Well, that’s a deep cut. Cutting off the end of a game to show a scheduled movie would NEVER happen these days. They’ll even schedule stuff (like local news) that they know will have to be pushed back or cancelled when a game runs long, as they always seem to do.
I vaguely recall at the start of the last round of repeats (which initially had some gaps and only hit high points) there was a plan to start new material again once the strip had caught up to the end. Guess that’s not gonna happen, and the strip really is just over.
Of course he’s in trouble. He’s dating a human little girl! (Sanrio insists HK and the other characters in her world are all humans, merely represented as animals.)
I think this one goes back to Aesop?