Tag: Bull

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Blob

Link to today’s strip.

I’m guessing that Linda wants engage in a little hanky-panky, proving that she does indeed hate everyone by creating such a mental image.  And they’re going to be going at it for an entire week?  Double-yuck!

Unless she’s making him helpless to beat him senseless, in which case, do you think one week is enough?  Take your time!

Actually, I’ve only seen that “pull down the jacket to immobilize someone” trick done once before, when Humphrey Bogart was able to disarm Elisha Cook Jr in The Maltese Falcon.  And I guess John Candy did it to himself in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, though I’m not sure that counts.  It was a funny scene, though, unlike today’s glop.

Fun fact for people who hate remakes:  Did you know that the John Huston-Humphrey Bogart version of The Maltese Falcon was the third version made?

Rein on Bull’s Parade

Displaying a surprising amount of awareness of sports movie tropes, in today’s strip TB casts the generally unpleasant Linda in the “classic” Wet Blanket Girlfriend role.

She plays the role well too, waiting through Bull’s truly unrealistic expectations (national attention, ESPN) to play her passive-aggressive “rein in the chariot” line only after he spouts something entirely realistic. New helmets and uniforms arrive with new coaches at all but the most tradition-rich college football programs. Really though, Bull’s found an escape pod out of Westview, don’t screw this up for him Linda.

What you mean “we” kemosabe?

While more or less the same conversation as yesterday’s strip (including the DUI AD’s awkward use of “we”), in today’s strip we learn two things.

1. Bull went to college (surprising)

and

2. Bull’s college friends hated him enough that he suspects they are pranking him (not surprising)

As a bonus, in panel 2 Bull does a Ziggy impression that rivals that of the blobfish.

Batiuk to back champions?

In today’s strip, Texas Lieutenant Governor-elect Dan Patrick reveals the real reason he’s graced Westview High with his presence… he wants to offer Bull the head football coaching position at Dallas Ugandan Intellectuals because their first choice did not accept the job.

More importantly, today we learn that DUI’s mascot is the “Fighting Consensus Builders” which may or may not be intended as a joke. It’s hard to tell.
Really, if you are going to name a fictional university so awkwardly just to shoehorn it into a backronym for DUI, at least complete the joke by making their mascot the “Offenders”.