I don’t get this one
Is it snake poop?
ah, yes. He sees a piece of poo and thinks it’s a snake
In 1982, it would have been unheard of for a pet store to be selling snakes in a window like this. Puppies, bunnies, guinea pigs, sure, but not snakes. Maybe they would have one or two in the back of the store, but it wasn’t common. That makes this scenario unlikely and somewhat absurd. Plus, Larson loves snakes and probably this would have been a wish fulfillment for him.
All I can think of is that normally kids point at a window where there are puppies being sold for adoption and they beg their parents for one.
These are snakes instead… which is not the norm, but not that uncommon nowadays. It wasn’t unheard of back when this comic was made either so probably just not one of his better ones.
