Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 05, 2019

“On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me:A Partridge in a Pear Tree.”

Who is McTruloff and what did I do to him?

The goose left an egg on the couch?

Arlo, you got ripped off. I don’t see five golden rings. :-)

I’m glad all the drummers didn’t show up. What a racket.

The 8 maids-of-milking was shut down because the town decided breast feeding is too vulgar for the citizens.

Does anyone know if Jimmy Johnson lives in a state where marijuana is legal?

Doesn’t look as bad as Frank Kelly’s version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbejNNCTr7k

It took me a lot to understand it. It should have been published the 26. Now it’s a little off season…

I didn’t know why, but I laffed and laffed at this strip even before I read the comments !! ( I seldom do that.. maybe just a ‘knowing grin’ on occasion)

I’m also glad the holidays are over; back to normal now.

Tomorrow Janis will celebrate Little Christmas and leave Arlo to clean up the mess left behind by that huge crowd. And what a crowd. 12 partridges, 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, 36 calling birds, 40 gold rings (hope he kept those as compensation), 42 geese, 42 swans, 40 maids (did they help clean up?), 36 ladies dancing (the Rockettes? They have 36 on stage at a time), 30 Lords, 22 pipers, and 12 drummers.

I’m always surprised how quickly the Christmas Season ends. Jan. 2 and it’s like it never happened.

At least nobody posted about how much all that would cost in contemporary dollars.

(♬) On the thirteenth day of Christmas My true love gave to me, the Partridge Family (♬)

This weekend I get to take down the tree and decorations. My wife insists they stay up until Epiphany. OK by me.

Who left the steaming poop in panel 2? One of the milkees?

Also, isn’t Epiphany the 12th day? If so, it’s not quite over.

I like Arlo.

…and commence the dark cold days of winter. boo.

Um, the 12th day of Christmas is Jan 6th. It ain’t over yet!

T’ain’t over until Epiphany, or Orthodox Christmas on the 6th of January. As for the partridge, I really grew to detest that carol, unless it is a good parody.

My sentiments exactly, Arlo.

Thank goodness you guys explained this one. I was befuddled. I’m already in gear for the New Year so I wasn’t even thinking Christmas. But that is a very annoying song!

It took a bit of reading the comments to figure this out but once I did – really good. My question is the song says my true love gave to me……… Which one of them was the giver and the getter?

I assume he fell asleep on the couch and it was a dream. The short ones are the most bizarre.

The cow was just supposed to be a-milking, and not what it did in panel two!

Not so fast, Arlo…. the 12 Days of Christmas last until Jan 6th!

I count at least 3 eggs. Any one see more? (1 each in panels 2, 3 & 4)

Even as a little kid I always liked the Three French Hens the best! I often thought of this song back in the days when I was raising chickens. Also, the song always reminds me of doing it for the Christmas program at school when I was in 1st Grade (that would have been 1959)!

Love it!

I really like how the strip was developed….the first two pictures drawn in monotone and the third one includes only Arlo drawn in full color. That really empathized how we possibly react visually to a parade…..we tend to favorably see mainly what we came to see.