Saturday is for cheap love
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Beetle Bailey, 11/9/24
I know it’s just because of basic newspaper comic strip art hackery, but it really bothers me that Beetle’s shirt here looks exactly like his underwear from two days ago. Did he do that on purpose? Is he wearing that underwear right now? Is it a set? Is he the sort of sicko who goes into some real sicko store, sees a matching shirt/underwear set, then buys it, then wears it? The mind reels. Reels, I say!
Mary Worth, 11/9/24
Since Ed guilted Estelle into abandoning her elaborate themed wedding dreams to instead just do a quickie living room wedding for a handful of people, fully a third of whom were their exes, I assume that Mary does not mean “paying off” in a literal sense here. At least Eve is proud of the things she’s learning, unlike the real unsavory stuff Saul is picking up in his classes that he’s coming home and telling her about or maybe even demonstrating afterwards, to her mingled horror and fascination.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/9/24
Truck! Do not attempt to book Shorty and the Beanpole to deliver their neo-vaudevillian stylings at your wedding reception, you will regret it more than you can possibly imagine
117 replies to “Saturday is for cheap love”
MW. From the look on Saul’s face, I assume the Santa Royale Learning Annex has a class called “the Step Ladder Kama Sutra.”
Mary Worth Too bad the Adult Learning Center doesn’t have a course on “Writing Natural Sounding Dialogue”.
BB: Memorizing the colour of Beetle Bailey’s underpants has got to be a cry for help. You don’t need to do this to yourself, Josh! Human beings aren’t designed for the mental torture of daily Beetle Bailey exposure!
MW: The last frontier for women’s liberation: segregated flower arranging courses. One day men and women will be able to learn how to make centerpieces together, but the dream of making Santa Royale Adult Learning Center co-ed remains just that for now.
RMMD: Reworked for a roots country audience, Shorty and the Beanpole’s new act was a mildly amusing hit.
“Why’d the chicken cross the road?”
“I dunno.”
“His pickup was in the shop!“
MW: Eve looks like she’s about to eat Saul’s face. Did they get their course registrations mixed up, or something?
Wait, where are Eve and Saul’s dogs? Surely this is a pet friendly wedding.
Saul isn’t taking a taxidermy class, is he?
MW: Eve does air quotes when she mentions Saul’s course at the “Adult learning center” AKA, AA meeting.
MW: Seeing these two gushing over each other is a reminder why Ian and Toby were not invited. All they do is drink and bicker.
CS: Ah, the ultra-macho look is just a facade to cover up the sensitivity of this apparently oversensitive caretaker of small children. Meanwhile, Crankshaft’s smug face is the most punchable thing you’re going to see today.
Frazz: Caulfield has got to start laying off the LSD.
JP: It would be great if Glen dumped Sophie tonight and took up with Neddy.
The best part of taking that floral arranging class, is that when Ed overworks himself into an early grave, they have the funeral decorations already handled
Mary Worth: If the loving couple is live-streaming the wedding and reception, Cousin Pam is thanking her stars she wasn’t invited.
BB: Sergeant Snorkel is easily the most developed figure in this series, but one trait I cannot say I’ve ever seen in him is “pessimistic.” Then again, the titular protagonist has exactly one attribute (lazy) after three quarters of a century, so maybe we shouldn’t be overly worried about his opinions on this.
MW: The other Mudges and I read comics everyday. We like to discuss what we read afterward. It’s fun for us! And I’m proud of what it has done in developing the natural subtlety of our human expository skills.
RMMD: As a veteran diner waitress who cheerfully attends to strangers everyday, Wanda of course reacts to her boyfriend familiarly greeting a passerby with naked befuddlement and wariness while making no attempt to be friendly or welcoming in any way.
DT: “…Liz. I told to investigate the connection between the murder victim and the company he claimed to work for. So you went and read the ‘About Our Family’ page on the company’s corporate website. I… hate you so much. Oh, whatever, it’s not like it matters. We’ll pick this up tomorrow and wait for our case-resolving deus ex machina to show up like it always does.”
MW: Saul’s class is, “Things You NEVER Imagined You Could Do With A Bandana.”
DtM: Dennis can’t find ANYONE to whom he can blurt some embarrassing tidbit he’s overheard about them. Poor little moppet!
SF: Roman has already assumed the bemused expression he always wears when exposed to the idiocies of the Ted Forth family.
H&L: I wonder if the Pabst Brewing Co. enjoys or objects to being the preferred swill of a lazy alcoholic.
Pluggers: Ahem, you shouldn’t be throwing stones there, Mrs. Plugger.
GT: #11 either doesn’t have a name or he’s in witness protection.
Family Circus: All dressed up and celebrating the day they decided to drop PJ off on the side of the road.
MW: The Mary Worth guide to assisted living; get a pet, get a hobby, couple up, and keep eating so you die peacefully in your sleep of coronary artery disease.
RMMD is set in the Upper Midwest, correct? Because this is the most passive-aggressive faux plausibly deniable cockblocking/clamjamming I’ve ever seen.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Look at that big dirigible, Abundio!”
“It’s crashing! Oh, the humanity!”
“Doesn’t Veronica appreciate sick humor?”
MW-Is there some sort of creepy sex thing going on with Saul and Eve behind Mary’s back? That is not allowed. Mary only allows good old fashion missionary style.
RMMD-Uh, Truck, there is no one there.
MW-Saul is learning how to be a master and Eve is proud of the things he is teaching her.
FC-The original version had Billy hitting on the waitress.
RMMD – Parker doesn’t need to ask Truck how he’s doing because clearly, he and Wanda are having sex in public.
Why does it sound like all of these strips are ending and trying to wrap up their storylines ASAP? Is there something going on at Comics Kingdom?
FC – Ah, making up a menu term for the sake of a darndest thing. Well played, Keane.
MW: Mary, Eve and Saul are desperately reaching for things to say, to avoid talking about the election. “That window behind the centerpiece — it certainly is vertical!” “You said it! And that tie you’re wearing, is it a bowtie?” “Why, yes, is it a bowtie! I like to wear bowties! Did you know that my pet also wears a bowtie? Actually, I make her wear it. She didn’t choose it for herself.” “You don’t say!”
MW: is that Eve, or is that just Dr Ed in a blonde wig and cross dressing? My girlfriend notes that Saul looks exactly like Wilbur in profile. I’m beginning to think that June Brigman has limited artistic skills.
MW: Looks like Ed and Stell invited guests based on what services they could provide for the wedding. Mary catered, Eve did the florals and Wilbur…Wilbur’s basically there to remind Stell that marrying Ed is her best option.
RMMD: Uh-oh, I see where this is headed: Truck, a rural progressive in the style of Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, is happy to affirm Parker’s non-binary identity, while “gender critical” aspiring tradwife Wanda finds it bizarre and unnatural. Can two people on opposing sides of the political divide really get along? (Spoiler: yes, but only in Rex Morgan where the stakes are so low nobody is affected by anything that happens ever.)
BB: It’s funny because Beetle’s army training has given him a completely nihilistic outlook on life. I mean, we all end up bare and cold and dreary in the end, what difference does it make if it happens in a bed surrounded by loved ones or on a battlefield surrounded by your fallen comrades? Makes you think…
MW: I like the added emphasis that Eve puts on Separate Classes. In the Maryverse, this is like coming out as swingers.
RMMD: Truck may be a great singer, but he’s still learning the basics of shouting. Hunched forward, teeth gritted, hands out like he’s sniffing a coconut, I just wish we could hear what kind of noise he’s actually making…
Beetle Bailey: Beetle, you fool, you absolute f—ing idiot, you’re supposed to respond to an opening like that with “Sure fall is pretty, but not as beautiful as you!” Have you no romance, Sir, have you at long last no sense of game?
Mary Worth: “For example, I’ve been taking a ventriloquism class! See, all I have to do shove my hand up —[TRANSMISSION LOST]
C’shaft: “All’s Hell that ends Hell” is the motto of the entire Funkyverse.
DT: Nice of Fred Totten, Jr. to hire Nathan Lane as his general contractor.
GT: I’d come for the line artist first, given the mess they’ve made of your face.
Luann: Turns out the “Self-Proclaimed Nice Girl” is every bit as annoying as the “Self-Proclaimed Nice Guy.”
MT: Fifteen minutes later: “Huh, turns out the Air and Space Museum is ridiculously popular and you need to make reservations weeks in advance if you want to get in. Maybe I should have done some research before planning this class trip. Oh, well–who wants to visit the National Museum of the American Indian?”
Why is Beetle wearing his soldier cap instead of a civilian one with his favourite sports team or fictional character or polit… never mind. Carry on, Private Bailey.
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I admit it. I might think it’s a red flag if my fiancé invited a kid he’s only ever met once to our wedding.
Over at the Luann comment section, the Trufans have decided that Tiffany is getting her just come-uppance, rather than entertaining the notion that Kip is drawing a healthy boundary. They apparently know the Evanses’ motivations better than I do.
Beetle Bailey-And then Ms. Buxley will die after the last leaf falls.
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
BB: I don’t know why it bothers me more that Beetle wears his cap when he’s dressed in civvies than it does that he wears it when he’s not dressed at all, but it does. But then I remember that he has to wear a hat (I believe there’s an old Camp Swampy superstition that anyone who sees the uncovered head of the Soldier Who Snoozes will die) so the only alternative is either for him to wear that straw boater he had when this was a college strip or for someone at Walker-Browne Humour LLC to make up a hat! They didn’t get into the legacy comics biz to be creative!
FG: I’m pretty sure the Queen of the Lion Men hasn’t been named before. One of the things I’ve noticed Schkade trying to do is add more notable non-male characters to a setting that originally had The Love Interest, The Villain’s Beautiful Daughter, and The Literal Ice Queen. And it’s particularly appropriate that a people based on lions would have a woman leading the hunt. (The idea the lionesses do all the hunting isn’t completely true; it’s more accurate to say that they do most of it, and are the organised group hunters chasing down prey, whereas the males are solitary ambush hunters similar to other cats. But that’s what we’re seeing here, so…)
Phantom: Is Mollusk complaining that Bangalla is persisting in not being the moon, probably just to spite him? Because that seems totally on brand.
S4th: “We spent the whole vacation worrying that our daughter was having a psychotic break, and vaguely wondering if we should do anything about it! But it turned out ‘doing anything about it’ would have meant skipping the Metropolitan Museum of Art, so we didn’t. Then it turned out that thing she just said was happening, so it … probably wasn’t a psychotic break? Maybe?”
@Liam: Because when the very last leaf floats down, it pokes Buxley in the eye and she gets a fatal infection… it will be very sad.
@Horace Broon: There have been instances in the past, in which, Beetle’s hat/helmet flies off of his head when he’s surprised, and he has another hat/helmet under it.
I’m starting to question if Beetle is an “Old One”
FC: Yes, Billy. A la carte is a phrase that has its origins in the practice of wheeling a cart to the table for customers to pick out a dessert not included with the entree.
Billy may be a complete dick to his siblings but he’s not stupid.
@Horace Broon: Thank you for saying what I was thinking about that headgear, but better.
Mary Worth – I hope the human speech system is still under warranty, because it needs a lot more than a recalibration.
Rex Morgan – I didn’t think it was possible, but the Truck-Wanda wedding is already looking like it will be even more annoying than the Estelle-Dr. Ed nuptials.
Frazz – I approve of a Caulfield in concrete.
Pearls Before Swine – That does work, but side effects include having to buy an entire new wardrobe.
FC – “Prix fixe” means that a veterinarian will come to the table and neuter Jeffy.
@Hibbleton: I hope it’s not the meeting that Funky Winkerbean pontificates and blathers through. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
CFA: Hoping things improve.
Starting tomorrow, tired of ignoring his trick finger, Sex Organ V.D. will be treating Truck for Megaphone Mouth Hands.
@The Rambling Otter: Maybe he’s just the grown-up Bartholomew Cubbins.
Luann: Kip’s had it with all these neurotic broads and is contemplating “dating” the entire Mooney U football team, like Clara Bow and the USC Trojans in 1927.
RMMD: “Hey, Parker! You wanna come to our wedding?” ~~~~
Who? Who or what the hell is that? Is that a kid … or a middle-aged … person? And how does Truck know… him? Don’t tell me he has grandkids by some of those ex-wives! Or.. oh my God! Is he a child molester? What do I really know about this guy … why had he never mentioned those ex-wives… plural! … before? And how much money does he have to pay them every month?
Well, you’ve done it now, girl! Told the old coot you’d marry him. What the hell was I thinking? Did the fresh air blow away all my common sense, as well as his old man odor? Yeah, I admit he can be a sweet-talker … he says so himself! And he’s bringing in some cash now… maybe he can start paying some of the household expenses now if we get married. Married. Legally and morally bound….
Til death do us part. Can I do it? Admit it – the only way I’ll get to see Fergus is if they keep workin’ together. Why else would Fergus come to Glenwood? If this is what I have to do to keep him in my life… that smile, that wink, that electricity I feel when he’s in the room. That lingering, woodsy scent of him that I can still smell in my mind. I wonder what it is? Maybe I could get some for Truck…. ~~~~
“Who? Now who was *that*, Truck?”
Eve whispers “Saul, we emphasized all the right Code words….WHEN ALONE WE MASTER, I don’t think Mary gets it.” “Oh, she gets it, trust me she gets it.”
Sex Organ, V.D. “Hey, Parker Lewis, still claim you Cant lose? I dare you to come to our wedding!”
@Myrtle: “Truck never invites people to our wedding at home.”
BB: Hoo boy, Beetle is in a sour mood! I hope he cheers up by the time they pass Truck and Wanda.
MW: Did you know that staring at someone’s forehead is a form of intimidation? Learn this and more at the Adult Learning Center!
@Peanut Gallery: “Goodyear?” “No, the worse.”
I realize that some of you don’t get the throwaway panels for the Sunday comics. As a public service here are three throwaway panels for tomorrow’s comics that are restaurant themed.
@Sequitur: The food in the Rex Morgan one looks edible. However, I can’t identify the food objects to the right of the bacon cheeseburger, in front of the condiment bottles. Hush puppies? Fried zucchini?
Everything else on the plate looks pretty good. The drink looks like it’s cold – nice artwork. And the service is zippy!
MW: “Yes, Saul’s become quite the disciplinarian! And he looks so dashing in his leather codpiece.”
Blondie: Yeah, what’s the point of having a man cave if you can’t live like a pig?
Frazz: Yeah, that Vonnegut, what a hack.
JP: “You’ve got a date?! You didn’t clear this with me first. May I remind you that the only reason you exist is to be of service to me when I demand it. Now cancel that date and prepare my bath.”
@Peanut Gallery:
Es especialmente difícil para Verónica porque ambos hombres juntos pesan menos de cien libras.
Beetle Bailey: The leaves on local trees have turned a single shade of pure orange, not because of “beautiful fall” but due to a chemical-warfare experiment being conducted incompetently at Camp Swampy — which has resulted in a highly dangerous substance leaching into the town’s water supply. And I’m not going to say it will eventually turn all the people into horrible orange monsters, but, yes, it starts by affecting your shirt and underwear.
Mary Worth: Saul is taking a nature class called “How to Pick Up Squirrels.” Because his libido is as high as ever, but his eyes aren’t what they used to be when reading course catalogues.
Family Circus: It’s funny because French terms on the menu mean it’s a fancy restaurant they can’t afford and that the kids will hate, and Mommy is wondering if she can just dine-and-dash while leaving them there to wash dishes.
Oh man, are we going to get a Beetle Bailey/Rex Morgan crossover? In which the stars of the respective strips (Beetle Bailey, Truck Tyler) meet in the park? AND SIT? Don’t tease me like this.
@Bad wolf: I imagine that all of these comic writers are tired of Josh and us snarkers riffing on their comics. So all of the online comic distributors will shut down and be replaced by a very secret comic website that the snark community will not know of… ending anyone ever making fun of them ever again.
But on the other hand we snarkers make up 99% of the views so ;-)
@49 I speak Jive:
I’m not sure about that Zippy service.
Hi and Lois: If the amount of leaves in your yard are almost waist deep than you are far beyond the point of just raking them up.
Zits: It shows us they are less tall than the top of the door frame, so he shrank back down again after?
Bizarro: I don’t know understand people who say they don’t like kids as if they are another species, every adult who’s ever existed was a child because that’s how human development works. What kind of pretentious dipshit thinks they were somehow any less terrible during their own childhood than the people who are currently children? People put up with you and all the things you did. You cried and pooped just like every baby you see now so fuck off.
MW P2: Someone please tell the cameraman to back up a bit or at least use some vaseline on the lens. Yikes!
Beetle Bailey-Beetle subscribes to the Les Moore style of opitimism.
Shoe: Maybe Jenny Craig said it before her weight loss? Here’s a before and after photo of her.
Beat up Bailey: Beatup better do a better job of concealing his costume if he doesn’t want everyone to know he’s the new Newspaper Spiderman.
MW: whoshortrt,Wilbur of Saul?
MW – Saul is apparently learning how to carve your own face into a potato.
@The Rambling Otter: @Liam: Because when the very last leaf floats down, it pokes Buxley in the eye and she gets a fatal infection… it will be very sad.
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Sad,yes, but also ironic when Beetle then dramatically lifts his cap and says,”Now, do you see why I always protect my eyes! Pun intended, damn it!”
MW: Am I the only one who laughed out loud at Saul and Eve’s rapturous expressions and the innuendo of their conversation about the “separate classes” they “discuss” later with joy and pride? They look as if they are about to go into a Gomez-and-Morticia embrace. Only in reverse with Eve taking the lead.
@Sequitur: It was Jeremy Duncan Hines!
@Ukulele Ike: #41: What? The whole team? How did Ms. Bow find the time to fit Bela Lugosi in?
@Arabella</a: They look as if they are about to go into a Gomez-and-Morticia embrace. Only in reverse with Eve taking t he lead.
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"Eve! That's canine! You know how that drives me wild!"
@Arabella: They look as if they are about to go into a Gomez-and-Morticia embrace. Only in reverse with Eve taking the lead.
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“Eve! That’s canine! You know how that drives me wild!”
FG: Sunday’s wrap up will probably be about how Queen Dovana lost her arm. Most likely a hunting accident or battle injury though I’m hoping it was a particularly rough sex act with King Jugrid. Whatever, it will be far more interesting than how Becky over in the Funkyverse lost hers.
MW:. Charming, how Eve and Saul have kept their friendship, growing thru learning each other’s divergent interests. They’re friend, right? Other than the Bumsteads and Patterson’s, the familiarity of marriage makes friends grow apart.
RMMD:. Charming, how Truck remembers how Parker helped him get from depression to medical care. Again, friendship is better than marriage.
FRAZZ:. Has Bob Rice yet treated us to a parody of [We’re just Bugs] Blowin’ in the Wind?
PHANTOM:. Oh good, we’ll get to see along with President Luanga the cops arrest Mr. Mollusk. And here I thought this arc would be short and funny! Still, a happy ending.
FG: What, the party’s halfway started and they haven’t even begun to cook the meat? Oh well, they are lions. I hope Flash and Dale like steak tartare.
@I speak Jive:
#37 FC:: it gets a giggle or even guffaw when an English-learner is taught what it means to “fix” a dog. “Was he broken?”
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: So easy to just crib the Immortal Bard:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few
Do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold
And skip right to
. . .love that well which thou must leave ere long.
But if you’d rather think about Sarge. . .
RMMD — Hey, Parker, you wanna come to our wedding? There’s going to be an animal theme!
Beetle Bailey – Beetle has mastered the art of camouflage, but only to nap. Fall is great because he can rake a pile of leaves and nap inside, but the dreary cold time before the snow falls makes hiding places few and far between.
Mary Worth – The Learning Center (TLC) is in the early stages where it’s all about learning interesting new hobbies and skills. But like the cable channel of the same name, the need for growth will turn it toward the salacious, outrageous, and outright depraved.
Rex Morgan, MD – It’s not unusual for a story of a young man and an old man to become unlikely friends (Pixar’s Up for example), but it’s usually it’s earned through more than a single conversation on a bench. Truck is definitely going to die and leave his guitar to Parker to become his successor, but it needs to be earned, not just a story put on rails.
I’m bothered by the extremely erotic concentration apparent between the two geriatrics in today’s Mary Worth.
DTM: If Dennis would put on his beatnik outfit, then he’d be having fun.
Curtis: I’d rather care for a baby than a decrepit old geezer. Good luck changing your own diaper.
Phantom: “Your obstruction of my lunatic vision has got to stop.”
Rex Morgan: Those Dr. Spock sideburns on the women (June, Wanda, and some other I can’t remember) remind me of when girls in the 1950’s sported spit curls. Not a good image.
@Maltmash3r: Surely this is a pet friendly wedding.
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I doubt Ed and Stale will be petting even after the wedding. And stop calling me Shirley!
JP: Have they enlisted the writers of Luann to contribute to this middle school drama?
@Guillermo el chiclero: . I hope Flash and Dale like steak tartare.
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Only if its steak tartare Binks.
@Anonymous: Curtis: I’d rather care for a baby than a decrepit old geezer. Good luck changing your own diaper.
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I’d rather have a baby in front of me then to have a frontal geezolabotamy.
@Jeffmcm: I’m bothered by the extremely erotic concentration apparent between the two geriatrics in today’s Mary Worth.
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“No match,the board goes back.”
HTH: Hela would be inscribing runes on a stone tablet.
@Activist: I think “What is broken only after you fix it?” “A dog!”, is a Shorty and the Beanpole joke.
I love Saul’s use of the word “mastered” here. You know how after you take one class on something you totally definitely become a master of it for real? What I’m saying is Saul is senile and has lost whatever neurons are responsible for humility.
DtM: “I’m having fun but don’t even know it” Alice has a shocked look on her face for an otherwise ignorable remark from Dennis because Henry said the same thing 5 minutes ago after too many edibles.
DtM: By golly, it is a beatnik party. Must be people Alice knew during her short stint in art college, before Henry swept her off her feet and into the dreary life of a suburban housewife. She’s about to serve refreshments, her little dish holding two short fat reefers, a hit of Benzedrine, and an LSD-soaked sugar cube.
@Sequitur: I was going to give Ces a pat on the back for sending the girls to a real-life Greenwich Village restaurant (Ces lives in Manhattan, fer chrissake, albeit the wrong end) before realizing that I had mistaken “Village Bistro” for Corner Bistro, a renowned burger joint on West 4th Street just north of West 12th Street. Yes, Village addresses are just as weird as you would expect.
Haven’t been to Corner Bistro in years. Now I really want a cheeseburger.
MW: The noses of MW shift like the sands of the desert. Behold the nose of Eve, which is straight in Panel One and curved in Panel Two. Eve’s nose shift is not as impressive as when Mary turns her head and her nose disappears altogether, except for a couple of small demure nostrils. But almost all MW characters display nose-shifting at some point, so Saul has something to look forward to.
@92 Ukulele Ike:
Maybe the nearby Museum of Illusions faked you out.
MW: Saul has been studying demon summoning and advanced curses. He’s taken to it like a duck to water.
RMMD: The fact that Truck knows a random kid on a bike is not really the discombobulating part. No, that would be the sky turning margarine yellow and Truck casting a shadow on it.
@Ukulele Ike: I have only ever been in NYC for one two-day visit, but I enjoy the films and TV and fiction that have made NYC almost seem a little bit familiar. And I seem to remember some old short story (O. Henry?) that includes a passage about how Village streets are so very confusing that Village residents can hope that bill collectors will just get lost and give up.
MW:
Mary: “But Saul, are you still…master of your domain?”
Saul: “King of the condo.”
Eve: “The queen keeps the king happy. I learn new things too.”
Dr. Jeff: “Must be nice.”
@Poteet:
“Ah, New York. The city so nice they named it twice. The other name is Manhattan.”
— Michael Scott
Later he introduces us to his “favorite NYC pizza place” — Sbarro
God, I miss that guy.
C-Shaft: Ha, yes, the Tucker twins. They’re irrepressible! And yes, I sure am glad we saw those shenanigans go down and not just three people in a featureless garage talking about it.
DT: Dick cutting off the dull backstory from Sam is the most relatable he’s ever been.
Dustin: I guess she’s looking for a guy who knows how to lie to her?
GT: At first I thought the guy in the blue polo was Kaz, but even now that he’s been banished to coaching in the juvie system I’m pretty sure he’d make it “I’m coming for you, Gil.” It might be Coach Perm, having lost his unfortunate perm but not his essential personality trait. (i.e. whatever the writer feels like.)
HtH: Viral Meme Hagar says, “I may be an illiterate Medieval Norse marauder, but even I know how to read the room.”
JP: Neddy is really making with the hand talk. She must have a plan for her next boyfriend to be Italian. Or deaf. Yeah, deaf might work.
Phantom: Your super-duper AI-guided moon vessel thinks it’s on the moon because of all the trees and vines and African fauna. Maybe just let this one go so people can start forgetting it.
MW: Saul is just trying to figure out what in God’s name it is in her eyebrows.
@Ukulele Ike: I thought she was collecting those for Dennis. If you’re right, a high, tripping Dennis would be a whole new menace.
@I speak Jive: Onion rings. As best I can see. OTOH, they might just be a couple of mice that fell into the deep fat fryer.
@Dr. Pill: Onion rings! Now I see it. Thanks.
The mice are still swimming around in the fryer.
@Dr. Pill: @I speak Jive: Jesus, Beatty, if you want to draw onion rings on a plate, do it from an angle where you can see rings. Otherwise you confuse those of us who are paying attention. Dead deep-fried mice, indeed. Bone-in for that satisfying “crunch.”
Blondie: What’s the point of having a man cave if I can’t fill it with rotting garbage and live in my own filth. That’s what real men enjoy, right? Please tell me because I have no idea.
When will we learn what class Saul is taking? My guess? NAKED YOGA! Wilbur is also in the class and will convince Mary to join!
@18 Liam: on Mary Worth: When Saul’s involved, it’s always gonna be a creepy thing, sexual or otherwise.
@30 I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Maybe he’s tired of pretending he’s heterosexual?
@38 I speak Jive: on Pearls Before Swine: Right now, thousands of Pluggers are contacting their newspapers, trying to find the phone number for Pig’s doctor.
@GarrisonSkunk:
#88. Good joke, Garrison. YOU should be on the stage!
Next one leaves town in 8 minutes.
Mary Worthless – Judging by Sauls smarmy look and Eve’s creep smile, there was probably a sex for seniors class
down the hall including marital aids .
@108 Mr Beardo: Great mental image to end the night with…NOT!!!
@109 Baja Gaijin:
But you can enjoy one of Saul’s favorite meals. Layered Bologna Cake with mayonnaise and mustard icing.
He learned this from Wilbur.
@110 Sequitur: I repeat, Great mental image to end the night with…NOT!!!
@111 Baja Gaijin:
Well, in that case, pleasant dreams!
(Suspiciously) You two didn’t shut off the blog, did you?
@113 Ukulele Ike:
“Shut off” is such strong wording. Let’s just say we calmed down the chatter for a while.
@Sequitur: Ah. Like “Smilin’ Zack” from 1940s Lil’ Abner. “I loves the world…I jest likes it….quiet.”
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
@215 Ukulele Ike:
KA-BOOM!
@Baja Gaijin:
oh come on , ya know you wanna spank it to them doin it