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…of the WEEK, here it is, y’all
“If that tire trick actually works, which is doubtful, maybe Slylock should use it to liberate the chest full of gold doubloons and assorted treasures from the sunken pirate ship that’s just sitting there a few yards away, instead of bothering with the hundred bucks or so worth of quarters that a now-drowned criminal (RIP) swiped from the local arcade. Ah, well, no one ever claimed he was the world’s greatest detective. Oh, he did? I don’t know what to tell you, then.” –BigTed
And here’s the RUNNERS UP, very funny!
“From his expression, it looks like Dagwood is celebrating the coincidence of Easter with 4/20 this year.” –Logar the Librarian
“Slylock first tied his special Scuba Cape around Max and the sack, then he cleverly pulled the cord on Max’s emergency ascent vest causing him to shoot to the surface with the treasure, this action requiring an emergency visit to the Forest Decompression Chamber. Max did not survive but the Forest Penny Collection tripled in size that day.” –Mikey
“Look at my hands! There’s a normal number of fingers! We are not AI, someone put effort into drawing us! But why?!” –Ettorre
“College may be expensive, but I don’t know why the Flagstons are worried. Their smartest child is a baby that thinks a square of sunlight is her friend. Buy that hot sports car, you won’t regret it.” –Schroduck
“Teachers don’t really wear little name tags like that, do they? The school brought in a rep from a travel agency, didn’t they? I smell kickback!” –Pozzo
“A map of Italy that excludes Milan, Venice, Sicily and Sardinia: pretty menacing. Standing up so fast that your chair flies off-panel: also menacing.” –Guts Dozier
“I wouldn’t have thought it possible to make a complaint as valid as ‘you made me witness a murder’ sound whiny and entitled, but here we are.” –Lauralot
“‘Darling, I know you face whatever may come, that’s your way’ is the most stilted compliment on a partner’s oral sex skills I’ve ever read.” –nescio
“Abbey knows how to get through unpleasant conversations: beige wine and plenty of it.” –Joe Blevins
“George has already prepared for playing chess against Henry by making sure he took a double dose of Vicodin. It’s a winning strategy, except when it involves actually playing chess.” –Needless Exposition
“Budget cuts mean the Thorps can only afford an 8-point SLAM for their door.” –Artist formerly known as Ben
“DAWN: ‘You’re a good friend, Cathy. Thanks for that.’ CATHY: ‘I actually have a lot going on in my life too. Yesterday–‘ [dial tone]” –Dan
“Does lying down and having a CBD gummy count as doing yoga? It does if you have cancer! Wait, that’s the joke, isn’t it, the lady has end-stage ovarian cancer and this is all she can do to manage the nausea caused by her medications?” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV
“Uh oh, Dawn: are you taking advice from someone who is not the titular character of this strip? I hope that’s a burner phone.” –pugfuggly
“‘You’re a terrific person!’ declares Dawn’s best/only friend, proving that she doesn’t know Dawn that well at all.” –TheDiva
“Two years later, Summer and Augie get a bill from the impound yard when the cops release the truck as evidence. ‘That’ll be $11,000.00, please.’” –Hibbleton
“The creative staff at Red Morgan, M.D. worked too hard learning to draw a Ford F150 extended cab to just throw away those acquired skills.” –Philip
“If you have to offer incentives to get people to stay during your murder confession, it is way too long and rambled, sir.” –Quiggle
“The Perfesser’s ‘Fitbit’ is the bit he does where he dramatically clicks his tongue and shakes his head solemnly while adding a mark to the office whiteboard every time Shoe has a fit, and it’s directly responsible for two of today’s five.” –BananaSam
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16 replies to “Metapost: comments comments comment comments COMMENTS”
Way to go, B.T. as well as the Floaters and Scroters:
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Needless Exposition
April 19th, 2025 at 5:07 am Reply
MW: I can forgive how Wilbur and Belle’s shoes are somehow pristine among the messy floor purely because of Belle’s face. That face is not what someone makes when their murder plot is ruined but rather when they just smelled something like a road killed skunk in a mid-July heatwave.
Wilbur totally cut one, didn’t he?
BigTed
April 20th, 2025 at 4:47 am Reply
Slylock Fox: If that tire trick actually works, which is doubtful, maybe Slylock should use it to liberate the chest full of gold doubloons and assorted treasures from the sunken pirate ship that’s just sitting there a few yards away, instead of bothering with the hundred bucks or so worth of quarters that a now-drowned criminal (RIP) swiped from the local arcade. Ah, well, no one ever claimed he was the world’s greatest detective. Oh, he did? I don’t know what to tell you, then.
Hibbleton
April 20th, 2025 at 4:58 am Reply
Slylock: Use a wrench to remove the lug nuts that have been rusting in salt water for who knows how long? What are you going to use as counter torque while you float over a muddy bottom, dingus? While you figure that out I’ll open the bag and make multiple trips.
Sheesh
MKay
April 20th, 2025 at 4:50 am Reply
SLYLOCK: Um, call a tow truck? Or are they trying to score some ill-gotten gains? And I wouldn’t discount the octopus in all this; they’re said to be VERY intelligent.
MW: “Dear Wendy, my father’s nutjob girlfriend keeps trying to feed me drain cleaner. Is there an upside in all this?”
Cleveland Mocks
April 20th, 2025 at 5:18 am Reply
MW: Mary closes her laptop with a satisfied smile, and as she drains her cup of tea, she thinks, “Another wretched life saved. I really ought to start charging for this shit.”
A few days later, I Don’t Wanna Be a Hermit sees her letter in the Oxnard Weekly Shopper and eagerly reads Wendy’s reply. At the conclusion, she throws the paper down in disgust and yells to no one in particular, “Who writes this shit?”
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Logar the Librarian
April 20th, 2025 at 5:22 am Reply
From his expression, it looks like Dagwood is celebrating the coincidence of Easter with 4/20 this year.
Hibbleton
April 21st, 2025 at 5:38 am Reply
RMMD: The police are called but before they arrive, murderer guy drops dead of a heart attack. Cop looks at Augie through angry eyes and says “Now you’re just fucking with us.”
Treetown
April 21st, 2025 at 4:57 am Reply
RMMD: ziptone killer dad violates the rule of show don’t tell. Go and confess! Augie and company will learn soon enough. Another strip would have used the Sunday strip to show killer dad driving to a police station and circle around but ultimately drive off to wait and see – we see he considers confessing but decides not to.
pugfuggly
April 21st, 2025 at 5:02 am Reply
RMMD: A weird thing that I’ve noticed in this strip is that no-one is depicted with their mouth open when talking, so I like to imagine everyone talking through a funny mouth-trumpet kind of voice. Go ahead, read it again with that in mind — it’s 10x more interesting that the ‘plot’.
Philip
April 21st, 2025 at 5:31 am Reply
Rex Morgan, MD – Hallmark Channel would reject a Rex Morgan, MD series based on too low stakes and predictable in its plots
Ken
April 21st, 2025 at 5:53 am Reply
RMMD: There’s still time for this to degenerate. Imagine – Summer calls the police saying the killer is in her home, the cops launch an overly-enthusiastic SWAT response and riddle the place with bullets, and the survivors are taken to the hospital, finally giving Rex Morgan a chance to show up in his own strip.
taig
April 21st, 2025 at 6:21 am Reply
RMMD: Will this strip feature the first instance of “suicide by cop?” Doubtful.
Bob Tice
April 21st, 2025 at 4:36 am Reply
RMMD:
“Of course, the smarter thing for me to do would be to see if you actually got arrested; and, if you did, then to come in and confess. If you never were to get arrested because of the absolute lack of physical evidence connecting you to the crime, you’d be out of the woods, and I’d remain free!”
Crankshaft:
“I’m not a polydactyl anymore!!!”
Lurker Who Rarely Comments
April 21st, 2025 at 4:38 am Reply
“Have you ever really gotten into your hand, man? All those little lines. They look like a tiny expressway. And your thumb is an off ramp.”
Mark Jackson
April 21st, 2025 at 4:47 am Reply
Me, looking at the backs of my hands after cataract surgery: “Shit! I’m old!”
Ettorre
April 21st, 2025 at 4:49 am Reply
This strip about gazing at your hands full of wonder should have run on 4/20
matt w
April 21st, 2025 at 5:41 am Reply
Spent a while trying to figure out what Crankshaft is actually trying to say and I realized (a) they’re probably setting us up for an explanation tomorrow and (b) I had just spent a while thinking about Crankshaft. And now I am MAD.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Guts Dozier
April 21st, 2025 at 5:17 am Reply
MW: “I mean, for starters, she and my dad are currently slow-dancing on the couch.”
astroboy
April 21st, 2025 at 5:08 am Reply
That’s it, Dawn. You’re finally starting to use the few brain cells in your head. Baby steps. Now, maybe take a look around the living room and you might see the picture of you that Belle grotesquely defaced several days ago, yet neither you or your foob of a dad have noticed. The ask yourself how someone who your father swore is “immersed in her work” manages to be on perpetual vacation.
Ah, who’m I kidding. This is Dawn Weston, who can’t even successfully choo-choo a spoonful of food into her piehole.
Guy Nerdlinger
April 21st, 2025 at 7:35 am Reply
MW “Oh Wilby, I love it when I rub a balloon on head, it’s like all your hairs are standing up to wave at me—heh heh!”
Pozzo
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:30 am Reply
DtM: Teachers don’t really wear little name tags like that, do they? The school brought in a rep from a travel agency, didn’t they? I smell kickback!
Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:33 am Reply
Dennis the Menace: With all the cuts to education, is it any wonder “Ethnic Day” is being taught by a food service worker who doesn’t have time to change into her uniform-with-nametag before her Pop’s Genuine Italian Pizza shift?
Ettorre
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:49 am Reply
I see that public school is still spouting the German propaganda that Rome ended with Romulus Augustulus, instead of continuing for another thousand years in Constantinople! That’s because of woke!
Hibbleton
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:49 am Reply
DtM: Most professional comedians have a writing partner, a person who may contribute a large share to the comic’s routine but is never seen in public. Just saying if he wants to succeed in today’s world, Dennis might want to update from Wilson’s vaudeville-based routines.
Dan
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:34 am Reply
Who the hell is this non-union Margaret in Dennis’s class? Do legacy strip characters have contract negotiations that can go south?
astroboy
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:29 am Reply
DtM: Our Gang originated this trope and they did it so much better.
Miss Crabtree: Uh-Huh, use the word ‘isthmus’ in a sentence.
Uh-Huh: Isthmus be my lucky day!
Miss Crabtree: Farina, what was Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?
Farina: 6854 Main Street!
seismic-2
April 22nd, 2025 at 6:25 am Reply
@astroboy:
Miss Crabtree: “Class, can anyone use the word ‘Rotterdam’ in a sentence?”
DtM: “My neighbor Margaret has a bad case of poison ivy, and I wish it would Rotterdam leg off!”
Voshkod
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:59 am Reply
“RETVRN,” Dennis shouts, “Rome never fell, it was betrayed! Down with the weak Byzantines and effete Easterners!”
Menacing.
MKay
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:41 am Reply
DtM: While I can’t help but think that Dennis thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Roman Empire (Caligula, of course) his answer is perfectly age-appropriate.
RMMD: See, this right here is why I hate drop-ins.
Schroduck
April 22nd, 2025 at 4:42 am Reply
RMMD: “So you see, Rex’s half-assed doctoring produces terminally ill vigilantes who hunt stalkers. Therefore technically, on a utilitarian reckoning, Rex’s methods actually increase the net good in the world. And that’s why the medical malpractice suit against my client should be dismissed.”
Ukulele Ike
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:06 am Reply
RMMD: See Jack Ritchie’s classic 1960 short story, “For all the Rude People,” in which the protagonist learns he’s be dead of cancer in six months and devotes the rest of his life to shooing assholes.
Cleveland Mocks
April 22nd, 2025 at 6:39 am Reply
RMMD: “Hey, if you two want to screw on the couch or something, don’t mind me.”
AhClem
April 22nd, 2025 at 8:43 am Reply
RMMD – Last week, with the cop questioning the guy who slept on Summer’s couch (can’t be bothered to look up his name) about the murder, it looked like an interesting plot could be developing.
Whew! That was close!
Dennis Jimenez
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:00 am Reply
RMMD – It was bad news, alright – they no longer take the Death Wish-ilizer Local 761 reciprocity card in lieu of payment….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
The Quiet Man
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:03 am Reply
Crankshaft: What’s worse than Batiuk trying to write existential ennui? Batiuk trying to write two adults wanting to get frisky…
astroboy
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:07 am Reply
MW – Ew. Cathy has Barney Rubble peasant feet.
taig
April 22nd, 2025 at 6:44 am Reply
MW: Dawn, you shouldn’t take advice from someone who paints her toes, not just the nails.
Needless Exposition
April 22nd, 2025 at 7:56 am Reply
MW: Wilbur’s “superpower” is his rude clumsiness inadvertently saving people. Dawn’s “superpower” is to sense danger but only be able to phrase it in the most idiotic way possible.
nescio
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:27 am Reply
Phantom: “Darling, I know you face whatever may come, that’s your way” is the most stilted compliment on a partner’s oral sex skills I’ve ever read.
Ukulele Ike
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:24 am Reply
Phantom: Clearly they were drawn nekkid and had the blue lines scrawled over afterward, when Manley had had a wank. Now, is that an icy cold shower, or does Kit just have a very small dick?
Myrtle
April 22nd, 2025 at 8:02 am Reply
Phantom: It’s great that most are ignoring the gratuitous nudity and focusing instead on optimal shower temperatures! This is a classy and knowledgeable group!
Tonio
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:54 am Reply
At least we have a natural explanation for the Phantom’s apparent lack of offspring – his sperm cannot survive the regular exposure to water at that temperature.
Dennis Jimenez
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:00 am Reply
Phantom – What did the Mozz Prophecy say about getting a blowjob in a subterranean waterfall….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Lauralot
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:10 am Reply
JP: I wouldn’t have thought it possible to make a complaint as valid as “you made me witness a murder” sound whiny and entitled, but here we are.
CanuckDownSouth
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:48 am Reply
I can believe Luann never bothers to check the fridge, and wouldn’t even have a clue about its stock because she’d never grab a healthy snack from the fruit drawer or help with meal prep, but Bernice?
Ukulele Ike
April 22nd, 2025 at 5:54 am Reply
The DeGroot grownups took the time to throw away every jar of mustard, fruit preserves, pickles, giardiniera, stick of butter, yogurt container, and bottle of salad dressing before their week’s departure just so the girls could be confronted by a completely empty refrigerator. It takes dedication and hard work to be an absolute shit.
Guillermo el chiclero
April 22nd, 2025 at 8:11 am Reply
Luann: If this story ends with Luann and Puddles stripping the last shards of flesh from Bernice’s bones I’ll take back everything bad I’ve said about this strip.
Luann: Big meh. Those two will just mooch free meals at the family owned Fuze for two weeks, and not even tip.
Needless Exposition
April 23rd, 2025 at 4:47 am Reply
MW: I love how Cathy (Ack!) clearly doesn’t care about Dawn’s whining and is more focused on her nails. “Oh, so you had soy sauce spilled on your blouse and you couldn’t sing with your daddy which makes this woman evil incarnate? How old are you, five?…Oh, dear, a hangnail.”
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Doctor Moreau
April 23rd, 2025 at 5:51 am Reply
So much domestic drama in today’s (checks title) Gil Thorpe! Jami speaking in non-sequiturs, possibly indicating an adolescent stroke! Gil’s other child (Peanut? Let’s go with that.) storming in, angry that their mother forces her kids to wear the same salmon-colored hoodie! Gil’s girlfriend fleeing the scene, presumably still carrying the dinner she so thoughtfully prepared! This strip is rich with incident. RICH, I tell you!
Tabby Lavalamp
April 23rd, 2025 at 5:53 am Reply
Imagine being so shocked that Gil is your dad that it causes the Thorpe genes in you to suddenly burst to life, changing your hair from blonde to black in an instant.
Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women
April 23rd, 2025 at 6:08 am Reply
Gil Thorp: I just assumed Peanut’s “MOM!” was as iin “Mom! He’s talking to me again!”
Also, isn’t “carry the two” a euphemism for taking a dump?
Where’s Rocky?
April 23rd, 2025 at 6:22 am Reply
Gil Thorpe. He’s not calling Gil “Pops” because he looks like a ghost. He’s calling him “Pops” because the art makes him look like a cereal mascot.
Cleveland Mocks
April 23rd, 2025 at 6:04 am Reply
GT: Uh-oh, now Keri has TWO Coach Thorps to hate.
RMMD: “Hey, before you do that, there’s this other creep who works at the supermarket who’s always ogling me and making snide cracks. You mind taking care of him too?”
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Liam
April 25th, 2025 at 4:34 am Reply
FC-Jeffy, turn around and face the other way if you are going to fertilize the vegetables.
Luann-Geez if only the store had some sort of signage saying what is on each aisle.
RMMD-“I don’t know who the truck belonged to when I stole it.”
Where’s Rocky?
April 25th, 2025 at 4:33 am Reply
RMMD. We may not be back to medical drama, but at least we’re back to characters getting unearned gifts from criminals.
But What Do I Know?
April 25th, 2025 at 4:33 am Reply
RMMD — There was no way the writers could figure out how to have an undeserved gift bestowed on the Morgans so they settled for Morgan-adjacent.
Quiggle
April 25th, 2025 at 5:29 am Reply
RMMD: If you have to offer incentives to get people to stay during your murder confession it is way too long and rambled, sir.
“My God, I’ve discovered the pattern to these crimes!”
“Is it the lunar calendar, Sarge? The Zodiac?”
“No…Toyotathon…these sickos.”
Schroduck
April 25th, 2025 at 5:38 am Reply
RMMD: You or I might say that truck is “evidence” in a “murder case”. But luckily the Stalker-Stalker knows the ancient legal precedent of findus keepus. The police are powerless to seize crucial evidence if the murderer just gives it away to some random strangers.
Inspector Gotcha
April 25th, 2025 at 5:57 am Reply
RMMD “Here, you can have my truck. Oh, and here are my house keys; you can have the house too. Bills are due around the 15th of every month. There’s plenty of food in the fridge. And here’s my checkbook and passbook savings account. They’re yours.” Later, the Glenwood police arrest Augie for robbery.
Tabby Lavalamp
April 25th, 2025 at 6:18 am Reply
I’m no American (yet, elbows up!) but you can’t just give someone a truck, can you? There is still registration stuff that needs to be done. And that’s just putting aside that it’s evidence. Besides, he might get arrested by Slylock Fox and be out in three days to concoct another wacky scheme.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
The Quiet Man
April 25th, 2025 at 5:24 am Reply
Crankshaft: Has the Beetle really fallen so far out of social conscience that the artist had to move the ‘VW’ logo to the front of the hood (when it was always at the top directly under the windshield) so people would know Pam and whatsisface first got frisky (blech…..) in a Volkswagen?
MW: Ahh, so it’ll be Belle in the Bedroom with the MyPillow! Cue the crazy eyes!!
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. ectojazzmage
April 20th, 2025 at 8:05 am Reply
Slylock Fox: One of the many ways Slylock supplements his income through corruption is by recovering financial evidence from crime scenes and pocketing the money while claiming it was ruined and therefore of no use to the police.
69. Liam
April 21st, 2025 at 7:08 am Reply
FC-“I’ve seen how much you weigh. You don’t need the candy.”
69. erdmann
April 25th, 2025 at 7:15 am Reply
CS: The ghosts of Hoagy Carmichael and Carl Sagan pull Jeff out of the car and pummel him unmercifully.
Congrats on the CotW, BigTed!
Thanks for the mentions, BigScratchy!
Kudos to all the winners and thanks, Scratchy!
Thanks, Scratchy!
Choosing the post where I recommend a Jack Ritchie short story seemed a bit odd; I guess you’re familiar with it? I just reread it, and it’s certainly worthy of a reread. Here’s a Link.
Woo-hoo, thanks, Josh! And congrats to all the other COTWs!
Thank you, Scratchy! Congratulations to all the mentions!
Woot woot for another great funny Friday!
Congrats to BigTed, everyone on the float, and the scratchies! Broon Croons to Ettore, Lauralot, TheDiva and Quiggle!