With over 650 punchlines sent in, check out the WINNER and lots of finalists in Walt Handelsman's latest Cartoon Caption Contest!

Ship in a Bottle

Ahoy! We received 651 entries in this week’s tricky Cartoon Caption Contest. These were very clever with lots of different approaches used. Our winner came up with a unique punchline that was laugh-out-loud funny. Great job, everyone!

As always, when we have duplicate entries, and we always do, we pick the earliest sent in.

Here are this week’s winner and finalists.

WINNER:

Mariano Hinojosa, Baton Rouge: (Punchline lettered into word balloon)

FINALISTS:

Carol McCarty, Slidell: “Can you move the TV a little more this way!”

Andrew Hanks, Plaquemine: “I’ve been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle’s extended warranty!”

Bob Martin, Covington: “Don’t remove the cork!!! This is the safest place to be during the Hurricane Season!!”

Becky Aldrich, Kenner: “Hey, can you decant me?”

Wayne Everard, New Orleans: “Either get me out of here or pour some of the rum back in!”

Rebecca Gravois (Age 11), Gonzales: “I know people tell you not to litter, but can you please throw me back in the ocean?”

Rich Wolf, Westminster, MD: “Wait! My parrot’s in the Tequila bottle!”

Jane Goodman, Baton Rouge: “We got separated from the lifeboats at the recycling facility.”

Mike Moles, Baton Rouge: “No! No! No! Please don’t let me out until after November 5!”

Joseph Guidry, Lafayette: “Do you have a Pop-A-Lock in this town?”

Pam Rider, Baton Rouge: “Is this what they mean when they say ‘shrinkflation’???”

Howard W. Streiffer, Metairie: “Please help me get out – I’ve got tickets to see Taylor Swift.”

Lynn Wismar, Kenner: “I definitely need more sailing lessons!”

Peter Ritter (Age 6), New Orleans: “Get the captain & his crew out of the bottle!!”

D. Sabrio, Metairie: “I’m gonna need a smaller boat!”

Karen Poirrier, Lutcher: “I’m not ready to become a collectable!”

Eileen Turowski Taylor, Walker: “Don’t pull that cork. I just cleaned all the pollen and the cobwebs off the rigging!”

Michael Proctor, Baton Rouge: “I’m sending out an SOS to the world.”

Dennie Williams, Alexandria: “All I said to her was ‘put a cork in it’.”

G. T. Michelli, Mandeville: “Do you have any idea when the tide comes back in?!”

Richard Robbins, New Orleans: “Help! We��ve just sailed through Lake Ozempic!”

Maury Berthon, Mandeville: “Have you seen the news lately? You will be safer in here with me.”

Les Landon, Baton Rouge: “I bought a ticket for a glass BOTTOM boat!”

Sam Johnson, Zachary: “Do you have an extra cell phone charger?”

Morgan Cress (Age 7), Slaughter: “Arrgg! Why is nobody getting me out of here?”

Michele Starnes, Kenner: “In my case, a corkscrew would be mightier than a sword!”

Charlie Twickler, New Orleans: “Not quite what I expected, when they said I would be the captain of a ‘container ship’…”

David Delgado, New Orleans: “Let’s pull the cork on this operation!”

Very creative, Folks,

Best – Walt

Email Walt Handelsman at whandelsman@theadvocate.com