Animal spirits
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Shoe, 1/18/25
It’s true: closed captions aren’t just for the hearing impaired. They also help viewers in a variety of contexts where speech may be difficult to understand, allowing them to enjoy programs that they would otherwise have a hard time following. Thanks for the tip, Perfesser!
Pluggers, 1/18/25
It’s true: tofu doesn’t have much of a flavor itself, but it absorbs sauces and other flavors from whatever dish it’s in, so it’s an adaptable form of protein that works in a lot of different meals. Congrats on overcoming your culinary xenophobia and figuring this out, Bear-Man!
Marvin, 1/18/25
It’s honestly quite rude of Marvin to wait for me to publicly admit that it hasn’t really done many piss or shit jokes lately and then hit me with a piss joke at the end of the week. Anyway, I really like the implication here that, having been housebroken, Bitsy can never go back, not even in the most dire of circumstances. You don’t actually have to piss outside, Bitsy, if you have any courage!
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MW:
The men are standing around doing nothing and giving instructions to the women on what to do and how to do it. This repeats a dynamic in many households throughout the United States and around the world.
Pluggers: Uh oh, the Pluggers cracked the dietary source code of the universe. It’s only a matter of time before they evolve into a perfect race of supermen in a world of physical perfection and roving Cholula taker trucks.
Bitsy is Envying Marvin’s resistance to be toilet trained.
MW – I hope they steal the Seinfeld script on this one. Jared will reach for his tuna fish sandwich, letting loose of Dirk’s rope, causing him to fall and break his face. Dawn will then dump him.
Luann – Alan’s sporting wood, isn’t he?
Shoe: ‘Keith Richards is hard to understand’ is a joke so old and crusty that you could grind it into a fine enough powder be snorted by Keith Richards.
Pluggers: Hey, you know what else goes with tofu? Other ingredients. Like in a ‘dish’ of some kind.
Marvin: I mean, we assume that Bitsy is trying to get to the hydrant, but maybe he’s pissing/pooping furiously right on the spot.
MW: Dawn introduces Dirk to Jess and Jared.
“Hi Jared. Hi Jess. Do you mind if I call you Geekman and SluttySally? I’m quite bad with names since my parents got divorced.
Shoe: The joke about Keith Richards is that he’s old and decrepit, and has lived so hard that it’s amazing he can still stand. But go ahead and do a gag about how his British speaking voice is hard to understand — as if the BBC would care what a bunch of Yankee birds think about their accents anyway!
Pluggers: Did you know that it’s recommended to fill deer feeders with soy instead of corn, because bears don’t like the smell and it’s less likely that they’ll come by and steal the food? I mean, not covering it with Tabasco probably goes without saying, but I doubt anyone would have tried that anyway.
Marvin: Either that fire hydrant is out in the middle of a field somewhere, or it’s next to a street that hasn’t been plowed for so long that even emergency vehicles would have trouble getting through. Whichever the case may be, firefighters are also going to have to deal with the fact that it’s surrounded by a hard sheath of yellow ice, so it’ll be a bad day overall.
MW: Dirk is going to turn out to be jerk who beat up Jared’s girlfriend and landed her in the hospital where Jared first met her. So now they’re all going rock climbing, eh? Well, there’s only one decent spot for that, and that’s Piccadee Falls. Someone is going to take a dive.
FC: Watching the melonheads with wide hips and sour expression, a gestating PJ has Thel rethinking her life choices.
MW: Jared can’t walk without falling all over himself like a Charlie Chaplin bit. Either he’s going to fall off the rocks and die or Dirk is going to beat him up after Jared tries to defend Dawn from some stupid new nickname, and either way I will be satisfied.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
On Luann: Heck, in that Evansii trademark ‘unopened Ken doll’ pose, he *IS* wood!
On MW: We’ll know if Dirk tells Dawn to ‘Step Off!’ when she brings up the idea.
@Charterstoned: [Homer Simpson voice] That’s the plan!
Marvin: Not surprising to hear that Bitsy himself made the choice to be housebroken, Jeff and Jenny obviously have no problems with something pissing and shitting all around the house.
@Lauralot: Naaah, Piccadee Falls is the place where ‘Strength born of Love’ manifests, as the panel used by Comics Kingdom helpfully reminds us (why don’t they have a panel featuring Mary, anyway?). Moy has long since discovered the concept of ‘fanservice’ (hence her creepy insistence on keeping Wilbur around) so this might be her attempt at giving us another ‘Death of Kelrast’ moment.
(Oh great, the site is acting up again and posting my comments without my input. At least the above accident wasn’t too bad apart from that double-use of the word perfect I was about to correct and the the *tanker* trucks. If it happens again, that’s why.)
DT: “I just knew that one day my son’s clear desire to be an extremist terrorist would become a problem! Oh, woe is me!”
HtH: Looks like we’ve been hoisted by our own petards. We might complain about the lack of verisimilitude in Hagar the Horrible everyday, but the Walker-Browne team knows that at the end of the day we’re all just hopelessly addicted to the strip’s erotic fanservice.
JP: I don’t like how defeatist some of my recent comments on interpreting strips like Dick Tracy and this have been, but for crying out loud, look at this stuff. What are either of these characters talking about?
Luann: Luann talks about how romantically and sexually attractive Piro is, and then she talks about little kids in the same terms. Jesus. It’s not like I think the Evanses intend to make Luann look like a child predator, but they really are just this bad at writing.
Pluggers: I’ve driven through Starke, Fl many times and it’s not the place I expect to find a tofu eater. Gotta wonder what ruinous decisions befell Bob “Get Me Outa Here” Hall to wind up there.
Shoe – Ozzy relies on ASL….
Pluggers – They put that shit on everything…even shit….
Marvin – Domestication was a slippery slope….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
If Dirk tries to Alpha dog Jared, I swear to God I’ll … sit back and watch.
MW:
Jared’s depiction in today’s strip made me think for the first time in years about a (1948) film I watched as a kid, “The Boy with Green Hair.” That is one oddball movie.
Here’s a perhaps not-so-wild theory – will it turn out that Dirk and Jess know each other? Perhaps he was even the
abusive boyfriendmugger who beat her up? And retroactive-continuitively actually her abusive boyfriend? Would be potentially interesting, at least more than the awkward copy of the Wilbur/ Eshtelle/ Irish/ Yak Boy double date we’re probably going to get.@Charterstoned: Whoops. Great minds.
It’s true. Josh is making boring posts today just stating facts, and is not funny and just being demoralized. Thanks for finally realizing that, Josh!
Luann: I’m puzzled and mildly annoyed with the way the oldest child (Alan?) Is portrayed. Is he supposed to be autistic or delayed or just badly drawn?
I call bull on Pluggers.
Hot Sauce is too out of plugger’s culture, too “fancy” like Salsa or Soy Sauce would be.
Speaking from experience of my Dad who was a plugger, the comic should have used Ketchup.
MW:
[couple in the background of the second panel]:
“So, what’s your favorite movie of all time?”
“Purple Rain.”
“Mine, too! — go figure!”
@Bob Tice: If you’re considering seeking it out again, it actually got a nice blu-ray edition from the Warner Archive last year.
@Professor Well Actually: Badly drawn and badly written. He’s our Gunther for this storyline. As jroggs pointed out, the Evansii might not be intending to come across as sexual predators, but it’s for damn sure that’s how they come across.
Isn’t Starke where the state prison is in Florida? That would explain a lot about our Plugger of the Day.
Shoe: When I was a kid, there was a slice-of-life cartoon (produced by Gene Simmons mind) about a rock star and his family, notably the rock star’s son, who just wants to be a normal kid dealing with the hardships of his father being a major celebrity.
One episode started off with them watching a parody of “The Osbournes” in which Not-Ozzy Osbourne was so brain-fried that he was just walking into a wall repeatedly over and over, inspiring the rock star father to make his own BETTER reality show.
Pluggers: I’m sorry, if the ranks of Pluggers now include “people who eat tofu with hot sauce”, the term has officially lost all meaning. Coming up this week:
“Pluggers never let anything go to waste” (Rhino Man is picking the SCOBY out of his maté yuzu kombucha to brew his own)
“Pluggers know they’ll never be financially stable.” (Cat man is eating an exorbitant avocado toast)
“Pluggers wish they didn’t have this dead end job… and pray they never lose it.” (Hen lady is SEO copywriting for a fitness blog hawking unlicensed supplements, watching in worry as ChatGPT spits out page after page of slop about ten yoga poses that will improve your orgasms.)
Shoe and Pluggers: Managing to combine the best of both worlds, when it comes to closed captioning, I put that sh!t on everything!
Marvin: Another example of Marvin’s weird “hydrants are dog toilets” complex here. If you’re training your dog that it’s not allowed to pee in your garden but instead has to traipse out in the snow down the street until it finally finds a hydrant to urinate on, just admit that you hate both your dog and firefighters.
MW: High cliffs and sharp rocks are NOT recommended for people lugging that much baggage.
MW – Waitaminute. Jared and Jess were going skiing. Not rock climbing. And if this is meant to be a different excursion, why bring up the ski trip in the first place, if it was going to have no bearing on anything? Moy hasn’t the faintest clue how to construct a story.
Dirk, meeting Jessred: Just look at this dopeface and his drippy girlfriend. I’ll call them “DOPEY!” and “DRIPPY!” Don’t hate, I’m forced to be an asshole because my parents got divorced!
Marvin-I’m going to assume Marvin was busy using the litter box.
MW-And now comes another one of Dirk’s endearing nicknames for Dawn, “rockgirl”.
@astroboy: Cathy was the one going skiing.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
Isn’t Starke where the state prison is in Florida? That would explain a lot about our Plugger of the Day.
You’re right. Now I feel bad. I hate to dump on inmates.
@The Quiet Man:
Thank you. I might try it again. I think I watched it when I was around nine or ten years old. There was something unsettlingly discordant about it. Perhaps because I grew up in a “Leave It to Beaver” household and neighborhood, the idea of some kid’s being cast from his moorings and being ostracized was as alien to me as the green hair he sported.
JP: Beatty is playing CC chicken. Who’ll give up first? Him, repeating the same conversation over and over or the commenters snarking on it?
GT – the Jefferson Jeffs??? I look forward to the upcoming match with the Dickson team.
MW: I look forward to Dirk calling Dawn bodycast girl after her rock climbing accident.
MW: Dirk will bully nerdy Jared revealing his character to Dawn who will be upset but won’t react appropriately.
RMMD: this will surely lead to an affair with Rex or June.
Marvin: Is Bitsy hiking for miles in the snow because he doesn’t understand he can pee in the yard? Or does Marvin’s family have a fire hydrant in the middle of the yard because Bitsy won’t pee without one?
My kingdom for a pensive-face-emoji, y’all.
@jroggs:
At the parking lot of “Fun Adventure Climbing Zone”: ” Oh, you’re that Dirk!”
Hagar the Horrible: Hagar complaining about the historical inaccuracy of vikings despite being Vikings still being around, the seemingly modern people in the background… Did Hagar time travel to the future? Is that what I’m supposed to assume?
MW:
Della Street perched on the corner of Perry Mason’s desk and gave her boss a sunny smile as he entered the office.
“Good morning, Perry!” she said brightly. “Coffee? Paul got here ahead of you, but there are still some pastries left, if you hurry.”
Private detective Paul Drake grinned from his comfortable spot on the sofa. “‘Morning, Perry. I stopped by with some new information on that Dirk fellow you asked about.”
Perry was brusque. “We’ll need it, Paul, and FAST. I have a feeling that our young friend is not what he claims to be, and if I’m to present my case in court today, I’ll have to have FACTS in hand. What have you learned?” Perry did a double-take as he laid his briefcase on his desk, noticing the bottle of Folger’s Instant Crystals on the tray Della had prepared. He smiled and said, “Folger’s, eh? Then I’ll take a cup!”
“Not before I do, Counselor!” Lt. Arthur Tragg strolled into the office and headed straight for Della, neatly plucking the cup and saucer from her hand. “Just the thing.” He offered a pastry to Perry. “Here, Perry, you can chew on this while I tell you about your client, Dawn Weston. We’ve got her down at headquarters on a charge of murder in the first degree.”
Della started, but said nothing, waiting for Perry to respond.
“Murder, Lieutenant?” Perry was circumspect. “Who has been murdered? I didn’t see anything in the papers.”
“Not every murder makes it to the comics page, Perry,” the lieutenant rejoined, smirking at his own joke. “In fact, this murder happened after the paper went to press, but we acted quickly and now have Miss Weston in custody. Your court case today–what was it, a charge of libel against the newly deceased?–provides all the motivation we needed. Your client killed Dirk Tandy.”
Della gasped. “Dirk Tandy is DEAD?”
“That’s right Della. They say ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.’ And they’re right. We found a pile of sticks and stones right next to Dirk’s body.”
Paul interjected, “But sticks and stones don’t carry fingerprints, Tragg. How do you know those sticks and stones belonged to Perry’s client?”
“The sticks were broken off the bushes in front of her condo. And the stones were lifted from the hillside where Dawn Weston and Dirk Tandy were seen walking just before he died. They’re called land clams, for your information. I know you don’t know much about mineralogy, Paul. You learn something new every day in this business.”
Perry frowned. “So you’re suggesting Dawn Weston killed Dirk Tandy because he called her NAMES? That hardly seems reason enough to kill, Lieutenant.”
Tragg smiled slyly. “Oh, did I forget to mention that Dirk Tandy was also bilking Miss Weston out of her bank account? On the order of thousands of dollars? And did I also neglect to tell you that he was a bowling sharp?”
Paul shook his head. “That much is right, at least, Lieutenant. Dirk Tandy WAS a bowling sharp who cheated a lot of innocent bowlers out of their cash by betting on games. He was ejected from BOWL once they found out what he was up to. Seems he worked the customers over pretty hard. Made a great living from it, too.”
“Right up until he was killed. By Dawn Weston.” Tragg grabbed a pastry on his way to the door. “I’ll just take this as carry-out.”
“You know, Lieutenant,” Perry said, “I WILL prove that Dawn Weston is not guilty of killing Dirk Tandy. There are a lot of other people who would want to strike out a bowling sharp, and I’m ready to jump through hoops to prove that she was framed.”
GT: Please, for the love of God, someone send basketball photos to the artist. Somewhere between the basketball, rim, Jefferson player, and Rodney, the SWAT is, if anything, blocking the shot towards the hoop.
JP: Alan has completely bought into the cult of Ann, and now he’s trying to recruit Randy.
FC: One would think that one would buy tickets to a theater for a specific movie rather than just some kind of general admission tickets, but I guess one would be wrong.
MW: “Sorry, Jared, I can’t make it. Dirk is taking me to an orphanage so I can watch him heckle little kids.”
6Chx: Jeez, these chix have to write only one strip a week and they still can’t come up with anything better than this? [receives text from today’s chick: “Jeez, you opine about us only once a week, and you can’t come up with a better comment than this?”]
@Hibbleton: Me too. But you were dumping on a Plugger, not an inmate. There can be a difference.
RMMD: They aren’t going to open the clinic to sick patients because they’re too busy talking about how boring it is to have nothing meaningful to do in life. Welp.
@Everything is Better with Monkeys: In Minnesota college sports, we have the St. Thomas Tommies, the St, John’s Johnnies, the St. Olaf Oles, the Carleton Carls and the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
I might be getting the movie wrong but it occurs to me it was Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Of course, my memories of that movie focus on the nude scenes with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates, along with the legendary Mr. Hand, but if I got my movies straight, the school was Jefferson. And when they played Lincoln for homecoming, the slogan was “Assassinate Lincoln.”
I invite fellow mudges to correct any incorrections I have here.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis they use the first names of school namesakes, so we have the Edison Tommies rather than the Edison Eds and the Roosevelt Teddies rather than the Roosevelt Roses.
DtM: Dennis brings Gina over to show her his mom working out on a treadmill.
“My mom trying not to outgrow any of her clothes… I saw how much pizza you ate at Joey’s birthday party, just saying.”
You’ve probably seen the news of criminal charges against cartoonist Darrin Bell.
I won’t go into them.
My local dead tree, the St. Paul Pioneer Press removed “Candorville” on Thursday, a day after the charges were filed.
I expect more cancellations are coming but the syndicate is being quiet about the whole situation as of Friday.
@Victor Von:
Our local dog park is a solid yellow in close proximity to the gate. No animal hesitates a moment before letting go.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Favorite high school sports team name, the Awesome Blossoms of Blooming Prairie.
I like closed captions too! I’m not hard of hearing, but I like to focus on what’s being said. (If I were King of the World, I’d caption all movies and TV shows…)
Tofu with hot sauce sounds like dim sum!
If the Hammer can do that, why can’t he change the name of the local team to the Milfs?
Shoe – Since it’s the BBC, the documentary is actually the Shakespeare-esque Keith Richards III. “Some horse! Some horse! My kingdom for some horse!”
Don Abundio, translated:
[Sign: GENTLEMEN]
“I want to buy some new clothes”
“Yes, sir! Right this way!”
“They shouldn’t even have a department called that!”
[Sign: SCOUNDRELS]
@ValdVin: P1: a well drawn college gym.
P2: a less well drawn high school gym with faceless fans.
P3: No background but quite a thumb there.
It’s like three different illustrators drew this.
@UncleJeff: No doubt.
And I guess we shouldn’t get into what the Pekin (Illinois) team was called for too many years.
@UncleJeff: Klueless Komics Kondom still carries Kandorville.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see those dumbshits use Bell as their featured cartoonist of the week.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Nothing will ever beat the pride of Virginia, the Fluvanna County Flying Flucos.
@Little Blue Bicycle: And they pronounce it . . . ?
@Hibbleton: @Giant Pondering Otter: When I lived in Lubbock, TX (’05-’07), the supermarket cashier asked me if my tofu was really food, and that is definitely both hot sauce country and plugger country, so I have to give Bob Hall this one.
(A supermarket cashier in Milwaukee also asked me if some soba noodles I was getting were food, but they really did kinda look like sticks of wood so I can’t blame him.)
@UncleJeff: Well that’s super depressing. Thanks for the heads up.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Maybe the Pekin Ducks? That doesn’t seem so bad. Pekin Toms would be worse.
Shoe: I worked for a radio station in Duluth and we aired a syndicated comedy program.
Every once in a while, they would do a show on British comedy: the Monty Pythons, Cook & Moore, the Goon Show and others.
We would always get calls like “I can’t understand a damn thing they’re saying”.
GT: It’s the Jefferson Jeffs vs the Milford Milfs.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: The undefeated school nickname is Vincennes (IN) Lincoln Alices. (From the novel, Alice of Old Vincennes.)
The Perfesser, portrayed in an increasingly obsolescent medium as working in an increasingly obsolescent industry, is not even pretending that Boomers aren’t the primary newspaper readers and newspaper comic audience these days. Good for them. Embrace the darkness that’s coming for us all.
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Does a bear shit in the woods? Is it a very unpleasant experience after smothering his food with an entire bottle of hot sauce?
@Peanut Gallery: it was a lot more racist than that.
Other entries:
The Sidney Lanier Poets
The East Tuetopolis Wooden Shoes
The Monticello Sages
Pluggers: Ten to one the original caption read “ketchup.”
Shoe: Why does the Perfesser write on an upright piano?
Heathcliff: I know this comic likes to be weird for weird’s sake but I don’t believe that Yoda would ever hang out with Heathcliff while he steals fish from a market.
Mother Goose and Grimm: Buying food that is only slightly past an arbitrary expiration date is a great way to save some money if you are thrifty.
Zits: “We’re both registered sex offenders by the way, that’s why we can’t give out candy on Halloween”
Family Circus: Let’s go see “Terrifier 3” I bet it’s about a nice terrier puppy.
Dennis the Menace: My theory that Dennis isn’t toilet trained which is why he wears overalls that has a noticeable sag to them from his full diaper seems even more credible when he’s standing in a large puddle.
@Lord Flatulence: “So what’s the over-under on the Milfs and Jeffs? And stop smirking.”
@Charterstoned: As a reminder, Jess wasn’t actually beaten up by a boyfriend. That was a red herring to make Jared look more “sympathetic” for having an emotional affair with another woman and make Dawn look more like a “floozie” in juxtaposition. Later we found out that someone simply mugged her.
Now what IS similar is that both stories resolves around mopey sad-sack women worried more about the way they look to men instead of what the douchebags are doing to their mental well-being.
@2+2=7: You’re right, it was a mugger. But how about this: she recognizes Dirk for the mugger who beat her up. Or maybe she LIED because she was embarrassed to tell anyone she was the victim of domestic abuse, and so blamed her attack on a so-called mugger instead of the guy she’d been hanging out with? I do wonder what Moy’s own life experience has been, that she has based this entire strip on loser guys and the women who interact with them.
C’shaft: It’s nice to know Crankshaft’s existence torments him as much as it does everyone else.
DT: “Honestly, it isn’t much. I can’t make heads or tails of this freakin’ plot.”
Dustin: Oh, Meg. “Basic human dignity” is something that you as a character in Dustin will never experience, along with “basic human decency” and “joy.”
GT: If the Jefferson Jeffs’ mascot isn’t an ordinary guy in khaki slacks and a polo shirt whose catch phrase is “Hi, I’m Jeff,” I for one will be very disappointed.
JP: “What makes you think I want to talk to someone accused of breaking the law? I’m a lawyer!”
MW: Today the role of Jared will be played by Ellen deGeneres.
Phantom: Shouting one-liners at thugs when you punch them is useful because it creates a mnemonic for you to recall their crimes later.
Marvin: Anything is a fire hydrant if you’re brave enough.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: I hope it happens at Pickadee Falls.
Marvin: I read something recently about the Pleather Mosh Pit Diapers that have been becoming popular for people going to concerts. Also I remember hearing about people choosing to wear adult diapers to the Taylor Swift concerts just so they wouldn’t have to find a restroom and possibly miss any of the show. Is the comic Marvin actually trying to warn us about this concerning societal trend?
As a hot sauce aficionado, I rate today’s “Pluggers” as TRUE.
@BigTed: Not that Keith Richards ever didn’t mumble.
CS: Looks like Crankshaft is trying to force a rather stubborn shit in the last panel.
FC: If you use your imagination a little you can picture those flesh-colored pants making Thel look like she’s going bottomless in public.
FC – Thel has to have a bottle of vodka in her purse. There’s no way she could get through a movie with the melonheads otherwise. They babble wanting to know what the people on the screen are saying. Drink! Billy stands on his head on the seat. Drink! PJ starts crying. Drink! Dolly spills her giant tub of popcorn all over the floor. Drink! Jeffy poops his pants. Drink!
JP – My take on this story: thank goodness this amoral, deluded asshole is no longer on the bench.
Mary Worth – When did Jared get into physical activity like rock climbing? Is he going to take his Star Wars figures along to play with?
Rex Morgan – I wish they were making snarky comments about June’s hair. That would be more interesting and fun than spending a week complaining about how bored Summer is.
Pluggers – I agree with @Giant Pondering Otter: #23. Seeing as how many pluggers have digestive issues, they would avoid hot sauce.
6Chix – Is that the only cup of tea she’s going to have all day? Why doesn’t she use the same cup for the rest of the day?
MW: I expect Dirk to bully Jared leading to a dangerous accident. Dawn will save Jared just like Iris saved Zak. Asshole Dirk will learn nothing.
@Hibbleton: They built a bypass so you don’t have to drive through Starke anymore.
@Professor Well Actually: Because he’ll be DEAD!!! [evil maniacal laughter]
@I speak Jive: [Smacks head] Of course! Jared isn’t actually going to be climbing rocks. He’ll sit in the car playing with his Star Wars figures and coloring book while Mommy…er, I mean Jess… goes climbing and gets into dangerous shenanigans leading to the Death O’ Dirk de Dastardly Dick. Don’t forget to crack a window!
Shoe-“Man those English people sure do talk funny.”
Pluggers-Are people who do anything.
@Peanut Gallery: “the Pekin Toms” is pretty clever; too bad the school would never get away with it.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: I also like the “Roosevelt Teddies,” just imagining what the cheerleader outfits are.
@jroggs: Re: Luann: I thinks this is more about Luann getting those (sigh) “Maybe Baby” urges (after all, she is a woman who spent 10 whole minutes in the presence of children. How could her ovaries resists the temptation of a ticking biological clock?) Maybe a pubescent Alan, popping his first boner there could help her scratch that itch….it which case you would have been right about this all along.
Dennis the Menace-“For a nickel you can watch my mom in the shower.”
@Little Blue Bicycle: We can’t forget the Benson Mighty Bunnies of Omaha, Nebraska: losers of their last 17 football games (with the final three of this past season forfeited for “lack of participants”).
@Liam: Damn, Dennis!
Ya got change for a fifty?
Starke, Florida is a small, rural town that is home to the state electric chair, and also a notorious speed trap between Gainesville (the college town) and Jacksonville. In other words, it is EXACTLY where a Plugger would live.
RMMD: Poteet, divert your eyes from the middle panel. It looks like the zoom in shot of Jack Lord during the opening credits of Hawaii 5-0.
LUANN: As a reminder (my catchphrase for the day, apparently), Piro is doing the the whole sullen, angsty, brooding bit because he constantly has to care for his siblings which interferes with his life so much that he has to quit
his expensive extreme sports hobbiesschool and everything. I wonder how he feels about the Evans cramping his style and undermining his problems by showing his brothers and sisters as easy-to-manage, completely well-behaved children, who that can easily be taken care of by by even total dullards like Luann?)Elmo has two for one!
Crock Spanish to English.
@2+2=7: Alan requires “special handling.” (Nearly constant Noogies, Dutch Rubs, and Indian Burns)
@Charterstoned:
Excellent, C-Stoned, just excellent! I’m very much looking forward to the rest of “The Case of the Bludgeoned Bowler”!
FC: “Dolly, we can either watch Deep Throat or The First Nudie Musical”.
@Guillermo el chiclero: FC: If you use your imagination a little you can picture those flesh-colored pants making Thel look like she’s going bottomless in public.
Thank you for this. Thel Keane is one of my favorite actresses in the eyelid movies I watch.
FC: How far back in time was the first version of this cartoon, if SIX channels is considered a lot?
@jroggs: “….roving Cholula taker trucks.”
I understand this to be a typo for “tanker trucks” but I’m enjoying the idea of mobile hot sauce units providing free Cholula for the taking to urban citizens lunching al fresco. Like the public “mustard fountains” designed to serve frankfurter-eaters in the late great alt-press comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.
@Cleveland Mocks: “The Case of the Bludgeoned Bowler” is a fantastic title–and more hilarious by far than the story. I’ll make sure to have some wine before I write again.
@jroggs: Luann: I think the actual perspective here is that there is no sexual component at all, even in their ruminations about Piro. These are essentially twelve-year-old girls fantasizing about being married (with no understanding of what that typically entails) and playing “family.”