And Tom Batiuk continues to attempt punchlines, with a little less success this time around. And Funky, it’s a teleplay, not a movie script. A minor but annoying distinction.
In panel one, we get yet another example of dialogue that a human would never utter. And maybe I’m mis-remembering, but I thought Les finished his teleplay? Or did he give himself a little “home run” just for writing a scene? Does he do that often? “Yay, Les! You’ve gotten out of bed, give yourself a hand! Way to eat that breakfast, Les Moore! You’re a champ!”
I know what you’re thinking–it’s another superpower–you’re thinking, “Well, that was only the first draft of the script. Naturally it has to be polished and re-written.” Oh, so now you want me to believe that everything that flows from Les’ pen is less than the golden oratory of the gods? Ha, got you on that one!
Finally, I’m not sure I get Cayla’s “joke.” Is she saying that Les is only around at lunchtime? Isn’t that the opposite of what Funky just asked?
Or does it mean she plans to murder Les and then devour his remains? Because I think I’d like to see that plot arc, myself.
Maybe the real Les was replaced by kind of Les-like vegetable that grows in Cayla’s garden, and she’s stewed or baked him into dozens of meals. And of course a new Les just grows in the garden the next day, like a kind of weed or fungus that just can’t be rooted out.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Wait. Aren’t they both employed (in name, at least) by a high school? Wouldn’t that mean they’re both home all day long during the summer no matter what? So where the hell is the joke supposed to be in this?
The punch line is a typically weird inversion of the saying “I married him for better or worse but not for lunch” usually said a complaint about husbands after retirement who do nothing but follow their wives around. Another attempt at a dig at Mrs. Batuik? One is unsur
It’s really heartwarming to see how well Cayla is fitting in with the gang at Montoni’s and with Westview life in general. She has that weary, exhausted look in her eyes, she does the tilty-head thing to indicate she’s being wry and/or sarcastic, she smirks like a champ and, most importantly, she babbles and jabbers like a total idiot at the slightest provocation. If you didn’t know better you’d swear she was born there.
Oh f*ck, these cretins are going to babble on all week about the movie script-option thing. That’s just great, day after day featuring that smug little bearded weasel smirking and cocking his eyebrows in that condescending way of his as he subtly gloats about being a big-shot screenplay writer, yuck. Artist-avatar wish-fulfillment, perhaps? Or maybe yet another reminder that “Lisa’s Story” is still a thing?
Wait. I thought Funky was not going to join them. OK, then, he’ll sit down for a little chat, and then he’s going to poison them. Well, hurry it up, motherFunker, either Cayla or Les will undoubtedly speak again soon and it won’t make any sense then either.
“I’m pretty much used to it…every waking moment in his company, never an hour’s peace to myself, unable to indulge my own interests or be an individual or DEAR GOD HELP ME THIS MARRIAGE IS SUFFOCATING ME!!!
If we could read Les’s thoughts: “What the F%CK is she talking about? She sounds like she’s having a stroke. Hey, maybe it’ll be a FATAL stroke. I can write a sequel, Cayla’s Story. Ka-ching!!
“In the main, I’m pretty much used to being the other woman in Les’s life. I knew when we got married, for better or for worse, that it would be all Lisa all the time, and that I would be welcome to her leftover scraps for lunch.”
Just once I would like to see a third panel where the characters all just look down awkwardly at the table after one of these stupid puns falls flat.
Is this all some sly underhanded attempt by Funky to hit on Cayla?
Funky Winkerbean for Les Moore. I don’t know if that’s an upgrade or a downgrade!
If this is a mack attempt by the Funk Machine. He should have ended his first sentence as “So how does it feel to have LESS at Home?”
Whatever recreational drugs Cayla’s been using, from the look of things a cobra could bite her inner thigh and her only reaction would be “Duuuuude, that’s totally awesome!”
By the way, anyone go to the SDCC panel? Or find a report from someone who did?
It could be worse. Batiuk could have hired a guest artist to do a month and a half of Bull coaching the summer girls softball team with star pitcher Summer. Oh yeah he did that already, I’m still having nightmares from two years ago
Here’s the only write up I could find. Money quote”I don’t owe people a funny strip every day.”
http://www.philnel.com/2013/07/22/comic-con-5/
But then he goes on to say he tries his best every day.
I think I speak for all of us when I say that I’m now utterly terrified of the day when he decides to just half ass it. It’ll make MANOS: The Hands of Fate look like THE SHINING.
Another quote from the article: “I still get emails: ‘I really love your strip, especially the early funny ones.’”
It would be much funnier if it wasn’t stolen from Woody Allen.