Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 13, 2012
April 12, 2012
April 14, 2012
Transcript:
Mom: Alice, would you like to learn to play a musical instrument someday? Alice: Oh, boy, yeah! Mom: Grandma thinks she has a piano she isn't using in her spare room. She'll give it to us if she can find it! Alice: Wow! Cool! A piano! Mom: I used to play the piano. I might starting taking lessons again. Alice: I love pianos! When you put some cats and mice in a piano, they play this great song! Mom: Really? Alice: I saw it on TV!
margueritem about 12 years ago
Wow, hope Grandma can find the piano…
jeff_e about 12 years ago
Maybe Grandma could turn Big Shirley loose inside the piano, along with the cats and mice!
pouncingtiger about 12 years ago
I hope Grandma can find the colors for today’s strip.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
Finding a piano shouldn’t be too hard, if it’s really there. The love between Alice and Madeline (as expressed in panel 4) is very touching!
geometeer about 12 years ago
Hope it’s more piano than forte.
LHPuttgrass about 12 years ago
Alice has been watching the Three Stooges.
merbates about 12 years ago
Love the black and white strip! Alice and Mom are having a moment. Sweet – even with cats and mice!
Hillbillyman about 12 years ago
Meow… meow… meow….meow…meow…….meow meow meow. meow. .
pavan_pb about 12 years ago
Love it!
steverinoCT about 12 years ago
@Davepostmp
I love the boogie-woogie riff in the middle! I can still whistle it. Followed by “Chopsticks.”
GROG Premium Member about 12 years ago
marg, I’m kind of hoping Grandma doesn’t find the piano. The family Von Trap they’re not.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 12 years ago
Grandma must be a “hoarder” if she can’t find her piano!
Jkiss about 12 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. How much stuff does a spare room have in it, to loose a piano?.Umm…. I think I have a piano somewhere, now where did I put that?
tcity about 12 years ago
No color? Is this a rerun?
lightningsnowstorm about 12 years ago
why don’t you put the mice in Petey’s oboe? Or let the cat destroy Timmy Fretwork’s banjo?the oboe is possible to stand, but the banjo? Great strip today, I wonder what Alice will do. BTW, why isn’t there any color today?
Eric S about 12 years ago
I believe Alice is thinking of The Aristocats movie, either that or Cinderella or something?
exeyevee Premium Member about 12 years ago
As usual, the dialogue is every bit as good as the art. “She’ll give it to us if she can find it!” Fantastic.
nancyroy2 about 12 years ago
cool… is this an old one?.. it looks so different…
snugharborman-catalog about 12 years ago
Interesting comments about no color/black & white today – I’m looking at this at 1 PM PDT and it’s in full color.
rifframone about 12 years ago
Mom seems to look a bit younger today. Is it just me?
Ulladulla about 12 years ago
I was kind of hoping Alice would take up the bassoon …
xall2h1 about 12 years ago
the name of the show is on the tip of my tounge…
vldazzle about 12 years ago
I have trouble finding some things, but not as big as a piano.
reynard61 about 12 years ago
There are actually two Tom vs. Jerry vs. piano cartoons.
The Cat Concerto ( Academy Award winner, Best Short Subject; 1946): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNE5C0X7Fzs
Johann Mouse (1952): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttjAQY5hWDQ