Garfield by Jim Davis for October 20, 2023

I think Weird Al practices in private.

Ah, the accordian. America’s bagpipe (so to speak).

On Tictok was a Bagpipe player. He learned it in school and he played awful

Or a waving juggler

Strolling accordion players are usually removed with stage hooks!

Mamma’s got a squeeze box

Hopefully they are also Mimes

Don’t get any ideas, Jon…

It’s good they stay in place so you can avoid them.

Saturday right as the eclipse was at totality we suddenly heard very loud crashing cymbals and out of seemingly nowhere a complete marching band appeared and proceeded to march the entire length of our street as they very loudly played (seemed very loud on a quiet Saturday morning on our residential street!) It was the band from our local high school (according to their uniforms) but we never have found out WHY they were marching down our street in the middle of an eclipse!

I don’t get the joke, gone over my head.

I’ve seen a couple… Never seen a strolling piano player.

Jon’s constant preference for irrelevancy is impressive. Even Liz is impressed.

The only accordion music I’ve cared for was when Lawrence Welk played it on his show. As an instrument in a Zydeco band, the accordion is good, but it’s rare, in my opinion, that it is a good stand alone instrument.

You really don’t, like mimes.

Accordion, the portable piano.

Does anyone, besides Weird Al, play the accordion anymore? If so, why?

I never see those in public

This strip really likes to make fun of accordions and portray them as being awful.

> “Most of them are running.”

Because they stole the kishka.

I haven’t seen one since the ’70s at a family Italian restaurant in KCMO. I thought they had gone extinct since.

jon is a total dork but hes adorable for itadorkable might you say

Jon does have a point. Too bad Oktoberfest Zinzinnati only comes once a year… :.(

Look at the Spaghetti scene from “Lady and the Tramp.”

I think that the players are trying to out run a mob of accordion-haters while playing their swan song.

Strolling fujara players are even scarcer, at least outside the White Carpathians and Tatras.

Come on, Jon. Strolling accordion players? Why, we don’t see accordion players, much less strolling ones. Shoot. There could be some folks that don’t even know what an accordion is. The last time I saw an accordion being played was during an old rerun of the Lawrence Welk Show on an ETV station. Although, truth to tell, I do know of a fellow clarinetist that plays the accordion in a German band, but I’ve never seen him play it. Yes, sir, there, a strolling accordion player would be rare.

Polka bands are nothing without their accordion players.

Uh oh, Liz seems genuinely interested in accordions, Jon has finally inducted her into Jon’s Club lol

Evidently Jon has never encountered a strolling Mariachi band.

Except for Weird Al, and he’s neither strolling nor running, but dancing.

Mama’s got a squeeze box, daddy never sleeps at night

Pursued by rabid Laurence Welk fans and other critics.

Running so they don’t get pelted…

And here I thought Jim Davis and Company had made a truce with polka community.

Running LOL