Second Fiddle

Merry Pookster
December 21, 2015 at 9:35 pm
Is Dinkle and Harriet (w/violin) now living there?

I had been wondering about the plump little lady violinist too. It’d be nice to see Harriet supporting her husband’s interests (in other ways besides “putting out” for him). But alas, a check of the archives turns up this strip from last June in which in which Dinkle comes home to Harriet after rehearsing the band.

14 thoughts on “Second Fiddle”

  1. It’d be nice if this wasn’t Harriet at all, but just an uncanny lookalike that Dinkle was having an affair with. It’d be nice just because it would mean something was actually happening.

  2. Get a load of BanTom, just blatantly pandering to band directors who tape comic strips to the sides of their filing cabinets. Please, just get this Dinkle guy the hell out of here already, he’s probably the second-most annoying character in this thing. “Fundraising”…just STFU you idiot.

    Speaking of annoying, I don’t like the looks of that header one bit. It’s that same feeling you get when you know it’s just too late and the toilet is definitely going to overflow. Les and New Year’s Eve…shudder. I’m sure he’ll be breaking out Lisa’s “NYE 2015…What To Do In 2016” tape to watch with old whatshername, the “other woman”, you know who I mean. The doormat, the real inconsequential one, I think she had a kid or something too. The one who always brings Les his snacks…I’ll remember it eventually.

  3. @spaceman

    Agreed. It would be nice to see some real action for a change.

    Fundraising…really…that’s all he could come up with?

  4. Ugh. I actually didn’t mind this one too much, but the “at Bedside Manor” bit drives me nuts. It’s one of those things where Batiuk thinks he’s come up with something epically hilarious and is determined to use it as much as absolutely possible. Like “Diversity University Ironton” or “Fighting Consensus Builders”.

  5. @Epicus Doomus:
    Dinkle is actually the most annoying to me. Les is a jackass and insufferable, but stuff at least happens to him and he actually gets an emotional reaction from him. Dinkle is lame, egotistical and incredibly predictable. With him you pretty much know it’s going to be all about “music educating is the most noble profession of all” or “I am the greatest music educator who ever lived”. Or sometimes, it’s raining and I’m conducting music”.

  6. I think I saw that black Christmas tree in a Quatermass movie, and it scared the hell out of me.

    And I think you can snip “draising” from his dialogue in panel two and grasp the Funky Winkerbean appeal.

  7. Hey, as far as I’m concerned, anything that puts distance between Harriet and Dinkle’s revolting old man wiener is a good thing.

  8. Spaceman, I’m 100% with you on Bedside Manor. It’s bad enough that I absolutely despise the stupid name for a retirement home, a place which Batiuk focuses on a LOT. But this past week, “Bedside Manorisms” just about gave me a brain aneurysm. A stupid pun based on a stupid pun, and it didn’t even make sense.

  10. The really irritating thing about his hatred for fundraising is that it has nothing to do with the horrible inconvenience it is for his students to parade around in hot uniforms selling things people don’t want. It’s having to be reminded that for some odd reason that escapes him, people out there in Television Land don’t want to admit that feeding his ego is the be-all and end-all of human existence,

  13. “It allows me to reference one of my tired old tropes while pretending that I’m tired of the old trope.”

  14. Personally I would have thought having no risk of hecklers with a non-existent audience would be the primary advantage.

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