Today’s title wrote itself, so thanks for that, TB.
Also, Owen doesn’t date because TB forces him to wear that hat. Now he won’t date because mascots are uninteresting losers.
Funky Winkerbean is a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner. [emphasis added]
Son of Stuck Funky 
Are Owen and the other kid whose name I can be arsed to look up fifth or sixth year seniors?Time for another time jump Tom! Hootie hoo.
Perhaps they don’t date because they’re on the five year plan and won’t graduate until the next time frog. In Phase Four, expect Funky to look like Jabba the Hutt…..or, in his case, Pizza the Hutt.
As if anyone would want to date a recluse artist that still lives in his mothers attic in small town ohio…..or are we talking about owen?
Has the other guy who isn’t Owen hit a growth spurt?
^^^ That down vote was sposed to be an up vote from me.
Punchline courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department.
@TheDiva – yeah, think of how much more effective the punchline would be if it was simply “That’s beside the point.” But then there’d be all that white space in that pre-drawn balloon. Yet more evidence that while Tom Batiuk might draw these things a year in advance (including the word balloons), he doesn’t “write” them until days before they go live.
” they’re on the five year plan”
And we all know how well those five year plans work.
I think it’s an unwarranted assumption to think that Owen the Idiot and Cody are seniors. Or am I forgetting something?
OK, with this strip, I think I’ve finally nailed down Westview High’s official school colors. Anyone know the Pantone numbers for white, blood, and burnt offering?
Umm, I thought Owen was dating the Alex woman now? I do enjoy the irony of a guy wearing that idiotic hat complaining about donning a costume, though. I mean come on, that chullo is woman-repellent, if anything the costume will be a huge upgrade from his usual look.
Remember when Owen was Cody’s sidekick and not the other way around? That was pre-chullo Owen, back when he was even dumber than he is now (seriously). For a brief time it appeared that Cody was sort of becoming Act I Les 2.0, the brainy geek/bully punching bag with a knack for scaring away the ladies. But then the whole dynamic changed, Owen got that hat and all of a sudden Cody was playing second-banana. It was a fairly swift rise and fall for Cody, which I would primarily attribute to his overall shittiness as a character. Seriously though, he was really, really f*cking annoying and sort of disturbing in a creepy sort of way, too. So I actually enjoy watching him pathetically sucking up to Owen, of all people. Don’t misconstrue: Owen is really annoying, but Cody had this sort of obnoxious snideness about him that made him the worse of the pair, by far.
Man, for a second I totally forgot that the WHS mascot is a scapegoat. Naming the team “Scapegoats” is probably BatTom’s best gag ever IMO. Good thing he chose that nickname back when he still had a sense of humor, or else they might be named the Malignancies or the Amputators or the Wistful Remembrances or something even worse.
Poor Owen! Not only is he forced to live out the rest of his life at Westview as a Sophomore in some kind of Sisyphean nightmare, he now has to put on a likely very nasty, smelly, flu-riddled goat costume.
It’s not a remotely good goat costume. Even the furries are going to avoid him.
Owen has my sympathy, as I had to be the Easter Bunny two years in a row for a country club I used to work at. You can’t see well, hear well, walk well, and you’ve left wondering who in the hell wore this thing before you did. It’s like renting and wearing a body-sized bowling shoe.
The Westview mascot is Baphomet???
Glasses and Chullo (i’ve given up on their names entirely) were introduced as Freshmen in September 2009, and according to TB’s latest puff piece, will be Seniors in fall 2015.
By the way, Summer and not-so-Special K left for college fall 2011.
That’s exactly it Epicus, all there is to the other guy is that he’s Les 2.0. There really isn’t anything defining about him, so unless you’re writing about, ha, teenagers he really has no reason to exist.
About the only way I could think to actually do anything with Les 2.0 would be either make him Les’ apprentice on writing, or have him completely break the mold and do something completely unLes-like.
could it be that for once what happens that – Owen finds himself liberated from his drab Les plagued little word by donning the costume and being able to express his hidden fire and deisre to perform?
Ha. A postive devlopement? That’ll be the day.