Monday outrages
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Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/21/25
You all know that “fire hydrants are like toilets, to a dog” is one of my pet peeves, but I frankly find it a million times less objectionable than I do “toilet water is like alcohol, to a dog, in that, among other things, it reduces their inhibitions and makes them more sexually aggressive.” People know the water in a toilet is just regular water, right? What do they think is in there to make Grimm here drunk? Is it piss? Do they think you can get drunk by drinking piss?
Intelligent Life, 7/21/25
Love to go to the movies with my pal, ask “So what did you think of [full movie title, including the colon]” as the credits roll, and then listen to him give some half-baked rambling metaphor that’s about box office numbers or maybe media coverage. That’s what the beautiful art of film is all about, to me!
Between Friends, 7/21/25
You know the old saying: “Show, don’t tell. And if you can’t show, tell in the form of showing a conversation between two people about the thing you’re trying to show. And if you can’t do that, show one of the two people summarizing the conversation in thought balloons as they’re having it.”
Family Circus, 7/21/25
“So how come you’re still talking instead of shutting up, dumbass?” –Sam, probably
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Mary Worth Mashups: I’d rather one of these be outside Mary’s taxicab window.
“Real friends don’t have to keep talking all the time! At least, that’s what I heard. I have no real friends. Honestly, not even fake ones”
You know this is a Gen-X comics because you have the relatable character going into an introspection spiral about problems at work. A boomer comic would deal with the same work problems, but centre alcohol, a millennial comic would centre capitalism
MW: there has to be a shocking reveal behind those doors. I’m picturing a blood stained Olive holding a butcher knife.
Declan might be a bad boss, but your problem with the office is that you don’t really listen to what your colleagues say and make it all about yourself!
Intelligent Life:
Red Guy’s expression in the last panel suggests that Yellow Guy’s statement is not some mundane film observation but an exceptionally profound Zen koan, which has instantly stripped away his final worldly attachments and allowed him to achieve Nirvana.
FC:
“But that doesn’t stop the voices in my head!”
IL: The real joke is that the movie isn’t even over, they’re talking right in the middle of it.
Two generic male characters exchanging convoluted metaphors about pop culture with minimal artistic contribution? Finally, we have overcome the separation between comic strips and webcomics!
FC: Today is Robin William’s Birthday! I don’t know about “real friends” or whatnot, but I ain’t never had a friend like him.
Sorry Grimm, MeToo taught us that intoxication is no excuse for sexual harassment! Fortunately, we are in the post-MeToo era, so you are getting an important position in government or business!
Intelligent Life:
“If this conversation gets any more porous, the readership won’t be for us but will instead either abhor us or ignore us, which will floor us!”
MG&G: You see, Josh, that Grimm has finally been incarcerated for one of his many crimes. He’s been filling his empty hours by fermenting pruno, aka prison toilet wine. He’s proud of the potency he’s achieved.
Between Friends : sorry, but after that storyline where that one character got a woman fired for the crime of CORRECTLY accusing her of only having been hired because the boss wanted to bang her, I’m NEVER giving any of these strips’ main characters the benefit of doubt when they go “Maybe *I* am not the asshole, maybe it’s actually the other person who is”.
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Intelligent Life : look at mr erudite here, showing off he knows what a Compsognathus is, pretending he didn’t simply get that knowledge because THE JURASSIC PARK MOVIES CLEARLY TELL YOU WHAT A COMPSOGNATHUS IS.
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Grimm : It must be nice, to do funny animal stuff, and be able to show the characters clearly intoxicated as long as the beverage that does it is not ACTUAL alcohol. I guess the challenge is in finding the substitute, and I guess “toilet water” is a particularly weird choice…
MW: New York window eels are really strait-laced, not like those free-wheeling wavy eels in California.
Note to Intelligent Life dialogue: Good job trying to gradually push these two guys out of the panel. Then we need something to push you out of the panel.
Between Friends: I was like “Didn’t the strip about obsessive neurotic Abby Ardin get cancelled?” Apparently that’s Edge City, which is a different strip, and doesn’t much look like this, and maybe didn’t have anything in common besides obsessive neuroticism?
FC: What exactly did Billy eat for breakfast? Sam seems to be in a state of bliss with his head near Billy’s backside.
yPMP: Continues the canonicity that Eve never had short hair.
Curtis: “Well, I never would have married a woman who would glare at me for trying to answer a hypothetical question.”
S4th: This is going to be that Agatha Christie novel where they all did it, right?
MG&G – Mother told me to stay away from you…that you were nothing but a pot head….
IL – Fortunately, there’s zero chance of propagation by such as these….
BF – If this is your life, stay away from liquor and firearms….
FC – If you want a friend in the Keaneverse…well…yer pretty much fucked….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
JP: “What’s going on??”
“Why the #$%)* do you care? I don’t!” [ends call]
Day late and dollar short:
BoT: to transfer Battons paranoia (yCS), only this morning did I get this week’s BoT. It’s a guy bathroom thing, right?. But what is dad using for target practice, and will it clog the john?
MG&G: Grimm has mistaken Ty-D-bol for Blue Curacao liqueur. Right now his head is spinning but no worries, he’ll be dead soon.
MG&G: Apparently, to a dog, it’s not the disgusting act that appalls, it’s what you say AFTER the disgusting act.
FG: remember two things, Flash, 1. The food, water, medical kit are for Edda, not yourself. 2. The foremen aren’t the enemy, necessarily, they’re just warped flunkies too– go after the big boss.
FRAZZ: Frazz creates a leaker. Really, most paying spectators will expect to see more than one event at this meet. Will they also do the pole vault?
Gil Thorp – Two weeks in Europe for Jami, Keri, and mom is one thing, but the whole summer in Italy to get coach Martinez out of the storyline? What are they paying these high school coaches??
Beetle Bailey I feel like I’m missing some supposedly common knowledge to make this into a joke – does the army already somehow not do KP on the last day of the month?
MW:
“Wow. Ed’s ‘co-op unit‘ is even bigger than Jeff’s!”
The Family Circus: Who needs friends when you’re high as balls on catnip? (Catnip works on dogs too, right?)
DT: showing that the bad person gun is NOT a taser. Show don’t tell.
GT: GT is the head coach of many sports at Milford and also the athletic director, so why is he asking his girl friend what Coach Martinez is up to during the summer? Or did the speech balloons get switched around?
MW: I’m hearing the theme from the old TV show The Jeffersons. Moving up to the East Side.
Well we’re movin’ on up (movin on up)
To the east side (movin on up)
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin’ on up (movin on up)
To the east side (movin on up)
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Fish don’t fry in the kitchen;
Beans don’t burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin’
Just to get up that hill.
Now we’re up in the big leagues
Gettin’ our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it’s you and me baby
There ain’t nothin wrong with that.
Well we’re movin’ on up (movin on up)
To the east side (movin on up)
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin’ on up (movin on up)
To the east side (movin on up)
We finally got a piece of the pie.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/thejeffersonslyrics.html
Bizarro: one more singing combo that may perplex the kids of today. Yes, kids, popular music star singers once wore narrow ties and suits as their performance clothes.
MW: Not even recessions, inflation, and a lackluster housing market can stop Mary Worth’s classism. The Taylors are probably struggling in debt but Mary refuses to stay in a place where she has to pay out of her own pocket.
MW: While in Manhattan, Mary decides to visit one her old haunts: the apartment of Rosemary’s baby.
“Ah, Good times.“
MGG: Is it weird that the first thought that crossed my mind while reading this is that Grimm was trying to cover up a fart? Frankly, it makes a lot of sense with that Dalmatian’s expression.
IL: Oh I get it: he’s having a stroke. That’s….kinda funny.
BF: To me, the funniest and most relatable detail in this strip is [ERROR: character name not found] referring to office mate as ‘this woman’. Nothing says having a temp job like having involved conversations with people you don’t know the name of because someone coughed while they were introducing themselves on your first day.
FC: I think there’s a good chance that Billy might be talking about the tree. Just seems like someone more on his level, intellect-wise.
Between Friends: Wow, pride, envy, anger and a profoundly demotivational despair simmering just beneath the surface? This is exactly the stuff Evagrius of Ponticus was talking about in the Praktikos, which formed the basis of The Seven Deadly Sins. Or at least, it would have been if he’d written comic strips about petty office politics.
MW: Man we are just ramping up the creepy here aren’t we. Between the excessive, romanticized reminiscence of spending time with an 8 year old to….man whatever that was today, Mary is getting REAL weird these last couple weeks.
(Reading Herb and Jamaal while holding a monkey’s paw) I wish the comics would just say the things they’re talking about instead of being weirdly vague (paw closes and Intelligent Life appears on the comics page)
Mother Goose and Grimm: That toilet has two handles? And no lid or seat? And a gigantic bowl? And is high enough off the ground that an erect dog can lean a leg on it? I’m thinking the joke here is Grimm’s blaming his bad behavior on toilet water that doesn’t come from a toilet at all. Maybe a toilet-shaped ice sculpture? Do dogs have fancy parties? Do dalmatians wear bows in their hair? Is it normal to be so confused on Monday morning? (I’m thinking yes on that one.)
Anyone else notice that the Between Friends art style looks heavily inspired by Lynn Johnston?
@LTJpezcore1: The only redemption this arc has is if it’s eventually revealed that Mary is hallucinating after too much nitrous oxide from getting a crown fixed at the dentist.
IL – So what did you think of Brazil?
“I thought it was an interesting dissection of post-war consumer culture, combined with a scathing rejection of government interference, inefficiencies of corporations and superficial culture.”
Yeah, I like the scene where he tips over the casket and that woman’s gelationous remains slide to the floor. Also, Katherine Helmond looked good.
BF: “Suburban neurotics” have long been one of the cornerstones of the comics page, but when you have a whole strip that’s just a woman’s inner monologue obsessing based on a throwaway comment about how her boss hates her and whether it’s her fault? You’ve gone too neurotic. No-one needs this on a Monday morning.
Where’s the thick black dotted line showing us where Billy lost his socks?
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If there’s one thing I like to do when I’m thinking about a conversation it’s reminding myself who a person is in relationship to me.
The dialogue in Intelligent Life looks like it should be:
Panel 1: “Dude, I’m so high right now.”
Panel 2: “Dude, me too.”
Panel 3: “Oh, shit, the cops!”
Pickles may have answered that question today.
Hagar: Not sure where the cast is going with this substituting a shirtless greek and large rock for Pozzo and Lucky but let’s see Vladimir and Estragon’s reaction before judging.
Coming soon on Disney+: 101.5 Dalmatians: The Legend of the Half-Breed Mutt.
@Baja Gaijin: “I recognize this beautiful neighborhood of Hootin’ Holler.”
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
I’m picturing Jeffy standing in the kitchen with a half-eaten sock sticking out of his mouth.
CS: The Blue Bombers are playing a 1-5 Argonauts team next. They’ll probably be fine.
Gasoline Alley: Cmon, guys. “As an automotive engineer, he keeps a lot of motorists walking!” was right there.
Blondie: Dagwood’s haircut will be invisible to us, won’t it?
H&L: Trixie, if you want to remain the baby, you’d better start getting colicky for about two hours.
The Lockhorns: Leroy surprised me. He doesn’t give off the vibe of knowing what Pandora the app or Pandora the mythical being are.
MW-What’s this. You’re friends couldn’t meet you at the airport?
BETWEEN FRIENDS: Whoever-the-middel-aged-blond-lady-is-hey-I-don’t-this-strip-regularly-enough-to-know-names-people! (thinking): I thought Declan didn’t like me…on account of my inability to listen to people who are talking to me. But jt turns out that he’s the jerk, not me! Phew, now I can go back to tuning out conversations that I’m supposed to be participating in. Just regular non-jerk behavior….
Ignoring your direct report because she’s leaving at the end of her contract, so why bother trying to make her feel like part of the team: JERK BEHAVIOR
Ignoring your coworker because you’re leaving at the end of your contract, so why bother trying to make her feel like part of the conversation she is currently attempting to have with you, and also stone cold referring to her as “this woman” in your head: TOTALLY COOL!
H&L: “Your the best parents ever!” says Trixie as she turns her burnt out retinas towards the coat rack.
IL: meanwhile, if you actually look at the box office right now for Jurassic World and Superman, it’s obvious that this strip was not written within the past month.
MW: “Yes I recognize the Upper East Side! And I recognized the cab and my face in the mirror this morning. Those new memory pills I saw on television must be working! Oh look, that’s a cat! I can’t wait to tell Dr…..oh shoot, what was his name?”
BF: Maybe Declan has realized you’re a terrible listener, pretending to pay attention to others while being wrapped up in your own internal monologue.
IL: Jurassic Park has been a dependable franchise for over three decades, combining the perennial appeal of dinosaurs with the simple fun of kaiju movies. Fantastic Four on film, meanwhile, is a history of cinematic misfires, including the infamous unreleased 1994 version produced by Roger Corman that, even by his standards, is absurdly cheap and cheesy. I’m just saying, Skinny Nerd’s idea on which one is the box office underdog is dubious at best.
@TheDiva: I thought they only made that 1994 FF movie so the rights wouldn’t expire. If so, Roger Corman was the perfect guy to make it: cheap, and not overly concerned with notions of quality.
Mother Goose and Grimm – Mother Goose probably uses the 2000 Flushes tablets that are supposed to keep the bowl clean, but the chemicals get Grimm high.
Intelligent Life – Life may find a way, but Intelligent Life will never find a joke.
Between Friends – Is the cartoonist paid by the word?
Family Circus – Billy was allowed unsupervised on YouTube, but instead of becoming poisoned by the manosphere, he just fell into an algorithm feed of people who don’t wear socks and feel smugly superior to people who prefer not to stink or have athlete’s foot. That also explains how he learned that friends are accessories to listen to you and not speak.
REX MORGAN M.D.: Thanks Rex Morgan M.D.! Given that your target audience is naive, sexless, schlubs who knows nothing but roots country ditties and meatloaf recipes, they probably did need clarification on what an “affair” is.
REX MORGAN M.D. (2): Some wags would say that this story makes no sense (Varla couldn’t have just said baby daddy was some random man? She told her son his father was a guy she forbade him from ever meeting? But still had his records around anyway because no one can resist the sweet siren song of roots country?), but that’s silly. It makes total sense if you remember that this story started with Truck himself admitting that he wasn’t a bad husband (with implications that he probably wouldn’t be a good father either). But now that mom’s reputation has been reduced to “a tramp”, we can ignore whatever Truck did to sour the marriage in the first place and paper right over those sins. Now he’s a
bitter, surly, close-minded curmudgeon who can’t properly communicate with people he’s supposed to be spending the rest of his life withstand-up guy who “nobly” is willing to raise someone else’s stable grown-ass adult child. Makes it easy!@Banana Jr. 6000: I think that why they were ALL made. It’s long been rumored that the awful 2015 version was just created to prevent the rights from falling into Disney’s hands, which is what partially contributed to it’s troubled production.
FC: Many years ago, as in “possibly before those Internets,” I wrote a short message to Bil Keane politely complaining about a panel that showed a very-evil-looking large big-fanged snake about to bite Billy as he was napping under a tree or some such, and the panel included a white-robed guardian angel who was somehow saving Billy from the snake. I said that snakes aren’t evil and don’t pursue children like that. I got a nice note back saying that Bil agreed that real snakes are beneficial. Anyway, if that evil-looking snake were still around and if it bit Billy and made him dead, I would be more open-minded at this point. Just saying.
Mother Goose and Grimm-It’s really toilet wine.
FC-“If I could I would Lenny you,” Sam thinks to himself.
MG&G: So Monday kicked off with a mental image of a deranged dog drinking piss from a toilet. The rest of the week has got to be better, yes.
@Hibbleton: Not often that I see a “Waiting for Godot” reference on this site. Well played, sir!
C’shaft; Is Canadian football really that big of a deal in Ohio? For that matter, is Canadian football really that big of a deal in Canada?
Dustin: “You know what all these birds don’t have? Crippling student loan debt, poverty-level wages and a prohibitively high housing market.”
GT: Ex-Mimi Thorp and the kids are touring Europe, Coach Luke is trying to get an audience with the Pope (“Hey Bob, remember me? Best dime-bag supplier in Villanova?”), and we’re stuck with Gil and Beth playing golf. Sounds about right for this strip.
JP: It’s 4am in Cavelton, which means Sophie and Reena were going for breakfast at about 10-11am in the morning, which…does track with Sophie at least.
Luann: I know “Clan Evans doesn’t know anything about anything” is a given, but ComicCon is not like your local farmer’s market, where anyone with fifty bucks and a 10×10 canopy can set up shop. Vendor space costs thousands of dollars, you have to apply a year in advance, and if you want to get into Artists’ Alley your work has to pass a selection committee. To say Knute is putting the cart before the horse would be generous; it’s more like he’s trying to hitch up a horse he doesn’t have to a cart with no wheels.
MT: I have praised the current Rusty in the past for exhibiting at least semi-realistic child behavior, but I gotta call shenanigans here. If it’s unlikely that environmental journalist Mark Trail would not know about the golf course going up ten minutes down the road, it’s even more unlikely that young Rusty Trail would not have seen water slides being constructed and demand to go there at the earliest available opportunity.
MW: Look, I know Karen Moy doesn’t know that there is anything in New York City apart from Manhattan, but I refuse to believe that Olive’s family would live anywhere other than Staten Island.
Intelligent Life: Ah, yes. There’s nothing more nerdy and non-mainstream than the latest corporate installment of a multibillion dollar franchise that many consider to have stopped being good over a decade ago.
Between Friends: This is reminding me of those gags in Scrubs where it turns out time doesn’t actually freeze during the main character’s internal monologues; he really does just stop in the middle of what he’s doing and stares off into space to think while everyone around him watches.
Family Circus: I do NOT like how Sam the dog is colored as if his fur were covered in garbage and mange.
MW: when Olive comes to the door her head will be facing the back and she’ll spew green vomit over Mary. I look forward to seeing Mary meddle Pazuzu.
@Gil Bates: Eww eww eww ewwwwww.
IL: How long can a punchline be before you tune out? Trick question. I tuned out as soon as I saw it was Intelligent Life.
MG&G: Wait, that toilet doesn’t have a seat. Of course Grimmy’s keeper is a Shoe-ish bird person, so cloaca…Okay, I’m done thinking about this.
@2+2=7: “Nobody really wants to make Fantastic Four movies, but nobody wants to give up the film rights either” would explain so much.
Sadly, the joke in Grimm is sooo old that only older Boomers or the Silent Generation get the joke. (How old are the joke writers for Grimm anyway?) Back in the day, “toilet water” was the lowbrow name for eau de toilette.
JP: At this point, were I Reena, I’d be done hanging around with Sophie. Comes a point when you realize a family curse is a family curse, time to respect it and back waaaaay the hell off.
@Ettorre: Billy doesn’t have imaginary friends? Did Not Me and Ida Know stop playing with him when he finally got the medication he desperately needed?
IT: This strip is all I know about INTELLIGENT LIFE and I’m inclined to think it’s all I need to know.
@Voshkod: There was this Disney+ cartoon a few years back, 101 Dalmatian Street, mostly a slice-of-life of a large Dalmatian family who are descendants of Pongo and Perdita’s breed.
Cruella Deville was stated not to return, the creators said she was probably dead of old age at that point (they were just trolling) she does show up eventually, with her grand-nephew. When her grand-nephew fails her once, she locks him in a cage in a storage unit with nothing to eat but dogfood for months. Causing him to gradually go insane and believe that he actually is a dog. (Or rather developed a dog split personality or something like that)
Once he gets out of there Cruella doesn’t care about his mental health, she has puppies to kill, and wants to kill this family of dogs just out of petty spite for the previous generation foiling her plans, like 40 years prior… WOW. There’s more that I could say/spoil but I really don’t want to.
IL: Shouldn’t that be “…kind of like one…”? I know lots of people have no like for Intelligent Life but I didn’t realize that included its creator.
@Poteet: That shoulda been IL, obviously. But am not anticipating using it again, so who cares.
Right, I’m not dumb enough to be fooled into looking at Intelligent (sic) Life, but in response to the many comments here, just wanna say that I’m actually looking forward to Fantastic Four. Look, the last few Superman movies were shit, but THIS one turned out pretty good (first comic book movie EVER that wasn’t an adolescent power fantasy), so why couldn’t FF surprise us?
MG&G — Earlier, when Grimm overheard patrons ordering “ranch water” he figured the Overton window had moved. In this he was sadly mistaken.
MG&G: Well Actually [adjusts nerd glasses] after drinking alcohol it IS expressed in urine. So the real culprit is Mom Goose, who was too fucked up to flush the toilet after that Jager binge last night.
Interesting take from Mr. Intelligent Life that the franchise that’s brought in three back-to-back billion dollar hits is the tiny yappy underdog compared to the unstoppable behemoth of a superhero team whose best movie is an unreleased Roger Corman picture made for three pennies and a nickel
MW: As opposed to all those doctors whose work doesn’t pay off, out there hogging up section 8 housing and using EBT cards?
@TheDiva, Luann: So….. Typical Evansii Situational Awareness?
IL: The art is this strip is so ugly that I refuse to read it, and it seems like I’m not missing anything.
GT: I think Gil’s golf partner is his assistant coach, not Beth. Beth has never been a curly, and this character is lacking that distinctive huge wart/cheek stud.
Baldo: For fans of Papi’s hot dead wife, Papi’s hot dead wife puts in an appearance today.
IL: I see IL is doing that “Each Successive Nearly Identical Panel is Slightly Zoomed In” thing that has become so prevalent among lazy ‘toonists.
@Ukulele Ike: If Comic Sans was an art style, Intelligent Life would be it. It just looks like it was made with out-of-the-box 1997 software.
“My supervisor, Declan”
I have short term memory loss and I have to keep reminding myself that my supervisor is, in fact, named Declan.
Blondie: This is a joke that could have come straight out of one of my old favorites, still in reruns, Geech. And by that I mean it’s far better than the common run of jokes in Blondie.
The sort of nerds who wear Star-Trek-ish uniforms everywhere, including to non-Trek-related films, would regard mass-market appeal as a sell-out, not a selling point. To translate for the remaining newspaper comics reading demographic, it’s Dylan going electric at Newport.
love is… playing “Snoopy” on your honeymoon.
RMMD: before accepting Truck’s offer, Cody, check out your half-sibs. Otherwise you’ll always wonder about them, and you might actually prefer to join their band.
Has anyone else noticed that truck and cody both gave dna samples but how did they get spud’s dna profile? Dig him up?This is why DNA should not be DIY.hutrages/#comment-2866113″>@Liam:
Crank: My sister has massive supersitions about wearing her football shirt, drinking from her team mug, and so on. But she doesn’t wait until the game’s about to start and then start yelling at other people about them. Then again, she doesn’t live with someone who’s done whatever Ed’s done with Jeff’s shirt. In conclusion, even when these characters are referring to something I can kind of identify with, they’re still terrible and I hate them.
DT: Oops! When I realised the inventor of this electric gun was named freaking Tess Lakoyle on Saturday, I posted “Really, Curtis? Really?” I would like to retract this, as I had somehow missed that (sigh) Eric Costello is back. And honestly, that’s about what I expect from him.
It’s an interesting moment to get a Costello story; I’m left with the curious feeling of being optimistic that even he can’t write a story that makes less sense than Icarus Lovejoy and the Magic Painting, and I look forward to seeing how he proves me wrong.
IL: Jurassic World: Rebirth came out over a month ago, which raises the possibility that the creator of Intelligent Life didn’t feel he could write this word salad until he’d actually seen it.
Phantom: Based on what we saw last week, I’d say the miners are working in sleeveless t-shirts rather than shifts, but close enough, I guess.
SH: Yep, there we go, no issues with the fact the ball doesn’t propel itself, or that things move differently in air than in water. Just a perfect basket that drops as straight as any slight hope I might have had that this story would do something interesting.
Zits: So … no bun?
@Baja Gaijin: Which aesthetic in particular drew you to those vistas?
@TheDiva:
To be fair, this comic ran in like 2005 before San Diego Comic Con exploded into the world’s biggest everything. But even then, getting a table at a big city convention is a big undertaking.
Mother Goose & Grimm – The most surprising thing about this is that the female dog is a Dalmatian instead of the usual French poodle.
9CL – Gaah! This almost makes me want him to bring back the interchangeable boinking couples.
This is a masterpiece of pretentious, unfunny dreck.
Bob the Angry Flower – A crummy commercial!
Pluggers – He must be another roots country musician. Call Rex Morgan!
That Is Priceless – That was fast.
JP – I know that I have ranted about this before, but it’s a real bug with me. The CIA does not work that way!! Extended family and friends do not know anything about a CIA operative’s assignments! They are covert operations, which means they are secret. I guess an argument could be made that April is no longer an agent, but if the CIA is involved, this is not the sort of thing that is general knowledge. I’m amazed that Katherine isn’t posting about on Facebook, or that it isn’t mentioned in the local weekly newspaper’s gossip column.
Happy 40th birthday to Arlo & Janis!