Damn you, Tom Batiuk, you had it! You were thisclose to producing a funny comic today! An amusing, whimsical little gag that would have had us shaking our heads and appreciatively chuckling, “Oh, that Crazy Harry’s a character!” and making us readers remember why we started following this strip. A funny, two-panel comic. But you just had to try and be relevant. You just had to tack on that gratuitous panel 3. You just had to have Funky show his dimples and try to improve a gag that needed no improvement. Has he been taking douchebag lessons from Les? “I really don’t think that’s an acronym…” A “word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words”?
Yes, it’s an acronym all right. “…although I’m sure there’s an app for it.” Oh, you’re sure? I’m not sure you know what an “app” is; neither do you know that Apple’s tagline for the iPhone (note capitalization and lack of hyphen) is “there’s an app for that” (unless TB’s trying not to infringe on Apple’s trademark). Even Crazy Harry can’t muster a smirk!
26 thoughts on “AEIOU…and sometimes, "Why?"”
Comments are closed.
Son of Stuck Funky 
There’s an app for losing your collection in a fire or flood?!
Technology!
Why is there a question mark at the end of Harry’s sentence in panel two? He’s ANSWERING a question, not posing one. And there’s an “app” for WHAT? Acronym creation or comic book collection selling decisions?
My acronym for today is WTFDIKRTFCS, or “why the f*ck do I keep reading this f*cking comic strip”. IDK, to be honest.
Need a fat loser to smirk at your pain? There’s an ass for that.
STFUYCFAH. (I cheated a bit by making “asshole” two words, but you get the idea.)
Way to reference a 2-3 year old tagline, TB. Benito Finito for you!
Yeah, Funky’s being like Les here. When I read this I immediately thought of that Moby Dick Sunday strip where Cory got the obvious punchline, but Les got the final say because, you know, no one is allowed to zing Les without comment.
Anyway, Funky is being played by Ed Asner today, only without Asner’s raw sex appeal.
Also, Funky’s gone on too long here without actually giving reason for stopping by Crazy’s place. Is he there just to make stupid comments about how well Crazy’s dealing with his economic devastation? Doesn’t he have a bad pizza place to run?
What’s amazing about this storyline is… while it’s axiomatic that Batiuk makes numerous and ridiculous errors when he deals with topic he knows nothing about, the one topic he supposedly does know about, is passionate about to the point of boring even other comic book fans to tears, is comic books. Yet he has Harry planning to solve his economic woes by selling off year-old comics that probably wouldn’t even fetch face value.
Huh? What?? How in the world is there an “app” for this? Does 70 year old GranBatty even KNOW what an app is? He must have heard about “apps” when creeping around the high school, as he claims to do. Some chullo headed, skateboarding high school whippersnapper probably used the term while talking with another CHSHSW. Unfunny, and makes no sense.
For the benefit of Flunky Wankerbean newcomers, and other Beady Eyed Nitpickers, you can tell when a punchline is slapnuts funny: The speaking character is either talking out the side if their mouth, or has a “smirk dimple” on their face. Hope that helps.
Still not believing Beardy McBurnout’s flowery speech. I’m surprised he could even grunt out a complete sentence. Yank it back another quarter inch, Batty, you MFPOSCS.
FUBAR
Crazy Harry’s response in Panel 3 is what I say every day after reading this dreck.
Oops- I menat the altered, much improved Panel 3!
I nominate “Crazy Harry gets fired and sells his crappy comic book collection while Funky watches” as the worst storyline of 2012.
Another NSFW comic strip – Not So Funny Winkerbean
TFH has been doing outstanding work this week. That “Forever alone” from Monday? I’m thinking about it as a tattoo.
GFILMECIAFOFWBWBTLOIR
Is the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen
GFILMECIAFOFWBWBTLOIR
I wish I knew exactly what I mean
It starts out like a G-word, as anyone can see
But somewhere there in the middle it gets offly FWB to me.
GFILMECIAFOFWBWBTLOIR
If I ever find out just what this word can mean
I’ll be the smartest bird the world has ever seen!
[img]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100727200345/muppet/images/thumb/c/cc/BBABC-DEF-GHI1972.jpg/300px-BBABC-DEF-GHI1972.jpg[/img]
Batiuk and Harry need to learn TANSTAAFL.
And then there’s the official town motto of Westview: BOHICA.
Blah Blah Blah. I’m facing possible job cuts at my employer and I wish I would get as generous of a severance package that Crazy Harry would get it, if this had any resemblance at all to the real world. He’d likely get a very nice early retirement package with medical etc and maybe a nice lump sum incentive to get him to take the retirement.
Plus, per https://unemployment.ohio.gov/PDF/Benefits_Estimator.pdf Harry would likely get $500 a week in unemployment benefits if were laid off (as opposed to fired). He won’t get rich off of it. Also, I’m that irritated by it, I think he would get about $350 a month in Food Stamps. They’re not going to starve.
I normally don’t think athlete nicknames should ever be reused, but this strip really should be renamed Lamar Mundane.
My apologies to Dale Ellis.
You’ve seen Crazy’s wife, right?
So has Tombat decided to dilute the Funkyverse down to nonsensical ho-humitude in order just to stone cold piss us off? Well, there’s some crap for that.
So, Crazy is talking about selling off his comic books. Why, then, is he holding a textbook in panel 3? (I’ve never seen a Tarzan book with a chart in it.)
Is he going through old textbooks because he’s trying to find something duller than Funky? Good luck with that, Crazy.
When I wrote my earlier comment in the wee hours, I was assuming that the app actually caused the fire or flood. Now that I’m awake I realize that this is not necessarily a given fact.
Still, in the Funkyverse it’d make Apple rich.
Sometimes, the only thing that makes these “filler arc” strips tolerable is imagining what the characters sound like.
For instance, I consistently imagine Funky as sounding like H.R. Pufnstuf. Only less masculine.
(Les, meanwhile, sounds exactly like the late Anne Ramsey.)
Les, meanwhile, sounds exactly like the late Anne Ramsey
Anne Ramsey would kick Les’s ass. I picture him as either Screech from “Saved by the bell” or Frank Burns from “MASH.”