# Bizarro (the daily comic): What's with the Pie & the TNT?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 7, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarro-the-daily-comic-whats-with-the-pie-the-tnt/334541 "2005-12-07T18:56:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarro-the-daily-comic-whats-with-the-pie-the-tnt/334541/1 "2005-12-07T18:56:11Z")

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Millions,  
You know Bizarro? One of the only decent comics left? (Yes, I know it liberally borrows from Far Side, but, at least it isn’t plagiarizing Hagar the Horrible). Anyway, notice how he always has a slice of (blueberry?) pie and stick of dynamite in every panel? It’s odd. It needs to be explained to me. I guess the pie might be short for his name (Piraro), but that’s what we call an “uninformed deduction” as opposed to a fact. Can anyone shine a light on this for me?

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarro-the-daily-comic-whats-with-the-pie-the-tnt/334541/2 "2005-12-07T19:36:54Z")

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All explained [here.](http://www.bizarro.com/symbols/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarro-the-daily-comic-whats-with-the-pie-the-tnt/334541/3 "2005-12-07T19:40:48Z")

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No mention of the dynamite there. Although, after reading that, I know understand that “explanation” of these things are impossible. Truly weird. Let’s get some pie.

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**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarro-the-daily-comic-whats-with-the-pie-the-tnt/334541/4 "2005-12-07T23:11:52Z")

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From [here:](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bizarro/about.htm)

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> You have to wonder what inspires a highly respected cartoonist to covertly include images of bunny rabbits, eyeballs, fishtails, slices of pie, firecrackers, crowns, upside-down birds, tiny spaceships and the abbreviation K2 into nearly every cartoon he draws. Subliminal mind control, you say? Nah, that’s an obvious explanation. Dan Piraro does it because he can … and because “Bizarro” fans love it!