Monday is for teens
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Hi and Lois, 12/8/25
Let’s forget for a moment the incomprehensible/not funny punchline of this one and try to understand the lead-up to it. Why is Chip telling his father, who is watching exactly the same movie that he is, that there’s a parental warning on it? Shouldn’t Hi be just as capable of reading it as Chip is? Is it written in some format that only teens can read, like, uh, Minecraft font? Is there a Minecraft font? Is Minecraft still a thing that teens like, in the year 2025?
Zits, 12/8/25
Honestly, while I’m fine with the Zits parents (who were my boomer parents’ age when the strip debuted in the ’90s) staying the same age but becoming Gen Xers, I’m a little unsettled by Jeremy (who was just a few years younger than me when the strip debuted in the ’90s) staying the same age but being into things that contemporary teens are into, like Minecraft. I mean, Minecraft is still a thing that teens like, in the year 2025, right? “Watching” Minecraft? Surely the syndicated newspaper comic strip Zits wouldn’t steer me wrong about teens!
Gil Thorp, 12/8/25
In 1966, Gay Talese transformed the art of magazine writing with “Frank Sinatra Has A Cold,” a profile that turned Sinatra’s refusal to give an interview into a central part of its structure. Will Gil Thorp do the same for the newspaper comics with “Gil Thorp Has A Serious Respiratory Illness Of Some Kind”? I mean, maybe? Or maybe Gil will just sweat a lot, who knows.
B.C., 12/8/25
The characters in B.C. live with a strange mix of stone age technology and modern conveniences and attitudes. This is not a criticism! I get that this is, in fact, the central joke of the strip! However, today’s installment does make me wonder if one of the modern things they have access to is the rabies vaccine. I worry!
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Mary Worth Mashups: A few Missing Final Panels to start your week. Which do you like best?
GT: You’re not sick, Gil. It’s just the artist.
BC: Optimistic caveman appreciates the mosquito control the bats provide, and revels that his strong immune system protects him from the symptoms of histoplasmosis.
@Baja Gaijin: Ooh, can Sunny drop an A/C unit on Ian?
BC: He’s happy because a “bat infestation” shows hope in the face of devastating white-nose syndrome which is killing off whole bat populations? Otherwise, I got nothing.
H and L:
With all that ridiculous hair completely covering his eyes, how can Chip even conceivably read a warning that’s on the screen to begin with?
GT: Hmm, ‘Gil %^&$@ Thorp! is on his Deathbed’ has a nice ring to it…
JP: Charlotte notices that one hourse looks strange, and it turns out to be one of those old-timey two-person horse costumes, with April playing the head and Randy playing the other part…
GT. The original opening dialogue was, “Sweetie, you look terrible,” but, well, you know…
Gil Thorp:
“Let me get as close to you as possible so that I can pick up whatever debilitating viral respiratory illness you have, Gil!”
FC-“Speak for yourself, Dolly. I get to inherit this comic.”
MW-“But, Ian, you were gone all those weeks at the conference and I was so lonely.”
MW-Ian devises a plan to have Wilbur watch Sunny.
CS: Whoa, slow down there, Lillian. Crankshaft’s “not feeling well”? He’s 106 years old; a minor sniffle could be fatal. Talk about burying the lede!
Luann: Ah yes, the time-honored kid’s story trope where a bunch of idiots screwed up a task horribly, but the end result was better than if they simply let competent people do it.
MW: CUT! For the last time, Toby, it has to start with “never gonna.” You’re “never gonna” appeal to the Internet-using crowd if you can’t execute a meme this basic.
Pluggers: So making your home look lazy and trashy for 11 months saves you a small amount of work in 1 month? That’s the Plugger ethos if ever I heard it.
Zits – It’s a dumbass movie, but good fun.
(and yes, it’s a film about the videogame). Walt and Connie will have more fun with it than whatever crap they couldn’t decide on.
B.C.:
“Peter Murphy from Bauhaus is here! And he brought a bunch of his friends for a singalong!”
Pooch Cafe does a pretty good crossover with Family Circus today. One small criticism, though. If you’re gonna draw Thel, she’s a good double-D/E.
H&L That’s some look on Hi’s face in the last panel. He knows he’ll surely die if he sticks around to watch this racy(?) action-packed(?) film, but he’s going to anyways. It’s like if they made The Ring for middle-aged dads.
Zits: “Also the internet it down and my phone stopped working and I broke my xbox and…”
GT: I’ve seen this before: he’s got a mild case of cubism. Better get him some medicine now or he’ll lose all perspective, and it may advance to surrealosis.
BC Some days, punchline be damned, you just feel like drawing a bat. You do you, B.C.
MW: Alas, poor Toby! Imagine having to choose between spending the rest of your life with a Scottish curmudgeon or a stray parrot! She probably imagined that just because he talks like that, he’d have no problem wearing a tricorn hat and letting it perch on his shoulder while he, ahem, boards her poop deck.
H&L – from the eyes in panel one, Chip knows Hi has had at least five shots of bourbon and can’t quite focus on the lettering
Gil Thorp:
“You wear one of those gauche, impossibly tacky undershirts again, Gil, and you and I are through!”
Zits: The Minecraft Movie is the third highest grossing film of 2025, with nearly $1bn box office and the hottest Gen Z brainrot meme of the year (“Chicken jockey!”). I regret to inform you that the teens are definitely watching Minecraft.
Pardon My Planet – Y’know, when the joke is “The uniform that prepares your kids for the future is a pison jumpsuit”, having a white dude say that to a black couple might not be the best of moves.
H&L: The parental warning is from Chip himself. He tries to prepare his dad for the scene where a teenage boy masturbates with a watermelon after Hi had a rather large slice of the same with dinner.
Zits: Boy, Jeremy really fucked up their chance to watch “Johnny English”.
Blondie – you’re absolutely right kid. You need to know more than three chords and be able to shred at the top of the fretboard. Try again when you aren’t impressed with yourself for knowing the intro to “Smoke on the Water.”
Hi and Lois: It’s funny because Chip deadpans a line designed to send his father into a tailspin of gnawing worry about his health and mortality. A+ stratagem, Chip, Ikiru has never been more fun.
B.C. is currently produced by a team consisting of Hart’s grandsons Mason and Mick Mastroianni, as well as his daughter Perri. Can they come up with a sensical punchline? No, unless you think bat guano is the funniest thing you’ve ever heard of! Do they love drawing upside-down bats? They most certainly do!
Gil Thorp: “‘I’ll handle the kids’ means dropping them off at school and then having hot and sweaty fever sex, right? Beth? Beth?!”
Zits: The Minecraft movie, a godawful cinematic experience that garnered 5.6/10 on IMDB and only 47% on Rotten Tomatoes ridiculously soft scale? Oh, Connie, oh, Walt: I’d say your crisis is only just begun.
G. *&^#@! Thorp – Reminds me of the joke about the guy who looks terrible but feels great. He tells this to the doctor, who thumbs through his diagnosis book and looks at the different combinations: “Looks great, feels terrible, no that’s not it . . . [other incorrect combinations] . . . Here it is, looks terrible, feels great. Aha! You’re a vagina.”
Gil Thorp : … I gotta comment on how, without knowing the context, you’d think “I’m gonna call Dr Pearl” is Beth saying “You’re too sick, you need medical help”, when it’s actually “I’ll tell your boss you’re calling in sick.”
(Also I thought immortal vampires couldn’t catch the flu)************
Hi & Lois : Oh, they must be watching an old pg-rated kids movie from the 1990s. I remember all the “NOT SUITABLE FOR GROWNUPS” false disclaimers.
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Luann : If this week is the abrupt end of the Dash storyline with him getting adopted away from them, and all of Dez’s roommates being unconsolable even though, as Dez will point out, they were AGAINST getting a dog initially, well.. It’ll be a relief.
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Zits : …it is a testament to how perishable and disposable pop culture has gotten that this summer’s big budget movie based on a hyper-popular franchise draws only a belated “oh, right, they made a movie” (if not total blanks, like Josh here)
@Anonymous:
Also Zits : Oh, and Jeremy’s line has a typo. He should be saying “EVERYBODY‘S CANCELLED”
GT: Yes! Call Dr. Pearl Forrester! The Lawgiver knows how to handle primates like Gil.
Blondie: Just do it, Baby Dumpling. Everyone will be really impressed you tried.
BF: Slut Friend is botching her last chance for transatlantic romance with Benoit Ballz; Blonde Friend is in her first week at a new job and expecting her daughter’s mysterious boyfriend’s imminent arrival. So of course we’re going to have a week of Pusillanimous Friend’s online Christmas shopping.
Curtis: “When I was your age, our dad would drive us 500 miles to Brooklyn every Sunday to get a chocolate egg cream. That was a lot like ice cubes in milk, if the ice cubes were made out of seltzer and you added a little Fox’s U-Bet.”
JP: Charlotte is wearing a purple beret because everyone in this strip knows Neddy owns a free luxury apartment in Paris, and she’s dropping very broad hints.
BC — Workshopping a new slogan — “We’re batty for bats!”
Zits — We must not allow a Minecraft Gap!
@James: COTW.
DT We spend the rest of the week following the police chase in loops and circles as Dick makes contradictory verbal and gestural driving commands
MW I’d say the timeline of one day for Ian to decide that he can never, ever live with a bird that got in his face squawking once is ridiculous, but we jumped that shark a ways back when Ian went on a multi-week “academic conference” and everybody forgot that cell phone communication could keep you in touch with your distant spouse.
Not sure how Gil affords that fancy 30-foot “Thorp Residence” sign on a gym teacher’s salary.
FC: Jeffy wonders “Why are you telling me this?” right before he’s spanked for the lamp she broke.
While there is a Minecraft movie, nothing would make me happier than Jeremy making his parents watching someone play Minecraft on YouTube on their smart TV.
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B.C.’s gone batty.
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I tried to figure out what kind of movie would have a rating that specifically targets parents like that and I can only assume Chip is watching a documentary about the cost of raising four kids in a single family home in 2025.
@Dan: Point shaving.
‘English spy’ movie runs the gamut from James Bond to George Smiley. ‘English spy movie’ pretty much runs out with Smiley.
@Baja Gaijin: Definitely the final one with Sunny trepanning Ian’s thick skull!
BC: Thor lives in the empiest cave ever half-imagined into existence. Get some rock-based furniture, a fire pit, some skins, guano, anything to liven the place up!
Also:
No one in the strip is tall enough to look into that bat’s eyes? Did the little guy just jump-scare the cameraman?
Zits: “English spy movie”? Sounds like someone’s been spending time over at Herb and Jamaal‘s restaurant of vagueness.
H&L: The parental warning literally just reads “6-7”.
DT: Why bother with boring evidence, motive and opportunity? Why bother with tracing the money and paper trail?
Just get to the chase! A van can offer a lot of modification opportunities. Ozob could put a mini-gun turret, flame thrower or grenade launcher. This is all making DT really happy!
Dustin: Having vanquished his dad at Caesar’s Legion, the game goes back into the attic and dad quietly lists it on eBay.
RMMD: Summer is very much into fan-casting and clearly has a very positive image of herself. Augie meanwhile is thought ballooning “yeah, sure, I wish”. I wonder what Rex and June are doing?
GT: Please let Beth set up a Nightmare Alley scenario for Gil.
BC: This feels like the first draft because it’s almost funny but the ideas came in the wrong order and needs to be tweaked. My edit: switch panels 1 and 2. Having one of the cavemen say something about inventing bat-b-que while the bat Jims the camera. Now we have something that meets the minimum definition of comedy and it would take 5 minutes to fix.
BG&SS: You know how every now and then there’s a special interest story in the news about a letter found stuck behind a cabinet or something in the post office and it being delivered after seventy years.
Just wondering if someone’s been rearranging the furniture in the old Chicago Herald offices.
@Ukulele Ike: Pusillanimous Friend’s online Christmas shopping.
Hey, don’t forget Saturday’s hot-flash related bra removal! If you can’t enjoy her Christmas shopping knowing that I don’t know what to tell you.
GT: Heroes don’t get sick, Gil! Walk it off!
RMMD: I pity the future makers of this hypothetical movie. Summer will somehow be granted creative input in the deal.
MW: You’re a Plugger the first time you say, “Harrumph.” You’re The Emperor of Pluggers. The Ultimate Plugger. Straight to the front of the Plugger line. Riding the Plugger float in the Plugger Parade.
Dustin: “There must be some way to adjust my algorithm so it doesn’t show me this stuff… I just wish I found it before I plucked out my eyes.”
@Banana Jr. 6000: “He’s 106 years old; a minor sniffle could be fatal.”
We should be so lucky.
@Anonymous:
On Luann: Again, we should be so lucky. My bet is this is going to end with our little band of airheads decide the just *CAN’T* say goodbye and little Dash becomes a recurring fixture, like Les’ cat.
I’m looking forward to Dash meeting Puddles and each thinking ‘what the hell happened to YOU?!’
GT: “You didn’t get ‘the jab, did you?”
“I read online that it was bad!”
“I knew I couldn’t trust Mimi! She gave you the virus!”
[scoff if you will, this is entirely possible in the Barajas universe [
BC: I like to think that (whoever writes this comic now) decided “Screw the punchline! heck… screw the comic! I just want to draw a cute smiling bat.”
Most wholesome career meltdown in the history of comics.
Is there a romantic-comedy about spies?
The NCIS spinoff Tony&Ziva?
That’s probably a stretch.
I’ve got nothing.
Dustin “I know the feeling. I stopped reading Bar magazines because they kept showing senior lawyers who were winning big cases, and advising large corporations, and who were respected by their peers.”
H&L – Not for human consumption….
Zits – Real humor – CANCELLED…..
GT – The Thorps go all out with no denominational holiday decor. Tis some season or another. Coff coff….
BC – The original bat cave….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Want to feel old, everybody? The Minecraft movie was a big hit among teens, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the teens are still playing Minecraft. Many of them watched it as a nostalgic experience harking back to the game they played when they were young. See you on the ice floe!
@matt w: I was playing Minecraft back when Playstation 3 was relevant, I would have forgotten that experience entirely if not for the creepypasta I encountered.
Pluggers: I love how Pluggers can switch from pluggers are hard-working and resourceful one day to pluggers are lazy fat bastards the next.
BC: Bats can actually be quite cute. I wish someone had told the artist who drew panel one this.
GT: Figures that Gil is of the “who cares if you’re sick, go to work!” mindset. Beth’s cooler (literally and figuratively) head is the only thing preventing him from infecting his entire football team a week before the playdowns.
Zits: “English spy movie”? What, we can name-drop Minecraft but James Bond is off-limits?
@TheDiva: On BC: Yeah, those blank dead eyes are staring into my soul.
@TheDiva: On Zits: Yeah, in “The Lego Bat*** Movie” when The Daleks from Doctor Who show up, The Joker introduces them solely as “British Robots” the word Dalek is never used anywhere in the film period.
I’m not certain, whether the filmmakers weren’t allowed to use their name as part of a copyright agreement, or The Joker just didn’t care who they were.
MW: I think it’s pretty obvious that “Sunny” is in reality a strapping young South American immigrant. Anyone who remembers the “chicken” in the finale of M*A*S*H knows what’s going on here.
The font on the screen is too high-pitched for older people to read.
C’shaft: TWO Pizza Monster stories in a row? Bah, humbug!
DT: Wait, did I miss something? I thought Bogart was just your typical, seedy man-on-the-street type of informant–why is he planting tracking devices for the cops?
JP: Charlotte is acting like a normal child, which makes me suspicious. Either this is another elaborate ploy to test Neddy’s trustworthiness, or her parents have slipped some kind of coded message under the horse’s blanket and she needs an excuse to go retrieve it.
MW: I’d love to think that Ian has been sitting on the couch for at least an hour, arms folded and occasionally yelling “Harrumph!” until Toby’s two brain cells got together, did the math and realized he’s still not happy about the bird thing.
RMMD: Augie, for the thousandth time, tries to explain the concept of “fiction” to Summer.
REX MORGAN M.D.: I dunno about any of those choices, Summer. Given the way these two have been doing ridiculously exaggerated gesticulation over this utterly banal conversation, I’m expected this will be a silent movie.
GT: When Beth says she’ll handle the kids, she means Gil’s balls, right?
@The Rambling Otter: I’m pretty sure it’s the former, as Terry Nation’s estate does keep a firm grip on that copyright. The Joker not being up on his nerd culture does make for a good Watsonian justification, though.
@Anonymous: I DO have the context and yet, I thought “Huh I always assumed that was an Ed.D but does she have an M.D?” I mean you’d pretty much have to be an M.D. to view “High School Principal” as a lower stress role.
Crank: Batuik is having a harder and harder time coming up with stupid malaprops as his brain atrophies, so he’s going to kill Ed off and change the strip title to Pizza Box Monster. Look out for pizza- and cardboard-related puns. Next week an unscrupulous fight promoter tricks Pizza Box Monster into a bout with a killer robot, in the boxing ring.
DT: I’m going to continue to read this story arc just to keep up with Bogart’s shenanigans. After he got knocked around in the Sunday strip, I was hoping we’d have a Monday of Bogart heading back into the dive bar and ordering a large whiskey to calm his nerves. Maybe doing a crossword puzzle.
SFx: Don’t miss the excellent Cassandra Cat butt shot today. Weber is straight out catering to his catgirl-lecher audience these days.
SFx: the QR code resolves to SlylockFox.com, in case anyone was wondering.
9CL: Get help, Brooke. But also, maybe I need to get help, because I still look at this comic everyday despite loathing everything about it.
Gil Thorp – This is foreshadowing the Thorps’ dramatic courtroom divorce scene. “I want the kids!” “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE KIDS!”
Don Abundio, translated:
“I do enjoy slumming it on the public beach occasionally”
“Me too! But I’m a little worried that some lowlife will walk up and start bothering us”
“Leave that to me”
“No one approaches a crazy person”
Gil Thorp: I like the way they refer to this suburban box of a house as Thorp Residence in a fancy typeface, as if it’s Hearst Castle or Stately Wayne Manor. I’m sure the ladies’ maids and gentleman’s gentleman can care for Lord Thorperton while he takes to his bed.
Zits: Should we be worried because Jeremy’s actually been canceled? Apparently he wrote “A Minecraft Movie was just okay” on Insta, and his friends went menty b over it.
Mary Worth: You’d better cool it with that “harrumph!” stuff, Ian. Toby has been training Sunny for days, and now she’s holding the device that signals him to kill!
SlyF – Um, why was Cassandra at Gate 33 if she was not, herself, arriving from LAX in order to make a connecting flight from NY to Paris. The real giveaway is that the watch is fugly, and Cassandra has better taste than that. She’ll fence it before she gets on that plane to Paris. Or it’s a bribe for CBP.
@Guillermo el chiclero: That’s easy. Pluggers think they’re hardworking and resourceful when they’re not.
“Remember ALF, Bart? He’s back, in B.C.form!”
Hi And Lois: Chip warns his father that the movie they’re watching is a cognitohazard that targets adults, meaning they’ll have to call in the SCP Foundation. Hopefully they’ll cure the memetic infection and not decide it’s easier to just [DATA EXPUNGED] the entire family and all their neighbors.
Zits: This is probably the ultimate example of newspaper comic writers being out-of-touch with the world around them. Like, even the oldest people I’ve met (and I’ve met some OLD folks) know that Minecraft is a video game and that video games are something you play, not watch. Does the writer live in a secluded cabin in the Taiga, heard a kid in the far distance ask for Minecraft during the “one every twenty years” trips to civilization, and than tried to piece it together mentally from there?
B.C.: You can tell that the artist just wanted to draw fruit bats and they kinda worked backwards from there. In fairness, fruit bats are indeed insanely adorable.
love is… recycling your grandparent’s toys.
@Ukulele Ike: I wish Batiuk would kill Ed, because he’s already old enough to be in Gasoline Alley. And Batiuk clearly wants to move on from the character and turn Crankshaft into… whatever Funky Winkerbean was when it ended.
I would welcome Crankshaft, But It’s Pizza Monster. Because Pizza Monster is much more flammable.
@78 ectojazzmage:
Concerning Zits. Please see @12 richardf8:
BC: Too obvious, but Google: bat zoonotic disease — or some simple variation. Rabies — sure, sure — but with these cute fruit bat types I’d go for something in the Henipavirus group. Meanwhile, at the Thorp Residence…
MW: Unlike William J. LePetomane, Toby did, in fact, get a harrumph out of that guy.
B.C. – Bats are terrifying. I hate them. Yeah, yeah, “place in the ecosystem,” “actually fill an important role in nature…” I DON’T CARE. What is the point of an irrational fear if I can’t get freaked out by a comic strip?
Zits (@TheDiva): “English spy movie” is some Herb & Jamaal obfuscation. I wonder how H&J would describe Minecraft?
H&L: Chip is telling Hi about the warning because it’s not shown, but announced by Alvin and the Chipmunks, at a frequency older folks can’t hear.
This both saves Hi from listening to the dialog of a Chipmunks movie, and answers Chip’s questions about the furry community which Hi doesn’t need to know about.
Blondie: Alex, Trans Siberia Orchestra has been doing this since before your parents met (in non-comic time). Surely you’re good enough to imitate some popular band.
BG&SS: I don’t buy the idea that their general store has a freezer case.
DtM: Dennis is doing everything in his power to make sure he’ll have a place to work in a dozen years. It’s his dream job now, and (let’s face it) he’s not aiming any higher.
MW: Toby has yet to see Sunny poop, which parrots do frequently and uncontrollably. Ian, o have a feeling that this is a problem which will solve itself.
BC: As an inventor, Thor has a lot of Stone Punk gadgets lying around. He also has no parents, which no one else around him has either, but I guess at least theoretically he could have lost them to street crime (or whatever) when he was a child. So now that he’s found a bat cave I guess he could potentially become this area’s nighttime vigilante. Probably he’ll just get itchy, though.
GT: As Beth runs off to fetch one of the Nelson-era Mads from Mystery Science Theatre 3000, I feel an immense gratitude that the syndicate colorist chose to treat all the stuff coming out of Gil’s face as just water.
RMMD- “Seka? Vanessa DelRio?”
Andertoons: It looks like Josh may be getting some overtime.
MW- So what’s the first thing Ian’s gonna do when the Viagra kicks in? “Her Rump!”
Josh are you familiar with “Minecraft YouTubers” or “Minecraft SMPs”? Watching Minecraft is VERY much a thing teens are into in 2025. I went to a concert at the start of this year where I caught sight of a teen *dressed in costume* as a particularly popular Person On YouTube Who Plays Minecraft For A Living. Zits is, probably by complete accident, correct about what the kids are into. (The circumstances presented would be a bit weird for loading up YouTube videos though — there was a Minecraft movie last year so maybe they’re thinking of that)
Wow, I normally don’t read Gil Thorpe, and this is the first time its been on this site in a while. I had no idea that was supposed to be Gil. I thought it maybe was the star sports baller. The artwork is getting worse by the minute. Just cut to the chase and hire a kindergarten class.
Crank:You know, when the Westview characters started invading this strip, I suspected Les Moore was going to Snuffy Smith his way into being the main character. Then it looked like it was going to be Harry Dinkle. I never imagined it would be the freaking Pizza Monster.
DT: “They may or may not have killed him as a result, I’ll be sure to pencil in some time to care even slightly about that later.”
OTF: I feel like there’s a marginally funnier version of this joke where the e-mail is from Fastrack’s IT department, but it’s actually a somewhat meta version of those “anyone who’s still dumb enough to click the link needs to take a cybersecurity seminar” e-mails.
@Horace Broon: Crank: Next week, the Pizza Monster breaks the fourth wall, rips off the cartons, and reveals it’s been Les Moore all the time. Staring straight at the reader, he says “She died of cancer. Let’s relive that, over and over.”
GT: Panel two: Is Beth 1) drooling; 2) wearing lip jewelry in her latest piercing; or 3) getting spit on her from Gil’s COFF! COFF!? Looks great with her cheek wart.
“Mr. Throp, you appear to have the dreaded Picasso disease. It causes your facial features to randomly wander about your face. I’m not sure why any of you thought this was normal.”
@richardf8: 0,3,5,0,3,6,5 3,0,6,5
GT: The cartoonists wouldn’t have to label the Thorp house as “Thorp Residence” if they could draw Gil to be recognizable.
The Hendra virus, a fatal-to-humans zoonotic pathogen that lives in the saliva of bats, is going to kill the entire cast of BC. This is indeed the best day ever!
OTF: My company does this a lot. Cyber Risk will send out an email that they think you’ll expect, leave a few clues that the email is bad, then embed a bogus link that if clicked takes you to required training.
“It’s not suitable for parents with high blood pressure, Dad. The language gets a little . . . salty.”
“I’m writing you out of the will.”
“Worth it.”
@Baja Gaijin: How about pecking out an eyeball?
A link for Baja Gaijan.
No clowns, just food.
Either Jeremy wants to watch the Minecraft movie (relatively normal, slightly odd due to the fact he seems to be 17-19 and not 10-15), or he wants to put on a Minecraft let’s play with his parents (insane behavior, likely to be checked into a mental hospital soon afterward).
My first assumption from today’s Zits was that Jeremy was talking about a Let’s Play of Minecraft on YouTube, although I’ve never heard anyone ever call it “watching Minecraft”. It could be the Minecraft movie as other people have said, but anybody would call it “the Minecraft movie”. Why would Jeremy even want to “watch Minecraft” with his parents anyway?
I used to really enjoy Zits, up until Jeremy’s character was flanderized to ‘being an asshole’. Today’s strip wouldn’t look out-of-place in Dustin.
“Its the bats! The cute chicks dig the bats!” “What cute chicks?!? There’s only one cute chick around here and we’re not allowed to call her that anymore!”
@Bob Tice:
Multiple Bauhaus references! My sword, sir!
So when Gil gets bedbugs, will we think he’s sick? ‘Cause he’s sick now, and I see bedbugs.
Roundabout story, found myself watching an episode of HBO ‘s Rome with my mom. You guys ever watch Rome? Great show. Don’t watch it with your mom. You’re headed to a deliriously uncomfortable place, Chip.
The really funny thing is, Jeremy’s friends all ditched him to watch Minecraft. I’d say he should take a long hard look at himself, but, well, he DOES suck.
Jeremy is watching Minecraft the film. Not being aware of one of the most popular films of the year? Idk how to tell you this, but you might be a Plugger.
@A Grave Mind: You watched the one where Octavian fucked his sister, didn’t you?
Does anyone know what the “joke” is in today’s B.C., outside of Josh’s bit?
Gil Thorp’s art is very ugly.
@Baja Gaijin: I like to imagine the parrot suffocating Ian. Funky Winkerbean did the “animal with a gun” bit, and it can’t get more ludicrous than that.
9CL: Viewpoint of either Amos or Alistair hiding under the piano for a peek.
BGSS: Sincere congratulations to John Rose for embedding a better joke—the “Hongry Man” packaging—in the background.
Dustin: Not likely. Social media runs on envy.
JP: Charlotte has a big future in horse sales. “The horses are back! The horses are back! And we’ve got ‘em, but they’re going FAST!”
Phantom: Sounds like something Stripey might need some reinforcements to do. Luckily for him there’s a tiny Chinese Girl Scout wandering around somewhere.
RMMD: “Nah, neither of those women will sleep with the sleazy guy who bought the movie rights.”
@Rube:
Oh, thank Christ, no, but there was a lot of fucking. That one, Jesus, I’d have to have a seance with Freud Jung and Skinner at once. Imagine the bills!
“I’m calling Dr.Pearl.” “Dr Pearl Forrester?!!?!?, but she’s the one who gave me the Jackie Chan trans morgifying formula in the first place!”
GT: Nice rendering of a house but your human figures suck. You have a good eye for architecture. Maybe you should be an architect and not an artist.
Same advice given to a teenaged Adolf Hitler by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
@taig: : I like to imagine the parrot suffocating Ian. Funky Winkerbean did the “animal with a gun” bit, and it can’t get more ludicrous than that.
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The parrot with the pellet killed the Ian who was fleeing with the poison in the pestle, and the PBR brew that wasn’t true.
@GarrisonSkunk:
An open apology to Mr. Jackie Chan
I am sorry I implied you resemble a Gil Thorpe character in #117
I was wrong, it was rude to do, and I swear I’ll never do it again.
Garrison J. Skunk, esq., Comics Performers Union #998.
I teach high school and middle school. Some teenagers ARE in fact still into Minecraft. Heck, my kid is nearly 22 and still speaks fondly of Minecraft.
@The Man With The Plan: oh you sweet summer children. “Watching other people playing games online” is a big thing w/the kids. When he said “watch Minecraft” that’s pretty much what he meant: watching a stream on YT or some other platform.
@Gil Bates: @JeffMcm: Does anyone know what the “joke” is in today’s B.C., outside of Josh’s bit?
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“B.C.’s GOT JOKES!”
@JeffMcm: Does anyone know what the “joke” is in today’s B.C., outside of Josh’s bit?
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“Outside of Josh’s bit, a bat is man’s best friend,inside a bat its too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx, adapted.
@Peanut Gallery: Are you sure the last caption isn’t “Isnt that the guy who sells 7up™,over there?”
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
LaloY Lola Spanish to English.
Zits Spanish to English.
Dennis the Menace Spanish to English.
By the way. It’s theme night.
@Sequitur: Are you trying to tell us something?
….and now I have a sudden and explosive urge to go listen to The Fugs.
Late Thread Cuisine: Eat this and you’ll not have to worry about Sequitur’s “theme” happening to you.
@131 Ukulele Ike:
Go with the flow! So to speak.
@133 Baja Gaijin:
If one has lactose intolerance they may well keep with the theme.
@132 Ukulele Ike:
*snerk*
Funny, I never heard that on the Top 40.
@Baja Gaijin: I’d eat it or at least try it, but I’m not calling it an Italian name. Not with the Campbell’s cream of mushroom so prominent in the ingredients.
@Baja Gaijin: Oh! I LOVE tetrazzini! This dish goes WAY back in Italian-American cuisine (Wiki it), named in honor of the great coloratura soprano Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940). So it’s easy to find recipes online which don’t include Campbell’s soup.
Tetrazzini is very good with chicken, but only if you stick with the dark meat. It is EXTREMELY good with leftover turkey dark meat. And it is superb with leftover duck. Don’t skimp on the sauteed mushrooms.
@Baja Gaijin:
Not the recipe I’d use, but it’s good enough.
@Baja Gaijin: It doesn’t look horrifying. I wouldn’t eat it, but I also wouldn’t feel existential dread upon seeing it.
I found a middle-ground with Zits
While obviously Jeremy is referring to The Minecraft Movie. It is literally titled “A Minecraft Movie” I never heard anyone call the film just “Minecraft”
So it still seems that the writers are out of touch.
@Artist formerly known as Ben:
#115. JP: one of those horses looks like our award winning Ms. Mare. If so, congrats to her on what will be a more reliable role than that dis-use of her skills in PV. (Tho I do hope she keeps PV and HtH as intermittent side gigs as no role is forever).
Luann Spanish to English.
Gil Thorpe. The last time Gil needed medical attention ,we got a new artist who could really draw hospitals well. Maybe we are foreshadowing another change to someone who can draw people.
Phantom: Girly’s about to get put in her place.
@103 Sequitur: I saw the first entry’s text then wished the page was EVILSCARYCLOWNS rather than the ICKYGRODYTHEORETICALLYFOOD.
@114 taig: I did the pillow thing and the gun thing. I couldn’t resist.
@135 Sequitur: Yeah, I guess.
@137 Artist formerly known as Ben: It wouldn’t be a mid-century recipe without Campbell’s Soup!
@138 Ukulele Ike: It still looks like sick.
@140 taig: It still looks like sick.
@143 Sequitur: GROAN!
@102 Lord Flatulence: NO EYEBALL PECKING. At least, not right now. It was hard enough to get the bird to rip hair off Ian’s scalp without drawing blood.
Zits: I’ve watched Minecraft YouTube videos with my parents (but did not succeed in getting them hooked, even on Yogscast Blood on the Clocktower), so that was where my mind went. I just assumed the cartoonist phrased the suggestion in a way no human being familiar with Minecraft YouTube ever would.
It being a reference to the movie makes far more sense, and almost sounds like something a human being might say.
So it’s probably the first one.
MW: You really need to place a bust of Pallas up there, since in Parrot, “Squawk!” translates to “Nevermore.”
ZITS: FWIW the teens & early 20s people I know do indeed seem to spend a lot of time watching Minecraft (and other games) like on Twitch or whatever. They are watching people play or do runthroughs or whatever. They seem to spend a lot more time watching other people play than they do playing themselves.
So – I am very pained to report – Zits appears to be entirely realistic in that aspect.