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Couch Potato Trap Caption Contest

I've seen bigger rats.

I've seen bigger rats.

This is the Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest, and the rules are pretty simple.

  • Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the Splendid Marbles gallery of caption contest winners.) (Check out all the winners of the caption contest.)
  • You are allowed FIVE submissions.
  • I will accept entries until midnight, Sunday, September 6th, 2009.
  • I’ll select five finalists, which will be voted on starting noon Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 (The next contest will start on Tuesday, Sept. 8th as well, due to the Labor Day holiday).
  • That’s it!

You can vote for your favorite caption in last week’s the “Scuba Guy” contest.

Time to pick a winner.

Time to pick a winner.

Time to vote for your favorite "Scuba Guy" caption.

  • Jerry’s dyslexia occasionally worked against him as he patiently waited in line for the next sub. - jason h (67%, 28 Votes)
  • Stan wondered what the guy in front of him knew that he didn’t. - Bill Rabello (14%, 6 Votes)
  • I hate my job! I hate my job! I LOVE my job! I hate my job! - Bernie S (7%, 3 Votes)
  • With a start, Bob realized he had forgotten his breifcase for the big presentation. But could he run home and back in THESE flippers before the bus got here? - Scott (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Unfortunately only one in four people accept global warming as fact. - Peter Hepburn (5%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 42

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Here’s the winner of the “Giant Eye” caption contest.

Very funny indeed. Well done, BJC.

Very funny indeed. Well done, BJC.

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Discussion

105 comments for “Couch Potato Trap Caption Contest”

  1. “Serves him right… That was my cheese!

    Posted by Bob Swanson | August 31, 2009, 11:11 am
  2. It’s going to be a glorious football season!

    Posted by mark | August 31, 2009, 11:18 am
  3. Now what? Even his wife didn’t want him.

    Posted by mark | August 31, 2009, 11:19 am
  4. Damn that thing hits hard…. it knocked the fur right off of him!

    Posted by Bob Swanson | August 31, 2009, 11:21 am
  5. I said, “Be careful what you wish for!”

    Posted by mark | August 31, 2009, 11:22 am
  6. Told him…Cigarettes will kill ya..

    Posted by Russ | August 31, 2009, 11:25 am
  7. I told you humans are more attracted to beer than peanuts.

    Posted by Mike | August 31, 2009, 11:26 am
  8. Ewww …. I said get a LIVE trap!

    Posted by Chucky B | August 31, 2009, 11:30 am
  9. Hey, I didn’t know he smoked menthols, see if he has any more on him.

    Posted by jason h | August 31, 2009, 11:30 am
  10. “I’m telling you Walt these guys will buy anything if you promise them washboard abs!”

    Posted by Chucky B | August 31, 2009, 11:34 am
  11. NFL Package gets ‘em every time.

    Posted by Bernie S. | August 31, 2009, 11:38 am
  12. I am glad we got him before the Stock Market did !!!!

    Posted by J | August 31, 2009, 11:40 am
  13. The wife finally figured out a way to keep him home at night.

    Posted by Lynn Batey | August 31, 2009, 11:44 am
  14. ” He was an exterminator. detective.” “I Guess its true. What goes around comes around.”

    Posted by Lynn Batey | August 31, 2009, 11:50 am
  15. I’m glad that rats out ot the way .

    Posted by Lynn Batey | August 31, 2009, 11:51 am
  16. These guys just can’t resist a little television.

    Posted by MRF | August 31, 2009, 12:01 pm
  17. There’s no way we can flush that down the toilet!

    Posted by Todd Barwick | August 31, 2009, 12:12 pm
  18. Now we have the run of the house.

    Posted by GILBERT DOERING | August 31, 2009, 1:11 pm
  19. We are now the BIG CHEESE of the house.

    Posted by GILBERT DOERING | August 31, 2009, 1:12 pm
  20. Wow! I can’t believe it worked so well… We just copied their design and added a lazy boy!

    Posted by James | August 31, 2009, 1:22 pm
  21. Did it work or is he just passed out or sleeping!?.

    Posted by James | August 31, 2009, 1:25 pm
  22. How could anyone be stupid enough to fall for a trap like that???

    Posted by Nathanael | August 31, 2009, 1:29 pm
  23. i told you all we need is booze and porn to catch him

    Posted by dean | August 31, 2009, 1:32 pm
  24. It’s not funny Harry! Will you PLEASE stop joking around and just get rid of it..it’s giving me the creeps!

    Posted by OZ | August 31, 2009, 1:33 pm
  25. now for that dang cat

    Posted by dean | August 31, 2009, 1:35 pm
  26. “Hmm, looks like we need to lower the arms rests a bit. If he were skinnier that may not have worked so well.”

    Posted by James | August 31, 2009, 1:36 pm
  27. and he thought smoking was dangerous

    Posted by dean | August 31, 2009, 1:38 pm
  28. Weird….He never thought his stem cell research would ever come back to haunt him…..

    Posted by Russ | August 31, 2009, 1:39 pm
  29. I told you it works better than peanut butter.

    Posted by Bill Rabello | August 31, 2009, 1:40 pm
  30. i wish we could just flush him already he starting to stink

    Posted by dean | August 31, 2009, 1:41 pm
  31. “Build a better human trap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

    Posted by Bill Rabello | August 31, 2009, 1:42 pm
  32. That trap outta keep him inprisioned while we go hunt down his wife!

    Posted by Nathanael | August 31, 2009, 1:43 pm
  33. I like this much better than those sticky traps.

    Posted by Bill Rabello | August 31, 2009, 1:43 pm
  34. poor sob did not even see that one coming

    Posted by dean | August 31, 2009, 1:43 pm
  35. Mortimur, put that out. You know those things can kill you.

    Posted by Brian | August 31, 2009, 2:06 pm
  36. I wouldn’t have minded if he hadn’t kept pooping all over the place.

    Posted by Brian | August 31, 2009, 2:10 pm
  37. Darn Roaches!!!!

    Posted by Sonny | August 31, 2009, 2:26 pm
  38. Well, now that he’s gone, who is going to feed the cat?

    Posted by Bernie S. | August 31, 2009, 3:21 pm
  39. That’ll teach those lazy lilliputians to stay off our turf!

    Posted by Scott | August 31, 2009, 3:37 pm
  40. See? Much more human than the sticky paper!

    Posted by Scott | August 31, 2009, 3:38 pm
  41. You’re turn to clean it up…

    Posted by Scott | August 31, 2009, 3:39 pm
  42. Sick of following orders George and Dick catch Willard napping.

    Posted by Peter Hepburn | August 31, 2009, 3:41 pm
  43. I feel kind if inhumane, maybe we should have just used one of those sticky pads instead.

    Posted by jason h | August 31, 2009, 4:23 pm
  44. would it be too soon to claim those cheese balls over there?

    Posted by jason h | August 31, 2009, 4:24 pm
  45. you touch him….no, you touch him……NO, YOU TOUCH HIM!

    Posted by jason h | August 31, 2009, 4:41 pm
  46. I have not had my H1N1 shot you bag em…

    Posted by Russ | August 31, 2009, 4:57 pm
  47. Facebook….It’s like leading cows to the slaughter…

    Posted by Russ | August 31, 2009, 4:58 pm
  48. Wow…Lucky we got here before he droped his cigarette…That could have been disasterous!

    Posted by Russ | August 31, 2009, 5:02 pm
  49. The comfortable chair and tv gets ‘em every time.

    Posted by Denise | August 31, 2009, 5:48 pm
  50. Well, it looks like that “girdle” couldn’t help that belly!

    Posted by Joe Desmond | August 31, 2009, 5:51 pm
  51. We caught a lazy man in a lazyboy

    Posted by Joe Desmond | August 31, 2009, 5:55 pm
  52. Using a remote for bait gets’em every time.

    Posted by Francis Welch | August 31, 2009, 6:53 pm
  53. PETA called and they are not happy.

    Posted by Francis Welch | August 31, 2009, 6:56 pm
  54. yet another case of Slum Landlord pissing off the tenants…

    Posted by Sandy | August 31, 2009, 6:58 pm
  55. “Help yourself, but I really don’t care for the taste of smoked human.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 31, 2009, 7:01 pm
  56. “Be sure to remove the hair. I need it to line our nest.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 31, 2009, 7:05 pm
  57. “…another banker down and about a bazillion trillon to go…”

    Posted by Sandy | August 31, 2009, 7:07 pm
  58. ..maybe a red wine with this one?”

    Posted by Sandy | August 31, 2009, 7:11 pm
  59. “It’s amazing what you can do when you follow directions.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 31, 2009, 7:14 pm
  60. “You and your selective hearing !! I said HUMANE!!

    Posted by OZ | August 31, 2009, 8:02 pm
  61. Yes, dear, you’re the great hunter. Now take it outside and clean it!

    Posted by DeeAnn S | August 31, 2009, 8:43 pm
  62. I never saw one up close before. Ugly, aren’t they.

    Posted by DeeAnn S | August 31, 2009, 8:46 pm
  63. “Yup… T.V. for humans it’s like cheese to a … … well you know”

    Posted by ACP | August 31, 2009, 8:46 pm
  64. Well Ralph, I think that’s the last one. It should just about fill the freezer.

    Posted by DeeAnn S | August 31, 2009, 8:50 pm
  65. One small step for a rat, a giant step for ratkind!

    Posted by Steve Singer | August 31, 2009, 9:30 pm
  66. No, I’m NOT sure that it’s dead… it ALWAYS looks like that!

    Posted by Steven Benson | August 31, 2009, 10:34 pm
  67. Darn it Louie! I told you to make it look like an accident!

    Posted by Steven Benson | August 31, 2009, 10:36 pm
  68. So Mr. Disney… Who’s the “Big Cheese” now?

    Posted by Steven Benson | August 31, 2009, 10:41 pm
  69. “Hey… let’s put the Cubs game on…they’ll think he tripped it himself!”

    Posted by Greg | September 1, 2009, 12:36 am
  70. This one smells delicious, like Limburger.

    Posted by Peter Hepburn | September 1, 2009, 2:41 am
  71. I told you Frank, switching to Cheetos was the smartest thing we’ve done since we busted out of that maze.

    Posted by Peter Hepburn | September 1, 2009, 2:42 am
  72. “He must have been watching Soccer,he`s just sprung the Offside Trap.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | September 1, 2009, 6:40 am
  73. “You know, if you don’t stop smoking it’s going to kill you.”

    Posted by Bill Rabello | September 1, 2009, 10:19 am
  74. “It looks so peaceful lying there.”

    Posted by Bill Rabello | September 1, 2009, 10:22 am
  75. See! I told you cheetos would work!

    Posted by Robert Keller | September 1, 2009, 10:59 am
  76. I know you get off on catching them, but do you always have to light up a cigarette immediately afterwards?

    Posted by Robert Keller | September 1, 2009, 11:09 am
  77. Gosh! Look at it’s hair! I wonder what kind of products it used on it?

    Posted by Lisa Keller | September 1, 2009, 11:16 am
  78. WOW! Now I understand why those droppings were so big!

    Posted by Lisa Keller | September 1, 2009, 11:19 am
  79. “The beer gut gets ‘em every time!”

    Posted by Lois Cavanagh-Daley | September 1, 2009, 11:28 am
  80. They’re so much easier to catch when sedated.

    Posted by Emily P | September 1, 2009, 11:35 am
  81. I know you think this is cruel Marge, but it is more humane than the sticky matress trap.

    Posted by Kristy | September 1, 2009, 1:26 pm
  82. Check the bonbon trap to see if we got the female.

    Posted by Kristy | September 1, 2009, 1:27 pm
  83. “Oh no,this is terrible,He`s pregnant.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | September 1, 2009, 1:46 pm
  84. And you wanted to call the exterminator!

    Posted by Bernie S. | September 1, 2009, 2:00 pm
  85. “Paybacks are a bitch, aren’t they?”

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | September 1, 2009, 2:08 pm
  86. “I told you with the right bait we’d get back at him!”

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | September 1, 2009, 2:08 pm
  87. “A comfy chair, a bowl of chips and Monday Night Football, and they’ll fall for it every time.”

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | September 1, 2009, 2:11 pm
  88. Store Wars Episode V – The Rodents Strike Back!

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | September 1, 2009, 2:14 pm
  89. “Now who’s the pest and who’s the control, huh? Huh? I thought so!”

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | September 1, 2009, 2:21 pm
  90. i do not think obamas health plan going to help this human

    Posted by dean | September 1, 2009, 2:23 pm
  91. Sobbing and confused, Lonnie and Lennie wondered how long the beer had been warm.

    Posted by Chucky B | September 1, 2009, 4:08 pm
  92. “What’s now?”

    “I don’t know. The commercial said to set it and forget it.”

    Posted by Chucky B | September 1, 2009, 4:12 pm
  93. I told you we can build a beter mousetrap. Beer & peanuts gets them everytime!

    Posted by Michael McCullough | September 1, 2009, 6:13 pm
  94. So which one do you think actually killed him, the trap or the re-runs of Webster?

    Posted by jason h | September 1, 2009, 6:39 pm
  95. “Yep, it’s about time to sell that Laz Z-Boy stock.”

    Posted by Keith | September 2, 2009, 11:10 am
  96. “We need a bigger Grill,he`s still not Cooked.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | September 3, 2009, 7:12 am
  97. We caught a fat one! They’re all fat in the US, haven’t you been watching the news.

    Posted by Bernie S. | September 3, 2009, 10:49 am
  98. Happy Halloween!…Oh Crap…Looks like Larry got caught in the rest of my costume. Now what?

    Posted by DJ | September 4, 2009, 11:54 am
  99. Rats!!

    Posted by John Flynn | September 4, 2009, 12:02 pm
  100. It’s sad that Hank did this to himself. He said he has been feeling trapped.

    Posted by John Flynn | September 4, 2009, 12:03 pm
  101. “That reality TV show loop really works wonders.”

    Posted by Karl K. | September 4, 2009, 5:12 pm
  102. He shouldda bought American. That IKEA stuff is better-priced but loaded with hidden design flaws.

    Posted by Steve Singer | September 6, 2009, 1:46 pm
  103. How far down are we on the food chain?!?

    Posted by Diana | September 8, 2009, 11:47 am
  104. I don’t know man, Jerry never said nothing about his last name being Cruise, I feel like we jumped the couch on this one.

    Posted by Niloy | September 10, 2009, 4:56 pm
  105. “Ever see that ‘they check IN, but they don’t check OUT’ commercial on TV about traps? Apparently HE hasn’t! NOW what do we do with him? Ich! I don’t wanna touch him!”

    Posted by Amy Downs | September 25, 2009, 6:16 pm

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