They didn’t have a joke.
They didn’t have a goal.
They didn’t elicit an emotion (other than confusion.)
They didn’t convey any useful or interesting information.
They were….
The Nominees for
Most Pointless Strip of 2025
That Isn’t Even a Real Place
And Who is She?
And This. Definitely Needed. Three Panels.
Mindless Binging
Hopping Times at the HoJo.
Invasive Weeds
This Strip is Sponsored by Shillcon
Grounds for Termination
The strip that got the most points (ironic).
And This. Definitely Needed. Three Panels.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Today’s Crankfuckery
(meanwhile in Westview, Dinkle is getting beat up by a bunch of his former band students)
I honestly can’t remember which one I voted for. Having just read these strips again, I can barely remember having read them in the first place. For that matter, I can barely remember having re-read them just now. They’re that unmemorable.
Whichever strip won, it probably deserved to, I guess. I’m not scrolling up again to check. (Or maybe I just did and already forgot?)
Sometimes I’ll scroll through the archives, and I’m always amazed by how much of FW I instantly forgot. It really was that boring.
The sad thing is that the foolish man smirking smugly at the people he’s baffling thinks that information has been conveyed.
2/20: What idiot leaves pet dishes outside?
The kind of idiot that keeps pets despite being a 107-year-old man with dementia issues, and a complete lack of interest in anything other than himself.
When you’re bringing back a long-unseen family pet for a week of gags, you really should build one of the gags around the owner’s inability to feed and water.
But, I’ll forgive this arc if Saturday’s joke is “oops, it looks like the dog died years ago, and this story has been sitting in our queue so long we just now got to it!” Bonus points for “that’s also why we’re appearing in a comic strip in 2026 when we’re such an outdated reference!”
I voted for Invasive Weeds, because it was the most blatant. The entire Funkyverse needs to be introduced to the concept of “sir, nobody gives a shit.” As well as basic commercial concepts like “sir, we don’t stock flowers that nobody buys anymore.” Any florist is probably dealing with at least three bridezillas at any given time, and doesn’t want any drama from this corpse-humping old guy. (I imagine that creepy men are also a regular customer type.) “Place your order and come back in a week, sir. I’m sorry to hear that, sir. Good day to you.” I’m sick of watching the world indulge his characters’ wistfulness, for situations that were 100% their own fault.
And Who Is She? was my runner-up, because of how socially ignorant, dickish, unfunny, and it is. Pam obviously means “how is her recovery?”, having just been told about the broken leg. We have no idea who this person or his daughter are, but that’s down the list off this strip’s offenses. Whoever he is, he’s an asshole, and this strip needed a third panel of Pam telling him to go fornicate himself.
I also Photoshop parodied Invasive Weeds and This Scene Is Sponsored By Shillcon:
“Invasive Weeds” was very worthy, as BJr6K notes. “Old Guy + Dead Girlfriend + Flowers = Poignant! GOD, I’m good!,” you can practically hear Bats thinking. Not only is he wrong about how pathos works, he’s trying to get us to feel sorry for a loathesome dolt who, incel-like, preferred to wallow in self-pity till the age of 115 than to actually man up and do anything while his “beloved” was alive.
But I still had to give it to “And who is she,” because it ticks every box — stupid concept; random one-off characters; boring visuals; no joke — and adds the classic Funkshaftiverse element of People Being Hostile Assholes for Absolutely No Reason.
the classic Funkshaftiverse element of People Being Hostile Assholes for Absolutely No Reason
And they’re never assholes when they absolutely should be.