Puns. Nothing but music puns ahead as far as the eye can see, as evidenced in <today's strip.
Nothing is moving ahead plot wise so it’s hard to snark on the direction the storyline is moving. Dinkle could be sitting at his computer for hours or days– its hard to tell.
Son of Stuck Funky 
So you can understand (some) of this, Jerry Williams and Tom Batiuk are both composers for the C.L. Barnhouse company and the songs mentioned were actually written by Jerry Williams. Why Dinkle is writing this out right now I have no freaking clue.
Well, it’s already Wednesday. I take it that this arc isn’t going to go anywhere. (Surprise, surprise!)
So Claude Barlow is just PDQ Bach without the funny.
When this was submitted for “Wiley’s Dictionary,” the cavemen were so depressed they de-invented fire so as to prevent the future.
It’s almost like a bad beer ad. “You’ve got a week to piss away when you could be advancing a plot: it’s Filler Time!!”
Ye Gods.
Just because you can draft out an entire year’s worth of strips (with your feet!) in advance doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
“Comprised of.” I rest my case.
Batiuk likes to take a week to burn off all the puns and crap wordplay he has jotted down on Luigi’s napkins over the last several months. This gets him refreshed for a big serious story arc, so Cory should be killed soon. He would like to squeeze that in before his wacky crossover with Dick Tracy in January.
Of course, because China banned usage of puns of any type, that rendered the remainder of St. Les the Righteous Smirker’s “trip to Hong Kong to pick up his vanity graphic novel” arc both outdated and impractical. Assuming that Batom® was actually going to go further with that atrocious storyline.
I’ll call my shot: Cory will be killed off on Christmas Eve. It will be a cheap and pointless death for a character no one liked or cared for.
Christmas Day will have Holly staring at the Starbuck Jones collection in a stupor.
Again with the “Anchors Away”. And again, it’s “Anchors Aweigh”, numbnuts. That said, this whole week is turning into one of the most excruciating “stories” ever told. I have no idea who the poor schlemiel Jerry Williams is, but if any of you see a guy running from your building, screaming and plucking at his eyes, then dere ya go.
Nathan Obral: And he’ll make it more cloying and maudlin than would seem humanly possibly, thinking that’s what’s needed to get that elusive second Pulitzer nomination.
Jerry Williams, better known as “Swamp Dogg”, is no doubt earing his funky felt tip tip (FFTT) for his Batiukian-titled 2009 album An Awful Christmas and a Lousy New Year.
Perhaps TB’s dream growing up was to create one of the legendary Swamp Dogg album covers…
Sometimes there’s just nothing you can say about FW and this is one of those times. If I’m Jerry Williams, right now I’m cringing. Hopefully that’s just a pseudonym, for Jerry’s sake.
In the “which SoSF guest host got the worst arc of 2014?” pool, whoever had DavidO looks like a winner. Sorry man…and I mean that. You get a meritorious service medal for making it through this slog.
“He would like to squeeze that in before his wacky crossover with Dick Tracy in January.”
Just a confirmation that FW is jumping the shark.
We’ll know that the shark has been jumped when Ted McGinley appears on one of the arcs.
@Saturnino: Funky Winkerbean jumped the shark when Batom® did that year-long execution of St. Lisa the Chew Toy.
Would that I were making this up- this is from the website of the C.L. Barnhouse music publishing company mentioned by Gyre: “Mr. Williams was a great friend to the C.L. Barnhouse Company and with extreme regret to everyone lost his battle with cancer in 2001.”
So this “Jerry Williams” died from cancer? Why shouldn’t I be surprised that the
FunkyRancid Felt Tip was used here?