Panels 4 and 5
Number 80’s right hand holds
Bottom of cooler
Following panels
Number 80’s right hand holds
Top of the cooler
Vice versa for 5
Continuity error
Par for TB’s course
Empty drink cooler
Devoid of all refreshment
Metaphor for strip
Son of Stuck Funky 
Wow, was that a great game! Such a back and forth battle that finally took a dramatic turn for the Scapegoats when, uhm, the, uhm, quarterback took a knee?
Well, that came out of nowhere. Bull has done nothing all season but badmouth his team’s ability and intelligence. They won one game by illegally throwing a touchdown pass to the mascot. Suddenly, they are the conference champions?
I guess there could have been a series of strips showing the team winning games and gaining confidence, but it was much more important to show Les and Cayla’s wedding anniversary and Funky’s delightful wordplay while running in the early morning dark.
Another masterful display of premise-dodging by the master. “The Big Game” and “Owen = Zero To Hero” ignored in favor of bad wordplay and random gags. Would you expect anything less (or more) from this woeful comic strip?
Weeks and weeks ended with this? Ugh.
You know, I just don’t understand Mr. Batiuk.
Hm. Not as bad an ending as I expected, but we still have another week ahead. Maybe it isn’t over after all.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in Google Newspapers!
I can’t understand why he even bothered with the Owen mascot thing if he wasn’t going anywhere with it. It seemed like natural FW fodder to me, but then again this Batom clown has been befuddling me since the 1980s. Good thing Summer wasn’t the Scapegoats FG kicker, otherwise we’d have been treated to three or four days of silent strips showing the game winning kick very slowly traveling through the air and between the goalposts, plus a day of reaction shots from the crowd.
The big barrel they wanted to dump on Bull was originally full of sulfuric acid. But then too many Westviewians snuck drinks from it when they expected to lose. So there was nothing left to kill Bull with! Joke’s on them! This strip rates a double seven “tragedy” arc.
Monday, the ‘goats win will never be mentioned again. Because Les makes a pun!
On to a leaden Veteran’s Day strip…..or to Holly collecting funnies…or to Les smirking or Funky not getting thinner or something that isn’t Bull being congratulated for triumphing over his team’s broken chromosomes.
Speaking of stories that Batiuk never bothered writing, is the blonde reporter supposed to be Cindy?
Tomorrow it’s back to “Westview’s football team sucks and has never won a game.”
I think what we’ve just seen is an attempt to return to the “gag-a-day” format, albeit with the flimsiest of underlying stories. Now I come back to my fundamental premise with the zeal of OB Dan and his TGF and assert that Battic has such a low opinion of men’s athletics, football in particular, that he feels that any sort of football storyline is beneath him and he presumes no one among his “readers” cares anyway. From the idiot mascot play – itself a story with more holes in it than Albert Hall – to the “climax” of an empty Gatorade bucket there has bee non action to advance the story – only isolated Word-Faps that only sometimes allude to what just happened to get them there. Unless this story explodes next week into Bull’s bribery charge and subsequent expulsion in disgrace, this story has emerged as about the shittest of the shitty.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that the Gatorade barrel contains ice & bottles of Gatorade, and isn’t just a trough from which sweaty players swig a ladleful. So, there should totally have been ice and melted ice in there.
Unless Batiuk wants us to believe that the players drank the meltwater. Unless Batiuk wants us to believe there never were bottles of Gatorade in there, just meltwater, because school levy.
I’d say this goddam strip drove me to drink, but that’s an insult to alcohol.
oddnoc: if FW drove us to drink we’d all be completely embalmed by now.