Les is kidding himself comparing Cory’s physical prowess to his and Funky’s youthful own. And Batiuk’s kidding himself if he thinks it’s enough to take a phrase, replace one word with its opposite, and offer that as a punchline. It’s the third time he’s done it in the last couple weeks.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Send the award back to the engraver because we have a new entry in the “worst single gag of the year” category. If Batom was only half as clever as he thinks he is this strip might sometimes be semi-tolerable. But alas, he isn’t and it’s not.
Is that Corey, or did BSD Lisa come back from the dead to taunt them?
Humph.
I wonder who drew this. Tom Batiuk would never draw Les’ hair so badly. Did he break his foot again?
(*Smacks forehead*)
Great. He’s mutated into fat, miserable, loses all the time Crankshaft.
Umm, Les? Your youth was spent getting beaten up by bullies and getting stuck on a gym rope…
Yow. I stayed up past midnight to read the strip and posted from my phone. I didn’t see until now that Funky says “now we’re in our oldth” (I thought he just said “old”) Punchline’s even suckier than I thought,
What is the opposite of funny? Exhumor?
Sure, the punchline is pitiful, but today’s strip isn’t about the humor. It is really about all of the questions raised by the little details.
Things like:
– How did TB get the 2014 version of Bill Belichick to wear a Browns hat, a team he has not coached in 20 years?
– Are those the same tights Les wore when he dressed up like Francis Bacon for Halloween?
– Was Les about to threaten Cory with “water bottle” before being left in the dust?
– How much practice did it take Cory to pull of that Ziggy face?
– Is that a shovel handle behind Les in panel 1?
– Who shoveled and salted the sidewalk for these schmucks anyways? Most thankless job in America for certain…
“Oldth.”
“It’s called writing.” Seriously, this guy just revels in what he doesn’t even try to do.
And who on earth decides during their time off with family on a freezing winter day to go jogging all of a sudden with a non-relative? Can the characters in this strip ever just chill out and relax and engage in normal downtime?
Oldth. Durr hurr hurr. Wordplay FUNNY! Yet another example of what Batslop writes when he doesn’t get enough sleep. Thinking he woke up at 3 one morning and thought, “youth… youngth… oldth… durr hurr hurr…” and wrote it down. “Anymore, that quip is sitting on my mind, so I’m going to force that into a PUNchline! Because Funky is fat. And OLD!”
Love the Cleveland Browns hat. Nice touch. It’s like Batty is thinking Funky doesn’t look like ENOUGH of a loser. Let’s whip a BROWNS hat on him.You know the Browns. That’s the team that sucked for decades until Cleveland pushed them out the door into the waiting arms of Baltimore, who turned them into the winning Ravens. TWO Super Bowl trophies since Cleveland kicked them out.
So get this: Cleveland fans pissed and moaned and whined to the NFL after they chased away the Browns, so the NFL gave the babies their bottle and gave Cleveland some NEW Browns only three years later, in 1999. Same team name. Same colors. Same records and history. And they’ve sucked since. Maybe Baltimore can come pick them up and fix THEM too. Haw.
All I know about Browns fans is when I see them on TV at Cleveland home games, I’ve never seen a bigger collection of fat, ugly, stupid f*cks in my life. What do these people EAT?? Today. Funky looks like almost every one of those fat goofs. (See, I wasn’t THAT far off topic.)
I’m confused about Les’s tone here. Does he mean “Cory’s not that special. WE could have done that when we were his age!” To which Funky points out that they’re not that age. Or is Les making the sadder and less arrogantly insulting comment about how at one point in his life, he could have pulled himself together if he actually had the initiative and done what Cory’s doing? To which Funky responds that it doesn’t matter because that opportunity’s long gone.
Probably the one that makes him more of a douche.
Awwwwww… Tweaked the Browns fans and Ravens haters. Well, kindly suck it, will you? And don’t forget the reacharound!
Haw!
The Baltimore Ravens are the Les Moore of the NFL.