Rubes by Leigh Rubin for October 29, 2020

with a very impractical waste of a pie.

So called “practical” jokes are the worst. They hurt. They aren’t even slightly funny.

Had that been the REAL Joker, that would be a bucket of acid, an exploding banana peel, and cyanide pie

He got creamed with a banana cream?

You go first, Robin…

Look out for that banananananannanananana peel Batmaaan!

Wait’ll they get a load of me. (Seemed the practical thing to say.)

Batman always crashes down through the skylight. Duh!

I once read about senior sneak day at MIT. Traditionally the underclassmen sabotage the rooms of the seniors while they’re gone. In one case a water drop like the one shown in the cartoon was placed in the senior’s room. He was prepared for it and opened the door carefully a couple of inches, reached up and took the bucket down, went to his sink, and poured in the water. But the prank was that the drainpipe had been altered to flow out to the front. The water shot all over his pants.

Wait till you see what he did to the batpole.

For a while in comic history, the Joker wasn’t much worse than that. Highly restrictive code, you know.

More like custardly.