I posted this one (along with other Opus wedding cartoons) on my supervisor’s door the day before he got married.
“Shut up, Wilbur, and arm the photon torpedoes.”
“Basselopes like lots of butter on their pop tarts.”
“The enemy has obviously been terrified into irrational recklessness.”
I’m bumping this because Diane Rehm did a great interview with Berkeley Breathed on Monday.
You can play the audio from this link: https://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-09-26/a-conversation-with-berkeley-breathed-creator-of-bloom-county
or search your podcast app for it.
He’s got a new book out, “The Bill the Cat Story.”
That whole “Bill the Cat for President” story-line from Bloom County does seem especially relevant right now.
[Opus just woke up and is looking disheveled]
Boy (I forget who): “Stay still, you got some gunk in your eyes.” wipes Opus’s eyes with Kleenex
Opus: “Oh I’m so embarrassed.”
Boy: “Don’t be. I’m sure even the Pope gets them.”
Opus (looked at the reader): “Eye boogers. The great social equalizer.”
Reagan socks!
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This time, why not the worst?
I still have my “Penguin Lust” t-shirt. Unfortunately, Steve Dallas holding a martini t-shirt is long gone.
“Sith Lord Sexypants”
“Crank this sucker up!”
Dang, you beat me to Offensensitivity! I play that in my head when the PC gets too deep.
I liked the one where Cutter John and crew were doing the ST roleplaying, and someone called out that up ahead “That’s the IRS agent whose appointment we are currently avoiding!”
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Set phasers on kill!*
- Say, Jack, look at this. Midget Commies.
- Let’s skin 'em.
- HOW OLD WAS THAT ISSUE OF LIFE?!
I spent some time in Iowa City, and have seen the Berkeley Breathed original hanging on the walls of its public library and stood on the lawn of the house that served as the model for the Bloom boarding house. Is like a pilgrimage.
Is that the one where Opus goes up to an old couple in a VW and asks them to hold a target for the Enterpoop crew to aim at?
“‘I lost the body,’ says Bedfellow.”
I think they were parked in a handicapped space with NO PERMIT .
“Whopper, sans bun. Now what do you have to say?”
“Milkshake, hold the cup.”
Milo’s dad: “I’ve been messing with tarts…”
Milo: “Nary a difference!”
My favorite strip of all time, set during the 1984 American Meadow Party Convention:
Binkley: I mean, the Presidency! Wow! Leader of the free world! Global destruction at his fingertips! And we nominated a dead cat!! A DEAD CAT!! Maybe we should have found someone with a more appropriate background! A more experienced background…MILO! WE SHOULD HAVE FOUND AN AMIABLE OLD EX-B MOVIE ACTOR!!"
Milo: Don’t be ridiculous.
Binkley (burying his face in his hands): Oh, Milo, we should have called Fred MacMurray.
My second favorite strip:
Milo, on the phone, taking notes: Senator, will you confirm that you sunk Jimmy Hoffa in your backyard pond?
Senator: What? Of course not!
Milo: Fine. I’ll go with “Sen. Bedfellow denies that pond is where he sunk Hoffa.”
Senator: That’s Not True!
Milo: OK, “Bedfellow DID sink Hoffa in pond.”
Senator: I DON’T KNOW WHERE HOFFA IS!!
Milo: “I lost the body”, says Bedfellow."
This was also in an older comic from the 80s and I’ve made it my credo in life.
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”