Scat

Cidu Bill on Mar 12th 2010

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23 Responses to “Scat”

  1. Marshal Mar 12th 2010 at 12:17 am 1

    Best guess.
    He of course is getting on the counter because he just broke a glass and
    is bare footed. She is swatting him with the broom because he just broke one of here good glasses. Can’t think why she would be saying SCAT. Unless it
    is happening after she has finished cleaning up the glass and is running him
    off so he won’t break another glass.

    .

  2. Kit Mar 12th 2010 at 12:22 am 2

    She doesn’t let Ludwig up on the counter, either.

  3. Pirk Mar 12th 2010 at 12:27 am 3

    I was thinking maybe the “scat!” was meant to be an onomatopeia for the sound of the broom hitting him since it isn’t in a speech bubble.
    but Kit’s explanation makes more sense

  4. Elyrest Mar 12th 2010 at 12:49 am 4

    Combination of Arlo telling Janis to get the broom to clean up the broken glass and Janis treating Arlo like the cat who isn’t allowed in the counters. Scat cat. Plus Arlo is bad because he made a mess. Something like that.

  5. Charlene Mar 12th 2010 at 01:05 am 5

    This is just wrong. She just hit her spouse. She didn’t bang up his car, she hit him. She hit him on the head.

    Since when is spousal abuse funny?

  6. Rid Mar 12th 2010 at 01:17 am 6

    It’s not abuse if she’s hitting him. This is the same principle that made Andy Capp funny.

  7. Chuck Mar 12th 2010 at 01:53 am 7

    He told her to get the broom. She thinks it’s to ward off a mouse. She thinks it’s on his head so she whacks him.

  8. furrykef Mar 12th 2010 at 02:19 am 8

    Abuse? I doubt he was hit very hard. For something to be abuse, there has to be, y’know, pain of some kind. It could be psychological, it could be physical, but it has to be there.

  9. Someone Else Mar 12th 2010 at 03:03 am 9

    That was close, sometimes your parody is so convincing I almost think you were serious!

  10. Dave Van Domelen Mar 12th 2010 at 07:47 am 10

    It’s a cat joke, but with Arlo in the role of cat.

  11. Nicole Mar 12th 2010 at 07:48 am 11

    I assumed it was Kit’s explanation

  12. Ian Osmond Mar 12th 2010 at 08:03 am 12

    It was instinctive on Janis’s part.

    She heard Arlo in the kitchen saying “get the broom.” One uses a broom to push cats off of counters. (Our cats are slow-moving enough that we can just pick ‘em up, but with our previous cat, I’d do that. You don’t HIT them — you just woosh the broom past them while yelling “SCAT” and they leave. And you use the broom-y end so that, if you DO accidentally hit, it doesn’t hurt the cat.)

    So, Janis comes into the kitchen with a broom and sees a being on the counter. Instinctively, she wooshes the broom past the being on the counter, while yelling “SCAT”. Since Arlo is larger than a cat, she comes a lot closer to hitting him than she would’ve if it were Ludwig, as she was expecting.

  13. firedmyass Mar 12th 2010 at 10:46 am 13

    Nothing to do with the broken glass… she’s just employing SAP (Surprise Aversion Therapy) to stop Arlo’s new fetish in its early stages.

  14. nonegiven Mar 12th 2010 at 11:02 am 14

    I don’t use the broom to chase cats off the counter, I use a water filled spray bottle

  15. cedric Mar 12th 2010 at 11:27 am 15

    I think it may be that she’s just making him get out of the kitchen because he throws everything out of order just being in there. It’s not the place for him so SCAT!

  16. Keera Mar 12th 2010 at 11:34 am 16

    It’s another Bill-doesn’t-get-cats joke. I.e. what Kit #2 said.

  17. paperboy Mar 12th 2010 at 12:20 pm 17

    But had Janis swept the glass up before whacking Arlo and shooing him off the counter, or is she making him walk on broken glass?

  18. Cidu Bill Mar 12th 2010 at 02:58 pm 18

    And paperboy, if she has already swept up the broken glass, then she’s hitting Arlo with a broom full of little glass shards.

  19. Cidu Bill Mar 12th 2010 at 03:51 pm 19

    Kit, I do understand the concept of shooing cats off the counter — I’m not that Ailuroignorant — but I don’t see how that really applies here unless Janis really, really needs to get her eyeglass prescription checked.

  20. Jeff S. Mar 12th 2010 at 10:46 pm 20

    That’s abuse? My wife shows me she loves me by throwing the tv remote at me. Seriously.

  21. Ellen C. Mar 13th 2010 at 10:34 am 21

    Marshall #1: “He of course is getting on the counter because he just broke a glass and
    is bare footed.”

    Of course?? Maybe Janis thought — as I would — that most people would just stand still so as not to step on the glass. Her reaction to Arlo’s getting on the counter is to swat him down, just as she would the cat. It is an oblivious husband joke… and I bet he stayed on the counter until all the glass was cleaned up.

  22. Jessica Mar 14th 2010 at 03:02 pm 22

    I know it’s old news, but I agree with Charlene. As a journalism grad student who spends an ungodly amount of time looking at microfiche newspapers from a few decades ago, I can tell you that a lot of stuff that was PC during, say, Andy Capp’s heyday, doesn’t fly these days. Abuse is never funny.

  23. Hunt Mar 15th 2010 at 09:56 am 23

    What’s missing here is that “scat” is specifically what you say when you’re chasing away your cat. At least, it was in the olden days when I (and presumably the cartoonist) grew up. So the joke is that Arlo is acting like a cat that has just knocked a glass off the counter, and Janis is treating him like a cat.

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