This was just a silly idea I couldn’t resist. So I whipped up the image–combining some Last Kiss art with some clipart for the bunny as well as the background.
No, IHOP didn’t pay me (not even in pancakes) to do this. And Bunnies for Happiness isn’t a real thing. (But it should be.)
More Easter silliness this Sunday with a new Last Kiss!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Penciller unknown. Inker Sal Gentile. From the cover of Romantic Story #118, April 1972. (No link to the vintage comic book this time because the comic isn’t available online.)
↓ Transcript
SCENE: Woman smiling at a bunny (the Easter Bunny) as he happily hops in a forested field.
WOMAN: After you deliver Easter eggs where do you go to celebrate?
EASTER BUNNY: IHOP!®
1972 Inker of Woman: Sal Gentile New Inks & Color for Woman: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Bunny Art & Color: Moko Background by Curved Design
Suddenly Hungry for Pancakes: John Lustig
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WOMAN: After you deliver Easter eggs where do you go to celebrate?
EASTER BUNNY: IHOP!®
1972 Inker of Woman: Sal Gentile New Inks & Color for Woman: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Bunny Art & Color: Moko Background by Curved Design
Suddenly Hungry for Pancakes: John Lustig
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A Puzzle For Gerald! Why Does The Blonde Remind Him Of The Brunette?
-Because he’s only seen both of them from the waist down with their pants off.
-Because they’re girls! And Gerald thinks all girls look alike! Icky! Now if they looked like David Cassiday…
-Because there’s not sufficient light in the alleyway behind the bar to make out particulars.
-Because they both roughly have the same body temperature.
-Because they both use pencil erasers to whiten their teeth.
-Because they both turned down his offer for a date. The blond said she only dated men. And the brunette said she was only into guys whose testicles have dropped.
-Because they’re cousins! Identical cousins! And you’ll find! They walk alike and talk alike and at times they even @#*$ alike! You can lose your mind! When cousins! Are into three ways!
-Because they both tried to call the cops when he showed them what he did with that David Cassiday poster.
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True story: I used to work at an IHOP back in college. Nothing gross to say about it. It was a clean restaurant.
But to this day, I cannot stand the stench of maple syrup. The taste of it either.
All that maple syrup. Ugh.
Anyway, Happy Easter. I hope the Easter Bunny brings you all David Cassiday posters. Clean ones. Not ones Gerald had his hands on.
Nice Patty Duke Show reference!
I, too, am happy that I live at a time when the internet can show me this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/DUMAu8C
Thanks for all the funny comments, Jams. I’ve never worked in an IHOP, but one of my brothers-in-law worked in a KFC and he couldn’t eat chicken after that–at least not for a long time.
Another true story: when my wife was a kid on a multi-day family trip she ate pancake at every restaurant at every meal. To this day, she refuses to ever eat pancakes again.
Is that a bored shoulder angel?
Happy Easter everyone!
After the pills had worn off the hoppy fuzzy bunny took a dark turn.
https://imgur.com/t/easter/ijpiQyT
A Puzzle For Gerald! Why Does The Blonde Remind Him Of The Brunette?
Because they’re both so huge that he can sit on their shoulders!
I had a summer job in a restaurant kitchen in high school. For a long time, raw vegetables, milk, and bread and butter were all I could stand to eat. The constant exposure to cooking smells seemed to overwhelm my senses.
These two look like they’re into each other than him.
I flipped burgers at a local mom and pop joint in Texas when I was in high school. There was a couple of weeks when we got frozen burger patties that turned out to be bad–you could easily tell when they thawed out. However, I was the only one who could tell the bad ones when they were still frozen. Guess who got the job of smelling every new batch?