Shelly lovin’
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B.C., 5/30/26
Look, I’m not a scientist, and I’m also not brave enough to have “how do turtles have sex” left in my Google image search history, but I know enough to know they don’t get inside each other’s shells. Their shells are part of them! That’d be gross! It wouldn’t be sexy at all! Also, I enjoy that you can tell in panel one that lady turtle did in fact wax her shell. It’s not just a pick-up line, it was inspired by actual events.
Andy Capp, 5/30/26
“But thanks to Brexit, we no longer have to worry about awkward cross-cultural encounters with dastardly Europeans like these! Now to take a big sip of room temperature beer and check out how the economy of our port city, dependent as it is on imports and exports, has been doing since we left the common market that all our close neighbors belong to.”
Archie, 5/30/26
Not a big fan of that detailed, close-up look at Mr. Weatherbee’s face in panel three! Don’t like it one bit, actually! It’s gonna haunt my nightmares for weeks!
128 replies to “Shelly lovin’”
Murky Tail:
Spoiler Alert:
The “gorilla sanctuary” is a hideout for oversized unintelligent low level mafia enforcers.
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Wary Morth:
Brandy left town to handle family stuff. That stuff happens to be the bootleg hooch that her family makes in their garage still.
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Wrecks Moregone:
Doug: “How long have you been nursing that one cup? We’ll have to charge you rent for that seat you’ve taken up all morning.”
Mud: “I can pay with song!”
Hector: “……. I’ll get you the coffee. I’ll even pay for it out of my salary.”
Andy Capp:
Not that I don’t love the British — I truly do — but nothing about any Andy Capp installment I’ve ever seen makes me, as an American, rue the decision we made as a people to break away from them in 1776.
RMMD-Now it’s time to prepare for lunch.
MW-“I’m sorry, Tommy, but Brandy wanted me to tie up all her loose ends while she was gone,” Dawn says pulling out a gun.
FC-Offer the pastor some of your pie, Thel.
Dustin-Meg’s job is secured because machines will never replace prostitutes.
Archie-“Yep. I uploaded it directly to YouTube.”
B.C.
“And here I thought I’d come out of my shell and engage her!”
ARCHIE: OK, foul! Panel #3 is clearly borrowed from a strip where Weatherbee made a sex tape with Miss Grundy (that’s the smug, self satisfied grin of “the ‘Bee” just about to give his lady “the big sting” if ya know what I mean….)
B.C: Cheer up, bub. It’s not you or your line. She’s just hungry, what with being away from a snapping turtle’s natural food supply in streams and lakes.
@Bob Tice: to be honest, this is a bit like reading Snuffy Smith and wondering why anyone would want to live in the US.
ARCHIE: “Something for America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Um…yeah, that’s called “TikTok uploads” now. Just something to keep in mind the next time characters from 1992 want to visit here.
Archie:
“Now that I’m through with that, Sven, I’m going to audition for the lead role in the Riverdale Players’ forthcoming autobiographical monodrama ‘I, Otto Preminger: I Put the “Temper” in “Temperament” ‘ !”
RMMD:
“And hang that ‘Sorry, We’re Closed’ sign upside down, Mae Mae — that way, would-be patrons will think they’re seeing a Slylock Fox riddle answer!”
Archie:
“By the way, Sven, are you ever going to get rid of that unsightly, ridiculous facial hair of yours?”
“I am the walrus, Mr. Weatherbee — goo goo g’joob!”
Mary Worth:
“You and your girlfriend broke up?”
“Yes. Kinda. I don’t know. I have to ‘jog‘ my memory — so to speak.”
“And then we said ‘this one’s for the Armada, mate,’ before I glassed him.”
@2+2=7: To my amazement (with a touch of despair), “America’s Funniest Home Videos” is still airing. Ah well, as Idiocracy predicted, “Ow! My Balls” is timeless humor.
“Ya, I got it on tape, by Jiminy! It’s pretty much an archaic method of recording evens, but whatever. Should I send it to you by Pony Express?”
@Everything Is Better With Monkeys: Exactly. Good call out.
AC — Given Hartlepool’s history of confusing monkeys for foreigners (and then hanging them) the Spanish tourist got off pretty lightly. . .
Archie — Good to see that Sven can still get the ancient AV equipment to function in addition to his janitorial duties.
AC: I don’t speak any foreign language but we’re watching the French channel because of… Brexit? The Chunnel? I lost the remote?
[Andy aside] “Let’s get another straight man.”
Mary Worth Mashup: What if today’s episode proceeded for two more panels? My thought on what probably would happen next.
@Baja Gaijin:
Very satisfying end to their story but leaves the question: What were Tommy and Dawn doing that he had to change into pants.
MW Dawn has now gotten a clearer picture of the Tommy/Brandie situation than even Mary, and if she had two neurons firing simultaneously she’d know to *not* pursue anything with Tommy – so we all know where this is going, right?
RMMD “And so now we’re going to assume that *every* day will be like today with the initial Lorna Starr – Action Waitress interest, despite the curious getting their glimpse and autographs already. So clearly you’re all hired permanently and the motel café is saved, there’s no way this could go back to the business doldrums ever again!”
DT Neo-Chicago has London black cab taxis?
Crankshaft OK, OK, it’s all a dream – but I refuse to believe even the premonition that it would destroy the world would keep Cranky from his backyard grilling
Andy Capp: There was an obnoxious and inescapable advert for one of England’s shittier lagers where two busty Spanish women taught a room full of football hooligans how to say “Dos pintas de cerveza”. The fact Jack doesn’t know what it means suggests he is something worse than a Brexiter. He is *spits* a craft beer hipster.
Archie: “And in a change from our scheduled programming, America’s Funniest Home Videos will not be about men falling off ladders and getting hit in the balls. Instead we bring you an hour of pompous principals overestimating their rhetorical abilities. Laugh as they mix up Jane Austen and Jane Eyre! Cringe as they read an inspirational Vonnegut excerpt they clearly found on Brainy Quotes 30 minutes earlier! Hoot as they struggle to pronounce the valedictorian’s foreign name!”
@Baja Gaijin: As Mel Brooks almost said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when Tommy falls off a cliff and dies.”
Archie: I’m not sure which is more depressing: that Archie is making an America’s Funniest Home Videos joke in The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six, that America’s Funniest Home Videos is still running, or that I knew it was still running without having to look it up.
Gasoline Alley:
“When I went there as a kid, Hootin’ Holler was still fighting the War on Poverty.”
“How’d that turn out?”
“It was another lost cause.”
Pluggers don’t need Ring cameras because they…never have anyplace to go.
MW: “Hey, what’s this name scratched into the rock? Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak?
H&L: Hi, you’re at Midlife Crisis Motors. If you weren’t going to leave Lois (to a younger man) and the kids for this, why did you walk in the door?
BG&SS
Chicken: “Is it good?”
Duck: “Good? It’s USDA inspected!”
C: ” ‘USDA inspected’…beef, right?”
D: “Let’s just say we live in a subsistence economy, and some things Li’l Sparky doesn’t need to know.”
Note to single men: don’t attempt the BC pickup approach by referencing Brazilian waxing.
C’shaft: Finally, Crankshaft has become so horrified by his own capacity for destruction that he’ll immolate himself to save the world from destruction.
Dustin: “I dunno, Meg, do you think they’ll invent a machine that stares at its phone and makes bitchy comments all day?”
GT: I dunno, I kinda like Ma Thorp. It’s refreshing to have someone who doesn’t treat Gil like he’s God’s gift to high school athletics and therefore the world.
JP: I love how Ann is staring at us as she says that, as if to admit, “don’t look at me, folks, this plot is so far off the rails that the FRA has opened up an inquiry.”
Luann: And now it’s turning into Spring Awakening. (On the plus side, this means Shannon will soon die of *cough* “anemia.”)
MT: Mark’s going to be pissed not because “Dreama” has been scamming people to support her gorilla sanctuary, but because she’s been using AI to do it. She needs to learn to run an eco-friendly grift!
MW: “But she has a return date set, right? I mean, working class people don’t usually have the means and liberty to walk away from their lives for an indefinite amount of time.”
“Yes. Kinda. I don’t know.”
Pluggers’ paranoia about government surveillance is justified for once.
Andy Capp: We spend a lot of time considering what a brain damaged alcoholic Andy is without thinking about the I.Q. of someone who serves him day after day. Case in point: Jack here, who hears bonjour on the TV and responds, “I was never any good at languages, Andy.”
FC: Pasta with pesto for the Pastor.
JP: I noticed Ann’s spaghetti-string top a couple weeks back, but it’s a bit chilling to discover it is also a crop-top. Ann Parker — the 45 year old teenage girl.
Phantom: ”Yeah, great. Got any more wine, Mister Perfect Host?”
@Schroduck: “America’s Funniest Home Videos” did in fact show a clip some years ago of a graduation speaker accidentally saying “sex” instead of “success.”
@TheDiva: re:Luann – dream on, they’ll adopt Shannon.
re:MW – yeah, I’m reminded of a fairly forgettable novel with restaurant workers in one subplot scrambling to pool money to get someone a bus ticket to go to another city for a family emergency and the viewpoint character noting more resignedly than bitterly that it’s not like TV, you can’t afford to head to the airport and catch a plane (and I forget if the one who left was fired for no-showing)
MW: Hey, I think Tommy’s feeling better. It was two whole minutes before he talked about Brandy’s maybe/I dunno/might be/possible desertion.
RMMD: Mr Manager excels at closing an empty restaurant. He just doesn’t know what to do with an open one full of people.
Luann Anyone else getting the feeling we’re heading for the old joke “when we got married, every evening we would kneel by the bed and pray to God to bless us with children. And nothing happened, for months and months – then we discovered that’s not how babies are made!” ?
@TheDiva: GT: Also, Ma Thorp finally explains the recurring Gil-as-vampire Halloween strips. Go on, look at today’s comic, and tell me Ma Thorp isn’t one of the undead.
@Ukulele Ike: JP: If the diner job falls through, Alan can see about getting Ann a job at Hooters.
Mr. Weatherbee, please refrain from doing Haus of Decline eyes in the future.
Archie : Mr Weatherbee either took off his glasses to put more emphasis on his smug, prideful smile/come-hither glare(!?), or that expression radiates such bad vibes it made his pince-nez invisible for a couple of seconds.
I’ve always wondered about Andy’s strangely shaped hat. It covers the entire top of his head and face. Not even Andy’s pal, Chalkie, has a head that kind of hat covers.
I bet Andy wears it to cover his deformed cranium. He and Snuffy Smif have the same congenital skull deformation, don’t they?
Archie: Mister Weatherbee is giving “Elmer Fudd with bedroom eyes,” a thing no one ever wants given.
Andy Capp: On the one hand, I like the fact that they took the trouble to prompt Jack’s comment about his linguistic ineptitude with a line from the TV. On the other hand, if “bonjour” is beyond him, I’m definitely not trusting him to not mix drinks using Draino.
MW- If you can’t be with the Brandy you love, Tommy, love the Dawn you’re with.
CS: All that’s missing for the perfect cop out ending is for Ed to go to the bathroom and find Bobby Ewing taking a shower.
FG: Now we know why Ming wears that skull cap. In the original Alex Raymond rendition it was because he was bald. Now it’s just to avoid bad hair days.
Andy Capp: “We serve A’s-a, B’s-a, any letter of the alphabet! What’s your poison?”
I don’t know. “I want to wear your skin” has always worked as a pickup line on me and I’ve only had to escape being serial unalived* a handful of times.
*Sorry.
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It’s 1996! Or at least that’s what they keep telling the Archie creative team chained to their desks in the giggle dungeon.
I don’t know. “I want to wear your skin” has always worked as a pickup line on me and I’ve only had to escape being serial killed a handful of times.
Hi & Lois: This is possibly the worst car dealership salesman to ever exist. Did you know you could that instead of buying this luxury car that will immediately lose significant value as soon as you drive it off the lot you could invest that money in a Roth account and make more money to support your future?
BC – So…the turtle is a wannabe cross-dresser…right?
AC – If I was a Spanish royal, my name would be Sir Vasa….
Archie – it’s especially funny today, cuz that look in panel three is Weatherbee filling his adult incontinence undergarment….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
So a couple of things.
I’ve been caught up in moderation on occasion and I couldn’t remember if “killed” was one of the words previously, thus the first post and the second test post.
“America’s Funniest Home Videos was the 90s, right?” I don’t know why I wasn’t sure, so I double checked and it’s still in production!
MW: Gee, Dawn. Why can’t someone invent some kind of personal communications device that maybe runs on electricity so I can contact Brandy? The price of telegrams are outrageous and the Pony Express is too slow.
AC: Actually, only a New World Hispanic like a Mexican would’ve pronounced cerveza as it’s spelled. A Spaniard would’ve pronounced it therbetha, which probably would’ve gotten the crap beaten out of him in a working class Hartlepool pub.
REX MORGAN M.D.: MUD IS STILL THERE! THE NARRATOR LIED TO ME! (Also Lorna/Mae Mae was just complaining about how tired she was of serving customers after her exhausting shift. Mud may get his coffee, but let’s just say that Lorna/Mae Mae won’t be giving him any “sugar” anytime soon.)
REX MORGAN M.D. (2): Also it’s kinda weird that the place is empty. Since people from all over came to see Lorna, the biggest, hottest celebrity since Shelly Hack, you’d expect there would still be people outside pressing against the glass to see more of their goddess. I guess once the previous star-gazers ran out of the cafe with explosive diarrhea (“E-coli? Is that an Italian dish or something” Doug asks as he gets his vintage 2025 meats out for such a momentous occasion), they figured that food poisoning wasn’t worth the cost of getting a menu signed.
REX MORGAN M.D. (3): Also let’s give it up to Glenwood. I mean even whole point of this story is that Lorna is trying to escape the piercing invasive gaze of the paparazzi and even though they are so obsessed with this washed-up has-been actress that they’ve been camping outside her house for ten years, yet, despite finally knowing where she ended up, the press has kept a respectful distance and have not rushed over for a chance at the story of a lifetime: a top-tier star slumming it as a tubby diner waitress and shacking up with D-list roots country schlubs in sleazy motels. I guess the thick beige miasma of boredom surrounding the town is like a tabloid-deflection shield or something.
Archie: “Y’know what, Sven? Sure, keep that copy of the tape. It can be your severence payment!”
Pluggers: As if. As if pluggers aren’t so fat they can’t see through the peephole because they can’t bend forward beyond their massive midsections. As if pluggers can see through the tiny peephole without their eyeglasses. As if pluggers need to see who’s at the door because all their visitors are Jehovah’s Witnesses and teenage/college aged magazine scammers because they’ve alienated their family members and friends. As if pluggers aren’t too cheap to pay for peepholes in their front doors.
LUANN: Does Shannon have a birthmark on her face? Or is it leftover strawberry ice cream.
@27 TheDiva: on Crankshaft. As if. As if Crankshaft is considerate of other people.
on Dustin: They’ve already invented that machine; have you seen the AI-generated commentary all over the Internet?
@39 Victor Von: “Draino” is “Mr. Muscle” in England.
@52 Activist: It’s blood. Don’t ask.
@Dennis Jimenez: AC – If I was a Spanish royal, my name would be Sir Vasa….
Just call me El Sid Caesar.
Andy Capp: ““But thanks to Brexit, we no longer have to worry about awkward cross-cultural encounters with dastardly Europeans like these! Now to take a big sip of room temperature beer and check out how the economy of our port city, dependent as it is on imports and exports, has been doing since we left the common market that all our close neighbors belong to.” So true – and so sad.
DT: Well, so far, Soly Tare’s plan is working. Dick is red hot focused on a physical confrontation and so he is ignoring all of the other true heists.
I was an embarrassing number of years old when I realized that turntles can’t just take off and put on shells like cartoon characters.
AC: Andy Capp pulls a classic “character stares into the camera” pose, which is an odd choice for a character with no eyes. I don’t like it.
@Ken: You wouldn’t know it from AFHV, but Bob Saget was actually funny.
Andy Capp: This joke makes no sense in an American context. Spanish is the de facto second language of the U.S., while in Britain it’s just one of many European languages a visitor might speak. But if there’s one foreign word drunks in a pub know how to say, it’s “beer.” Has Andy never been to Ibiza?
(Pause while Weatherby takes his glasses off, folds them, places them carefully in the case, which he then pockets.)
“Something for posterity?” he asks, lowering his eyelids.
(Pause while Weatherby retrives his glasses case, removes the glasses, briefly polishes them with a cloth, and perches them on his nose.)
“Something for America’s Funniest Home Videos!” exclaims Sven.
(Pause for laughter.)
@Banana Jr. 6000: He’s a working-class schmoe in an economically depressed British city. Unless he’s selling his (and his wife’s) organs, he’s never seen the cost of the airfare in his life.
And if he did, that’s just more beer money for him to drink.
Mister Weatherbee is feeling especially smug because he got to speak at length about the glorious future of AI the graduates will be experiencing and he wasn’t booed one. Of course, since it was 1992, the audience was just confused.
Don Abundio, translated:
“A good dog is essential for wilderness survival”
“He can always find you something to eat”
“Something that comes in a basket, preferably!”
“I was never good at languages”
Really? Despite the fact that “Bonjour” is the easiest, most recognizable French saying in the entire language?
Especially good for writers who are too lazy to take a few seconds to google up more complex French phrases.
How is Baja going to use the Weatherbee close up and Gil Thorpe’s mother strangling him with his tie pictures in his Mash ups?
Bliss – This is either cute or a massive red flag.
Gasoline Alley – TWO WEEKS!? Two weeks of these idiots meeting up with Snuffy Smif? I better go to the State Store, because by June 13 I’m going to be guzzling vodka by the bottle. (Thel Keane: “Hey, it works.”)
Mary Worth – Speaking of red flags – Tommy told Mary about the situation with Brandy, and she dropped a vague platitude about people moving in and out of one’s life, which completely missed the point. Now apparently it doesn’t bother Dawn that Tommy doesn’t know how to communicate basic information. These two jerks deserve each other.
Rex Morgan – All this hubbub just happened over a morning? What about lunch and dinner? Oh, that’s right – Lorna’s feet hurt.
I’m starting to suspect that the manager isn’t an MBA from Harvard.
FC – Better give the melonheads all a dose of Benadryl before the dinner so they don’t say anything stupid or embarrassing.
@Victor Von: Elmer Fudd only has bedroom eyes for Grilled Cheese sandwiches.
It’s weirdly disturbing.
Yes this is a thing that WB actually made and released xD
Pluggers hail Cosmo Kramer for inventing the reverse peephole.
@The Rambling Otter:
Yes this is a thing that WB actually made and released xD
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What a Wherebit Fiend!
Hey hey we’re The Archies: Why can’t Riverdale have a hot, sexy janitor like Frazz or Time Mop?
@Baja Gaijin: Mashup – We can hope.
@Anonymous: Dawn is Miss Right Now.
@Guillermo el chiclero: Re Cs – Newhart had the perfect “It was a dream” ending, but Crankshaft isn’t anywhere close to that.
MW- Tommy should invite Dawn to go for another run tomorrow, only this time he makes sure to wear an Ascot. Actually, maybe he should bring an extra one so Dawn can disguise her Giraffe neck.
“Something for posterity?” asked Mr. Weatherbee, his smugness momentarily causing his glasses to disappear.
@Guillermo el chiclero: Dawn: “Ha! As if that would stop anyone here from having affairs! Remember how I constantly Skype’d Hugo for two years, but still cheated on his ass with the first dork that entered my line of sight? (I sure lucked out when it turned out he was an unfaithful hussy too!)”
Can’t a lady turtle just wax her shell for herself cause it makes her feel good without all sorts of males feeling they have to comment on it?
MARY WORTH: Dawn: “You and your girlfriend broke up?”
Tommy: “Yeah, kinda, I don’t know.”
Dawn: “Oh, well that’s good enough for me!” (starts unzipping Tommy’s shorts….)
@I speak Jive: 72- MW “I think we’re alone now…doesn’t seem to be anyone around!”
@20 Hibbleton: What happened? The only non-pantsed legs in my clip art repository belong to Wilbur. I didn’t think anyone would want to see those. Seriously, Mary Worth’s artwork includes very few full-body shots. I was lucky to have these pantsed legs.
@23 Ken: SNERK!
@66 GarrisonSkunk: Good question. Mr. Weatherbee’s troubling face. Gil getting strangled. God only knows where they’ll end up.
B.C., meta: It’s been seventeen years since B.C. ran this exact strip previously and I don’t blame Josh for not remembering (I’m actually kind of embarassed that I do) but it’s a shame he’s forgotten that there are non-internet places one can learn about turtle sex. (If you can’t get to the Desert Museum and you don’t want the subject on your search history, the link to Josh’s own photo of the diagram still works!)
Crank: Ah, yes, the way to end a bizarre storyline that everyone loves and nobody thinks is a blatant cop-out! The saddest part is that it doesn’t even make me think “So that’s why nothing that happened actually made any sense,” since I continue to think this is adequately covered by “it’s Crankshaft.”
DT: Wait, why is “black cars” in inverted commas? Are we meant to understand that Sam isn’t saying they’re literally black cars, but this is like Neo-Chicago cop jargon for getaway cars or something? That seems … confusing. “Two ‘black cars’, Dick. One’s green and the other’s actually black!”
FG: “At some point during all that I may have briefly wondered if I’d really aligned myself with the forces of order and stability.”
MW: If you don’t know whether or not you’ve broken up with someone, find out. Maybe Brandy thinks it’s so obvious you haven’t broken up that it’s not even worth mentioning! Maybe she left a note saying she wanted to meet you at a bandstand, and if you weren’t there she’d know to never contact you again, but somebody stole it! There’s all kinds of possibilities, and some of them aren’t even stupid!
OTF: Ha ha, wouldn’t it be whimsical if the escape key on your computer actually opened a little escape hatch on your coffin-shaped desk for your pet raven to fly out of when you … didn’t know where she was? Seriously, what the heck?
Phantom: Someone’s probably already suggested this and I missed it, but it’s just occurred to me to wonder if the reason The Guy Who’s Blatantly Elon Musk is wearing that silly mask is because the syndicate got cold feet over just how much Manley made him look like Elon Musk.
RMMD: “The last customer has finished and left,” and then Fergus demands a refill. This isn’t a contradiction, because Fergus is technically what we call a “freeloader”.
AC: If only Jack had a little more linguistic fluency he could have told the gentleman “This is a Protestants-only establishment, mate,” in perfect Spanish.
BC: I’d say that “Be respectful to people you want to sleep with” and “Make sure you know someone’s species before you hit on them” are two separate life lessons.
BC: I can’t imagine turtles even wanting to have sex, largely because my image of them has been shaped by cartoons where they’re slow-moving, slow-talking creatures with low, lethargic voices. (Oh, wow, I forgot about the Ninja Turtles. But they’re only teenagers and not relevant to this discussion.)
AC: If “bonjour” stymes you, Jack, you are definitely bad at languages.
Archie: Something tells me this is a rerun from
twentythirty years ago.@jfp: I knew a woman, when she was in her teens, after puberty she had developed… like seriously.
All the men leered and gawked at her, while all the woman slut shamed her.
For something she had no control over, she was just well… her.
For a big portion of her life she believed she was nothing more than porn…
@Joe Blevins: And I also questioned that about the Tortoise Maid in Zootopia 2
I think I was the only one who asked “WHO would hire such a slow creature, as a maid?” was that a subtle joke? (Despite there was nothing funny about that flashback she was in)
It was never brought up in the movie nor in fandom discussions I encountered.
9CL: Nothing interesting, obviously.
C-Shaft: Batiuk is lucky that only a few comic strip wonks know about Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and thus have seen this routine done right.
Dustin: Don’t judge Dustin too harshly. He’s just cramming on sixty odd years of Star Trek lore so he can transfer over to Intelligent Life. On second thought, judge him without mercy.
GT: Okay, so apparently Gil’s mom is actually a separate person and not just him in drag letting his evil side take charge.
JP: Ann tried to take some of the heat off Alan by putting on a revealing halter top but since Katherine isn’t her biological mother and didn’t raise her, it didn’t have any effect. If Jerry at the diner is right and she’s over 40 that may also be a factor.
Lockhorns: This party sucks. The Thomas Jefferson impersonator didn’t dress up, or even bring a wig.
Phantom: “Now excuse me while I drink this goblet of my employees’ urine tests.”
RMMD: Since the staff didn’t kick him out despite his not being an employee, Mud can probably just grab his own refill.
LUANN: Bwad: “Let’s hope the doc can help”
Dr. Shannon: “Well first, we need to get that egg count up (gets out a carton of eggs dhe got from the fridge and starts trying to jan them up he aunt’s vagina)
LUANN (2): What a shock everyone! The child doesn’t understand how complex and complicated the the adult problem of infertility can be. Good thing we just straight-up let her butt into grown folks business for no reason at all then!
MW: Why do I get the feeling that “Yes. Kinda. I don’t know.” Is Tommy’s go-to answer for any question?
@Artist formerly known as Ben: Re:RMMD: Why do you think Mud is dating her to begin with? Certainly not because of her “sexy Hollywood glamour” that’s for sure!
@Ken:
#34. GT: is Ma Thorp just trying to help/derail the wedding, or does she run that bridal shop?
MW:
“Tommy, have you thought about emailing or texting her?”
“That would require me to complete a sentence in writing!”
9CL: “What did we do on our honeymoon? Oh, not much…Just the same things we do at the swimming pool, in the grand piano, at the furniture store, in the park, etc…”
Late Thread Cuisine: Veal and…tuna?
@I speak Jive: Trying to get a Melonhead not to do anything embarrassing or stupid is like trying to get a bird not to fly or a fish not to swim.
AC: “Andy Capp” usually features at least one fourth-wall breach every strip, and today we get two: the “look to the audience and pause for laughter” and the wry, ironic “look what kind of punch lines I have to put up with.” All of which makes me think that “Andy Capp” is actually a long-running old-style Britcom that started in 1957 and someone forgot to cancel.
@Artist formerly known as Ben: ….only a few comic strip wonks know about Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and thus have seen this routine done right.
”Oh! Wheo! You cannot tell me that Dutchman did not put something into the rarebit last night besides ale. Oh! That was a fierce one. Wheo!”
@Baja Gaijin: Vitello tonnato is a treat, especially on a hot summer day. I’d never try to prepare it in my own humble kitchen, but at a good hundred-year-old red sauce/checked tablecloth Italian restaurant in a town like Boston, New York, Chicago, or San Francisco, it arrives with fanned thin slices of roasted veal thickly spread with tuna/anchovy sauce, sprinkled with capers. Maybe the best cold appetizer ever invented.
@Bob Tice: It’s hard enough for Tommy to finish a sentence inside his skull.
@Ukulele Ike: Honored to meet you, sire.
♪ Shelly lovin’, had me a blast
Shelly lovin’, happened so fast
I met a turtle, crazy to me
Just as grouchy as she could be
Shelly days driftin’ away
To, uh oh, those shelly bites
Pluggers – And after they see who’s at the door, pluggers sing the John Lennon song “Power to the Peephole.”
LUANN: Nope, this isn’t the least bit icky. Not a bit.
GA: Two weeks of normal time or two weeks of GA time? Enquiring fearful minds want to know.
MW: I somehow thought that The Youth Of Today tend to stay in touch via texting. Lots and lots of texting. I don’t text myself, but it does seem to be mighty popular.
@TheDiva: Bwahaha!
Archie: Not a big fan of Sven’s looks. Don’t like it one bit, actually!
MT: We’re actually going to SEE this alleged gorilla sanctuary? I am unwillingly agog.
JP: I guess not having his phone might a good excuse for only bringing home food for himself. I’d be a little irritated, though.
FC: HTT Grandma is thinking, “Hmph. I’d be surprised if that poor pastor doesn’t burst onto flames when Thel starts prattling about one of her native aboriginal superstitions. That, or the food poisoning.”
@Baja Gaijin: I don’t think I’ve ever had veal, and that there dish is unpersuasive.
@Poteet: re: JP: It’s his 40-something daughter and his 50-something trophy wife. Surely he has SOME idea of what they’d like for lunch.
Hell, he could’ve just brought back a BLT, a slice of cherry pie, and a blue plate liver n’ onions special and let them fight over it.
@Poteet: It’s Good. And if you have compunctions about veal, get field-raised and grass finished. They don’t keep calves in swings any more. It’s no more horrifying than opting for lamb over mutton.
@Poteet: Re MW – I’m one of the world’s worst Luddites, but I learned to text a few years ago. It’s very handy and a good way to contact people when a phone call would be a bother.
It’s amazing that Brandy isn’t texting Tommy the photos she’s taking or, more likely, posting them to Instagram. (“This is what the grocery stores look like in Florida! This is my father’s half sister! This is a display of muffins in a bakery – remind you of anyone? LOL”)
I can’t believe they’re not communicating through social media, although I don’t do Facebook, Instagram, and anything other than texting.
@96 Ukulele Ike: The sauce on this recipe looks like something found in Marvin’s diaper. I hope the “good stuff” doesn’t look like that.
@105 Poteet: It might be more appetizing had they sliced the meat per the recipe. The big hunk o’veal sitting in a bath of filthy-looking chunky water is a bit of a turnoff.
@108 I speak Jive: Brandy’s probably been texting Tommy up a storm since she left. He hasn’t yet realized his “phone” is really a TV remote. The haircut that made him a himbo didn’t increase his brainpower.
@Baja Gaijin: #92, @Baja Gaijin: #109 – Where is the tuna? At first I thought that the loaf was several cans of tuna, but I see that it’s a hunk of veal.
I can identify anchovies on top and capers on that congealed mess the veal is sitting on.
Nothing about this dish appeals to me.
Drabble and Shoe: I don’t want to be “that guy”, but birds don’t have teeth!
Sex Organ V.D.: “Whew, what a morning! Quiet,I’m on the radio with the WHEW-AM Morning Zoo Crew! If I answer with ‘Whew,what a morning!’ They pay us $69 and free tickets to the Mud Mountain Concert!”
@I speak Jive: @Baja Gaijin: #92, @Baja Gaijin: #109 – Where is the tuna? At first I thought that the loaf was several cans of tuna, but I see that it’s a hunk of veal.
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“Where’s the beef?!?”- Clara Peller. R.I.P.
@Time Lord Soundwave:
Drabble and Shoe: I don’t want to be “that guy”, but birds don’t have teeth!
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“But clams got legs!”- Glasses wearing B.C. guy, R.I.P.
@111 I speak Jive: Two cans of tuna, the old-timey 7 ounce kind, and a bunch of other stuff are boiled together then put through the blender. I guess they didn’t want anyone to be able to pick out the tuna, anchovies, celery, and carrots if they don’t like ’em.
Which did you find more appealing? This veal-tuna thingy or yesterthread’s Seafood Pizza?
That sleazy look in his eyes means that by when he says, “posterity,” he means he hopes that Sven is going to jerk off to the video.
#MeToo is about to FINALLY come to Riverdale, in other words.
Andy Capp-The guy was from Barcelona.
@Baja Gaijin: Tuna in a blender? I’ll pass.
At least I could pick the shrimp off the seafood pizza and eat them. The shrimp look pretty good.
@I speak Jive: Where is the tuna?
AUGGGHHHHH. Im starting to get the impression that everyone just skips over my posts.
@Time Lord Soundwave: Wow, I had no idea Drabble was still running. Still bland too, but maintaining that consistent level of blandness for 47 years has to count for something.
@Baja Gaijin: Pick-a-dee-dee-dee!
@120 Ukulele Ike: To me, the sauce with the recipe looks to thin to spread across sliced veal.
@122 richardf8: You recognized it!
@CanuckDownSouth: On Luann – y’know, if it involves Jonah’s death, I think I can be cool with that.
@Ukulele Ike: As a bonus, that fight could be fun to watch. It could be at least as much fun as the fighting they’ve been doing already. And thanks for the tips about veal.
@I speak Jive: Thanks. I may try it in the future. I’m thinking of finally getting and trying to learn how to use a smartphone because of the free app that identifies birds by song. I should have known that sooner or later there would be a smartphone enticement that would really entice:-).
@Baja Gaijin: EXCELLENT!
Did Weatherbee take off his glasses for the third panel?