Weekend At Baby’s

What faraway place is Les at tonight? Does Cayla even has to ask? Les is with his dead wife of course! Today’s strip has Les spending more quality time with Lisa’s ghost as he ponders what-ifs. At some point he probably realized that he wouldn’t be a delicate genius author if she’d lived, so he’s probably glad things turned out the way they did.

19 thoughts on “Weekend At Baby’s”

  1. Damn it! He couldn’t leave well enough alone. No, he had to go and get in there that Les-thinks-about-Lisa moment.

  3. I know how DickFace feels. I often ruin family gatherings by skulking off by myself to wistfully ponder what might have been, only in my case I wonder what FW might have been like today if only TB hadn’t introduced that strip-murdering little hussy Lisa in the first place. Then someone comes along to say something stupid while grinning moronically and it’s all OK again.

    Perhaps TomBat can do a whole series of “what if?”-themed strips as a change of pace from his usual monotony. What if Lisa kept Darin? What if Becky had two arms? What if Summer showed an interest in the opposite sex? What if Funky wasn’t so fat and old? What if the town was obsessed with sausages and baseball cards instead of pizza and comic books? The mind reels from the possibilities.

  4. “That’s amazing Les! I was just thinking what if you weren’t such a senseless, tactless douche! And I realized that for some reason I wouldn’t inexplicably love you as much!”

    It’s not that Les thinks about it. Lord knows I occasionally think of how my deceased father might have reacted to the achievements of his grandchildren if he were around to see it, or feel a certain amount of sadness that he was no longer around.

    But Christ, the guy’s so hung up on it that he goes and mopes forlornly about it. It’s so obvious from his outward appearance that he provokes inquiries about his mood. And then, he thinks it’s perfectly reasonable and acceptable to talk about it.

    Cayla, you’re finishing second to a dead woman. You should have learned this by now, but Les keeps having to tell you this for some reason.

  7. This may be a new low for Lisa-obsessing. If Lisa kept Durwood, then Les would have gone on to college, well, Kent State, and never thought of her again. Lisa would have been a Teen Mom back before there was any reality shows about what a glamorous lifestyle choice that is. And Durwood would have been a sullen teen who enlists in the Army the day after he moped his way through high school in a town not called Westview.

  8. @ Dan…Alabama is the favorite by 10.5 points.
    I’ll take that bet all day long.
    My other favorites today are:
    Clemson
    Standford
    Wisconsin
    Ohio
    UCLA
    Missouri
    Odds are even up that FW will continually suck

  9. Cayla: “Yoo hoo! Les! Part of having guests is pretending one actually cares about them! Les? HEY, BOZO!”

    Les: “….things that happened thirty years ago. Things that happened twenty years ago. Lisa, my wife who died of cancer. Lisa, my wife….things that happened forty years ago…

    Cayla: “I never thought my biggest obstacle to a happy second marriage would be a corpse and a high school yearbook.”

    Les: “…say, did I ever tell you how Lisa once had an illegitimate baby? And the only person who supported her in any way was me? Boy, was I just the most noble, giving, pure person in the world. How proud you should be of m-….I mean, of Lisa. Still….I had the HARD job, you know? All she had to do was HAVE the baby. I had to put my REPUTATION on line, and I’m fairly sure I had to use my car once or twice! *chuckles* Lisa, my wife who died of cancer…”

  10. I’m blanking on what exactly Darin has done that would make Lisa a proud grandmother. Impregnating his wife? His pizza app empire? Moving his family into a roach trap above said pizza place? Refusing to grow or mature in any way for an entire decade? Hmmm.

  12. Interesting, isn’t it, how Cayla never gets to talk about her first partner. Did he die? Was there a messy divorce? Did he leave her for another woman, or perhaps another man? None of those questions have anything to do with Les, so I guess we’ll just never find out.

  15. What if…. Lisa had kept Baby Durwood, married Frankie and lived happily ever after?

    What if…. Cindy Summers gave Les the time of day, then later died of cancer?

    What if…. someone from real-life (besides Batiuk, if indeed he counts) actually gave a shit about this fictional Lisa character who died 6 or 16 years ago?

    What if…. Les wrote a book about someone who’s actually still alive? Would he be sued for libel and slander by his subject?

    beckoningchasm: “Interesting, isn’t it, how Cayla never gets to talk about her first partner.”

    Hell, Les doesn’t even so much as make eye contact with her daughter, even when she’s in the same room with him. Of course, the feeling’s mutual.

  17. Oh, fer cryin’ out loud; that shot of Less gazing pensively into the middle distance in panel one fills me with such rage and loathing that I’m beginning to suspect that Batboy must be some sort of diabolical, dark genius!

  18. I mean how rude is it to abandon your guests to go stand in the corner and whimper about a laughably ridiculous scenario involving events from thirty-five years ago, a scenario that only exists in his selfish, self-indulgent mind? Pretty goddamned rude if you ask me.

    And yeah, I was pondering that “she’d be so proud” crap too. Proud of what exactly? Her thirty-five year old son who lives and works at Montoni’s managed to impregnate his unemployed high school sweetheart…yeah, I’m sure that wherever she is she’s beaming. If Lisa does indeed have the capability to “see” what the old gang is up to, I’d think she’d be more concerned about her daughter than anything else. Summer appears to be in some sort of stunted development phase of her young life, still dressing like she did when she was 13 and showing no interest in the opposite sex whatsoever (or even the same one, for that matter). And if I was Cayla I’d be a bit worried about Keisha too. I mean she’s Summer’s sidekick, how many rungs on the social ladder are lower than that one?

  19. Hmmmm. let’s see, Oh yes.
    Auburn did beat Alabama… did you catch the end of that one Dan?

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