What if all the kids at her school are psychic and Olive is just a loser
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Mary Worth, 8/2/25
Not sure what’s funnier here: That Olive says it’s hard to “ignore the critics,” as if there’s a Yelp category specifically for tweens and Olive has received a series of 1- and 2-star reviews referring to her as “weird” and “subpar” and “is she psychic or what, I don’t get it, she hints at it a lot but mostly doesn’t do any cool stuff,” or that Mary urges her to “keep on shining,” as if she were vaguely aware that there’s a book and a movie about a little psychic kid called The Shining that she’s never seen but it sounds like such a pleasant and optimistic title that she assumes everything works out pretty well for him.
Hi and Lois, 8/2/25
“What this beach needs is fewer little kids coming up and talking to you,” the lifeguard thinks. “I should make a sign telling them not to do it.”
Gil Thorp, 8/2/25
Ha ha, Gil is totally sanguine about the possibility of his ex-wife taking a job as AD at his hated rival school! It’s all good! Holding a big cup of lemonade at the top in a vice grip where it looks like you’re going to crush it with your bare hand is normal and a sign that you’re just relaxing and having fun, actually!
175 replies to “What if all the kids at her school are psychic and Olive is just a loser”
Family Circus Mashups: Do any of these alternate captions tickle your fancy?
Luann Mashup: I saw the artwork and thought of this.
MW:
“Olive, how about if I take you to Vegas and you tell me what number the roulette ball is going to land on?”
“Of course, I’m an excellent driver.”
“Ha-ha,” thinks Ditto, “school’s out; I don’t have to use the proper verb tense1′
MW:
“Now, now, Olive. I can tell you fit in. Why, your teardrops are as thick and viscous, with the consistency of motor oil, as those of everyone else in this strip!”
H&L: And this is the lead up to Ditto getting the nickname of Sharkbait.
MW: Mary is clearly ecstatic about these bullies breaking down Olive’s self esteem which is why we’re not seeing her Cheshire Cat grin.
MW: I get the feeling the last panel is referring directly to this website.
MW: Hopefully, the guy wearing the cap is calling Child Protective Services.
Gil Thorp:
“Gil, has anyone ever figured out why we always look distorted in this strip — you know, like the way people and things looked in the instructional videos that the Baby Superman Kel-Al watched while he was hurtling from Krypton to Earth?”
MW:
“I just…intuit things, Mary. See that fellow in the tank top? He’s headed for a repast of bivalves on the waterfront!”
“No. Don’t say it, Olive.”
“Yep! — mussel beach!”
Mary Worth: Forget Olive, how come this park is full of over-muscled guys with mullets and women in sports bras? Is this New York or is it Dogpatch? (Shout-out to all you older comics fans, since Li’l Abner stopped publication in 1977 — yet Snuffy Smith goes on forever for some reason.)
Hi and Lois: Maybe this guy would save more people if his lifeguard’s chair was actually tall enough for him to see if anyone was drowning. In fact, has anyone at the Flagston house noticed if Trixie’s high chair is missing? (I doubt they would notice if Trixie herself was missing, but that’s a whole other problem.)
Pluggers: I realize some pluggers still have landlines, but a corded phone that’s actually attached to the wall? This dude has morphed all the way from plugger to hipster, and there’s no coming back from that.
BETTY: Nope, I’ve tried it. Maybe it works if your neck is as thick and hard as a tree trunk. So never mind…
BF: Offer at entry-level salary? Good thing Susan had accepted interview offer she got yesterday at another company. At age 50 plus, she knows the need for a plan B.
FG: he trusts Prince Ronals judgment because the prince knows he has a hard job, not just a title
GT: The cart girl continues to flirt with Gil. “How else am I going to sell an eight dollar ice tea.” She thinks.
FC: Mrs Morgan’s cat dodges a bullet.
RMMD:
“See that montage of our hands in today’s first panel, darlin’? There’s a paintin’ just like that on the ceilin’ of the Sistine Chapel!”
MW: Mary’s advice to Olive is as useful as Mary’s advice to Wilbur, which is why Wilbur is still Wilbur, and Olive should start saving up for serious therapy.
RMMD: Oh, Mimi would SO take the job at Valley Tech! Mimi has a mean streak, which Gil is either too smug or too dumb to notice.
I know that the audience is supposed to see Mary and Olive’s relationship as an intergenerational friendship but considering that Olive has no friends and her parents would prefer to lock her in her room so they can pretend they’re teenagers on prom night, it comes across as creepy and unsettling. Mary should be encouraging Olive to make more friends and talk to her parents about things but instead she’s plying her with platitudes about how special and unique she is. She’s enabling Olive into thinking that she’s different from everyone else and that she’s the only one who understands her “gifts” of being a delusional weirdo. You know, Grooming 101, which wouldn’t fly if Ian or Wilbur were doing this.
MW: “I want to fit in with the other girls, Mary.” Sobs Olive.
“No worries;” says Mary. “A padded bra works wonders.”
Saturday Miracles:
– Luann does something smart and clever
– in CS, Ed actually looks good and happy.
– in JP, Soph acts with a level head.
– Scissorhands, too, finds his calling.
Can we please stop discussing Gil Thorp here? I feel like we’re bullying a special needs kid.
Lockhorns: Wow, it’s nice to see that this kind of humor has come back into style for the oldsters who wish they could say “My wife’s a bad driver because she’s a woman!” in the presence of others.
Beetle Bailey: Zero is actually on the ball here. Hillbillies are from up in the Appalchians, places known for a dearth of arable land, so no plantations. Unfortunately, the next step: Henry Louis Gates sits down with Zero and displays the records showing his ancestors were slave owners.
FC: Too bad, Billy. Also too bad, Mrs. Morgan, who will have to find another neglectful child to forget to feed the cat she’s always wanted to get rid of.
Blondie: Your wife is hotter than Thel, Dagwood, and her use of studmuffin hints at further rewards after you paint the garage. And I don’t care if you think this seems awfully transactional.
TG: what a conundrum! He needs to get ahead before he sees anyone. (Easy joke today)
MW: Olive’s real psychic power is summoning up some beefcake to keep people reading. Will a muscular torso get your attention? Because Lord knows “Old lady talks to unpopular girl” won’t.
#17. Forgot to say Scissorhands appears in JUMP START.
@Activist:
On Between Friends : she’s been recruted by the same operation that’s been featured in The Phantom.
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@ValdVin:
On Beetle Bailey : Nah, I’d go with the next step being Rocky asking Zero if he’s a redneck, and Zero replying in the negative; he doesn’t tan quickly, and so doesn’t sunburn easily. Then, Zero perks up and tells Rocky that actually, he should be called the same thing all the other soldiers call Rocky when he’s not there; you see, Zero has a MASSIVE sweating problem, especially his back, and all the other soldiers call Rocky a-
…Too far?…MW: I’m imagining Olive’s psychiatrist yelling at her parents. “What do you mean you let her take a walk with that old lady? Supervised video chats only, I said. That little jaunt broke down years of therapy and Olive’s delusions are worse than ever.”
The Flagstons have the unbelievable luck at finding sparsely populated beaches. I’m wondering if they are supposed to be closed to the public for health concerns
I just realized that Gil Thorp is golfing, but I’m not mad, because that is something that makes sense for the characters and fits in with the action of the strip. I didn’t think that was possible.
High and Lowis: It’s been a quiet summer because there are very few lives to guard.
That lifeguard has a “tan” that makes him look faintly gray. Possibly the colorists wish him dead. (They should turn their ire on Ditto, who hasn’t even got a sunburn. Fry that little brat!)
@Hibbleton: I think that’s Gil’s actual girlfriend? Two weeks ago she was picking Gil up in a golf cart while he was golfing with a completely different person. Smash cut to Keri’s summer camp, then to Mimi and her girlfriend and Jami in Berlin, then Thorp residence then back to the golf course, which is truly the eternal recurrence.
@Baja Gaijin:
#1. FC, Baja, you sure got the entitled Older Brother down right
LUANN: of course that’s what our star is doing!
H&L – Actually, what that beach needs is a covered lifeguard tower. That guy’s going to look pretty silly when he takes his sunglasses off at the end of his shift.
Pluggers are incredibly dumb. And proud of it.
Ditto: Come’on Shark, kill the kid already! I want to see blood, and screaming! Lots of screaming!
MW: Geez kid. Didn’t Sesame Street teach you anything?
Instead of hanging out with douchewads who don’t like you, you’ll be a LOT happier hanging out with people who DO.
It’s not that complicated.
MW-“Olive, one day you shall use your powers to decide how badly those girls die. All doubters and unbelievers must be cleansed in the glorious purity of fire as sacrifices to me.”
RE: Josh on The Shining
And its sequel Doctor Sleep.
Which seemed tricky to adapt into a movie. Seeing as in the book The Shining, The Overlook blew up, but didn’t in the movie. (That plot point was a big, well… plot point in Doctor Sleep)
@Liam: Cult of the Lamb? Here it’s “Cult of the Lame”
@BigTed: Marge Simpson: Sorry Mr. Blackbeard, the only chair we have left is this highchair
Blackbeard (Perches on the top of the high chair): This chair be high… says I.
Hi and Lois-“You have to save someone or we’re kicking you out of the cult.”
FC-“If I can’t feed Mrs. Morgan’s cat then some other gigolo will do it.”
FC-We know you’re going on vacation. Thanks to ‘Luann’ we know you are going to be paying them a visit.
MW-There’s a school in Westchester that would appreciate Olive’s gifts.
MW-Shine on you crazy diamond.
I guess the only way to SEE a scream is to read comics.
I guess the only way to SEE a scream is to read comics.
Family Circlejerk – Thel is really rockin’ that outfit. She’s looking for a way to ditch the melonheads for the weekend. Probably wants to ditch Bil, too.
Hagar – C’mon, Mudges, where are the terrible tacky double entendres about Hagar wanting to get into Pandora’s Box? That’s what I come here for. Don’t let me down.
Gil Thorp:
“Gil, I just read a great retrospective on your illustrious coaching career. I hadn’t realized until I read the article that one of your former star football players ended up signing a letter of intent with then-Notre Dame coach Gerry.”
“No. Don’t say it.”
“Yep — a Faustian pact!”
Gil Thorp: I was trying to figure out where this strip was taking place — is this a mobile bar on the golf course? I’ve heard the rumors but never seen one! — but I got distracted by the girl in the first panel. Her chin is enormous but her throat is receding?
Honestly, I just don’t get modern art.
Hagar the Horrible-Hagar won’t be eating Pandora’s food. He doesn’t like Greek.
Arnold: Given the choice, I’d prefer not having it said
MW – “Yes, I know it’s hard to ignore the critics, but keep on shining, Karen Moy — I mean, Olive!”
Don Abundio, translated:
“People are always making fun of my hat”
“But it’s safer to keep wearing it…”
“Considering all the people I’ve screwed over!”
@Victor Von: Her forgiving chin is for those with bad aim
MW – Just to sum up the story so far: Upon arriving in NYC, Mary Worth has arranged to be alone with a 14-year old away from the child’s parents, discouraged said child from interacting with her peers because they “don’t understand” her, lavished praise and attention on the child, and is now getting handsy.
I mean, how is it even possible that Karen Moy does not see The Thing that we all see?
@Baja Gaijin: Both are excellent contributions.
@Bob Tice: K-Mart, 400 Oak Street.
G. (*%&%Q#! Thorp – Is Gil trying to say “Pshaw” but too drunk to say it correctly?
GT: Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the ex-Mrs. Thorp now going by her full first name (Melissa or whatever), possibly as a sign that she never really liked the nickname “Mimi” and found it to be condescending and infantilizing? If so, I’m not surprised Gil and his hangers-on persist in using it.
(I realize the above might sound hypocritical given my own inability to recall Mimi/Melissa/whoever’s name, but I contend Gil’s behavior indicates an indifference to his ex’s wishes which points to the underlying causes of their divorce, where as mine stems from indifference to the strip as a whole.)
MW: So Mary flew all the way across the country just so she could tell Olive that she’s the specialist of God’s snowflakes and not to let the haters get to her? This trip could have been a Facetime chat.
Dennis the “Menace” could take some tips from Ditto the Psycho who is just casually standing there telling the lifeguard that he wishes there was more blood and screaming in the ocean.
@Victor Von: Normally, different characters in a strip would be identifiable by their distinct appearances, but as nobody in Gil Thorp can rely on that they must use other methods. Beth, realizing her entire backstory and personality is “bartender,” makes drinks whenever possible in order to distinguish herself.
@TheDiva: Oh crap, what did I do to anger the content bots now?
@TheDiva: Never mind, I figured it out, I misspelled “specialest” as, well…
H&L: “Have you saved anyone lately?” “No, but lucky for me no one else will do this crappy job for this lousy pay so they haven’t fired me yet.”
Gil Thorp: “Lemonade.”
Mary Worth: If this comic really wants to sell Mary as a wise sage, the least they could do is have her dialogue not consist almost entirely of shitty koans stolen off the Facebook posts of divorced middle-aged women.
Hi And Lois: Don’t you hate it when little kids come up to you and share their unprompted fantasies about watching people be bloodily killed and eaten by sharks? Totally a normal scenario we all have to deal with.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Gil: Its sterile and I like the taste.
C’shaft: Are they giving Crankshaft a new ballcap because the red one is too MAGA-coded now? Or is Ed just mad because he was a misanthrope in a red hat who takes pleasure in the suffering of others before it was cool?
Dustin: Women, amirite? Always predatory golddiggers ignoring the very nice
comic strip artiststemp job workers right in front of them!Luann: I’m not sure which of them is waving the bigger red flag at this point….
@Astroboy: At this point, Moy can’t write anyone from Charterstone acting normal now that Estelle and her superior animals have moved out.
Hi and Lois: Honestly, Ditto, I think the beach should start with a lifeguard whose heart and lungs properly oxygenate his blood. Ain’t no one getting saved from killer sharks by a guy with sats in the low 80s.
@ectojazzmage: Oh, a Busch Lite fan, eh?
GT: Let’s just stop and think about the premise of a high school aggressively pursuing a failed pro golfer and part time coach to be its athletic director. Yep.
Credit where it is due, Mary Worth has done the impossible: cleaned up New York City. They’ve done such a good job in fact that they’ve scrubbed the entire skyline. Take that, all you bazillionares at Central Park Tower!
@TheDiva:
Now I’m just a bartender, and I don’t like my work
But I don’t mind Barajas’s money at all
I’ve seen lots of drunk coaches and lots of bad golfers
Marty Moon with his back to the wall
But I need three panels around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
And an an artist who’s consistent to draw me right
To keep my face from slipping away
Gratuitous attempt at post 69 here.
Pluggers: “Where ARE you??”
“I’m at home where you called me.”
” I know that!! I meant why didn’t you pick me up an hour ago like you were supposed to?!?”
DT: “David Bowie! I thought you died!”
FC: Is that Thel’s bathing suit, or the dress she’s going to wear all next week? Please tell me it’s the dress.
Andy Capp: Is the “X” a kiss symbol, or does it signify all the booze on their breath?
Phantom: “I guess they could be human eyes, if the guy is crawling on all fours. The medicinal brandy is still locked up, right?”
BB: Rocky: “Are you a hillbilly?”
Zero: “No. Are you a dago greaseball? I mean, that’s sort of your ‘thing’ in this strip, isn’t it?”
@Little Blue Bicycle: “Nice” try.
DT: “Let’s see….the appointment book says ‘1PM conference with Dr. Tess LaKoyle, death ray scientist, who owes me a shitload of money.’ Could be a clue.”
@matt w:
I think that’s Gil’s actual girlfriend?
I think you’re right; but in this strip I have trouble recognizing Thorp from day to day.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: A bike has to do what a bike has to do.
MW-“And then there are all the readers with their snarky comments.”
Hi and Lois-“Have you saved anyone lately?” “I don’t save people. Jesus saves people.”
Dustin-“And in other news another woman’s body has been found brutally murdered in a dumpster.”
Ditto is a blood-lusting psychopath who wants a shark-decimated beach scattered with severed limbs like discarded chicken bones.
@Little Blue Bicycle: You got it. The gratuitouser the better, I always say.
If Groundskeeper Willie doesn’t show up in Mary Worth I’m going to be very disappointed.
FC:
“But Mom, I need to feed Mrs. Morgan’s cat so that I can be an anthropomorphized oblong sandwich roll with meats and vegetables”
“Billy, don’t be a hero!”
MW: Uh, June…? Mary’s bra cups are way off center. Like, under her right armpit. Just sayin’. Thought you’d want to fix that.
MW: I dunno — Shine on you crazy, well, not diamond…
MW: Just below the artwork, June has tried out her dream signature.
Mrs. Muscleboy Beefcake.
June Beefcake.
June Brigman Beefcake.
June Brigman-Beefcake.
Ms. June B. Beefcake.
Mrs. B.
JBB
Mr. and Mrs. Muscleboy Beefcake
Ms. Beefcake
@Baja Gaijin: #1: re-FC: How about Billy saying, “Mommy, you’re giving be a boner that just won’t quit!”
MW – This little light of mine…I’m gonna smoke some crack….
H&L – Yeah…a little gore for your amusement….
GT – Even the zombie guy knows they’re making a strong offer to Mimi….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
FC/Luann: If Thel wears that outfit when she takes the kids to Weenie World every female cast member will be tossed like a live grenade.
RMMD: Passing out cigars to friends? Ha-ha, what friends?
@87 Guillermo el Chiclero: Ida Know. How does it look to you?
@Baja Gaijin: #90: I think it works.
@Ukulele Ike: #72:
“Please tell me it’s the dress”
And please tell me it’s real windy wherever they’re going.
Curtis: Seriously, are these two stories connected or what?
GT: I mean, I totally agree with the premise that if Gil can do something, it can’t be that hard, but is being a coach something Gil can do? Have we ever seen any evidence supporting this claim?
HtH: I don’t even care anymore. Fine, this Viking couple attends potlucks with figures from Greek myth, whatever.
JP: But enough of that stupid storyline! Let’s go back to our other stupid storyline!
S4th: Yes, I know I keep on about this, but it’s still happening. Apparently when Ted repeatedly stated that his childhood painting was broken and smeared with mustard, he failed to notice wine and blood. Is that it over, or are Alan and Jill going to confess next, and then after another week at the horrible theme park we’ll cut to them saying “And that’s why the painting was also on fire”?
@Technically correct. The best kind of correct:
Were you replying to my comment?
“Ditto: Come’on Shark, kill the kid already! I want to see blood, and screaming! Lots of screaming!”
Because I was aware that I should have said “See blood, and hear screaming!” but I didn’t fix it in time.
Crankshaft: Blatant product placement deal, or resolution to a blackmail scheme against Tom Batiuk? Either way, it’s hard to see how this was worth the effort by the Blue Bombers.
@92 Horace Broon: on Curtis: Curtis finally befriends the dog who he brings to Gramma Magicka. Gramma starts magicking up the dog instead of Curtis. The end.
on Sally Forth: I’m not letting facts get in the way of my enjoyment of how off the rails bonkers both storylines have become.
Hagar: “Although really, on the friendly terms that we’re on we just call Pandora ‘Dora’. She also brought a bowl. Did you see it, it has bunny designs on it. It’s A Dora bowl.”
Crankshaft: Ed is planning to stand on his head and try to convince people he attended the University of Michigan.
@Charterstoned: Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake
Curtis: Yesterday “More Magical than Thou Gramma” tucked in Curtis’s shirt for him.
But she’s in a coma right?
This is bringing back an episode of Supernatural, where a little girl was in a coma and her father was reading her fairy tales, and the girl was using some weird power to project those fairy tales into real-life.
Such as three fat construction workers were arguing over how they were supposed to build the house they were working on, when a guy with a Wile. E Coyote tattoo just shows up and kills them for seemingly no reason and then later starts stalking a little girl and her grandmother.
The sad thing is, the guy wasn’t evil, he was being brainwashed by the coma girl to act out the role. And he gets arrested at the end for things he had no control over once the spell is broken.
FC: Next week – they arrive at their vacation rental to find that Billy has packed the cat in his suitcase. He’s not going to miss out on that 50 cents a day from Mrs. Morgan!
MARY WORTH…Meanwhile,back in Santa Royale, Wilbur gets a phone call! ….Riding! Wilbur:hello? Dr. Jeff: “Hello Wilbur? Dr. Jeff here. Quick question: Are you and that Belle Batfrey broken up for good now? Wilbur (sadly):”Yes, we are.” Dr. Jeff:”Can I get her number, you know just while Mary’s outta town? Oh,and is it really true what Mary told me about you saying Belle was a dominatrix? That she wants to get on top with her riding crop? That your pain was her pleasure? Oh boy!something tells me I’m into something good!”
@Midtowns: Eh, that should be Midtown, singular. I haven’t been cloned.
@The Rambling Otter: Meh, I’m instead going with “Unholier than Thou Grandma”
Hi and Lois: I was a surprised this didn’t deliver some variation of the standard joke about lifeguards gawking at half-naked women, instead showing him stoically scanning the scene in the second panel. I suppose if you’ve done this job for long enough you just filter out the bouncy boobs, like the beeps at the checkout counter.
@The Rambling Otter: Yes …lol
@Horace Broon:
Hagar the Horrible-After drinking Thor under the table and making an ass out of himself Hagar has been banned from any Norse gatherings.
@The Rambling Otter:
Reminds me a bit of “The Pimp Pun Disaster” sketch on the Whitest Kids U’ Know.
FC/RMMD: Wait, when did the Morgans get a cat? I thought they only had the two dogs. Of course it’s been so long since we’ve seen the starring family they could have added several pets as well as picked up another random kid.
@96 The Rambling Otter: GROAN!
@Ukulele Ike: And I’m sure you are aware of the joke of the woman with the M imprinted on her torso because her boyfriend left his letter sweater on when he raw-dogged her being asked if her boyfriend went to Minnesota or Michigan.
FC: Dammit, Jeff Keane. Couldn’t you have drawn your mom from the front and given us a good cleavage shot?
MW: Oliver suddenly realizes that Mary is paying no attention to her pity party and is instead totally focused on the muscular hunk in the wifebeater shirt.
Every modern Gil Thorp looks like what I assume a stroke feels like.
GT: The “strong offer” means an extra 15% off officially branded Valley Tech merchandise. Of course she’ll take it.
H&L: Since this summer marks the 50th anniversary of the film Jaws, we seem to be seven years from the point where Ditto decides that what the town really needs are ranch houses built on an Indian graveyard.
MW: If Olive is the Messiah, what does that make Mary? Good luck sleeping tonight, ‘mudges.
It’s been about 8AM when I first read today’s riffs, it wasn’t until now that I realized that Josh covered Gil Thorp today.
Gil Thorp is so beyond boring and ugly that I think I’m starting to filter it out of reality.
9CL: “But dear, we’re supposed to be immune to the ick factor on this side of the Fourth Wall.”
C-Shaft: “Heh-heh, let’s see what happens when I put Jeff and Crankshaft in a sporting goods store with no jokes, just smirks. They’ll be begging me to bring back the cancer stories.”
DT: The crime scene guys sometimes like to dress recent kills up as ghosts. You gotta have fun on this job.
Dustin: There are entire consultancy firms that advise young women on how to land rich husbands. No doubt they’d advise her to stop hanging out in watering holes that Dustin can afford. Also, Lasik surgery. I think she looks cute with glasses but I ain’t rich.
H&J: Mr. C quoting Joe Piscopo in that Billy Joel video is the single whitest thing that has ever happened in this restaurant.
JP: If Sophie and Reena want to talk to someone who might have a better idea of what to do, I mean, the cat’s right there.
Phantom: Now they’ll spend the rest of the night arguing whether Devil is a wolf or if only coyotes run out of tunnels. (JK, they’re both seconds from death.)
Pluggers: So the guy getting the phone call isn’t a Plugger, just a Plugg.
MW-“The Meddling is strong in you, Olive.”
Gil Thorp-Looking at this strip makes me wonder why ‘Apartment 3G’ was canceled. The art and writing here are just as incomprehensible as ‘Apartment 3G’ when it was cancelled.
Gil Thorp-“Now watch how I crush this glass between my mighty hand like it was paper.”
@The Rambling Otter: I don’t even bother reading the dialogue in GT unless Josh specifically references it, same goes for Judge Parker and Duck Tracy.
@The Man With The Plan: Would you look at that, autocorrect changed Dick Tracy to Duck Tracy. Perhaps if Tracy had a duck bill I would bother reading its dialogue.
@The Man With The Plan:
Isn’t Duck Tracy that Looney Tunes where Daffy Duck reveals he’s the world’s biggest Dick Tracy fan, and he fantasizes about BEING Dick Tracy and doing Dick Tracy things (ie, brutally gunning down his entire rogue’s gallery)?
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: The version *I* heard ends up with “No…but my girlfriend goes to Wellesley.”
@Anonymous: Duck Twacey I think.
@Anonymous: Daffy shoots holes in the closet and when the door opens all the famous villains fall out 1 by 1 to the floor. One of my favorite looney toons episodes
@JeffMcm: I hear you, brother. When Gil Thorp starts the day, I have to do some checks to see if my mind is still functioning.
Luann Spanish to English.
@1 Baja Gaijin:
Alternate Family Circus caption…
@1 Baja Gaijin:
On Luann – I like the use of, I think it’s, Ed Kudlick.
I guess instead of “pooping” Luann could have said “farting”.
Mary Worth – Mary’s only experience with The Shining is this old parody trailer from early YouTube that recut the film as a romantic comedy. Hence why she thinks “shining” is something heartwarming.
Hi and Lois – *Furiously writing my live theater adaptation of Jaws for my local theater group to perform Labor Day weekend at the beach instead of King Lear again*
Gil Thorp – Marty Moon is going to have the scoop of his career when he breaks this news.
@Rube: Although, gotta say, the ones with bizarre conversations that bear no resemblance to natural speech aren’t as discombobulating as the ones that are supposed to be describing a sport.
@128 Sequitur: You mean, this? I think your caption works with the artwork.
@129 Sequitur: Yes, that’s Ed Kudlick. You know he’s not eating at SaladWorks or Salata. Farting? I guess that could work too. The final panel could be the aftermath of a shart.
@132 Baja Gaijin:
Cool. You got Loretta calling the cops.
JP: How did everyone become so certain that a murder has occurred? Is it just that the landlady is not around, when none of them know her, or her schedule? I have little doubt that it will turn out to be true, but how can the characters possibly be so sure?
@133 Sequitur: Calling the cops while making kissy-face at Bitchy McScrubsface.
Late Thread Cuisine: No Spaghetti-Os, no olive slice eyes, no shrimp eyes staring at you.
@136 Baja Gaijin:
Uh, oh. You woke up THE SHRIMP!
@BigTed: Re Pluggers: Aw, he’s a poser. It’s not rotary dial!
Zippy – Call people up at random and ask, “Is your refrigerator a running gag?”
@139 Peanut Gallery:
Or you can ask, “Is Prince Albert on the can?”
@Sequitur Y119: GGGRRRAAAARRRR!! It’s only your friendly neighborhood wolf.
Yes, and I was very disappointed. I was hoping so much it was Baja’s Spaghetti-O monster attacking the bad guys.
@Schroduck:
“In all, while Olive has a premise, and strong through lines in the second act, ultimately Olive fails as a piece, being ultimately histrionic and meaningless to the average viewer. 1 of 5 stars.”
It’s true, Olive, they are HARSH. The Des Moines Register? Worse!
Andy Capp: Has anyone seen anything like this before?
@Baja Gaijin:
I love shrimp. I love bananas. I look at this and ask why God is angry.
Mary Worth got Josh so worked up he used only one sentence in the comment.
@Baja Gaijin: It looks like one of those computer simulations of millions-of-years-old ocean creatures based on the fossils. One look and the other creatures scurry away, otherwise they’ll end up as dinner to-be-absorbed like those unfortunate shrimp on top.
Baldo: I’ll let you know what Sergio says in the second panel. “Throw the house out of the window.”
Really.
@143 Sequitur: Groovy, man. Did they get this background from 1974?
@145 Dr. Pill: Hmmm…
Crankshaft: That look on Crankshaft’s face in the final panel looks like he just produced a satisfying fart. Or worse.
@Sequitur: A couple of commenters at GoComics said you occasionally see Andy Capp do these. It’s a new one on me, too.
@147 Baja Gaijin:
I’m not sure but it kinda looks like a Japanese sunset.
@149 Artist formerly known as Ben:
Now, let’s see if the Lockhorns can do that.
Oddly, the lifeguard neglects to tell Ditto of the two junkies he helped find the Light of Christ, perhaps because no one wants to talk to the Flagstons.
PSA from Dogs of C-Kennel.
Fred Basset: Sisyphus lives in England.
Slim eating Late Thread Cuisine.
FC – Think about this a minute. Mrs. Morgan would have to give Billy her key to get inside the house to feed the cat. He’d surely lose the key the first day, on his meandering, dotted line way to the house. And what about the litter box? This woman actually hired a seven year old without talking to the kid’s mother first?
Mary Worth – Mary’s Big Book O’ Platitudes is getting a real workout.
JP – Tom Clancy as interpreted by the Three Stooges.
@Baja Gaijin: What a waste of shrimp. And rice. And bananas. And curry.
(I’m not a fan of bananas – I dislike the flavor but will grudgingly eat them in fruit salad. However, I loathe curry and refuse to be anywhere near it.)
@155 Sequitur: The sight of Slim eating is almost as disturbing as Late Thread Cuisines.
@156 I speak Jive: The glossy shininess of the curry is disconcerting, as if it were made of space-age plastic.
Did Mary.tell Olive to Keep on shining or Keep on whining?
@Ukulele Ike, @Sequitur: Thanks for getting me to look at Andy Capp; I almost missed seeing their vacation at the beach. There are couple of really nice asses in Wednesday’s strip.
@Baja Gaijin: This is not cuisine, this is an abomination.
@160 Anonymous: That’s sorta the Late Thread Cuisine‘s mission statement: “It’s not cuisine, it’s an abomination!”
@159 Peanut Gallery:
Yes, those are fine looking asses.
@161 Baja Gaijin:
It’s more than a (bowel) movement; it’s a mission!
@Peanut Gallery: I think 1980s-core is prime hipster territory these days. Next he’ll kick back with a Bartles & Jaymes and watch St. Elmo’s Fire on his Betamax.
Did Olive, herself, use her Carrie like powers to make the AC unit fall so she could “save” Mary?
@The Man With The Plan: Especially if he talks with a lisp.
“You’re Despicable!”
I would borrow a joke and say that Olive has “The Shinning” but that’s dragging down a perfect Simpsons Joke.
Willie: You’ve got The Shinning!
Bart: You mean The Shining
Willie: Quiet… wanna get sued?
So I will say, that Olive has “The Shitting” because she is shitty, Mary is shitty, Wilbur is shitty. Etc… her psychic powers have been for years since she was introduced, turning the core cast into a hive-mind of immature, whiny and stupid brats.
Can you think of a better explanation?
MW- I’m sure that Mary believes that her ability to meddle anyone into doing her bidding is a power not unlike Olives tummy brain. Do you suppose she’s in the process of handing the strip over to Olive in order to hook future generations into this dying art form?
GT: GT, when it appears here, always bewilders me. Every single panel is a “huh?” It’s good that some things in life can be counted on.
MW: I’m used to seeing toddlers having sudden meltdowns in public places. Fourteen-year-olds, not so much.
Josh, are you sure thats lemonade and not Tang™ edible flavor crystals?
@Baja Gaijin: The chef clearly meant to create a culinary representation of one of the many-armed Hindu goddesses, probably Durga, but possibly Kali. That fact makes me respect the dish, but there’s no way in Yamaloka I’d ever eat it.
@Poteet: MW: I’m used to seeing toddlers having sudden meltdowns in public places
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I told you to not let Lois Flagston sell you that house next to the nuclear plant.
Wait till Mary reads the review Gene Shallet gave Olive……”Olive??!!?? More like ‘Ol-lame’!
@I speak Jive: I loathe curry and refuse to be anywhere near it.)
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