FoxTrot by Bill Amend for March 27, 2022

Is it baseball season already??

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of play ball!

… and there will be no high fives for you.

I think this is what TV Tropes calls medium awareness.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MediumAwareness

Today’s classic Sunday strip we’re missing:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/03/25

Another sport that Peter is no good at.

And the sound we just heard was a fourth wall shattering.

I used to watch sports, then money spoiled each and every one of them.

How about 1 finger and 1 knuckle?

Ok, I just lost a lot of my morning looking back at old strips- never noticed the hands! Then I scrolled thru my other faves! Hands must be hard, they are all weird. Calvin has 3 fingers and a thumb too lol! Who knew?

Don’t forget to watch the movie “It Happens Every Spring.” Starring Ray Milland. And a young Skipper from Gilligan’s Island, Alan Hale jr.

The fourth wall breaketh.

Amend hasn’t done anything like this strip where he breaks the fourth wall in a quite a while.

chortle

Breaking the fourth wall.

I expected the punchline to be that Peter can’t actually throw those pitches, but I like this a little better.

XD

so he gives you the finger for a fastball

Bill broke the 5th wall here…

Ohhhhkayyyy???? 6/10

Not bad, but I like this classic from Peanuts even better: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2018/07/23

…

Playing baseball, gee that’s bettah,

Mudder Fadder, please ignore this lettah

very meta…I like it!

Ah, self-referential humour. Gets me every time.

Schroeder once listed up to 17 fingers for signals, and Charlie Brown didn’t call him on it. Then Schroeder changed his mind and said, “Throw anything you want!”

Is that what the fingers are for?

Breaking the fourth wall…

How has nobody said, “breaking (the fourth wall) ball”?!

So they only have 4 fingers? Like most cartoon characters.

I love it when cartoons make fun of their only having four fingers. They do that a lot in the Simpsons.

Seems to be some confusion between our universe and theirs regarding human anatomy and toon anatomy.

Fourth wall — broken.

Thumb to check a base steal.

Those walls are fine, but this fourth one—it’s broken.

Playing with the fourth wall, are we?

Does anybody play travel I doPoll whats you’re favorite baseball teammine the mets!

sighs

That doesn’t mean you can’t be a knucklehead.

4th wall- boom

I cant even do any of these but fast and curve