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Ordering a pizza Tuesday, November 6, 2001 • read strip Viewing 34 comments:

ninja turtles could do it.

But then you'd just have an empty pizza box.

It's hard being a stuffed animal these days.

Smelling salts are on the counter next to the radio.

help yourself.

i'm glad these weird "sentient stuffed animals have a hard time of things in the human world" have kind of fallen by the wayside.

I like this strip, but on the whole, I got to agree with you.

Hypothesis: They met Ray and the other cats and discovered the Underground (run by cats of course). Thereafter there was no reason for them to have a hard time of things.

Well, I doubt Onstad really planned it out that way, but I'd say that's a very effective rationalization.

I second fuckyoufriday's sentiment verbatim.

Third'd. A good way to think about it.

Fourth'd. Or, for you math geeks, tetra'd


Quinto'd?

SEXED.

You win the No-Prize!

I have a second hypothesis. Maybe this was all before Ray became extremely rich. After all of his money came and the piano deal made him the multi-platinum artist, he just used surrogates for all of his affairs with the human world. And the internet. Ebay became their best friend.

I dunno, Ray still pits deliverymen against each other in grisly porch-side battle royale every once in a while....

strip reminds me of calvin and hobbes for some reason

they do order pizza when home alone, and try to rent videos.

ordering was always like this before that shoe taught them the proper way to do it

what shoe?

This shoe.

Chubbied for pertinent linkage.

Is it weird that I'm proud of the fact that i knew which shoe without the link, and also what his brother's name was?

The "Home Alone" approach.

If Lyle had a copy of "Angels With Filthy Souls"(as he should) this strip would have a happy ending.

Lyle is too upset to even scowl.

where did they get that tiny phonebook?

Peppers?

I had at the very least Lyle pegged as a black olive man. Clearly the inconsistencies in these early strips is too vast.

This is similar to the way rachel ray's husband has to get pizza delivered.

isnt this style of pizza called dark pizza ?

If you promise them something like a five dollar tip you can get some Pizza Hut employees to do this.
I speak from experience.

the pizza delivery people i know would be too stoned to care that they're hanging out with live stuffed animals.

I am pretty sure a pizza delivery boy would have no qualms about doing this.

The delivery boy wouldn't care, but maybe his manager took the call and is being a jerk?