Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon / Comic Strips

• Garfield:
  • In an early strip, Jon does this when he sees Garfield climbing on the drapes.
    Jon: Be careful there, Garfield. Hanging on the drapes can be very painful. 'CAUSE I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR LEGS IF YOU DON'T GET OFF THEM THIS INSTANT!
  • Another classic, Jon says that Garfield can have one bite of the roast chicken. Garfield proceeds to shove his mouth around the entire chicken at once.
    Jon: You swallow and I'll tie a knot in your neck.
  • Garfield has, on multiple occasions, threatened to remove Jon's lips. Once, he apparently made good on his threat.
  • Gafield once threatened to kick Odie into next Tuesday. He did. The Tuesday of the following week, Odie, having been absent for a week drops into the panel.
• Peanuts:
  • An angry Peppermint Patty once threatened Charlie Brown by declaring, "By golly, if I ever hit a deep drive to center field, and I round first base, and I round second base, and I round third base and I go tearing into home like a runaway freight, he'd better not be in my way!"
  • In another strip, Peppermint Patty was arguing with Thibault, a player on her sandlot baseball team:
    Patty: One more word out of you, Thibault, and I'll shred you!!
    Thibault: That's the first time in my life I've ever been threatened with a shredding!
  • In another, Peppermint Patty — again — was practicing figure skating, when some mean hockey players tried to scare her off the ice:
    Hockey Player: You wouldn't want to be hit with a hockey stick, would you, beautiful?
    Patty: How would you like to be force-fed a pair of goalie pads?!
  • Linus and Lucy arguing over him having to memorize and recite a scripture passage for a Christmas pageant:
    Linus: Who was Jeremiah? Where was Rama? Why was Rachel so upset? You can't recite something until you know the "who," the "where," and the "why"!
    Lucy: I'll tell you the "who," the "where," and the "why"! You start memorizing right now, or you'll know who is going to slug you, and you'll know where she's going to slug you, and you'll know why she slugged you!!!
  • A toned-down variant of the Christmas recital scene is used in A Charlie Brown Christmas:
    Linus: I can't memorize something like this so quickly. Why should I be put through such agony? Give me one good reason why I should memorize this.
    Lucy: [curls her fingers up into a fist] I'll give you five good reasons; One, two, three, four, five!
    Linus: Those are good reasons. Christmas is not only getting too commercial, it's getting too dangerous.
  • Lucy, when Linus won't let her watch the TV program that she wants:
    Lucy: See these five fingers? Individually they are nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold!
• In the Mr. Potato Head comic strip, Mr. Potato Head's daughter Julienne once reacted to her little brother Chip's latest prank by threatening to wrap him in tinfoil and take him to the beach.

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