Given the innocent, wide-eyed look on the bunny, I think it’s trying to be a comic equivalent of whistling. (The cat was hurt by the bunny and now he’s trying to pretend he has no idea how the cat got hurt and that he just stumbled across the injured cat.)
I think the flower is supposed to add more innocence to the look.
That whole thing is weird but I think Wendy and beckoningchasm have it. It may have be clearer if the bunny was whistling and staring in another direction; which is not an impossible thing to draw– if one argues animals don’t whistle, it’d have to be question ?that? is what you find unbelievable in this strip. And Snoopy whistled when Charlie Brown wondered who was betting against his baseball team.
A bunny injuring a cat?? Okay let’s assume that absurd thing could happen. So why is the bunny so anxious to get help for the cat after injuring it? And in what world is holding a flower the equivalent of innocently whistling? So much here to not understand.
Someone holding a flower is obviously a gentle soul that would never kick a cat in the face with his powerful hind legs.
>A bunny injuring a cat?? Okay let’s assume that absurd thing could happen.
My bunnies could….
>So why is the bunny so anxious to get help for the cat after injuring it?
Well…. maybe he knows he’ll be blamed if the cat dies? Or, more likely (as he hopes it won’t be known he did it) he doesn’t actually want the cat to *die*… he just wants to bash it about a bit.
>And in what world is holding a flower the equivalent of innocently whistling?
beckoningchasm covered that adequately, I think. As did Brian is STL
> So much here to not understand.
Well, *that’s* true!
I feel like the cartoonist is doing a surreal reference to another work (like when Mr. Burns slinks out to listen to striking Plant workers singing and mimics How the Grinch stole Christmas) but it’s just… weird.
Is anyone going to comment on the rabbit being named “Adolf”?
A bunny can easily injure a cat. Or human.
A reference to Jojo Rabbit??????
@ woozy – In that final panel, the bunny IS looking away from Clyde, and his mouth is reduced to a little circle, so I think he really IS whistling.
“A bunny can easily injure a cat. Or human.”
IIRC, then-president Carter said he was attacked by a rabbit while he was in a small boat.
That’s no ordinary rabbit!
He’s got huge, sharp– eh– he can leap about– look at the bones!
Who has the Holy Hand Grenade? Let’s all count to four, no, three!
P.S. In the news just yesterday evening: R.I.P. Terry Jones.
I want to know how they touched a feral cat without getting their arms shredded.
“A bunny can easily injure a cat. Or human.”
There must be killer rabbits in other parts of the world.
“I want to know how they touched a feral cat without getting their arms shredded.”
. . . and ending up in ER, as I did. I don’t think it was purely feral, either.
Bunnies… six decades later I still can find the scars.
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Given the innocent, wide-eyed look on the bunny, I think it’s trying to be a comic equivalent of whistling. (The cat was hurt by the bunny and now he’s trying to pretend he has no idea how the cat got hurt and that he just stumbled across the injured cat.)
I think the flower is supposed to add more innocence to the look.
That whole thing is weird but I think Wendy and beckoningchasm have it. It may have be clearer if the bunny was whistling and staring in another direction; which is not an impossible thing to draw– if one argues animals don’t whistle, it’d have to be question ?that? is what you find unbelievable in this strip. And Snoopy whistled when Charlie Brown wondered who was betting against his baseball team.
A bunny injuring a cat?? Okay let’s assume that absurd thing could happen. So why is the bunny so anxious to get help for the cat after injuring it? And in what world is holding a flower the equivalent of innocently whistling? So much here to not understand.
Someone holding a flower is obviously a gentle soul that would never kick a cat in the face with his powerful hind legs.
>A bunny injuring a cat?? Okay let’s assume that absurd thing could happen.
My bunnies could….
>So why is the bunny so anxious to get help for the cat after injuring it?
Well…. maybe he knows he’ll be blamed if the cat dies? Or, more likely (as he hopes it won’t be known he did it) he doesn’t actually want the cat to *die*… he just wants to bash it about a bit.
>And in what world is holding a flower the equivalent of innocently whistling?
beckoningchasm covered that adequately, I think. As did Brian is STL
> So much here to not understand.
Well, *that’s* true!
I feel like the cartoonist is doing a surreal reference to another work (like when Mr. Burns slinks out to listen to striking Plant workers singing and mimics How the Grinch stole Christmas) but it’s just… weird.
Is anyone going to comment on the rabbit being named “Adolf”?
A bunny can easily injure a cat. Or human.
A reference to Jojo Rabbit??????
@ woozy – In that final panel, the bunny IS looking away from Clyde, and his mouth is reduced to a little circle, so I think he really IS whistling.
“A bunny can easily injure a cat. Or human.”
IIRC, then-president Carter said he was attacked by a rabbit while he was in a small boat.
That’s no ordinary rabbit!
He’s got huge, sharp– eh– he can leap about– look at the bones!
Who has the Holy Hand Grenade? Let’s all count to
four, no, three!P.S. In the news just yesterday evening: R.I.P. Terry Jones.
I want to know how they touched a feral cat without getting their arms shredded.
“A bunny can easily injure a cat. Or human.”
There must be killer rabbits in other parts of the world.
“I want to know how they touched a feral cat without getting their arms shredded.”
. . . and ending up in ER, as I did. I don’t think it was purely feral, either.
Bunnies… six decades later I still can find the scars.