I think I thought of this pun as a kid, probably while watching Gunsmoke, but just never thought of how to use it as a cartoon. Aren’t you glad I finally figured it out?!?!
Some people are probably wondering about this strip as the characters don’t appear to wear clothes. I think what we see are their clothes and they probably look completely different underneath.
There’s a joke in here but maybe I’m the only person who cared about it: Tuttle is always writing these novels and screenplays with punnish, derivative titles that–as far as we know–fail like all of my novels. Phydeaux’s stupid scatological game caught on, though.
I’m surprised the SJWs haven’t gotten the potato people to change this name. You know, the kind of numbskulls who think the word “niggardly” is racist.
