"Herman, Dinner's Served -- as Soon as the Smoke Clears!"

The long-running gag-a-day comic strip Herman, Dinner's Served -- as Soon as the Smoke Clears! debuted in 1985 from Andrews McMeel, centering on the perpetually frazzled homemaker Herman and his chaotic kitchen adventures. Over its decades-long run, the strip became a beloved fixture of newspaper funny pages for its warm, slapstick take on family dinner-table disasters.