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No. 5304: A Mildly Obscure Reference, Done Rather Obtusely

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A Mildly Obscure Reference, Done Rather Obtusely

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Strip by: Lubaf

TV: Instead of the news, let's take a look at my vacation photos
TV: Here I am being attacked by seagulls
TV: And more seagulls... And more gulls!
Garfield {shouting}: Stop insulting their sexuality!

The author writes:

I was looking for the most obtuse possible way to make a reference to the song "Lesbian Seagull", by Tom Wilson Weinberg, and later covered by Englebert Humperdink for the soundtrack to Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, and came up with this.

For the unaware, "Lesbian Seagull" is actually based on a real life to-do centered on actual research; one of the consequences of overuse of DDT was a decline in male, but not female, seagull populations (DDT was fat-soluble, and all bird eggs contain a certain amount of fat, meaning that female seagulls were shedding more of their DDT dosage than males). This resulted in a population of "breeding pairs" of two female seagulls (with one or the other mating with an outside male, and then returning to the nest).

Original strip: 2021-05-22.