Birds? On a boat? Sounds dubious

Shoe, 1/19/24

I was going to go on a long rant here about how comics gag writers so frequently come up with a joke and then work backwards from it even if it doesn't make sense in the strip's established universe of characters, and why would the Perfesser be interested in a cruise like this when he doesn't even have kids, but then, ha ha, I realized I had forgotten about his nephew-ward Skyler. In my defense, I think the Perfesser also forgets about his nephew-ward Skyler on the regular. Anyway, there's absolutely no chance he's going to take this child on a cruise with him. He won't even buy a second piece of living room furniture so they can eat in front of the TV together.

Hi and Lois, 1/19/24