Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for April 04, 2016

Shades of “Black Dog.”

I wouldn’t think a penguin would have the proper embouchure.

Ah, “Billy and the Boingers”… ;-)

Heavy metal tuba

That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

A classic.

John Williams actually made a “contemporary” version of the Close Encounters theme to preempt the Mecco version, who made a disco version of the Star Wars theme that out-charted the original. When you have a classical composer make a disco song, you have a song with a tuba solo. It has to be heard to be believed.

“Hey Big Mama,

I’m a leavin’ you.

You smell like a horse and gargle Lavoris."

Taylor Swift has nothing over Opus.

I love when smiles sneak up on you. Thank you BB.

Nope, he’s a magnum Opus.

Billy and the Boingers (originally Deathtongue) didn’t form until the fall of 1986. But Opus was definitely heading that direction in 1985.

Is there, I ask you, anything worse than a rogue tuba?

I also posted this under a mid-February rerun strip, but am posting it here in the hopes of getting more replies.

Please bring back Portnoy and Hodge Podge in the new strips, BB. We need their hilarious antics as the Meadow Party election campaign heats up. My prediction is that Portnoy will be hired by the Trump campaign to create Hillary attack ads and Hodge Podge will be hired by the Clinton campaign to create Trump attack ads. And at the end of each day, Port and Hodge will sit at the bar together drinking beer, mutually unaware of each others’ work.

Classic Portnoy and Hodge Podge conversation from December 1983:

Port: I think we should have nominated Jesse Jackson.

Hodge: Oh poo, we’d alienate half of America.

Port: All right then, Jesse Helms.

Hodge: We’d alienate the other half.

Port: Let’s alienate everybody! Jesse and Jesse for ’84!

Hodge: Oh DO shut up!

What is the Köchel catalog number for that Mozart piece?