Open 24 Hours · No. 5

Date Night

The after-dark comic from Hooray News. New every night at midnight. October 25, 2026.

Open 24 Hours, One Trip. Bob the muscular rhino offers to help a skinny ninja cowboy named Sam carry about thirty grocery bags. Sam says a cowboy makes one trip, staggers to a front door loaded with bags, eggs in his hat and a watermelon under his chin, and collapses inside under the pile. A moth in a pink bathrobe says, Sam, you don't live here. Sam answers, I do now.

Open 24 Hours, Respect. At sunrise on a lake, Bob tells Sam he forgot bait. Sam says fish come to him out of respect. Hours later nothing bites; Sam says they're preparing. Then his rod bends and dozens of fish leap into the rowboat on their own, sinking it. Bob bails water: Sam, that's too much respect! Sam: No such thing. In the distance a tiny grandmother rows past towing a cruise ship.

Open 24 Hours, Look Big. At a night campsite a bear rears up. Bob the muscular rhino whispers make yourself look big. Skinny Sam stands on a stump with his arms out and says I'm enormous. The terrified bear backs away while staring past them. Sam says never doubt the hat, while behind him a tiny grandmother holds an entire uprooted pine tree, roasting a marshmallow on its tip.

Open 24 Hours, Escape Room. In a dungeon-themed escape room, Bob says they have one hour to find the key. Sam says cowboys don't need keys and charges the door shoulder-first, bouncing off onto the floor. A moth opens the door from outside: It's not locked. It's a pull door. Sam, still on the floor: Because it feared me. A grandmother-shaped hole is punched through the wall behind them.

Open 24 Hours, Date Night. In a candlelit restaurant Sam waits with a rose while Bob hides behind a potted plant with an earpiece, telling him to just be himself. A huge bear paw lands on the table. Sam's date sits down: the bear from the campsite, wearing a pink bow and holding flowers. Sam says told you she'd call. Bob has fainted. A tiny grandmother waitress carries a whole banquet table on one hand.

Rhinoceros Bob lifts. Sam the Ninja Cowboy believes. Linda the Moth has seen it all, and Nana Deadlift is 94. A strange little comic from Hooray News, new every night at midnight. Also from Hooray News: Proof Positive, every morning.

Read the transcript

Panel 1: Just be yourself. / Always am. It's exhausting for everyone.
Panel 2: Still waiting? / She'll come. I'm irresistible.
Panel 3: Right on time.
Panel 4: Told you she'd call.

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