Given Funky’s complete lack of empathy, the bright side here would not be Crazy Harry being spared back pain; rather, Funky would be spared having to listen to his old friend complaining about it. If the Funkman wins back the Least Likable Character crown from Les Moore, why, that’ll just be the pot o’ gold at the end of the tunnel.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
“Light at the end of the rainbow”??? Huh? And what’s the deal with that black background, too hard to draw a restaurant booth or two? And if that’s the case, explain all those bricks he’s always drawing in great detail? None of this makes any sense, man. Old slang from the 1940’s, obscure sports references, weird mixed metaphors and Funky not just being unlikeable and dour but downright obnoxious…this is one peculiar little arc.
Presuming, of course, that companies like Sears and JCPenney still deliver heavy catalogs, I would think that they would’ve delivered them already, since Black Friday was last week. Forget Mendoza, TB has reached the awfulness of the Kent State women’s basketball team.
Thank Christ that your title to this thread didn’t portend a full panel shot of Crazy’s beefy ass. The relief will last me the rest of the day.
I’m curious, has Funky always been an idiot spouting Crankshaft-esque malapropisms, or is this a recent development? Perhaps a contrast to Les’s true gift for wordplay? (At least, in TB’s mind)
Even if the local post offices closes, somebody will still have to deliver the mail to the dead and the dying of Westview. Probably, you know, the guy who already does it.
Mailmen work for the USPS, not for a particular post office.
Oh, screw it…
It’s official: Funky is turning into Crankshaft. What kind of time loop led to this?
Hey Beardo, cheer up! You can sleep in every day, loiter at Montoni’s from dawn to dusk, and haunt every second hand bookstore in Ahia. And when you run out of money, you can LIVE IN one if the boxes you used to have to deliver! Misery RULES in Wankerview.
So which of these characters is going to blame the bad economy on George Bush?
I wonder how the sincere FW fans, the ones (one?) over at Comics Kingdom who say how “true to life” the strip is, feel about a story arc like this week’s that isn’t even remotely true to life.
A unionized mail carrier in a densely populated surbuban part of Ahia with 25-30 years on the job being laid off just because the station he works out of is being closed is about realistic as, I dunno, an Iraqi War POW coming home without a hero’s welcome or a kitten surviving a trans-atlantic flight in a cargo hold. Or a wedding held on a Monday morning. Or an oncology ward getting two patients’ charts mixed up for months on end. Or Les not having been burnt at the stake by angry villagers by now.
Given how much I’ve started looking forward to its appearances, I think the green pitcher has become my favorite FW character.
Unfortunately, today it is joined by the pie display case and the bowling trophy, the Funky and Summer of this strip’s inanimate objects. The Les of FW’s inanimate objects is, naturally, Les’ Yellow Shirt. And of course, the Bull is Bull himself.
…and now with no health insurance he’ll get cancer.
Why is Funky even there with that MBA he hired living upstairs?
So, how long before Crazy Harry is Montoni’s new busboy? I give it two weeks.
And what’s inside the green pitcher anyway- cyanide, vodka and orange, or Lisa’s shrunken head?
I have to somewhat agree with Wanker in that Crusty’s life will change very little. He’s just going to have to give up going by the Post Office on the way to Montoni’s for that Bottomless Cuppa Joe. However, I would like to invite Wanker to shut off the political rap – we all have our views, but the only views applicible here are WESTviews! HAWHAWHAW – use that any way you want, Tomboy.
I don’t go in for much politics either but we’ve all seen how Batiuk uses his weak-ass understanding of economics to blame it on any random thing he’s seen on the news. The news in the back of that 1946 comic book, probably. “I get so mad when i think about how Dewey defeats Truman!” Countdown to something even an Occupier would roll their eyes at in five.. four…three..
Many have of have brushed the issue, but no one has really addressed what we all want to know: how does this inconvenience Les?
Actually CH was fired about 10 years ago, but like “Milton” in the movie Office Space, he just kept showing up and never paid.
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but no one has really addressed what we all want to know: how does this inconvenience Les?
It belies his self-pity.
I honestly can’t remember Funky pulling this “look on the bright side” shit with any one of the numerous pity ploys involving Les.
Is it significant that in the panel where Funky talks about looking for light, the background is completely black? That’s bleak, man.
A few of you may remember my idea for a FW “re-boot” featuring Les Moore, The Most Annoying Man In The World. Well, how about Funky, The Most Inappropriate Man In The World?
Funky: “Why the upside down smile, Les?”
Les: “I just found out that Lisa is dying from inoperable cancer.”
Funky: “Bummer! I just bought her a “get well soon” card, too!”
Les: “My entire world is shattered, what will I do?”
Funky: “Look at the bright side of the light at the end of the tunnel. Susan is still single, you can bring HER to the big New Year’s party now!”
Special sneak preview of the finale to this arc:
Holly: “Oh my GAWD!!! Funky! Les! Harry hung himself in the men’s room! He’s dead! He…he only l-left this note!”
Funky: “….huh. Well, look at the bright side! We won’t have be open as long today! We’ll be able to go home early and relax!”
Les: “This suicide note is terrible. Riddled with errors! Hmph! I guess there WERE some children left behind!”
“Look at it this way, Les. With Susan’s suicide, at least you don’t have to worry about two women being in love with you now.”
And Les would smirk at that while Holly touched her face in concern.
Funky: “Why the long face, Becky?”
Becky: “My arm was amputated, Funky.”
Funky: “Think of all the time you’ll save on washing your hands…er, hand! And you’ll cut at least 20% off your morning shower time! Having one arm is the bees knees!”
Becky: “I suppose….”
Funky: “Oh dammit, now have to return those mittens I bought you for Xmas! Oh well, that’s the way the hand of fate bounces!”
Holly: “Funky! Turn on the TV! Both World Trade Center towers have been hit by airplanes! They’ve both fallen to the ground!”
Funky: “Huh. Well, I bet the people in nearby office buildings have a better view out their windows now.”
Holly: “Funky! THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN KILLED!”
Funky: “Huh. Well, New York has always been overcrowded. It will be easier to find a parking space now. Never liked those rude New Yorkers anyway.”
Holly: “You’re a fucking moron!’
Funky: “Huh. Well, that’s the way the skyscraper crumbles.”
(Funky lumbers off.)