In the history of "writing", has there ever been a less charming "leading man" than Les Moore? Those perpetually arched eyebrows…the "Mom jeans" he's wearing today…yecch. To his credit, at least he's finally coming around to the idea of Cayla and Keisha becoming his family, with his talk of "two girls headed off to college".
Anyway: what's the deal with Cayla's scrawny legs?
Cayla,we can't forget Lisas ghost shrine room an VHS storage
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Les: "We can't afford a new place with two girls headed off to college."
Cayla: "A new place? I didn't mention anything about a new place. I asked when you were going to kick Pizza App and Budding Documentarian out so that Keisha and I could move in. And, anyway, what about all that money from your best-selling book and Hollywood option?"
Les: "So it looks like this will be our home when we get married."
Cayla: "…*…why are you pointing at just the porch? Y-you're not going to force me to LIVE on the damn porch, are you? ARE YOU?"
Les: "It needs some work here and there."
Cayla: "I'm not hearing a 'no', Les. And you're still pointing at the porch! AAAAAAUGH!"
Les: "The Taj-MOORE-Hal."
Cayla: "*sob* Just tell me you'll let me look in the window from time to time…DAMN YOU!"
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Another case where Tom woke up in the middle of the night, tittered as he scrawled a "punchline" onto a napkin, then worked backwards to justify a Sunday strip. Hmmmph.
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The logical question here would of course be, "what about that book and movie-option money, Les?"…but Cayla's not really, uh…the "type" to ask. No, she's more than content to let Beardo do the thinking for the both of them as usual. Sigh. "It'll have a lot of love"…uh, yeah, Cayla, that's real profound and helpful. "Needs some work here and there"…so what have you been DOING there for the last fifteen or whatever years, dingus? What a babbling, useless dick.
Let's see, there must be at least three bedrooms in Moore Manor: Les n Lisa's, Summer's and whatever room Boy Lisa and his wife are crashing in. So if Summer "goes off to college" and Cayla bunks with Les (shudder) there will actually be MORE room at the "Taj Moore-Hall", correct?
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I love it when Pearls Before Swine's Stephen Pastis creates a painfully drawn-out set up for a horrible pun. Because it's self-aware and self-deprecating. And funny. That's how you do it.
Then we have this. Cayla says, "palace". THUNK! PUN_SETUP MIGRATED TO PUN SERVER. Les says, "Taj-Moore-Hal." WHUNK! PUN_SETUP DOWNLOADED and EXECUTED.
I'll say this, though. The artwork is kind of nice. Ignoring the fact that there's a parkway between the sidewalk and the street in panel three, but there is no parkway in panel 1.
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the new header image is brills. here's hoping if tommy drops in on the blog at all that he drops in now.
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Les: "We can't afford a new place… because your earnings bracket as a lowly school secretary is holding us back. I have my own money, and I already have a house, so what I'm really trying to say is… Screw You!"
Besides, new houses, with their open floor plans, tray ceilings and stainless steel appliances… are evil!
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Nice job with the banner image!! Nice Dead reference on the title!! The FW strip for today is horrendous, though. It's pretty much established Cayla as the doormat in the relationship, but that's nothing new. Of course, Chez Les will be the new home for the combined Les-Cayla families. Have we ever even seen Cayla's house in the strip? She spends all her time at the Taj-Moore-Hall making hot cocoa and fucking up the peanut butter sandwiches, it's only natural that she and Keesha would move in with Les/Summer/Derwood/what'shername. I guess they can find room for Keesha on the sofa.
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Yes, the new header is fantastic! "It's Called Writing"…nice touch. Maybe for this 2nd anniversary week you could feature some old, out-of-context, not-very-funny reader comments and change them around so they're not exactly how they originally appeared.
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I can't wait to see if Cayla has to genuflect whenever she passes the shrine to Our Lady of the Perpetual Visitation.
Where's the Dead reference? Outside of my urge to mention Lisa, I don't see anything Dead here.
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Speaking of Less' upcoming nuptials, what are the odds that Ghost Lisa stands up at the wedding?
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I'm getting increasingly bothered by Les' flimsy justification for Cayla and he not buying a new place.
1) At least in my region of the country, finding a good house for a low price is -very- attainable.
2) Yes, Les didn't get the pay raise, but he has several other sources of income.
3) We all know the real reason is because Les is still obsessed with Lisa. Leave the home where she died of cancer? NEVER!
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Of course Les can't move somewhere else. How do you expect him to live anyplace that isn't haunted by the ghost of Lisa? (Did he ever tell you about his wife Lisa? She died of cancer.)
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Love the new header and congratulations on 2 interesting (in the Chinese curse sort of way) years. Well done!
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Say, is Goatee Boy poppin' wood in the third panel? Must have caught a glimpse of his own reflection in the window.
Funny how Moore Mansion became the last resort. I doubt anyone thought these dickheads would be living anywhere else. And there are at least FOUR bedrooms – one for Goatee Boy, one for Slumber, one for Mr and Mrs Blondie McSmirkface, and one for Lisa's mummified corpse.
I suspect Leslie is crying "poverty" because Tombat has already forgotten about the big book deal and the Hollywood thing. Honestly, I really do think he forgets what he had "written." Why else would he leave so many half-written plot lines just laying around?
Anyway, Slumber and Kareeshia have already volunteered to share a
bedroom, so there's more than enough space, including the Blondie McFreeloader family, who are stuck there until BatSuck remembers they're there and gets their plot line off the ground.That is — unless Goatee Boy is counting on having his own room. Massa Les needs his "me time," you know.
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If there is a moore (get it?) well done website making fun of something awful and forgettable than this one on the whole of the interweb, I have yet to find it! Of course, I haven't been looking either. But jeez TFH, that banner is amazing, and I am not just saying that. Seriously laughed out loud! And TB, if you do pop in from time to time, please know this, you really, really do suck! We are not kidding.
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You would think the royal couple would be getting married after the school year, no? So, what's the crisis about where the heavenly duo will stay? They'll be off to school soon after the wedding, problem solved! Plus, with a book deal and movie rights, Less has to have at least $400,000 in his bank account. Ah Ha! Now I know why Ethnic Lisa is marrying Less, ka-ching! Good going Cayla, take him for all he's worth at the divorce, just tell everyone that Less keeps you watching VHS tapes of his dead wife, and you got it made.
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Two girls going to college?
Like how much could tuition possibly be to Westview Community College.
WAIT… isn't sum-more getting a BB scholarship anyways.?
Super K's dad is paying for her schooling!
And Les… you've been a teacher in the same system for 18 years (any savings?) been working part-time at montonis for a few years..owned you house for 15…have a book deal and movie option income and a big life insurance policy from your wife Lisa who died of cancer…Not to mention the settlement from suing the Doctor who misdiagnosed her cancer…And rent income from durwood and jessica (first month was free but they are both working now…just invisible).
Whew….whatta crock-o-shit.
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As others have pointed out, master stroke with the banner!
One quibble, though: Now I'm going to associate Les and the Grateful Dead. Thanks a lot.
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Okay, I'm a big Deadhead, and I'm not getting the connection. As I tell people, with age, I'm not getting wiser but dumber! What is it?
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"Brokedown Palace" is a song from the Grateful Dead "American Beauty" album.
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A little bit off-topic since the week's past, but I just thought I'd mention this.
For all the ragging I and others give TB, I do have to give him credit for how he has so far handled Chien in The Great Leap Forward. After how he presented her going to the prom with Mopey Pete, I thought for sure that when Mopey Pete was reintroduced, we'd find out that the two of them were married, Chien would still be bogus goth-lite, perhaps with a sprog, but would otherwise be the average Funkyville neutered wife, smirking at Mopey Pete's stupid comments because he's a dipshit. It's such a cliche, and yet it would have felt complete out of character for her as he defined her. So, a rare compliment for how he handled at least one part of this mess.
Of course, he still has plenty of chance to screw it up, since Chien's fate is completely up in the air. She's not married to Mopey Pete, but that can still happen.
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“Brokedown Palace” is a song from the Grateful Dead “American Beauty” album.
Oh, I didn't notice that, I was looking at the new banner the whole time. As I said: I'm getting dumber with age.
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@Charles – I suspect Bitchien isn't with Mopey Pete for one of two reasons: Most likely reason is Tombat FORGOT the two of them had been together. This goes back to what I had been saying. I think he just forgets shit. What is he, like 74 years old now?
The other possibility is that Mopey Pete prefers little boys, like his trolling buddy, Seaweed Head. Mopey Pete is Skunky John's "wingman" over at the playground.
Wait. This just in. Chien is now working as a "docent" at a Goodwill store in Akron.
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I was hoping to find that Kent State's admissions have long since closed for the year when Lisa's Magical VHS told Les to work on Summer's college applications, but it appears they are still accepted through April 15 then on a rolling basis thereafter for available spaces.
However the application deadline for merit scholarships, which i assume includes *basketball*, was January 15. So if (when) Summer starts talking about the amazing full ride she got from KSU (where else?) you can see just how much effort at realism Batiuk puts in.
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You can already see where this is heading. Batiuk won't let Les and Cayla be empty nesters. The only question is whether Cayla breaks out the home pregnancy kit test results before the wedding or after. They will have a son. Les Jr. Les Funky Moore. Then at some point they'll jump forward to Act IV, where Les Jr. is now at Westview, and Summer has returned to Westview to coach the basketball team, and Les is now the graying principal.
It is only a matter of time.
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Adding to the chorus of love for the new header image here at SOSF. I hope TomBat sees it and his head explodes.
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In Act IV, will Ann Fairgood shift back and forth between 40 years old and 90 years old, instead of between 40 and 70 like now?
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Would anyone glancing at this comic for the first time even remotely suspect that Cayla is black?
Darrin, his wife, Les, Cayla, Summer and Keisha.. it's turning into the Brady Bunch at the Moore house! Why not adopt an Afghanistan orphan, a stuttering 5 year old, a deaf baby, move Funky's dad in, get a pot-bellied pig and call it a day?
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@Dreamer — That sound you heard was BatYuck's Number 2 pencil scribbling notes after reading your post. Make sure you slap him with a Cease and Desist if he swipes your idea.
Either that, or you read ahead. WAY ahead.
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