NOT-SO-SWEETIE PIE

Surprises lead to trouble in this third outing with wiener dog Weenie, cat Frank, and guinea pig Beans.

Weenie’s owner, pale-skinned, balding Bob, is dog-sitting his sister’s adorable but snobby new puppy, Sweetie Pie. Weenie and Sweetie Pie don’t hit it off. The exuberant Sweetie Pie is loud, pees on Weenie’s favorite things, and knocks over the garbage—a treat reserved for Weenie. So our hero tricks Sweetie Pie into becoming a doggy cannonball. Bon voyage, Sweetie Pie! When the clueless Bob offers to make Weenie a humongous meatloaf for being a good boy, Frank helps Weenie realize that without Sweetie Pie, Weenie won’t get meatloaf and will find himself in timeout. Weenie decides to find Sweetie Pie, a search that leads the trio to a sausage-eating contest, a tour of a sausage factory that smells like feet, and a hijacked sausage delivery truck. All’s well that ends well as Sweetie Pie returns home and Bob proposes even more meatloaf for Weenie’s good behavior. A variety of fun panels, including a Venn diagram of Weenie vs. Sausage-Shaped Supervillain, the situational definition of the word menace, and an imaginative list of fates that could have befallen Sweetie Pie, slow the story but also emphasize and expand on important details and add to the overall appealingly goofy tone.

Silly chaos guaranteed to be greeted with laughter.