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Thanks to Brian in STL for sending in this FoxTrot Classics:

Brian sez, “Foxtrot dailies are in reruns on GoComics. Today’s is an okay joke on its own. … However, it’s not fully appreciated without —-” But we’re going to “leave you in suspenders” for a moment or two and invite readers to treat this as a CIDU-puzzle requiring the reference to something it was based on. (Which you can read by expanding the block below.))

SPOILER — The backstory of the reference!

“However, it’s not fully appreciated without this Apple commercial that ran around the same time as the original run of the strip:”

Brian continues “The person that provided the link in comments added this: ‘Her side of the story goes that it was late at night when they filmed the ad. It had to be done after school hours for the day. Add to that, she was on allergy medication, which made her a bit “under the influence”.‘ “

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Stick with Bay Rum

As seems to be the standard practice at Comic Kingdom‘s presentation of the “Bob Mankoff Presents: Show me the Funny” archive sampler, this was part of a run on a related theme — here perfumes, air fresheners, aromatherapy, and other fragrances and scents. Most had an easily discernible joke, or anyway intended joke — though since they have the New Yorker in their pedigree somewhere, it can be muted or indirect. This was the first in the thematic series without a discernible punch intention.

P.S. Has anyone seen where in the office I might have left my Calle Ocho flip box?

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Sitting around the laughing stick (Random retro LOLs, 2019 or before, Part 2)

Cleaning out old file storage services

An old favorite!

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Another old favorite

As so often with “Viivi and Wagner”, the thesis seems to be that men are pigs…

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We weren’t going to discuss it (Random retro LOLs, 2019 or before, Part 1)

This is maybe a bit of a CIDU now?

Also a bit unclear?

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Gorilla with kitten

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“Is that you, Hun?”

When that’s the punch line, the setup of course has to be “What does Mrs. Attila call out from the back when she hears noise at the tent entrance?”

But in this Hagar the Horrible, sent in by Boise Ed, Helga and Hagar are at home, not in a Hunnish encampment. The Huns are outside — for now.

In case you think the outdoor shouting might prove legible, here is a blowup; but we think at least parts of it must just be Chinese Grawlix!

Setting and shouting aside, what’s the joke here? Some of the point must be Hagar’s equanimity in the face of attack, to the point that he is much more attentive to the culinary choice before him. But that’s pretty much his established character just being reinforced, so is that meant to be a joke?