Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for June 13, 2024

Way to Zoe

Leave it to Hammie to make a bubble jet system in the pool.

Naw. Kids think it’s hilarious when someone farts in the pool.

Wren looks like she needs a lifeguard

Let’s hope it’s just bubbles.

Oh Hammie you’re gross. So glad I never had a brother.

A pool and his money are soon farted…… again!

Hammie thinks this new pool is a gas!

At least he didn’t “pee” in the pool!

If the water was warm enough, Hammie’d turn it into a hot tub!!

Good job, Porkie… er, Baconie.. no wait… Hammie! Got it. I think….

Thumbs up for Hammie swimming with his little sister. And thumbs up for her desperate grip on the floatie and wide eyed expression.

What? No one has mentioned “Where are the adults, kids shoud not bath alone, especially not have a kid watching another!!!”

Remembering last year for similar strip when several commenters could not understand that they were outside of the panel… Happy that they have finally understood!

The grandparents will have to add some pool shock to the water later.

Ah, such is the life of a Movie Star, dealing with the Hoi Pew-loi…

Zoe, shut up and laugh,

Quick someone teach Hammine about floating a snickers bar in the pool.

That’s what the chlorine is for.

There really should be an adult right there with them.

Hammie has an inboard jet propulsion system and he’s just fired it up.

Cement ponds and movie stars….

Farting in a pool is one of life’s simpler pleasures.

Don’t worry Hammie, chlorine is an disinfectant your sisters are safe.

Making bubbles is fun, tee hee!

Zoe has a panicky Lawrence Welk moment (Dr. Demento style):

" Turn off-a da’ Bubbles !! " … :)

Zoe’s not even in the water why be worried by the bubbles?

My question is “What do they feed Hammie that he is in such a perpetual state of flatulence?” No one else in the family seems to be afflicted with that?

Oh Hammie, I have no words.

Hammie is that necessary?

Better bubbles than the alternative.

Tiny bubbles…

A cheap, low-brow fart gag? Have to do better.

We’ve come a long way. Way back when Gary Larson was drawing Far Side cartoons, he drew one showing large bubbles rising up from a whale in the ocean and another whale saying “Kevin! Was that you?” – and it was pulled because anything remotely scatalogical was considered inappropriate for a comics page. And then one day there was a scheduling mix-up, causing it to be published as a last resort, and it turned out it didn’t generate any controversy after all.

Because, you know, everyone loves a fart joke.