Category Archives: Caption Challenges

We got some great submissions for the centennial edition of the Caption Contest, so a hearty THANK YOU to everyone who entered! I got some good laughs out of them, starting the week out on a perfect note.

With great pleasure, therefore, I present your Finalists, the ones I thought were the funniest or cleverest:

• Joel: “Oh wait, it’s not? Sorry, could someone please tell me how I can get to Tokyo, sorry.”
• nakiato: This is the last time i travel though Arizona without my birth certificate !
• ajw: Extinct my ass!
• Mr.Chris: “Seriously. I just ate a blowpop, what color is my tongue?”
• HairWhip: “I’m the Hunchback of NotreDIE!!!!!!!!!!”
• Ian Thomas Healy: “I asked my doctor about Celebrex, and look at me now!”
• X-stacy: You can’t shoot me! I’m endangered!
• Malfar: Everybody stand still, I dropped a lens!
• Hunter-Hunted: “I put the ‘DIe’ in ‘DInosaur’!”
• Hunter-Hunted: “Opposable thumbs, Baby! Now how do you like that??”
• Patriot_Missile: Fin! Fang! BOOOOM!!
• Knighthawk: I’m a Tyrannosaurs Rex, I CAN’T put my hands on top of my head!
• frankie: “Vait! Don’t shoot. It’s me, Hitler.”
• JWTx: Say hello to my little arms!

Those are all strong contenders, but like Highlander there can be only one. And so without chopping off anyone's head with a samurai sword, I hereby choose as your overall winner ... Knighthawk!

As the centennial winner, Knighthawk will receive a custom black and white character sketch of one of their creations. Congratulations!

The last double-digit Caption Contest was a tough one, I grant you:

I wanted to pick entries that were funny (obviously!), but that also a) accounted for the truly bizarre elements in the panel and b) fit the dialog balloons. With those criteria in mind, I am proud to present the entries that I thought were The Best:

Joshua:

Man: It figures! Only I would bring a pig to a gunfight!
Woman: Ham-fisted idiot!

Gargoyle323:

Man:”Another crime solved by detectives Pork and Beans!”
Woman:”Rats!”

dblade:

Man: Sweetie, I’m not one to tell you how to do your job but there might be a more efficient method of butchering.
Woman: Now who's the trained chef here? LAUNCH!

Steve M.:

Man: “Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does…”
Woman: “NOT THAT SONG AGAIN!!!”

Blue Blazer:

Man: You can’t spell “slaughterhouse” without “laughter”!
Woman: What does that even mean?

Sutter_Kaine:

Man: Why, you were hiding under the pig the whole time!
Woman: It was the one place I thought you’d never look.

Dan:

Man : “I thought you said you wanted me to throw around the old pigskin?”
Woman : I mean a football you idiot!”

Kountkill:

Man: “There’s got to be a easier way to tenderize meat.”
Woman: “Just keep swinging”

I also liked abominal401's "This little piggy went SMASH!" but he didn't provide any dialog for the woman's balloon. Even an exclamation point (as suggested by another reader) would have nailed it, but alas.

Regardless, the one that I thought did the best job of captioning off this truly random panel was by ... Gargoyle323!

I would totally want to watch a TV series about detectives Pork & Beans. It's gotta be better than at least half of the current crop of cop shows.

Congratulations to all our Finalists and especially to Gargoyle323, who I'm happy to see back after a long illness. Let me know what you'd like as your prize!

Many thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 98! There were a ton of really funny entries this week, as you can see from the large number of Finalists. Maybe it was how silly the panel was:

Without further ado, here are the aforementioned Finalists!

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Caption Contest 97 was probably the toughest one yet in terms of how hard it was to come up with an appropriate caption. The addition of the pre-set dialog ups the sphincter factor by at least two. Still, a number of folks came up with some high-quality entries:

1. Rendu: “I’m sorry, darling- there’s no wite-out left for YOUR speech balloon.”
2. Blue Blazer: I hate redundant questions. Even in the office.
3. Sutter_Kaine: Please stop saying “Even in the office?”.
4. Hairwhip: I dont know why, but everytime you say “Even in the office?” I want to kiss you even more.
5. frankie: “I think we need to end our inter-office relationship.”
6. Myro: “You know what I’m tired of? ‘That’s what she said’ jokes.”

Proving I'm an idiot, I never even thought about the TV show, yet in retrospect that was obviously the way to go. Which is why, despite still not having claimed a prize for his Caption Contest 94 win (ahem!), the prize this time goes once again to ... Patrick!

Well done, Patrick! Let me know in comments or via email what you'd like as a prize for this contest and your other outstanding prize and I'll get 'em on the list.