Mitch4 sends this in: “Seems like the fertility clinic has already done their job, only too well — and the sister ought to be staying out of that place, not going back!”
(intended for Thursday 3/19 but accidentally posted now. So I’m getting ahead of myself.)
Comics I Don't Understand 
I think the joke is that she’s hoping to have A baby (singular) this time, and not octuplets like she had last time. Among other issues, she can’t find anyone to babysit them. But I’m with Mitch4. Why would she want any more to begin with?
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There are people who think it’s their duty to overpopulate the world as fast as possible. None of them like to comment on how we’re running out of water and arable land for all the rats in our maze.
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Isn’t the whole joke that someone with octuplets wouldn’t need another child?
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perhaps the joke is that the fertility clinic gave her eight kids, so she’s trying to find someone to watch them? but that doesn’t explain panel 3… much, anyway :)
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She needs one more to have her own baseball team.
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There was a cartoon I recall, possibly a New Yorker, with the Supreme Court Justices playing the Muses in baseball. An observer says something like, “The Muses have immortality on their side, but the Justices have a better grasp of the rules.” I tried but failed to locate it.
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Heh, heh… Back in the day, we used to run an Unreal server when our entire internet startup office was really into that game. You could set and tweak the number of bots and their skills, and the most challenging thing was to come up with a theme for naming them. The most memorable (ie: the only ones I can remember now) were the muses, and later, the current Supreme Court Justices (circa 2002). The muses were interesting in that you had to learn how to pronounce the name correctly. I remember a colleague cursing out “Cally-oap”, and being able to further needle him by correcting his pronunciation of Calliope.
The supreme court was the most popular naming scheme and the one we kept, updating as appropriate. I recall Sandra Day O’Connor was set to be particularly tough, for whatever random reason. Having daily battled the Supremes proved useful later on in law school as I had a passing familiarity with the Justices of the Court and their fighting strengths, though maybe not necessarily on their jurisprudence…
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