the “penguin” part (which, of course, was “elephant” in Dumbo… since he was an elephant).

    To further quote that classic: “Well, I be-done seen most everything ’til I seen an elephant fly.”

    Uhm, yeah, I guess I can see why he stopped plagiarizing where he did…

  16. Ugluks Flea
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

    Further proof that Curtis is drawn by an old white guy – Oogie tips his hat to old minstral shows by using the same joke from the magpies in Disney’s Dumbo, the most cringe inducing racist stereotypes put to film since… well, since any character in Disney’s Song of the South. Or maybe Birth of A Nation.

    I look forward to the next installment of Oogie, wherein he is frightened by a ghost and turns white. Hilarity!

  17. Jackilope
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

    Somehow, whenever “Gina” arrives on the A3G strip, I think of her name prounounced “G – eye- na”, like in the movie “40 Yr. Old Virgin” speed date candidate. Whatever the case, Gina, the 1960’s called and want the jumpers back and away from your greasy flip doo.

    Methinks Tommy is gonna be an extreme makeover candidate — or will go postal. One can hope.

  18. johncomic
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

    “Scrappy Doo”. Good lord.

  19. Freezer
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

    I’m not sure which I find more disturbing about the Curtis strip: The fact that Ray Billingsley thought it was a good idea to add ANOTHER imaginary monster to torment Curtis or that apparently Curtis is more comfortable with the idea that his brother can make books fly across the room at him than that an imaginary creature threw it…

  20. johncomic
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:21 pm [Reply]

    Tommie needs to give Gina the finger… by shifting a hip toward her, licking her fingertip, touching it to her ass and saying “TSSSssssssss!!” That’ll show her what’s what… or sumthin…

  21. Jerseygull
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

    TDIET: Once again, the trademark tin ear for dialogue. Who says “senior citizen establishment” and not retirement home or village? Oh yeah.

  22. Andy L.
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:26 pm [Reply]

    Did anyone else notice how a coloring error screwed up a “Guess the Differences” ‘puzzle’ in Slylock Fox?
    http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20061117&name=Slylock

  23. Donald The Anarchist
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

    Curtis Oogie will be INSTRUMENTAL in this years Kwanzaa storyline. We will all learn a heartwarming lesson about how celebration of African heritage is for EVERYONE, even if we’re imaginary entities from another planet. Well, everyone except Santa. That bastard can rot…

    FC I remember the first time I discovered, as a child, that TV could be boring. My first impulse was not peaceful slumber but rage. I felt so betrayed. In fact, I distinctly remember thinking, “There should be a channel that shows cartoons no matter what time of the day or night it is.” And yet here I sit at 36, with nary a royalty coming my way. SIGH…

    A3G At least Gina didn’t ask Tommie how she gets her boobs so saggy. It’s amazing how all Gina’s taunting has done is induce an episode of self-loathing. Is Tommie really incapable of pointing out Gina’s being really rude? Is there a barter system I’m unaware of, whereby you can trade favors for insults? If so, sign me up. “Hey, could you fix me a meal? I know you can cook, because you’re fat.”

  24. Baron Von Foobenstein
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

    Curtis: Could it be that “Oogey” is really the Flyspeck Island chameleon, brought into this country by the whacky cross-eyed white kid, Gunk?

    Mark Trail: “Holey Mackerel?” Wait.. wait a second. What’s Mark’s dogs name? Shouldn’t he be saying, “HOLY MACKEREL, ANDY!” Aw, never mind. Sorry I brought it up.

  25. Baron Von Foobenstein
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:35 pm [Reply]

    Oh hi. Me again.

    Mark Trail: Don’t you love it when the bad guys show their intended victims how they do their crimes, and then ponder under what elaborate scheme they are going to torture and kill them?

    Very James Bond-ish.

    The bad hair guys will eventually learn that tying up your victims never works. Bold predictions: Rick and Kelly will survive, thanks to the bad guys’ procrastination, and the bad guys will end up bouncing off the business end of a Mark Trail knuckle sandwich.

    I know I’m going out on a limb here.

  26. yellojkt
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

    Baron,

    You are right on the money. “Oogie” is a Flyspeck Island chameleon that has been exposed to radiation Godzilla-style. “Oogie” will end up rampaging through a cleverly disguised rap music store.

  27. BewaretheCreeper
    November 18th, 2006 at 4:53 pm [Reply]

    Oogey is just Ray Billiingsly attempt for the imaginary characters of the real life world of cartoons to break the fourth wall.

  28. treedweller
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

    It’s lucky the drugs kicked in when they did. It appears Doly was in the middle of strangling PJ when she passed out.

    Well, it’s lucky for PJ, anyway. I’m pretty sure the rest of us couldn’t care less.

  29. Uncle Lumpy
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

    #26 yellojkt -

    Don’t you mean, “rap” music store?

  30. Marc
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

    In other news, Pixar sues the author of the comic strip, Curtis, for copyright infringement due to the close resemblence of “Oogie” to Monster Inc.’s “Mike Wasowski.”

  31. JonnyVanPelt
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:07 pm [Reply]

    2 — Actually, I heard the black “robocop” from Futurama, or a dude with a similar Barry White/Isaac Hayes thing going on when I read the “Oh yeah-h-h-h-h”; that must be the EDGY part….

    A3G: Tommie must be thrilled at having some semblance of a storyline that she’s willing to put up with any amount of verbal abuse whatsoever.

  32. reader-who-posts
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

    When I first saw the arrival of “Oogie”, I thought that Billingsley had finally gone completely insane. But then I remembered that this is the same guy who has a 11 year old black child say things like “Well, I’ll be” and “Ain’t they a scream?”. Compared to that this is one of his more lucid ideas – definitely better than whatever crappy Kwanzaa story he’s about the foist on us.

  33. adb
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:15 pm [Reply]

    That Family Circus comment….ruddy brilliant.

  34. Ryan
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

    So, which of the MT -ake brothers was the young child again? Excellently drawn, as usual.

  35. Horse_with_no_Name
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

    Jack Elrod is a master comedian. Who else would slip in an 80s call back to Simon & Simon? The -ake brothers seemed very familiar…and I didn’t think Jameson Parker would get any work after that seminal series.

  36. PInk Haired Girl
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:31 pm [Reply]

    #6: I’m pretty sure I heard it in The Simpsons the other night, but whatever.

  37. Phil
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

    #6 – On the Fiery Furnaces’ album “Rehearsing My Choir” – the one that’s narrated by the Friedbergers’ grandmother – grandma refers to herself as a spinster. But she’s like, old and stuff. I only mention this because “spinster” is one of my favorite words, and I love the Fiery Furnaces.

  38. Amy
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

    TDIET: The reason Mom and Dad look so stunned is that they’re trying to figure out how one sleeps on the ground floor of a ranch house.

  39. PseudoChron
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

    Perhaps the TDIET title panel is supposed to be sung to the tune of Aerosmith’s song “Living on the Edge”. That’s how I read it anyway.

  40. SarcasticAcid
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:57 pm [Reply]

    Wait, I’m pretty new to reading Curtis… have the brothers always shared a bed? Methinks this isn’t the first time Barry has started a discussion about his one-eyed monster.

  41. SarcasticAcid
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

    upon reading that comment I just posted, I realized it would have been a lot funnier as “this isn’t the first time Barry’s one-eyed monster has come up.”

    Oh, yeah-h-h.

  42. Sheilagh
    November 18th, 2006 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

    I met a real life Gina once… I was all of 38, she was 21, I gave her a ride to Ohio for an alumnae event. We spent the night with a Cleveland alum named Nancy, who was a year or two older than me. And then driving home, “Gina” uncorks this one: “When I get older, I want to be JUST LIKE NANCY — why, she must be YOUR age, and she’s still so young and pretty.” !!!!

    Shoulda made her walk home, the little snerge.

  43. Jennifer
    November 18th, 2006 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

    10, 30, (and 15)

    So… it’s now a class-action lawsuit? Sweet.

  44. commodorejohn
    November 18th, 2006 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

    I don’t care about any of the plot threads in “For Better Or For Worse” except one: I have this sickening revenge-for-the-waste-of-my-time alternate storyline going in my head wherein Grandpa Trapped-In-His-Own-Body is not, in fact, there at all, but Grandma thinks he is, and she makes heartrending statements about how she hopes he’ll be able to talk to her again while all the time he’s having thought bubbles along the lines of “doo da do duh guh buh boo bwa bla.” Just a thought.

  45. NotThatGuy
    November 18th, 2006 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

    Since Kelly and Rick now know Snake and Jake do not have a means to do away with them, since the rifle they’re carrying is apparently a Toys “R” Us squirt gun model, and since Kelly and Jake are not currently tied up at the moment and in fact appear to be at least fifteen feet away, why are Kelly and Rick standing around waiting to see what being tied up feels like?

  46. NotThatGuy
    November 18th, 2006 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

    “Kelly and Rick” are not tied up, I mean. I mean, no, Snake and Jake are not tied up either, but Kelly and Rick are not being “restrained.” Geez, there goes my comics-writing career.

  47. Ben
    November 18th, 2006 at 7:12 pm [Reply]

    I get the vibe that the main reaction of one of the two parties in any TDIET strip, usually the ones on the receiving end, is supposed to be “I’m gonna clobber you!” Be they Junior and his perpetual inability to clean his room or the exhausted wife who is suddenly expected to whip up a feast for hubby once he returns from his lodge. I guess “Living on the edge” is something similar to living on the brink of insanity

  48. Vetchick, DVM
    November 18th, 2006 at 7:48 pm [Reply]

    FC:

    Ah yes, that’s great parenting…letting the kiddos fall asleep in front of the TV (isn’t that the same TV from the Spiderman strip?!?).

    M.

  49. kingkong
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

    I love the look on the little critter’s face standing on his bed

  50. Chance
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:33 pm [Reply]

    The final expo arrow in TDIET shouldn’t say “Feeling as old as the pyramids.” It oughtta say “The urge to can his asta, but good.”

    In fact, TDIET should ALWAYS have a “the urge to X his Y, but good” capper. Hilarity ensues.

    Oh yeahhhhhh.

  51. Von Zeppelin
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:51 pm [Reply]

    Tommie is not helping her case for being young and alluring with the one-eyed Popeye squint in the last panel.

  52. Dean Booth
    November 18th, 2006 at 9:21 pm [Reply]

    commodorejohn you’re onto something. In FBOFW, maybe Grandpa could just go brain dead (empty thought bubbles?), and Grandma could continue for weeks to talk to him. She could put him in front of the upstairs window, like in Psycho.

  53. Gnarl E.
    November 18th, 2006 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

    and cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch

  54. Mindy M
    November 18th, 2006 at 11:46 pm [Reply]

    I think the edge they’re refering to in TDIET is the edge of that inky abyss we call death. These people are clearly older than god. Even the author of the comic knows they have only months before their organs crumble into dust.

  55. Poteet
    November 18th, 2006 at 11:52 pm [Reply]

    #42 — Great story, Sheilagh. If “Gina” did that on purpose, I’m sure she’ll do it again sometime when it will cost her dearly. And if she was merely amazingly clueless, ditto. Either way, you’ll have your revenge.

    And in just two weeks, we’ll get to read the latest about the novel about you, and how many publishers are duking it out for the publication rights and throwing fistfuls of hundred-dollar bills at Michael.

  56. Tonstant Weader
    November 19th, 2006 at 1:44 am [Reply]

    Damn, Gina. Pretty harsh words for a woman who looks like her face was set on fire and the flames put out with a rake.

  57. Kingo
    November 19th, 2006 at 2:10 am [Reply]

    #24 – Check out MT on November 2. He actually says “Holy Mackerel Andy”.

  58. Cedar
    November 19th, 2006 at 4:24 am [Reply]

    According to Scaduto’s bio–
    Scaduto lives in Milford, CT. He has two daughters, Patricia Violette and Deborah, and three grandchildren.

    Check out the names of the submitters on this one.

  59. Marion Delgado
    November 19th, 2006 at 6:10 am [Reply]

    Gina is sending a clear signal – “I’m a younger version of Margo” – and I think Tommie is reading her loud and clear. A3G: Special Loveslave Unit – premiering Monday on this network!

  60. treadwell
    November 19th, 2006 at 6:41 am [Reply]

    58: Excellent observation! I think you nailed it.

    Al, you ARE as old as the pyramids, as your strip demonstrates daily. Embrace it.

  61. Ratty
    November 19th, 2006 at 7:17 am [Reply]

    Didn’t you say at one point you thought Curtis was around 12? Then why is he still sleeping in the same bed as his brother? D:

  62. Baron Von Foobenstein
    November 19th, 2006 at 8:25 am [Reply]

    Kingo #57 — AMOS Trail?? Naaaah….

    Now lookie here, Andy!

  63. Amy
    November 19th, 2006 at 9:39 am [Reply]

    #61: Two possible answers:

    (1) They’re too poor for a three-bedroom apartment.
    (2) It has better comic potential.

  64. tommy
    November 19th, 2006 at 9:55 am [Reply]

    don’t forget elmo

  65. tim
    November 19th, 2006 at 2:33 pm [Reply]

    Umm…I think we referred to poop as “oogies” when we were kids.

  66. ltrftp(not so first time)
    November 19th, 2006 at 4:31 pm [Reply]

    16 – You forgot about JaR JaR…..

  67. Douglas E. Iannucci
    November 19th, 2006 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

    I remember back when Hatlo did TDIET. He would have an inset labeled, simply, “urge to kill”, and it depicted the annoyed character inflicting some kind of torture (germane to the theme of that particular comic) onto the source of his or her irritation. I think these days the censors would take offense. We are all the poorer for it.

  68. Cryptic Ned
    November 19th, 2006 at 7:58 pm [Reply]

    I just wanted to say how glad I am that this blog is introducing people to “They’ll Do It Every Time”. I’m always making unnecessary references to it and nobody else at my college seems to have heard of it before. Glad to see that the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader isn’t the only paper in the world that still caters to its audience of snarky 85-year-olds.

  69. Cryptic Ned
    November 19th, 2006 at 8:17 pm [Reply]

    With that said…I’d like to do a scientific study of the different names that get used for the characters in TDIET. I remember 10 years ago they were off-the-wall creative things like “Goosegg” and “Wombo”. Now it’s either the unsubtle things like “Migraina” and “Fussia”, or the juvenile nonsense of “Barfo” and “Barfwell”. A possible glimpse into the development of senile dementia, à la this series of portraits?

  70. Mibbitmaker
    November 19th, 2006 at 9:14 pm [Reply]

    Hanna-Barbera wrote the book on annoying little beings needlessly added to older works. When they brought The Jetsons back in the ’90s, they just had to add some dorky little space muppet for no decernable reason.

    But the worst was that furshlugginer bowtie added to post-MGM Jerry the Mouse. That was definately the Garfield’s suddenly huge dopey feet of its day. Seriously, Jim Davis, worst cartoon body augmentation EVER. Well, that, and the animated Olive Oyl’s hair from 1946 onward.

  71. Mibbitmaker
    November 19th, 2006 at 9:23 pm [Reply]

    FC: Yeah, Thel, just ask Momma and Poppa Zits how great it is to have the kid sleep all the time. Besides, who needs childhood memories when you can sleep all the way through to please parents who want peace and quiet.

    A later A3G: LuAnn comes home, and sees Tommie, saying, “Hi, Tommie. Where’s Gina? And why are you covered in blood…?”

  72. Awfulart
    November 19th, 2006 at 9:42 pm [Reply]

    Best “Opus” of the year today.. I know; that ain’t saying much. But the anagram of ( William Jefferson Clinton ) = ( Jail Mrs Clinton Felon Wife ) is priceless…!!!

  73. johncomic
    November 19th, 2006 at 9:51 pm [Reply]

    70 “Hanna-Barbera wrote the book on annoying little beings needlessly added to older works.”

    Amen.

    “When they brought The Jetsons back in the ’90s, they just had to add some dorky little space muppet…”

    Those Jetsons episodes never happened! They are ex canon! Burn the witches!

  74. Harold
    November 19th, 2006 at 10:01 pm [Reply]

    Cryptic Ned! Neighbor!

    But it’s the Wilkes-Barre Citizen’s Voice that carries TDIET.

  75. Harold
    November 19th, 2006 at 10:06 pm [Reply]

    Sorry, the official name is the Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice.

    More information on the rules governing the use of ” ’s” in possesives involving words that end in the letter “s” can be found on the comments for the next post.

  76. Cryptic Ned
    November 19th, 2006 at 11:29 pm [Reply]

    Oh man, I guess there was a bidding war for TDIET…I remember it being in the Times-Leader for my entire childhood until I moved away for college six years ago.

    According to their website the Times-Leader comics section seems to have become a lot less superannuated recently. I don’t see Momma, Broom-Hilda, or On the Fastrack here, although they’re keeping the faith with Fred Basset and Stone Soup (which replaced Calvin and Hobbes, and which I have never seen in any other newspaper).

  77. Cryptic Ned
    November 19th, 2006 at 11:38 pm [Reply]

    Which reminds me of another issue…why has “On The Fastrack” never been mentioned by the Curmudgeon??? It certainly has enough bizarre and nonsensical moments.

  78. BewaretheCreeper
    November 20th, 2006 at 12:58 am [Reply]

    Bill Watterston discontinued Calvin and Hobbes in 1995

  79. ltrftp(not so first time)
    November 20th, 2006 at 3:22 am [Reply]

    78 – I think it was the other way around……

  80. Lyman Returns
    November 20th, 2006 at 8:47 am [Reply]

    Good point, Josh…He-Man and the Masters of the Universe had Orko, the Super Friends had Gleek the Super-Monkey, Peanuts has Woodstock.

    Curtis is the last comic strip I’d expect to add a “cute” character to, though it can only be improved by the addition of this emerald-hued, cyclopean imp. It’s sad to see the creator of Curtis (or his 1,000 lackeys who churn the strip out day after day) ripping off “Monsters Inc” for the appearance of his Mister Snuffaluppagusian pixie. What’s next, a big hairy blue guy with John Goodman’s voice hanging around with the coneheaded barber?

  81. Junior Tracy
    November 20th, 2006 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

    Prior to seeing this TDIET strip, I was convinced that “Living on the Edge”, in TDIET land, took place when the subject of the strip – the thing done every time, if you will – had one spouse intensely irritating another. I was clearly wrong.

    There is no logic at all to TDIET. Indeed, there is no such person as Scaduto. Rather, the Seattle P-I has invented software capable of cranking out random, if crappy, comic strips – the software is GasAlley 3.0, or something – based on suggestions from nursing homes.

  82. BlueDot
    November 20th, 2006 at 2:13 pm [Reply]

    Obviously you don’t have many gay people reading your blog because the first thing I thought of when reading A3G was “Oh, SNAP!!” That was drag queen fierce!

  83. BlueDot
    November 20th, 2006 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

    Oh never mind! This is what comes of reading posts in reverse order!

  84. Aerin
    November 20th, 2006 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

    Mike Wazowski got caught in a closet door and severely injured, crushing his round head into an oblong shape. Dazed and coping with the accompanying brain damage, he wandered into “Curtis” and “Barry’s” bedroom, and is trying to communicate his plight through badly mangled Disney lyrics. Poor, poor Mike.

  85. Sharkbait
    November 21st, 2006 at 3:55 am [Reply]

    MT: Things to ask when your partner in crime goes to investigate a barking dog, you hear a strange voice yell “He’s with me!”, followed by the sound of a jawbone being crushed and the thud of a body crashing to the ground:

    “Did you find the dog?”

  86. Emma
    November 21st, 2006 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

    So the cabin isn’t just a refuge for Mullethead & Cohort, it’s also an Animal Processing Plant? I wonder what sort of products they make? Food?
    From trained bears? or what?

  87. Professor
    June 13th, 2007 at 3:22 pm [Reply]

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