Nailed It

ZRRRNK… what? What’s happening? I fell asleep during the last 5 strips when Les was talking about nails. What’s going on in today’s strip?

Oh, C’MON. You have got to be kidding me. They’re still going on about some bent, rusty nail!? Thankfully, the appearance of an old woman who possesses a head the size of King Kong’s appears to be just about to devour Les whole.

14 thoughts on “Nailed It”

  1. Mason has to be the worst actor ever if he’s thrown by a table read. This is where the main cast, the director, the writers and some other production personnel literally sit around a table and listen while the actors read their parts. It’s supposed to be for purposes of timing, inflection, and seeing whether Les’ terrible dialogue is even sayable. It’s not a full-blown performance.

    I think what Mason meant recently, when he said he was “up for” the role of Starbuck Jones, was that he put an 8×10 in the pizza box he delivered to the casting director. (Stephen Furst, Flounder from Animal House, did this. Hey! I put in some trivia! Maybe I can get a week’s worth of comments out of that.)

  2. It’s interesting how Les suddenly took a shine to Mason as soon as he was revealed to be an insecure self-deprecating dolt as opposed to just being a total moron, isn’t it? Thus instead of snidely sneering at him all the time, he’s opted to grace him with a dose of his superior intellect instead, like he’s doing him some sort of big favor. And somehow, it’s just as annoying as everything else he does. He’s detestable even when he’s trying to be nice.

    A whole week devoted to bent nails. Just when you thought the pace couldn’t possibly be any more glacial, Batom takes it to a new level of plodding by spending all week droning on about something so mundane it’d make a tranquilized tree sloth yawn in boredom. Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a hardware-related anecdote for everyone else in the cast or this could be going on for quite a while.

  4. I’m too lazy to look it up. Are stage sets (at world famous venues!) literally held together with bent nails? And did Pavarotti actually put one in his pocket? I doubt Batiuk has the imagination to even invent this anecdote, but you never know.

  7. It’s actually pretty impressive how every day, Batiuk manages to top himself in being boring, annoying and infuriating. Most comic strips are just more of the same every day, but with FW, literally every day I find myself saying “Holy crap, this is bad”.

  8. What does he have to lose, he says. He’s already lost the same thing we have: minutes of his life he’ll be begging for on his death bed having had to listen to the Tower Of Ennui.

  10. This entire week revolving around Pavarotti’s bent nail obsession will be worth it if next week features people openly mocking Les/TB’s terrible dialog at the table read.

  11. How about them Westviewers, Ain’t they jerks?
    Getting they cancer, wearin’ they smirks.
    Eatin’ they pizza, Writin’ they scripts,
    Substantial ideas spoutin’ from they lips!
    Look at them Westviewers, Ain’t they bums?
    Some gripe ‘n moan, Some make puns.
    Them comic-crazed Westviewers, Ain’t they schmucks?
    Acquirin’ pricey comics through only sheer luck.
    How to be a Westviewer? If you’ll stoop so low;
    Abandon all hope, and move to O-hio!

    My sincerest apologies to Mason Williams.

  13. “For the want of a bent nail the srcipt was lost”
    I think we now have a contender for the most pointless FW Squence – while watching Boy Lisa open an envelope was tedious at least there was a plot development that came out it , discovering that Boy Lisa was in fact Boy Lisa. but this, this is truly a moment of pure Dada anti narrative. It’s the kind of talk the damned souls of a Beckett play busy themselves with. ‘nothing happens, nobody vists, and hey there is a nail on the ground.”

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