Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 09, 2025

If Fumble Brothers had their druthers they’d go get a drink

Far from here. Sidecar a beer. Escape from need to think.

The task at hand mundane not grand. Empty office fast

Don’t drop the ball or take a fall. Such mistakes shall last.

There’s a body in the morgue. Dick Tracy’s on the case

No wiggle room. Just gloom and doom to stumble in this race.

Dropped a card. Was that too hard? They leave behind a clue

Things not done right. These two a fright. This fumble shall not do.

someone oughtta plant these two goofs…

six feet under…

So close to not being F-ups. So close.

Beavis and Butt-Head (also called FireStrike and Gweedo) strike again!

Good morning™, all!

There’s nothing like leaving a business card to say that you’ve been involved in a crime!

Is the security guard a Vulcan or Romulan? Look at those ears. Chucky’s love of Star Trek is showing up!

“No brainers” need not apply.

Wonder how long it will take “auntie” to notice that missing business card….?

And I wonder what the connection will be between a dentist and everything else that’s going on?

Good morning™, Calling Cards !

Wonder who that leads to… Blondie looks happy in all his appearances while his buddy scowls in P.2. Must be the peppers in his head cheese sandwich talking back.

Dental records of the corpse.

It’s a shame that the most intelligent thing in the room is called Arthur.

I wonder if it’s a reference to “The Hitch-hikers guide to the Galaxy”?

In which case it will be thinking as it goes out of the room “Oh! No! Not again”!

Talk about leaving evidence behind.

3 Stooges minus one!

And the CEO still won’t have a clue there’s a problem, even after the nephews strip the CFO’s office?

Meanwhile, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dumber have by amazing coincidence dropped the single business card from the whole box of business cards most of us have around, and while noticing the plant needs watering can’t see the business card sitting out in plain sight.

And, while the card is for Katie’s Kakes (Horace and Claire bought a cake for their niece’s birthday – the only one in the family with any brains) Tracy’s ESP will mean he can instantly intuit that we have cases of murder, embezzlement, and insurance fraud happening and know who’s cage to rattle! (Probably Katie’s.)

“You brought the plant with you? The one thing you were supposed to leave behind to make it look like there wasn’t a crime?!”

The plant named Arthur used to appear in Mad magazine. Also I noticed in other comments that dumb and dumber have some additional aliases!

Hey! It’s the return of my favorite Gould character: The square caption box with an arrow to identify an important plot device!

Yes, it’s cheesy, but I’ve always liked it.

“Blue? What’s ‘blue’ anyway?”

“DUHHHH. Dunno Maybe some new sorta’ frogurt. Let’s go check Dairy Dutchess to see what flavors there got.”

“Gosh, I hope they have liver papaya flip!”"

SAM (rushing to the scene and foaming a the mouth in excitement): A CLUE! The perpetrators had (wait for it) TEETH!!!!

Tracy asks for Sam to surrender his bullet before he hurts himself.

I feel the need to acknowledge the homage to Mad Magazine and Arthur the potted plant. Thank you and now back to your regularly scheduled comments.

Arthur? I remember that from Mad Magazine. It was as ubiquitous as Alfred E. Neuman at one time.

So Big Bossman is going to find the blank dentist appointment card and PUT THE WHOLE INSURANCE FRAUD SCHEME TOGETHER!!! _I smell spinoff! Big Bossman Detective Agency

1- DOOFUS: Our uncle the Treasurer wanted us to pick up some material that could prove his guilt involving his embezzlement of millions from the company if it were found by the wrong person. SECURITY GUY: OK. Just don’t take any plants.

2- DIMBULB: Hey…most of this stuff reads more like he wants information that would help him start his own company that does whatever this company does…

3- DOOFUS: You’d think he’d want his computer for that. Oh well.

4 – DIMBULB: AWH! Look – Uncle had a picture of us in his desk. We were so cute then! DOOFUS: You think this is pot?

5- DIMBULB: You know what they say: You never know til you smoke some!

….“Arthur”……wasn’t that potted plant a prop in many a MAD magazine feature?……..

Good read about Dick Locher and how he handled the strip. It is on Facebook so you might have to be a member or log in.

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Shades of MAD magazine! I always wondered about the “Arthur” plant. Exactly what kind of plant was it, and why did it have the name “Arthur?”

Too bad Aunty didn’t tell Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb to make sure they didn’t leave anything behind.

Those two gotta drive you crazy

dum dum dum dum

A dental appointment reminder business card – and it’s not even filled out. It’s a dental dis-appointment – there’s nothing worth chewing on here.