Family Circus and Frank and Ernest: Map of Oh-Pun Country

This cartoon is hilarious because it's a complete space-filler that's not even up to the incredibly low standards for which The Family Circus is known.

Given just how low a bar The Family Circus has set, it might come as a surprise to some that it's not actually the worst comic in the comics section. That honor instead goes to Frank and Ernest.

I never write about Frank and Ernest because there's not really a whole lot to say about it. Virtually every installment consists of one lame pun. Sometimes, for a change, the extra large Sunday strip will consist of a string of several lame puns, though that's not the case today. The art, as you can see, is terrible. The characters have no personality traits beyond stupidity--Frank is not distinguishable from Ernest in any meaningful way. It has no continuity. It rarely has a point. As such, it seems to exist merely to fill space. It's an embarrassment.

However bad The Family Circus might be (which is pretty fucking bad), it's not so bad I can't make fun of it. Frank and Ernest is.