15 thoughts on “Saturday, Sept. 20”

  1. It wasn’t available for preview…yet it really sort of was, wasn’t it? Anyhow, it’s just another dumb, lazy, obnoxious and somewhat snide gag about Bull and how much he sucks. Even the artwork is strictly from the Bull template, the dour look of a beaten man as he makes an unfunny joke that was already beaten into the ground and then some twenty-five years ago. The only noteworthy thing about this week was that, incredibly, someone got paid to author it. Always boggles my mind.

  4. This “joke” doesn’t work no matter how you parse it. Your copy of the picture is $20 and blacking out your face on your copy increases it to $25. I guess Bull(shit) is counting on his students being too stupid to black out their own faces. He must also think that like the apocryphal ostrich the students believe that by blacking out their faces no one else will be able to see them.

    Of course considering the quality of the so called teachers at Westview daycare those are probably valid assumptions.

  5. This strip never ceases to amaze me. Just when you think it can’t get any worse/more lame…it always does!

    P.S. Looks like I’ll be sticking around here for a while…some bozos had me blocked from Comics Kingdom! (They can’t handle the truth, perhaps?)

  6. Meanwhile, Batiuk missed the most obvious bad joke in his attempt to avenge himself on people who don’t remember him and would probably tell him to suck it up and move on if they did: “For thirty bucks, we can completely Photoshop you out like you were a purged Soviet commissar from the thirties.”

  7. So that’s the joke. An adult stands up to speak to a bunch of children and he insults them, and that’s funny.

    And it’s really not particularly funny when it’s the final strip in a full week of nothing but this fat slob coach (a former bully in high school, no less) insulting these kids.

    Anyway, I’m sure we’ll have a major change of pace next week when we move to the classroom with Super Duper English teacher Les Moore spending six days openly insulting all his students.

  8. “Even the artwork is strictly from the Bull template, the dour look of a beaten man as he makes an unfunny joke that was already beaten into the ground and then some twenty-five years ago”

    Actually, the look on Bull’s face in panel 3 reminds me of those animal matchbook covers from years past.

    The ones where the animals all look like they are getting ready to vomit.

  9. It just occurred to me. From my drinking game “Every time a teenager appears, only to exist so an adult can say something to them or they can react to an adult saying something, take a drink.”

    Welp, get chugging people.

  10. @Gyre: Take another shot if the thing that adult says assumes that the child is a disappointment or embarrassment that the poor adult is shackled with. Oh, wait. You’d die of alcohol poisoning.

  12. Today’s strip wasn’t available for preview…

    Just like a really bad movie that is never screened for critics.

  13. When you think about it a number of the teachers are a little abusive. Les sneers and insults the students. Becky forces them to perform in monsoons (without a care for their health). Bull constantly puts them down and now blackmails them. Even the stricter school eras would probably have issues with these three.

  15. By the way, is the photographer putting away his equipment? Does this mean that Tom Batiuk is NOT going to show us an entire week of shutter-pushing? Wow, what a mistake! Because, Mr. Batiuk, you’ll never get fifty years without padding mercilessly! You could get an entire week out of the photographer. Here’s how:

    Monday–
    1: Bull: So, do you have everything you need?
    2: Photog: Almost…

    Tuesday:
    1: Photog: Okay, guys, can you skootch over to the left a little.
    2: (The team does so, hilariously)
    3: Photog: That’s great…

    Wednesday:
    1: Photog: Okay, guys, let’s perk up. Show me your championship faces!
    2: Photog: …well, those are not the faces I was expecting–

    Thursday:
    1: Bull: So, how long until I can see the proofs?
    2: Photog: Ten days…

    Friday:
    1: Bull: So, you must shoot a lot of portraits…
    2: Bull: …have you ever thought about shooting yourself?

    Saturday:
    1: Photog: Well, off to my next shoot.
    2: Bull: Say…have you ever heard–

    Sunday:
    Comic book tribute (Hey, do I have to do everything?)

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