The road to oblivion.

 It's the invasion of the body snatchers.

They're already here.

J. Edgar Who?

 Trust the confidential informant.

Speak clearly and slowly into the lapel button.

The sincerest form of flattery.

 For those who cannot tell the difference.

Convenient one-stop shopping, a comprehensive approach.

Young at heart.

 If he were any more compassionate,

He would be unbearable. He's barely bearable as it is.

Prime directive.

 It is all for our own good.

AI AI OH !

The great conversationalist.

The one infallibly brilliant collocutor, oneself.

Now that you mention it...

Men at work.

 Subsidized private education.

Very private.

Hero and Leander.

 Playing the hero, if not Leander.

If you squint in exactly the right light.

Dog his footseps.

 Some take to retirement readily...

And others do not.

Climate of contempt.

 Take that you Climate Change scientists !

Use before it's all gone up in smoke.

The retiring type.

 A prudent rabbit is hard to find.

Clyde has become CEO of McNeedsahug, LLC.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

 Lately, Mad Magazine seems more like the daily news.

"No, it will go out on its own, eventually."

A magazine, a board game, a breakfast cereal.

 What hath Henry Luce wrought?

In the words of Marvin the Paranoid Robot, "Life ! Don't talk to me about life."

It was a very good year.

Named Medical Device of the year, 1790.

Also, avoid thunderstorms and kites.

Floody duddy.

 A flood of spontaneous exceptions.

Depends on your view of baseball free agency.

Laugh clown, laugh.

 Pulling his strings while yanking his chain.

Maybe one day he will be a real boy.

Bottomline.

 All dressed up and somewhere to go.

Literally the last place you would look.

In a pickle.

 He spends a lot time in courts.

He has the beginnings of a salad.

Never on Sunday.

 Learning how to prioritize.

On a scale from zero to infinity.

Food for thought.

 Not a healthy diet, however you look at it.

Who's on the menu?

Formula for success.

 PDR Pillsbury, one letter better...

Than PDQ Bach.

"P" for Nothing.

 It could be worse, much worse.

She could be named for a disease.

Seldom is heard a dsicouraging word.

Oh, those wacky Belgians.

He was about to utter a cross word.

Sportmanship.

 His handicap is a total lack of aptitude.

What he lacks in talent he makes up with cheating.

No comment, literally.

 You will have to discuss behind the schoolhouse...

Not inside the schoolhouse.

Ask me no questions.

 He tries to think as little of it as possible.

Cannot hear you.

Chew on this for a while.

 They do say that people and their dogs...

Have much in common.

The Real Thing.

 It adds up to real money.

In real dollars.

Vertigo the Sequel.

 It is like the drug to treat agoraphobia...

People are afraid to go the mall to buy it.

A case of false modesty.

 He is not looking hard enough.

Try reading a different newspaper.

Synpathy for the devil.

 That makes one of them who is a billionaire.

Giving the one percent a bad name.