Overdo Me

Perhaps feeling at last remorseful for having worked him so hard, Fitness Girl feigns concern for Funky’s well-being, even patting his flabby, sweating back as she sets up today’s punchline.

 

15 thoughts on “Overdo Me”

  1. Anyone listening to Funky’s body will likely just hear a series of groans and “flubbity-flub-flub” noises. It’s not the worst FW ever, just another “Funky is fat” gag like so many others before it. It’s just the stupefying sameness of it all, that monotonous boredom. The same gags, over and over.

    Maybe it’s my imagination but it seems like we’ve seen a lot of “one-off” or nameless “outside” characters lately. Fitness Girl, all those comic book weirdos, Les’ Hollywood crew, the DUI coach, those horrible Crankshaft people and now Fitness Girl again. FG is practically a regular at this point, this has to be her third appearance this year, which puts her way ahead of Summer and Keisha. And she seems to sort of like (or at least tolerate) Funky, which is a little strange as well.

  3. So, why did Cindy Summers come back to Ohio? Did Batiuk just trot her out so he could show the Superman display at the airport?

  6. In panel 2, the Borg Queen thrusts her ovipositor into Funky’s back. His head shrinks 23% as the larva swells his fat body even more.

    Either that, or the War on Proportions and the Superfluous Silhouette Project have heated up again.

  8. Nothing better to show that you’re serious about getting in shape like being a pizza-eating owner of a pizza restaurant wearing a T-shirt advertising the pizza shop you own while working out, yep.

  9. Whoa, off panel-originating freak hand in panel 1.

    I read Gil Thorp for the freak hands and unsatisfactorily-resolved plots. Given that I read FW for no discernible reason, I guess I understand why TB is moving in on Thorp’s trademarks.

  11. “There is breaking Batiuk news.”

    What an oxymoron! Unless the Pulitzer nominations have just been announced?

  13. Funky exercises but stays fat. Les goes to Hollywood but kills the movie based on his book. Cayla remains a doormat. The only change characters are capable of in this strip is dying.

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