FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 13, 2024

…or Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top, and Spam.

Well, considering that that’s why spam is in fact called spam…

One of my favorite sketches. My very favorite is “The Fish Slapping Dance”.

We are no longer the knights who say “neet.” We now are the knights who say “icky icky icky icky. KatungOW.”

Many years ago – back when emails arrived at a more reasonable pace – I had an audio clip that triggered every time an e-mail arrived. It was from the movie The Quest for the Holy Grail. It was the sound of the arrow flying through the air and hitting Lancelot’s squire who – as he’s falling – then says “Message for you sir!”

I love fried Spam on toast with lettuce, tomato, and mayo!

Lousy Vikings.

♫ We dine well here in Camelot we eat ham and jam and SPAM a lot ♩ ♬

Put him in . . . the Comfy Chair!

Some things in life are bad

They can really make you mad

Other things just make you swear and curse

When you’re chewing on life’s gristle

Don’t grumble, give a whistle

And this’ll help things turn out for the best

And

Always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the light side of life

If life seems jolly rotten

There’s something you’ve forgotten

And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing

When you’re feeling in the dumps

Don’t be silly chumps

Just purse your lips and whistle, that’s the thing

And

Always look on the bright side of life

(Come on)

Always look on the right side of life

For life is quite absurd

And death’s the final word

You must always face the curtain with a bow

Forget about your sin

Give the audience a grin

Enjoy it, it’s your last chance anyhow

So always look on the bright side of death

A just before you draw your terminal breath

Life’s a piece of sh!t

When you look at it

Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true

You’ll see it’s all a show

Keep ‘em laughin’ as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you

Sometimes this strip makes the early 00s feel a lot longer ago than it really was. One reason is that, in those days, people really did seem more likely to make pop culture references that went back much farther than we do now. (The Monty Python sketch in question was older on the day this strip first ran than the strip is today.)

I know the comics have always attracted readers with old souls, old bodies, or both. But I remember that, in the 90s, lots of children’s cartoons regularly made deep cuts going as far back as the 40s, and expected kids more or less to get it.

Could I have her spam?

What, you mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and spam?

It might soon be an EX-computer…..

In those days I used Yahoo and the email filters weren’t any good. When Gmail came out everything changed

As long as the Jabberwocky doesn’t start sending emails, Jason should be okay.

Spam. Sizzle. Pork. Mmmm.