Metapost: Good, wholesome COTW
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Everyone out there in real America is waiting for their comment of the week. And at last, it’s arrived!
“I feel like the weird, scraggly speech bubble from Luann’s Dad is supposed to be some cute little visual gag indicating that he’s about to go on some deranged slut-shaming rant about his wife’s sexual history. But I prefer to read it as him experiencing a massive stroke while his family is too stupid to notice.” –ectojazzmage
The runners up are also here, and very funny!
“Where is Glenwood, you ask? Glenwood is where men are men and are named Truck, Buck, and Mud, little missy.” –MKay
“I’d like to think that that last panel is completely unrelated to the main plot. No, it’s just a reminder that while this inane conversation is going on, there is real suffering out there in the world. Really puts it all in perspective.” –pugfuggly
“I dunno, Mud, it’s like the wall itself rejected your picture. And with extreme prejudice, too!” –Joe Blevins
“If only Barney Google could have warned him: Never get involved in a land war in Asia and never introduce hillbillies into your comic strip.” –Where’s Rocky?
“Brad may be overstating his case as usual, but he does have significantly more hair than he did a few years back. That counts as a monumental achievement in the world of Luann.” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV
“Neither of those are sentences. Look, I’m not normally pedantic about this kind of thing but you guys set up the rules for yourselves. I’ll accept that Luann’s mom considers ‘lover’ a legitimate phase in her career path. There’s obviously a lot we don’t know about her past — there’s a lot Luann’s dad doesn’t know about Luann’s mom’s past — and this could be a fun narrative framing device for that kind of reveal. But give us a goddamn verb.” –Stuart F
“You’re a plugger if a lifetime of working with your hands has turned them into twisted claws, which can barely use a touch-screen phone.” –Guts Dozier
“I call foul on Pluggers, they would never use A.I., or a smartphone, or go shopping with their wives.” –The Rambling Otter
“Not just oceans apart, Mary, but worlds apart! Goleta, California, is a real city in the real world, and Sharon has chosen to live there, away from the wholly imaginary Santa Royale, its dysfunctional denizens, and her thoroughly deluded dad. Leave her alone!” –Charterstone: Dune
“There’s so much going on here I can’t begin to figure it out. Why is he smiling while she’s grimacing? Why does she then smile while he grimaces? And are those pool cues in the background? I can accept that they both lost a bet on a pool match. The world of Mother Goose And Grimm is one where there are no winners.” –Spunky The Wonder Squid
“Toby thinks ‘Maybe if I look to the right, Mary won’t know that I am secretly loving this!’ and Mary thinks, ‘Maybe if I look to the left, Toby won’t know that I’m secretly loving this!’” –TK
“Enough with the time out jokes! Let’s talk about how everyone in this strip has a supremely weird right ear!” –Ettorre
“‘Go out there and show them what you’re made of.’ ‘But, coach, we want to win!’” –But What Do I Know?
“Is it possible they could get married and incorporate? What kind of execrable wordplay could Ed make out of that? The possibilities make me tingle.” –Scratchy Scrotum LXIX
“This would be a great joke if there had been literally any mention of internet payment in the previous panel. Otherwise it’s just ‘Crankshaft pronounces Paul with a slightly more fronted mid-open vowel sound.’” –Schroduck
“While everyone else is smiling wryly, Crankshaft is angry. They did Peter so dirty!” –matt w
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32 replies to “Metapost: Good, wholesome COTW”
Yesterday’s Low And Hi-less: “Wanna see my trophy collection? Those are my Scratchy Scroatums, My Baja Biggies, and my Golden Otters. I won this one for ridiculing Les Moore, This is my Spirit of ’69 Scroat, I got for best 69.” “Wow! You must be very good at….(checks label) ….scratching your scrotum!” “Well I do what I can to keep my end up.”
Congratulations, ectojazzmage!
On the float again! I salute our leader ectojazzmage and all my fellow floaters!
Blondie, The Neighborhood Bumstead: “Boy,I’m beat and I haven’t even been to work yet.” “Is there something that would help you feel better?” “Contributing to the annual Comics Curmudgeons Fund might be a good start.”
Congratulations, ectojazzmage and all the other honorees!
Thanks, Scratchy and Baja!
@But What Do I Know?: On the float again!
On the float again
Just can’t wait to get on the float again
The life we love is makin’ funnies with our friends
And we can’t wait to get on the float again!
Hail, ectojazzmage, our new heavyweight champion, and hail the float. The Gravemind sees Stuart F, Joe Blevins, and TK! Funny, guys!
Thanks for the ride, Josh, and congratulations to ectojazzmage, the floaters, the upcoming shadowers and otterers, and the scroters:
Liam
February 28th, 2026 at 4:46 am Reply
Marvin-Marvin is making a chocolate pie in his diaper at that moment.
A Grave Mind
February 28th, 2026 at 4:56 am Reply
Is making a joke about the chocolate pie Marvin is making just TOO on the nose?
Schroduck
February 28th, 2026 at 5:11 am Reply
Marvin: The recent-ish development of huge crash-proof toddler car seats becoming mandatory in cars must have been devastating for comics. You can save your old re-runs by sketching in seat belts, but a proper toddler seat means you have to draw a whole new strip. And, well, if these are the best jokes you’ve got…
Tabby Lavalamp
February 28th, 2026 at 5:14 am Reply
Fuck you, Marvin, meat pies are delicious. And no, I don’t care that I’m swearing at a child. You shit yourself but you’re fully verbal? Fuck you,
MKay
February 28th, 2026 at 6:32 am Reply
MARVIN: Sounds to me like a sneaky attempt to slide EVOLUTION into the curriculum. We’ll have none of that!
James
February 28th, 2026 at 7:27 am Reply
Marvin: In my extensive (5 minute Google search) research into the history of pies, it appears that the first pies were in fact made by the Egyptians and contained honey, nuts, and fruit. Marvin needs to stay in his lane and just give us the history of people crapping on themselves.
Anonymous
February 28th, 2026 at 7:35 am Reply
It’s the last day of Black History Month so Marvin creator watched the 2011 movie “The Help” with Emma Stone and the only thing he learned from it was that he can put feces in chocolate pie.
pugfuggly
February 28th, 2026 at 4:38 am Reply
Marvin: Sorry Marvin, but I can’t read the word ‘chocolate’ in this strip without thinking of poop. You did this to yourself.
RMMD: /tomorrow on Rex Morgan M.D./ “Wow, this music sucks so much ass. Siri? What’s the city in America that listens to roots country the least?”
taig
February 28th, 2026 at 5:26 am Reply
RMMD: I’m astonished this isn’t a vacuum tube radio.
Weaselboy
February 28th, 2026 at 5:17 am Reply
RMMD – That radio is so old-timey it can’t even spell “CLICK” correctly.
Banjo
February 28th, 2026 at 5:54 am Reply
RMMD. According to panel 1 she at least has a pot to piss in.
Hibbleton
February 28th, 2026 at 5:58 am Reply
RMMD: Roots country playing on an AM only radio fits. Everything mainstream has moved to FM or, more likely, streaming. AM’s been relegated to Spanish language, hate talk, gospel, and everything else with single digit listeners.
(You know it’s AM because the ID numbers are even)
TheDiva
February 28th, 2026 at 6:14 am Reply
RMMD: Obviously there had to be some reason why Lorna is going to Glenwood to get away from it all and not, say, the Seychelles or Necker Island or whatever. But hearing one-hit-wonder roots country artist Truck Tyler on the radio ranks just below “threw a dart at a map of the US” in terms of contrivance.
Ukranazi Stepan
February 28th, 2026 at 4:36 am Reply
Wary Morth:
At this point I’m hoping Trixie turns out to be not just real but exactly what she claims to be, just to wipe the anticipatory meddlegasm off Mary’s face.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Charterstone: Dune
February 28th, 2026 at 5:58 am Reply
Blondie: It’s funny because for a few moments there Dagwood thought Hallmark was getting into beastiality.
Rube
February 28th, 2026 at 6:16 am Reply
If Pluggers is going to do a joke about bread having an odd number of slices, shouldn’t the art, well show an odd number of slices?
Baja Gaijin
February 28th, 2026 at 6:40 am Reply
Hi and Lois: Irma’s dejected looks shows she’s given up trying to get Thursty to stop “whacking it” in the living room in front of the neighbors.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
I speak Jive
March 1st, 2026 at 8:26 am Reply
FC – The melonheads had to listen to HTT Grandma rant for an hour about their harlot mother before she gave them those presents.
Rex Morgan – Mud’s picture fell off the wall and broke? That’s the most action packed development in this strip for months, and we didn’t see it.
beer farmer
March 1st, 2026 at 5:04 am Reply
rmmd – the motel is gonna need some cinderblocks for the bed if truck and lorna hook up
nescio
March 1st, 2026 at 4:49 am Reply
RMMD: “Too bad, Mud, but at least your picture had a smash hit.”
taig
March 1st, 2026 at 4:54 am Reply
RMMD: Yeah, sure, desk guy. We all know Truck got drunk and punched that picture of Mud in a blind fury.
MW: Your mom’s basement doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?
Bob Tice
March 1st, 2026 at 5:18 am Reply
MW:
“Needless to say I haven’t read or seen any of the 1,258 news pieces warning that this sort of thing just might be a scam. Nor has the fact that there’s a 50-year age difference between us raised any kind of red flags whatsoever. So I’m going to need you to extricate myself from my folly, Mary!”
BigTed
March 1st, 2026 at 4:47 am Reply
Mary Worth: Okay, this story just took an extremely dark turn. I hope Mary finds a way to make it all about her even more quickly than usual, because I’m really not enjoying the actual plot.
TK
March 1st, 2026 at 4:52 am Reply
On the plus side, we’ve totally backed away from Mary’s half-hearted commitment on getting a cat.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Baja Gaijin
March 1st, 2026 at 7:46 am Reply
Pluggers: I call “Shenanigans!” Pluggers do NOT use push mowers; they have lawn tractors suitable for 10-acre farms even though they own an eighth-acre plot in suburbia. Also useful for driving to the mailbox.
Anonymous
March 1st, 2026 at 8:21 am Reply
Blondie, the Neighborhood Bumstead : Don’t forget to check Dagwood’s Johnson Rod!
UncleJeff
March 2nd, 2026 at 6:02 am Reply
Luann: “What do you mean…’names’?
Mom pulls out the 1990 NBA media guide.
BigTed
March 2nd, 2026 at 6:14 am Reply
Luann: “How about ‘Student,’ ‘Lover,’ ‘Spouse,’ ‘Mom,’ ‘Owner/Manager of the Fuse.’ ” “I don’t care if that’s how someone said to do it on TikTok, Mom, you’ll never get the Walmart greeter job with all that on your resume.”
ectojazzmage
March 2nd, 2026 at 7:15 am Reply
Luann: I feel like the weird, scraggly speech bubble from Luann’s Dad is supposed to be some cute little visual gag indicating that he’s about to go on some deranged slut-shaming rant about his wife’s sexual history. But I prefer to read it as him experiencing a massive stroke while his family is too stupid to notice.
2+2=7
March 2nd, 2026 at 8:59 am Reply
LUANN: “‘Names’?” Geez, Frank, we just establish that Nancy doesn’t really have many hobbies or outside interests. If Nancy wants to name her vibrators, just let her. (By the way who wants to bet that Luann will be dumb enough to included that oh-so relevant part about “lovers” into her final report? The report, I should remind people is a homework assignment the teacher has to read.)
Maude R. Fawker
March 2nd, 2026 at 9:43 am Reply
Luann: Breaking News: Luann’s Mom Not A Virgin When She Met Luann’s Dad. Film at eleven – bow-chika-wow-wow.
And this just in: Luann’s mom also has had affairs since she got married. We will monitor developments as they cum in.
brendancalling
March 2nd, 2026 at 9:53 am Reply
Luann: So many questions, beginning with “why is Luann making bedroom eyes at her brother in the final panel?”
No doubt Nancy had a few partners before Frank. A lot of women date attractive but unstable men before they settle on someone stable (or well-off) but not necessarily attractive (see Melinda Gates, for example).
Nancy sems to be getting bedroom eyes in the last panel as well: she’s probably thinking about the attractive but unstable men she used to fuck before settling down with boring, unattractive, two-pumps-and-a-squirt, but (sigh) stable Frank. My bet is Nancy drinks a lot.
Stuart F
March 2nd, 2026 at 10:01 am Reply
Neither of those are sentences. Look, I’m not normally pedantic about this kind of thing but you guys set up the rules for yourselves. I’ll accept that Luann’s mom considers “lover” a legitimate phase in her career path. There’s obviously a lot we don’t know about her past — there’s a lot Luann’s dad doesn’t know about Luann’s mom’s past — and this could be a fun narrative framing device for that kind of reveal. But give us a goddamn verb.
JeffMcm
March 2nd, 2026 at 1:33 pm Reply
I don’t think it’s weird to put “spouse” and “mom” in a “career path” list because both of those can represent serious time expenditures. How much time in between there was she spending fucking, though?
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
CanuckDownSouth
March 2nd, 2026 at 5:46 am Reply
MW Brigman’s eyerolling as she draws this, isn’t she?
richardf8
March 2nd, 2026 at 8:20 am Reply
MW – Really hoping for Patrolwoman Han to come by this, ahem, customer service center, leg sweep the manager, and free the
muckmenagents. Mary then persuades H to get a Corgi who wears a Cravat. Because you can’t have a dog without matching neckwear at Charterstone. Estelle’s refusal to wear a spiked collar like Pierre’s is why she had to move out and marry her Vet.Charterstoned
March 2nd, 2026 at 9:25 am Reply
MW: Are we supposed to believe that call agent is Tommy? If so, there will be a boatload of Mary’s morality served up when next we convene at the Bum Boat. Choices have consequences.
But What Do I Know?
March 2nd, 2026 at 6:03 am Reply
RMMD — Let’s workshop a new town slogan — “Glenwood:Wipe your Muddy Boots on Us!” It sure beats the “Glenwood: Rex Morgan is what passes for a medical professional here” campaign.or the guerilla marketing “Glenwood: We were this close to changing our name to Bellusoville”
UncleJeff
March 2nd, 2026 at 6:20 am Reply
@But What Do I Know?: RMMD: How about borrowing South Dakota’s billboard campaign (approved by Gov. Kristi Noem).
Meth.
We’re On It.
cheech wizard
March 2nd, 2026 at 7:40 am Reply
RMMD – As a magnet for overweight celebrities past their prime, Glenwood may not become the new Nashville but it’s got a shot at being the new Memphis.
Ettorre
March 2nd, 2026 at 9:20 am Reply
I agree with the Motel clerk: Robert Altman is to Nashville what Terry Beatty is to Glenwood
Nora
March 3rd, 2026 at 5:33 am Reply
Why is the pluggers wife a dog/bear when she could be a cat? This could be a joke about the know-it-all French!
Also, every time I hear the phrase ‘Chat GPT,’ my brain translates it to “chat, j’ai pété,” which is French for “cat, I farted.” Which is totally something a Plugger might say.
Anonymous
March 3rd, 2026 at 5:59 am Reply
Pluggers save money on sex lubricant by using mayonnaise. Try to get that out of your mind.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women
March 3rd, 2026 at 4:38 am Reply
I never realized until this day that the goal in life is to make it cradle to grave without hearing Mary Worth tell a handsome (?) bachelor her own age “I can cook up a nice spread.”
treetown
March 3rd, 2026 at 4:41 am Reply
MW: Please let the big twist be that Sharon, the daughter, hired the catfisher to con her dad to (a) teach him a sorely needed message, (b) get back at him for years of frittering away money on ascots from around the world, (c) get his money because she needs that money now when she is still sorta-young.
I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV
March 3rd, 2026 at 5:23 am Reply
Mary Worth: Confidential to J.B.: The ascot is a nice touch, but it’s not going to do very much if the head keeps falling off the cardboard tube you’ve propped it up on.
Weaselboy
March 3rd, 2026 at 5:38 am Reply
MW – Hey, that’s against the rules, guy whose name I can’t remember! If you’re going to say you’re daughter says she’s “busy,” you’ve got to support it with air quotes.
Peanut Gallery
March 3rd, 2026 at 6:38 am Reply
MW – My daughter says she’s “busy.” Ah, well. That’s life in scare quotes!
Bob Tice
March 3rd, 2026 at 6:24 am Reply
MW:
“What does modernity have to do with being emotionally distant?”
“Oh, not a thing, Mary — I’m just babbling!”
Liam
March 3rd, 2026 at 6:36 am Reply
MW-This will end with H@rv3y disappointed that the person he wants to scam isn’t real.
Hibbleton
March 3rd, 2026 at 6:05 am Reply
Dustin: Posters often use the name ‘Richard’ online when they mean the word ‘dick’ to avoid the censor. We now know what working class lady thinks of rich people —or Dustin. It’s kind of ambiguous.
DtM: No surprise that Dennis doesn’t get Wilson’s Karnak act. He goes to bed before Carson comes on. Wilson doesn’t have to be such a Richard about it.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Anonymous
March 3rd, 2026 at 5:57 am Reply
Zits: Any guesses what the original punchline for this comic was? “This morning I sneezed out a chimichanga” might be the weirdest euphemism for masturbation I’ve ever seen.
Ukranazi Stepan
March 4th, 2026 at 4:55 am Reply
Wary Morth:
(Thought balloons)
Mary: “Which means that I must go and meddle Sharon into moving here right away!”
Toby (looks longingly at the cocktail table): “When will the old hag set off for Goleta so I can get properly sloshed?”
Charterstoned
March 4th, 2026 at 6:19 am Reply
MW: As the event draws to a close and everyone drifts away from the Charterstone pool party, Carlos Alora takes a break from supervising his basement call center to clean up the food table.
Peanut Gallery
March 4th, 2026 at 6:44 am Reply
MW – There’s more to his love interest than meets the eye. Speaking of meeting the eye, if Mary and Toby can just hold those poses for another ten minutes they’ll set a new personal record for avoiding eye contact.
MG&G – With brain ejaculations like that, it’s a good thing this guy has opted for the hat with the reservoir tip.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Batiuk’s Attic
March 5th, 2026 at 6:30 am Reply
I am now 100% convinced that Gil Thorp takes place in Canada. You can change the artist, but you cannot change the playdowns.
Charterstone: Dune
March 5th, 2026 at 5:21 am Reply
Pluggers: I like how much dog plugger enjoys this play on words. You just know he’s gonna use this little play on words on literally everybody he meets for the rest of the day if not the rest of his life (on until they discontinue the nickel, which also costs more to produce than its nominal value).
Banana Jr. 6000
March 5th, 2026 at 5:22 am Reply
Pluggers: I’ve been playing poker with my family for 1 cents bets/5 cents limit since the 1980s. I’ve been begging for an inflation adjustment, but it’s still 1c/5c. So this Plugger-friendly adjustment in stakes would actually be an improvement in my case.
Spunky The Wonder Squid
March 5th, 2026 at 5:08 am Reply
Hi and Lois: Sure, the biggest trophy that kid has is for participation, but he’s also got one for…kicking? And what looks like a tiny barber’s pole, so his coiffure is probably his own, and one that’s so abstract it could be for anything but it’s still an award. Good job, kid, your trophy for participation is well earned!
Ettorre
March 5th, 2026 at 5:17 am Reply
Ditto’s friend got a trophy for goose-stepping from his local Hitlerjugend cell
brendancalling
March 5th, 2026 at 6:05 am Reply
H&L: I really can’t make fun of anyone for a participation trophy. I’m a runner, and every single race I’ve been in–from a 5K to a marathon–has given me a participation medal (the actual winners get a more substantial award).
ValdVin
March 5th, 2026 at 6:30 am Reply
H&L is working Pluggers side of the street.
Tomorrow, we enjoy a pithy zinger about wimps who need counseling after yet another school shooting!
Tabby Lavalamp
March 5th, 2026 at 5:52 am Reply
Hi and Lois is moving on from its no jokes phase to it’s bitterness and venom era.
Scratchy’s Special Random Participation Scrotums
Will
March 5th, 2026 at 6:23 am Reply
Comics Kingdom is up to its usual fine standard. Only one of the strips I usually read has loaded, everything else is giving me a 500 error.
Hibbleton
March 5th, 2026 at 6:17 am Reply
JP: Randy, April and Bog Dan burst through the front door. April pulls out a silencer and puts one in Alan’s forehead. Boggy pulls off his mask and reveals he’s the real Alan. Ann says matter of factly; “I knew Alan couldn’t play chess.” Everyone laughs.
But What Do I Know?
March 5th, 2026 at 5:57 am Reply
GT — “Go out there and show them what you’re made of.”
But, coach, we want to win!
Terry Rhoden
March 5th, 2026 at 7:50 am Reply
GT: The Milford girls keep their basketball playdown dreams going, by scoring more basket-goals than the other team and taking it all the way to the end zone!
Peanut Gallery
March 5th, 2026 at 9:06 am Reply
GT – Bah. Tilden actually won the game, but Milford stole the victory with some slick manipulation of the Electoral College, earning them the nickname “Milfraud.”
Everybody Posts, Nobody Reads
March 5th, 2026 at 9:10 am Reply
GT: Next week’s game against Rutherford B. Hayes Tech will be more of a challenge.
Dennis Jimenez
March 5th, 2026 at 6:56 am Reply
GT – Now get out there and be the best darn participants on the floor….
UncleJeff
March 5th, 2026 at 7:19 am Reply
GT Reality Check: Minnesota state boys hockey tournament. A starting goalie for one team and the leading scorer for another were suspended for the first game of the championships for making ‘objectionable gestures’ to the fans at their previous games.
Gladly, the cross-eyed bear
March 5th, 2026 at 12:52 pm Reply
In a world of the hideously deformed, Gil looks fairly human.
TheDiva
March 5th, 2026 at 5:51 am Reply
GT: I might be more willing to believe that Gil is the Best Coach in the World, succeeding at turning these second-stringers into a winning team where Assistant Coach Ochoa failed, if his input involved more than trite inspirational cliches that wouldn’t make the cut for a locker room poster.
L’horns: Loretta’s just mad because Leroy is going for the low-hanging “she’s a witch” fruit with his mother-in-law. Come on, Leroy! You’re not even trying with your hateful spite anymore!
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
I speak Jive
March 5th, 2026 at 8:49 am Reply
Mary Worth – I’m not the first to notice, but when did Mary get that cat? However, that’s secondary to my increasing loathing for that purple cowlneck top she’s wearing. I know that it’s just for continuity purposes, like Roy Rogers’s checked shirt, so June Brigman can reuse artwork. However, that top is ratty and unattractive. Get her some new clothes!
Ukulele Ike
March 5th, 2026 at 9:20 am Reply
@I speak Jive: “…Get her some new clothes!”
Mary should hit the shops with Toby, who can yank the dressing room curtain aside to offer more selections, exposing Mary’s underpants to all the other customers. Thanx and a tip o’ the hat to Ray Billingsley’s Curtis!
Horace Broon
March 5th, 2026 at 11:03 am Reply
MW: The orange cat Mary tried to get was Garfield, but after intense cross-comic negotiation, she ended up with Nermal.
Activist
March 5th, 2026 at 10:17 am Reply
MW: perhaps I was nonjudgmental before, or just inattentive, but Mary is a GOSSIP. Not just letting a tidbit accidentally slip out, but actively digging dirt on a neighbor, violating his confidence, for the purpose of entertaining another. I despise her.
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. Peanut Gallery
March 1st, 2026 at 8:36 am Reply
MW – “Things are seldom what they seem / Skim milk masquerades as cream”
— Gilbert & Sullivan, H.M.S. Pinafore
And this is definitely going to be another skim-milk story.
69. Ettorre
March 2nd, 2026 at 9:22 am Reply
A sentence? Luann’s mom, I see no verb: this is merely a list.
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. TheDiva
March 3rd, 2026 at 6:42 am Reply
Dustin: Simone, you’re middle management in a temp agency that foists its least productive and most irritating clients onto you. I don’t think you should be throwing stones when it comes to financial prospects.
JP: Is Bogdan hoping to strangle the truck into working?
RMMD: Room service? You’re a roadside motel in the most depressingly dull town in the Midwest; “room service” is a binder of greasy takeout menus from places that may or may not still be in business.
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. Old School Allie Cat
March 5th, 2026 at 6:12 am Reply
H/L – I have a participation trophy from the Miss Roswell High School Pageant. I have kept it for decades, and it typically ends up in my cubicle at work. The inscription just reads “Miss Roswell High 1991”, People may believe that means I won the pageant. I don’t discourage that belief. You don’t know – I could have been pageant-grade back in the early 90s.
69. Anonymous
March 6th, 2026 at 7:27 am Reply
Donald Duck appears to be showing his bare duck ass to Heathcliff
. He has the wherewithal to wear pants but refuses to wear any pants. This would be a lot funnier if it were Ziggy in the birdbath who also refuses to wear pants.
Sorta 69: GarrisonSkunk
March 6th, 2026 at 6:01 am Reply
Yesterday’s Low And Hi-less: “Wanna see my trophy collection? Those are my Scratchy Scroatums, My Baja Biggies, and my Golden Otters. I won this one for ridiculing Les Moore, This is my Spirit of ’69 Scroat, I got for best 69.” “Wow! You must be very good at….(checks label) ….scratching your scrotum!” “Well I do what I can to keep my end up.”
Thanks, Scratchy.
Thanks for the mentions, Scratchy!
Thanks and congrats to you, Scratchy!
I’m waiting for results from The Doctor.
He said he would send them on Friday but still hasn’t yet.
So I apologize that I’ve been distracted from the Golden Otter awards this week.
I might do it in a bit still, but I’m not feeling too peak right now.
Edit: Nah, I’ll do it ^^
Just give me a few mins
While I wait for my Doctor’s results, time for the Golden Otter Awards!
Time where a cute little otter hands out giant trophies of an otter to those he finds funny :3
-Mary Worth (March 2nd): The first award goes to Lauralot!
“Why are so many characters rolling their eyes back when they speak as of late? Have they become self-aware of the inane dialogue they’re forced to recite?”
Congrats Lauralot, I hope your day is adorable!
-Marvin (February 28th) Next up is Pugfuggly!
“Sorry Marvin, but I can’t read the word ‘chocolate’ in this strip without thinking of poop. You did this to yourself.”
So true, so true!
Next up is Ettorre with Hi and Lois (March 5th)
“Let’s appreciate that Ditto is such a loser that he has not even won ONCE a participation trophy!”
These are awesome!
Well, you’re all awesome :3
I wish I could do more, but really, I’m glad that I could manage what I was able.
Have an ottery day!! :3
Earlier this week, with the talk about MW I couldn’t help but wonder if Santa Royale is not to far from other fictional Santa Barbara stand-ins, the most prominent example I could think of was Santa Teresa, the setting of Sue Grafton’s novels about 1980s era private investigator Kinsey Milhone.
@Terry Rhoden:
The pair of cities Santo Diablo and Santa Mierda should not be overlooked.
Congrats to ectojazzmage, everyone on the float, my fellow scratchies and the otters! Broon Croons to Stuart F, Schroduck, TheDiva, Ukranazi Stepan, Terry Rhoden, and Lauralot!
Thank you, Scratchy.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Thanks,Scratchy!
I got distracted with my otter awards, I forgot to thank Josh for the lovely float :3
Thanks Josh! ^^