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Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25
Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Wild. Truly wild. Something’s happening. Who would’ve guessed it?
Blondie, 5/31/25
Guys, you’ve both been angling to swing with Ernie and Lily for months now! You think your wives don’t know? They know!
Pluggers, 5/31/25
Sorry, dog-man, it’s actually Saturday! Close, though. So close.
127 replies to “Saturday quickies”
RMMD. “Truck,” “Mama…”. We’re one more word away from winning “Roots country lyric BINGO.”
RMMD-And of course you are.
MW-“We have to make it look like an accident or suicide.”
FC-Except you’re not eating carrot cake. That doesn’t look like carrot cake in anyway whatsoever.
Blondie-Does that mean that Barney Google was originally Googleman and had to change his last name?
RMMD So how did the mysterious “son” know to go to a diner to find his dad? Wouldn’t most people call? Email? Go to an address like a house or apartment? Does he have a tracker on him to just find him at a random diner?
And the fun part…. will he be asking for 18 years of back child support?
MW: We’re all in danger! Even Willa! We know where Wilbur’s concern lies. I mean he’s basically safe as long as he keeps bonking her.
MW: One might say that Wilbur is the stupider of the two since the only thing on his mind is his fish but Dawn is the one who’s depending on him to come up with a plan. Meanwhile, even with poor short term memory, Willa is still smarter than both of them combined.
RMMD: No wonder his name is Buck; he sure loves to…
RMMD — Give the artist credit–they put that “How do draw someone as if they had aged forty years” class to good use. (except for the eye color), But you can just see how those sideburns will creep further down as Truck Jr. turns on, tunes in, and drops out to Roots Country. . .
RMMD:
“Son, you’ve just inspired me to do a cover of an Elvis Costello hit: ‘Accidents Will Happen’ !”
In fairness to pluggers everywhere, don’t we all suffer a little day-of-the-week confusion when Monday’s a holiday?
RMMD:
“She what? Are you serious? How do you know this?”
“I got the premium comics subscription and read ahead in the story arc!”
RMMD: I love that unimpressed look on Truck Jr.’s face. When Mama said that his father was a musician, he thought he’d be, like, cooler?
Blondie: You know that the funniest part of this strip is? The name “Googleman”. I’m imagining a little shop in Brooklyn between a deli and a tailor where five generations of Googlemans have been answering random questions like ‘who was in that movie’ and ‘what time does that store close’ for a nickel apiece.
Pluggers: Note that this doesn’t say that Pluggers check what day it is, they just tell themselves what day it is, and act accordingly. Full price for a matinee? Fuck you, buddy: it’s Tuesday. You can’t convince me otherwise!
Blondie : is the kind of strip written by the kind of people that think the owner of Google really *IS* a guy named “Googleman”.
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Crankshaft : oh, so this week ends on how Batiuk was told MULTIPLE TIMES during his career that the Marvel Bullpen wasn’t “real”, and that most cartoonists work from home, and hardly meet up with other cartoonists, and he never really believed them/got over that.
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Frazz : Her father is actually listening to a TMNT in-character podcast, not the music genre.
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Luann : A dragonfly? I would have gone with a weevil, or a leech.
I actually assumed it was going to be a crappy, “drawn-from-memory” Tasmanian Devil, with the joke being that Shannon is too young/stupid to recognise the character, even after being told*************
Pluggers : idleness + old age + general stupidity = the days just blend in, and you don’t even know WHEN you are anymore.
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Rex Morgan, M.D. : I think that unlike when Mary Worth did this storyline, it’s going to be REAL, and not just a con artist who wants to fly a kite with a short, ugly, paunchy bald middle-aged man.
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Ripley’s Don’t Believe It :
a) Wait, did they just use a bunch of LEGO bricks vaguely assembled like boats instead of the ACTUAL BOAT MODELS the LEGO line offers? Boo!
b) Except, you know, for languages that DO conjugate adjectives according to the noun they modify. Then you can say “LEGOs”.
c) Just namedrop a quirky instagram account, that’s a proper Ripley’s factoid.
RMMD:
” ‘Pops,’ I have a super-important question to ask you: are all your interjections palindromic?”
“Huh!?!”
@Needless Exposition: We all know what Wilbur’s obstacle is to removing Belle. But what’s Dawn’s? She should be screaming “uh, kick her out, dumbass!” Christ, these people are stupid.
“Googleman” — eh, nice try, but it’s no “Glambaster.”
RMMD:
“She said I am your father!?”
Actually, she said “that piece of shit is your father” buy why mince words.
MW: I don’t understand the dashed dialogue balloons. Are they whispering or communicating telepathically? And aren’t you supposed to complete the paint by numbers picture before you frame it and hang it on the wall?
@Banana Jr. 6000: And if she refuses to leave, they can call the police since she’s technically trespassing or squatting. Or is there no police force in Santa Royale in the same way that there are no therapists?
mary worth -why not get the help of keith hillend former marine and policeman . also a consumer of fine root beer who found love ar a later age . he should be able to handle BELLE !!!!
RMMD:
“My interaction with your mama was fairly brief. I had found my way into the town where she lived for a little rest and refuelin’. I guess you might call it a ‘Truck stop’ !”
Dustin:
“Caullie Flour? Go back to Pillsbury. This taste like ass.”
Blondie: For a guy with a well-earned reputation as a listless loafer, Dagwood keeps the best manicured garden hedge I’ve ever seen.
RMMD:
Wanda comes by the table. “Oh, Truck. I see you’ve met my EX.”
“Another way to get in trouble”? Blondie is remarkably tolerant of your copious failings!
MW: I swear I saw Belle going out. Why are they whispering.
@Professor Well Actually:
Batts just went into the kitchen to “perfect her dinner plans” whatever the f that means. So, she’s presumably in the next room. Perfecting.
@5 Needless Exposition: on Rex Morgan: “No wonder his name is Buck; he sure loves to…” Cluck? Duck? Pluck? I don’t know where you’re going with this.
Well, it’s a “dog” of a comic.
Dustin: If this were almost any other legacy strip I’d be archive diving a decade ago when the pancakes were made with kale or quinoa.
A&J: Janis really has it in for that hanging plant, but doesn’t Johnson know his way around the Comic Lexicon? Drawing a few broken musical notes would have been nice.
Gasoline Alley: Fortunately, SpaceX memes have a way of repeating themselves.
H&L: Does Thirsty even appear dressed to go golfing? He looks like the rain woke him up during one of his special morning naps on the lawn chair.
@Where’s Rocky?:
Well, it’s a “dog” of a comic, so I think it hits the trifecta.
RMMD:
“Dad, I’ve seen the clips of you from Woodstock, and it’s as if I were there with you! I absolutely loved your call-and-response with the audience: ‘Give me a T (‘T’!). Give me an R (‘R’!). Give me a U (‘U!’). Give me a C (‘C’!). Give me a K (‘K’!). What’s that spell? (‘Truck’!) What’s that spell? (‘Truck’!). What’s that spell? (‘Truck’!)…”
@Needless Exposition: MW: Except that Belle’s stayed there “for weeks”. Apparently (very quick online check) California has a law that after 7 consecutive nights or 14 days total in a 6-month period a “guest” becomes a “tenant”. They might actually have to go through eviction proceedings with the courts!
Dustin: I was going to say of *course* the pancakes are awful, minced-up moist cauliflower would be a terrible substitute for dry flour. But apparently you can buy dehydrated flakes/ powder that is intended as a flour substitute, 1:1 for wheat flour so she *could* just use a regular pancake recipe. Yeah, I’d drown it in syrup too.
PearlsBeforeSwine: One of my nightmares! No snark – this is the base of my pack-rat tendencies
RMMD – Well, piss on ma muddy boots!
Blondie – Lippman…I am and will always remain, team Titman….
Pluggers – Any morning a Pluggers wakes up to find they didn’t shit the bed is a good morning….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@ValdVin:
Dustin: If this were almost any other legacy strip I’d be archive diving a decade ago when the pancakes were made with kale or quinoa.
It’s DustinDad. A decade-long archive dive nets you strips of him LITERALLY tossing vegetables in the trash so he can eat a giant, sugary pink-frosted cake instead.
Or are you not doing the archive dive because you thought it would be too easy?
“Son, I’m so taken by the apparently random nature of our meetin’ that I’m inspired to write an adaptation of a movie musical song based on random associations goin’ through my head right now: a synonym for terrific; the abbreviation for our westernmost state in the continental United States; a delicate facial gloss; the 24rd, 16th and 12th letters of the alphabet; a female deer; and an interjection of modesty!”
“Does it have a working title?”
” ‘Super; Calif; fragile lipstick; X, P, L; a doe; shucks’ !”
RMMD: Wasn’t Varla in FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL?
“Not with those flaccid little sideburns you ain’t!”
Pluggers: Doesn’t he use a seven-day pill container to keep track of the days?
There are “memory clocks” available that show time of day, am or pm, date including year, plus day of the week in a large, easy to read format. I haven’t bought one yet; so far I manage with my phone and my pill container. It also helps when Josh uses the day of the week in the blog title, like today. ;-)
Hey, it’s a nice change from Herb liking all of Cookie’s selfies.
RMMD – Wanda finds out about Truck’s son and ends the engagement. Smash cut to Rex, who asks “you mean there won’t be free cake?”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Uncle, can I have 200 bucks? I want to hire some session musicians”
“No! Certainly not!”
“You need to do more practicing on your own first”
“On second thought, here… ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’ sounds stupid with just the drum!”
Pluggers really need to be put in memory care.
RMMD: Sorry, the only thing interesting about today’s strip is how long it takes Truck’s dim synapses to fire and figure out what everyone knew the minute this guy wandered into the diner and started with “Hey, remember that woman you broke up with a long time ago?”
Mary Worth Mashup: How Wilbie Got Rid of Belle.
MW: Well now that someone important is threatened – Willa, Wilbur finally reacts. It shows his love of his pet fish is stronger than his love of love and even food. His daughter, eh, not as much.
GT: Forgive me if I am not aware of the latest turbo rules but isn’t play continuous? It looks like the team is in a huddle like American Football.
@41 TheDiva: I hope you mean the “Logan’s Run” memory care unit.
MW: “How do we get rid of an unwanted house guest?”, asks guy that supposedly writes advice columns for a living.
Dustin: That was Helen’s real plan all along. By making Ed use so much syrup, it won’t be long before he finally suffers diabetic shock.
C’shaft: Why does Skip keep setting up these interviews, anyway? Surely one sit-down with Battom would be enough to get him material for a single article. Is he ghost-writing Battom’s memoirs? Doing a weekly series entitled “The Most Pathetic, Needy Clout-Chasher I’ve Ever Encountered”?
DT: She would have done her sister? That’s way more than I needed to know about Blaze!
Dustin: God, look at the spite on Dustdad’s face. “You thought you could trick me into eating healthy, did you? Well, I’ll just drown my breakfast in high-fructose maple-flavored corn syrup, how do you like them apples?!” The joke’s on him: he’s still getting the benefit of switching out a starch for a vegetable. He’s basically the kid who needs to have their broccoli smothered in cheese sauce before he’ll touch it.
GT: “Get out there and get us that barely-over .500 record!”
Luann: How sweet, Bernice thinks of Shannon as an annoying insect she’d love nothing more than to squash.
MW: Dawn and Wilbur’s continued survival depends on them outwitting the least cunning murderer on the planet. Mary’s already drafting an Apartments.com listing for their condo.
Phantom: “Phantom is rough on roughnecks, but crap when it comes to relationship advice.” ~Bandar saying
Blondie: I haven’t thought about Neighbor Herb’s look in a long time, if ever. He’s a cartoon character, and cartoon characters change slowly, if they change at all.
That said, what’s Herb’s deal? He’s got an early 2000s hipster’s head and an 80s preppy’s body. Maybe Time-Traveling Fashion Frankenstein is a thing, and I just don’t know it?
MW: Why are you whispering? Do you think I can’t hear you? The water carries sound very well, even with the filtration running — I hear *everything*, even those disgusting mating sounds.
Anyway, you two boobs need to come up with a PLAN to get rid of Belle, and not just yak about it. At least my tank is now in the home “office” instead of in the living room like it used to be. You thought I’d enjoy that black and white sketch of a “tropical beach”? Do you think I’m color-blind?
Aren’t you able to lock this room where I’d be safe? Sid says not to worry, everything will be OK, that he and Intern are on top of it … to tell the truth, I think he’s more interested in all the publicity and clicks that we’re getting from MY peril, and just wants to extend the “drama” …I don’t care anymore! I can’t take it! If only I could get to the toilet…..
Rex Morgan: Mary Worth did almost this exact plot last year with the Keith Saga. You know things are dire when you’re stealing plotline concepts from Mary fucking Worth.
Blondie: Who the hell names their kid “Googleman”?
Pluggers: Pluggers are unmoored from the timestream such that they can never know what day it is at a given moment, bouncing about from life to life while hoping that the next leap… is the leap home.
MW: “We have to find a way! Maybe I’ll think of something while we’re having kinky sex!”
“Dad you’re still going to sleep with her?”
“Absolutely! It might be a while. Take Willa and go to Mary’s. I’ll call you Tuesday.”
REX MORGAN M.D.: Calm, yourself Josh. As usual, that “something interesting” is yet another case of “something interesting that already occurred on Mary Worth and then petered out in spectacularly unsatisfying fashion”, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up the perpetually dull Rex Morgan M.D. would do better.
MW: “Belle, sweetheart, do you know what would make your orgasms even more intense? Erotic asphyxiation! Let me show you how it’s done!”
@Little Blue Bicycle: Dang it!
@ectojazzmage: stealing plotline concepts from Mary fucking Worth.
Nobody’s fucking Mary Worth, least of all limpdick Dr. Jeff.
Oh wait, I misread. Never mind.
@Baja Gaijin: From your fingertips to God’s (or June’s) ears.
(Welcome back)
@Where’s Rocky?: I have “gettin’ drunk” on mine.
Phantom: “…and by ‘reach her,’ I mean with my penis.”
Women, always wanting you to share mundane details of events in your shared social circle, amirite? Asking you to put down your phone and have a conversation, amirite? Expecting you to put aside the burden of your crippling psychic pain long enough to share a moment of human connection, amirite? Heh heh broads.
@Treetown: Probably halftime.
@ectojazzmage: And Mary Worth did it in a way that made the characters truly repugnant. Keith’s actions were sneaky and
possiblyvery illegal, Sonia was a walking Tumblr stereotype who was never told “no,” Kitty was an enabler that snuck behind Keith’s back to get pregnant with Sonia, and what’s his name is hanging out with Jimmy Hoffa after Keith caught him eating meat and calling Sonia a brat (which she is).Rex Morgan, M.D.: I for one look forward to several weeks of Rex explaining the benefits of vasectomies to Truck in the blandest, most clinical terms designed to avoid mention of this “sex” thing Rex has vaguely heard of, and which makes him deeply, deeply uncomfortable.
@Baja Gaijin: Is Wilbur an ancient deity?
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: “You see, Truck, when a man and a woman love each other very much, she will shoot him the head with a nail gun. But imagine if you could put a rubber sheath on the nail to prevent it from leaking nail juice into the brain…Are you writing any of this down?”
Rex Morgan – Varla undoubtedly had very good reasons for having no contact with Truck while Li’l Truck was growing up. Just saying.
Crankshaft – Please, please, please make this self indulgent crap end.
Batton Thomas is getting close to Wilbur Weston as the most self absorbed, obnoxious character in the comics.
I hate Skip on general principle.
FC – That looks somewhat like carrot cake, but no one has ever held a piece of cake on their hand like that. Dolly will get that cream cheese frosting all over her hand and end up smearing it all over everything. No wonder Thel drinks.
Pluggers – Sigh. I can relate, although I usually err a day ahead.
9CL – Oh, that’s right – this elderly person is this week’s love of Polly’s life. It’s hard to keep this garbage straight.
9CL: Brooke could have been content to write about a virginal old man suddenly marrying a hot young twin (virginal) nympho, but now he’s made it weird.
@TheDiva: CS: It’s one thing to have no sense of social cues, but to be celebrating your lack of social cues fifty years later is unpleasant.
S4: And the strip moves on to the next tired summer retread storyline, from burger to band. Ces is phoning it in.
@Baja Gaijin: Yes! Please!
I especially love the jar of mayo.
Real Pluggers have hospital rails on their bed and staff to remind them what day of the week it is. Repeatedly. During perineal cares.
@Anonymous: Oh, no, I understand DustinDad’s dietary input. But I was thinking of Beetle Bailey, DtM, or H&L rerunning something originally published a decade ago about kale or quinoa; this slight redrawing and dialogue change smacks of a laziness that Dustin (only 15 years old) has yet to fall into.
Plus it especially reminds me of the century-old New Yorker cartoon with the mom explaining to her child about broccoli, and he replies “I say it’s spinach and I say to hell with it!”
Also Rex Morgan, M.D.: Truck, tomorrow. (I have been saving this images for years, not knowing I would ever use it. And now, the day has arrived.)
@Ken:
#8. RMMD: Ken, yes, Monday holidays do mess up the week. But I ask myself the day of the week every day because my daily exercise routine varies according to day of week. It ruins my day when I recall ive done a rugged Friday routine on a slacker Saturday morning. (Yes, I’ve done this since pre-Plugger days)
Crank: “Other cartoonists kept telling me that I should forge my own path, and I was like, nope, that seems like a lot of effort and might fail! I’d rather copy someone else’s career exactly!” It’s fascinating how this
storysequence ofeventsthings that happened both completely fails to be self-deprecating and makes Batty look worse than he probably realises. He’s one step away from stealing Bollen’s clothes and wearing them to absorb their totemic power.If I’d been Bollen, I’d have told him “You shouldn’t follow my steps and visit the Chicago Tribune Syndicate in New York — if you’re really serious, you should make a seperate trip to their headquarters in Chicago,” just for the lols.
MW: “Even Willa!” Wilbur hisses, just in case his daughter might be under the mistaken impression he’d finally started worrying about her safety. Don’t worry, Wilbur, she wasn’t!
OTF: Um, yes. The neglect indicated isn’t that of the spider. Rats and cockroaches are also seen as signs of neglect, but this doesn’t mean they aren’t very industrious animals.
Also, something I’m sure I read somewhere is that the cobwebs you see are abandoned ones. They become visible when enough dust has stuck to the strands that they’re useless for catching insects. An area with invisible cobwebs might be well-maintained but occupied by busy spiders — an area with visible ones clearly hasn’t been dusted for a while. So in conclusion, Dethany is, once again, talking nonsense.
Phantom: “It certainly isn’t Heloise, who is far too obsessed with her weird matchmaking thing to actually think about Kadia as a person at all!”
@Tom T.: re 9CL: I was going to say I thought the white-haired guy was a young guy who for some reason had white hair (e.g., syndicate colorists who aren’t getting paid enough to fill in his hair), but then I looked at yesterday’s strip explicitly establishing that no, he’s 16 years older than his new father-in-law. Yikes bikes. I shouldn’t have given Brooke any credit.
MW: I don’t know, and this might be a bit out there, how about throwing Belle out?
@Hibbleton: That would be wonderfully wicked.
RMMD: “Well, if mama was telling the truth” is a great way to cut off debate before it starts. What’s Truck supposed to say, “She’s a liar! There were four other men there that night!”
@Baja Gaijin: Wonderful – should be the strip’s finale.
@Horace Broon: re: Crank: Hell, if *I* were Bollen, I’d advise him to separately visit the home office of every newspaper in the country. “And don’t skip the Bangor Daily News! Maine readers just love comics!”
MW: Glancing to the side, Wilbur suddenly halts, the whisper dying in his throat. Both he and Dawn turn around, ice gripping their hearts, to see that Belle has somehow been standing in the room right beside them all this time. She has never stopped grinning, but now her mouth and eyes widen, in ways no human face should ever look…
@Baja Gaijin: best ever!
But hon, I wasn’t liking the wedding, I didn’t even notice the wedding part, I was just liking Ernie’s golf clubs in the background of the photo — great, yet another way to get in trouble.
Pluggers-Pluggers wake up to the constant disappointment that they haven’t died yet.
@pugfuggly: . I’m imagining a little shop in Brooklyn between a deli and a tailor where five generations of Googlemans have been answering random questions like ‘who was in that movie’ and ‘what time does that store close’ for a nickel apiece.
“You Sid Googleman?”
“Eh, who wants to know?”
@66 I speak Jive: Did you notice who wasn’t flying out of the apartment?
@Baja Gaijin: Thank you, Mr. Gaijin!! I’m glad SOMEONE is working on a solution!!
And I’m glad I survived the meteorite — I do hope I’m not one of those orange squiggles. I’m not ready to be a character actress yet!
Blondie: Is Blondie mad that Dagwood didn’t tell her about the wedding itself, or is she mad that he liked someone’s Facebook photo album without her approval? If it’s the latter, then how stringently is this rule applied – do memes count, or only real-life news? If it’s the former, then does Blondie not know how to use social media? Is she forced to rely solely on Dagwood to keep her updated? Do the Bumsteads even know the Googlemans? If so, why didn’t they hire Blondie to cater the wedding? And even if they didn’t hire her, how did she not find out about it through her local caterer circle, which I can only imagine is a wealth of hot wedding gossip? I’ve never had this many questions about a comic strip in my life.
@84 Willa G. Fish: You are not one of the orange squiggles. One of Sid’s minions slipped in while no one was looking…
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV:
#67. PLUGGERS: Hey, the medical staff these days ain’t so hot either. Every time I go the receptionist asks my name (ok, I’m bad with faces too), my birthdate (don’t they keep records), where i am, and to then count backwards from ten. They should know this stuff!
Guys, come on! You’re all retired or on disability — you don’t need to know what day of the week it is!
Blondie: Are these goofy-name newlyweds supposed to be people the Bumsteads know personally or are they just reality show stars/influencers/whatever?
RMMD: Much as we all saw it coming, I can understand Truck’s befuddlement. Why is his previously unrevealed son a dead ringer for restaurateur Jordan-like-the-almond?
CS: Turn right on 42nd, Batton, that’ll take you past the United Nations and keep walking until you fall into the East River.
BGSS: Wow, a made-up holiday that this strip covered and Blondie didn’t. Of course Dagwood is lucky that Orn’r Ol’ Cuss Day fell on a Saturday this year. Would have been awkward him forgetting it when he works for Julius Dithers.
C-Shaft: “At that point Bollen just stared at me as if I were an idiot. You seem like you’re on the verge of saying something. What’s on your mind?”
DT: For a guy who went out of his way not to leave any fingerprints in the police station he’s sure eager to make conversation. Creepy, cryptic conversation.
Dustin: The creators seem hellbent on writing Dustmom as a fad diet health freak. If Dustdad doesn’t like it, well, some things are pretty easy to cook even if you have XY chromosomes.
GT: How often do you get the chance to roll your eyes at your coach and your mom at the same time?
MW: Tell Keith Hillend that she’s in possession of dangerous drugs. It’s probably not even a lie.
Phantom: There are people who, when they tell you they have no idea what they’re doing, might need to make an effort to convince you. Kit Jr. is not one of those people.
@UncleJeff: #56: And for God’s sake, don’t forget trains and going to prison.
I was drunk, the day my ma got out of prison.
And I went to to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get there in my pickup truck,
she got run over by a damned old train!
FC: And letting your brother plug you from behind will keep him from jacking off, which will also save his eyesight. Win Win!
FC: In what universe do kids eat cake so daintily? Most kids would scarf down the icing first then pick at the cake.
@89 Artist formerly known as Ben: on Rex Morgan: Jordan like the almond? Jordan like the country? No, Rex Morgan himself. See the comparison of Truck’s son’s and Rex Morgan’s portraits.
@91 Artist formerly known as Ben: on Snuffy Smith: “Orn’r Ol’ Cuss Day” seems more of a Plugger holiday than a Dagwood one.
on Dustin: Ha! A husband making a meal for himself? What do think, this is the twenty-first century or something? That’s woman’s work! Haven’t you ever seen “I Love Lucy?”
@Hibbleton: That hedge is not only obsessively manicured, it’s insanely narrow. It somehow reminds me of the hallucinatory extremely-creepy hedge-based landscaping at the Overlook Hotel. All work and no play makes Dagwood a dull boy.
@Baja Gaijin: Okay, yeah, I see the Rex Morgan thing, although Trucklet’s hair looks more hairlike.
Googleman, Googleman, does whatever Google can, gets Dag in trouble every time, will do Blondie on a slant rhyme! Look out! Here comes the Googleman!
Pluggers haven’t bothered keeping track of what day it is since “Must See TV Thursday” died with Seinfeld ending.
MW: Defenestration. It’s a lot faster than booting Belle out via eviction, which is what you Westons are now facing. I’m quite certain, given your interests and leisurely schedules, that you two have watched JUDGE JUDY together, probably with popcorn. And yet you learned nothing. Boneheads.
RMMD: Next week, we learn that Truck has a few dozen other kids running around town. The catering bill for that wedding is going to go through the roof.
“Here you come, mama, big as hell
I can tell what you were doin’ by the way you smell
So keep on Truckin’ mama
Truck those blues away.”
@Guillermo el chiclero: FC: In what universe do kids eat cake so daintily? Most kids would scarf down the icing first then pick at the cake.
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When eating a cupcake, my Mom would always insist I break off the bottom, put it on top and eat the cupcake like an icing sandwich..Yes, I am a Plugger.
Today, Truck learns that when the ejaculate emerges from the urethra, it’s called semen, and, oh yeah, makes babies sometimes. With that clueless-ass look on his face, he probably needs to be avoiding a lot more diners. Also the children of Roy Rogers, who will demand that shirt back.
@102 GarrisonSkunk: Your Mom invented the Whoopie Pie.
I have to admit I’d have wanted to hear about the wedding too, because I’m curious if Lily kept her own last name. I have to imagine most of the Bumstead’s friends are pretty traditional given that they live in…I want to say the fifties but with social media?…but at the same time, you’d hate to waste that kind of alliteration.
FG: Kinda terrifying to learn that Queen Azura’s spooky peek-a-boo outfit can just reach out and grab you like that. Now I want to watch her fight Doc Ock.
(BTW, does anyone hate “memory potion”/evil hypnosis storylines as much as I do? “Ha ha, you are IN MY POWER.” It always takes the hero WAY too long to get out from under.)
@A Grave Mind:
They already came after him for the stuffed Trigger. It wasn’t pretty.
@Artist formerly known as Ben: You can say that again. When Truck was broke, down and out, and sleeping in his car, he had to grind it up for hamburgers. I hope he at least invited them for lunch.
“If you think of it, bring ketchup.”
Oh, Ike. Eating a horse. He had so many dumpsters to choose from.
@Ukulele Ike:
And invariably involves the line “Fight it, (insert name)! ” Been done, lame, Temple Of Doom coulda been the final word, here.
@Poteet:
That hedge is not only obsessively manicured, it’s insanely narrow.
I know, right. That’s what drew it to my attention. How is that even possible?
@Ukulele Ike: #106: I hate evil hypnosis storylines as much as I hate amnesia storylines.
FG: How come it’s evil when Queen Hotsy-Totsy uses memory erasing potions but it’s perfectly fine for Guran and Stripeybutt to use it?
@TheDiva: Actually, I don’t think that one interview with Batton would be enough to get Skip an article, because Batton’s stories often don’t go anywhere or have any particular point.
Take what happened in Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s strip, for example.
Batton: I got lost while driving to Roger’s house, and another driver was irritated at my driving and honked at me. Then I finally arrived at Roger’s house, and the other driver’s car was right there in the driveway!
Skip: That must have been embarrassing, to have a confrontation on the road with a man you were going to visit in hopes of learning from him.
Batton: Oh, no. The other driver couldn’t have been Roger, since Roger wasn’t out of bed yet.
Skip: Was it Roger’s wife?
Batton: No, I don’t think so. She seemed like a pleasant person and didn’t mention anything about the incident on the road.
Skip: I don’t understand. Was someone else visiting Roger, too?
Batton: No, I don’t actually know who the other driver was.
Skip crosses out his last few lines of interview notes.
@114 Guillermo el chiclero: Look at the queen. Now look at Guran. Now look back at the queen. Now look at Stripeybutt. Now look back at the queen. Any more questions?
Rex Morgan, MD – Mud Murphy, despite his many sins and trespasses, will never let Truck live fathering a bastard down. In fact, he’ll get a whole album of songs about it.
Blondie – Real couple social media drama: “Why did you ‘like’ your exes vacation bikini pictures?!”
Blondie social media drama: “Why did you give a perfunctory like to a Facebook post of a life event?!”
Pluggers – Somewhere a Plugger reader read this, forgetting there is an actual date printed on their newspaper, and ended up rushing to work at 10AM, convinced they were late, but then confused that the door was locked.
@Philip: Re Pluggers: Also it was a place they hadn’t worked in ten years.
@Joshua K.: That’s what so hard to take about this story. Any trained interviewer would be screaming at Batton to get to the point. Or interrupting him and trying to steer the conversation back to somehing productive. Skip just sits there silently with this huge smirk on his face, like he’s at the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker, and this is just too amazing to miss.
FG:
“The Margrave steps back.”
Of course he does. In that getup Queen Hotsy-Totsy is bound to have a major wardrobe malfunction. Why work up a sweat when you can just sit back and enjoy the view.
LUANN: Oh, a dragonfly. With her attitude, thought Bern drew Shannon as a mosquito.
RMMD: can’t be related. One’s nose bends to the left, the other’s to the right.
@Baja Gaijin: I like “BROMPH” in the last panel.
@122 Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: Did I leave out anything that should have been flying out of the explosion?
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: but at least vasectomy is actually a surgical procedure that RMMD could plausibly do.
@Baja Gaijin: @Baja Gaijin: Willa? Muffins?
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: #122: I dunno. Bromph sounds more like farting into vinyl upholstery.
LUANN: No invertebrate on earth deserves to be shown as Shannon.