Category: Son of Stuck Funky

Sour Note

SoSfDavidO here, though I’ve been trying to leave. The aisle is blocked by Dinkle’s imposing form!

Link to today’s strip.

Let’s kick of today’s strip with a clunky line of dialog that no one would ever just randomly say to someone else!

People don’t seem to value the importance of music in our culture. Funny, I thought music was the one thing that united almost every culture across the globe, from Aboriginal Australians to the peak of French Society. It’s been like that for around, oh, 4,000 years or more so, is featured in everything from school plays to movie soundtracks and has numerous award shows honoring the year’s best musicians so I have NO idea what Holly is yammering about.

I mean, what do we need to do, put musical artists on a pedestal and obsess about them endlessly? Oh wait, we’re already doing that.

Oboe, Another Pun

SoSfDavidO here!

Link to today’s dreary strip.

You would think merging two of the 7 known plots in the World of Funky Winkerbean would make for comedy gold but somehow it doesn’t! This strip reminds me of when I was ten and decided that, hey, I love Mountain Dew and I love Nestle Quik– why not put Quik powder IN Mountain Dew? This strip, and that drink (Mountain Quik) both left me with a terrible taste in my mouth.

It isn’t the bad pun, or the uncomedy that is the failing Ohio School System or even impending budget cuts that irk me about today’s strip. It’s the fact Harry is droning on DURING a music performance. Do we really need to tell the supposedly “World’s Greatest Band Director” to shut the hell up during a live performance?

A Friend UnKneed

SoSfDavidO here, slogging through another day of… what are they doing again?

Link to today’s strip.

I don’t know if this is supposed to be some kind of trade show for band directors or what but you’d think there could be a little ray of sunshine, what, with people passionate about a topic all coming together to meet in one place. But, no, that’s not the case! Dinkle must have brought his own special cloud of Westview with him because what should be a fun music-based excursion turns into a funeral march for yet another underfunded Ohio school program.


“Did you know they don’t even have marching
bands in Pakistan? That Taliban outlawed music.”

Band Aid Pun Coming

Link to today’s strip.

Ah, another day, another unfunny quip. (I’m talking about your host here, SoSfDavidO as well as TomBat)

We’re going to be here all week, folks, so grab an over-sized, salty, stale pretzel for $4.99 and have a seat! Your host for this week’s unending list of knee-slappers is someone apparently very close to Harry that we’ve never met before named Hugh Manpun.

Can we just give Harry his Lifetime Award for yelling at kids through a megaphone and call it a week?