Saturday Morning OYs – May 31, 2025

Boise Ed sends this in.


Flagging the third one as a comic fan’s OY, but need to do two earlier ones in the series as a setup:



Mitch4 sends this in:


And while we’re on the subject of Freud, Mitch4 also sends this:


Freud’s unconscious cravings had more to do with sex, if I recall correctly, but there are other unconscious cravings.

JMcAndrew sends this in: “Why does he have the giant poster of a fly to begin with? Is he going to start eating anything vaguely associated with fruit? This isn’t a comic I normally read.”


Yum?

Boise Ed sends this in as a “CIDU, sort of”: “Why is this funny? It sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, the drawing makes them way too thick for Oreos. They look more like ice-cream sandwiches. Yum.”

There do seem to be such a thing as giant Oreos, and a suggested use is ice cream sandwiches.

Two half-CIDUs

The essence of the joke here is good: that perhaps the pyramids had a second use in providing entertainment for Pharaoh. Not getting the extra graft part.


The joke here is also basically clear, with that nice added pun in the lefthand corner. But why a cat?

(a) To get in the way while he’s working, as cats tend to do?

(b) An allusion to the supposed origin story of Jim Davis developing Garfield? “Davis decided to peruse current comic strips to determine what species of animal characters might be more popular. He felt that dogs were doing well, but noticed no prominent cats. Davis figured he could create a cat star, having grown up on a farm with twenty-five cats.” (Wikipedia)

(c) An inside joke that cartoonists tend to be cat people?

(d) Other ________________

Must maintain standards

It’s the poodle that stumps me. I know what a standard poodle is–friend had one, bog-standard except for floppy ears option (also uncharacteristically dumb as a post: it would frequently sleep under the kitchen table, then wake up and run headlong into a table leg). But what makes this a SUBstandard poodle? I do like the biscuit-shaped phone case!