Sunday, October 2, 2011

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #305


NOTE: Whenever there is something in a cartoon that appears huge I stop and wonder if maybe its really that the other objects are tiny. Like these could be microscopic office workers fleeing a normal size rat.

This also could have been one of those heavy handed propaganda cartoons. The rat could represent anything from poor hygiene to pro-union leanings. With a few touches -- yamaka, slanted eyes, sombrero, etc.--it could be a metaphor for any much-maligned group. Not a great week for Anti-Caps but a handful of nice ones and one that is one of the best ever. (Guess which.)

I just want to encourage people to think beyond the obvious and reach beyond the absolutely awful. Just a suggestion.


WINNERS

 FIRST PLACE
This cartoon should win a Pellet Surprise --Glenn (JUDGE'S COMMENT: Rat poison pellets are often covered with peanut butter so there is an element of surprise. Fits into that huge category of humor that's stupid yet noteworthy. There will one day be a Pulitzer category that addresses this type of thing.)


SECOND PLACE
The guy who drew us literally doesn't give a rat's ass!" --Angus Podgorny (JUDGE'S COMMENT: This is literally true even if the tense is off. Nice one, Ang!)

THIRD PLACE
I'm not sticking around to see if it's just Chris Christie in his Halloween costume.--boneguy (JUDGE'S COMMENT: Yes, he has weigh issues, that's why the N.Y. Daily News calls him "Kris Krispy Kreme. " Not saying I'd ever vote for the guy, but I'll take "fat" over "ruthless," "stupid," or "corrupt.")

HONORABLE MENTIONS
"Oh my God! It's Willard, Scott." --Scott's Coworker (JUDGE'S COMMENT: The comma makes this work and "Willard" is to "rat" what "Fido" is to "dog" so there's that.)

#lab nerds all run liek theyre gay lulz -JeyeantLabRat@Twitter --Damon (JUDGE'S COMMENT: Her friend would hit back: "LOL BTW How'd x-perment go??" )"

 The mousers here split the scene.--Jim Cavanaugh (JUDGE'S COMMENT: A nod to a classic. Cats remind us you can be indifferent yet remain dignified.)

Ratatouille, you crazy bastard, get back in the kitchen!-- holden_c (JUDGE'S COMMENT: Another classic but pretty bland.)

Actually, David, we need Evrolet girl's pussy right now. --Anonymous (JUDGE'S COMMENT: This came in respond to a cap that said: "Why have you abandoned us, Evrolet Girl? We need you now more than ever!" As you can clearly see this is much, much better. "Pussy" can also mean "cat," you know.)

"I told you not to let the number of anti-caps fall below 80. If you don't keep Al occupied, he invariably breaks into the lab and starts fucking with the mice." --Richard H (JUDGE'S COMMENT: First off: "invariably," is a pretentious word, and if you are implying that I --Mr. C-Minus-in-Science-- have the skills to do such a thing, I'm flatered. I do appreciate addition of the word "with." Also 80 is like ideal. If it falls to eight I'll be bummed. But 80 is perfect--judging-wise.)

Now at midnight, all the tourists

And the irony-impaired

Get chased away by giant mice

For thinking someone cared

 Fusilli that crazy bastard

Expects Mister Bond to cry

His guillotine's a clip-on

Where no black people can spy

The Evrolet girl's back in town

For yet another show

Christ what an asshole, we all say

On Anti-Caption Row --Walt (JUDGE'S COMMENT: "Was that some kind of joke?" And they are not "giant mice." It's a rat, Just one. I suggest you get your facts straight before you embarrass yourself like this again.





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77 comments:

  1. AustinOctober 3, 2011 at 5:39 AM

    I told you not to make him angry!

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  2. Mike MarianoOctober 3, 2011 at 8:00 AM

    "I'm so lonely."

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  3. Eric GOctober 3, 2011 at 8:12 AM

    Shit! We're being audited!

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  4. RayOctober 3, 2011 at 9:04 AM

    "I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. And not the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man!"

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  5. Richard HOctober 3, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    "I told you not to let the number of anti-caps fall below 80. If you don't keep Al occupied, he invariably breaks into the lab and starts fucking with the mice."

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  6. boneguyOctober 3, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    I'm not sticking around to see if it's just Chris Christie in his Halloween costume.

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  7. Dr SumguyOctober 3, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    "Run! It's Norma Desmond's pet rat (I am big, It's the pictures that got small)!

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  8. AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    "Rats off to ya!"

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  9. ctaOctober 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM

    Run! It found its way out of the maze!

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  10. ctaOctober 3, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    "You're gonna need a bigger maze!"

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  11. Eric GOctober 3, 2011 at 11:18 AM

    He may be walking here, but we're running!

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  12. Eric GOctober 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    accompanying link to last post...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw

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  13. Lois BrowOctober 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM

    "Fast! Somebody cut the cheese."

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  14. DamonOctober 3, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    "Who's dumbfuck idea was it to let Mr. Gere crawl up there in the first place?"

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  15. NJ-to-TXOctober 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    This cartoon should win a Pellet Surprise

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  16. AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM

    Eek! Ratosh is back!

    Jim Cavanaugh

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  17. Dr SumguyOctober 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM

    "Anybody seen Garfield?"

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  18. DamonOctober 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM

    "Save yourselves! It's too late for the electric shopping cart!"

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  19. badmanOctober 3, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    If we keep him, I'm calling him Mondo Gigio.

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  20. David MacharelliOctober 4, 2011 at 6:13 AM

    "Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist."

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  21. David MacharelliOctober 4, 2011 at 6:18 AM

    "In choosing a stylish but restrictive vest to impress Patricia, Professor Hinkley's fate was sealed the moment the rat broke free."

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  22. PaleoPaulOctober 4, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    Yeah, I know he's pissed off, but that's no mouse--it's Eddie. Did you catch those eyes and teeth?

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  23. SatireguyOctober 4, 2011 at 7:32 AM

    Dr. Strangelove and his team now regret creating an oversized rat with two right front feet.

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  24. Scott's CoworkerOctober 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM

    "Oh my God! It's Willard, Scott."

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  25. UtellmeOctober 4, 2011 at 8:34 AM

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  26. boneguyOctober 4, 2011 at 9:55 AM

    Bad news. The Republicans just cut funding for a cheese flavored missile
    shield.

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  27. Angus PodgornyOctober 4, 2011 at 10:17 AM

    "Help! Vince Wilfork is returning an interception!"

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  28. UtellmeOctober 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    The IRS accountants soon realized they should've set a bigger trap. They needn't have worried:

    Jack Rat could eat no tax,
    his wife could eat no lien.

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  29. UtellmeOctober 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM

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  30. UtellmeOctober 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    Last week's secretarial candidate, denied the position for being 'too mousey', came back for revenge.

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  31. Kathy HOctober 4, 2011 at 1:23 PM

    "Hey, we we're kidding about buying Rat Island! You can have it!"

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  32. DexOctober 4, 2011 at 6:05 PM

    "Try to outrun Betty--she's menstruating."

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  33. Quinn the EskimoOctober 4, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    "At least it's not an elephant in the room."

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  34. AnonymousOctober 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM

    The mousers here split the scene.

    Jim Cavanaugh

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  35. RitanticsOctober 4, 2011 at 8:24 PM

    To the catmobile!

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  36. NAMBYOctober 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    "Remember...huff-puff...you don't have to be the fastest runner... huff-puff, huff-puff...You just have to be the faster runner... huff-puff, huff-puff...

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  37. David MacharelliOctober 5, 2011 at 6:16 AM

    "Why have you abandoned us, Evrolet Girl? We need you now more than ever!"

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  38. Dr SumguyOctober 5, 2011 at 9:29 AM

    "It's a gigantic Trojan Mouse, and he's not wearing a Trojan!---Run!"

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  39. BedevereOctober 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    "Well, now, Launcelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall and then leap out of the mouse... Run away! Run away!"

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  40. Stream O'COctober 5, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    "You, you dirty rat, you killed my brother. Oh mein Gott, Vee need der Rattenfanger und Ich habe ein grosse hund. It's almost like The three blind mice but in reverse. Somebody D-Con that thing. Ouch, quit milking my mouse. Don't lick me with your Mousey Tongue."

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  41. ShellyOctober 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    "Dinsdale..."

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  42. Angus PodgornyOctober 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    "Me and my big mouse!"

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  43. Angus PodgornyOctober 5, 2011 at 6:38 PM

    "But, Shelly, Spiny Norman was a hedgehog!"

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  44. Suzanna L.October 5, 2011 at 6:45 PM

    Young Patterson did his own work in his 3rd grade art (I mean science) class, which scared the shit out of his teacher and the administration.

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  45. ShellyOctober 6, 2011 at 4:44 AM

    "Angus, but that's just how Dinsdale was- he really knew how to treat an hedgehog impersonator."

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  46. boneguyOctober 6, 2011 at 6:44 AM

    Am I mistaken or did it say Imagineer on Perkin 's resume?

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  47. Dr SumguyOctober 6, 2011 at 9:53 AM

    "Your too late Maxi Mouse! Minnie was last seen fucking a tall anthropomorphic dog wearing a turtle neck and vest (Goofy)!"

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  48. Tim HOctober 6, 2011 at 2:06 PM

    "Well, ever since Steve Jobs popularized 'em, mouses have been HUGE!"

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  49. AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    “Well, Watson---prepared or not, I suppose it’s time to tell the world.”

    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_rat)


    ---Matilda Briggs

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  50. AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    “Someone call Richard Gere. He’ll know what to do!”



    ---left coast wayne

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  51. AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    “Damn it, Jim---I’m a scientist, not a big game hunter!”



    ---blw

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  52. Kathy HOctober 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM

    "The irony is that it's Soupy Sales reincarnated!"

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  53. AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    “Damn it, Jim---I’m a sex researcher, not a practitioner of bestiality!”


    ---left coast wayne

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  54. AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 5:40 PM

    [With all due respect to the deep research of "Matilda Briggs," the internet correctly informs that Bob Dylan is actually a giant rat]

    http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Giant_Rat

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  55. AWOctober 6, 2011 at 6:00 PM

    "Ahhh! I hope he doesn't eat my cheese sandwich. Ahhh!"

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  56. AWOctober 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    "I knew this day would come. The mouse finally ate the Big Strawberry."

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  57. LROctober 6, 2011 at 10:42 PM

    "Quick, destroy the test drug- look what it did to his feet!"

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  58. Quinn the EskimoOctober 7, 2011 at 4:21 AM

    "Gentlemen, to the catamaran!"

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  59. AnonymouseOctober 7, 2011 at 6:36 AM

    "Rat, mouse, rodent. In this work-a-day world, does it really matter?"

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  60. boneguyOctober 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM

    I told Andrews that when he get to the cecum to text me.

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  61. boneguyOctober 7, 2011 at 8:55 AM

    I told Andrews that when he gets to the cecum to text me.

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  62. germaneOctober 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM

    "Hold on! We need to gather up all the Propofol before we call this in"

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  63. AnonymousOctober 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM

    "Somebody call Amanda Knox. We need her to stab this thing."

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  64. AnonymousOctober 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM

    "Thank god we haven't yet tested the Cialis on him!"


    ---left coast wayne

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  65. AnonymousOctober 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM

    “If this lasts longer than four hours, should we call our physician???”



    ---blw

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  66. boneguyOctober 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    Any results on the Viagra body lotion study yet?

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  67. Dom EsteverOctober 7, 2011 at 3:34 PM

    "We shouldn't run from this buck-tooth Varmint. We'll be accused of playing the rat-race card."

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  68. NJ-to-TXOctober 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM

    "Die, Fledermaus!"

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  69. Bobby ZOctober 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM

    "Froggie went a courtin' and rode right up to Miss Mousey's door!! Shit!"

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  70. SatireguyOctober 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    No matter how hard he tried, poor Rodney always finished fourth in the annual laboratory fun run.

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  71. Quinn the EskimoOctober 8, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    "I hope he doesn't like fast food."

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  72. Dr SumguyOctober 8, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    Who's the leader of the club That's made for you and me Q-U-I-C-K-I-E-M-O-U-S-E Hey there, Hi there, Whoops!

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  73. AnonymousOctober 9, 2011 at 6:18 AM

    "Nobody knows his name, so they call him Anonyrat."

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  74. KatmanduOctober 9, 2011 at 6:21 AM

    "Quick, get the catatonic!"

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  75. AustinOctober 9, 2011 at 6:15 PM

    Disney scientists realize too late their horrific mistake.

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  76. Quinn the EskimoOctober 9, 2011 at 8:39 PM

    "The Big Cheese isn't going to like this!"

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