Beetle Bailey, NSFW
June 22, 2010 10:59 AM   Subscribe

 
Swedish, not Finnish. Just FYI
posted by pyrex at 11:12 AM on June 22, 2010 [2 favorites]


What. The. Hell.
posted by valkyryn at 11:16 AM on June 22, 2010


These are really real??

The cunnilingus strip is great.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 11:19 AM on June 22, 2010 [1 favorite]


Ha ha. I love the "CENSUR" stamped on each one, over and over again, as if we haven't gotten the concept yet.

Whenever I read one I heard one of those deep-voiced "extreme" TV announcers going "Cen-SORRRED!!" in my head.
posted by drjimmy11 at 11:20 AM on June 22, 2010 [1 favorite]


Mort Walker was one of the jolliest old-school guys I ever met and I have absolutely no difficulty imagining him doing these and getting huge belly laughs from them. These were probably sent as jokes to his editor at the syndicate. They definitely were never meant for publication.

Just about every cartoonist does this kind of stuff to his/her characters to break the monotony. Or, at least his studio artists do ;)
posted by Thorzdad at 11:30 AM on June 22, 2010 [2 favorites]


Wow. I never knew why I liked Beetle Bailey and now I have a reason.

Hi and Lois is still a, "no," though.
posted by cmoj at 11:31 AM on June 22, 2010


Finally!
posted by GuyZero at 11:35 AM on June 22, 2010


So basically Mort Walker also drew comics for Playboy?
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:36 AM on June 22, 2010


Lois of Hi and Lois is Beetle Bailey's sister?!! Who knew?
posted by octothorpe at 11:40 AM on June 22, 2010


This reminds me of XKCD.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 11:41 AM on June 22, 2010


Norwegian editions of US cartoons quite often contain censored material from overseas. Sometimes just sketches, like the ones linked. And since Bud Grace's Piranha Club is more popular in Scandinavia than at home, he sometimes does special strips that wouldn't pass a US censor.
posted by Harald74 at 12:18 PM on June 22, 2010


Hi and Lois's son Chip actually looks a lot like Beetle Bailey.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:18 PM on June 22, 2010


Still not as shocking as Family Circus Presents: The Aristocrats.
"Not Me" is frickin' disgusting.
posted by PlusDistance at 12:30 PM on June 22, 2010 [3 favorites]


There's an out-of-print book called Sexism in Beetle Bailey which includes some rejected strips and some entertaining letters-to-the-editor about Miss Buxley. These are much more explicitly outrageous.
posted by artlung at 12:30 PM on June 22, 2010


Still not as shocking as Family Circus Presents: The Aristocrats.

I would love to see a single panel Family Circus strip that showed the aftermath of the act with the feces and fluid stained Billy in a "ta-da!" position in the foreground (the rest of the family in various horrid states in the background) with the caption "The Aristocrats" at the bottom. Help me out, Internet.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:10 PM on June 22, 2010 [3 favorites]


Oh man, I laughed out loud at the last one.

(I am so, so very immature.)
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:18 PM on June 22, 2010


I wish they'd printed an ISBN or something similar to make it easier to track this down... I must have it
posted by jtron at 1:26 PM on June 22, 2010


I wish they'd printed an ISBN or something similar to make it easier to track this down... I must have it

This looks like it.
posted by Combustible Edison Lighthouse at 1:43 PM on June 22, 2010 [2 favorites]


Dik Browne was also legendary for his dirty jokes. I don't know if it's still in print, but Mort Walker wrote a great book called Backstage At The Strips that has all sorts of ribald stories. And some funny non-ribald ones about Charles Schulz.
posted by ShawnStruck at 4:14 PM on June 22, 2010


Man, breakfast every morning from first grade until high-school graduation would have been so much more entertaining if these had been run...
posted by coppermoss at 4:50 PM on June 22, 2010 [1 favorite]


There's nothing more old-school than General Halftrack doing the tongue hanging out agog face. Comedy gold!
posted by gjc at 9:44 PM on June 22, 2010


Okay, glad I read here to get the sense that it was probably real, because I thought this was the most wonderfully dry thing I'd ever seen online. Ah well, another day.
posted by stevil at 10:06 PM on June 22, 2010


Man, Mort was a dirty old man.
posted by hiddenknives at 10:41 PM on June 22, 2010


Dik Browne was also legendary for his dirty jokes.

Dik Browne. DIK BROWNE. Another great name, lost to gay porn forever.
posted by jtron at 1:14 PM on June 23, 2010


Backstage At The Strips is still in print.
posted by warbaby at 2:32 PM on July 17, 2010


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