Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 02, 2020

Good morning™, residents of the doghouse!

The jig is up for B.O. We’ll finally get to hear exactly what he tried to hide from Gertie.

Wasn’t B.O. involved with Breathless before he married? No doubt he suspects his involvement is chronicled in the movie…

Much as Bob Oscar was one of my favorite characters from the Gould era, somehow, this is all adding up to a moldy adventure.

Good morning™, hot mamas ! (not in a good way)

I see a whipped puppy with its tail between its legs.

And so it begins.

ZZZZZzzzzz,,,

She told him the full name, he’s in trouble!

Troubles for B.O. !

Oh-oh…GG’s on the warpath!

You know we all saw this coming.

O.K. I did not know his real name was Bob Oscar! I always knew him as B.O.!

All is not well at Sunny Dell Acres!

Oh my!!! I thought his name was Bad Oder!!! LOL!!!

BO’s BUSTED!!!

Meanwhile back in Dogpatch.

So, that’s what B.O. means…

Well, something brown and stinky is gonna hit the fan now.

Bob Oscar? How long has that been his name?

OOPS! The fecal material has just hit the rotary air impellers.

Whoo! Gosh! BO better start talkin’ fast. I ain’t seen Gravel Gertie this riled up since she nearly chopped off Measles’ arm and dump hot coals on him.

1-BROOMHILDA PLENTY: DARLING!

2-…why aren’t you at the casting call for that new movie they’re shooting?

PAPPY: Car won’t start.

BROOMHILDA (unable to resist the obvious set-up): TAKE MY BROOM!

PAPPY: Caint. BROOMHILDA: Huh? Uh, why not?

PAPPY: I lost it in a match race against a Hoover vacuum last night.

BROOMHILDA: Well that sucked.

PAPPY: Yeah, he really dusted me. *BROOMHILDA: Shaddap!

I always thought his name was Bad Odor.

For historical perspective, the B.O. Plenty character created in the 40s, was an outgrowth of a Lifebuoy soap series of ads which used the term “BO” to refer to body odor, which the soap purported to rectify. Gould, always aware of pop culture in the early days, create the character, a semi-ne’er do well originally, who became a beloved feature as time went by.

“And take that salsa bowl off your head!”

Looks like BO actually did some work and painted the house. It’s usually depicted as pink.

If she hung around B.O., no wonder she was Breathless.

This is old married couple? They have very, very, bad eyesight, non?

Bob Oscar Plenty : you know he’s in deep s#it now.

Uh-oh. The stuff has hit the fan! B.O. had better come up with a good explanation!

Whereforst art then, comely and delectable Edison?