I’m sure marijuana will eventually be legal everywhere, at which point someone will stumble across this strip and go, “Huh?” There’s probably plenty of people doing that now.
“Plonk” is apparently Australian slang for booze. I like this character, and he shows up a couple more times, but then I wasn’t sure what to do with him.
I like the cartoon in a vacuum, but in the larger sense there’s never been any hint of crime in the Tuttle’s world. We’ll just pretend this never happened, okay? Maybe the patient should have been the little bird, since we don’t know where he works.