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Daddy Daze, 5/4/24
Look, I’m just going to say it: I find the Daddy Daze baby, with his fixed, manic smile, his uncanny ability to move about and manipulate objects despite his infancy, and his inscrutable language of “ba”s, to be off-putting and frankly a little scary. So no, I’m not on board with the Daddy Daze daddy telling him to go out and start collecting memories from the very brains of his hapless victims.
Family Circus, 5/4/24
I know the upcoming Garfield movie is a big media event and the studio is making lots of deals to cross-promote it everywhere. I’m just a little surprised and frankly disappointed that the Catholic Church decided to get in on the action.
Beetle Bailey, 5/4/24
Wait, if you’re supposed to wear civvies to the General’s party, why’s he wearing a uniform? I was going to say that Beetle Bailey was drawing on its deep knowledge of contemporary military culture and uniform rules for the nuances of this joke, but then I realized how absurd that was, had a good laugh, and then went to lie down. Anyway, I think it’s just a mistake.
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Family Circus: Don’t ever change, Dolly. Your casual blasphemies are just hilarious.
BB: Sarge learned that day to not let his mother shop for him when she’s recovering from cataract surgery…or at least that’s the excuse he wished he had.
DD: This is the kind of baby that won’t be stopped until he meets his overlord and true father Satan.
MW: I love how Meagan hasn’t said a word and has been practically trying to get Wilbur to burst into flames with her glare but Wilbur is so self absorbed that he thinks it’s not only a successful date but that he’s getting a second one.
Let me be the second to say it, “May the Fourth be with you.”. (Dagwood beat me to it yesterday)
BIZARRO:. This pun works both ways, Lazy-fairy too.
CURTIS:. But Michelle IS into competition. As soon as he shows interest in the other girl (Chutney), Michelle will be all over him with affection.
JP:. And they live happily ever after. Yeah.
JUMPSTART: I don’t get it. Is this just saying police rarely to wash their hands?
DD: Counterpoint: when you’re an unageing comic strip character I think the last thing you would want to do is retain memories from previous events. That way madness lies, surely.
FC: I like the group of concerned congregants exiting the church, clearly keeping their distance from the Keanes. How loudly and terribly was Dolly singing? Very, I’ll bet.
BB: Ha, it’s funny because Sarge just bought a bunch of clothes from the Salvation Army or something. He’s so institutionalised into the army that he doesn’t own any of his own clothes, or understand the very idea of an appropriate non-military outfit. He literally cannot function as a human outside of Camp Swampy! Funny stuff.
Beetle Bailey : Meanwhile, *I*’m hyperfocused on how, by mistakenly coloring the triangle inside of Halftrack’s tie floor-color rather than shirt-color, the general’s body is now twisted in a weird, escher-esque position.
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Daddy Daze : I think this is actually a more harmless situation, where Angus has tricked Paul into letting him collect a bunch of old junk anyway, under the cover of “Okay, I’ll collect memories instead, but it’s okay if the memories are tied to vintage objects, and I collect THOSE, right?”
…In any case, it doesn’t speak well for Daddy that he keeps getting tricked and owned by a pre-verbal infant.
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Dustin : “Where DOES Dustin get his useless, whiny laziness from, what a mystery” #3,954
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Family Circus : “Hosanna” and “Lasagna” don’t sound that much alike, this is a stretch. Can’t we go back to her calling Spaghetti “Pasghetti”?
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Hi & Lois : Is this strip written by AI?
On one hand, forgetting that the saturday before National Cartoonist Day is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY could be attributed to human error.
On the other hand, over-correcting a “It’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY today! Give me MONEY so I can BUY comic books” joke by deciding to set it the day after, where comic books are NOT free (thus needing money would make sense) is something AI could do…?
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Luann : Now would be the proper time to end this storyline
in the abrupt, non-ending way this strip usually wraps things up. I really hope this is it, that this doesn’t continue, but where would the storyline continue from this point?Bernice. Just to make the storyline more insufferable***********
Slylock Fox : Which of the images is slightly different from the other two? Number three, where that giant crack in the skeleton’s skull is POST-MORTEM, rather than ANTE-MORTEM.
Family Circus: “Lasagna in the Highest” doesn’t even sound like “Hosanna in the Highest,” the hymn these brats are punning on. At the very least they could have gone for “Ho-Ho-Santa in the Highest,” but I guess the Family Circus brain trust didn’t want to save their best material for Christmastime.
Beetle Bailey: Actually, Sarge’s outfit is mixed-era vintage combined with pleasingly clashing colors and patterns that create a meta-contemporary effect, which is very much of the moment. If Sarge were 20 years younger and 50 pounds lighter, he would fit right into this month’s issue of GQ magazine. (Which I still subscribe to for some reason… If I ever decide to buy a $20,000 watch, I want to know which one is best.)
Mary Worth: “Was this his plan along… to take me to Santa Royale’s third-best French restaurant, gorge himself on water and meat chunks, and then stick me with the bill? Because if it is, there won’t be a second date! Well, for that and at least a dozen other reasons… I must have stopped counting after noting his appearance, outfit, attitude, conversation, and general demeanor.”
Dennis the Menace: Dennis thinks he’s being cute, not knowing the difference between niece/nephew and aunt/uncle… but the houses across the street are explicitly painted pink or blue, so I think they take gender roles pretty darn seriously in this neighborhood.
BB: Sarge just stole one of the General’s golf outfits. Meanwhile, the General’s black lipsticked wife tries out a Goth look, or just chose black because she thinks her husband’s death is imminent.
BB: Sarge was also nice enough to give some flappers a ride to the party in his flivver.
MW: “I wouldn’t go out with this idiot again unless he saved my – *CRASH*SHRIEK* – oh, crap.”
“Ha ha, Sarge dresses like an antiquated nerd! Not like us, with our cool powder blue suits (pairs perfectly with an acid green tie!) and white 80s prom tuxedos!”
FC: Poor Billy and PJ. They’re stuck going to regular mass with their lame dad while the rest of the family gets to convert to the Church of Weird Al.
Luann: What a striking development for Luann’s character. It’s going to be amazing to see how she runs with this freshly realized identity and transforms her life. Haha, nah, this plot is almost definitely over and Luann’s brand will never be mentioned again, and frankly I’m okay with that. This story was just dreadful.
Josh, in the first panel of Beetle Bailey, they’re talking about a future event. They’re not at the party yet. It’s not a mistake.
@Activist 1234: Blondie does this “Tomorrow is (Whatever) Day” thing a lot, and I really don’t get it. Why couldn’t they have that May the Fourth strip today and just use the horsefuckers yesterday?
MW:. “I’ll be Kristi, Jessi, Erin, ANYONE to get me out of here. ” She pulls out and pays with a fake credit card. Just hop Ed he doesn’t have her address or hell stalk her.
I n truth, he will inadvertently become her “hero”. Barf city.
@Chance: He’s talking about the second panel, where the general is wearing his uniform at the ‘civvies’ party.
FC: I would not have put the family as Catholics. They have to be Calvinists of some stripe at heart. All I can say is I wonder if Thel secretly hopes her brood are not among the elect so at least she can have some peace and quiet in a Heaven ruled by a just and angry God.
RMMD:
“I should have been more careful!”
“Exactly what I said when I left those forceps inside that guy the other day!”
FC:
“And I thought about my plush teddy toy with strabismus when we sang ‘Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear’ !”
Also we now know that
Karen MoyMary Worth finds modern technology that lets you pay people (almost) instantly online to be some form of witchcraft. Wilbur knows how tocatfish womenget on dating sites but he has no idea how Apple Pay/Cash App/Paypal/Venmo work?I’m scared that people view me the way I view Wilbur Weston.
@pugfuggly:
FC: I like the group of concerned congregants exiting the church, clearly keeping their distance from the Keanes. How loudly and terribly was Dolly singing? Very, I’ll bet.
Afraid of an incoming lightening bolt from an angry god?
@Anonymous: Beetle Bailey : Meanwhile, *I*’m hyperfocused on how, by mistakenly coloring the triangle inside of Halftrack’s tie floor-color rather than shirt-color, the general’s body is now twisted in a weird, escher-esque position.
Yeah, the star is supposed to be on his shoulder, instead of on a green blob connected to his hand.
@Hibbleton: Afraid of an incoming lightening bolt from an angry god?
An angry, jealous, vindictive god.
BB: It looks like Isaac from the Love Boat has decided to keep wearing his uniform.
DD: I think Daddy Daze Dad is missing the point that Daddy Daze Baby is calling him useless, old junk.
FC: I like lasagna when I’m the highest.
Forik my reading, BB has a long history of the male characters’ civvies being not just outdated but also comically so. Have they been in the service so long that they have no clue about current fashion trends? That wouldn’t explain Beetle’s fashion choices when he was a campus cutup. Sarge at the party would have looked less ridiculous if he had shown up in medieval cosplay.
MW:
‘ ‘Cause I’m a creep/I’m a weirdo.”
— Thom Yorke and Radiohead
@Joe Momma: Based on the architecture, I’m guessing mainline Protestant. Modern independent the-gays-will-burn-in-hell churches typically look like fancy warehouses or office buildings with a little religious touch.
@Tonio: Oops. Alas, poor Forik, I knew him.
Frazz: The dog doesn’t participate in marathons either. Time to Noam the dog.
Luann: Bets is being dumb here. Luann’s “blank slate” applies to her financial situation. She’ll be lucky if she gets the 36 cents Luann can find in the room’s clutter.
CS: I hope Wilbur shoves Dinkle into the path of an oncoming car.
Let me be the last to say “Hooray Hooray, the first of May. Outdoor screwing starts today.” I’ll get to the horsefuckers tomorrow.
9CL: “Gordian Knot” is what Amos calls getting his tighty-whities twisted up.
MW: “Give me your address, and I’ll bring the money over to you.”
Zits: Walt is understandably angry that Jeremy keeps eating his Ozempic muffins.
BB: Glad to see the general keeps a shillelagh by his front door. You never know when the peasants will appear, pleading for some relief from the famine resulting from the potato blight.
@Tonio:
“When you come to a Forik in the road, take it!” – Yogi Berra
9CL – Ever the master of naturalistic dialogue, the master has done it again!
“Say, I was just wondering. How do you solve a Gordian Knot?”
“Alexander the Great used a sword!”
“And how would you approach the problem?”
“Same thing I do every night. Flash my cooter at it!”
MW: You know who’s really lucky? Meagan’s next date. Wilbur has set that bar so low, anyone could clear it. IT could be a serial killer, and as Meagan lays, bound and gagged, being buried alive in an unmarked grave in the woods, her last thought will be, “Eh, still better than Wilbur.”
FC: Wow, Thel is really booking it out of there with those kids. Look at the horrified expressions on the other congregants. Imagine what they said INSIDE the church.
@Needless Exposition: yeah. If Wilbur wasn’t a piece of shit he could etransfer the money to Megan.
MW: Wilbur is digging himself into such a massive hole of utterly humiliating proportions, it’s hard to see how he’ll redeem hims—but, hark! Is that Mary Worth I spy, carrying a freshly baked batch of muffins for Meagan?
@Tonio: Keane himself was Catholic, but when we see the pastor, he’s usually in black robes like a Methodist or Presbyterian.
Don’t worry… Angus (?), you’ll inherit all the useless old junk you’ll ever need once your daddy is involuntarily committed for his protection and yours.
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I get that cartoonists like to go garish and absurd as a joke, but I still like a little logical consistency. Usually someone with a suit like Sarge’s is presented as proud and unaware that their clothing is awful. Sarge knows, though. Sarge knows. So why did he buy those clothes, and why does he still own them? They’re not a decade out of style because they were never in style. Did he actually have an entire suit tailored is his past as a joke? That seems extravagant for Sarge, and a little out of character.
@BigTed: “Lasagna in the Highest” doesn’t even sound like “Hosanna in the Highest,” – You are probably not old enough to know that back when this particular Family Circus panel was published (at a time when little girls had Easter coats and carried little pocketbooks), ‘Hosanna’ was routinely pronounced ‘Hasagna’.
FC: Look in the background, PJ is going home with a different family. All involved seem to be happy with this arrangement.
Luann: It’s Saturday, so this story is over. Right? Right?!
MW: Fair is fair. Meagan sat there like a lump for the entire meal. She did not say one word. Wilbur had to talk for the both of them. There should be no next time because lovable Wilbur deserves better.
D-D – Ba Ba Ba – Ba Bomb Iran….
FC – Stand Up – Stand Up for Cheeses….
BB – Now a black latex gimp suit – that would have been funny….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
FC: Please, the Keane’s ancestors may have been filthy Irish Papists, but nowadays they go to a proper nondescript, non-denomination church like all good Americans.
9CL: When I enjoy a weekend stroll through the void, I like to wear a dumpy sweater and baggy slacks and make my sexy, sexy girlfriend dress like a member of the Rockettes chorus line.
DD – At some point, we’re going to find out that the dad has been dead the whole time, right?
Luann Mashup: I added a few “brands” to Luann’s whiteboard. Were any better than the blank?
@Baja Gaijin: It’s a tough choice between the flaming poo and Puddles’ butthole…is a sentence I never thought I’d type in my life.
@Professor Well Actually: Mary Worth doesn’t trust technology after 2000 and neither should her
worthless peonsdear loyal friends.@6 BigTed: on Family Circus: Uh, you do realize Dolly only seems “normal” only because Jeffy is so much “below normal.” Fenceposts have been described as smarter than her.
S4th – The Forths are not with us. Here it is, Saturday, May 4th and it’s Taco Tuesday at the Forth home with Ted in the doghouse for not packing lunch for their prior day hike. Somebody please do a welfare check on Ces, I think he may have been eaten by a bear.
@Lord Flatulence: Serving warm potato salad.
(Music by AC/DC “Highway to Hell”)
MW – Just FYI, Meagan, if your word balloon is all fluffy, Wilbur can’t hear you. And believe me, these are words he needs to hear.
C’shaft: Harry takes a page (pun not intended) from Neil Gaiman, who has been known to secretly sign copies of his books in airport stores and leave them for lucky buyers to find. The difference is a) people actually want to read Gaiman’s books and b) Harry does absolutely everything for the sole purpose of public adulation and therefore doesn’t see the point of doing anything secretly.
Dustin: Dustdad, whose entire relationship with his son centers on telling said son how lazy and worthless he is, is lazy and worthless, part 5,306.
GT: I love the implications of defining Marty Moon as “sober” in this situation. “This behavior isn’t the result of controlled substances, people; he really is an oblivious jerk.” (Also, why is Marty Moon doing a press conference? Isn’t his job, you know, interviewing other people?)
JP: “Are you sure, honey? Maybe we should have my parents look after Charlotte for another month or so, just to be safe…”
Luann: Great, you’ve found your ideal client demographic: empty, directionless, boring idiots!
MW: I have to admire Megan’s forbearance. I would have told her to “go use the ladies’ room,” have the restaurant staff sneak her out the back (at least some of them have seen Wilbur, they would be sympathetic) and leave him to deal with the bill on his own.
@Chance:
BB: in defense of Josh, I believe Josh meant that the general was wearing his uniform at the party. Note that when Josh wrote the word he it was italicized. You’re welcome
@Needless Exposition: I always wonder in these situations, whether the writer of the legacy strip has no idea that modern technology exists, or whether they assume that their centenarian audience doesn’t.
FC – I thought that the Keanes were Catholic, but there are some arguments for them being Protestant. I am sure that that isn’t the Church of Twenty-first Century Fashion.
Crankshaft – I’m sure that I loathe Dinkle more than I loathe Lillian. At least Loathsome Lillian isn’t smug about ruining her sister’s life.
Pluggers – He’ll find out that “I’ll just be a few minutes” in the store has the same meaning as “Two minutes” in a football game.
9CL – Brooke was concentrating so hard (heh heh) on those legs that he didn’t notice that he drew her arm to be as long as the legs.
FC – “Wait, did I say ‘hungry’? I meant ‘high.’ It sure made me high. And hungry.”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Your lawn is in beautiful condition, Abundio!”
“Thanks”
“My gardener’s invented an great new technique, but…”
“The grass clippings make an awful mess when I shave my legs!”
Mutts Spanish to English.
MW: I will also get critical. This plot is flopping around like a fish out of water, gasping for air. One week Wilbur is having fantasies about being a superhero, the next he’s online dating (with no real transition between the two “plots” such as they are).
And again, Dawn’s hapless adventures in Connecticut would be waaaaaaaay better than this shit.
@brendancalling: And there was no reason to even establish that Dawn was out of town. Wilbur is fully capable of being an asshole regardless of where she is.
MW-I don’t know how bad the date was. All we got was her sullen reactions like the standard unconverted ‘Mary Worth’ character.
FC-Anything will make Dolly hungry.
FC- That sure made me want to change my underwear, when we prayed “Blessed is thy Fruit of the Looms, Jesus!”
@brendancalling: I think the connection is coming tomorrow. Wilbur will creepily insist on walking Not-Kristy to her car, which she will silently assent to for no good reason while internally monologuing more lame “Check, please!” crap. As Wilbur takes his leave after receiving a noncommittal answer to his second date overture, he will unwittingly elbow her into a manhole just before the sudden manifestation of the demolition derby equivalent of a flash mob. “That stupid @$$ saved my life! Wow!” Meagan will exclaim, her panties as soaked from arousal as the raw sewage engulfing her. “Maybe I should try wearing a cape,” Wilbur will say as he waddles off fantasizing about a Wilburman threeway with Estelle and Iris.
BB – People wearing sky-blue 70s leasure suits, Love Boat wait staff uniforms and black Goth lipstick to formal parties really have no standing to mock Sarge.
@57 Rube: It’s just as easy for Wilbur to “forget” his Venmo-enabled phone at home as it is to leave his wallet.
Dustin: Dustmom was in the mood for a bj until Dustdad opened his stupid mouth, closing hers.
Wilbur accidently (?) loaded Venmayo on his phone.
9CL: Today we learned that Amos has a curly penis, like a pig.
The Garfield movie has done promotions so far with La Z Boy, AMC (to produce Garfield popcorn buckets) and many more, so it’s clear that the studio behind the movie really wants it to succeed. Time will tell if the controversial move to sponsor houses of prayer with Garfield movie product placement pays off, although the Pope might be willing to sign off on a deal if the official Garfield movie Italian food is authentic.
MW – I was once abandoned in a restaurant by a date who “went to the ladies room” and never came back. Unlike Wilbur, I had stood up to greet my date, did not talk endlessly about myself, and was fully prepared to pay for both our meals. The pain, shame and humiliation I felt that night has lingered in the recesses of my memories all these years, and is now compounded by the fact that Wilbur’s date endured the entire evening without ditching him. Thanks a lot, Karen Moy. Thanks a LOT.
(And Rose Ann, wherever you are now, wherever life has taken you since, I hope it’s been wretched and miserable.)
@Rube: It’s hard to say what time period Karen Moy wants Santa Royale to be in. There’s metal trash cans and kids playing outside with rubber balls unsupervised but also smartphones and Mary brags about how she doesn’t hate technology because she has…a laptop! Moy wants to put in a humorous situation of Wilbur being pathetic by forgetting his credit card but he can easily pay Meagan back then and there thanks to money transfer apps. My parents have adapted well to advances in technology and even my grandparents have social media and smartphones. But in Moy’s head, technology stopped advancing when the new millennium came.
@Real Person.:
#19. MW:. Me too. That is, until like Wilbur I quit caring what people think of me. Oops, I left my brain in my other pants.
BB: Sarge looks disappointed about the party being another sausage fest. Hopefully he won’t make the mistake of thinking the general’s wife is a stripper.
@UncleJeff: Serving warm potato salad. (Music by AC/DC “Highway to Hell”)
What’s the song? I can’t find it.
@I speak Jive: “9CL – Brooke was concentrating so hard (heh heh) on those legs that he didn’t notice that he drew her arm to be as long as the legs.”
He does this all the time. However he learned to draw, he never spent any time on learning to sketch out the proportions first. It’s often written off as just a byproduct of legslegslegs but as we see today it applies to everything.
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I guess, just like we can never see Beetle’s eyes, we’re not allowed the sight of the top of Sarge’s head, since his civ hat sits exactly like his uniform cap. Ether that or they don’t want to show Sarge ‘s scalp tattoo “CLAIRE (heart) Hair” from that whacky 1953 arc where he and Cookie pretended to be the same person during a dinner date.
@Baja Gaijin: Judging by that first panel, I would’ve guessed “prostate exam.”
@Lord Flatulence:
What’s the song? I can’t find it.
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Serving warm potato salad/thats the story of this ballad -“Warm Potato Salad Blues” by Paul McCartney
Featured on the album “Hey, Dude: Jeff Spiccolli Sings The Best Of McCartney”.
@Lord Flatulence: “Serving Warm Potato Salad” can be found on AC/DC Rarities: B Sides & Delicatessen Songs. Generally considered to be for completists only.
@Rube:
Or assuming that the comic itself is trapped in a 1970’s stasis.
@Anonymous:
Hopefully he won’t make the mistake of thinking the general’s wife is a stripper.
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I’m counting on it…I still have “Mrs Halftrack with her husband’s weapon” in the Comics Cummudgeon Comic Character Death Pool, and being naked in front of Sarge might just light the match to that occurrence.
Phantom – aaannd… we’re back to the Gravelines Prison storyline! With all of its alternative futures! And you all thought we were finally done with it, didn’t you? Suckers.
DT: So, is the suitcase still in the Batboot? (Yeah, I know it’s a trunk in the US, but the assonance is funnier.) Everything since then has been so incoherent I don’t think I can rule out the possibility Croptop grabbed it before scattering.
Heath: Amazingly, this is the only Star Wars themed comic I’ve seen this May 4th. It’s also the first furred-characters-are-infested-with-parasites themed comic I’ve seen in a while, although I’m sure there’s a big stack of rejected Pluggers on the subject.
Phantom: It had honestly never occurred to me Kit had a reason to come home from India (previously only referred to as “the Himalayas”; please ignore all previous evidence implying this was Tibet) beyond “sudden impulse unknowingly caused by prophecy nonsense”. Whatever this other reason is, I hope it makes more sense than that!
RMMD: Rex explains to Sarah that you can’t blame yourself for failing to predict something might happen and taking steps to prevent it, paraphrasing his stock defence in his many negligence hearings.
@Bob Tice: hey!
9CL: the Gordian twat
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: I think that he starts his drawing with the legs, gives the legs the loving artistic attention they deserve, and then fills in the rest of the body without caring about proportions, angles, or any of that useless stuff.
The Vitruvian (Wo)Man it isn’t.
FC: Did Thel, Dolly, and Jeffy become Pastafarians?
@Needless Exposition: Metal trash cans— when is the last time you saw one, outside of a comic strip? Fifteen years ago? Longer?
Dustin: This, combined with yesterday’s comic, exemplifies why I hate this strip so much. We’re supposed to see Dustin as a lazy, selfish asshole because he can’t find and hold down a job, and everyone is justified for hating him on sight and insulting him to his face. Meanwhile, Dustdad is an ACTUAL lazy, selfish asshole, but we’re supposed to find it funny, endearing, and relatable. Fuck that.
@Rube: The last time I saw a metal trash can was Oscar the Grouch back when Follow That Bird came out. In the mid-1980s.
@Activist 1234: CURTIS:. But Michelle IS into competition. As soon as he shows interest in the other girl (Chutney), Michelle will be all over him with affection.
Won’t Barack have a problem with that?
@Horace Broon: re: DT: “It’s a cop car! Scatter! Grab the suitcase full of money first!” That’s the way I would have handled it, but I’m not a nationally syndicated comic strip writer. Or a bad guy on a scavenger hunt.
re: Phantom: Kit wanted to send Junior to Tibet, but Junior overruled him because the Indian takeout is better in India.
Pluggers: Speaking of ancient comic tropes, what’s the deal with wives wanting their reluctant husbands to go shopping with them? Is this from the days of women not driving, not having money of their own to buy things, or needing someone to carry the packages? Dragging along a hubby who’s complaining all the time can really take the joy out of shopping.
Sid, the Six Chix cat is upset that she’s not getting equivalent pay for writing her share of the strips.
@Real Person.:
Skip Stevenson! Long time, no see!
@80 Alter Ego: Yeah, would any sane woman want to touch DustDad’s winky with anything thinner than a gardening glove?
Daddy Daze:
“Ba ba ba.”
“You wish you were Kristy? You’re a little young to make life decisions yet so, for the time being, you be you.”
@Anonymous: the general’s body is now twisted in a weird, escher-esque position.
Martha Halftrack’s face was likely drawn by one of Picasso’s lesser protégés, now that you mention it.
@Anonymous: Family Circus : “Hosanna” and “Lasagna” don’t sound that much alike, this is a stretch.
For what little it’s worth, since I didn’t recognize the hymn at all and thus didn’t get the joke, I googled the phrase, and found more than one link to a recipe with that name. The Internet being what it is, probably it’s just one recipe that has somehow spread, but my capacity for research on this matter reached a breaking point with even the one search phrase. But at least one other human being seemed to think it was enough alike to joke about.
Bill Mauldin did a lot of gags where soldiers on leave/ finally living the civilian life dressed in the absolute gaudiest suits they could find and it really feels like there’s a punchline in Beetle Bailey but they came upon it completely by accident.
@lynn: You’re right, all I know from that era comes from old Dennis the Menace comics. (But back then, he would only have made a pun like that after starting a fire in the church kitchen or something.)
@Baja Gaijin: To be fair, it can’t be easy living with the name “Dolly” in 2024. (The potential for in-school mockery ranges from the fourth First Lady to an obsolete snack cake to a 1964 musical set in 1898.)
@104 BigTed: You forgot the biggest Dolly, in respect to breast size. And that famous sheep.
BB: Sgt. Snorkel doesn’t wear civvies because he doesn’t want his part in the life and downfall of Jay Gatsby to become common knowledge.
DD: Hey, yeah. Remember that time Angus was an infant and his dad talked to himself and his dad talked to himself while pretending he was talking to Angus? Or the other time that Angus was an infant and his dad talked to himself while pretending he was talking to Angus? So many amazing memories!
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX; @Horace Broon: Thatababy has a “may the fourth” tribute from a different angle.
Also, @Horace Broon, on DT, I like the “Batboot” thing. Let’s just hope the suitcase doesn’t turn out to contain a nuclear device or something.
@JamesBont: Yeah, I’m surprised those poor trees can hold him up.
9CL: Yeah, like Amos’s is long enough to tie a knot in it.
C-Shaft: Whoa. Harry Dinkle just affixed his signature to a bunch of books in Lillian’s bookstore. How is it she wasn’t blinded by the heavenly light engulfing the scene?
DT: Colorful firework displays aren’t something most people associate with Batman. For that you have to take a close look at his business card, right next to “DJ Services.”
GT: Marty Moon: living breathing proof that sobriety may be good in and of itself but it’s not a miracle worker.
JP: “Can we stop by Pavel’s compound and roast marshmallows where his house used to be?”
“Anything for you, Precious.”
Lockhorns: “Yeah, well, mine always warns me not to talk to strangers at the grocery store, and she’s got a point. Bye.”
Pibgorn: TFW you have second thoughts about going into the Church instead of the king’s army.
RMMD: Brace yourself for kiddie kitchen totalitarianism the likes of which the world has never seen. One way or another, no one will be able to rest anything lower than six feet.
@Hibbleton: Afraid of an incoming lightening bolt from an angry god?
I think the one thing that’s saving them is that the Almighty probably isn’t looking forward to having them join Him in the sweet hereafter.
That kiss ass Flagg set Sarge up for ridicule. He’s the one who told him he can’t wear his military uniform and yet he’s the first one to loudly draw attention to Sarge’s feeble attempt at dressing up mocking him in the process. Asshole.
@Anonymous: FC – Why do they wanna hose Anna? Is she on fire?
BB: would a general be inviting a sergeant to a private house party? I’m asking because I don’t know.
Late Thread Cuisine: It’s a ring yet no Jell-O or aspic is involved. No olive eyes to stare at you either.
@114 Baja Gaijin:
That’s not rice! Those are maggots!
@115 Sequitur: They are NOT! Maggots are white, unless they’re in the Crock-iverse.
Today’s Family Circus is obviously a reprint of art from 30-50 years ago, when more Americans were regular church-goers, which means that the reference in today’s strip (“Lasagna in the highest”) is going to go about a dozen miles over almost any given reader’s head.
@Baja Gaijin: Just mentioning that “Jolene”-singing hussy or crime against nature in the Keane household will probably get you a whupping.
@118 BigTed: Why? Is Thel jealous of Ms. Parton’s superior jutting skills?
@116 Baja Gaijin:
Then it fits. That recipe is a bunch of crock.
@Rube: #01: The same time I last saw a poor person wearing a barrel, a doctor wearing a mirrored headband, and a burglar wearing a mask, newsboy cap, and striped shirt.
@Baja Gaijin: One ring to rule them all … and in the darkness bind them.
@Baja Gaijin: Oh man, you do not mess with that Haitian Rice Ring. Try to buy or sell so much as a single grain of rice in Haiti without going through them, and before you know it someone will be fishing your mutilated corpse out of the Caribbean.
@123 Peanut Gallery:
And the body will be full of maggots.
MAGGOT JOKE
A trichinosis larva and a botfly maggot walk into a bar…
The botfly maggot turns to the trichinosis larva and says “Hey buddy, I heard you like pork.” The trichonosis larva looks the the botfly maggot right in the spiracles and says “Indeed, I encyst upon it.”
@BigTed: I’m begging you to please not take my ham….
YET ANOTHER MAGGOT JOKE
What’s worse than finding half a maggot in your apple?
Colon cancer.
@125 Sequitur: GROAN!
MY LAST MAGGOT JOKE FOR TODAY (Well, it mentions “maggot”)
Basic Training in the Marines
On the first day of basic training in the marines, a drill instructor has new recruits lined up and is dressing them down.
He tells them “You aren’t men, you’re maggots!… you’re not even maggots! You’re a mite sucking a maggots dick! But in 6 weeks those of you who don’t quit are going to be able to do this…”
He reaches down into a big box next to him and pulls out a snapping turtle. Then he reaches into his pants and pulls out his penis, which the snapping turtle immediately bites. He lets go of the turtle and lets it hang from his penis and lets out a victory cry “HOORAH!!” After which he pinches the turtles eyes, it releases its hold, and he puts it back into its box.
He looks at the recruits and asks “any of you want to try THAT?”
A recruit from the front speaks up and says “SIR, yes sir!! But please don’t pinch my eyes”
@129 Sequitur: Good one.
9CL: I watched a Doctor Who episode not too long back, where this rich billionaire recruited the villain “The Master” to power a machine to make his daughter immortal.
In between watching this episode and the first time I saw it about 15 years ago, I never noticed the subtle creepy incest tones between the father and daughter.
Then I question to myself. Is it years of analyzing comics like 9 Chickweed Lane that did this? Did it give me a dirty mind to start seeing these things?
@131 The Rambling Otter: Is it years of analyzing comics like 9 Chickweed Lane that did this? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Hells yes.
FC/BB: I hate to say it, but I think Jeffy wins the “Who Wore It Better?” contest.
@Baja Gaijin: Honestly, the rice doesn’t bother me, but I can’t figure out what the light colored stuff on top is. The piece at the front looks like a ghost, with tiny eyes.
I would consider at least trying that, as long as it isn’t spicy and I knew what that ghost is.
I have the same opinion as Poteet about spicy food. Unfortunately, I can’t eat spicy food.
@134 I speak Jive: I wish I could tell you what the light colored stuff is. Many ingredients make the “filling:”
Who remembers when canned tuna came in 7 oz cans?
@135 Baja Gaijin:
Ah, turmeric. That’s what’s making the maggots yellow.
@Baja Gaijin: The light colored ingredient must be a piece of crabmeat or possibly tuna.
I did recognize red and green peppers.
I could eat that – looking at the ingredients, it sounds like it would be okay.
@136 Ukulele Ike: Pluggers remember when canned tuna came in 7 oz cans.
@138 I speak Jive: Yeah, it seems eminently edible; the presentation, though, is another thing.
luann and just like that now tiff and bets have to try and work on a new idea since luann just showed them how to do thieir idea better oh well next is trying it with bernice.
@Baja Gaijin: I bet Dagwood Bumstead does, too.
@141 Ukulele Ike: Dagwood Bumstead remembers Herbert Hoover.
@Baja Gaijin:
#135. Baja, thanks for the ingredients– I love Haitian cuisine and courtesy. Nicest, most generous folks I’ve ever met. Turmeric makes my white rice turn pale yellow.
Too bad the Haitian people, only ones who fought their enslavers and won, are still fighting internal and external enemies. (I know, no politics, but that recipe started it)
@143 Activist 1234: Not too political in my opinion. Does this recipe look “Haitian?” It’s from a recipe card collection aimed at 70’s housewives. Some of the other country-specific recipes don’t resemble their origins at all.
@Activist 1234: In that case allow ME to be first to say May Ted Forth be with YOU!
@Baja Gaijin:
@141 Ukulele Ike: Dagwood Bumstead remembers Herbert Hoover.
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Dagwood Bumstead remembers Pepperage Farms.
@146 Garrison Skunk:
Dagwood remembers leeches instead of penicillin.
Dagwood remembers when heroin was a popular cold remedy.
Dagwood remembers buying gasoline in a can from a pharmacy.
BB: Wow! A couple weeks ago, I made a comment here about Sarge going to a party and showing up in uniform. And here we are today! Evidence that the BB creative team reads this blog. And steals my ideas, specifically.
@Lord Flatulence: Actually, it was German potato salad (Hell was out of hotdogs and the coleslaw had pineapple in it). — An ancient “The Simpsons” episode
“This cookie jar has been in our family for years.” And yet it’s the most boring, generic, no-frills cookie jar imaginable. Hardly worth remarking on, IMHO. If you break it you just buy a new one.
DD: I see the titular Daddy has stumbled upon the plot of Marie Robinette Kowal’s Forest of Memory, wherein the rich collect memories of events long past. If he’s harvesting his son’s memories (presumably to sell to a child language acquisition studies lab), that would explain why he seems incapable of learning to say anything but “ba.”
FC: I hope you’re getting a cut of that promo money, because when I saw a poster for Garfield earlier this week I assumed the theater was just showing the 2004 movie for some reason.