Sunday Funnies - LOL February 26
Cidu Bill on Feb 26th 2012
Lola: He really should have stopped with the first panel. Now I have to go get a towel to clean the tea off my monitor.
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mitch4 Feb 26th 2012 at 02:01 am 1
Trompe le chat! (Or not. It’s Jon who’s fooled.)
Georgia O’Elsinore?
I agree that the first panel of the Get Fuzzy was great and would have sufficed on its own.
John Small Berries Feb 26th 2012 at 02:06 am 2
The first panel of Get Fuzzy actually elicited a chuckle out of me, which the strip rarely manages anymore. Things have really gotten kind of monotonous since the days when the humor was a little edgier (such as Bucky wiping his butt on Rob’s sandwich when Rob went out of the room). Of course, back in those days, a world outside the apartment existed, complete with other humans, which gave the strip more of a chance for variety.
James Schend Feb 26th 2012 at 02:07 am 3
Get Fuzzy frequently puts the best joke in the first or second panel, it’s kind of weird that way.
That Garfield had me literally LOLing.
Winter Wallaby Feb 26th 2012 at 02:10 am 4
Nice, the Yorick one was a literal LOL for me as well.
Kilby Feb 26th 2012 at 04:16 am 5
This Garfield was very good (which is in itself quite remarkable), but Foxtrot hit me with a double whammy. CIDU’s Wordpress format shears off the end of longer strips, so all I saw at first was the snowmen, and it really did look like a cheap C&H ripoff. After I stretched the window so I could see the caption, its effect was even stronger.
P.S. Initially I didn’t understand the first panel of Get Fuzzy at all, mostly because I didn’t bother to figure it out, thinking that one had to know who “Professor Goldberg” was to get the joke. After reading the comments here, I realized that the name is irrelevant, any professor would do, and the first panel is indeed better than the strip.
Proginoskes Feb 26th 2012 at 04:55 am 6
That Get Fuzzy cartoon should be subtitled: “$20.01: What I had to pay to replace the light that Bucky broke”.
Sili Feb 26th 2012 at 07:10 am 7
I don’t get the Hamlet one. Perhaps if it had been a pork pun.
Its Justme Feb 26th 2012 at 07:25 am 8
Excellent, Proginoskes!
mitch4 Feb 26th 2012 at 09:10 am 9
Sili @7 — The Hamlet one isn’t really much of a joke (or maybe it is and I’m not getting it). It’s just that that scene is always represented with a skull in hand as the memento mori, and the cartoon is taking off onto another locus of skulls, the American southwest with bovine skulls represented as littering the landscape. (This appears in the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, and though the cartoonist may not have meant to invoke her specifically that was the association behind my previous comment @1.)
I have long sought a good joking pun that uses the ides of putting on a production of Hamlet and plays off the saying “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs” but can’t find an interesting or amusing one. I’m aware of the slang term “yegg” for a tough-guy character, but can’t get any mileage out of it. “You can’t put on Hamlet without __?__?__?__?” “Yanking brakes”?? Nonsense. “Framing yeggs”? Still nonsense.
Karen Feb 26th 2012 at 09:41 am 10
@mitch4
‘You can’t put on Hamlet without breaking a leg’
maybe?
mark d Feb 26th 2012 at 09:51 am 11
Mitch4: Cook stands over frying pan with an egg in hand and announces, “Omelette, Act I.” Cook next to him looks over and says, “Break an egg.”
George P Feb 26th 2012 at 12:49 pm 12
I like the Fox Trot, but it didn’t make me laugh out loud. I’ve started reading the reruns of Calvin and Hobbes from gocomics.com, and it’s been great seeing them again.
I think Watterson was around 37 when he retired. Man, that’s the life.
J-L Feb 26th 2012 at 01:03 pm 13
As someone who learns magic tricks as a hobby, I can appreciate the misdirection and element of surprise that this Garfield strip uses.
mitch4 Feb 26th 2012 at 01:17 pm 14
Thanks for the Hamlet/omelet ideas! Some version of theatrical “break a leg” should be very fitting.
Here’s a sad confession: I also am reading the Calvin and Hobbes reruns, and very often can’t get interested in it, especially some of the long Sunday fantasy ones.
padraig Feb 26th 2012 at 04:07 pm 15
Sometimes I think Jim Davis designs his Garfield strips to deliberately mess with the “Garfield without Garfield” people. For instance, in that one, are they bound to remove the image of Garfield? I can imagine the GwG guys looking at this strip and saying, “Well played, Mr. Davis. Well played.”
The Ploughman Feb 26th 2012 at 05:13 pm 16
Definitely agree on the Garfield. And gotta say I enjoyed the car-thieving Slinky, too.
Elyrest Feb 26th 2012 at 07:38 pm 17
mitch4 - I’m reading the Calvin and Hobbes reruns too and I just skip the long Sunday fantasy ones. I find them tedious, but I think, if I remember correctly, that I didn’t like them the first time around either.
Jeff S Feb 26th 2012 at 09:11 pm 18
Will both Garfields be missing in the “Garfield without Garfield” version?
Todd Feb 27th 2012 at 02:52 am 19
The Garfield only works if you don’t over analyze it. From Jon’s point of view, it would be obvious that the first Garfield is a drawing.
Anybody have any clue what Bucky was trying for?
I’m surprised the Hamlet one isn’t an “I get it, but I don’t get it.” Since there’s really no logic to Hamlet digging in a human graveyard and finding a bull skull.
fh Feb 27th 2012 at 08:50 am 20
Todd @19: Bucky wanted to throw the bone “triumphantly and Kubrick style”, imitating a scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A hominid invents a weapon and triumphantly throws the bone into the air.
Sili Feb 27th 2012 at 04:01 pm 21
G w/o G cheated and removed both Garfields.
But the joke works.
Rammy M Feb 28th 2012 at 10:52 am 22
@19 I’m guessing the “flash of genius” is “I can (be lazy and) throw trash on the floor, and (claim to) have a plausible reason”