…said Funky yesterday. I wonder too, since Montoni’s patrons will have three days before Christmas to enjoy the festive fruits of the gang’s labor. What’s interesting about today’s strip
(besides the fact that Jessica’s hair has doubled in volume) is how much loving care has gone into that “Closed” sign. That’s a professional job. Compare that with the childishly scrawled oaktag poster that heralded the arrival of breakfast pizza. Tells you all you need to know about where Mr. Chamber of Commerce’s priorities lie.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Does Wally still work there? Remember the arch when he was going back to community college? Remember when Rachael had a son?
Twas that night before Christmas
And all through Montoni’s
Everyone was hiding
From Les, the big phony.
The rat poison placed
By the grease traps with care
In the hopes that the Health Board
Would not look back there.
Excellent catch, TFH, that is a really snazzy sign by Westviewian standards. And he’s NOT haphazardly taping it up either. Top of the line all the way for the holidays. The rest of the town is going to think Funky’s gone all “big city” and uppity on them, you wait and see.
Poor, poor baby Skyler. Something tells me that he’s going to be seeing an awful lot of that pizza place in his life because Boy Lisa is looking more and more comfortable in his “lifer” role there, standing there all smug like he has the entire world at his feet. First you get the pizza, then you impregnate the women, then you get the power.
“If there’s one thing I love about this time of year, it’s making my employees do a bunch of pointless busywork! Merry Christmas, everybody! Now, don’t forget you don’t get paid holidays.”
Oh darn, all of Westview will have to do their own cooking this year — unless the one other restaurant in town is still in business.
if funky hates working why not retire like old man dinkleberry,then he can just hang around pizza joint an brow beat new guy ,maybe hire some replacement with missing left arm
Man, I love Baby Skyler’s looks of puzzlement. He’s like the only Funky Winkerbean character who is self-aware of the idiocy around him. What I wouldn’t love for Skyler to break the fourth wall and provide a meta thought commentary on the true nature of Tom Batiuk’s awful prose!
@Flappy
I know it’s hard to remember given his hoary,corpulent appearance, but Nana Funky is still in his 40s and is nowhere near being ready to retire.
My guess would be that the Closed sign pre-dates Funky’s ownership, and that it has been carefully wrapped in tissue and put away each year since Papa Montoni’s first Christmas. Maybe he brought it over from the old country, where people take pride in their craft.
This was a totally boring week. Last year at this time, we had Crazy Harry worried about how he was going to get another job. This year, Funky and his wageslaves speaking the week putting up Christmas presents they should have put up three-and-a-half stinking weeks. The post office closing was a lame storyline, but this week had no legs whatsoever. The only way Batiuk can make up for it is to have Cory die on Christmas. That would be a gasser!