Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 04, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Sure enough, Dot View’s producer is thinking he’d probably like to have the Tonsils act as a regular feature. (I still say that the impersonator is not Tonsils, but that’s a losing battle.)

“Tonsils’ agent” is missing an apostrophe, too.

Gadzooks!

Good morning™, Dollar signs !

Someone stands to make a good deal of dough …….. if he can live long enough to collect.

Regular spot nothing! Give that man his own show! “Waking up with Tonsils” comin’ at ya!

Maybe this was supposed to be like The Producers – it sounds like Flintheart wasn’t really thinking Tonsils would be a hit!

Is this the point this story heats up?

Cowboy lost his tan real fast!

Last panel, Bob Hope alive and well…

Could we add another couple songs to his repertoire? That one lost it’s charm a long time ago… And I can’t imagine the television station wanting it repeated on a regular basis.

Those who do not learn from the past are…

The bozo has one song with one line, show must be pretty starved for ‘talent’

the plot thickens

REPLY TO A COMMENT ON THE 3 STOOGES A COUPLE OF DAYS BACK: Well, they worked on a pilot for Kooks’ Tour, and recorded the live-action intro to the horrible Stooges animated series (some footage briefly appeared in THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT.

Larry had his stroke, but Moe wanted to continue the team, but that went nowhere.

Interestingly, there was some talk of making longtime Stooges player Emil Sitka a member of a revised Stooges lineup.

1-VITAMIN DEFICIENCY: When I was a lad in school, only girls carried their books clutched to their chest like that. COFFEE LATTE: Land line for you, Vitamin.

2-VITAMIN: Land mine?!? Oh! Ahem…With whom have I the pleasure of speaking?

3-SLIMY TENPERCENT: I’m Dot Dash’s agent and I’ve got a deal for you. It looks like Dot and your man Tonsil’s are gonna be the next Sonny and Cher!

VITAMIN: Who? SLIMY: Captain and Tenille.

VITAMIN: Come again? SLIMY: Carpenters?

VITAMIN: No, we don’t need a carpenter…

SLIMY: Uh, Frances Langford and Kenny Baker?

VITAMIN: THAT BIG?!?! SLIMY: Uh, sure! And I’m willing to sell you Dot’s contract for…

VITAMIN: NAME YOUR PRICE! I’LL PAY!

SLIMY: I won’t regret…I mean you won’t regret it. I’m signing my side of the contract now. By the way…I’ll need payment in cash…

Egad!

If Tonsils makes regular appearances on the Dot View Show, he will fade out unless his musical repertoire includes contemporary material. And he will also be like Feenamint laxative….gentle but predictable. In this instance, it will be grating and annoying.

@ producer Freddie Mark Wilcox…oops upside your head, say oops upside your head. Are you looking at ratings or profit margins? And who is “we”? Do you, Freddie Mark Wilcox have the authority to make this decision? Oh take a look at Vitamin… he will be goo goo eyes over the whole thing. Unless Dot is swept off her by Matt which she probably is, smooth talkers got it like that.

And slick talkers as well.

Landlines live!!

movie quote—-“Close your ears to the voice that drives you towards death”

Basil Rathbone—THE MAD DOCTOR—1941

Sunday’s “flourescent” art gave an actual romantic feel to things.

Coffyhead should tape a sign to his back—“Killjoy was Here”.The second Tonsils will have to fess up a few things to the authorities in exchange for police protection.

I wonder if this is “Son Of Tonsils”—-and he hasn’t told Dotbecause he doesn’t want to make her “feel old”.

I don’t see a romantic schemer,but somebody trying tomake up for the first one.Wipe away the bad times.

And no,I’m not an INCURABLe romantic.

Luigi- “Hey boss! They’re taking away your Coffee-Time spot on the Dot View show and giving it to that jerkface!”

Coffyhead- “$%#@!!!!!”

And now,the Kitten Sisters will do their famous stilt-walking act!!

One minor mystery here solved. I noticed that the producer in the today’s strip was not the same man from earlier. I went back to the earlier strip and discovered it’s actually not a mistake. The skinny guy with glasses was the “Executive Producer”; this new guy is simply the “producer” so I guess he’s the other’s underling.

Egad!

That’s the only possible reaction to producer Freddie Mark Wilcox’s proposed booking of one-shot wonder neo-Tonsils for the Dot View Show. This is wrong on so many levels. But, alas, it appears Matt will continue to romance Dot and that Dot will continue to accept it, as well as allowing him on “her” show (“her” in quotation marks because it seems she doesn’t really have much say in running the show). Sooner or later, Coffyhead will come along to shake things up!

YAWN…….this story…..