Wooden Dialog

SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins!

Here we are, still in Hollywood. It’s a good thing Les doesn’t have to start preparing for school in the upcoming week or so. Today’s strip has Les still hanging out with Mason, about to watch Mason do a table reading, which is probably some industry lingo TomBat picked up a week ago.

18 thoughts on “Wooden Dialog”

  1. Ewww, just….ewww. Now Pultizer (nominee) Tom is going all “gag-a-day” right in the middle of his weird little Hollywood fantasy, probably because he has no idea where it’s going either. Perhaps all that talk about “beef” got him to thinking about…no, no. Never mind.

  2. So now we know what Batiuk thinks Hollywood life is like: full of loneliness, stress, and worrying that Les Moore will think you can’t get it up.

  4. Heeeeeyyyy everybody! Guess what time it is! It’s time for, Even. More. Script!

    That’s right kids, today is another day of Even More Script, the story where the script is written. For those of you new, the rules are simple. The story’s about a script being written. That’s it. That is literally all there is to it. So, every time you see a script being written, call it in so everybody will know that the script is being written.

    T. B.: What have I done?

  5. “Performance anxiety”? If your Table read lasts more than four hours, call your Script Doctor immediately.

    What a flaccid story arc this is. I don’t expect a big climax, so I’m just not up for it.

  7. Well, with a name like Mason Jarr he almost certainly got his start in porno, so naturally he doesn’t want any ill rumors spreading about his virility. You know, in case this whole cable-movie-of-the-week thing doesn’t pan out.

  8. Geez. Relax Dude. It’s just a tv movie! It’s not like your reading for the male lead in Gone with the WInd! I’m pretty sure you can sleepwalk through your performance. Most fading hollywood stars do, during these things. Just tape your lines to the floor like David Caruso does and you’ll be fine.Hell you’ll probably become an internet meme and get greater fame that way.

  9. BTW. Doesn’t “Lust for Lisa” sound like a sequel to Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”?

  10. I’m just going to pretend today’s strip is about Mason Jarr telling Les he has two sisters, named Cookie and Dora. Really, about anything your imagination can come up with has more humor and less squick than what was actually published.

  11. As Andy De La Tour said in a 30-year old episode of the Young Ones, “Ho! Ho! A cheap sexual allusion; makes the world go ’round!”

  12. I don’t blame Mason for being anxious. After all, he went to study a script on Sunday that Les had to edit on Monday.

  14. After 40+ years, TB decides to do impotence innuendo for the laffs.

    Why, Tom, why?

    Well, Lisa got dead from cancer after TB survived it, so…

    Oh, hell, Mason’s going to die of ED!

  16. I almost want to say that Batuik could make this interesting by having Mason be gay and Les come out of the closet (or out from behind the prom decoration this being Funky Winkerbean World) and falling for Mason, explaining his obsession for Lisa was due to his repressed homosexuality. Two things prevent me from saying that:

    (1)t gays suffer enough hate and discrimination in the world as it is, Les Moore would only make it worse and;
    (2) Batuik would somehow make such a story line boring.

  17. Why Charles Schulz is one of the greatest comic strip artists #863: Schulz never had to result to lines about one’s performance in bed.

  18. If I had to venture a guess as to where this is eventually going, right now it appears that Les, via his small town Lisa-like ways, will save “Lust For Lisa” and prevent it from being a total disaster. Then he’ll go home and bore his pals with dumb wordplay centering around how fake everything in Hollywood is while explaining that everything that sucks about the movie had nothing to do with him. It fits most of Batom’s criteria: it’s dumb, it’s strange yet boring and as always instantly forgettable.

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