Register for a FREE GoComics account and get this plus any other comic strip delivered to your Personalized Comic Page, Daily. With a free account you will be able to build a Comic Page filled with the Comics you want to see each day.
With the largest collection of Comics and Editorial Cartoons online there is plenty to choose from. Upgrade to a GoComics Pro account (Only $.99/Month) and have unlimited archive access to decades of comics.
Customize Homepage
Daily Comics Email
Comment, share, interact with other comic fans
Julie Larson began writing The Dinette Set comic in 1990, then called Suburban Torture, offering a satire on middle class culture. The Dinette Set became syndicated in 1997. When asked where Julie gets all of her ideas, she admits there is only one way to write a daily comic: write about what you know. "I make no bones about who’s really talking in The Dinette Set," says Julie, who is writer, director and cast of The Dinette Set. "If we can’t make fun of ourselves, who will?"
© Julie Larson - All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2013. Universal Uclick, All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions - Privacy Policy

Comments (22) (Please sign in to comment)
purple sky
said, 3 months ago
Words fail me . . .
I have toenails on my fingers! said, 3 months ago
I’m with Slim on this one. Yesterday I decided to avail myself of the Costco Buffet.. Cheese and Crackers! Just try to get a sample with seven ragamuffins waiting to pounce as soon as the smoked salmon comes out of the toaster oven.
Grr!
I have toenails on my fingers! said, 3 months ago
And look at Timmy’s Grandparents!! Rather than take the opportunity to teach deference to ones elders they are oblivious to the life of despair and destitution to which they condemn their self centered and inevitably self decrustive progeny.
mikie2
said, 3 months ago
As usual and as before, Timmy isn’t the only child in the room. I wish Leaky was here, because I’d bet him $100 (not $10,000!) that Burl’s gonne wet the bed tonight as a tantrum.
htownkev
said, 3 months ago
Burl’s gonna eat the entire plate of cookies?
I have toenails on my fingers! said, 3 months ago
I wonder if there is enough energy on this board? Does it make any sense we meet in Times Square and self immolate? Or alternatively not self immolate but nosh on a bagel with cream cheese and sip a steaming, black, no sugar? And we don’t have to meet, just if anyone ever happens to be there.
It’s only a comic! Stupid Timmy! See what he stirs up?
Two words:
Crustwood Military Academy.
~The Tri-State leader in supplying entry level workers to the self storage industry since 2012. (Remedial instruction may be required.)
Pacopuddy said, 3 months ago
@htownkev
“htownkev said, about 2 hours ago
Burl’s gonna eat the entire plate of cookies?”
And that surprises you? Revenge is supposed to be sweet, after all.
Pacopuddy said, 3 months ago
I must try that mushroom soup recipe.
And have they left Burl’s footprint on the fridge because he is jealous of Timmy’s handprint being on display?
SusanSunshine
said, 3 months ago
I have to say, this is the first time in a long while I’ve seen Timmy actually smiling.
He’s actually getting a little praise from Grandma and and almost… but-not-quite a hug from Grandpa….
Dale’s probably just as pleased about Burl NOT getting any tomatoes as about Timmy eating them.
There’s always an edge to these friendships…. always a competition…
And even if Burl has to share the cookies…. he’ll make sure to get more than Timmy… and to grab the last one just when Timmy wants another. Payback.
In fact, there are FOUR grown-up children here, Mikie…. every one of them competing with the one real child for the biggest share of the treats, attention or praise…
and none of them capable of giving as much as taking.
PacoPuddy thats Dale’s footprint…. but yes.
And Joy writes on her board that she wants Marlene’s recipe for Stouffer’s frozen lasagne.
SusanSunshine
said, 3 months ago
Toenails….
We hold weekly meetings to hold hands and project thought-waves at Timmy…..
“Run away, Timmy….
Run far, run fast….
before you ever have to get a summer job at Crustwood U-Store-It.”
SusanSunshine
said, 3 months ago
And just for the record…. I always wish Leaky were here.
The forum isn’t he same.
Get your …um….
um…..
just get back here, LeakySqueaky!
finale said, 3 months ago
Dale kicked the fridge the day he discovered Burl and Jer had raided it for his last 4 cans of “Beer 30”.
GymShoe said, 3 months ago
@finale
Good eye…. Did not notice that the footprint is on the frig…. and not on the paper…. ! ! !
DAZZ
said, 3 months ago
@SusanSunshine
I second that!
jmcx4 said, 3 months ago
Wait! Does a cookie that Burl hasn’t tried really exist?