# Please ID this cartoon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006 "2016-10-19T04:11:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/1 "2016-10-19T04:11:09Z")
I’m trying to track down a single panel cartoon. It shows a husband in the foreground sitting in a chair with a contraption on his head. Think Doc Brown meeting Marty for the first time in the past. In the background his wife is describing at length a shopping excursion with her friend - I think the friend’s name is Suzy. Her story is a circuitous, tangent riddled account of the event surrounding her friend’s purchase of a hat. The device plays into the husband’s ear “Suzy bought a new hat”. The caption read something like “Wife Translation Device”. Does this ring a bell? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/2 "2016-10-19T04:20:02Z")
Sounds kinda like this: [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/bc/8d/afbc8df21f32e734d76b510697d0ab82.jpg](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/bc/8d/afbc8df21f32e734d76b510697d0ab82.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/3 "2016-10-19T04:23:32Z")
The head contraption, if I recall correctly, was a bit bigger. Definitely a husband and wife. It might have been Larson, but I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/4 "2016-10-19T05:14:41Z")
Sounds like Kliban, but too tired, drunk to go look it up. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/5 "2016-10-19T13:10:25Z")
That’s not a Kliban cartoon; it’s not his style. It could be an old Willy 'n Ethel, tho. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/6 "2016-10-19T13:35:05Z")
Something familiar about the description. Larsonesque but pretty sure it’s not him. From a newspaper comic strip maybe. But besides the one in post #2 i think there are several others that follow that theme. ---
**Author:** ![luvtinayothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@luvtinayothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvtinayothers)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/7 "2016-10-19T18:54:11Z")
Sounds like a Ballard Street comic. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-cartoon/769006/8 "2016-10-19T21:41:20Z")
I googled “ballard street wife translation device” and got a hit! I was excited until I realized the hit was for this thread.