Funny / The Family Circus

• The first strip shows Thelma looking tired talking to somebody at the door who asks, "Any Children?". The floor is covered in toys.
• One strip before the introduction of P.J. has Bil coming home from taking Billy and Dolly to a sports game. Billy happily tells Thel, "And we each had a bottle of soda. Daddy brought his own in his pocket."
• A strip from the 1960s had Dolly answering the phone and saying "Mommy can't come to the phone; she's in the bathtub with the plumber." In the background, Thel is seen standing in the bathtub helping the plumber install a shower-curtain rod with a look of helpless despair on her face.
• One strip has Billy telling a friend that they aren't going to the beach because "Mom went to see Jaws."
• A 1970s strip shows Thel running through the toilet section of a hardware store. "No, Jeffy! It's not connected!"
• From 1981, Dolly waking Thel up by asking, "Did you know you can't toast marshmallows in a toaster?"
  • There was another strip earlier wherein Thel is looking into a smoking toaster while Dolly is saying how she didn't know she wasn't supposed to put peanut butter on the toast before toasting it.
• From 1982, Billy has swimming flippers on and ponders to Dolly, "I can see why frogs don't dance much."
• The 2012 Halloween strip with an accurate shout out to, of all things, Warhammer 40,000
• June 18, 2014: Billy stands at the door in a baseball uniform and holding a bat. He says, "If anyone needs me, I'll be outside working on my bat flip and home run trot."

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