We’ll serve a can o’ peas for the partygoers to munch on.

And will they serve a Moose Boosh?
We’ll serve a can o’ peas for the partygoers to munch on.

And will they serve a Moose Boosh?

comma, Did we come in?
I thought perhaps the local paper had messed this up but no, it’s the same online. Either there’s a first panel missing or the dialog is just borked.
Mitch suggests, “except that the Nancy artist likes playing meta games and so forth and could be intentionally starting off in medias res…”
What does the braintrust think?

Boise Ed sends the above, noting, “It’s not that IDU what’s happening, but why is it funny that the guy has stiffed the Girl Scout?”
I’d also add that there seems to be a video camera in the background, AND the woman in pink is driving something that looks more like a courtroom typewriter than a laptop–is this a recycled strip? Yet neither Tineye nor Google Images finds it, so maybe not. Perhaps Hoest and Reiner are stuck in the past?