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No. 514: Punchline Mix and Match with Dennis

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Punchline Mix and Match with Dennis

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=514

Strip by: Conor

{Martha and George Wilson are looking out their window. Dennis is outside, yelling.}
Martha: Anything broken in the house that needs fixing?
George: No... he's been outside all day.
{The Wilsons and Dennis are eating at the kitchen table. George has turned to address Martha, or possibly the fourth wall.}
George: I think what he really needs is an exorcist.
{An art gallery. Henry and Alice Mitchell are examining a painting in the background while Dennis talks to a waiter holding a tray with three glasses of wine.}
Dennis: Should I hand the grape juice to him, or just pour some on his clothes now, and get it over with?
{The front entrance of the Mitchells' house. Dennis stands in the doorway, gesturing towards a friend who is dressed in a suit and holding a briefcase, while Alice looks on.}
Dennis: We're not here for the art. We just came for the free drinks.

The author writes:

Inspired by the famous Far Side/Dennis the Menace caption switch in the '80s as well as by iToons #438, I swapped the captions around on several Dennis the Menace strips. Which goes to show something about how interchangeable they are...

Original Dennis the Menace strips: 2021-05-25, 2021-05-21, 2021-04-30, 2021-02-17, 2020-11-09 (via The Comics Curmudgeon).