You Got Hosed

Today’s strip hearkens back not only to this gag from last year, but to the Act I days, when Batiuk crafted enough marching band strips to fill over a half-dozen books. Among the gags-within-the-gag was the fact that the annual Battle of the Bands invariably would take place in the midst of a torrential downpour. Nice to see Batiuk tipping the ol’ Funky fedora to his own funnier and fondly remembered early work. However, I have to wonder what Westview’s equivalent of Groundskeeper Willie is gonna think when he sees that the band has trampled the football field into mud.