Cody understands that the way to a senior jock girl's heart (especially one "who made the winning…") is a restricted text message, and he shares with Owen his "bold and decisive" plan to surreptitiously stalk Summer.
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Seventy-six words by my count. And what did we learn via all this verbosity? Only that Cody already has Summer's number for some reason. Very convenient, don’t ya think? I don't really see how or why he'd have this supposedly unattainable girl's number already saved on his phone, but whatever, expecting details to matter at this point would just be silly. If Cody really wants to approach Summer, he should dribble a basketball in front of her. She'll have her arm buried to the elbow in his eye socket in no time, which would practically be "third base" for Cody.
It was interesting to finally hear someone state the obvious about Summer, that being Owen's “jock girl” remark. Now if I was writing this one, I'd have gone with “but she's the jock-iest jock who ever jocked her way through Jockland” but word balloon space was at a real premium today so I can see why he toned it down a little.
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Owen: "Um, what exactly are you typing in this restricted text message?"
Cody: "That she is the virgin goddess. That when I am around her, I feel whole. That when she sleeps tonight, she can rest assured that I'll be standing outside the Taj-MOORE-Hal, staring up at her bedroom window…my heart beating softly. Just…like…HERS…"
Owen: "…uh…"
Cody: "Obviously, I should hold off on choosing names for our seventh child…"
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Batiuk's attempt to tackle the issue of "sexting" starts out as awkwardly as one might expect.
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Restricted text message gets out for everyone to read — crazy hijinx to follow.
Rinse, lather, repeat. The true sign of genius is to make even the obvious funny. Sadly, no genius at work here. 10 – 1 at some point this week we will be subjected to a rant on the evils of modern technology by Less.
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Restricted text messages — That is, anonymous messages sent through an anonymous texting service. I can see it now:
"Never mind who I am, but I have such a crush on u. U R so big and strong. I would feel so safe and secure in ur arms."
Cracks me up that Cody is still talking about her as if she were, in any way, desirable. Sheesh. Gimmeafugginbreak.
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Whoops, I meant OWEN ias talking about her as if she were desirable. Owen, Cody — I get 'em confused. All dipshits look alike to me.
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Hey, aren't Cody and Owen supposed to be freshmen? If so, I can totally understand Owen's trepidation about allowing his best friend to ask out a senior girl. Now, my high school memories are grossly disfigured by a multitude of scarring, memory mangling moments of unadulterated Hell, but I can't recall any of my freshman colleagues asking out Senior girls.
So, yeah. Sexting. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe not. Don't care.
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Archie & Jughead are sophomores.
They had their freshmen hazing long time ago aka the "marker pen" episode
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Could be worse, Cody could have ordered Summer a breakfast pizza using the Montoni's app… so let's all be thankful that didn't happen.
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Unless "restricted" means "anonymous, completely untraceable, auto-spellcheck to prevent tracking the sender through frequent patterned spelling and grammar errors, and most of all, unable to be forwarded, either individually or as a mass email," I can see where this is going. And if I'm right, the dipshit's man-crush is going to both break his heart and totally humiliate him.
Look out – the station wagon's back to pick up another passenger!
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Unless Batiuk's done some serious reworking with the timeline, or has his timeline pass like Luann's rather than For Better or For Worse's, Cody and Owen are juniors. The freshman hazing they experienced was over two years ago.
Which makes the whole "she's a senior, she won't talk to you, you disgusting worm" completely implausible.
And if he was going to do a "1 RL year =/= 1 FW year", it would've been better to mention it when addressing Summer talking about applying to colleges. She's almost a year behind schedule there.
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Interesting that, for at least the past two years now, we never see Summer with her friends as we see Cody and Owen here. But we sure did spend lots of time seeing the Amazing Adventures of Les, the guy who wrote a book about his dead wife.
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Oh, did Goatee Boy's wife die? How come they never talk about that??
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I don't have a cell phone, so I don't know anything about how they work… but aren't the numbers generally unlisted? How, then, did Cody get Summer's number? I can't imagine her having already given it to him, and I can't imagine him finding a "For a Good Time, Call…" message scratched on the wall of the back stall in the boy's room. Logic be damned! And for all of the lame stories to carry on for an extra week, Batiuk picks this one? Oh well, might as well make the best of it and tear it to shreds, accordingly.
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The only way Cody's otherwise inexplicable attraction to Summer makes sense is if he's a masochist who needs a big strapping woman to tie him up and punish him (NTTAWWT etc. etc.). He's probably going to invite Summer to the inaugural meeting of the WHS rope trick and knot tying club.
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I think TB is way past unless when it comes to reworking timelines.
As I recall, when we joined Act III in late 2007 it was Summer's freshman year of high school. 2011-2012 would be the fifth school year since then and Summer is explicitly referred to as a freshman in 07-08 and a senior in 11-12, so it would seem either her sophomore or junior year takes place over two years of strip time. Given that, Owen and Cody being sophomores would be consistent with TB's rampant inconsistency.
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I think TB is way past unless when it comes to reworking timelines.
Not that I doubt you, but was there a strip from the 2007/2008 school year where Summer was explicitly referred to as a freshman? I couldn't remember one, but I have no problem believing that I missed it.
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Here's two that I could find using TFH's Act III index and a shred of memory.
TB uses school picture day as an expository device to introduce Summer as part of the new freshman class of Westview students.
And of course, Bull's legendary "and she's just a freshman!" exclamation.
Also, just because, GRRR…
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Oh, week 2 of this arc? Wake me when we get to Tanzania.
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Good Lord, does this school have more than 5 teachers on its roster? Looking at Billy's link, Summer was in Les's class Freshman year… and yesterday she was also in Les's class for Senior Year. What does he do, teach a different grade level every period (hell, as far we can tell, there's only about a dozen students per grade level)? Does the Board of Education know about these practices?
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Jeffcoat, if there are only a few dozen students in the entire school, why do they NEED more than 5 teachers? Good God, man, the one time TB actually makes sense, and you complain about it.
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Merry Pookster: Archie & Jughead are sophomores.
Cody and Owen are sophomoric .
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S.P. Charles, it's a valid point and I don't see where Batiuk's making sense on this level, either. It's just something I noticed. It was noticed by others two weeks ago when someone pointed out the teacher/secretary:student ratio for the big Senior Trip. I don't know, maybe this actually accounts for the entire student population arriving at school. The better bet is that it's the usual sloppy storytelling. Hell, even "Saved By The Bell" would regularly whip out one-time-use-then-throw-away teachers so it didn't look like there were only two teachers in the entire school. Batiuk only seems to do that with bullies and girl basketball players from other schools.
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Re: Billytheskink's link to Goatee Boy in a red "Lady Scapegoats" sweatshirt, pennant and foam finger, bouncing up and down on the couch — THAT is gayer than a purse full of rainbows.
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