The convention season is at its peak with things happening in Seattleforthis, Austintatious, Chicagocrazy and EastPAXovia, and PvP’s Scott “Don’t Hurtz Me” Kurtz did some filler material with his LOLBAT character, rather controversial among hard-core PvPHeads, but what I consider one of the better corners of his little Universe. And the one full strip he did with LOLBAT was one that was filled with one of my guilty pleasures… themed puns. (Recreated below at reduced size for a reason)

I realized quickly that the area of food-themed puns had barely been touched on in this strip, and you COULD swap out a whole ‘nother set of dialogue bubbles to provide what could pass for another strip. So I did. (Below is Scott’s art with MY puns)

If you need a better view, a full-size version of my version is here and the full-sized original is back at the PvPPlace.

Anyway, I failed miserably at bringing this to Scott’s attention (or he succeeded gloriously at ignoring me), so after an inappropriate cooling off period, I’m posting it over here, because, well, that’s what this blog is at least partly for: showing off the BEST of the Cartoony Arts and contrasting it to my feeble-minded efforts. (The self-effacing part of this post ends here) I am still kinda proud of my “uckers reserves” label and the turducken reference.

One thing I did contrary to Scott’s practice: I just had to put LOLBAT’s dialog into the Impact font, used by so many LOLCATS. I mean, come on…

I recall a Los Angeles disc jockey in the ’60s and ’70s who did a “Story Record” in which he’d tell a long, shaggy-doggish story and the final line would turn out to be a misinterpreted line from a pop song. And my all-time favorite was the one about the slave who secreted away a stash of money and and another slave asked him what he’d do with the money, and, using that same Eric Carmen record, he responded “I’ll buy myself…” And that one had no connection beyond those three words. This one used the whole refrain of the song and was a big, crazy surprise.

That is the kind of viral video meme webthingy I like.

Okay, less animation-related but here the SECOND greatest Misheard Lyric video ever (AND it uses a font I use on this blog):

Think “Spider Pig” in the Simpsons Movie was ridiculous? Well, in a 2004 episode of “Justice League Unlimited”, Wonder Woman was turned into a pig and Batman spent most of the half-hour trying to find her and change her back, while “revealing feelings he has towards Wonder Woman” in the process. Which should be a very minor sidenote in DC canon, right? Apparently manufacturer of DC licensed action figures Mattel decided it was a big deal so they made and sold a “Batman with Wonder Pig!”. By late 2008, when one toy-blogger discovered it, the combo pack was already on clearance at Target for $4.99. Since then, like so many other generally worthless things, it has become a collector’s item (extra irony points for “Amazon Marketplace”).

Now the guy who wrote that TV episode, Paul Dini (who over the last 32 years has written for almost every Batman-inclusive animated series, plus some of the best – Freakazoid – worst – The Gary Coleman Show – most iconic – Fat Albert, Tiny Toons – and greatest near-misses – Duck Dodgers, Clerks the TV Series – animation on TV AND a first season episode of Lost) has just learned of the existence of the Wonder Pig “action figure”. His response (on Twitter in less than 140 characters): “I don’t know if I should feel honored Mattel made this, or ashamed. Oh what the hell, I’ll feel both.”

Yeah, if you open up a paper encyclopedia to the entry “mixed emotions”, that would fit perfectly right there.

Proudly controversial webcomicker Zach Weiner’s “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal” did a comic that the anti-gay “National Organization for Marriage” interpreted as illustrating a ‘technological threat to traditional marriage’, so they put it on their blog (may be down), by ‘hotlinking’ it. So Weiner changed the image on them (totally SFW, although he considered other options).