Leroy #4

When Leroy's father mistakes his son's casual mention of joining the track team for genuine participation, the boy finds himself in over his head—forced to actually try out before the big inter-school meet. After hilariously botching every event during tryouts, Leroy lands the humbling role of assistant water boy, but a well-timed wasp attack during the championship's final race creates the kind of chaos that might just turn his fortunes around. Written with all the earnest goofiness you'd expect from a 1950 teen comic, "Pardon My Smoke" is a reminder that sometimes the most unlikely heroes stumble into victory.

Midge's cooking class dreams turn into a disaster when a runaway cheese soufflé lands on Dean Undershott, kicking off a chain of kitchen catastrophes that threatens her final grade and his patience. Desperate to salvage both her mark and the Dean's goodwill, she scrambles through apologies and accidents at a parent-teachers meeting, only to get a second chance at redemption in the kitchen. This seven-page comedy proves that sometimes the messiest day can have the sweetest ending.

Leroy races to meet Janie at the railroad crossing, but a passing train forces him to take a wild detour straight through the cars—where he encounters far more than he bargained for among the cargo. By the time he finally makes it across, the moment Janie wanted to share has already come and gone, leaving him wishing he'd found a faster way.

Leroy's attempt to quietly deliver a written promise to stay out of trouble backfires spectacularly when a paper plane he folds spirals through the school, careening past teachers, into experiments, and across the gymnasium before dragging Dean Underwood on an increasingly chaotic chase. What started as two weeks of perfect behavior unravels in minutes as the wayward plane bounces from crisis to crisis, leaving destruction in its wake—yet somehow, improbably, the note itself survives the mayhem intact.