[0954] From The Frying Pan Into The Fire
└ posted on Thursday, 11 January 2018, by Novil
- Bob Hayer: It’s essential that Arcturus rests his left arm for at least one month. If it heals well, he may even be able to climb again someday.
- Sandra: I’ll take good care of him!
- Bob Hayer: Tell your rascals that they may only sustain life-threatening injuries during my opening hours in the future!
- Sandra: I will!
- Sandra: Goodbye!
- Bob Hayer: Bye!
- Girl: Misty ate something funny and now she’s very sick.
- Bob Hayer: ARRGH!
S&W in German/auf Deutsch
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Who?
You’ve heard “Out of the frying pan and into the friar.
That arrgh is not an arrgh of annoyance at the child taking terrible care of her dog, or at the dog’s stupidity. That arrgh is a deep arrgh, one of long-term pain and remorse for the future he could have had… as a mad scientist.
Is the joke that it isn’t opening hours?
@ Pony-kour:
As funny as your comment is, what he meant is that he was at home bafor Sandra came and was about to go back home except that somebody else showed up. Really though, I did laugh.
@ Jack:
BEFORE.
Arci is supposed to rest his arm? Does that mean he’ll be staying with Sandra at her house and spend some quality time with daddy?
@ Òlafur Kristinn Hannesson:
Probably. Though unmentioned, better hygiene than he’d get in the wild would be necessary for at least a while, until the wound closed.
He was surprisingly oblivious to the fact that Woo waved goodbye as well.
Man, adults are dim in this comic.
I feel like I know what the next strip is about. Something about Richard…
@ Whirlwound:
What? You never seen that adorable video of a bear waving at tourists? Animals can learn and understand surprisingly complex human behaviour.
I was just at the comic book store today, and the owners dog was ill, for much the same reasons. Normally a quiet dog, Star was very whiny and baby-like.
The frying-pan/fire phrase could have two meanings. Sure, the new patient for the veterinarian could be one, but what about Sandra heading home, where she will be encountering her dad, who now knows at least one raccoon in Santra’s life can talk…. Yeah, I know he decided to drink some booze, but Sandra was out all night. If she didn’t reassure him about the emergency over the phone, then that is another reason why Sandra is heading towards fire.
Sandra has some explaining to do.
Will her dad know about Woo and kits being able to talk?
Kinda like Phoebe’s parents know about her unicorn?
Perhaps this arc would be a perfect introduction to Mr. Hayer making more appearances. He’s quite a nice guy!
Looking at the size of the dog in the girls arms it more of a scream of annoyance at likely having to perform surgery on another tiny living being. Dog ate something funny often requires surgery to remove a blockage from the guts.
@ Òlafur Kristinn Hannesson:
Which implies Lily and the others are staying as well. I doubt she would leave an injured kit “alone” in the city.
Also, she probably won’t mistake him for Canopus anymore.
@Whirlwound:
I don’t know what you mean about adults being dim in this comic. I mean it’s not like he wondered about a wild raccoon letting him take a wounded kit into another room without making a huge production of dismantling the door or even trying to bite or scratch him. Seems perfectly normal, right…
Uhmm… And perhaps a grammar check…
The sentence containing “during my opening hours” sounds weird to me. Feels like either “during my working hours” or possibly “during open hours” might work better.
@ Markas:
The stray dogs in Moscow have learned how to use the subway system. There are cats in England that use the bus. Pigeons and sparrows incorporate discarded cigarette butts in their nests to kill off mites. They’re learning, and once they know what we know . . .
@ Fex:
I’m sure she would trust Woo and Sandra enough to take proper care of him, but who knows.
@ Jack:
@ Jack:
But the sign above the mother’s head says open. So I can understand why they would think he’s open.
@ Asrial:
Dependents on the level of “the shield of boringness”
One advantage of having talking raccoons is that they can understand the vet’s advice.
@ Fex:
As someone else pointed out earlier in this arc, he was in the strip “Face hugger”.
@ Francisco:
Although as Florence Ambrose pointed out in Freefall a gentle, soothing voice from your vet isn’t so helpful when you know what he’s saying, like ‘oh my if I don’t get that bleeder she’ll be dead in minutes’.
Fex wrote:
You could be right. The tiny dog in the little girl’s arms looks a bit ‘foxy’ too. Vet for talking wildlife? Or, a new Dr. Dolittle? 🙂
Whirlwound wrote:
People see what they expect to see, in such circumstances. If he noticed it at all, he likely thought it was just mimicry or an amusing coincidence.
The poor guy.
Every time I try to see the comic, I get a form of forced malware….the you may have won a prize sort of thing, with a .page address.
Novil, the ads on the page are autodirecting me off of the website. It took me three tries to load the comments.
Incredible attention to details – we even have the dentist’s ads on the walls from comic strip #11 !! Major props to you guys!