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[HHilary]

Hidden symbols

Most Bizarro cartoons since 1995 include one or more of these elements hidden somewhere in the cartoon:

• an eyeball (the Eyeball of Observation),

• a piece of pie (the Pie of Opportunity),

• a rabbit (the Bunny of Exuberance),

• an alien in a spaceship (the Flying Saucer of Possibility),

• the abbreviation “K2” (referring to Piraro’s children Kaitlin and Killian),

• a crown (the Crown of Power),

• a stick of dynamite (the Dynamite of Unintended Consequences),

• a shoe (the Lost Loafer),

• an arrow (The Arrow of Vulnerability),

• a fish tail (The Fish of Humility)

• an upside down bird (the Inverted Bird)

Señors?

GUABY AND POKEY’S TROPICAL ADVENTURE

Dan Piraro’s Bizarro Sunday (March 8, 2009), depicting Gumby and Pokey.

• Olive Oyl, or the abbreviation “02” (the Mighty Oyl) (first occurrences in May 2017)

• a smoker’s pipe (the Pipe of Ambiguity), added 01/01/2021(6)

As of 2008, Piraro indicates how many symbols are hidden in each strip with a number above his signature.

[HHilary]

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[Mrs5K]

Fascinating. I found 2 but not a 3rd one.

[axnr911]

I also found the 2 in the tree and the number 3 above his name, but I couldn’t find anything else.

Here’s another Bizarro cartoon-maybe we’ll see something in it.
OH OH OH! I’m so excited. I found an eyeball, a piece of pie, a bird and the number above the artist’s name. !!!

[Mrs5K]

I found an eyeball, bird & pie too

[HHilary]

Found them:
an eyeball
a piece of pie
“K2”
a stick of dynamite
an upside down bird

[axnr911]

Here’s another Bizarro cartoon. I found an eyeball, a shoe, K2, a number over the name, upside-down bird, stick of dynamite and a pipe. (no arrow or rabbit, spaceship or pie)

What did you find?

[ManjiB]

I can also see a crown and olive oil O2 and possibly a space ship but I am not used to these cartoons.
As I understand it there are 10 (ten) of these hidden symbols in this cartoon and so there are possibly 2 more symbols (fish tail and cake/pie?)

[Mrs5K]

I found all the ones you said plus a crown too which @ManjiB mentioned. I can’t see any artow, pie or fish tail either.

[axnr911]

Where’s the crown in the cartoon above?–can’t find it.

Here’s another one. I found the pie, shoe, crown, eyeball, alien, olive oyl, number over cartoonist, stick of dynamite and arrow (but no fish tail, or KO). Did you folks find them?

[HHilary]

[EmeraldEyes]

The number over the name is number of hidden items there is in the image

[EmeraldEyes]

It was so sheer I didn’t see that one coming

[Mrs5K]

The crown is in the jar under the table by the mans leg.

I couldn’t find the fish tail in the 2nd pic either. Got the same ones as you.

[ManjiB]

@axnr911

I found an eyeball, a shoe, K2, a number over the name, upside-down bird, stick of dynamite and a pipe. (no arrow or rabbit, spaceship or pie)

In the Legend of Frenkenchihuahua Bizzaro, there are 10 hidden elements.

Between us I believe we have now found them all.
They are going anticlockwise from the stick of dynamite (1), Eye (2), Shoe (3), Upside down bird (4), **fish tail - near bird? (5) **, pipe (6), alien (7), K2 (8), O2 (9) and Crown (10).

I am not 100% about the fish tail as I don’t have a reference point for that i.e. not having seen one before.

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The Sheep Count has 3 elements which I believe to be
Eye, Pie and K2

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The Batman and Robin 5 elements which I believe to be
Eye, Bird, Dynamite, Pie and K2

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The **Patient in bed on the phone has 10 hidden elements ** which I believe to be
K2, Alien, O2, Dynamite, Crown, Pie, Shoe, Alien, Eye and Arrow Head.

[axnr911]

EmeraldEyes–Thanks for the info about the number over the name. I didn’t know that.

[axnr911]

Here we go again! Can you find 5?

[axnr911]

[HHilary]