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Rhyme Thyme
pandamonium sends this in: “”Pomme” doesn’t rhyme with “cake.” Past that, I’m at a loss.”
Analyze This!
Kedamo sends this in: “Fear of heights? Large furniture? Having Neil deGrasse Tyson as your psychologist? I don’t get it.”
Stan also sent this in: “…as in “Psych! The couch is too big for you!” or “psycHIatry… the couch is to high”? I’m reaching here. I haven’t a clue.”
This is Frank and Ernest, which is very often a pun, but I can’t find one here, either.
A related theme, but not a CIDU:
Saturday Morning OYs April 11, 2026
Mitch4 sends this in: “Nice job, the pun is two words onto one.”
The cage bottom is lined with the newspaper.
Piecing It Together
This appeared on Easter, April 5. I’m puzzled.
Underground Reading
Carl Fink sends this in: “I’ve never read Notes from the Underground, but this SMBC is a complete mystery to me. Dad is underground? 18 hours of reading books aloud comforts a dying man? What is going on?”
Mouseover text: “Suddenly regretting that I didn’t just draw a word for word graphic novel of the entire book twice.”
Bonus panel:
Veni, Vici, Victoria
Dan Sachs sends in this news item: “None of the existing categories; thought the news was of interest.”
A reminder that the life of a cartoonist is not just peaches and cream.
Your editor has always found this comic a bit hit or miss, but here’s a favorite:
Maybe Thor is Part Owl
Jack Applin calls out a detail: “Which way is Thor (brown hair, right) facing? His face & spear hand indicate that he’s facing away from Peter (blond). His feet disagree.”
Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026
Not really an OY, but a wordplay. It reminds me of words that seem like they should have an opposite, but don’t.
You can be disgruntled, but not gruntled, for example.
Or convoluted, but not voluted;
disgusted but not gusted;
disturbed but not turbed;
preposterous but not postpreterous.
First Book You Remember
I don’t remember any books being read to me. I read to my daughters, beginning with Pat the Bunny, Goodnight Moon, Peter Rabbit, Where the Wild Things Are, and other classics.
How about you? What books do you remember being read to you?
