Family Circus: Once upon a time there lived a ghost who...Aw, c'mon! Stop giggling. This is supposed to be spooky!

Bill probably shouldn't be surprised that his kids don't find ghosts scary given that they have him for a father. People like Bill and Thel are the real monsters, after all.

Marmaduke: I wonder what Marm is up to? I haven't seen him all day.

And so Marmaduke has been eating dead bodies.

It should go without saying, but I am not surprised by this.

La Cucaracha: You are gonna dance.

Child abuse: Still hilarious when it happens to a celebrity.

Someone should tell Lalo Alcaraz that being faux-transgressive is not the same thing as being funny.*

*Someone should also tell this to Seth MacFarlane.

Brevity: Scram, filthy animals!

This cartoon is hilariously ironic because homeless people are filthy animals, too.

Pluggers: Pluggers don't have wheels on their luggage.

Yes, pluggers don't want anything to do with those newfangled... wheels?

Hi and Lois: I love everything about golf except the game.

This comic is hilarious because it's about golf, which, as every cartoonist knows, is so inherently funny that it doesn't even require an actual joke to elicit uproarious laughter.

Marmaduke: Marm! We just pay here! The food is at the next window!

In the next exciting installment of Marmaduke: Marmaduke stands over the eviscerated carcass of the fast food associate's body, blood splattered everywhere, the screams of fellow associates and customers piercing the grease and copper scented air, entrails hanging from the great beast's maw.

The caption: Marm! The cashier wasn't on the menu!*

*[Rimshot!]

Family Circus and Over the Hedge: Move along...nothing to see here.

These comics are hilarious because dogs pee on things.

Monty: Hubba hubba.

The premise of this joke is nothing particularly original. It's simple, entirely predictable misdirection. Jim Meddick seems to recognize this and doesn't even really try to hide it. It's not hard to envision the strip ending on the third panel, in which case the misdirection would have been the whole joke, and I probably would have made fun of it for being lame.

But it doesn't end on the third panel. Instead, it ends with a terrifically funny punchline in the fourth panel. And so, in a fairly rare turn, I've posted about this comic not because it's terrible, but because it made me laugh out loud.

Daddy's Home: It's macaroni and cheese from a box.

This comic is hilarious because men can't cook, because actual cooking is something women do.