An Oy from Andréa:
Oy by virtue of wordplay, broadly speaking
At Arnold Zwicky’s Blog he analyzes this and discusses previous comics uses of the same pun.
A trio-oy from Andréa:
But I have told my cats they are not truly brother and sisters. Even though I need to say “Now be nicer to your little sister!”
Comics I Don't Understand 
Personally, I think item #3 on the “TGIF” list is highly offensive, but even if the author doesn’t have a clue, one would think that his editor would know the rules for (not) using apostrophes. 😉
P.S. One-day-late synchronicity with the last one from Moderately Confused:
P.P.S. And to answer the squirrel’s question: “Actually, it means you’re just a tool.“
Kilby: And I’ve done that many, many times! Also been reading a physical book, turned the light out as I went from one room to another, and been surprised I couldn’t keep reading as I walked.
Imma start using the “That Guy” version of TGIF immediately. And refuse to explain myself. 😉
Wayno has quite a bit of explication about silver/gold fish on his blog today (hope I don’t violate anything by sending this, but I thought it interesting) . . .
http://waynocartoons.blogspot.com/2022/05/spanish-acquisition.html
Typical Gallic International Fear-mongering…
That Gag Isn’t Funny.
I haven’t experienced the tapping of an image in a book, but my wife uses a touch screen for work. I have seen her trying to tap on the monitor of our home keyboard-input laptop many times.
In the Wayno blog (linked by Andrea) there is the extensive discussion of the goldfish/silverfish panel, much more than his usual line or two per cartoon. Included in that is a sketch of a preliminary version that took the joke from a different viewpoint:
Mark M, That’s not as bad as it sounds. I didn’t have a touch screen for yonks but I was always trying to do touch on student’s computers. No excuse.
And I thought the Spring Break one was a LOLOL
I went from a dumbPhone to a not-quite-so-dumbPhone, which takes pics. I was used to using Hubby’s iPhone, which has a touch screen, and have tried innumerable times to ‘touch screen’ my phone. With zero results.
I was coincidentally watching this series a few days ago . . .
I think I like Stan’s take on TGIF, but after reading Kilby’s comments I wondered why the plural of “German” wasn’t “Germen”. I guess I’m easily amused posting late at night…
That’s a really well-organized set of experiments that the baby performs.
That baby should get this book: Computer Engineering for Babies. https://computerengineeringforbabies.com/
Another BookOy . . .
This must be ‘make fun of books in the comics’ week . . .
I was curious about the use of the doctor’s name, which didn’t feel like a comic creation. Turns out there is indeed a spine surgeon with that name, in Dallas. Now I don’t know if he’s really famous and/or has been in the news, or whether perhaps this is just a shout out by the cartoonist for a doctor he likes.
https://dallasbrainandspine.com/physicians/profile/Dr-Joseph-Beshay-MD
I wondered the same about the name – thanks for doin’ the research!
I was trying to figure out if the name was some sort of pun.
The baby video reminded me of a cartoon strip I saw online a few years ago, and it would be great if anyone here recognises it, as I’d love to find it.
It was set in a newspaper office. (I think one of the main/regular characters was the cartoonist). There were a few linked strips where a group of local high school kids came for work experience. Two jokes stand out in my memory
A fed-up old hack/editor grabbed a student’s tablet, and smashed it by using it to swat a fly – an example of newspaper superiority.
A student in full accusations-of-outrage mode demanding to know if it was true that they just printed out their website and expected people to pay for that.