Well, one mystery has been solved. Dolt McMoron’s clearly a relative of Crankshaft. A grandson, no doubt, and he’s inherited his granddad’s inability to use language. I wonder if he’ll knock over some mailboxes in his SUV when he leaves? Or kill people? That could be entertaining so the outlook is not sunny for the Westview nine this day.
As for the actual content of this strip, for the most part I look at this and when I look in the mirror I see Bull’s expression in panel two papered over my own, like some kind of horrible vampire-mask. That kind of dull-witted non-interest depicted there, and felt here, sure makes it hard to wake up. I mean, write. But, credit where it’s due, that knob in panel two is really well drawn. Honestly–it’s realistic enough to be recognizable, but also nicely abstract. I think today’s offering would have been way better if it was just drawing after drawing of that blackboard knob…because the rest of it….zzz
…zzzzzzzz *SNAH!!* I”M AWAKE!
Son of Stuck Funky 
Har-dee-har har, football and its wacky lingo, am I right? Bad weather, physical ailments, grouchy seniors and now we can add “insider lingo” to the list of things TB finds inherently funny. If anyone ever creates a comic book based on the filming of Adam Sandler’s version of “the Longest Yard” his head will implode upon itself. Especially if it’s a Pizza Hut exclusive. And an ashcan issue.
So Batiuk was watching some old John Madden commentary and thinking “Let’s see, how can I suck all the humor potential out of this, then?”
Day three of the DUI joke. I think this is one of Batiuk’s less appreciated patterns: repetition of jokes he thinks are funny. He does this about as frequently as he “John Darlings” peoples’ names. It’s like he’s five and he REALLY wants to make sure you know he came up with this joke he thinks is funny. You remember that joke? It was funny right? DUI! Ha!
Is the joke any funnier if we assume Batiuk chickened out from using the word “masturbation”? No, not much?
Just to show how lame Bull must be as a coach, I don’t follow football and even I knew what a hurry up offense was and how it is run.
Guess that means I’m over qualified to coach football at Westview.
And again, we’re meant to think “diversity in education means a catastrophic lowering of standards” owing to Batiuk living in the same sort of echo chamber Kevin Sorbo does.
I’m just trying to understand exactly how one diagrams a no-huddle offense.
“So your receiver on the left side are going to run a fly route straight into coverage, your receiver on the right is going to throw a block, your center will run a pass route up the middle in an attempt to draw an illegal man down field penalty, your quarterback is going to roll right and… uh… then you get back to the line quickly for 2nd and 14 so the defense can’t substituterate.”
I would call this “Diagramming Under the Influence”, but that would be insulting to the various mind-altering vices that are considered influences.
Paul–we might think that, except that so far it was just a throw-away line. Typical Batiukian frustration–was that a joke? Was there a point? Was the joke the whole point?
Introduce hot-button topics then just leave them by the side of the road. There we go.
Wait, so is this assistant coach recruiting Bull to be the head coach? Apart from the insanity of that storyline (assistant instead of the AD), high school coaches who jump to college to be a head coach perform notoriously poorly.
I’m thinking they’re asking Bull to dump his job so he can be an abused unpaid graduate assistant who cuts film in the hopes of working his way up the ladder. That’s 1/4 inch from reality.
Hm. A thought occurs. Perhaps we’re working towards a punchline in which Bull is too smart to fit in at DUI……