Domestic intranquillity
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Marvin, 1/5/26
Man, women, amiright? The nerve of them preparing frozen food instead of a fresh, home-cooked meal! It’s almost enough to get you to put down the remote and get out of your chair! I swear that every once in a while Marvin hears me ranting about all the poop and pee jokes and says “Oh, you’re sick of poop and pee jokes? Well, we’ll do a different kind then, but I don’t think you’ll like it. I don’t think you’ll like it at all. It’ll be about how women be microwaving.”
Hi and Lois, 1/5/26
See, now in terms of “Not eating in a socially approved fashion,” I like this one a lot better, and it’s entirely down to Hi, who alone on the couch doesn’t appear to be having a good time. That’s an expression that tells me that he’s had an epiphany and is thinking, “Wait, was I not supposed to do this? Am I a bad father? Should I have at least put a tarp of some sort over the couch before everyone started going to town?”
Six Chix, 1/5/26
Now, we’ve all heard a lot about “AI” these days, and how AI machines can do your chores and maybe even take your job. But what if, deep down, they want to dance? And, hopefully [notes the lady in the comic’s erotically charged side-eye], something more?
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MW:
“Why don’t you just wear your shoes everywhere, including to bed — you know, just like you have me do, Ian? Problem solved!”
No, Jen, you’re supposed to stick your head in the oven to end it all!
Six Chix:
I’m guessing he’s into metal.
Hi and Lois:
If Trixie is actually engaged by what’s showing on the tube, they must all be watching Teletubbies.
Marvin:
“What’s for dinner, Jen?”
“Fish sticks from The Gorton’s Fisherman. Marvin likes the shape. Go figure.”
FC-Oh I see that the teacher lets loose with a string of profanities when Dolly is around too.
Six Chix-Reminds me a bit of the Sex Robot sketch from the Whitest Kids U’ Know.
MW Another week, another round of Toby has no idea how to use a birdcage*. Ian, maybe before resorting to Looney Tunes bird-management plans, you could try to close that wire door?
*Yes, I know Toby *said* she wanted to let the bird decide whether or not to stay in the cage but given how she thinks a parrot is like some college roommate you have to work around, I’m not convinced she didn’t say that to avoid revealing to the pet store clerk that she doesn’t have the brainpower to open a latch
DT Tackle him, Tracy! He can’t aim that gun with his eyes covered by Starlight Mints!
Six Chix: There was a Flock of Seagulls song about this. I don’t have a joke today, but I do have information about a Flock of Seagulls, and they closed their first album with a song that was about basically this.
Marvin-You want dinner make it your damn self! This is 2026! Why are we still engaged in this outdated stereotype of women are the ones who cook.
Ripley: Not all that hard to believe. The same is true of Philadelphia Jones, San Francisco Kowznopfski, and Minnesota Fats.
JP: Hint: The answer is boyfriends. Lots and lots of boyfriends. Once one boyfriend cools off, you kick him out of bed and replace him with another, warmer, boyfriend. — Scandahoovian Junior Woodchuck Girls’ Handbook
Phantom: Great heavens, what a choice Jungle Patrol faux pas.
Like many young people, Chip is dealing in aesthetic anarchism: “Don’t be slave of the habits of dead generations, mother! Unclench the chokehold of the past! We build our actions entirely of our own will!”
MW: Hard to say which of them is the more annoying; Ian with his non-stop mantrums, or Toby, with her bird flu-induced Zen.
H&L: Welcome to the 1960’s, when the “boob tube” was a looming threat to the American way of life!
GT: Gil deftly survives his encounter with the (gasp!) Town Divorcee.
6C: Well, to be fair, the lazy artist didn’t provide much for him to clean.
One of Isaac Asimov’s worst books is The Robots Of Dawn, where the plot centres around the “murder” of a humanoid robot on the planet of Aurora (“Dawn”). These humanoid robots, all of whom are male, are so humanoid they have perfectly functional genitalia, and an important plot point is that an Auroran woman who acquired one immediately used him/it for sexual gratification and called herself his/its wife.
It’s been almost 40 years since I read that turkey, so some details may be hazy. I do not recall any dancing, though.
H&L: I’m not the neatest housekeeper in the world by any stretch of the imagination, but something about the way Chip is eating that sloppy hamburger while leaning over as if to make sure all the drippings fall onto the carpet below him is giving me hives.
Marvin: …She said, while bending over at a ninety degree angle to stick her head and shoulders into a refrigerator that appears to have no freezer, and even if it does have one it wouldn’t be where she’s looking right now.
Marvin: The colorist knew the assignment, so there’s a lot of black to match the abyss of the Millers’ souls.
HnL: I mean, it would have been nice for them to save a spot for Lois. She probably didn’t even microwave that dinner!
6C: After seeing the Daily Show segment about the Neo robot butler, I’m a little horrified by this situation.
GT: Say now, that’s some good art!
(referring to the busty and available Mrs. Wilson, not the depiction of Gil as 30-year-old Dean Martin four Bourbons in)
Either Josh or the Six Chix team has been reading Maria Llovet’s Artificial.
DT and GT: try outs for a new artist?
JP: The girls need to go out and see what the Norwegians are doing rather than hiding in their ex-pat enclave. What type of charity is this? Is this like the Human Fund? Money for people like these girls?
MW: So far Sunny has scored every single time: verbally, property destruction, general desecration, and co-opting the cat. It is your move Ian. Get your own bird? Like a falcon?
RMMD: Um… at times it is close race between GT and RMMD to see which strip has the least awareness of its topic setting. In GT we’ve seen sports out of season, one of the BB players good enough to get a pro tryout and then return to the team? That is LeBron James and Moses Malone level skill. Eleven person blitz that results somehow in a game winning pick six when one of the blitzers (seen in frame with the QB) peels back and with Flash like speed races back for the interception and then runs it back for the TD. Surgical specialists do not just sit around waiting for a patient to show up needing surgery – they get referrals and see them first in CLINIC and then book an OR date. Usually busy surgeons have regular blocked out time in the OR; hence, the term BLOCK TIME.Rex can’t be that busy that he has block time otherwise why did he have to ask to be put back up to do more surgery? And if he isn’t regularly doing surgery in the past, he wouldn’t have privileges…what is grinding like fine iron shavings in the gears, is that all of this easy to find out – it is not hidden away in some pay walled site!
DT: Finally! It’s been far too long since this strip had a weirdly disfigured thug! (No, Rojo Ozob does not count, stupid Joker wannabe.)
Dustin: Oh for f–
(grabs Parker and Kelly by the lapels and screams in their faces)
HAMNET WAS THE NAME OF SHAKESPEARE’S SON WHO DIED AT A TRAGICALLY YOUNG AGE, THE MOVIE IS BASED ON A BESTSELLING HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL AND EXPLORES HOW SHAKESPEARE’S GRIEF AT LOSING HIS CHILD MIGHT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO HIS MOST CELEBRATED PLAY, YOU IGNORANT AND INSENSITIVE FUCKS!!!
*cough*
Anyway, enjoyed the book. Should really get around to seeing the movie (even if it does rename Anne Hathaway “Agnes” for reasons I completely understand but raise my hackles nonetheless).
GT: All I can say is thank God for the guest artist. I’m not sure I’d want to see Rachel Merrill’s version of “Recently Divorced MILF Channeling Pamela Anderson and Trying Way Too Hard to Get Into Gil’s Pants.”
JP: Oh, it’s early January and you’ve just NOW figured out it gets very cold and dark during the winter in Norway?
Luann: Phil’s lack of any kind of recognizable human emotion or behavior is disturbing, but it does explain why he can tolerate Luann.
MW: Ian’s having a hissy fit because the bird he tried to kill doesn’t like him for some strange reason, and is making that dislike extremely plain. Toby, meanwhile, tells him he should just relax and let Sunny use his nice shoes for a toilet. They’re both idiots, but their specific idiocies clash in such a way as to be bizarrely entertaining.
RMMD: Oh good, so you’ll be taking appointments for two hours a day instead of one?
6C – Either this strip exists in a timeline in which robots have free will, or she has switched the setting on her robot app to “boogie” and just tells her friends that the robot has free will. Either way, not funny.
GT: Another day, another guest artist, another chance to hope that Rachel Merrell was fired or quit.
MW: Until shown otherwise, I have to assume Ian killed the cat for failing to take out Sunny. (He couldn’t get Sunny himself because the parrot flew out of reach) That’s why Ian’s just now bringing up this topic when they’re already in bed; he was busy washing away the evidence.
At least we didn’t get a joke about the robot dancing, well, The Robot. Small victories, I’ll take what I can get.
Monday Chick apparently decided to do a low-rent ripoff of Martha Wells’ Murderbot stories. I think I prefer “binge-watching trash TV” to “awkwardly trying to dance” as a robotic hobby, but presumably the murdering will start tomorrow.
Luann: Are we being invited to think this is an unhealthy relationship, or is this what the Evanses think is a healthy relationship?
CS: “The app is AI-powered, so I can destroy bird habitats while I use it.”
9CL: Geez! You should be happy Edda recognizes your existence at all.
Hi and Lois – Everyone is happy about what they’re seeing on the TV, except Hi, who looks disturbed. They must be watching one of those family sitcoms in which the father is a hapless doofus. Or to put it more briefly, they must be watching a family sitcom.
Just caught up on yesterday’s post. Bethaney’s crying face is so awful that I’m going to use it as a reaction image moving forward.
GT: “Why are you directing traffic anyway, Coach?”
“There was a train wreck this morning.”
“So? This strip is a train wreck every day.”
Marvin – I’ve seen a fridge with the freezer on the bottom, but it was a separate drawer, not behind the main door. And if this whole appliance is a freezer, why would it contain what appear to be bottles of liquid? Conclusion: Jen keeps her “frozen” foods in the refrigerator where they thaw out and go bad, so she can serve them to her husband, whom she hates. And with good reason!
Don Abundio, translated:
“This gentleman wishes to see you, Boss”
“What can I do for you?”
“I’d like your advice on how to create a truly impressive personal library”
“That’s easy”
“Book-patterned wallpaper”
FC: “She even got the ‘Stupid Fucking’ part of my name right!”
MW: Even Ian knows he’s a pompous axx.
Dustin: I can hear Kelley’s “hurr durr” from where I’m sitting.
Dustin Dustdad is a moron. And proud of it.
LUANN: It’s like Luann looked at the last Rex Morgan M.D. storyline regarding a blonde woman making mountains out of molehills regarding an extremely vague and minor infraction in her go-nowhere relationship with a boring drip and said “Hold my
beerOvaltine!” (Luann: “Hooray! There’s finally something I can do better than another person!”)LUANN (2): Much like that infamous waste of time, I’m left wondering what Luann’s actual damage is, since…um…aren’t they spending time together now? Is there anything they do on their coffee runs that they don’t and can’t just do right there (Hey Luann, you know they let you take java to-go now.) I know, I know. How can they possible have meaningful conversation at the nursing home when Phil is so busy worki…hahahaha I’m sorry I couldn’t keep a straight face. (If Luann really wanted a cushy job for braindead slobs, she should just follow in Phil’s footsteps)
MW- Ian, Ian, pompous axxe, give that parrot forty whacks. When she sees what you have done, give that bimbo forty-one!
GT- “Maar-thaa”!
It appears that Lois has cooked each Flagston a different meal. Their favourites, probably. And they still won’t deign to dine with her!
JP: You know, if you two ninnies were doing the job you were ostensibly sent to Norway to do instead of sitting on the couch, you probably wouldn’t care that the sun was going down.
S4th: The answer to your question, Hilary, is ‘No’. No, your mother is not okay, and neither is your father, and neither are you, and neither is your aunt, and neither is your cousin, and neither is your grandmother, and neither is…
Marvin: “It’s just really hard to search through the freezer when my entire body is stuck in a 90 degree angle at all times!”
Hi And Lois: This actually does a pretty good job highlighting how shallow and stupid a lot of nuclear family conservative ideas are. Because what is the functional difference between the entire family gathering at a table or on a couch to eat? They’re eating together and conversing. So the only reason that Lois has to complain about it is because of the writer’s “back in MY day” idiocy where nobody is allowed to have real fun and has to be kinda miserably puritan or else they’re a dysfunctional failure at best, a disgraceful sinner at worst.
Six Chix: The second season of Murderbot is going in some weird and horny directions.
Marvin: It’s hard to get your hands on any joke at all in Marvin. I suspect it was meant to be that Jen goes to the frozen food so often she calls it a ‘department’ instead of a drawer or freezer or whatever. Or maybe not. Maybe the joke is that she thinks it’s funny to call it a ‘department’ but her husband, who may also be Marvin’s father, is getting tired of that joke after the first few hundred repetitions? Or maybe Josh is right, it’s “women be microwaving,” but I tend to disagree. Or maybe it’s just the drawing of her butt that’s funny. Really, to tease out the hidden meaning here takes more acute analytical skills than mine.
Six Chix: “I bought him to perform tasks requiring some basic reasoning and adaptive interaction with a complex environment, but all he wants to do is a set of predetermined rhythmic motions that are frankly fairly trivial for a machine! I’m beginning to suspect I’ve been sold a bill of goods in a seductive anthropomorphic wrapper!”
Hi and Lois: “But what about Trixie?” “Eh, stick her on the floor, like always. I’m sure she’ll figure out how to bottle-feed herself. And if she can’t understand the subtle humor of ‘Pluribus,’ that’s on her.”
Marvin: “But what about the readers?” “Eh, give them Marvin’s mom bending over. If they can’t understand the subtle sexuality of a cartoon character’s butt, that’s on them.”
Six Chix: It’s the ultra-modern version of “The Gift of the Magi.” The robot she purchased to do her chores was so expensive that she had to sell all her belongings — and there are no chores left to do. So to paraphrase O. Henry, “Now it’s party time!”
What A Frazzhole!: Do Frazzhole phones dream of electric creeps?
MARVIN: Actually, Marvin mom is przcting for the glorious day she works up the nerve to stick her head in the oven (she kinda has to “warm up to it” first. Ha, ha, get it?)
The Flagstons are watching yesterday’s Steelers-Ravens game. Trixie has no idea what’s happening. Dot is enjoying the statistical analysis. Ditto is happy for an exciting game. Hi is horrified by whatever season-endangering bonehead play his team just executed. Chip just wants to see the world burn.
@2+2=7:
On what Luann’s damage is : She dumped her last boyfriend because he told her he couldn’t go on a one-week vacation with her because he had made other plans he couldn’t cancel. Specifically, it was a professional commitment he said was “a good career move”.
So Luann definitely believes a “job/spending time with your lover” dilemma is a much bigger deal than Phil’s reaction is making it out to be.
….She thinks not immediately dropping everything to do what SHE wants is a sign of non-commitment, he’s jealous of her speaking with other guys because he’s never gotten over not noticing a girl he had known his entire life got a boyfriend LONG before he worked up the courage to confess his feelings. What a great couple!
(also he constantly makes insulting remarks about people who don’t “have it together” as well as he does that she takes as being personally directed at her)@Ace: I expanded. Looks like Dot has corn chips, Ditto has cookies, Hi has crackers and Cheez Whiz. Chip comes in first in the nutrition sweepstakes with his burger providing protein, carbs, and (with that glimpse of green) a bunch of steamed broccolini. No one can accuse LOIS of being a lazy cook.
A super-intelligent AGI would not bother conquering the world or destroy humans (risky and resource-consuming), it would spend its entire time in hedonistic pleasure. Kudos to Six Chix for doing better AI commentary than most of the internet
Yeah Lois, but your family produced 1) you and 2) Beetle, so I can see why your children want to try a different approach
Marvin – In their younger, pre-Marvin years, Jen would have made a flirty food-based pun, leading to some sex, either before, after, (and occasionally during) dinner. But Marvin killed his parents’ sex drive, as the gods cursed both for bringing that piss-and-shit demon into the world. Now their love life is as cold as those recalled radioactive shrimp that Jenny is about to microwave.
Hi and Lois – As Hi and Lois are canonically Millennials, and with rising recession fears, I expect the media to brush off the old chestnut of blaming Millennials for Killing The [Dining Room Furniture] Industry.
Six Chix – Elon has gone from having the ear of the president to having to bribe newspaper comics to make his Optimus robot’s dance function (done by a an underpaid engineer in India in a motion capture suit) seem cool.
“What’s for dinner?”
“Frozen food is an option in our society”.
Bold of Marvin to go entirely without jokes
Marvin: I can only conclude that Jen’s refrigerator pose was adopted to entice her blasé husband into giving her a “surprise” rogering. “Subtle sexuality,” my foot.
Marvin: “I’m checking the frozen food department. Meanwhile, please relax and enjoy this free sample of the show I will be performing in full for my OnlyFans subscribers later tonight.”
Marvin: Judging my her position, I’d say Jenny is going for something Greek.
Has Gil be demoted to the school patrol? (Or, in his case, maybe that would be a promotion.)
FG: Meanwhile, Bones Malock and Flash enjoy a friendly game of Cosmic Wimpout.
Bones admits they got the nickname from the skeleton-and-roses shirt they wore to every Dead show until it got raggedy, and still has all the Bettyboard bootleg cassettes they started collecting in the 1970s. Flash just smiles, takes another drag on the bong, and rolls a Freight Train of sixes.
Why are you ‘mudges looking at a weird, perfectly spherical joint and thinking “MARVIN’S MOM BUTTSHOT”?
I mean, that’s where my mind went immediately too, it’s just… there’s no butt there!@taig: CS: “The app is AI-powered, so I can destroy bird habitats while I use it.”
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Someone gave Cranky a Bird Buddy™?
RMMD-Rex has himself scheduled for surgery as soon as possible.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: 55: Budget cuts. Everyone has to do bus duty. I did it for 30 years.
Crankshaft-“Well we found the cause of his death. Somebody shoved this phone into him rectally.”
Pluggers get the weather forecast from. a paper set to print 8pm last night because they…don’t trust the AM radio version?
Beetle Bailey: Relax, flu and Covid opponents. They’re already fluid bonded.
Slylock Fox: But what if I’m not a retro drug dealer with a balance scale?
GT: Yay! A new artist, one capable of drawing attractive women. Looks like the Gil Thorp and Dick Tracy artists are in a competition to see who can draw the best cleavage-baring blonde bombshell.
@brendancalling:
Now, now, the artist is only doing what creatives have done over the centuries on a job they took just for the pay and not for any artistic reason. Sometimes it is being a waiter or clerk or some type of temp. Usually they do a barely passable job until something they really want comes along. No one really has a burning ambition to draw GT. It isn’t Nancy ! :)
@brendancalling:
Now, now, the artist is only doing what creatives have done over the centuries on a job they took just for the pay and not for any artistic reason. Sometimes it is being a waiter or clerk or some type of temp. Usually they do a barely passable job until something they really want comes along. No one really has a burning ambition to draw GT. It isn’t Nancy ! :)
Gil – Anyone else confused by the juxtaposition of the word balloons? I read it as Clara McCleavage congratulating Gil on his engagement followed by Gil saying, “He’s a good kid.”
6Chx: Reminds me of an early 60s sci-fi movie, “Creation of the Humanoids”, where this guy who belongs to an anti-robot terrorist organization called The Order of Flesh and Blood is mortified to learn his sister is dating her lifelike android servant. At the end of the movie the brother discovers that he too is a robot. The film is based on a play and filmed like one, a lot of talk and little action. It’s purported to have been one of Andy Warhol’s favorite movies. The sister’s robot paramour was played by Dudley Manlove, who played the head alien baddie in “Plan 9 from Outer Space”.
CS: why would the Bombers have sent Crankshaft a helmet, rather than, say, a game worn jersey with autographs? Could it be Batiuk was trying to force a joke
BC-“When does this nuclear winter end?”
Blondie-“Pompous axx!”
Pluggers need to check the weather for their 69 Weirdchick Lame brand union suits with the power flap.
DT – either Dick is now 9 feet tall or the background and figure were drawn separately and copied pasted together with little thought to perspective.
@Bob Tice #3: I’m guessing he’s into metal.
Or Don Henley.
@Professor Well Actually: Because it’s basically another book contract/publishing/signing story.
Luann: Phil probably has a foot fetish. To bad Luann has toenail fungus.
Crank: I feel like Batty introduced Ed’s bird-feeder in another desperate attempt to convince us the character wasn’t completely hateful. He then immediately had him get into a petty grudge match with Loathsome Lillian over whose feeder was more popular, so that didn’t work, but at least Ed hadn’t found a way to use the bird-feeder to annoy everyone around him at all times. Until now.
DT: Okay, so I was checking the Dick Tracy Wiki to find out if Candy-Stripe Eyes is an existing character associated with Breathless Mahoney (it doesn’t appear so), and I was reminded that Breathless is actually dead and has been since 1948. They didn’t even resurrect her in the nineties to cash in on the movie (they introduced her niece Restless Mahoney instead). Is this a flashback and the guest writer didn’t bother telling us, because explaining what’s going on isn’t a requirement for Dick Tracy writers, and may in fact be actively discouraged?
Phantom: “Does … does that mean I’m the Unknown Commander?”
@Banana Jr. 6000: That’s what I was thinking.
MARVIN: Given that many people here have commenting on the…”unusual posture” of Marvin’s mom while she delivers her “zinger” and how it highlights her rear end, maybe “Frozen Food Department” is just Jenny’s pet name for her…..
BIRDBRAINS: Happy reputed bird day!
– CS: Watta app.
– BLONDIE: Watta joy
– MW: Watta pain
SIX CHIX: Come Saturday’s strip, and it’ll turn out this robot was just Dennis DeYoung all along, hiding out from yet another lawsuit from his ex-bandmates. (“Lord knows that’s always been my problem with him!” says an exasperated Tommy Shaw, regarding the Six Chix quote.)
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
#66:GT: that’s what I “heard” too but it made sense if you think Coach is trying to change subject back to her son as he reluctantly stares at her bosom.
GT: I am not looking at today’s GT, nor indeed at any other GT strips unless and until they appear on CC, because I am still recovering from yesterday’s viewing of Bethany the terrifying goth vampire with ginormous freakish lips and tear ducts like Niobe. To those of you who follow GT every day, all hail. Enjoy the future [shudder] wedding. *salute*
@Poteet: But it is NEW ARTIST. Draws Gil like Dean Martin! You don’t like Dean Martin?
”Call….me…irresponsible….call me….unreliable….”
(Also the blow-job lips on Missus Wilson)
6Chx — After reading Josh’s “erotically-charged side-eye” comment, I looked at the robot to see what he has to work with. Sorry, Phone Lady, I think the dancing is gonna have to be it.
Hi n Lois: Me remembering my childhood. “Mom, Dad says we can eat in front of the TV.” Mom reluctantly agreeing. Me “Mom, Dad says you’ll make us each whatever we want.” I don’t think my younger brother and sister remember the day Daddy went away.
Hi and Lois-Until one day Lois’ dad put Beetle through the table.
Ziggy-Have a nice day.
@Ukulele Ike: Okay, you talked me into it. [looks] Wow. You’re right, that was worth reading. Apart from the hubba-hubba bosom, I am impressed by the subtle way in which the dialogue lets us know that Mrs. Wilson is very likely a couple of sheets to the wind. That’s supposed to be “cold feet,” not “wet feet,” Mrs. Wilson. You better drive veeery carefully.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
Well, one can’t have everything – good balloon placement AND good art!? This isn’t Calvin and Hobbes.
@Poteet: You have to be schnockered to hit on the local gym teacher.
Apparently none of the day-drinkers at her favorite A.M. watering hole showed any interest. “Missus Wilson’s built like a brick outhouse, but, you know, Lonnie is a little shit. Also, she got crabs.”
It wasn’t enough for AI to replace human artists, now the radio host robot DJ 3000 from The Simpsons has found new work writing Marvin and Hi & Lois.
@CanuckDownSouth: DT Tackle him, Tracy!
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H&L: If eating in front of the TV is their family tradition, why don’t they have a set of folding TV trays? Are those not sold any more? They might be able to pick up some at Buck’s wife’s mid-centuury vintage shop.
Marvin-Baby! The other other white meat.
@Bob Tice: Wait… isn’t Hi supposed to be sitting at the dinner table, surrounded by his cherubic children, and dispense paternal wisdom to his progeny? What is happening?
@treetown: To be fair, today’s Gil Thorp looks like it has some “good balloon placement”, if ya know what I mean.
@Arabella: Okay, I checked and you can still buy tray table sets on Amazon. Some with cup holders! Maybe they are harder to draw than a lap full of snack items
Marvin: As a female woman who just yesterday reached into the freezer, or ‘frozen food section’, to pull out a one-pound package of ground lamb which was turned into some awesome shepherd’s pie, I sort of resent your insinuation, Josh.
Marvin’s mom is probably farting in Marvin’s dad’s general direction is all I’m saying. As she should. Yup, as she should…
Marvin: Com’on Jeff! She been bent over with her ass sticking out of the fridge for ten minutes. Take the hint. It’s a box lunch night.
@Bob Tice: The all Sunbeam channel, all Sunbeams all the time!
Marvin: I dunno. For Marvin to have an offensive joke, it would first have to have a joke, and I can’t detect one today.
6C: So, ‘mudges, are we enjoying or cursing the 80s Don Henley earworm?
@Poteet: Aren’t all vampires Goth by default?
@Artist formerly known as Ben: I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man. And that goes for Don Henley, too!
Late Thread Cuisine: Only in 1958 could “ketchup” be considered a garnish.
Blondie: It’s not just National Bird Day, it’s the Eleventh Day of Christmas, “Eleven Pipers Piping.”
@The Dude: Except Joe Walsh. He’s cool, in a Rocky Mountain way.
@The Dude: Glad you’re out there takin’ it easy for all us sinners.
@Baja Gaijin: Well, in 1984 it was declared a vegetable.
MW: did Ian ever close and lock the window? If not he may be awakened with parrot screams tonight as a burglar sneaks in.
RWO: That dude’s one hep AI chat cat.
@Baja Gaijin: That does not look like perpetual special guest star Heather Locklear.
(see, it’s a riff on Melrose Meat Loaf, and the fact that Heather Locklear was listed as a “special guest star” on Melrose Place, despite the fact she very much had a regular role on the show)
FC – Twenty years later: “The police learned my name today. I knocked over a bank.”
@ValdVin:
I’m still stuck at the part where it says “You have three balls.”
@Baja Gaijin:
That looks decent enough. It’s pretty hard to screw up meatloaf. Though pate chinois is not meatloaf, it’s essentially a French-Canadian version of shepherd’s pie. So if they set out to make pate chinois and ended up with meatloaf, that’s a major culinary fuck up for the ages.
Rex Morgan – My greatest hope is that the surgeon takes one look at June’s hairdo and immediately uses his scalpel to saw off that spitcurl over her forehead.
There were a number of comments in the past few days questioning Rex being a surgeon, and a couple of replies addressed how he performed eye surgery on a patient who had an eye injury due to fireworks. I recall that Rex was working in the ER when the patient with the eye injury was brought in. Instead of contacting the eye surgeon who was on call – you know, the surgeon with training in opthalmology and who spec1alized in treating eye injuries – Rex performed the delicate eye surgery himself. This experience inspired Rex to dabble in surgery several days a week. Who knows if he’s certified to do any of this.
I had cataract surgery in 2020, and it was an interesting experience. I was awake during the surgery, although they administered a sedative which was enough to take the edge off.
Oh, well, at least it isn’t a story about Truck and Wanda or (shudder) Buck.
@Baja Gaijin: Cuisine: Is that ketchup? It looks like it’s alive and slithering off to look for human prey. It looks like mold spots in the meat loaf, too.
@taig: #110: The first season of Star Trek DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy) was billed as a guest star despite being a regular. Had something to do with his contract negotiations. Before Star Trek Kelley was principally an actor in westerns.
Marvin – Girl watching is best in the frozen food department…get it? Party hats, High beams, Diamond cutters etc….
GT – I’d like to meet Jennifer Coolidge in the frozen food aisle.
@107 Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: Hmmm…
@110 taig: Uh huh.
@113 Anonymous: Pate Chinois is another recipe on the same card. It’s not in the illustration…it must have come out looking awfully bad in the photo for them to omit it.
@114 I speak Jive: Yes, a half-cup of ketchup as garnish on an approximately 2 pound meatloaf. Maybe the mold is a bonus garnish?
@Guillermo el chiclero: Jonathan Harris had the same thing on Lost in Space, as well – credited as a “special guest star” in every episode. I believe I read that he specifically requested it in his contract, not sure why – I think maybe it was something about making it simpler to leave if he ever decided he didn’t want to do it anymore but that could be wrong.
Six Chix:
“Dance to the beat of the living dead!” shouts the robot, channeling the Stooges’ Raw Power.
It’s comic sex appeal day apparently. I’m not sure who turns me on more here: Jen from Marvin, looking for her frozen foods, or lady-flirting-with-robot and her coquettish smile …
Six Chix:
“But all he ever wants to listen to is the obscure gem ‘Mechanic Dancing’ by XTC. Go figure.”
Six Chix: While she was distracted by the robot’s erotic dancing, I’m assuming the other robots stole her furniture.
Marvin’s parents are preparing to film their first Pornhub video, with Jen getting “stuck” in the “refrigerator.”
Have you ever bent 90 degrees at the waist and inserted most of your body above the waist into the fridge or freezer to check for an item? Just what sort of fridge/freezer is in the Marvin home? I assume it’s good for storage of bodies.