Thanksgiving horrors
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Shoe, 11/27/25
Well, I guess we just live in a world now where the Shoe bird-men will acknowledge without shame that they are in fact bird-men. Kind of insensitive to do a joke about turkeys today of all days, though. “…I would’ve hired a turkey! Of course, it would be hard to find one. Most are being dismembered right now and the rest are in hiding.”
Hi and Lois, 11/27/25
The second best thing about this panel is that everyone looks pleased about the Thurstons joining the Flagstons’ Thanksgiving dinner except Hi, who honestly seems pretty put out that he’s going to be spending the day with his ostensible best friend. The best thing is that, alone out of the family, Dot has clocked Hi’s expression, and is learning some stuff about the emotionally complex world of adulthood.
Barney Google and Snuff Smith, 11/27/25
Hey, guys, did you know that the Smifs are into age play? I personally am not thankful to have learned this. Not thankful at all!
32 replies to “Thanksgiving horrors”
Extremely thankful for:
1. Josh;
2. Our Thought Leaders, Baja and Scratchy; and
3. Each and every one of you, who makes me laugh out loud every single day.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
H and L:
I don’t see a can of beer next to Thirsty. I call fake.
JP: I guess now we know where Ian’s been hiding out.
H and L:
I’m not sure they ought to be putting the yet-to-be-carved turkey right next to a guy whose motor skills are no doubt seriously diminished by the time they all sit down to eat.
Hi and Lois-Thirsty is thankful for Wild Turkey.
Shoe-A jive turkey?
MW-Only PG-rated shows because Toby can’t handle anything higher.
Mary Worth: “Happy Thanksgiving”? I’m not buying it. The only streaming service Toby has is the “All Ha Ha” channel.
BG & SS:
“Snuffy, let’s you ‘n’ me sing somethin’ aspirational on this here holiday about the possibility of our losin’ the backwoods patois of our dialogue here — filled, as it is, with contractions, misspellin’s ‘n’ such — channelin’ an adapted stanza from REM:
“That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losin’ my elision….”
BGSS: Yeah, don’t try perspective again, Snuffy Smith team. Stay on your level, and keep Snuffy on his. I don’t want to see a ten-foot hillbilly troll looming over his wife in a baby chair ever again.
Shoe Sure, it’s funny until you remember that, in their world, Shoe is essentially saying “If i wanted nonsense I would have hired a [insert ethnic group]!”
H&L Ha,it’s funny because…the Thurstons are too poor/drunk/dysfunction to make a meal? Is that what I’m getting here?
BGSS “And then I realized that he can still fit in a high chair and…that shouldn’t be. How malnourished is he?”
BG&SS: Thankfully, Louizi will wait for Barney to leave before slipping into her French maid uniform to feed the “baby.”
H&L: Hi glumly awaits the inevitable moment when Thirsty barfs all over the table.
MW: Is Mary so enraptured by an actual, Godalmighty TALKING BIRD that she has forgotten to make Thanksgiving dinner for her merry band of rejects – oops- rough diamonds?
RMMD: Summer is on an emotional roller coaster. A flat, slow, endless roller coaster.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I gave too much credit to the supposedly long-suffering Irma Thurston. It’s co-dependency all the way.
MW: Huh. I was hoping to see the usual suspects around the traditional Thanksgiving dining table feasting on a…bird. Yeah, a BIRD—with just a couple of green feathers scattered on the floor.
Snuffy Smith : doesn’t have a kiddie table. In fact, he doesn’t seem to have a table at all! I bet that dirty Barlow done stole it! And on Thanksgiving, no less!
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Beetle Bailey : “Beetle, never graduating from kindergarten is the biggest regret of my life. I don’t need you, with your fancy college education, to rub it in (I get enough of that shit from Lt Fuzz).”
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Crankshaft : “No more turkey”, Pam says, while holding a pan full of lasagna(?).
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Hi & Lois : there’s an another explanation besides the
correctobvious “Hi & Lois is an anti-joy strip, so of course Hi secretly hates his so-called ‘best friend’ “; Hi is reacting like that because Thirsty said “thank goodness I’m not eating takeout”, but the Flagstons’ Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a homecooked meal, it is a ready-made meal they bought at a grocery store the day before.************
Ripley’s Don’t Believe It :
a) That’s right, what you thought had to be a recent American tradition is actually from Europe, and thousand of years old!
b) That’s right, something you thought was an old european thing (Mary had a Little Lamb) is actually a recent American thing!
c) The gifters were very surprised, as they had given the animal with the idea that Coolidge would eat it.
MW: Too bad Toby didn’t park Sunny in front of some old Bette Davis movies. Think of the lines that bird could offer up!
MT Apparently “all the fixings” for pork chops, stew, and pulled pork is a full ham dinner on the side. I can see the argument between the writer and artist … “we can’t have a big meal that ISN’T Thanksgiving on the day!” “well, you HAVE to make it about the boar, no turkey drawings allowed.” “but, but that’s more of an Easter thing” “It’s a Holiday Spread – do a ham or nothing!” *sigh*
CS Maybe Crankshaft’s not interested in the turkey because you’ve apparently taken a few slices in the bottom of a very deep tray, maybe just the breast and no dark meat?! Looks like the budget this year only allowed some thick-cut deli slices they popped in the oven to warm up.
Blondie Sorry, not impressed – you can’t convince me that Dagwood’s cooking the bird based on how brown it looks. Now, if he’d rigged the camera to face the temperature readout from one of those meat thermometers that has a wire out of the oven, that’s something we could work with.
MW In one of the perils of Comics Time, Mary arrived at Toby’s on a normal day bearing muffins, today is Thanksgiving and they’re hanging out early in the middle of the holiday prep (maybe while Mary’s turkey is in the oven? we all know nobody would trust Toby to cook for the required [but this year off-screen] gathering) and tomorrow will be back to Mary Visits On A Day Like Any Other.
Really on brand for Dustin —- the strip for American Thanksgiving is about being hypocritical at a charity gala.
MW: Guys, I’m beginning to think Ian’s not at an “academic conference.”
H&L- The seating arrangement at the table this year seems very deliberate, and Hi is not please by how blatant they’re being about it. Is a little discretion too much to ask for? Meanwhile, Dot is starting to put the pieces together, and the repercussions of this could be severe.
Slylock Fox: #1 is thankful that his scarf isn’t tied securely; #2 and #3 will surely choke to death as they flee in terror.
H&L: Did Hi have a violent psychotic break? Thorazine would explain his expression and the reason he’s only allowed a spoon to eat with.
in the Shoeverse, the Big Rock Candy Mountain is where they hung the turkey that invented workey.
MW: Al Roker? Toby’s gonna flip when Sunny starts talking about sharts…
Hi and Lois: Uh, Irma, if you’re bringing baked armadillo to a Thanksgiving Dinner, etiquette suggests remove the shell before serving.
Dick Tracy: I guess Earl finished his list then regressed to the criminal life. [“My Name Is Earl” reference]
BG&SS: What sort of weird contortion is Barney going through in panel one, and why is he doing it?
@Pozzo:
He’s holding his hands behind his back, except with the strip’s artstyle that’s almost impossible to render without turning it into a blob of gloved fingers behind his back.
Happy Thanksgiving! A great site to start the day with a smile.
Bizarro: always a catch being an author – writing the book.
DT: so it seems it should be the Rojo gang as in red garb and red hair?
GT: nice art again everyone parotid glans have returned to their normal size.
MW: sunny learns to say “Al Roker”.
RMMD: Hmmm actually finishing reading the book before passing final judgment is a rational act. Too reasonable – something must be wrong. Looks like a job for RMMD!
Wary Morth:
Sunny is learning language just like children saying “meow-meow” and “bow-wow” are learning to speak Cat and Dog.
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Wrecks Moregone:
Wait till Winter reads the rest of the book and discovers that Auuuuughie plagiarised Harold Robbins’ “Where Love Has Gone”.
H&L: Nice puke-green wall.
@Treetown: re: RMMD – I’d say it’s also OK to judge the first few chapters, which were clearly enough to make her feel exploited / trigger any trauma, and the fact he blindsided her. Maybe the rest of the book makes it “better”, maybe he thought he was rewriting it as something empowering, but maybe that just doesn’t matter enough if the first impression was really bad for her.
I dunno, Thirsty looks stone sober…but it’s early folks, very early.
H&L: An angry Hi looks at Irma’s mussy bed hair and thinks; “and Lois said she was too busy with prep work to fuck this morning.”