Once again,Sunday’s strip got my hopes up that we would at last be done with BasketBull. However, today Les’ mention of that damn highlight reel triggers in Bull a sepia-toned flashback. Well, not a flashback, because Bull wasn’t there. The coach (he’s the one in panel three wearing the t-shirt that says coach) is the late Jack Stropp, who not only fostered Bull’s athletic development but also passed along his gift for malapropism.
Oh thank God, no basketball.
I strongly suspect that today’s strip was originally supposed to run last September. Mainly because Mr. Moore is assigning his language arts class their “first book” of the year…a week before the beginning of spring? Also because said book is Moby-Dick, which you’ll recall figured in Maddie’s plagiarism arc six months ago. I’ll let this go, though, knowing how much Batiuk hates it when his readers pay more attention to his strip than he does.
Ya dizzy bint. Do ye not know what a reel is?
“The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type…In Irish dance, a reel is any dance danced to music in reel time. In Irish stepdance, the reel is danced in soft shoes and is one of the first dances taught to students.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
The Ridger
January 7, 2012 at 2:46 pm
…Is TB gearing up to tread on Pat Summitt’s turf with his craporiffic “storytelling”?
A tip of the SoSF tinfoil hat to The Ridger for that very prescient comment from over two months ago! Today’s strip is also notable in that the girls’ roster has expanded from seven to eleven or twelve (the girl to Bull’s right wears a shirt with no number and might be the equipment manager).
Don’t forget to check out TB’s latest blog post on the official FW site!
Today’s comic is much more entertaining when reimagined as a Sunday strip:
Son of Stuck Funky 
