FFF Results Post #293—At The Water Cooler

On Friday, CR readers were asked "From Memory, Name Five Specific Moments From The Comics That Make You Laugh Just Thinking About Them." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. Tom Toles' cartoon of Goofy running from the napalm at My Lai.
2 "Black Godfather Of The Ants."
3. Charlie Brown saying he always preferred noon.
4. "He said to tell you he had a real good time."
5. "I am blind and my dog is dead."

*****



Steven Stwalley

1. Ed the Happy Clown accidentally breaking his leg. (Chester Brown: Yummy Fur)
2. The Bat That Looked Like Gary Coleman (Mark Martin: 20 Nude Dancers 20)
3. The Artful Dodger's secret hideout, located in Flaming Carrot's bathroom (Bob Burden: Flaming Carrot)
4. Reid Fleming showing a photo of Mr. Crabbe passed out with a bottle to Mr. O'Clock (David Boswell: Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman)
5. Albert Alligator accidentally eating the pollywog (Walt Kelly: Pogo)

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Michael Dooley

1. "Well, what happened to all the food?"
2. "Hmm! Nothing in the ice-box but some old cruddy, dried out halavah!"
3. "Did I tell you the refrigerator is empty?"
4. "Yet you hesitate."
5. "What the hell was I looking for, anyway?!"

*****



Max Fischer

1. Ray asking Pat to say nice things about his (Ray's) dick.
2. Anette from Hitmen For Destiny contemplating telling her other-dimensional crush that it's perfectly normal for friends in her dimension to suck on one another's toes.
3. Loady McGee telling a joke that is straight-up hate speech against little kids with cerebral palsy.
4. Enid discovering the monster that is Daniel Clowes.
5. Jane Mai's bad advice.

*****



Tom Bondurant

1. Calvin, thermometer in mouth, repeats insistently to his mom, "IG GOMFA FOME UBHIGGIN."
2. JLA/Avengers: Wonder Woman calls a tragically befuddled (Marvel) Hercules "despoiler of Hippolyta," then punches him on general principles
3. World's Funnest: a dimension-hopping Bat-Mite meets the Super Friends, asks "Are you super-f*cking-kidding me?"
4. Batman: Mad Love, when Batman explains to the Joker how Harley's deathtrap pretty much beat any of his, and tops it off by calling him "puddin.'"
5. First page of Waid and Wieringo's Fantastic Four #61: the Thing gets a spring-loaded pie in the face from the "Yancy Street Gang" (actually the Human Torch)

*****



Jason Green

1. "Touch."
2. Ranma fake-kisses Kuno
3. Matt Murdock's "I'm Not Daredevil" t-shirt.
4. *Beep* "Pregnant"
5. "We're not a couple."

*****



Shannon Smith

1. Weeping Gorilla
2. Lobo saying "Sit on the books babe, education is for losers".
3. The Avengers on Late Night with David Letterman and its cover where Letterman looks like Alfred E. Newman.
4. Rainbow Batman
5. On the back of Brad McGinty's minicomic Powdered Cat, there is an ingredient label. One of the ingredients reads, "Cat".

*****



Justin Colussy-Estes

1. Maggie's pants ripping from bending over
2. A really old "What's New, with Phil & Dixie" (a full page strip that used to run in the back of Dragon by Phil Foglio): cold shower with 53 cats tied together by their tails
3. Joe Matt's one-pager about muffling the sound of taking a crap
4. Calvin's dad: "Back then, everything was in black & white"
5. "Dude watchin' with the Brontes" (pretty much the whole damn Hark a Vagrant book keeps me in stitches)

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Evan Dorkin

1. Bunch of people are reaching into a guy's ass to get five dollar bills, the guy says, "People, people, please!" or something like that. Henderson, of course.
2. Sally shouts "Hockey stick!", blowing her one line in the school play after many dailies' worth of build-up.
3. The Kupperman strip where the guy wants to wall the other guy up like in The Black Cat.
4. "Nothing was proven, nobody cared."
5. Reid Fleming lands his milk truck in a swimming pool. Asks a bunch of guys "Who's the strongest man here?". One guy speaks up and Fleming yells "Wrong! I am!", and knocks the other guy out.

For the hell of it, because I love this topic: "None of your damn business.". "I gave you life, boy!" "In a democracy, I too, can crackle!". Three rocks. "No AIDS here!" "Meet the Cast". Guy opens schoolroom door, there's a gorilla. Freddy on a horse. Yotsuba holding an umbrella and flying away in a storm. Mom Bradley hulking out. Alice holding up the world, everything labeled "Mine".

They used to call 'em funnybooks.

*****



Scott Dunbier

1) First Peanuts strip: Good old Charlie Brown… oh how I hate him.
2) Earth Vs. the Flying Wallendas from some old issue of Heavy Metal
3) Captain Klutz by Don Martin
4) Wally Wood's Mad send up of Tarzan by Hogarth -- Dynamic tooth brushing!
5) The Hare Krishna Bloom County Sunday page -- Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!

*****



Marc Arsenault

1. "Ask him if he is not a hobo then why does he have a bindle"
2. An elephant is soft and mushy
3. Needle-dick the bugfucker
4. "Wir haben zombies im keller!"
5. "Let's take this one too... her face will look great on a milk carton"

*****



James Langdell

1. "The jute mill is exploded!"
2. Schroeder's baseball shirt with a sponsor credit for "BEETH OVENS"
3. Opus's relatives caught in the crossfire of the Falkland War asking, "Was it something we said?"
4. "How can a toilet bowl be that interesting?"
5. Mr. Natural says, "You're both a couple of idiots."

*****



John Platt

1. Merv Griffin!
2. Want some meatloaf?
3. He has eaten the pancake.
4. That darn voodoo doll.
5. Two skis, one tree.

*****



Stergios Botzakis

1. "One punch!"
2. "Crumble me up and put me in a salad."
3. Nurp
4. Argh! Yle!
5. "Suddenly Aunt Bea Strikes" (I wish I could find a scan for that one)

*****



Des Devlin

1. After the dolt has squooshed the horsefly on the blueprint, the reveal on Al Jaffee's "An Architectural Triumph" (MAD #164).
2. Nicholas Gurewitch's penultimate "I promise!" panel from the Perry Bible's "Goodbye Stanley."
3. Lucy's enraged expression, as Linus dances to "Dem Bones" with Snoopy.
4. Body language aplenty, in Norman Rockwell's "Easter Morning."
5. Calvin: "This is you: aggle aggle aggle!" Hobbes: "Well, you go like this: duhh dahh dahh duhh!"

*****



Chris Mautner

1. Charlie Brown's camp bunkmate: "Shut up and leave me alone."
2. Michael Kupperman's amazing Nut Bra.
3. Matt Groening's question you never want to ask a guidance counselor
4. That Little Lulu story where the crab steals Alvin's hot dog.
5. That Little Lulu story where Tubby pretends he's being shot out of a cannonball and Alvin keeps screaming "Fake!"

*****



Douglas Wolk

1. "...But the third word is probably 'oranges'..."
2. Young Kim Rosenthal mistakes the raisins in her oatmeal for shrapnel.
3. Lois makes her grand entrance; "Not I, said the cat." "Not I, said the pig." "Not I, said the worm."
4. "Reduce to percent smell of fifty! No more!!"
5. Mr. O discovers what's on the other side of the chasm.

*****



Don MacPherson

1) "I usually get more life out of a Spalding."
2) "One punch!"
3) "I wonder what time it is... I feel like I've been dead for three days."
4) "And hey! Don't forget to enter this month's Al Space essay contest! In 1,000 words or less, give a believable account of Al Space's whereabouts on the eve of September 15! Remember to mention that I wasn't anywhere near Wisconsin!"
5) "We are a hedge."

*****



Sean Kleefeld

1. "I think my face blew inside out!" -- Calvin & Hobbes
2. Pierre feigned. Jean parried. The lint balls remained in place and the whisk broom competition continued on. -- Bizarro (The caption is very approximate. It's been decades since I've seen this particular panel.)
3. "Quincy says boo." -- Foxtrot
4. Friday the 13th is coming, and it's on a Monday this year! -- Pogo
5. "Remember, Shtoonk is always spelled with two Os." -- Don Martin cartoon for Mad

*****



Niel Jacoby

1 "One Punch!"
2 FIN FANG FOOM PUT YOU IN HIS PANTS!
3 "VIETNAM: 10,000 BC!"
4 "But I still had to work at that damn factory."
5 "CAPTAIN AMERICA wrapped in the flag, covered in napalm, smoked like a blunt by FIN FANG FOOM. My statement on the Iraq War. Make this poignant. Single tear coming from Cap's eye. Pollution is so wrong."

*****



Danny Ceballos

1. The front cover to Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
2 Chester Brown's depiction of Harvey Pekar as a kid reading the funny papers, from Harvey Pekar's introduction to the Vortex edition of Chester Brown's Ed The Happy Clown
3. That panel in a Gabrielle Bell diary comic where she draws herself as a pigeon
4. The look on the kid's face from R. Crumb's back cover to Zap #0
5. The look on the kangaroo's face from James Thurber's "Perhaps this will refresh your memory" cartoon

*****



Jason Michelitch

1. Julie Schwartz's disembodied post-apocalyptic tumbleweed head.
2. "Oh no - I turned my ass into a hand grenade!"
3. "It's a fish in a parsnip costume."
4. "Don't knock my smock or I'll clean your clock!"
5. "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!"

*****



Michael J. Grabowski

1. "Hey's for horses, ass-bite!"
2. Time-traveling professor with a giant thermometer walking up behind a dinosaur in order to settle the warm-blooded/cold-blooded debate.
3. Elderly wildlife sitting on the porch: "Earthquake's a-comin'." "Ayup."
4. Calvin asks his dad how they know how much weight a bridge can take. Dad's answer is brilliant, and mom's rejoinder is just right.
5. Cerebus, flying in a dream, and the screaming baby he earlier threw off a roof flies by the other way.

*****



M. Emery

1. Seth on the 'treadmill' with Joe Matt -- Joe Matt
2. Silver Surfer tricks Galactus into eating a planet made of cum -- Johnny Ryan
3. "I Thought I told you to shut up!" -- David Boswell
4. Jessica of The Schoolyard dispenses with another pupil -- Karl Wills
5. "I will unravel his balls into long parallel lines." Jesse Moynihan

*****

thanks to all that participated

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