Remember the rich Poncho look-alike? Who else would distract the humans with free Riverdance tix and go to the bother to send the dogs on a wild pie chase? Plankie’s GONE! Buh-bye.
A lot of schools are making them do that these days… my second daughter just spent a week lugging around a doll - she was annoyed when I told her I wouldn’t drive her to school, because the object of the exercise was to make her understand the full weight of having to do things like cart her books and the baby on the bus. It worked.
I LOVE the stuff he comes up with when the joke only calls for two or three panels!