Oh, I see. So what Les is saying here is that those slutty Hollywood trollops only have sex with men that can help them. Unlike those lovely Westviewian lasses who don’t “sleep with” writers until they’re almost completely over their long-dead first wives and the movie-option cash starts rolling in, I guess. Way to denigrate a hundred thousand “starlets” in one broad stroke there, Lester. What a dick.
“Sleeping with…”, “on the make”…it’s 1959 in the Funkyverse, except for the cars which appear to be early 00’s Chinese gray-market economy models of some sort (now in robin’s egg blue!). I guess the trunk was optional, eh? I like the mismatched wheel wells too. That Les is really tight with that movie option dough, you know? I mean who’d let his own wife ride around in a deathtrap like that? You’ve heard of “unsafe at any speed”? This car is unsafe when it’s parked.
Be forewarned: Batiuk loves himself some “boy is the airport a hassle or what?”-style gags especially if Dickface is involved. And Les is definitely one of THOSE people where air travel is concerned too. Whine, bitch, complain, repeat. Remember that time he was storming around the airport and the plane being all rude and disruptive? What a jerk.
Son of Stuck Funky 
There’s a very old joke about the starlet who was so dumb she slept with the writer.
“You take care…” If Less’ sweet set o’ wheels hadn’t given it away, I woulda sworn that such a warm, heartfelt farewell was coming from the complete stranger Less had hitched a ride with.
Wait… why is Crayola brown today?
Cayla looks like she’s suffering from some withering disease…can “Cayla’s Story” be far behind?
Seriously, though, Tom Batiuk, good job on using a joke that’s been around for about 100 years. It’s good to remind people of these anniversaries.
So Batiuk knows the old cliche of writers in Hollywood having no clout, yet he still expects that the Specialest Snowflake would be involved in every stage of the creative process.
Is there an Ohio airport that actually has a “Kiss and Go Lane” sign, or is that one of the dying gasps of whimsy from this strip’s happier days?
Hollywood Starlet!?!?!?!?)?!?!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! No matter how many times I hit these buttons?!?!?!?!?!?!??Its still not 1955!
The problem is that Batiuk is so rooted in his fantasy capsule that he honestly does think that people still say “starlet” and make facile jokes like this.
In any event, he’s more in danger of being confused with a particularly whiny gofer than anything else.
Ewwwwwww.
Yeah, nobody’s dumb enough to sleep with a writer, Cayla. Hey, wait a minute . . .
There’s a very old joke about the starlet who was so dumb she slept with the writer.
I’ve heard that one. I don’t remember the middle of the joke, but the punchline was that the starlet was actually Jinx Bushka.
I had no idea that Soviet era Ladas were still in production? And that you can get them in powder blue, as well!!
Countdown to Dead Lisa on the courtesy phone in 3…2…1….
Wouldn’t it be far out if Les finds out his script doctor is Susan? It would be a coinkydink of Dickensian magnitude.
“Wouldn’t it be far out if Les finds out his script doctor is Susan? It would be a coinkydink of Dickensian magnitude.”
And it is just about the right time for her to reappear. A reinvented and more attractive self that Less never realized existed.
Especially with Crayola remaining in Westview.
Given her need to dress exactly like Dead Lisa, I should think that Les might end up hanging out with a new pal: Great Big Jerk Divorce Attorney.
I’m thinking this will end one of two ways:
1) Eddie Deezen (“Les Moore”): Gee, Mr. Moore, the way you read these lines brings Lisa to life so beautifully. [Pushes script across table.] Mr. Moore, YOU need to play this part.
2) Everyone is so crass and vulgar that Les simply stops the entire production with a sneer, a la Darren in last year’s Frankie arc. Never mind that Les doesn’t have the power to do this, that’s how it works in Batiukland. He won’t even have to return the check.
I’m leaning toward scenario 2, because that means nothing will ever happen, which is this strips’ favorite outcome for anything other than collecting comic books.
@beckoningchasm, Damn it man never ever say c********g c***c b***s when talking about FW! That’s a sure way to start an arc about them. You’re better off saying Bloody Mary into a mirror or Bettlejuice three times in a row.
“We LOVE your story Les! But it needs a little more Hollywood “pizzazz”. So what if Lisa was a one-armed transvestite escort and you were her abusive yet caring pimp?”
(Derisive sneer of contempt) “I’m taking my story and GOING HOME!!!”
Les has already dreamed (?) about how it’ll go and knowing how TB loathes anything new I’d expect it to be exactly the same as his warped fantasies. Re: Susan, that’d be utterly awesome, too interesting for FW however.
“One body cavity search coming up”
~TSA