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Shoe, 11/27/25
Well, I guess we just live in a world now where the Shoe bird-men will acknowledge without shame that they are in fact bird-men. Kind of insensitive to do a joke about turkeys today of all days, though. “…I would’ve hired a turkey! Of course, it would be hard to find one. Most are being dismembered right now and the rest are in hiding.”
Hi and Lois, 11/27/25
The second best thing about this panel is that everyone looks pleased about the Thurstons joining the Flagstons’ Thanksgiving dinner except Hi, who honestly seems pretty put out that he’s going to be spending the day with his ostensible best friend. The best thing is that, alone out of the family, Dot has clocked Hi’s expression, and is learning some stuff about the emotionally complex world of adulthood.
Barney Google and Snuff Smith, 11/27/25
Hey, guys, did you know that the Smifs are into age play? I personally am not thankful to have learned this. Not thankful at all!
130 replies to “Thanksgiving horrors”
Extremely thankful for:
1. Josh;
2. Our Thought Leaders, Baja and Scratchy; and
3. Each and every one of you, who makes me laugh out loud every single day.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
H and L:
I don’t see a can of beer next to Thirsty. I call fake.
JP: I guess now we know where Ian’s been hiding out.
H and L:
I’m not sure they ought to be putting the yet-to-be-carved turkey right next to a guy whose motor skills are no doubt seriously diminished by the time they all sit down to eat.
Hi and Lois-Thirsty is thankful for Wild Turkey.
Shoe-A jive turkey?
MW-Only PG-rated shows because Toby can’t handle anything higher.
Mary Worth: “Happy Thanksgiving”? I’m not buying it. The only streaming service Toby has is the “All Ha Ha” channel.
BG & SS:
“Snuffy, let’s you ‘n’ me sing somethin’ aspirational on this here holiday about the possibility of our losin’ the backwoods patois of our dialogue here — filled, as it is, with contractions, misspellin’s ‘n’ such — channelin’ an adapted stanza from REM:
“That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losin’ my elision….”
BGSS: Yeah, don’t try perspective again, Snuffy Smith team. Stay on your level, and keep Snuffy on his. I don’t want to see a ten-foot hillbilly troll looming over his wife in a baby chair ever again.
Shoe Sure, it’s funny until you remember that, in their world, Shoe is essentially saying “If i wanted nonsense I would have hired a [insert ethnic group]!”
H&L Ha,it’s funny because…the Thurstons are too poor/drunk/dysfunction to make a meal? Is that what I’m getting here?
BGSS “And then I realized that he can still fit in a high chair and…that shouldn’t be. How malnourished is he?”
BG&SS: Thankfully, Louizi will wait for Barney to leave before slipping into her French maid uniform to feed the “baby.”
H&L: Hi glumly awaits the inevitable moment when Thirsty barfs all over the table.
MW: Is Mary so enraptured by an actual, Godalmighty TALKING BIRD that she has forgotten to make Thanksgiving dinner for her merry band of rejects – oops- rough diamonds?
RMMD: Summer is on an emotional roller coaster. A flat, slow, endless roller coaster.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I gave too much credit to the supposedly long-suffering Irma Thurston. It’s co-dependency all the way.
MW: Huh. I was hoping to see the usual suspects around the traditional Thanksgiving dining table feasting on a…bird. Yeah, a BIRD—with just a couple of green feathers scattered on the floor.
Snuffy Smith : doesn’t have a kiddie table. In fact, he doesn’t seem to have a table at all! I bet that dirty Barlow done stole it! And on Thanksgiving, no less!
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Beetle Bailey : “Beetle, never graduating from kindergarten is the biggest regret of my life. I don’t need you, with your fancy college education, to rub it in (I get enough of that shit from Lt Fuzz).”
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Crankshaft : “No more turkey”, Pam says, while holding a pan full of lasagna(?).
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Hi & Lois : there’s an another explanation besides the
correctobvious “Hi & Lois is an anti-joy strip, so of course Hi secretly hates his so-called ‘best friend’ “; Hi is reacting like that because Thirsty said “thank goodness I’m not eating takeout”, but the Flagstons’ Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a homecooked meal, it is a ready-made meal they bought at a grocery store the day before.************
Ripley’s Don’t Believe It :
a) That’s right, what you thought had to be a recent American tradition is actually from Europe, and thousand of years old!
b) That’s right, something you thought was an old european thing (Mary had a Little Lamb) is actually a recent American thing!
c) The gifters were very surprised, as they had given the animal with the idea that Coolidge would eat it.
MW: Too bad Toby didn’t park Sunny in front of some old Bette Davis movies. Think of the lines that bird could offer up!
MT Apparently “all the fixings” for pork chops, stew, and pulled pork is a full ham dinner on the side. I can see the argument between the writer and artist … “we can’t have a big meal that ISN’T Thanksgiving on the day!” “well, you HAVE to make it about the boar, no turkey drawings allowed.” “but, but that’s more of an Easter thing” “It’s a Holiday Spread – do a ham or nothing!” *sigh*
CS Maybe Crankshaft’s not interested in the turkey because you’ve apparently taken a few slices in the bottom of a very deep tray, maybe just the breast and no dark meat?! Looks like the budget this year only allowed some thick-cut deli slices they popped in the oven to warm up.
Blondie Sorry, not impressed – you can’t convince me that Dagwood’s cooking the bird based on how brown it looks. Now, if he’d rigged the camera to face the temperature readout from one of those meat thermometers that has a wire out of the oven, that’s something we could work with.
MW In one of the perils of Comics Time, Mary arrived at Toby’s on a normal day bearing muffins, today is Thanksgiving and they’re hanging out early in the middle of the holiday prep (maybe while Mary’s turkey is in the oven? we all know nobody would trust Toby to cook for the required [but this year off-screen] gathering) and tomorrow will be back to Mary Visits On A Day Like Any Other.
Really on brand for Dustin —- the strip for American Thanksgiving is about being hypocritical at a charity gala.
MW: Guys, I’m beginning to think Ian’s not at an “academic conference.”
H&L- The seating arrangement at the table this year seems very deliberate, and Hi is not please by how blatant they’re being about it. Is a little discretion too much to ask for? Meanwhile, Dot is starting to put the pieces together, and the repercussions of this could be severe.
Slylock Fox: #1 is thankful that his scarf isn’t tied securely; #2 and #3 will surely choke to death as they flee in terror.
H&L: Did Hi have a violent psychotic break? Thorazine would explain his expression and the reason he’s only allowed a spoon to eat with.
in the Shoeverse, the Big Rock Candy Mountain is where they hung the turkey that invented workey.
MW: Al Roker? Toby’s gonna flip when Sunny starts talking about sharts…
Hi and Lois: Uh, Irma, if you’re bringing baked armadillo to a Thanksgiving Dinner, etiquette suggests remove the shell before serving.
Dick Tracy: I guess Earl finished his list then regressed to the criminal life. [“My Name Is Earl” reference]
BG&SS: What sort of weird contortion is Barney going through in panel one, and why is he doing it?
@Pozzo:
He’s holding his hands behind his back, except with the strip’s artstyle that’s almost impossible to render without turning it into a blob of gloved fingers behind his back.
Happy Thanksgiving! A great site to start the day with a smile.
Bizarro: always a catch being an author – writing the book.
DT: so it seems it should be the Rojo gang as in red garb and red hair?
GT: nice art again everyone parotid glans have returned to their normal size.
MW: sunny learns to say “Al Roker”.
RMMD: Hmmm actually finishing reading the book before passing final judgment is a rational act. Too reasonable – something must be wrong. Looks like a job for RMMD!
Wary Morth:
Sunny is learning language just like children saying “meow-meow” and “bow-wow” are learning to speak Cat and Dog.
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Wrecks Moregone:
Wait till Winter reads the rest of the book and discovers that Auuuuughie plagiarised Harold Robbins’ “Where Love Has Gone”.
H&L: Nice puke-green wall.
@Treetown: re: RMMD – I’d say it’s also OK to judge the first few chapters, which were clearly enough to make her feel exploited / trigger any trauma, and the fact he blindsided her. Maybe the rest of the book makes it “better”, maybe he thought he was rewriting it as something empowering, but maybe that just doesn’t matter enough if the first impression was really bad for her.
I dunno, Thirsty looks stone sober…but it’s early folks, very early.
H&L: An angry Hi looks at Irma’s mussy bed hair and thinks; “and Lois said she was too busy with prep work to fuck this morning.”
Hi is Hi. Irma is high.
Greetings from Canada and a happy Thursday, everyone!
FC: A smug Billy comes back to the table wearing mittens. “Bet you didn’t see that one coming. Huh, Daddy-O?”
WTF, is it Celebrity Likeness Infringement Day? You’ve got Al Roker in MW and Jason Lee over in DT (they don’t even bother to change his last name, for crying out loud!) I guess Moy and Curtis are hoping they are too distracted with the Macy’s parade and whatever Jason Lee is currently working on, respectively, to sic their lawyers on them.
@Hibbleton: Damn, that Ian really knows how to clean himself up! How much Ozempic do you think he went through to fit into those jeans and I wonder how he chose ‘Emil’ as his alias? That might trip him up, too similar to his own name!
@Jay Fawley: See above, apparently he drastically altered his appearance, changed his name to ‘Emil’ and went to Norway to score with a sullen misanthropic sociopath who should be in a jail cell or rubber room for her criminal assault of a subject in an active police investigation.
RMMD: Place yer bets folks! How will the end of Augie Doggy Ding Dong Daddy’s book make Blondie feel all better about ADDDD’s exploitation of her traumatic experience?
A) Making her the one to kill the stalker?
B) Making the stalker say ‘I’m vewy vewy sowwy’ and give them the deed to his Texas oil field worth millions?
C) Having everyone discover they have a mutual love of roots country music and enjoying pleasant but tasty meals at the local diner?
Shoe – Shoe pointing to the sky while making a declaration makes me miss Cathy. No, that’s not right. Nothing makes me miss Cathy.
Hi and Lois – “What are we thankful for?” “Legacy comics! Sinecures!” “Yes, Reaves, we know. Does anyone else want to mention something to be thankful for?”
H&L: Not shaming people who eat out on Thanksgiving–maybe making the big feast has become too much of a hassle, maybe it’s just you and the SO this year, maybe you’re by yourself and need a little social connection. I will, however, shame the Thurstons for passive-aggresively ensuring that their neighbors feel compelled to repeat this token act of pity every year from here on out, a fact Hi seems all too aware of.
Shoe: Shoe is a purple martin, whose diet consists primarily of bugs. The Perfesser, meanwhile, is an osprey, and although he’s primarily a pescatarian he will hunt his fellow birds if he needs to–for example, to take out the galliforms his boss is threatening to replace him with.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Shit! It’s our arch-nemesis, Don Abundio!”
“Quick! I’ve outfitted the Babemobile with some new gadgets!”
“Use the flamethrower!”
@Aaron: In The Proud Family, Al Roker played himself, and was apparently also The Devil. Whom within a few episodes, Penny made a few supernatural “deals” with.
It’s kind of weird when an otherwise down to earth slice-of-life gets all crazy like that, but was still entertaining so…
RMMD – Wait ’til she gets to the sex scene! “You son of a bitch! You thought up that stuff but instead of doing any of it with me you always had to “grade papers!?!?” Augie’s doorbell rings, and an FTD man is there to shove a dozen roses up his ass stem first.
Shoe: At least the sentient turkeys aren’t being devoured by the other birds.
Animal Crossing did that in its early hey day, with the Turkey character hiding from the feast goers and asks you to steal the silverware from the other animals so they can’t eat him.
Then Nintendo realized “This is actually really messed up…” and decided to make the turkey the chef for the holiday instead, making pies and chowders and such.
Did y’all know that Baja Gaijin has a bull?
Pluggers hear “Amen” like runners hear a starter’s pistol.
GT: “He’s probably using AI himself” is the start of the fall of humanity, kid. The next step is to let the two AI coaching simulators play the game, like Deep Blue pitted against another Deep Blue.
DtM: Yes, Dennis, we’re all aware that Alice has roasted the white meat unto a plywood-like consistency again, and gravy is the only thing which will save it. Way to rub it in.
FC: Is this another repurposed strip? If you take the turkey off that table it’s not exactly Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want.
Blondie: Clearwater HS is playing in what appears to be Estadio do Maracana, to 200,000 spectators. Take that, Milford Mudlarks.
MW: You know that Newsmax is PG-rated, Toby? But keep watching that and you’ll have to explain why your parrot keeps chanting “Crows will not replace us!”
RMMD- ” I gotta big empty house and nothin’ to do; Auggie I’m already missin’ you”. Not bad,Summer! Do we have the makings of the next roots country hit on our hands here? Could Truck or Cody lay down some guitar licks, maybe some steel guitar and fiddle in the background? ” I was all dressed up like a purdy French maid…but Auggie you always had papers to grade…” And then Cody takes over on the B side..”Now she’s gone Auggie gone..yeah she’s Auggie gone..she’s gone Auggie gone… Summer’s gone away…” Happy Thanksgiving!
C’shaft: If that leaf is making Crankshaft so miserable he can’t be a nuisance, it’s doing the Lord’s work.
DT: “Oh, the CAR! Well, that changes everything! (beat) I’m still not saying a damn word until you get my lawyer in here.”
Dustin: The Kudliks are apparently well-off enough to afford $200-a-pop charity gala tickets and be at least casually acquainted with local politicians, despite being the world’s worst lawyer and a radio host whose entire shtick consists of having random people call her to say random things. They could have inherited wealth, which would explain the misanthropic attitude towards society but not Dustin himself, who in that scenario would be an idle playboy failson using his money to make up for his complete lack of everything else. I dunno, maybe the problem is that Parker and Kelly are running out of ways to express how much they hate everybody and everything.
GT: Look, I’m here for anti-generative-AI commentary, especially from creative types, but if all you as a writer are bringing to the table is “AI sucks” you’re not really making the best case for yourself.
JP: Who talks like this? “Oh, I thought you meant the 1990 film Troll 2, written and directed by Claudio Fragasso and starring Michael Stephenson and George Hardy. It was universally panned on its release but has since gained a cult following, and spawned a popular internet meme in which the character Arnold, played by Darren Ewing, cries, ‘Oh my Gooooooood!’ To learn more about movies widely considered to be the worst ever made, such as Plan Nine from Outer Space or The Room, visit your local library!”
MW: How long has Mary been at Toby’s condo? They started by watching prime time sitcoms, and now Al Roker is about to introduce the cast of Ragtime at the Macy’s Parade!
Pluggers always gorge themselves like it was a holiday at the dinner table.
RMMD: I can’t wait to see what Augie has written that will somehow make everything okay. No really, I can’t. The level of stupidity it will take to resolve this situation will be one for the ages.
Welp, I was not ready for the second panel horror that is Giant Baby Snuffy Smith.
Shoe: “Yes, that’s right, Perfesser! I’m a bird racist! I hate turkeys for being different! And I think toucans should go back to where they came from!”
Dick Tracy-You should really ask him about that list of names he has. That karma stuff is just a cover.
@TheDiva: On RMMD, do you think it will be one of the outcomes I posited above, or something that’s somehow more stupid yet also more mundane and boring?
Hi and Lois: Speaking of acknowledging that you’re a comics character, it’s kind of cute that Hi and Lois have served their turkey with decorative four-fingered gloves. Or maybe they just want the kids to enjoy pretending that they’re eating Mickey Mouse? Fun or horrifying, you decide!
Pearls Before Swine: It seems Pig is better endowed than Rat.
9CL: An inside joke referring to a back story nobody has ever seen does not work. Chocolate ship cookies?
Hi is upset because Lois won’t break out the wine until Thurston leaves.
Rex Morgan Mashups: I somehow, ahem, obtained tomorrow’s Rex Morgan strip and a couple of outtakes. Which should become canon?
@53 Sequitur: “My box is bigger than your box” seem to me to be something that the girls in Judge Parker might say to each other.
@Bob Tice:
#1. And we’re thankful for YOUR wit and efforts, Sir Tice!
LUANN: Notes about the lovely family table
– why is Brad at the head? He neither hunted nor purchased the food.
– Don’t see the two additional green vegetables. Grandma is a slacker.
– Nancy looks good for being catatonic.
JP: so Ian Cameron’s been hiding out in Norway this summer- good decision.
Pertinent Strips: CURTIS, JUMP START, MF (which must not be discussed), PLUGGERS,
@Activist:
LUANN: Notes about the lovely family table
– why is Brad at the head? He neither hunted nor purchased the food.
Answer : Brad is at the head of the table because, as a baby, he would throw temper tantrums whenever he WASN’T at the head of the table, and by 1994, he hadn’t grown out of it yet.
– Nancy looks good for being catatonic.
Answer : that’s why she’s not in the third panel; she either fainted off her chair, or ran to her bedroom to cry.
@The Quiet Man:
#36. JP: Quitman, you and Hibbleton found him first. Congrats! You get the coveted Turkey Award
RMMD: The “Autumn” character ends up as a heroin addict and gets shot in the face. Augs is going for the gritty urban tone.
DtM: Alice certainly went all out on the side dishes.
FG: Flash is once more beset by multiple heavily-armed marauders! Dis is gettin’ monotonous.
”Moving in timeworn concert, three figures drop from above in body-hugging cheongsams….the geishas then plump up Flash’s velvet throw pillows and serve him camomile tea!”
Zits Spanish to English.
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
@richardf8: Well, FTD stands for Fuck the Dog, right?
Shoe: I mean, in universe, this is just racist. This is “If I wanted someone to write ching-chang wing-wong I would have hired a Chinaman” racist.
Gotta love the classics on holidays, and today’s “Pluggers are better than everyone else” is a classic.
H&L: Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Hiram Flagston becomes Rex Morgan, unable to smile and vaguely annoyed at everything.
@56 Baja Gaijin:
This is all I could come up with.
@68 Sequitur: Really? “This page left intentionally blank”? You couldn’t write something about Iggy’s leaky dick? Or Autumn and Iggy making hot sweaty monkey sex on a dung heap? With his leaky dick.
H&L: Once again Hi is unsettled by the uncanny resemblance between the twins and Thirsty. Does Lois seem too happy to have Thirsty and Irma at the table? Hi feels his sadness expand.
Shoe: So, in the Shoe world, do actual birds such as turkeys still exist alongside the evolved bird-men? Birds who cannot speak but instead make the familiar “gobble, gobble” sound? Or is Shoe (the character) just super-racist against turkeys?
H&L: I think Trixie may also notice her father’s discomfort but is, in fact, taking vicarious pleasure in it. Some babies just want to see the world burn.
BG&SS: “Also, my adult husband conveniently fits in a child’s highchair, which … say, you’re baby-sized, too, Mr. Google! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?”
Crank: I’m sure Ed isn’t the first Funkyverse character to be rendered nauseous by The Last Leaf…
DT: Oh, I see. The logic here is that the drug dealer knows someone with a car and, as established on Tuesday, the moment Dick learned Ozob had previously made custom cars for criminals, he concluded that he must have made all custom cars for criminals.
Also, It’s Always A Reference.
Shoe: Off on a tangent here, but those who follow the 70 Years, 70 Muppets thing on the social media might be aware that this week’s official Muppet is Beverly Plume, the turkey cooking show presenter from that Disney+ thing a few years ago. And, as a foreigner, it was only reading this post when I realised why it’s this week.
Anyway, happy Thanksgiving to all American and Canadian ‘Mudges, and happy Friendsgiving to any of you from Norway!
@69 Baja Gaijin:
Why should I? You just did.
@Horace Broon: Thanks for the thought, but Canadian Thanksgiving was last month. (It’s not as big a deal as in the States.)
@73 Sequitur: I hope others chime in with their “added novel page.” No one needs to add them to the image like you did; I’ll add good ones to the image and post them.
Thanksgiving is a slow day here on joshreads.com , so it is time for all our for all my fellow non-USians to make our voice heard: the week starts on Monday, not Sunday!
@TheDiva: JP: Who talks like this?
It’s like Mark Trail if he was into movie trivia instead of Nature Facts!
@Rube: Oops, my mistake. (I was researching an autumn-themed quiz recently, and I think I skimmed the sentence “Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA and Canada” and missed “But not on the same day.”)
And it makes sense Canada’s would be earlier; it’s like what I was saying last week about Scotland and Norway having the Harvest Festival when there’s still some daylight around.
@Baja Gaijin:
(Since I’m not in position to even TRY to edit the image)
Iggy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “You mean YOU were the one who killed the evil stalker!?”
Autumn replied cooly. “Yeah, I did.”
Iggy sputtered “But, what about the other guy, the one the police arrested, the one who’s all but already found guilty? You mean you FRAMED him!?”
Autumn shrugged. “Not really. I did tip the cops off about him, because when I investigated the evil stalker’s past crimes, I found that one of his previous victims had committed suicide due to his stalking. And that her father had recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis, only six months left to live. Guy is willing to take the credit for avenging his daughter, and with the ‘speed’ of our justice system, he’ll die before he has to go to prison.”
Iggy thought about it, and conceded. Autumn, as always, was right.
Yeah, I’m going with Summer’s OMG coming from her realisation that she probably should have read the entire novel before confronting Augie over it, except instead of coming around, and now approving the novel, it’s because she would have had better “You can’t publish this” arguments.
@78 Anonymous: Wow, that’s a lot to fit on one page. Let’s see what I can do…
H&L: Hi already works with Thirsty and for some reason plays golf with him so unlike Lois and the neglected baby, he’s not up to acting happy to see the Thurstons.
Shoe: As it happens the Treetops Tattler has never hired a turkey, but you get the feeling a discrimination lawsuit is right around the corner.
Nancy (classic): Sorta Thanksgiving-related, I guess. Though it makes we wonder if the geopolitical situation in 1953 was bad enough for Sluggo to seriously worry if Eisenhower was planning an imminent aerial invasion of Istanbul, leading to his cousin’s gruesome war death. From the spiky things, you know.
@Baja Gaijin:
…You could abridge it, and cut off the text after “you FRAMED him!?”, which I feel keeps the idea intact.
C-Shaft: “No more turkey, dad?” she said while holding a pan full of burritos.
DT: “I know you’ve availed yourself of your Miranda rights, Mr. Lee, but how shall I put this? LOL. LMAO.”
Dustin: The revelation that the mayor of (GENERIC COMIC STRIP SETTING) is married to a perky goth is the most interesting thing ever to happen in Dustin, so naturally no one will ever talk about it.
GT: Well Emily seems to have figured out that Gil doesn’t have his own mouthbreathing stat geek telling him to use AI, so she’s got a point.
JP: Meanwhile one of the other guests has had one glass of merlot too many and has her hand on Ernest “Papa” Hemingway’s crotch, but I guess everyone has agreed not to notice that.
Lockhorns: Leroy’s original line—“Why cook a big Thanksgiving meal? We don’t have any friends or family.”—was rejected for being Too Real.
Luann: Considering the way the men in the family are drawn I’m expecting one of them to shout “CONSUME MASS QUANTITIES!”
MW: One funny prank would be to stream the entire run of The Sopranos while Toby’s not around. Imagine her finding out that not only has Sunny learned a lot of naughty words, but was saying them in a North Jersey accent.
RMMD: Summer finds out that the book’s later chapters are lifted wholesale from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, but it’s all good because public domain.
@TheDiva: Just want to say, that was a very funny Judge Parker comment.
@82 Anonymous: Too late. Check the link to the mashups to see your words immortalized in comic form.
@83 Artist formerly known as Ben: on Judge Parker. I hadn’t noticed her giving him a handy-j right in front of everyone. I guess it’s true what they say, Europeans have a different view of sex than prudish Americans.
Snuffy: That’s parasitic twin remnants on that man whose name I don’t care to know.
@Horace Broon: Don’t forget to honor the moose, deer, and beaver, who saved the lives of the first Canadian pioneers by teaching them how to plant corn and build canoes.
I’ll give Pam the benefit of the doubt and say she carved the turkey herself in the kitchen to avoid the potential disaster of having Crankshaft do the job at the dining table.
Points off for not owning a serving platter and needing to offer the sliced breast in a cake pan.
The Familliar Mucus: “Use the toilet paper Billy! That’s what its there for!”
@Joe Blevins: Shoe: So, in the Shoe world, do actual birds such as turkeys still exist alongside the evolved bird-men?
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1) Turkeys are too dignified to hang out with Shoe and company.
2) They tend to drown when looking for Treetops.
Shoe WOULD hire a turkey, but everybody knows they’re a bunch of Bolsheviks.
@Baja Gaijin: Yeah, and to think these are the Europeans most closely related to Minnesotans. (No offense, Gopher State ‘mudges. I kid cuz I love.)
Hi’s just contemplating what he’s going to tell the children when Thirsty drinks into his “Naked Time,” and how to explain why Aunt Irma is crying, yet aroused. You got this, Hi.
@92 Artist formerly known as Ben: Do Minnesotan give public handy-j’s? I may have to visit St. Paul…
Late Thread Cuisine: For those whose Thanksgiving dinners didn’t live up to their expectations, you can be thankful you didn’t see this on the dinner table.
@Baja Gaijin:
I am thankful the photo is in black and white.
@Baja Gaijin:
#95. Good heavens! And I was grossed out by the gizzard giblets in my innocent stuffing. (Is that tongue raw?)
@95 Baja Gaijin:
Dithers: “We’re pressed for time, Bumstead.”
Dagwood: “No, boss. We’re pressed for ox tongue!”
Dithers: “????!!!!”
@96 Anonymous: The color version was washed out. Seeing it and this monochrome version, I do NOT want to see this in person. It could be the star of a horror movie on The Food Network.
@97 Activist: No, the tongue is pickled then cooked, 40 minutes per pound. The recipe serves 10-18 people. It says to allow a half-pound of tongue for each person. You can do the math.
@98 Sequitur: The recipe requires a spring form pan to get that oh-so-pleasing round cake look. Oh yeah, to ensure the roundness, aspic fills in the gaps that the tongue doesn’t.
@Bob Tice: Lovely sentiment. Happy Thanksgiving, Bob!
The Duplex: How to stuff a Thanksgiving turkey.
Little does Toby realize…..the window eels have been teaching Sunny swear words.
@Sequitur: The Duplex: How to stuff a Thanksgiving turkey
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I saw that film, on a double bill with Vincent Price in “Dr Goldfoot and The Turkey Machine.”
FC: Why is Thel wearing a 1950s maids uniform? Are she and Bil planning some weird cosplay after dinner?
FC: Where’s HTT Grandma? This setting is the perfect opportunity for her to passively-aggressively insult Thel’s cooking.
FC: Good job, Billy. Now go wash your feet.
@Bob Tice: 2. Our Thought Leaders, Baja and Scratchy
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They fight …and bite…..fight fight fight bite bite bite…”The Baja & Scratchy Movie” (69% New Footage)
At least one turkey exists in the Shoe-verse! Its been established that Benny Butterballs is the star player at Roz’ favorite date/escort service.
@Baja Gaijin:
Actually, tongue is super yummy. I’m not sure about THIS presentation but…well, I’m kinda THAT guy with these now, aren’t I?
@GarrisonSkunk:
I snorted some wine at this. Bravo!
@Peanut Gallery: Alternate take: “Oh, Magoo! You’ve done it again!”
@Activist: And I was grossed out by the gizzard giblets
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In Dagwood’s web comic, “Superfoodman”, Clark Bar Kent’s boss, Perry Bite, uses the catch phrase ” Great gizzard giblets” whenever he’s startled.
@A Grave Mind: Bravo!
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Thanks, greatly!
@Baja Gaijin: @Artist formerly known as Ben: Who can forget the wonderful Babette’s Feast, in which the religious cult Nordskis make such a hullabaloo with their constant raucous kinky sex that the Parisian housekeeper finally has to fix them a meal to calm them down.
@112 Ukulele Ike:
But he wasn’t thinking and served them oysters.
Shoe – Jokes on Shoe, Gobbledygook (a form of Turkey slang) is all the rage on bird TikTok, and incorporating it would make his declining paper relevant. Perfesser’s efforts to learn what Skyler is into have failed to pay off once again.
Hi and Lois – Chip is absolutely sitting between the twins because they were fighting earlier before the Thurstons arrived.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith – Furniture is a luxury in Hootin’ Holler, and the Smifs should be thankful to have one acceptable dinner table.
Pluggers’ national anthem.
@Sequitur: See M.F.K. Fisher’s Consider the Oyster. One of the most informative and best-written little food books I’ve ever read, and comes in at under a hundred pages.
Sex Organ V.D.: The book turns out to be an unsold copy of Detective Ron Harris’ “Blood On The Badge”
Shoe – But no – I ended up with a shitbird like you…and on Thanksgiving, no less….
H&L – Thursty’s thankful for an open liquor cabinet….
BG&SS – That thar puréed turkey be good eatin’….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Hi’s stoned.
@Bob Tice: Well put, Bob.
@Earl: Wouldn’t you?
@GarrisonSkunk: So Augie is going to lose everything when Arnold Ripner sues him for defamation?
@Ukulele Ike: Initially I presumed this was going to be cannibalism related when you said the word Cult.
Because I’m probably conditioned towards being reminded that Skyrim had a vampire named Babette who ate people.
Although she is an assassin, but was turned when she was a child giving her a forever child’s body, so the assassin’s guild (which is a cult/business by the way) she works for has her take out the targets who are pedophiles.
Sicko ends up dead, she gets a free meal, and gets paid for it.
Works out well for pretty much everyone.
@The Rambling Otter: Hmmm… I just realized. I don’t think that said character is actually a cannibal, for some odd reason I just assumed that that came with being a vampire.
So I had to stop and think “Do vampires do that?”
I don’t believe she did.
FC: Just remember, Billy. Wipe your ass before you wash your hands.
@The Rambling Otter: Uh, no, it’s a movie. From 1987. Click the link.
(Charlie McCarthy: “The joke is…”) It’s the exact opposite of what I said it was.
@Ukulele Ike: I wasn’t mistaking your topic :3
I was literally putting in my own topic in relation.
@Baja Gaijin:
#115. Baja, that video of course was perfect for Thanksgiving night! Think I’ll head back to the fridge now…. Thanks for the inspiration.
@The Rambling Otter: Uh. Okay….
H&L: Are Thirsty and [thirsty’s wife] unable to go to the grocery store before a holiday and purchase food to prepare? Thirsty even has a job and stuff now, so they shouldn’t be required to get “takeout”.