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Six Chix, 8/12/25
Why start now?
Judge Parker, 8/12/25
Come on, lady, everybody knows April. They didn’t even need to tell you her last name!
Rex Morgan, 8/12/25
Sad-sack sister here sounds like an AI spooling out yards of generic content: “different points of view” … “makes communication tough” … “not open to the idea” … “doesn’t want to accept” …. Out with it, girl: the guy’s a jerk!
Hi and Lois, 8/12/25
Hi and Lois tiptoes into Rex Morgan Secret Sibling territory. Careful reconnecting with your new half-brother, Dawg—I hear his sister is a real bitch.
—Uncle Lumpy
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Hi and Lois: “Hey, that dog looks just like Dawg! And its owner looks just like my mother. And my brother! Do we all have another family we don’t know about, or is half this neighborhood part of some big-cheeked, tiny-nosed genetic cloning experiment? And if so, how come I got Dad’s nose instead — that’s not fair! And also, not for the first time, what’s the deal with Uncle Beetle’s eyes, anyway?”
I’m loving Aksel’s body language, here. “Look, I just wanted to get with at least one of these chicks. It’s been like an hour, my manager is probably super pissed at me. Is this gonna take long? It’s gonna take long, isn’t it?”
Fortunately, being Scandinavia, he could probably toss it off as a Wellness Break, or something.
So Six Chix is trying to make a joke and failing about failing to try to make a joke. Now THERE, folks, is an ouroboros. Mindfreak!
Six Chix-You should consult your tummy brain for a joke.
FC-“Whoever made this stuff must be rather lazy to slap some new stuff on to make us think this is something new.”
RMMD-And thus the story ends here.
Not content to merely fail to make a joke in a cartoon about failing to make a joke – the cartoonist is also failing to deliver on the premise of presenting a random fact instead of a joke! Six Chix is on another level, guys. In the interests of completeness we could also point out how it’s failing to use the comics medium to do anything interesting visually that wouldn’t be conveyed just as well in plain dialogue, although that is par for the course.
Cartoonist’s brain: “Did you know there’s a guy who’s made himself immune to snake venom through a regimen of building up tolerance against multiple different poisons, and they’re using his blood to develop a revolutionary general antivenom, currently in the animal testing stage?”
Cartoonist’s page: *empty*
Cartoonist: “Damnit.”
There, I fixed it-
RMMD:
“We have very different points of view, and it makes communication tough.”
“Such as?”
“Well, I’m confident that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, but he insists that that’s a lot of nonsense!”
JP:
“Say, I’ve got an idea for the three of you! Let’s do a reprise of Three’s Company. Sophie, you’ll take the role of Suzanne Somers’ slightly ditzy ‘Chrissy.’ Aksel, you’ll be John Ritter’s snarky ‘Jack,’ tossing off Paul Lynde-like one-liners. And Reena, you’ll be Joyce DeWitt’s sensible, pragmatic ‘Janet’ !”
Aw gee, Uncle Lumpy, you beat me to the Six Chix comment.
Seriously, Bianca makes me reconsider the whole idea of ‘comic strip’
RMMD: Let it go, Cody. Not everyone wants a “bonus” sibling. You can always tap Lorna, Larry or Lorrie for a kidney.
MW: Just how “gifted” IS Olive? I have yet to see her levitate, go into a trance or throw a chair telekinetically. She’s pulled Mary from two already happening menaces. She didn’t predict them.
H&L: Trixie’s first experience with parallel universes.
GT: Given that these people barely look HUMAN, the whole gender point is kind of lost.
@Bob Tice:
Let’s also not discount Jonah’s continued embrace of Lysenkoist theories. The New Soviet Man is a myth, dude!
@Amelie Wikström: (Resist making a “The Princess Bride” reference… resist making a “The Princess Bride” reference…)
There I resisted making a reference towards the iconic scene between Cary Elwes and Wallace Shawn.
@The Rambling Otter: Dammit!
Beetle Bailey : Sgt Snorkel’s squad was never heard from again.
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Hagar the Horrible : …sure. Cowboys meet Vikings. Whatever.
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Hi & Lois : Dawg thinks : “Look, if you’re going to accuse ME of infidelity… Chip, Ditto and Dot are actually Thirsty’s. YOU’RE actually Abercrombie and Fitch’s.”
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Judge Parker : there’s going to turn out to be the added wrinkle that this lady thinks April Parker is FICTIONAL (within the Judge Parker’s universe) because of how absurd the Netflix series was.
She also thinks NEDDY is fictional, because no human could be that self-centered and shallow.
RxMD: You know, he’s one of those people, with the distinct hats….
Phantom: … who voted for the sore loser….
GT: ….hopefully, that sore loser won’t try again and actually win.
HTH: They missed. It should say “Welcome to Ki-Yay.”
6C: Bianca ran out of storyline with the sandwich romance?
Look, at least she’s being honest. Brooke ran out of storyline with 9CL, and he rebooted Pibgorn twice and has writer’s block for a year.
MW: It’s difficult having a child like Olive. It cuts into her parents fucking time.
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MW: get stuffed with the Olive is special bs. She is so special no one except creepy Mary likes her. What? Is she the kwisach Haderach? Is Creepy Mary a Bene Gesserat? This is beyond ridiculous.
(Reads Uncle Lumpy’s comment on Six Chix)
“Hello, police? I’d like to report a murder.”
6Chix: Not content to waive the artistic ability gatekeeping average people from drawing comics, the attempt to even be lightly amusing is also unnecessary.
RMMD:
“He said something about ‘“No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord.’
Actually, he’s kind of a dick.”
6Cx Boy, I thought this was just another stupid ‘meta’ joke, but then I saw that the artist is, in fact, an alien! So random!
JP Judging from her hand gestures, this woman knows April because of Dat Ass.
H&L Hey Trixie, did you notice that the woman also looks like your mom? And that all your friends and neighbours just look like subtle variants of your family? It’s really just the limitations of the art style…
Chix (sic): She needs to try a different direction. What’s the opposite of fucking a sandwich? Blowing a quiche?
Just spitballing here.
Hi and Lois floats the idea of secret off-panel children to distract from the plain-sight obvious fact that Chip is Thirsty’s child. Or the child of Thirsty’s secret brother, Fitch the garbageman. Or maybe that’s Abercrombie. Anyhow BigTed, Otherdawg’s owner doesn’t look that much like Lois–she’s smiling.
[and I found Six Chix relatable, haters]
Dawg looks so scared and upset at the idea of having another family somewhere. Well, duh — he was taken from his real family by you bipedal monsters!
Random Thought: In a world where fish are sentient. Would Blowfish be the prostitutes of the fish world?
JP: “We were merely talking about the month of April. We’re all tax attorneys, you see. But now that you’ve mentioned April Parker, you have essentially confessed to killing the Pope. (speaking into lapel mic) We have what we need. Move in.”
Judge Parker: You know that this takes place in Scandinavia, as that is the most Ikea looking room I’ve ever seen.
@The Rambling Otter: Iocaine can produce perfect breasts? And I thought Botox did wonders for beauty augmentation.
@Little Guy: “There’s so few perfect breasts in the world…”
Judge Parker: Yes, of course they know April! The global population consists of the Spencer-Driver-Parker clan, and those who exist to serve them and/or advance their narratives, didn’t you know that? Seems like someone in the espionage world would know.
Rex Morgan, M.D.: I regret to inform you that this is a perfectly realistic scenario and a fairly accurate depiction of how people will use circumlocution to avoid telling you that their family member is a complete asshole. I know, I know. Rex Morgan, M.D. is on the nose. I’m afraid too.
A Plugger can look at a bolt and know what size wrench will fit it, but they have no actual use for this skill.
Dustin: So Dustin’ parents pressured him to complete college when he’s clearly not university material, and now wonder why he’s “directionless.” I’m guessing it’s the first time in his life he’s been allowed to choose his own direction.
MW: We’re still talking about this?
RMMD: We’re still talking about this?
JP: We’re still talking about this?
Frazz: We’re still talking about this?
CS: We’re still talking about this?
Hi and Lois: That there? That there is the expression of a Dawg who realizes he is going to have to explain puppy mills to an infant. “Trixie, you know how your mother was always barefoot and pregnant before she became a real estate agent…?”
@Little Guy: Brooke McEldowney being unable to write Pibgorn is one of those little things that restores my hope in the universe.
April O’Neil here makes a point of knowing about other important Aprils nearby.
6C: It would be funnier if we saw what random fact she was thinking of, instead of just the words “random fact”. Although given that most of her random thoughts seem to be about the fuckability of sandwiches, maybe not.
Trixie can only attempt to communicate through her inner monologue, so I can only assume that expression on Dawg’s face is him finally noticing how messed up the baby’s hair is.
@MKay: GT Yeah, there’s art that isn’t good, and then there’s art that actively gets in the way of comics storytelling. This is wayyyy over that line, you’d need Tobias to be wearing a slogan shirt with something like “proud trans man” on it to have a clue. Heck, today’s drawings of the shop clerk wouldn’t tell us she’s a woman (yesterday’s do show a bosom), and both yesterday’s and today’s drawings of Tobias’ mom could be a woman or a slightly long-haired guy.
MW: You know, Olive, being a delusional weirdo with “special gifts” isn’t why your parents and peers don’t like you. The reason why they don’t like you is because you literally can’t have a conversation without it being about how you’re a delusional weirdo with “special gifts” that no one wants to be around. People would rather deal with an actual delusional weirdo instead of a self centered narcissist like you.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Here I thought it could be a clever reversal of the stereotype where an American meets someone from France, and says “Oh, do you know _____?” as if there are only a dozen people in France. I should have realized that “Judge Parker” and “clever” don’t go together.
@MKay: Just how “gifted” IS Olive?
To steal a line from the Simpsons, “Now when you say special….”
But yeah, it would be much more impressive if she moved a traffic cone six inches, explaining to Mary that it will prevent a fatal car accident in two days. Or maybe I mean “pathetic,” though it would be fun to see Mary’s reaction.
JP: Look, Leah (if that IS your real name), I’m not here to tell you how to do your cloak and dagger shenanigans, but it seems to me that in this age of widespread surveillance and zero information privacy, it shouldn’t be that hard to know a) everyone who is connected with your person of interest and b) when one of them is staying at the exact same Air BnB you’re using for cover?
RMMD: Rex Morgan continues to achieve new highs (lows?) in the field of no-stakes drama, replacing the role of antagonist with a vague insinuation that someone somewhere isn’t happy about this situation.
RMMD – “Yeah, he’s not open to the idea of a new sibling. He doesn’t like to share his stuff. Goes back to a red truck when he was about six. But that’s neither here nor there.”
I apologize to God, for mocking him on here the other day.
That’s all I need to say :3
6C: I don’t have anything snarkier than Uncle Lumpy’s comment.
JP: “You know April Parker? Oh, just go ahead and bust up some more furniture. There are a couple of Ikea designs I bought and hate now.”
RMMD: I get it. Jonah doesn’t want a rival for all that wealth he’s going to inherit.
HnL: This joke is a lot funnier if you read it in the 50s when a lot of domestic pets freely roamed their neighborhoods.
@CanuckDownSouth: I thought Keri was the Trans one.
Then I realize that all of these characters have no personality outside of any of this. So one can only identify them as “That Asshole Coach” “That asshole Newscaster” “Cool Black Guy” etc… and they tend to get blanded together.
@The Rambling Otter: Blended*
I’m know why Alien Flashdance Beret Lady is having trouble thinking of a joke — she has no material to work with.
Josh, considering your sadly encyclopedic mind for comics bullshit, I hope you’ve been tracking how many times Xunise from Six Chix has done “I can’t think of a joke” as her joke.
For someone who only has to write 5-6 strips per month, it’s goddam egregious. Back when I used to care more, I remember her once doing it three weeks in a row. even for a strip with such low standards, I don’t know how she still has that gig.
@The Rambling Otter: I’ll be honest.
After my post making fun of God yesterday, I suddenly got a bit of bad luck.
I was wondering “Did I piss off God?”
So I thought an apology on here where it would probably be the most embarrassing (and in turn humbling) as literally no-one cares, would suffice.
I’m not doing this to save my own skin, for the record. I genuinely do love God, just not to a heavy obsession level, I mean I’ve never been in a church service. I’m rambling. I just thought I’d try and shake this bad luck off of me, if that’s the case.
FC: “They’ve even got the Statue of Liberty on things! What the hell, man?”
MW: Mary Worth‘s mission statement: inertia is good.
Dustin: “I just don’t get it. I belittle him at every turn and constantly tell him he’s a worthless piece of shit. I have no idea why he doesn’t change.”
@The Rambling Otter: No, you had it right the first time.
@Manuel Faces: Josh is on vacation.
My apologies for sounding mocking at first.
I genuinely thought that you were someone else. Sorry!
Luann: Tiffany is just casually violating health and safety regulations. That probably helps to account for the “F-” on the health inspection.
MW. Olive may the best example of why Superman needs to disguise himself as Clark Kent. Can you imagine how much people would hate the the Man of Steel if he talked about his powers as much as she does?
@taig: On Dustin “And I try to set a good example for him by coming to the office every day and scarfing up the support staff’s donuts in the break room instead of generating billables. I have no idea why he’s aimless.”
@Bob Tice:
Yes, he insists on there being significant role for epigenetic factors! Bah!
CS: Sure, Ed, sure. Also based on how
lazy Davis wasempty the stadium is, it looks like Ed tried to tell everyone in attendance about his contribution.9CL: Edda’s mom (I can’t bother) practically encouraged Edda parading around Amos in her bathing suit, and now that Amos is paying attention, she decides to be protective of Edda? Weird family dynamic here.
DT: Sam found the secret shame of the loan shark. He writes romance novels about how a sad sack lump of melted ice cream escapes the cruel world of the demi-mode and finds true love.
JP: Like Sterling Archer, and James Bond, April Parker constantly working on her brand name recognition. Despite the best efforts of her trainers at The Farm to patiently explain why people in the world of espionage and adventure would be best NOT to tell everyone their true names, April pushes forth.
Now the reals mystery – when will Aksel reveal himself to be a plant for the villain and pull his gun!
MW: Late to pick this up but the subtext is so thick that it is clear that Olivia is actually talking about something other than her psychic abilities.
Flash: Glad to see the Flash remembered his new friend, and how convenient he has a first aid kit.
RMMD: No, the brother just acts like most people would – with some skepticism and caution!
Luann-Don’t you love it when you came straight to work from your vacation instead of going home to oh let’s say unpack.
@Liam: Where better to unload than amongst your coworkers? No, wait, you typed “unpack.”
Maybe it was a working vacation?
FC-“Damnit, Dad! You’re videos were wrong! They wear clothes here in San Francisco.”
BCN: “No, we heard ‘Time is Running Out’ by Muse and stopped by to listen. Absolution is a banger album.”
C’shaft: Is Dan Davis too lazy to draw extras, or is CFL really that unpopular?
DT: Every so often Sam has to toss out some random Yiddish to remind everyone he’s Jewish and not, as his appearance indicates, some form of leprechaun.
GT: Tobias, I’m not sure how long ago you transitioned so you might still be new to this, but one of the nice things about men’s clothing is that the sizing is much more uniform and less vague than it is for women’s. Hell, you’re not even buying pants or anything like that, you’ve got shirts–and probably not even dress shirts but tees or polos that don’t need a precise fit. You don’t need Cloth-Mart’s assigned-sex-at-birth dressing rooms–just grab a few mediums off the rack and keep the receipt in case they don’t work out when you try them at home!
Luann: I have never seen a ship spa that does nail art. (Apparently Virgin Voyages does, but they also have a tattoo parlor on board so it’s not like they’re the norm.)
MW: Olive keeps on insisting that her life is so hard, but thus far the evidence consists of a) a couple vaguely unkind comments from the world’s least effective mean girl squad and b) an overheard comment from her dad with zero context. I’m just saying, it’s not exactly The Outsiders in terms of adolescent struggle.
Phantom: Refusing to accept the results of democratic elections? Relying on paramilitary extremists to work outside of the law? Good thing such problems only occur in the global south! (cough)
Pluggers have completely useless skills.
H&L: ” ‘Another family’? I’ve been licking the spot where my balls used to be since Chip was an only child. Thanks for reminding me about The Snip, you little twerp.”
@taig:
Since it is The Fuse I’m sure Luann’s parents would just casually overlook the expenses.
Hi And Lois: Uh oh! Looks like Dawg’s secret – that he’s actually just one branch of an incomprehensible eldritch entity that manifests in our puny mortal world as copies of a dog, working to bring about humanity’s doom – is about to be exposed! Too bad for this infant that she’s in perfect range for a witness-disposing bite to the skull.
@taig:
Juliette.
[sigh] It’s the job.
Gil Thorp-I feel like something happened between yesterday’s last panel and today’s first panel that I am missing.
GT: Geez, someone’s taking working at Cloth-Mart waaay too seriously. Your employer has perfected wage theft and telling employees how to apply for food stamps. You’re a tiny notch above Dollar Ville. Leave the professional bigotry to the pols and pundits on TV.
Gasoline Alley: Retail work is tough. Food service is tougher. At the end of the day you have to live with yourself. Good for Toodle.
Lockhorns: Crankshaft did this funnier.
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I, too, can’t believe I’m saying this.
Pluggers also know that they are just going to use their one set of vice-grips anyway.
@Rube: Yeah, Ed made a mistake that one time he decided to participate in “Bring Your Child to Work.”
Pluggers: Sure, he can guess the size just by looking at it but he’ll still not be able to find the wrench to fit it.
@Uncle Lumpy: Sorry. I didn’t intend for you to recall any knowledge about 9 Chickweed Lane.
GT: I think the parent there IS a man. He seems to be offended in panel two when the saleswoman calls him “Ma’am.” Although maybe he’s upset by the honorific, preferring to be called “comrade.”
As best as I can make out panel three, the background figure is a long-haired blonde in green pants and a blue top who’s holding her head in her hands, overwhelmed at
man’sperson’s inhumanity tomanperson.Luann: A waitress wearing open toed high heels at work? Only in a topless bar.
I want to commend Uncle Lumpy for that banner image, because it’s perfect.
@Uncle Lumpy: Bwahahaha!
GA: Once again it appears that Toodle’s eyelashes are growing right out of her irises. The ewww never ends for those of us addicted to GA.
@The Rambling Otter: Keri is nonbinary, but with various people using “her” and ‘their” and no consistency about whether Keri is upset about that, I’m not sure the writers remember. Tobias re-entered the strip as the kid who was the baby girl Gil (many years ago) leaned on the mother not to abort but now introduced as “my son Tobias”. Was the move back to Milford to give Tobias transition privacy? Or was that in effect long before? were strip readers who didn’t memorize deep lore (or have Josh and Mudges commenting on it) supposed to even know this for a while (it has been referred to since then)? It would help to have good writers for this (ugh) Very Special Episode
@Liam: yeah, it would *also* help to have not-embarrassingly-bad art to have a clue why the clerk even mentioned the women’s change room. Does Tobias look androgynous? feminine? And why did this escalate, it does feel like we missed part of the interaction – did Tobias try to say something like that’s silly – I’m a boy? Or did mom or the clerk jump into an argument without even trying to treat this as a misunderstanding?
JP: You don’t “know” April Parker. You endure April Parker, unwillingly.
@Guillermo el Chiclero: This is The Fuse. Reality does not apply, or it would have shut down years ago.
RMMD – “Jonah and I don’t talk a lot. We have very different points of view. He lives inside a whale, which makes communication tough. And he doesn’t do nearly as much bolding of key words as I do.”
Six Chix – Xunise, seriously, get yourself a set of Mad Libs books. Fill in one Mad Libs per week, and it’ll give you an idea for a wacky cartoon.
Don Abundio, translated:
“The boss is bringing his personal chef on this road trip”
“In a separate vehicle?”
“Certainly not…”
“He wants everyone to know it!”
I love your commentary, Uncle Lumpy! But the donation banner at the top of the page needs to be colorized more accurately. The cascades of liquid pouring over the top of the kiddie pool should be yellow, perhaps? :-)
FC: What the kiddos don’t know is that the cheap tourist merch they’re gawking at is mass-produced in some factory in central China by children not much older than they are. Count your blessings, kids!
@TheDiva: re. MW: The longer this story drags, the more I can see why Olive has no friends. Even Mary and Wilbur can stop talking about themselves for a panel while Olive keeps cycling back to “Life is so hard for me because I’m so special but I like being special but I want everyone to like me but they don’t like that I’m special but I like being special and life is so hard for me.”
I have a niece and nephews around Olive’s age and they don’t sound anything like her. They’re more worried about how they present themselves to other people their age and trying to fit in because those teenage years are incredibly tough. They’re not going around bragging about how different they are because they know at that point that makes them a target for bullying.
@Bob Tice: #7
“…and you should have heard the knock-down, drag-out fight we had over quantum string theory. And he calls himself a theoretical physicist…”
Six Chix-A priest, a rabbi, and a imam walk into a bar…
@taig:
That’s OK. 9CL sits in my daily reading list right below Arlo and Janis (a sort of palate-fouler, I guess). But I don’t read the Thorax ones. There is a line.
@Daisy:
Yup, but commenter Baja Gaijin and his aptly named flood tool beat me to it.
I’m setting the over/under for “Strips Where Mary And Olive Continue This Boring, Asinine Conversation At The Beach” at 3, who wants in on the action?
Luann – So Dad is still enabling her lavish lifestyle yet she is working at the Fuse.
Makes no sense at all – it’s like she’s in the movie legally blond but unlike Reese Witherspoons’ character – Tiffany doesn’t have motivation to better herself and still just wants everything handed to her with the Fuse job being some kind of past time .
Zits – Only thing Jeremy cares about is Jeremy – the camping trip will no doubt end with Jeremy whining about no cell signal or wifi .he is such a loser and a tool.
Mary Worth – the strip that helps me sleep . As usual the same boring trip filler until Wilbur shows up in a speedo
and Mary has to cover Olive’s eyes so she wont throwup
CS: “That’s my play,” said the man with a lap full of poutine.
@The Rambling Otter:
#13. Yep, the usual dammit spelling is good advice before a heavy rain. :-)
Back in the Woody Wilson glory days Judge Parker was funny. Sly, tongue-in-cheek funny. Now it’s just silly.
Rae the Doe
Not bad, but the final panel of the cube musing its fate on its own would be better. Context can actually ruin surrealism.
Zits-Watch out if you hear banjo music.
@A Grave Mind: For the asinine conversation at the beach to be over, I presume, because it will surely continue down the sidewalks and through the shops of New York. I’m not sure Olive even knows how to talk about anything else.
Crank: “That was my play!”
That’s what Henrik Ibsen said.
@CanuckDownSouth:
You are correct, sir, The Asinine Conversation In Other Places over/under is, oh, October?
Quick question to the Worthiverse. Has there ever been a gay character on the strip?
With all this- I’m different, but I’m OK with that, I’m starting to wonder.
By having this long drawn out conversation demonstrating she’s not some immoral freak, I wonder if Moy (who attended a women’s college and has probably met a few in her day) is trying to show her predominately antiquarian readership that says are normal people.
The special powers? Well, we don’t know everything lesbians can do.
@A Grave Mind: Yeah, I’ll say 4 days, I think they’ll switch it up on Sunday, possibly with Olive vaguely “saving” someone instead of just ruminating
@Maltmash3r: The LGBT+ community has apparently skipped over Santa Royale which seems to be a childless dwelling of heteronormative WASPs dependent upon the busybody Queen Mary to pair them with her choice of the opposite sex.
@TheDiva: You are so right, the evidence presented in regard to Olive’s very difficult life has been underwhelming. And what percentage of her time is actually taken up by knowing things in advance, anyway? Surely not THAT much. Does she have favorite school subjects, interests, hobbies, anything? She is mostly portrayed as duller than dishwater.
RMMD: One of the interesting quirks about this strip is that the characters don’t often use personal pronouns. Today’s strip is a good example—last sentence panel two—but almost all the characters have this feature.
@Maltmash3r: We may never learn. The Trump administration just cut all federal funding to the Smith College Institute of Lesbian Studies.
Uncle Lumpy should have colored the liquid yellow in the “Flood the Zone” banner, or would that have been too obvious?
LUANN: Les nails it. Back in the day, some women used Palmolive dish detergent for soft hands. Heard gravy serves same purpose.
CS: Oh, look at what Ed keeps soft with his poultine gravy! Hmm, perhaps there’s another reason he’s call E-D.
CURTIS: Love the grapefruit detail, I’m sure they found it intact on the meteor. But wait, ive eaten grapefruit — maybe they really are alien food.
FG: Sorry, Dr. Z. Guess your existence merits only one day.
PEANUTS: Bad Scout Leader. Start hike with four troop and by end of strip you have three. No bone for you.
MANDRAKE: May protects herself with same ploy Reena uses in JP. It’s a woman thing, you wouldn’t understand.
6Chx: When ideas fail, eat Skittles.
@Poteet: #107
I bet Olive has a TikTok channel devoted to her ruminations about her special gifts and the angst caused by her peers’ reactions to her uniqueness and her parents’ indifference. If you watch carefully and/or slow the video to half-speed, you might see a random object float through the air or wispy fairy-like creatures materializing from the curtains in her room.
@Uncle Lumpy: #93
Yay, Baja!!!
@The Rambling Otter: #50
You were actually correct with “blanded”!! You just invented a new word for these inane strips! :-)
MW: By the way, Olive. If you’re going to wear a two piece you must trim your bikini line. I just happen to have a razor and can of shaving cream in my purse. Allow me.
I woke up from a nice long nap, I was kind of sick all day. Feeling better now ^^
Moose and Molly – C’mon, Jon Bauman should be able to feed himself. Isn’t he still getting residuals from The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour?
JP: And she told two friends, and they each told two friends. It’s a whole Breck Shampoo ad.
RMMD: Well, of course. Since Lorna is just an adult(ish) Sara Morgan, Jonah is waiting for a blond stepbrother, not a half-brother who proves daddy was an adulterer.
6C: At this point I’d be satisfied with hearing the actual random fact.
Six Chix-“A joke is a story with a humorous climax,” Spock Star Trek IV
Zits-Squeal like a pig!
Obvious contender for the title of Laziest Six Chix Ever, but still not close to the Worst Six Chix Ever.
@JeffMcm: I’d argue that the Worst Six Chix ever involved either a pumpkin or a big sandwich.
@Ukulele Ike: That’s what Ibsen said in response to Warner Brothers’ 8½-minute adaptation of The Wild Duck. The “Wabbit season! / Duck season!” scene with Old Ekdal wasn’t so bad, but Ibsen was baffled and disturbed by Daffy Duck’s unscheduled appearances and persistent cries of “Woo-hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Woo-hoo!”
@Liam: I mean in Star Trek Voyager, Neelix was always trying to get resident Vulcan Tuvok to loosen up.
One episode has a brief subplot of Neelix trying to explain the logic of jokes to him.
“A man is stranded on a deserted island, all he has is a calendar. How did he keep from starving to death?”
Tuvok was explaining realistic logical answers. Neelix had to explain “He ate the dates”
Long story short at the end of the episode, Tuvok coming back to the conversation said, “He also ate the sundays”
Edit: (I guess riddles is the better word, but then again I believe Vulcans have riddles, they’re probably just very dry and boring, like word problems)
C-Shaft: Batiuk actually namedrops real CFL players, although I’m doubtful they’ll ever have occasion to find out about it.
DT: Lee has started to pick up some basic Yiddish words, which is how she knows that Sam isn’t dragging the creator of Terry and the Pirates into this crime spree.
Dustin: Dustdad’s friend/colleague/whatever grips a bottle of Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia in front of a Milk of Magnesia pink wall, which is a pretty perfect visual shorthand for what’s going on here.
Luann: Buying Tiffany off out of vague guilt over being a vaguely distant and neglectful father is about the only trait of Mr. Farrell’s that I can think of. Oh, and a mustache, I guess. He does have a mustache, doesn’t he?
Marvin: It’s a grim truth that when you’re born wearing a bandit’s mask it leads to a lot of racial profiling. Sometimes the raccoon could even swear that he’s being tailed by a fox dressed as Sherlock Holmes.
MW: Given what we’ve seen of Olive’s parents, the tough part is just remembering that they have a kid.
Phantom: The general put together a militia when he couldn’t get cast in any dinner theatre productions, so as an actor yes, he must be pretty bad.
@Liam: We may be going 0 for 3 here then.
@taig: 9CL: (I can’t bother)
FTFY
Phantom: Patrolwoman arrived for her shift two hours early and brought the Colonel a latte because she’s learned patrolwomen with flat chests and no ass need to suck up extra hard in this man’s Jungle Patrol.
Yes, it truly takes a village to properly color a piss pool.
@TheDiva: re: GT & pants sizes.
The store where I work carries men’s jeans and work pants. No dressing room
One night earlier this year, I spotted a shopping cart with a pair of sports shorts hanging on it.
A few feet away, a heavy set woman wearing a blouse and Spanx was trying to get the pants past her derriere.
She looked at me and said: “Your men’s pants sizes are so weird”
FC – I knew it! I knew it! The store has pennants. The melonheads will be walking around San Francisco waving those asinine pennants.
All of the merchandise is blah. Just a lot of generic crap with San Francisco written on it. Where are the toy cable cars and the magnets of the Golden Gate Bridge?
JP – Duh. She’s Facebook friends with April. She liked the photos April posted of the Vigeland Sculpture Park. “Me with the Angry Baby. I hope my CIA contact isn’t in a bad mood!”
Mary Worth – How nice. They took an ego trip to the beach.
Rex Morgan – Get ready for a two week conversation about how the other brother doesn’t want to meet him.
@I speak Jive: Last time I was in Frisco, I got an Alcatraz cookbook.