My cartoon titled “This Christmas He’s Pulled One Cracker Too Many” shows a couple in a counselling session at RELATE, the well-known UK relationship support charity.
A Christmas tree stands in the background to set the seasonal scene, while the caption delivers the joke – a witty comment on the husband’s festive overindulgence.
By turning a playful holiday tradition like pulling Christmas crackers into a metaphor for relationship strain, the cartoon captures the pressures and humour of family life at Christmas.
The humour works because it blends the light-hearted imagery of Christmas with the more serious context of relationship counselling.
Readers immediately recognise the double meaning: “pulling one cracker too many” is both a literal festive mishap and a gentle nod to the way holiday excesses can sometimes cause tension at home.
It’s this mix of festive cheer and domestic comedy that makes the cartoon relatable and funny, especially during the holiday season. This cartoon was printed in The Sun on 1st December 2001.
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