Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for May 27, 2023

The artificial intellect has poor Joel at a disadvantage.

I swear, Joel is so stupid he makes Joey Tribbiani look like Reed Richards.

My area-code is 610 which I pronounce as six-ten. Humans have no problem with that, but voice-response systems don’t seem to be able to handle it since they don’t have a ten key.

Becky’s the smart one!

There are stratospheric levels of ignorance to which Joel is transcendent.

That is the reason we say “Nine One One”, and not “Nine Eleven”. When the service was first available, and promoted as “Nine Eleven”, some people needing the service, in a panic, actually looked for the “Eleven” key.

If Rufus isn’t breathing he’ll be long dead before this idiot gets him any help.

Yet again, GA makes the “Comics Curmudgeon” blog. Way to go, Jimbo!

“Meanwhile, in Gasoline Alley everything is not going great. Rufus is having a medical emergency, probably because of that head injury! He needs an ambulance, but — get this — Joel doesn’t know how to operate a telephone. This might cause us concern, if we cared about these people, which we definitely do not.”

Sadly despite the promise of someone finally dying in this strip they won’t.