Shoe Nuff

Today’s strip.

I’d give the benefit of the doubt here, and say that Harry is deliberately setting up a joke here, rather than relating a true story. I mean, a group of high-schoolers who are “physically incapable of starting out on the same foot together” would probably be too stupid to play instruments. The throwaway first panel, though, undermines the joke premise by depicting a band member actually wearing a two-toned pair of marching shoes. Maybe it’s product placement.

Peace Cymbal

Link to today’s Funky.

Becky admires a framed shot of the Marching Scapegoats’ controversial 1969 halftime show, entitled Autumn of Love. The program included songs from the hit musical Hair. The nude finale, while extremely popular with the fans, nearly cost Dinkle his job as band director. The band members’ inability to “march in a straight line” in those days was largely due to rampant use of hallucinogens.