Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for March 06, 2021

You are going to have to fight me for it.

If it was key lime pie I’d get the joke.

What makes anyone think that aliens’ taste buds would enjoy it?

Strawberry/rhubarb is a mighty fine pie. But Verne is only saying that cause he knows he won’t ever have to.

Also note that RJ said “behind” and not “beside.”

Those movies also assume that we can somehow beat the aliens (or in case of Independence Day 2 it assumed the audience consist of idiots). But I am with Ka D’Argo on this one, if we ever have an alien invasion we’re toast.

Do we have a galactic standard week to respond?

‘Starman’ loved dutch apple pie.

ROFL, so Verne will be guarding RJ and SRP!

Earth is totally worth invading. The aliens would get our pristine drinking water, our huge acreage of arable land, forests filling the air with oxygen,… oh wait the way we treat our planet makes perfect sense to me now. We are destroying our environment to discourage alien invasion.

What if the aliens were allergic to strawberries?

Why do they even keep coming to Earth? It’s pretty boring and unevolved here.

https://youtu.be/Hodg5It3usE

What would happen if we strapped a strawberry rhubarb pie to every politician the next time the alie s attack?

Lookit th’ tail fins on dat slice!

I have rhubarb in my yard. They grow strawberries up the road. On the rare occasion they get together, it’s heaven. Key lime is great, too, but it’s a different kind of pie.

God, I haven’t had a good piece of Strawberry Rhubarb Pie in AGES…

Why would aliens bother to invade us? Oxygen is a dangerous oxydent and our scientists haven’t yet found a single planet with oxygen in the atmosphere (as a reminder ours was CO2 before bacteria fed on it and excreted oxygen). You have water in space, all you have to do is grab an ice asteroid instead of trying to settle on a planet that is trying to kill you. With a different biology everything on Earth is potentially a poison (war of the worlds had this one right for once). And if you have the technology to terraform (or is it alienform) a whole planet why not do it in your own system.

“And I’ll be standing right behind you”. Gee, RJ, you really are such a fair weather friend, aren’t you?

They just want our vowels.

Planets capable of supporting complex life may be incredibly rare. The Earth may only be capable of it because of the very small percentage impact that resulted in our relatively large moon, which helps keep the planet’s core molten and capable of generating a magnetic field. It also helps to create the plate tectonics that have a large effect on regulating the amount of mix of chemicals in the atmosphere. Other similar planets likely exist, but only because it is a very big universe, there may be an insurmountable distance to the next one.

I don’t think aliens would have to fight us. We have people perfectly willing to sell them absolutely anything.

Sounds great. Just leave out the rhubarb.

Score one for R.J.

Wait, he is not using the twinki as the ultimate thing they would want if they came here?His he and what has he done with RJ?

Don’t like strawberries! Detest Rhubarb!! The aliens can have it!!!

You know? I read Get Fuzzy this morning and ended up with a craving for pancakes which I had to make for breakfast, then I read Pearls and want a giant cheeseburger for lunch, now …

Haven’t had that since my great aunt Vera passed away. But note, it’s something I will always remember about her.

Rhubarb Custard Pie is better. :)

I didn’t know rhubarb was a real thing…I mean, has anyone actually SEEN a rhubarb?