Here's Mud in Your Pie, and Pie in Your Face

YESSSSSS!!! I love it when a strip makes no sense!

First, let's establish that I don't get it. There's no pun, no set up, although Helga saying she needs to tidy up while simultaneously soiling her kitchen with messy, gloopy pies is I guess what the joke is supposed to be.

But, what the heck is going on? Did she bake those pies just to throw them at Hagar? Why? Because, as has been established ad naseum in this strip, Hagar likes food? Is she humoring him? Or is she mad at him? If the pie tastes good, this isn't a very good punishment. You know Helga's going to be the one left cleaning the kitchen, and in the meantime, Hagar can just enjoy the tasty pie on his face. Unless it's a mud pie. Or a cow pie. Or is this what passes for foreplay in the Horrible household? If that's the case, that woman DID come in at a bad time.

And speaking of that woman, why is she dressed like a pre-WW II British woman? Is she not a Viking? Is she Virginia Woolf? Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf? Why (or how) would Virginia (or Nicole) visit the Horribles? Why does she have a pearl necklace?? I can't tell from the first strip -- can she see what's going on with H&H?

Why is Helga throwing the pies at point blank range? Wouldn't it be more challenging to throw from a longer distance? Why are the top corners of their rooms black?

So many questions. So few answers.