Puerile

Cidu Bill on Oct 31st 2009

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Filed in 9 Chickweed Lane, Bill Bickel, Brooke McEldowney, CIDU, Halloween, Jack o'Lantern, cats, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Puerile”

  1. spamhead Oct 31st 2009 at 12:49 am 1

    I’m thinking the joke is that the cat used the pumpkin as a litterbox, but the last panel doesn’t make sense.

  2. That's Me Oct 31st 2009 at 12:50 am 2

    I presume Seth is upset about the cat being in the Jack O Lantern. But why he would blame Edda is unclear to me. It seems like a perfectly unsurprising thing to find the cat checking out the inside of the pumpkin.

  3. furrykef Oct 31st 2009 at 01:22 am 3

    If I were about to put something in a Jack-o’-Lantern and I found a cat in it, I would laugh like crazy.

  4. Rebecca Oct 31st 2009 at 01:54 am 4

    The cat pooped in the Jack-o’-Lantern? I got nothin’.

    Incidentally, what’s that word in the first panel? “grand guignol light”?

  5. mkilby Oct 31st 2009 at 02:45 am 5

    I guess Seth hates both cats and tables. If I were about to put a candle into a cat-filled pumpkin (or lay it down on the table), I would at least blow out the candle first.

  6. jjmcgaffey Oct 31st 2009 at 04:19 am 6

    The joke is pretty weak - Seth thinks Edda put the cat in the pumpkin. I rather like the sneaky way it was presented, though (with only her responses).

    Rebecca - the Grand Guignol was (apparently, I just googled it) a puppet show that specialized in horror. The phrase is usually used to refer to horrific images/events. So she’s talking about him slicing up the pumpkin as torture… I knew the phrase but not where it came from.

  7. Nicole Oct 31st 2009 at 10:09 am 7

    If the last panel where the cat pops out of the pumpkin was right after the one where Seth looks into the pumkin it would have been perfectly clear what was going on. The way it is laid out, the joke is that you don’t know what they are arguing about till the last panel.

    BTW — living with three cats I would not be so sure that Edda did put the cat in the pumpkin. My cats will often curl up in small confined spaces … admittedly they might not choose a pumpkin because of the mess — but I wouln’t put it toally passed them.

    Speaking of the mess … the cat is amazingly clean for having been in a pumpkin

  8. Rumplestiltskin Oct 31st 2009 at 10:37 am 8

    And very atypical of Seth to leave a lit candle on the table, where it’s sure to damage the finish.

  9. ted in fort lauderdale Oct 31st 2009 at 03:29 pm 9

    Also, given other things were seen Seth do (like the wedding dress), I’d expect a much more elaborate carving from him. (_I_ do much more elaborate pumpkins, and I have no observable arts & crafts skills…)

  10. Richard Oct 31st 2009 at 05:37 pm 10

    Grand Gignol may have started with puppets, but it evolved into theater with live actors. It included drama, comedy and sex-melodrama. It was known mainly for its gorey special effects. Edda is sayin that Seth’s eyes light up in a grand gignol sort of way.

  11. zbicyclist Oct 31st 2009 at 09:08 pm 11

    Seth’s not going to leave a lit candle on a table, even if he’s upset.

  12. Kamino Neko Oct 31st 2009 at 09:48 pm 12

    I’m extra-amused by this one…because I imagine that Brooke’s not skipping over Seth’s comments, but rather Edda is intuiting what he would be saying if he wasn’t being all grumpy and silent.

  13. aoeu Nov 3rd 2009 at 04:37 am 13

    I dunno, maybe he thought she set him up to butcher the cat. D:

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