This was a complete CIDU for me until I read the comments on the web:
I’ll let the hive-mind see what y’all think. No cheating! (But it’s at https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2025/07/27 to save you the trouble if, like me, you give up.)
Puzzle over these from July, 1995: some LOL, some CIDU, some …?
July is when the new interns typically start in hospitals.
JMcAndrew sends this in: “So this is some kind of skin care product for rhinoceros? The frog “Jimmy Cool” is a celebrity who has a line of skin care products for animals? Is that the joke?”
Your editor isn’t a regular Heathcliff reader. Is Jimmy Cool a regular character? Do rhinos in nature have some method of oiling their skin? Googling “Rhino Tough” shows several products that play off the toughness of rhinos, but not their baby soft skin.
“They say it’s probably safe to keep orbiting for a while, but if it stays on or starts flashing we might have to call someone.”
Boise Ed sends this in: “I can’t recall ever seeing so clever a use of the fourth wall.”
JMcAndrew sends this in: “I’m assuming Curtis is watching the 1977 schlock horror film “The Incredible Melting Man” which might be the most obscure geezer movie I’ve ever seen referenced in a newspaper comic strip.”
Perhaps some relative of cartoonist Ray Billingsley was in this movie. Billingsley was born in 1957, so he would have been 20 when this was made.
You can put some cash in the bucket, or just charge it.
(Yes, that’s a cheesy pun about the Pandora music service, which is owned by SiriusXM)
BillR sends:
He notes:
Scott’s comics are often mildly surrealistic, but I got nothing with this one. “Opening” a banana releases “yellow” into the world?
We know Pandora had a box (no sniggering, you!) and that opening it released hope, but how does that relate to a banana?!
From Boise Ed:
He adds,
The Fabio/goose one is a total CIDU for me; AFAIK, Fabio was an Olympic skier and ladies’ man, several decades ago. The Will Smith one, I assume, has to do with that Oscars incident a while back. The other three I can guess at.
Bob Kinney writes, “No clue what this all means”:
It does seem a bit…thin.
travelgirl sends this in: “I have no clue what’s going on here, though my gut is telling me it’s easy and i should :) “
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