I guess I missed out Part I. This is trying hard, maybe too hard, but deserves to be seen for cheerful persistence even if not really for brilliant OY-ness.
Since this strip seems to offer a pun every day, it is hard not to over-indulge. But this one was immediately right in the OY spirit!
Ohhhh nooo! There is no way to stop at just one!
Comics I Don't Understand 
Part one of Rae the Doe’s “Gelato Trouble” appeared on the previous Sunday:
Since when are the nutcracker soldiers wind-up toys?
The whole “stealing my thunder” came from a sound effect guy having his thunder FX idea stolen. A bit more literal than F&E probably intended.
I was surprised by dvandom’s account of the origins of “stealing someone’s thunder”, but it seems to be supported in this entry at LanGeek. Not to, erm, rain on your parade, but referring to “a sound effect guy” comes off a little funny in light of the original story dating to 1709. :-)
This week’s Invitational results offer new phrases to replace tired, worn-out cliches. Scroll down to “Stop the Stale … Week 69”, and don’t forget that the Invitational is no longer published in the Post, so it now has freedom to be NSFW.
There is a wind-up toy in The Nutcracker, but it’s a life-size dancing doll. Wind-up soldiers are from “Babes in Toyland”, 1903, by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough. There were movie adaptations by Laurel & Hardy and by Walt Disney.
I don’t mean to whine, or cry in my beer, but frankly I must earnestly protest that the term “spirits” as applied to beverages refers to those that are distilled after fermentation.
Why did the barmaid champagne?
‘Cos the stout porter bitter.
(Or would you write “sham pain” and “bit ‘er”? Do you have a general policy on which way is better in trying to write down a sound-based pun?)
@ Mitch (8) – I would be strongly in favor of using conventional orthography to represent the “proper” spelling (as you did above), and leaving the auditory pun as a secret to be discovered by the reader.