Best Boffo Award

After using three outdated terms for a successful theatrical production or smash hit, one has to wonder what script Les handed her. All this hyperbole over a script where the main character dies of cancer? Making my head hurt even more is that Oscar was mentioned after Les made it clear that the script was being optioned by a Lifetime-esque TV channel.

Link to today’s strip.

18 thoughts on “Best Boffo Award”

  1. Wow, this Funky Winkerbean sure is Boffo! It makes me to Socko the thing. Really Smasheroo today!

    That is how pointless those sounds of praise are. Batiuk couldn’t even write her giving anything remotely like actual praise.

    And note, Cayla is STILL just there for Lisa-related projects.

  2. Batiuk’s still on that committee to have TV-movies formally recognized by the Academy, I see.

  4. Insipid! Galling! Dumb! While I don’t know about these fictional Oscars Cayla is jabbering about, I do know that if there’s an award for polishing Beardo’s ass, she’s a shoo-in for a lifetime achievement award. I mean it’s probably only the thousandth time she’d read or heard that stupid story, no? I would imagine Les made her take a “LS” test (including essay) before he agreed to propose (in the very park where her untimely demise began). So her whole “boffo socko biffaroo” routine rings a little false here.

  5. Les Moore remains the most hateable character in every realm. The only hope here is that Cayla decides to become his Iago. Now, that would be a plot arc worthy of a Pulitzer…which means we’ll never see its ilk appear in Westview.

    It’s remarkably sad that the best thing to be said about Funky Winkerbean are the alternate storylines dreamt up by its detractors, starved for some semblance of interest.

  6. Alright, if Davido is right then these words actually are words. They’re just ones that virtually no one will get and I don’t think Cayla would know. What DOES she teach anyway?

  7. I’m surprised that Les’ smug-ass expression in panel 3 didn’t show up on the header art here. I’d say it’s his worst, but he has so many faces that you want to smash with something that it’s pointless to try to find the bottom of this particular hole.

    Sad thing is that you know Batiuk’s going to have this be a smash hit. I’m not sure if he’s stupid and indulgent enough to actually have Les win an Academy Award for it, but you know there’s not going to be a single person who says Boo about it. The only critics he’ll have are people portrayed as too stupid to “get it”, or, maybe, one of his favorite misunderstandings, people who don’t think that something as sad as Lisa’s Story has any place in the entertainment industry.

    It doesn’t, of course, but not because it’s sad. I wonder if he’s being deliberately obtuse when he considers this, or if he really does think that’s what they’re objecting to.

  8. “I especially liked the scene where she was handed the informative pamphlets! Golly! Gee willikers!”

  9. “Remember that scene where she was too weak from the chemotherapy to get out of bed? Yeah, that was great. What’s this business about a talking cat in the kitchen, though?”

  11. Lisa’s Story has a better chance of being nominated for a CableACE award than an Oscar. Still, panel 2 is a nice use of a joke that nobody then under age 60 understood when Muppets Take Manhattan was released 30 years ago.

  12. Really, how much effort does it take to research and realize that an Emmy would be the appropriate award for a made for tv movie?? Four, Maybe five minutes. Tom Batiuk really must not have an internet connection in his home!

  14. More 1920s dialogue for Cayla:

    Attaboy, Les, you old bird! This boffo script is the bee’s knees, I tell ya! It’s the cat’s meow! Anyone who says otherwise is all wet, and I’ll have that big bimbo over yonder give that wet blanket the bum’s rush while I give him the old Bronx cheer.

    Boy, oh, boy, Les, you’re the cat’s pajamas! I love how you look in your crystal cheaters. I just want to get all dolled up in my glad rags and go down to Montoni’s and get some of their Bud Light giggle water. With all the jack you got from Hollywood for your socko script, everything’ll be jake! We’ve got the rubes to spare; hey, let’s go down to the general store and you can buy me some orchid.

    On the level, Les, baby! I had my doubts, but now you’re on the trolley! You’re the real McCoy! I’m stuck on you for good! You’re swell!

    I thought Batominc’s shareholder was in his 60s, but he writes as if he were Montgomery Burns.

  15. Given how Batiuk had his mouthpiece principal not only win over the people protesting that gay couple enter the prom, but be personally congratulated for what he did for gay rights and was made prom king. (As well as run Lisa’s Legacy Run twice in one year.) I put nothing bellow this guy in the terms of masturbatory self-congratulating.

  16. It’s remarkably sad that the best thing to be said about Funky Winkerbean are the alternate storylines dreamt up by its detractors, starved for some semblance of interest.

    And the amazing thing is how little effort and creativity this takes. Know what would be better than today’s strip? How about if Cayla decides she doesn’t like it? Either she thinks it’s bad or she thinks it’s badly done, doesn’t matter. That alone would be more interesting that the constant tonguebath she gives this doofus who obviously cares about her only because he can jack himself off with her.

    But Batiuk can still go down this path! Let’s see Cayla tomorrow at work confiding in Linda or Nate (and it would be Nate, wouldn’t it? Hmmm) that she read the thing and thought it was terrible, but simply didn’t have the heart to tell him. But now she’s worried that she might go crazy because the guy’s been dithering and whining for this long and this was the best he could do? She’s trapped between being supportive of her increasingly awful husband and his special project and being honest.

    Betcha it won’t happen though!

  17. You can see the plot twist a mile away here. Les’s script is going to get optioned by Darrin’s biological father and his sleazy reality tv partner. Nobody would agree to their proposed reality show about Lisa’s story so they are going to hijack the movie version.

  18. Re: All the snarkies aimed at Whitey’s outdated remarks – I’d have done the same thing…except kiss The Grounded One, of course…

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