SoSfDavidO here! Let’s take a look at today’s strip. Hmm. Unless future generations are somehow still having to suffer through a 12th FW time jump I don’t envy them no matter what Crazy Harry says in today’s funny!
And thusly, I think, ends one of the longest running non-gag Funky Winkerbean has seen in a while as Crazy Harry and company addressed a non-problem that exists. Five days of Funky slipping on a banana peel would have been more amusing than this and that’s comedy at it’s lowest form. Like most Funky readers, I keep telling myself (against all odds) that next week has to be better.
Son of Stuck Funky 
I don’t believe this. No way Harry likes “Kid Rock”
This is what the monday strip should have been. And no more.
So earlier there was actually a literal connection between the two artists, both in terms of who they’ve performed with and their style. Now it’s just two similar syllables. Batiuk most really think computers exist solely to screw with him.
Batiuk spent (so far) six days this year on Harry ranting about MyTunes. That’s six more days than he’s spent on Harry’s daughter since the time jump.
Yes, those poor future generations, discovering music they might not have thought about otherwise, broadening their horizons…sure sucks to be them, doesn’t it?
Harry now shares Mopey Pete’s nose. And I agree, Kid Rock would not be on his playlist.
Perhaps he really ought to be weeping over the future generation of kids he’s spawned, all of whom have been missing for years now. What a debacle this one was, eh? I mean his subject matter has been limited to whatever happens to be within his field of vision for years now but man, this one was thin even by his standards.
This is another instance that makes me wonder if The Author has gone around the bend. This week makes it obvious that there is no one in his life who has sufficient gravitas to prevent him from making a mistake. (two mistakes, actually: the first,showing his total lack of understanding how algorithms work and second, making three major characters (I’m being generous in my definition as far as John is concerned) look like grumpy old idiots.
Well, given that once he dies, Winkerbean will be forgotten, I think that future generations will be okay. Besides, part of the fun of reading Star Trek novels is remembering that Kirk lumps Beethoven, Bach, Count Basie and David Bowie together as the masters of classical music.
@SpacemanSpiff85: This is because the strip is not about grandchildren. It’s about the concerns of young adults.
I like how he chose Kid Rock. This is Batty trying to make the strip relevant to young adults.
Seems Harry is having a hard time getting his Rachmaninoffs.
There is no future for any potential future generations. Life in Westview is a wierd version of Logan’s Run and The Island. Children who reach 18-21 are never seen…. Their body parts harvested to perpetuate the lives of the few adults Of the ruling class.
Er, I just realized the author may be an evil genius after all. Robert Plant > Emmylou Harris > Kid Rock (Rock and Harris both performed at a 2013 George Jones tribute concert). So can we conclude that Harry did indeed accept his algorithmic fate in the end?
It was said better by Charlie Brown decades ago. Lucy told him that Santa Claus could be easily fooled into bringing her more toys, and Chuck said “I weep for our generation.”
Harry’s line makes no sense. Presumably, future generations will see improved software that won’t cause this kind of heartbreaking problem.
You know aside from being insanely stupid – this last strip shows the inhabitants of the Funkyverse’s madding passivity – something doesn’t work, it will never get better, nothing can be done about it and they keep using it anyway. From incompetent Doctors, to computer programs they may complain but they DO Nothing. It’s one of the things that makes the strip soooo frustrating.
@The Diva: I drew the same conclusion as you. Is this Batiuk’s way of telling us his an incurious dullard who is not open to new experiences?
*he’s*
Oh, T-Bats, if only you had made this joke on Monday and then immediately moved on to more “one-shot” gags for the rest of the week. The Kid Rock/Rachmaninoff joke would have worked fine with Harry just sighing or looking perplexed or whatever. But no, you had to wrap up an entire wasted week with a lame reaction shot.
If I wanted to hear about insignificant first world problems, I’d read Dustin.