Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 13, 2010
Transcript:
Alice: Mom! Read me this book at bedtime! Petey says there's an Alice in it! Mom: "Alice in Wonderland!" Alice: He says it's freaky! Alice falls into an extinct volcano where she's menaced by pig babies, invisible cats and a doorman in a teapot! At the end, after a helicopter chase, they make her the queen and everybody has pie! Dad: That's in "Alice in Wonderland"? Alice: Boy, oh boy! Mom: Last week she added a rabies subplot to "Winnie the Pooh."
margueritem over 14 years ago
LMAO once again!
leakysqueaky712 over 14 years ago
Love, love, love the 2nd panel.
GM Percy.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
Agreed, leaksqueeky712. Will Alice grow up to write children’s books?
leakysqueaky712 over 14 years ago
Grog…………….If she does, she will give Steven King a run for his money.
margueritem over 14 years ago
Yer right, Leaky! You win a Dutch master’s cigar!
leakysqueaky712 over 14 years ago
Marg, are you gonna send Edie Adams with the cigar??
Why dont you Pick me up and smoke me sometimes
Or maybe that was her ad for Muriel cigars. hmmm
MisterFweem over 14 years ago
In my opinion, a lot of books would be better if everybody got pie at the end.
itraso over 14 years ago
Great. I WAS gonna go see Alice in Wonderland this weekend, but there’s no way it’s going to be better than Alice’s version so why bother.
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
Can you all imagine Alice, Ruthie & Calvin on the same field trip? Toss in Zack, the criminal for good measure! Whoa!
cleokaya over 14 years ago
Alice In Unbelievable Land.
pibfan868 over 14 years ago
hahahahaha –that’s what keeps me going in the morning!
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
If you take out the bit about the helicopter chase, she’s not too far off. (Of course, Alice doesn’t really become a queen until “Through the Looking Glass”.)
I don’t remember rabies in “Winnie the Pooh”, but there WAS that time Piglet had trichinosis (just the 24-hour kind)…
vldazzle over 14 years ago
Sooo good to have plenty of smiles in the morning ;- )
MisngNOLA over 14 years ago
fritz, was Piglet cured?
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
MisngNOLA, yeah, but Pooh Bear was miffed about using all that honey…
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
Alice is gonna be disappointed when she learns how to read…..and dangerous when she learns how to write.
ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago
Great strip today.
celeconecca over 14 years ago
actually - Alice’s version would probably appeal to Carroll today.
Panzerdrako over 14 years ago
hahah…that is “have a good imagination”, i miss that–
plainwater Premium Member over 14 years ago
Yeah, I agree with fritzoid, not too far off!
Munodi over 14 years ago
Re cigars: The name of the first was Dutch Masters (not Dutch master’s). The box had a group picture of prosperous Dutch burghers. The line about picking me up was from the Muriel commercial.
Dirty Dragon over 14 years ago
Sounds like Alice is ready for “Sense and Sensibility and Zombies”.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
DirtyDragon, you’re conflating “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies” and “Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters.” The first is highly enjoyable, but I’ve heard that the second is a far inferior work.
Kingoswald Premium Member over 14 years ago
Alice’s version is closer to the original than Tim Burton’s …
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Be careful Munodi, they’ll start going after you like they do Joe.
Destiny23 over 14 years ago
Considering the only mammal in “Winnie the Pooh” was Christopher Robin (everyone else being stuffed animals, and even they knew it), I assume he’s the one who got rabies? Given her recent fascination with the subject, I’m surprised she didn’t work a WereTigger into the story…
DonVanni over 14 years ago
It was probably Kanga and Roo who had the rabies, not Piglet.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Destiny23, I think Rabbit was supposed to be a real rabbit, and Owl was a real owl. (I could be wrong.) Birds can’t get rabies, but that still leaves Rabbit. (Rabies/Rabbit? Could this be a simple mishearing on Alice’s part?) Of course, if it WAS Rabbit then myxomatosis would be more likely.
kimberphi over 14 years ago
MisngNOLA “was Piglet cured”… ROFL! good one.
kjs9 over 14 years ago
I think she’s citing the movie version, not the book. And I’m pretty sure I saw an live-action Pooh Corner episode called “Christopher Robin gets Tularemia”.
I might have the title wrong…
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Oh yeah, I think I remember that one. It was subtitled “Winnie the Pooh and the Very Special Episode”, right? Pity they didn’t get an Emmy nomination; you could tell that’s what they were shooting for.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
BPM, Alice is not a terribly reliable reporter of what other people say to her. She once found a piece of bamboo; Miss Bliss told her that bamboo can be made into fishing poles, and that pandas love to eat it. Alice came away convinced that pandas love to go fishing.
pilover3.1415926 over 14 years ago
ah great, winnie the pooh is oh my comics page!
Destiny23 over 14 years ago
fritzoid said:
”Of course, if it WAS Rabbit then myxomatosis would be more likely.”
”myxomatosis: A highly infectious, usually fatal disease of rabbits.”
After which he would be a stuffed animal!
”Christopher Robin and his Taxidermied Friends”
DCStark over 13 years ago
@DonVanni; Piglet probably contracted Swine Flu …
TWAdair over 8 years ago
Just wait until she gets to college, and discovers hidden themes! (Posted on the Internet, of course.)
calvin.hobbes almost 5 years ago
What could Alice do to Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings