Yikes, talk about lackadaisical. Maybe he could end every arc this way…”and that was how Lisa died”…”and that was how Funky traveled back in time”…”that’s why Les is such a smug dick all the time”…”and that’s why Owen always wears that hat now”…you get the idea. If Funky had just said, “oh, we won a holiday bowling tournament that year” on Monday, all of whatever this was supposed to be could have been neatly avoided and replaced with, oh I don’t know, something about pizza or comic books or an immense sense of personal loss or something fun like that. You know, the typical meaty FW fare.
It’s funny to me how he’ll use FW to promote CS but the CS strips merely used FW characters as backdrops. If you don’t read CS regularly you have no idea who that lady is or why her bad bowling is supposed to be funny. None of the FW characters seemed to recognize their psychotic old school bus driver either, which is pretty weird, as he was supposedly so “iconic” he got his own spin-off strip. The main thing I got out of it was realizing how old Rachel actually is, how old and fat Funky got and how Bull looks pretty much the same as he did back then which is a huge accomplishment in the Funkyverse. So kudos to him.
Son of Stuck Funky 
You know, I don’t think Funky came close to answering Jess’s original question. “Why is everyone wearing Santa hats?”
“Well, this week-long dull story will answer that…or maybe not even address it at all!”
What’s more intriguing is that, one guesses, Funky has TWO photos on the wall of this legendary bowling thing. One, they’re just wearing hats. Two, they’re kneeling by a trophy. Yeah, because you want those before-and-after pix….or, you just don’t give a damn anymore. How many days until that 50th?
It’s a cry for help. He wants to desperately bring back the strip to a time when St. Lisa was still alive, so resorts to lame flashbacks.
Hey, I read Crankshaft and I still don’t know why Lena’s bad bowling is supposed to be funny.
And in Crankshaft, we have Ed and Rhodes talking about how nice it is that we have yet another physical reminder that Lena is a complete failure as a human being. She can’t bowl, she can’t manage a bus garage, she can’t cook, she can’t fire Ed and it’s all funny because Woman is either a comics-hating hindrance, a fanboy-despising shrew who grows up to be a mindless lardass or a brainless doormat.
You know, I don’t think Funky came close to answering Jess’s original question. “Why is everyone wearing Santa hats?”
Well, geez, cut her some slack, it’s not like she’s a documentary filmmaker or something.
“Hey, I read Crankshaft and I still don’t know why Lena’s bad bowling is supposed to be funny.”
Her throw probably would have been more accurate and deadly had she just rolled one of her cookies down the alley………….
“…..Won the holiday tournament.” Between two teams.
‘“…..Won the holiday tournament.” Between two teams.’
Means nobody died
There was a time when I thought absolutely nothing was less interesting to anyone over 14 years old than stories about comic book collecting. Then we got a week about bowling. The bar has been raised.
Why is it in every bowling tournament, the team that’s behind “needs a strike” to win in the last frame? Don’t they ever need only a 7? or a 5? Or maybe they’re too far back to even have a chance. Does that ever happen?
And how is it the team that was ahead by a whole strike had a bowler who couldn’t even keep the ball on her own lane? I guess it’s called “writing.”
And “writing” would explain why a ball that ends up in the wrong lane (assuming that’s possible) counts for the other team.Then again, this comes from a guy who thinks a nonathletic team mascot can catch a touchdown pass — and it counts. And nobody objects!
I think they are looking at the same photo in today’s strip that they were looking at in Monday’s strip. It’s just that in Monday’s strip the photo was strategically positioned so we couldn’t see the trophy, thus avoiding “spoiling” of the story. The only problem is that the part of the photo containing the trophy was not hidden to Jessica, who would have read the words “Holiday Tournament” on the trophy and instantly known why the team was wearing Santa hats. And why should she care, really? Unless she’s just trying to make some awkward conversation with Funky since she appears to be stuck alone with him, while Durwood is toiling away in evil Hollywood.