March 4th, 2010
#973 – Caine
I liked to play a game called “find the grasshoppers” when walking home from school. What you did was walk through people’s yards that had tall grass and watch the grasshoppers scatter as you disturbed them. The tricky part was not walking into a tree while looking at your feet.
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March 4th, 2010 at 12:08 am
I hated biking home during grasshopper season, because the trail through the field would be so covered in them that you couldn’t avoid hitting them, no matter how you tried. And at high velocity on a bike, those suckers HURT when you run into them with bare little-kid legs!
March 4th, 2010 at 12:32 am
Gu-wha? Young-biff? Biff Junior? Biff after drinking shrinking potion?
March 4th, 2010 at 1:32 am
Biff probably is squished that small. Or that’s a REALLY big trampoline and he just looks little.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:40 am
Biff may have simply altered his density again, so that he Looks smaller, but weighs the same. This would certainly make a trampoline more fun.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:52 am
…and more dangerous. Trust me, I did it with rocks, I know what can go wrong…
March 4th, 2010 at 2:09 am
When I was about 7, in order to get to a friend’s house I had to cross a long stretch of sidewalk that adjoined a large field that was overgrown with weeds. All sorts of bugs (grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, etc.) would hop/fly/crawl onto the sidewalk and the first few times that I tried to walk it alone I was scared almost to death by the sheer number of creepy-crawlies that I saw. But I soon realized that, while there were a lot of them, they wouldn’t actually try to hop/fly/crawl *on* me; they’d *go around* me! They were as scared of me as I was of them! I pretty much lost my fear of bugs after that. (Though I still retain a healthy respect for stinging/biting insects like bees, wasps, spiders and the like.)
March 4th, 2010 at 4:27 am
Oh. my. gosh. Young Biff is the CUTEST thing I’ve seen all year.
Anyway, if he’d altered his size but not density, he’d be sinking into that trampoline rather more than he is.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:35 am
Biff isn’t just smaller, his proportions are different. What’s amazing is Chris somehow managed to make the world around him look bigger.
So is this imaginary friends week?
March 4th, 2010 at 5:02 am
I once invented a drinking game containing a grasshopper.
You take turns in blowing on the grasshopper in hopes of making him jump, when he does jump the other guy(s) have to drink.
The constant blowing makes you dizzy, so does the alcohol, fun game
March 4th, 2010 at 5:14 am
I knew it! Biff DOES live in a land full of magical creatures!
March 4th, 2010 at 6:32 am
Its obvious to me that this is Biff as a kid. I wish we had a trampoline when I was a kid. Man I would have so many cool scars and broken bones…
March 4th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Do the eyebrows grow with him? They almost look the same size as when Biff is all grown up.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Grasshoppers. Urgh. Growing up in Colorado, we had swarms of the damned things. Many were larger than a .30-06 rifle cartidge. Some approached the size of prawns.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Today’s theme is to listen, as the master taught Kwai Chiang Caine.
The theme of the week is: Gesundheit! Laughter is truly the best medicine, but I can’t remember ever seeing Biff laugh. I guess, then, he must have decided to settle for love.
So Chris, tell us what will be. Will the undefeatable Biff of the emerald sneakers ever meet his ruby slippered Rose? I can barely wait to tune in tommorow. Same somewhere, same somewhen.
March 4th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
“Grasshoppers. Urgh. Growing up in Colorado, we had swarms of the damned things”
Whenever I could catch grasshoppers in the summer, we’d throw them to our chickens. It’s fun to watch a chicken trying to run away from the others and eat a grasshopper (or other large insect) at the same time.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
@Mike – Yeah, it looks as the Biff’s eyebrows were always that size!
March 4th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
When my cat was younger, crickets were among her favorite toys. She’d carry one into the house very carefully in her mouth and drop it on the living room carpet. Then she’d poke it with her paw. It would jump and she would jump, and it was really quite funny to watch. She’d continue playing the game until the cricket eventually stopped reacting. Then it was just a bug in the house.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Aw, little Biff is so cute!<3
March 4th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
I love this particular comic, if only for the fact that biffling is in it!
March 5th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
“I love this particular comic, if only for the fact that biffling is in it!”
This name is now canon.
Please?