Okay, the fact the team is terrible aside, today’s strip got me thinking: Do they even make clothing for amputees?
The first thing I stumbled on was a Zazzle site, maker of fine coffee mugs and keychains, that showcased amputee humor. A lot of people far finer than I am have lost limbs for a variety of reasons, and it’s refreshing they seem to have a sense of humor about it. Still, I just can’t imagine pinning up a sleeve every morning. Why go through the trouble?
Ah well, at least the pinned-up sleeve is someting consistent in this strip.
Son of Stuck Funky 
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Breath)
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s it you’ve finally broken me, Tom Batiuk! You’ve broken my will to snark. Hope your happy you miserable bastard!!
Okay, I gotta ask: did Batiuk get his pets kicked and his house egged by the entire starting lineup of the ’78 Cleveland Browns? This goes past ‘lazy recycling of jokes from a premise’ and straight to ‘undiagnosed trauma’.
Q: How in God’s name could the “Scapegoats blow” arc get any more depressing?
A: Just add Becky’s Miserable Marching Morons!
Howard: Seriously, this Batom guy just HATES football, football players and football coaches. And marching bands, happiness, fun and humor…or so the evidence suggests.
DavidO: Oh yeah, he sure loves that pinned-up sleeve. “Never Forget The Arm”. Always drawn with the greatest of care with immaculate attention to detail.
Today’s pinned-up sleeve illustration makes it look like Becky has halfway escaped from the straightjacket. Houdini, she isn’t.
wait, is Owen on football team & band at same time ?WTF
Well, public badmouthing of the team but it isn’t by Bull. Take a sip I guess.
Seriously though, I was going to give Batiuk credit for actually involving teenagers in this but what part of this deals with young adults? It might USE young adults, but it’s been almost entirely adults speaking to young adults and most of those young adults don’t even have names! Do we know the name of a single person on the football or cheerleaders teams? Have we seen any of this from THEIR perspectives? No, we haven’t. All we’ve seen Batiuk have people put down the football team. Hell, the only time we saw a young adult say something that wasn’t in response to an adult was Owen making that idiotic announcement!
The part of Becky today is played by three different people.
Cody looks disturbingly like Peppermint Patty.
Cody has dyed his hair and goatee blue-black, in a show of solidarity with Alex the goth chick.
HaHa – The football team sucks and the band doesn’t give a shit!!
Who wants to see Lefty get bowled over like that Stanford trombone player back in 1982?
Raise your hand…
“Okay, everybody, line up on the third panel!”
“Won’t that get in the way of the punchline?”
“Don’t worry, we don’t have one.”
Diva – That is comment of the week material!
Yup. Diva wins the comments!