Water sports
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Marvin, 8/9/25
Sincere thanks to the editors who demanded that Marvin‘s creative team add the garden hose, change the punchline, and recolor the runoff.
Blondie, 8/9/25
Like me, Dagwood is of a generation for whom drinking out of the backyard hose brings back cherished summer memories of refreshment, petty transgression, and freedom. If Elmo’s lemonade was tapped from such a wellspring of fond nostalgia, Dagwood will savor it all the more. Nevertheless, he’ll make damn sure it came from Elmo’s own backyard, not that pissy toddler’s up the block.
Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/9/25
And anyway, it could be a lot worse.
9 Chickweed Lane, 8/9/25
Way back in 2016, I outlined the problem faced by 9 Chickweed Lane after the 2008 consummation of Amos’s and Edda’s courtship, which resolved the sexual tension that had long been the foundation of the strip. The solution, then as now, was to create Amos and Edda surrogates and run the whole will-they-or-won’t-they routine (spoiler alert: they will) over and over again.
But after nine years of barely disguised reruns, the narrative present has become overrun with Amos and Edda surrogates whispering coy innuendos, sublimating their lust into musical performance, and humping all over the damn place. What to do?
Apparently this: slip the bounds of time and plant those recaps in the past and future. Hence today’s legacy Edda demanding attention from prepubescent Amos, the pair’s future children, teenage twins Lolly and Polly, tormenting their own thralls, and an assortment of past, present, and future walk-on foils being sexually one-upped by the regulars. One constant is that they all seem to migrate to this lake here, which by now has got to be more grotty than Marvin’s pool.
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118 replies to “Water sports”
Blondie: Dagwood is Generation X?
Blondie, the Neighborhood Bumstead: “First of all, Elmo, this is NOT a ‘glass’, it is a ‘Red Solo Cup™’!” “Yea, whatever,Mr. B, how about crossing my palm with a dime?”
Mother Goose and Grimm:
Today’s dialogue is absolutely ribbiting.
Blondie:
To cover costs and allow for a reasonable profit these days, the average price for a glass of lemonade is between $0.25 and $1.00. At 10 cents a glass, either this is a throwback cartoon, or Elmo’s fledgling enterprise will soon be thrown into Chapter 11.
Marvin: Once again, we have to wonder exactly how old a baby/toddler Marvin is supposed to be. Young enough that he could drown in a kiddie pool as his negligent father snoozes three feet away? If so, I suppose that eternal question — “Do people still have gross bodily functions in heaven?” — will finally be answered by the funny pages.
Blondie: Even with hose water and generic lemon Kool-Aid mix sold from a wooden crate, there’s no way Elmo is making a profit at 10 cents a glass. This must be some kind of school art project, with an old-timey suburban activity that’s meant to demonstrate changing political and economic trends, plus a commentary on tariffs or something. I think the teacher will give him an A, if only for the special effect in which part of the sidewalk turns into grass for a few seconds.
Mother Goose and Grimm: If another animal kisses a magic frog, does the frog change into a royal version of that animal? Because if he turns into a human prince, they’ve still got a pretty big problem.
Pluggers: Does the artist even remember how big videotapes used to be, and how little programming each one could hold? “All 20 seasons of ‘Gunsmoke’ ” would barely fit in this guy’s living room.
Blondie-“And by hose I mean my…”
Beetle Bailey-It’s called a reuben.
FC-“I’m going to have a word with their manager.”
MW-“It’s not every day that I get to spend time with one of my favorite friends.” Then who is everyone else you associate with at Charterstone? Hanger ons and sycophants?
RMMD-“Come in. Come in and know me better, man.”
Blondie-“Mr. B, has your boss ever beaten you with a rubber hose?”
Slylick Fox and Comix For Kinx: “The Three Toed Toad” was a beloved Tom Lehrer song if I’m not mistaken, so congrats on the accidental (?) timeliness of today’s comic, Mr Weber.
RMMD:
“Cody?”
“Lorna? — may I use your restroom?”
Blondie vs Marvin : TWO instances of urine being replaced with “hose water” in a row! Uncle Lumpy, you spoil us
(in a manner resembling how Baja’s late-nite cuisine is spoiled)************
Frazz :
a) More like the Pithy-agorean theorem, amirite?
b) What the heck do you mean, “suspiciously convenient”? Are you losing your mind over a mathematical principle making logical sense and actually working!?
MW: “By the way, Olive, since we’re such good friends and kindred spirits, do you mind paying for our dinner?”
Marvin: Jeff may have forgotten to turn off the hose, but he always turns off the hos.
Marvin’s dad didn’t forget to turn off the hose. He’s just diluting the inevitable.
9CL: Is there a reason why Brooke isn’t on a watchlist by now?
Blondie: Only Dagwood would be dumb enough to not only drink prepubescent piss and lemon juice but pay for it.
Marvin: Jeff’s latest attempt at killing his toddler is wasted by both his use of a kiddy pool and his own addiction to Vicodin.
RMMD:
“Lorna? — how’s Liza?”
“Wrong Lorna.”
MW: Olive has quickly learned that the price of a meal with Mary Worth is obsequious ass-kissing.
RMMD: Lorna’s attitude makes me think that this is not the first time she’s welcomed one of Daddy’s by-blows.
@Needless Exposition: 9CL: Is there a reason why Brooke isn’t on a watchlist by now?
The last thing this strip needs is more readers.
MW: Olive as a pathetically lonely teen who is desperately reaching out to Mary as a friend in an increasingly hostile world is a pretty good story. That it took a month to get here (and forget the esp nonsense) is another matter.
MW: Of course one of Mary’s “favorite friends” is the fourteen year old daughter of a doctor. Mary’s “friends” are all people who are in some position of influence who are able to give her things that she wants from restaurant trips and boat rides to advice columns where she can play God. Every single relationship Mary has with people is transactional and if they’re not useful enough, they get shoved in the closet deeper than Dr. Jeff’s sexuality.
More’n likely one of Marvin’s editors reminded Armstrong that, much like ice cubes melting in a glass, any liquids carried by Marvin into the pool wouldn’t add to the total volume when expelled from his bladder and intestines.
RMMD: Cody, welcome! Have you ever considered a career you can run out of the trunk of your car in your spare time? Welcome to our family and the world of MLM.
GT: Sure, that makes sense – asking GT his thoughts as if she were asking his permission.
MW: Okay, Olivia has now mentioned the near drowning event at least twice during this outing. Maybe she actually never survived the drowning but during the final seconds of her existence she projected an existence thereby squeezing years into a few moments.
DT: Putting on our coats! Is the last person putting on a resistant vest as well?
JP: OK – now please let this be the real twist. There are NOT one, NOT two, but THREE unrelated plot threads. Thread 1 – April, ex spy/agent, gets lured to Norway by an old enema, which coincidently puts her in the same town as the girls who coincidentaly got placed in some charity non-profit job there in a rental place that is part of Thread 2 – a woman has taken over the rental property and removed the owner, and plans to dupe unsuspecting naive stupid foreign visitors – she thought she hit the jackpot with the dim and dimmer girls but Aksel as part of Thread 3 is going to further complicate matters. Aksel is a neer do well who taking advantage of the kerffufle in the coffee bar tags along with the girls hoping to figure out which one of them he should scam and con only to realize that he may have stepped into the beginning of some horror film or nordic noir novel.
RMMD: Holy shit, she’s married to Avery Brooks, aka Hawk from ‘Spenser for Hire’! Solid!
JP: Watch out, Sophie n’ Reena! Leah’s a master of one-handed strangulation! She’ll choke you both out simultaneously!
SF: ‘We had a tedious side story while you and Dad went through your own tedious main story, why?’
‘No reason, I’m just trying to distract you from the fact that your father’s pathetic friend Kevin ‘Wilbur’ Whatshisface took all the leftover pizza, because he’s broke, pathetic and starving, just in case Ces hadn’t beat that particular plot point into the ground yet.’
9CL: Haven’t seen this is several years. I thought the joke is Amos is extremely horny for the mom, so has to avoid staring at her in a bikini? Which the female characters would never wear in the early years.
Also, no horseshoe crabs in fresh water lakes.
Hi, Uncle Lumpy!
Marvin: Don’t wake your dad up, Marvin! He’ll hate you for the rest of your life. Oh wait, that bridge has already sailed.
Blondie: Typically, one would expect a spit take here, but Dagwood isn’t going to waste perfectly good hose-water lemonade.
MGnG: I’m not going to question how the lily pad got in the water dish, because I don’t want to know the answer.
9CL: I can safely guess why horseshoe crabs have a “near threatened” status.
JP Finally *somebody* has a normal reaction to the morning’s events
@treetown: It would be even better if Thread 2 was Leah is *really* taking care of the property for her Gran/ did just inherit it – she’s rarely been there in person before so isn’t in the photos – and Sophie/Reena/Aksel are all reading way too much into coincidences
Original drafts of Marvin and Mother Goose and Grimm.
GT I read this as Mimi/Emily informing Gil to be polite, not asking for advice or permission. Gil immediately shuts her out by dropping her from diminutive to formal name – if anyone was wondering where Inma got her attitude about the unacceptability of Keri being friends with horse-girl athletic rival, it goes all the way to the top at Milford. Or to the writer, who apparently can only deal with teenage-level romance/rivalry relationships
FC: That is the look of someone who is going to kill her mother with telekinetically thrown knives.
MW: Only an alien or someone truly deranged would think “Oh, my steak and sides are delicious!” is normal human conversation.
Dustin: Of course, the real problem is the artist is too lazy to draw Dustin in anything other than that shirt, but I guess that wouldn’t generate as many bitter guffaws.
@Baja Gaijin: You should really think about getting that Comics Kingdom colorist job.
Luann: Are we going to find out Phil’s ex-girlfriend is Tara? Also, I did not want to know anything about Phil’s glooch, thank you.
CS: I know it’s the CFL, but wouldn’t security be a little more stringent? Also, the stress has caused Jeff to suffer a migraine and an earache simultaneously. That’s the only way I can interpret the art.
9CL: Every so often, I’ll try asparagus to reassure myself that yes, my tastes haven’t changed and I find asparagus to be gross and unpalatable. 9 Chickweed Lane is now my comic strip asparagus.
MG&G: Why are you asking this of a cat? Are you a cat prince, or is this some weird furry thing?
Today is one full year since the last update on Pigborn.
Nice of Uncle Lumpy to post a 9CL strip today to mark the one-year anniversary of the last new episode of Pibgorn. So I guess we can conclude it’s truly dead, though we can’t assume it won’t suddenly gasp and come bursting out of the closet like Michael Myers or some other slasher pic monster. I have to say, I hadn’t expected this would be the end of the story, since those two had been boinking constantly for nearly two years at that point so this is hardly any sort of resolution, though I guess a woman’s splayed legs thrust ecstatically in the air is about as classically Brooke as an ending can get.
“Just keeping up with the latest trends, Mr. B.” explains the little boy in the polo shirt and eldritch hat chosen for him decades ago, referencing a movement that’s also no spring chicken.
C’shaft: Why hasn’t Crankshaft been beaten up by security by now?
Dustin: Dustin, you should know your sister well enough by now that she never pays compliments, only setups for punchlines.
GT: Gil said the same thing when Emily told him she wanted a divorce.
JP: This reads like “got caught searching for evidence against a possible murderer” and more “Mom came home early and caught us raiding Dad’s Playboy stash.”
MW: No wonder Mary and Olive are so close, they have the same “aliens who are still learning English” speech pattern.
@cheech wizard: Brooke probably realized he could indulge his kinks in 9 Chickweed Lane, which made Pibgorn superfluous. Still, you’d think he would want to thank his many fans for
oglingreading the strip all these years.9 CHICKWEED LANE: It’s like they heard about the upcoming awkward and uncomfortable story about Mary Worth taking her “specially-bonded” protege to the beach and say, “Ha! Hold my beer!”
Me: Marvin, okay, Blondie yep, Mother Goose and Grimm, check, wait what the hell 9 Chickweed Lane? Ah, right, welcome back Uncle Lumpy!
Speaking of 9 Chickweed Lane, I am so, so grateful Uncle Lumpy assumed the reins the day after Brooke let everyone know about his foot fetish.
@taig: Never let it be said Batiuk lets facts and logic get in the way of a good story.
Well, a story.
A few weak gags and puns assembled into a story-like shape, at least.
RIP Marvin, 8/1/1982-8/9/2025. Today’s strip will be Exhibit A in the case brought by Child Protective Services.
Arlo & Janis: Jimmy Johnson depicts exactly what it’s like to be a cat staffer. Nobody actually “owns” a cat.
BG&SS: Maybe the boys should have read about Union General Buford’s seizing the high ground during battle. Wait, did the Hootin’ Holler library ban books about the outcome at Gettysburg?
Luann: Luann isn’t responsible for the Wicked Weenie’s side effects. As an employee, does she get to eat free, and after how many does she decide it’s not worth it?
MW: Mary and Olive find a $100-a-plate steak and eggs diner.
FC: I don’t fish but I do know that it’s more a pastime than a goal, Dolly.
H&L: Chip dreams of hitting on college women who can’t find dates among their own age peers. I admire his realistic ambition.
Lockhorns: The Man of Still has a nemesis, and his whole life is cosplaying Vincent Price as Egghead.
Pib: Happy birthday to this panel! According to this searing interview with his daughter Brooke says Pib isn’t dead, it’s resting, and he wants to do some more Shakespeare stuff in Pib soon. I know everybody, including Mr Shakespeare, is looking forward to that.
DT: What in god’s name is Lizz wearing under that coat? Is the new cop protocol distracting violent criminals with your cleavage?
BF: If Blonde Friend can convince the entrepreneurs to stuff the coffee and vodka inside a donut, this would be the perfect job for her.
FG: This is great! “You’re my friend; no punching for you.”
Pluggers: This one hits home, as I have box sets of Barney Miller and Hill Street Blues within reach. Having said that, that is obviously a DVD set, not VHS, because a 20-season set of tapes would fill a decent sized bookcase. Ask me how I know.
@Bob Tice: @BigTed: Considering that this operation is most likely subsidized by Big Parent (who Elmo lobbied heavily to loosen anti-business regulations. Hence the hose), I don’t think his business is that unprofitable at that price point (of course, like all corporate heads, Elmo could be making even more profit, so starting next week: runoff from the gutter, whole lemons plopped in stolen from Dagwood’s tree out back, a redoubled effort on their “organic ingredients” marketing campaign and a 1000% mark-up, it is!)
9 Chickweed Lane: Amos preferring to watch a cool horseshoe crab instead of talking to the other annoying characters makes this perhaps the one and only relatable installment of 9 Chickweed Lane ever produced.
The predator may be domesticated, but I’m still not sure it’s the best idea for a frog to ask it to bring it’s mouth on over.
Here’s to the Mother Goose & Grimm art team, who, when given the task to draw a frog, went with the classic frog traits of “incredibly close set eyes” and “huge, flaring nostrils.” Just how we all think of frogs.
@Needless Exposition: Well, yeah! Mary is not going to travel all that way just to “bond” with some ragamuffin street urchin, no matter how deep the “kindred spirit psychic link” ran or how severe the “despair” is. That would just make the relationship look creepy and weird! Our gal has standards after all!
REX MORGAN M.D.: And then next week we follow the adventures of Lorna’s daughter, “Whocaresolina” (How long is Beatty going to play this “30 degrees of separation” game?)
Blondie: Everyone is forgetting that Elmo is spending OPM (other people’s money) on the ingredients and keeping 100% of the profits. This has worked really well for Donald Trump and other millionaires.
MW: The ‘Mary saves Olive the flower fairy girl from drowning’ was in the summer of 2014, and though I’m pretty sure they never state Olive’s age, she looked to be at least 5, so in strip time, Mary should also be 9 years older. Hmmm.
@lynn: If I learned anything from Sinners, it’s that vampires are ageless. I think that was the only takeaway from that film.
Dustin: The missing 4th panel is Dustin dumping that glass of water all over his sister’s head.
Cool! Thanks, Uncle Lumpy, for giving us a new thread so we don’t end up with 999 comments by week end.
MW: Several Mudges have long akinned the conversations in this strip to a clumsy attempt by space aliens to imitate human language and customs. To me they’re more like the sample conversations in one of those Berlitz teach yourself a foreign language books. They’re usually found in the later chapters where Mr. Berlitz feels confident enough to set you loose in a foreign capital to wander the streets and engage the natives in idle chit-chat.
There was a story, about a Princess who was on a quest, and she had to wear peasant rags to appear incognito.
At one point she finds a frog prince, whom she kisses. The prince, now back into a human, chastises the “peasant” for daring to kiss him with her filthy commoner lips.
But the irony is, seeing as the kiss transforms him back, means she can’t be anything other than a princess.
9CL: Fuck Lake, The Early Years. The backstory involving 10-year olds you never knew you needed.
@Activist: That’s typical for Josh’s summer vacation. It’s Christmas vacation when things pile up.
I know that the writer of 9 Chickweed Lane is a creepy pervert, but I don’t see anything creepy in today’s panels. Am I missing something?
Amos: I’m looking at a horseshoe crab
Edda: He’s looking at a horseshoe crab
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Speaking of 9 Chickweed Lane, I am so, so grateful Uncle Lumpy assumed the reins the day after Brooke let everyone know about his foot fetish.
That final (?) episode of Pibgorn told you all you needed to know about that, a year ago. He draws ’em weird, but he draws ’em with purpose.
@Rusty: Maybe Edda n’ Amos’s home town is near that ten-mile stretch of New Hampshire that enjoys oceanfront property.
Since Brooke quit doing any background art it’s been difficult to figure if his characters are fucking in a lake, the ocean, or a swimming pool.
@Ukulele Ike: #62:
“that ten mile stretch of New Hampshire”
Some friends of my wife own a vacation house on Rye Beach. We’ve been invited up whenever. As the CC resident gourmand what eateries do you recommend around there?
@Guillermo el Chiclero: No idea. I’ve never eaten around there. I only get off the interstate in order to stock up on tax-free wine and spirits on my way to downeast Maine. New Hampshire thoughtfully provides warehouse-sized booze stores with an easy on/off for all the thirsty New Yorkers and Bostonians.
Downtown Portsmouth is charming and attractive and probably offers a variety of fine dining establishments. Also, the ocean’s right there and full of fresh seafood so local lobster/clam/haddock shacks are gonna be a good bet.
9CL: TIL that Amos spent his early years as an apprentice to BC’s Clumsy Carp. “For all sad words of tongue or pen…”
Marvin: I don’t know what drove Jeff to finally try and murder his son, but I can believe he’d be too beat to stay awake and see it through.
9CL: If this is Grotty Lake, and I do like that adjective, Uncle Lumpy, Amos must be watching something random and believes he is watching a horseshoe crab. I’d like to think he is watching an old rubber boot half-buried in the sand and will continue to watch it for half an hour or so.
C-Shaft: Come on, vogue, vogue
Let your body move to the music…
Dustin: Dustin got scouted by an E! reality show? Sounds like his best career opportunity in forever.
GT: Gil will call his ex-wife different names depending on which school she works for? That’s almost interesting.
H-Cliff: Turbans and wigs are two different things. Just needed to get that out there.
JP: Just when you think his heroines have walked into a death trap, Ces plays the Hilarious Misunderstanding card. Well-played. Well, played at any rate.
MT: Either Rusty and Honest Ernest are standing in front of a pile of dinosaur poop or the colorist is mounting some kind of protest. Noble, perhaps, but doomed.
MW: “My steak and sides”? If Olive didn’t know what was on the plate beside her sirloin then I guess it was Mary Worth food after all.
RMMD: Okay, so your brother in law is Luke Cage, but don’t expect him to do anything superheroic. It’s not that kind of strip.
S&S: If Sam keeps on guzzling straight vodka in the morning all his friends are going to have to get together for an intervention. What’s that, you say? They already are and we’re looking at it? Okay, never mind then.
@Activist: Uncle Lumpy is likely to give us a new thread every day. Right, Uncle Lumpy? That’s part of what makes him such a wonderful uncle. That and handing out little prezzies to all of us. I want my chocolate, please, Umple Lunky!! Oops.
MW: I am desperately wishing that these two would talk about something more interesting and specific than the repetitive kindred-spirit mutual admiration they’ve been spouting so far. Ordinarily, as an out-of-it Boomer, I might be nervous about a young teen in 2025 bursting into a monologue full of current slang and pop-culture references that I don’t understand at all. But this is MW, so no danger. I mostly just want to find out if Olive is a devoted fan of quilting or Gilbert and Sullivan or baking Victoria sponge cake or maybe all of the above.
JP: You’d think they would’ve posted Aksel to watch the door so Leah couldn’t just materialize unexpectedly right behind them.
Blondie does have a joke today, one that caught me a little off guard. Of all the lemonade-stand jokes in the comics all these years, is this the first time someone has linked garden hose to suburban lemonade? Maybe not, but it’s so obvious. Down the hatch!
@Poteet: Yeah, Olive should be Gen Alpha, and my Zoomer son barely understands them. But instead, she speaks the same stiltese as the old folks.
Gasoline Alley – Toodle is an annoying moron, so she’ll fit right in with the rest of the characters.
Mary Worth – If this stilted conversation is supposed to distract us from how creepy the story is, it’s not working.
@Guillermo el Chiclero: Along with the space alien theory, I also think they can be androids with faulty human speech programs or possibly time travelers from the 1800s. The dialogue in MW also reminds me of the Laugh-In skits with Judy Carne and Arte Johnson as robots.
JP – This is when the villain holds a gun on the heroes and threatens them. Instead, she’s screaming at them, so she fits right in. All that’s missing is the pissy face.
Arlo & Janis – When we were cat sitting, the cats came running when I opened a can of chickpeas.
@Will: Thanks for that link. Those two are really full of themselves, although it wasn’t as bad as I expected. Brooke talks about how his characters have developed and changed over the years, but he didn’t mention that all of the female characters are now narcissistic vipers, and all of the males are emotionally stunted thralls to the women.
@Ukulele Ike: We do that, too, when we go to Maine. No tax in New Hampshire.
It’s not a good idea on the way to the Jersey Shore to stop at liquor stores just over the New Jersey border, because PA checks the parking lots for PA license plates.
@Poteet: The first time I ever heard grotty was in A Hard Day’s Night. George Harrison used it.
JP: “Oh hi, Leah. We were just looking for fresh pillowcases. And we brought along this barista to help.”
MW: re: sides: There’s no sign of it on the table, but I hope Olive ordered the creamed spinach. It just isn’t a real steakhouse dinner unless you order the creamed spinach. Maybe she finished the whole dish first and the waiter cleared it, because it’s just that delicious.
The first gay Funky Winkerbean strip.
@I speak Jive:
When they bother to hand out job applications, that’s question #1.
@I speak Jive: “Give him whatever it is they drink….coke-a-rama?”
CS: Don’t worry, Jeff. Ed isn’t getting up. He’s just going to drop trow, hang his bare ass over the edge of the bench, and drop a deuce before security hauls him off.
Blondie: I mean, remember in the film UHF where Stanley Spadowski (played by Michael Richards) becomes the new kid’s show host, and it’s so insanely popular amongst kids and adults that it revitalizes the entire network.
And one kid is chosen from the audience to drink from the firehose and it’s treated like the greatest thing ever?
Yeah, those were the days :3
Six Chex and A Cat Named O.G. Readmore In Search Of A Punchline: Its ok to love a book, as long as you don’t LOVE a book. Please don’t let Depressed Chick do the strip for National Sandwich Lovers Day!
It’s more Marvin’s concern over his father’s on-going feud with the Water Works. What the Hell? He owns the Electric Company already, make the trade, Player 3!
@67 Artist formerly known as Ben: on Crankshaft: Crankshaft Voguing on the field. Is that what you were imagining?
on Heathcliff: I think the lady cat’s wearing a beehive wig from the “Wanda the Waitress” collection.
The Familliar Mucus: Dolly just cant wait to get to killing them fish.
Gasoline Alley: Am I the only one who thinks Toodle has a blow-up sex doll face?
@The Rambling Otter: Yeah, those were the days :3
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Gee, our old LaSalle ran great…..
Marvin-Dad is hoping that Marvin will drown.
@Where’s Rocky: @Needless Exposition: 9CL: Is there a reason why Brooke isn’t on a watchlist by now?
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No one wants to watch him.
@85 Baja Gaijin:
Yes, you pervert.
@Baja Gaijin: Gasoline Alley: Am I the only one who thinks Toodle has a blow-up sex doll face?
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Poor “Airplane!” star Otto Pilot has been out of work since 1980,except for that one guest shot on “Night Court” as SEX DOLL #9 THAT SELF INFLATES IN DAN FEILDING’S BRIEFCASE, and the cameo in the “96 WEIRDCHICK LAME” cartoon special, “A Wish For Water Wings That Work”.
Really, at 10 cents a go, Elmo probably wouldn’t even be covering the red Solo cups. At least they weren’t blue or yellow; he’d go from Childish Idiot to Useless Asshole instantly.
LOLA: Fresh home-grown tomatoes are good in BLTs, true, but they’re even better if you hold the B and L.
TG: yes, Tina, do clean up. Begin by deleting this goofus from your life.
PEANUTS: Could have been featured by Uncle Lumpy
@Sequitur: Huh. Weird. I didn’t dislike either character. Are you sure that’s FUNKY WINKERBEAN?
@Ukulele Ike: Well, now that you’ve posted that, I want a really good recipe for it.
@92 Activist:
I feel Tina is somewhat of a pragmatist and won’t put up with this guy very long.
@Baja Gaijin: I’ve done a fair amount of CC-related online research in the past, but on this particular quest, I shall not go.
@93 Poteet:
It was vintage Funky. This was before Batty got the idea he was the best damn comic strip writer in the world.
I rarely if ever comment here but I just wanted to say hi to Uncle Lumpy!
@Baja Gaijin: It was more of a comment on what Jeff was doing, but that’s a good mashup.
You might be right about the Wanda wigs. If so, the colorist didn’t get the memo.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Where should I put up these notices about Fair Labor Standards?”
“I’m trying to think of a place where no one will see them”
“Use your own judgment!”
Blondie – Is the flavor of lemonade enhanced by the presence of lead, phthalates, and BPA?
I know 9 Chickweed Lane has the characters randomly go from big to little between comics, but you’d think they would maintain size within them. If Brooke wants to show the mother’s thighs, they should be above water in both panels.
@Activist: @Sequitur:
Later this guy will demonise Tina by claiming she was his next-door neighbor (a lie) and that she was his “forever person” (a lie) until it turned out that she had been dating another guy for a whole year before that (the biggest lie). His new girlfriend, a developmentally-challenged californian, will completely buy it.
@96 Poteet: You need do no more internet research on blow-up sex doll faces; Toodle and that other woman who looks like her are examples.
@99 Artist formerly known as Ben: You’ll never guess what character I modified to be Dancin’ Cranky. So I’ll tell you: it’s the Dancing Plugger Cat.
@103 Anonymous:
And then they’ll come to the restaurant that Tina works for. Tina will go to the rest room, piss in a cup and pour it in their drinks. They’ll rave over how good their drinks taste!
@pachoo: In panel one, Juliette is standing in a hole.
@A Grave Mind: If Marvin’s father is the Great Gildersleeve, I don’t want to see or hear what falls out of Fibber Mac Marvin’s closet.
JP: I get it now. Calling in the actual police would only spoil all this fun.
Late Thread Cuisine: In honor of @67 Artist formerly known as Ben‘s Heathcliff comment.
@Baja Gaijin: That’s dis-turban-g.
@109 Baja Gaijin:
I’m watching TV as I clicked on your link. Someone on TV said, “Is that really necessary?”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
@I speak Jive: #74: Texas used to do that when Louisiana still had an 18 drinking age. Kids near the state line would drive into Louisiana, buy their liquor, and drive back. The problem was that agents of the TABC (Texas Alcohol Board of Control) would be in the parking lots of the major liquor stores taking down Texas license plates. If the car’s occupants looked obviously underaged the agent would radio to the Texas state troopers lying in wait at the most likely border crossings. The trick was to drive out of your way and come in on a back road, or avoid the major liquor retailers. In Louisiana grocery and gas station convenience stores sell hard liquor.
@Baja Gaijin:
#109. Baja, that may be called a fish turban, but I doubt Monstro would let Bern put it on his head.
9 Chickweed Lane is in some sense the sexiest newspaper comic strip there is despite the fact that Brooke McEldowney cannot draw women’s noses, but prior to Amos and Edda’s marriage it was about as frustrating as waiting for Christmas was when we were six years old.
Between Friends – I’m choosing to read “RESUME UPLOAD” as a sound effect, because it’s funnier that way.
@I speak Jive:
He was even good enough to supply the etymology.
Make a note of that word and give it to Susan.
@Peanut Gallery: I remember that scene. Earlier in the scene, when the pompous director started to interview George, the assistant was shocked and tried to whisper who George was. He told the assistant not to breathe on him. The pompous jerk who was an expert on teenage trends didn’t recognize one of the biggest teen idols of the time.
Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford to buy a pair of Mod-A-Go-Go stretch elastic pants?
There will come a time when you can even take your clothes off when you dance.
— Frank Zappa