New Yorker Anti Caption Contest # 437

WINNERS

FIRST PLACE

We're going to need a bigger cat.--boneguy (JUDGE'S COMMENT: This is just eerie. The cartoon that follows this has a huge cat leering into a window. Clearly boneguy had no way of knowing that when he posted this entry. The Jaws reference is a little lame but not unimaginative. It's just impressive that boneguy conjured up a bigger cat.)

SECOND PLACE

"Let's feed 'em those two guys in that fish bowl."--Tim H (JUDGE'S COMMENT: A statement on the human condition. Some people have two fish tanks: One for the fish they like and another for smaller fish that get fed the ones they like. I always found that creepy.)

THIRD PLACE

"Keep smiling and don't break eye contact." 
[Woman slowly backs into house and shuts door. Sound of ruffling feathers and screaming.]--reid savid (JUDGE'S COMMENT: The narrative description in brackets sells this one. It demonstrates sophistication and effort. Important qualities that are not inter-changeable.)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

"Oh, honey, art's imitating life; a Nuthatch and a Red-cockaded Woodpecker have found their way into your asshole again."--Anonymous (JUDGE'S COMMENT: A somewhat baffling reach-back, this is the Second Place winner for a Radosh-judged contest posted on May 10, 2010. I found all that out because I was compelled to Google: “Nuthatch and a Red-cockaded Woodpecke.” The question then, as now: How is that funny?)

"The devourers around here are avian."--Kathy H (JUDGE'S COMMENT: A bit of a reach, but Kathy comes through with a caption classic. Uses two words we almost never hear. )

"Godfather, Schmodfather! Remind me to call alinla and tell him that Abe Vigoda also starred in the sitcom Fish."--Anonymouse (JUDGE'S COMMENT: I'm proud of the fact that I didn't know that. I believe an artist should be most closely associated with his best work, which, incidentally, is why I do not use my full name here. I though about including my actual phone number to see if anyone would actually call me, but then I thought, What if someone actually did? )