Mitch4 sends this in.
For me, it was a momentary CIDU. Mitch4 notes “May be pronunciation dependent (“conch”).”
Saturday Morning OYs June 13, 2026
Category / CIDU
Fourplay
billr sends this in: “I don’t play golf. Is this supposed to be a pun on “fore”?”
Your editor isn’t a golfer either. How often do players actually yell “Fore”?
Pun? Song reference?? Weed allusion???
Thanks to billr:
Is donut choir a pun for something?
No clue. Googling suggests “Combining a cannabis-infused edible with your favorite lyrics and beats can actually trigger a stronger emotional response to music”, also talks about it being a bad idea to combine weed with Lyrica (pregabalin, a drug for things like diabetic neuropathy).
None of those help here, though.
There’s a point somewhere
From Boise Ed:
What arrow-related thing happened/happens at the Met Gala?
Some Googling suggests it might be a reference to this:
https://www.etonline.com/demi-moore-makes-an-unforgettable-2024-met-gala-comeback-224861
but I’m not convinced. Anyone??
Floodlights
billr sends:
So this is Noah’s Ark, and so there’s a flood, and floodlights, and…?
“The peasants are revolting!” (You can say that again)
Marrose sends:
She asks:
Why are there medieval peasants (circa 1300) talking about the French Revolution ( 1789-1802)? I get the comment was supposed to be wryly funny, but I can’t get past the characters.
I guess the cartoonist is fuzzy about how revolting French people would have dressed? Maybe AI involved, “Draw me some people from long ago”. Srsly, it’s an excellent question, and an unnecessary distraction from the point of the cartoon!
Tomlinson is from South Africa, but I don’t think that gets him a bye on this detail.
Sporks Flying
Less is Best
From Dan Sachs:
“Best said”?
Indeed. Surely “less said” was intended. Back in the day, there were these people called “editors”, who might have caught this and had it fixed (though perhaps not, since they would have to go back to the cartoonist, unlike local edits).
Internet, and cats, and cafe, but…
From Dirk the Daring:
Meow? It’s a New Yorker cartoon so, you know…Nonetheless, what?
Woof?
From Mitch4:
He notes,
Huh? I can’t even identify the additional object next to the playing cards — nail clipper? cigarillo? — let alone what the dog is supposed to do with them to become more adoptable.
I think it’s a cigar–pretty sure that’s a cigar band in the middle of the object–but what do cards and cigars have to do with getting adopted?!
At the risk of being called mean, that strip bills itself as “REMIXED NEW YORKER CARTOON REJECTS”. I’d submit that if your cartoon is too obscure for TNY, you might have a problem!
