Distasteful Wednesday
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Crock, 11/26/25
So, how old were you when you learned that “stuffing” an animal actually meant that you strip its skin off and fit it over an animal-shaped taxidermy form — a mannequin, basically? I was well into adulthood, and it was recent enough that I’m still a little freaked out about it. In this scenario, I guess this means either that Yarnell was for some reason skinned and then mounted on a prone form that fit into a coffin, which seems kind of pointless, or that he was skinned and mounted on a form in some heroic pose which is being displayed elsewhere, and currently his skinless corpse is the main event at an open casket funeral, which is much more horrifying and would explain Captain Poulet’s expression. It’s also possible that I’m misinterpreting the joke and actually Crock is simply going to force his men to eat Yarnell for Thanksgiving, a holiday that the French do not celebrate.
Shoe, 11/26/25
Holy crap! Shoe finally did it! It finally acknowledged that its characters are birds! And it did it with a slam on all us mammals out here reading it. “Can you imagine having hair?” thinks the Perfesser. “Grotesque.”
Dennis the Menace, 11/26/25
Hey, did you know that at any moment Dennis might just show up at your house and passive-aggressively ask to shit in there? That’s … pretty menacing, honestly.
Marvin, 11/26/25
“Oh, so they’re doing bathroom jokes in Dennis the Menace now, huh? Well, I guess it’s time for us to do strips about Marvin puking everywhere. I don’t like it either, but we’ve got a reputation to maintain.”
19 replies to “Distasteful Wednesday”
Blondie: Huh. I figured Daggy’d just toss the groceries in his expandable neck pouch like a pelican. I mean, those little folds on his neck, isn’t that why they’re there?
Dustin: Ha ha! Dustdad is a selfish ingrate. Add that to his poor health brought on by poor life choices and he’s a shoo-in for the next new Pluggers character.
Hagar the Horrible: Hagar passed his “Wilbur Weston Patented ‘How to be at Total Slob’ Course” with flying colors. And flies.
“C’mon, lady, Joey and I need to rig up our fix somewhere! And where do you keep your electronics?”
Marvin: Fits the joke that Wives fix problems while Husbands announce them.
“Hey Hon, the cat threw up.”
FC: It’s not enough that Jeffy is going to eat the body of another living creature. He wants toys to boot.
Cosmo’s deep existential reverie was then interrupted by Dennis and Joey banging on the door to use his bathroom.
DtM: And by “bathroom” Dennis means the bushes in front of the house.
RMMD: Wimmen, they sure are suckers for flowers, amirite??
JP: I should be finding this cute, perhaps even aspirational, because I’d love to bond with a pretty woman over a mutual love of movies both cult and mainstream. However, Emil is still a man with a mustache out of the ‘Do the Creep’ music video dressed like a longshoreman who is talking to a (formerly for the moment) sullen misanthropic sociopath who should be in a jail cell or rubber room for her criminal assault of a person of interest in an active police investigation.
MW: I guess it will be nighttime (Mary might still be around, who knows…) when Sunny starts calling out random phrases (‘The money’s in the…!’ ‘No, don’t do it, Manuel! I won’t squeal!’) that Toby didn’t “teach” him.
Toby thinks Sunny’s one smart bird, rolls over and goes back to sleep.
Luann: WOW! Why aren’t you offering to help?
Real talk though, was there a storyline where Grandma here dies or something? Is there a reason she hasn’t, AFAICR, featured in the strip since the ‘All Grown Up!’ shift?
Shoe “Also,I don’t have opposable thumbs, which would make that action pretty difficult.. ”
Marvin I wondered why these two would have children, given how much they seem to have them, but Jeff’s terminology today suggests that it was part of some tax deduction scheme.
Shoe: You’d think a bird would be pretty sensitive to the word pluck.
Shoe: He doesn’t have any teeth to clean, either, yet his bathroom still has a toothbrush.
CROCK: At very first glance, I thought they were standing in front of a big barbecue.
RMMD: Augie literally phoned it in. Fortunately, Summer is too dopey to care.
DtM: Dennis has never had ANY Stranger Danger training. Take that as you will.
9CL: Have we ever seen Amos’ mother, or did Edda use The Power of Poontang to have her obliterated?
Crock:
“Poor Yarnell. How sad. This close to Thanksgiving. Shields must be beside himself.”
Crock:
“I should have figured out that something was wrong with Yarnell when I saw how wooden her movements were!”
MW: Toby trying to get validation from a bird is a cry for help.
MW: Mary asks Toby if she and Ian are coming over for some turkey tomorrow.
Toby quickly puts her hands over Sunny’s ears and with eyes wide says “Mary!” as she motions towards the bird.
DtM:
“Lady, how is it that all the moms in this 2025 strip look like they came out of a ’50s time machine?”
DtM:
“Ma’am, to cobble a football-themed phrase that doubled as a hit song in the ’60s for Mel and Tim, ‘Backfield in Motion’ !”
The best part of the Thanksgiving meal isn’t the remains of your dead comrade, it’s the bread and celery that were cooked inside him.
“Got sick all over his bed”? When did Marvin’s father become British?
The eternal recurrence of Crock reruns means that not only did newspapers (note to self: check if there are still newspapers) run this strip today, but also fifteen years ago, without noticing that it was about cannibalism and the joke made no sense. Nobody is watching, cartoonists! Go wild!