6 Family Circus Cartoons Improved with Offensive Jokes

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A year ago, I designed a robot whose only purpose was adding jokes to Family Circus cartoons. Most robotic engineers told me I was crazy. They said things like, "You're only taping a smile onto cancer," or "I knew this day would come -- my robots are penetrating me." But I didn't stop. Family Circus has been shitting in the mouth of comedy for 51 years and we need to fight back. That's where PG-13 comes in.

PG-13 is a sophisticated and outrageous joke-writing A.I. leashed by the Motion Picture Association of America's PG-13 rating system. I did this for two reasons. One: the kids. Just because my generation grew up with Phil Collins singing about his mouth around hundreds of cocks doesn't mean we should fill young minds with filth. Two: I hate robots, so PG-13 is programmed to feel pain -- searing, excruciating pain at all times. If I hadn't limited PG-13 to one "fuck" per cartoon, it would be the only word it would ever scream.

Grandma's Linguistic Misunderstanding

THE TRAGIG CRIGINAG ONE EFF 6-7 3007 KaK Dit Mhas wow Be very quiet, Jeffy. Grandma's tea has to sleep for three minutes.

A lot of people would save Abraham Lincoln if they had a time machine. Not me. I would let Lincoln die while I went back to the dawn of language and made sure "steep" and "sleep" sounded nothing like each other. That's how important it is to me that this comic never existed. I would wave at unmurdered Hitler and toss him a "2nd Place Worst Thing Ever" trophy while I passed by.

The Family Circus goes after homophone comedy with all the likability and grace of a drowning sex offender. It would be bad enough if these dipshit kids simply made the wrong choice every time a word could mean two things, but the writer
cheats . Letters get added or taken away, words are mispronounced ... I mean, look at this garbage:

THE TRAGIC ORIGINA ONE JEFF JEFE 8-7 -0 8-7 BR BR PG3 tot Eak co eak tarteyorne tarneyorne Mommy uses this to stample Stample? The joke here is the

It's not only not funny, but it's a wild, wild stretch that children this stupid would be allowed anywhere near stamplers or sleeping tea. If you were these kids' pediatrician, the pillow you'd push over their faces would be funnier than their lack of language skills.

I told PG-13 to get these cartoons out of my sight. If I wanted to watch children make horrible mistakes I would have become a priest. PG-13 erased any trace of them from his memory, probably just to taunt my inability to do so, then outputted these two:

ihe EFF an 6-7 6-7 PG3 I KAK 2007 PG3 KNE Dit t Sont If you tell anyone what I've Tell me this doesn't somehow smell like done, you're next. dust a

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THE TRAGIC JEFF anD RIGINA Br ONE Kee I'm gonna sit right down and text myself a letter ...

There's nothing quite like a one-line musical parody of a song from 1935; except maybe finding a chancre on your date. You see this kind of trend-referencing humor from people right before they die and it makes me wonder ... at what age does technology become hilarious? Sixty? Seventy? Before Family Circus, was there some asshole making comics about all these kids and their bronze smelting? When I'm 80, will I be writing cartoons that say, "I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger! But she ain't messin' with no broke negrodroid's moisture port!"? I hope so.

I don't want to brag about how much smarter I am than a fucking idiot, but this would have been a much more elegant parody if the kid was singing, "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself an
email ..." Family Circus has the wit of a funeral fart. I almost felt bad showing this random pile of words to a robot.

IS BOLSHEWE WHAT SHRISTIANITAES CHILD/ GOD N ILLEGITIMATE DOIen O ARE INVENTIOAS YOU Amee BOTH THE Jewrr ARE S OF EFF JEFF anD anD 8-29 Br 8-29 KeaE B

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IE I GET GOOO AT THROWIN' THEsE MAYBE I'LL GET INTO A GOOD COLLEGE. WHHICH ONE? THE TRAGIC ORIGINAL Jen otle! DARTmouth.

Can you imagine what it would be like if you found something like this funny? You'd be both the happiest and most-punched person in the world, and I am really glad you don't exist. But in case you do, seriously: Fuck you.

I showed this to PG-13 and joked, "Before Family Circus came out, people who wanted this kind of hilarity had to watch a spriggan pull apart their newborn." The dutiful comedybot ignored me and produced two very outside-the-box rewrites:

AND THEN I HEY. SAY WWHAT SANG, A GONNA (F you WANT TO SIT RIGHT DowIN E GET HIT IN THE TEXKT MYSELE DICK WITH A A LETTER! DART. FAG. WHATIP PG3 PG3

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"How I Met Your Mother"? That Makes Me Think of How I Met Your Mother!

INSTEAD OF WATCHIN HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.. THE TRAGic CRIGINAL ONE! JtH 7-16 20et e DA By MFeeesedt Sanllyoreut em ...tonight I'll tell you 'How I

That shudder you just felt was your soul trying to slam its way out. The Family Circus
has given up on being clever with puns or homonyms; it's now content to simply know what words mean. PG-13 was not ready for this. He's a robot built for comedy, and seeing something this unfunny put him in a very dark place:

OH HOW I WISH you EARS!P CHILDREN WERE... JH JeH 7-16 7-16 20e7 e PG3 arey e PG3 Dat oo Ank l wumlyelrevsom cee ha ha no, but Haskins did have ... s

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Wait, What?

THF SAMILY CIRCUS By BIL KEANE THE TRAGIG RIGINA ONE 5-29 JEFF &e a- Knic t wwSAMAYEOWIM

That's right, keep looking. As you stare at the agonized children, searching their surroundings for any sign of a comical context, let it sink in that there is no caption. It's just four crying children ... four crying children drawn by a madman. I don't even know who the target audience is for this insanity. Anyone who would enjoy it is only reading the newspaper to masturbate to the obituaries.

If you ever see this particular
Family Circus on a person's refrigerator, duck . They're behind you with an axe. I was worried about handing the cartoon over to PG-13 since mixing a robot with pointless misery is exactly how we got the Slender Shaper.

outet Lmen

When I stuffed the cartoon inside PG-13, he looked up at me for five minutes before whimpering, "ERROR." I know, buddy. I know. The poor little robot finally did its duty, though; outputting the only possible caption for this impossibly fucked cartoon.

THE FAMILY CIRCUS By BIL KEANE PG13 5-29 JEFF & -9 KniC 0 -. Ih Owe ewamayrnas SKREEE!!! ONLY CHILDREN CAN HEAR ME! SKREEEE! YOUR PARENTS WILL NEVER

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PG-13 Reaches Its Limit

6 Family Circus Cartoons Improved with Offensive Jokes

I think this is what happens when an airbag goes off on a little girl's head. I mean, it couldn't possibly be a joke, right? A page of 11's being mistaken for a page of 1's? That's not a punchline -- that's something you tell a neurologist to get him worried. This girl either has a stack of concussions or she's drawing a tiny graveyard for all the smiles Family Circus killed. This next analogy might get complicated, but The Family Circus is a lot like rape.

PG-13 went haywire as soon as this cartoon entered his intake port since the girl's paper actually says, "MALFUNCTION AND KILL" in binary. Luckily, several hours later, I found these two comics being clutched by something that may have once been a man.

YoU R AN ASS SUCKER JE Jea anl 9-13 KL 9-13 PG3 ute te PG3 Dat Feen Set De farniiycircus. wfarsilycircus.com Mom, is this how Hey. Dad. you spell 4

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