Prove Your Comedy Chops with Moment’s Cartoon Caption Contest
Welcome to the Moment Magazine Cartoon Caption Contest, founded with the help of New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, and drawn by New Yorker cartoonist Ben Schwartz.
Do you have a way with words and humor? If so, look at the cartoon below and send us a caption—or two or three! Plus scroll down to vote for your favorite caption. It’s free and fun!
Winners may claim a free Moment subscription for a friend of family member. Contest open to U.S. residents 18 and above.
Plus: Read interviews with some of our most prolific caption contest contributors here.
Submit a caption for this cartoon by December 15 by writing it in as a comment at the bottom of this page!
Vote for your favorite caption by filling out the form immediately below!
“Buckle up, buttercup.”
— Jim Gorman, Thousand Oaks, CA
“I knew you before you were born, and I didn’t like you then either.”
—Lee Lacewell, Heber Springs, AK
“I can co-pilot from back here.”
—Dale Stout, Colorado Springs, CO
Vote for your favorite! The winner will receive a free subscription to Moment to give to a friend. Any U.S. resident age 18 or older can enter.
Chuckle at the September/October 2022 winning caption—and see who wrote it!
“Shaloha!”
—Jonathan Schreiber, Los Angeles, CA
How to Submit Your Caption(s)
Submit as a comment below by December 15, 2022 Finalists will appear in the upcoming issue. To vote for the winner of the November/December 2022 contest (see finalists above), use the vote form.
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“The dreidel is trying to put a spin on our future!”
“I wished for GELT not GIMBLE!”
“I thought we OUTGREW this DREIDEL GAME!”
“I knew those JEWISH ALIENS would develop an advanced spaceship!”
Very good caption.
Lee,
THANKS! Your kind remarks are appreciated!
“What kind of holiday is Hannukah, where the aim is to outrun a Dreidel?”
“I think we will be on TOP of the WHIRL!”
Marv,
All your captions are super, especially the last one. Marvin wasn’t as talented as you are.
Gerald,
Marv is a firm believer in the special advantages of having GERITOL in his corner! THANKS for your encouragement!
You also have GeraldTol in your corner.
(If my words could only energize you like a vitamin, I’d send a million postings to you per day.)
“The DIE may be cast, but now it’s the TURNING DREIDEL POWER (that counts)!”
“I was looking for a TRYST between us, not a TWIST!”
“I didn’t know that if you spun a dreidel you could get arrested for reckless driving.”
“The dreidel is creating a WIND TUNNEL and not a LOVE TUNNEL!”
“That dreidel’s having an identity crisis. It thinks it’s a whirling dervish.”
The Ole make a caption combing the top three previous cartoon captions:
“I was co-piloting from back here before you were born, so buckle up buttercup.”
The Ole make a caption out of the three top captions from the previous cartoon:
“I was co-piloting from back here before you were born. So buckle up buttercup.”
“LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, and I trust this is not a race to OUR FINISH!”
“The HEAD WINDS are so strong that it would make John Birks Gillespie DIZZY!”
“A dreidel is a spinning top, but this one doesn’t know when to stop.”
“No time to eat a bagel with cream cheese. We must outrun the DREIDEL’S MENACING’S SHADOW before we snack!”
“I’m not running from the dreidel.I’m running from the giant who spun it.”
“I observe the Sabbath,and donate to the Temple.It must be you who is on the ‘list’.
“I heard of being behind the eight ball, but this is DREIDEL RIDICULOUSNESS!”
“Honey, this time instead of shrinking the kids I may have accidentally enlarged them!”
“The price of oil is higher than usual this year. The dreidel is desperately trying to tell us how to make what we have last longer. But I wish it wouldn’t get so excited.”
“I’m thinking about writing a BIG DREIDEL novel with many volumes. Looking forward to many SPIN OFFS!”
NUN for your life!!
“When we signed up for the tv reality show ‘Super Dreidel’ I thought we would be spinning a toy for cash and prizes!”
“It’s a miracle if we get out of this alive.”
“You should see the Menorah!”
“So you thought trying out for a couples competitive reality tv show would just be tops!”
“I told you that we shouldn’t ‘do it’ on Hanukkah.”
“Do you think we might need a SPIN DOCTOR?”
“I made it out of autonomous rotors, inertial sensors, gyroscopic stabilizers, and clay.”
“Didn’t I say no gifts?”
“Attack of the 60-ft rabbi opens at a theater near you”
“To say the least, this dreidel is a TWIST of FAITH!”
“From now on, I say we go topless.”
++++SHOTGUN WEDDINGS compared to BIG DREIDEL WEDDINGS++++
“Both are scary but BIG DREIDEL WEDDINGS will sweep you off your feet!”
“Asking G-d if he could create a bigger dreidel than he could spin was the best question you could think of?”
Eating too many latkes always gives me nightmares!
“The DREIDEL DIET keeps you running and CHASES AWAY your calories!”
“Haven’t our people suffered enough RUN-A-ROUNDS?!”
Dedicated to ADRIAN STORISTEANU who might have posted this phrase if he was available.
“My trainer said this will burn more calories than pop tarts stuck in a toaster.”
“In order to be completely fair, in my caption above, I realize that I should also have made reference to mom tarts, not pop tarts only. I apologize to any mom tarts for my oversight.
“We were granted one wish and you chose ‘the world’s biggest and best dreidel’…..players?”
“Run for cover—it’s a drone dreidel!”
“CYCLONE DREIDEL is ready to KNOCK YOUR SOCKS off!”
“It’s as if we were in the scariest Jewish horror movie ever made, “The Dreidel from the Black Lagoon.”
“I’d rather have a shayna Maidel than a dreidel any time.”
“I now hate that song, I WILL FOLLOW HIM!”
“That baby’s not going to stop soon. It’s got enough oil to keep spinning for a whole year.”
“That dreidel is like my mother-in-law, as both have a SINISTER SPIN!”
“Can’t we just play online video dreidel.”
“Life is like a box of ‘good and bad’ giant dreidels, you never know which one you’re gonna get you.”
“Run, Jenny, run!”
“I told you to wait till it’s dry and ready!”
“This dreidel is already on probation for spinning while intoxicated.”
“If I BUTT HEADS with that mean dreidel, then I will become RAMbunctious!”
“What if it keeps this up for eight days?”
“We are soon to be victims of a MOVING SPEEDING VEHICLE VIOLATION!”
“I now believe in the HEREAFTER, and HEREAFTER I will pray for forgiveness!”
“This puts a whole new spin on couples workouts.”
“I don’t think this is about us at all. The gimmel’s trying to catch the hey.”
“Is there a DREIDEL SYNDROME called the DELUSION OF GRANDEUR ATTACK?”
“When I asked you to go for a spin, I meant by car.”
“The next local snow accumulation will be called a DREIDEL DRIFT!”
“I was once taught there are two sides to every story. But there are four sides to every dreidel.”
“As a child, I had a framed picture of a twirling dreidel. I imagined it would one-day tip over on me, OY VEY!”
“After all this, if it lands on shin we still have to pay.”
Which statement below is based on opinion rather than fact?
A: “No matter how thin you pour a pancake it still has two sides.”
B: “No matter how fast you spin a dreidel it still has four sides.”
C: “No matter how often you eat bagels with cream cheese they are still better than doughnuts.”
D: “None of the above.”
Lee,
There’s also a question among food servers as to the correct side to use in order to serve sides like potatoes, breads snd salads in restaurants and other settings. But that’s complicating the matter too much.
We all have to take sides in whatever games we play, don’t we?
“An ominous letter in the mail suggested that I should upgrade my hospitalization policy!”
“I never should have converted from my Jewish roots.”
“Your mother often said that I would PUSH & PULL you in a BAD DIRECTION!”
“Someone goofed! Hanukkah’s supposed to be the festival of lights, not the festival of flights.”
“Someone must have lit the dreidel by mistake instead of the menorah.”
“My CHILDHOOD DREIDELS were meant for FUNTIME, and this WHIRLWIND DREIDLE is meant for DOWNTIME!”
“I’m not trying to run faster than a evil killer dreidel, I’m just trying to stay ahead of you!”
“I appreciate its holiday spirit, but I wish it wouldn’t sing ‘Oy to the World.'”
“Don’t go walkin slow, an evil dreidel’s on the loose!”
“There were other paths we could have gone, and perhaps it’s not too late to change the path we’re on.”
“Reporting this BIG DREIDEL INCIDENT to the police would cause them to keep me locked up at home with an ANKLE MONITOR!”
(At home: no more dreidels allowed for me of any size!)
“The gimel means gimme shelter.”
“Don’t look now but I think we ARE the pot.”
“This is another fine dreidel mess you’ve gotten us into.”
“As a kid, I PRAYED for a big dreidel but not a big dreidel that PREYS on me!”
“That dreidel is just like the Jewish people. Just when you think it’s going to tip over, it balances itself and rolls on.”
“I will cancel all my delivery dreidels to my family. One BIG DREIDEL NIGHTMARE is enough!”