This is something I made sure to rescue from the old site: after the first time I posted the 1996 sequence with Arlo’s father, somebody asked me to re-post it every year.
Unfortunately most of your comments are gone, but the 47 you posted in 2018 and 2019 are below.
From 2003:
From 1985:
Which two comic strip characters should hook up on Sunday (setting aside, if necessary, their current marital status, their sexual orientation, or even their species), and what would they do on their date?
This would make more sense to me if the man was talking to the woman and the balloon was in her image.
Sorry, sometimes I just don’t have the patience to find humor in parents making their own jobs as unnecessarily difficult as possible.
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