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Blabber Bull

So: is Bull really this stupid and clueless? Or does he enjoy being a shit-disturber?

Where does he come up with the “new address: Splitsville” line? Does he watch Access: Hollywood? Is there no suitable sports analogy, like “Les and Cayla’s romance is on the 15-day DL”? Susan’s initial reaction to the “Splitsville” news is studiously casual, but when Bull goes on to mention the “movie deal” she nearly loses it: she’s all lines-flying-from-the-head, triangle-mouthed, and making that hand-to-the-bosom gesture like Blondie. Bull suddenly remembers he’s been told to keep this news to himself. “Nuts”, he says (second time in a week TB’s invoked that old-timey expression), and “nuts” is what Susan surely is about to go…

Got Your Numbnuts

In the aftermath of the Les-pocalypse, jilted Cayla confides in Linda over coffee in the faculty workroom. Linda takes the opportunity to entice Cayla into a lesbian affair, but her overture is immediately interrupted when husband Bull arrives on the scene. Linda sheepishly reverts to the role of doting wife, and Bull responds with, what else, a sports-themed quip. And um, one doesn’t retire one’s own number, the team does.

Waste of Space

Speaking of painful digging into the past, I suspect a bit of revisionist history…as it would appear that Jessica was the popular cheerleader and not at all a member of the AV club.

— Stuckfunky, April 15, 2011

Turns out our little Darling was both! I guess she gets the audiovisual gene from her Mom, Jan Murdoch Darling, the famous television producer whom we never met. I’m resorting to the bulleted list format to get through everything going on in today’s strip.

  • Another tribute to another obscure comic. How ironic is that banner ALWAYS ALL NEW STORIES ? Nothing says “ALL NEW” like cutting and pasting your character’s head onto a half-century-old comic book cover. And would it have killed Batiuk to maybe Photoshop a suggestion of boobs onto that figure in the red spacesuit?
  • The Three Faces of Jessica:
    • Jessica’s disembodied head at the “top” of the panel has been lifted from the “model sheet” on the FW site’s Meet the Cast page.
    • On the comic book cover: “she” is apparently diving to avoid raygun fire…why the hell is she smiling?
    • In the inset, TB finally manages to make her look attractive…meanwhile Summer needs an eyebrow waxing, and Les resembles a Muppet with cleft palate.
  • A little demeaning to cheerleaders, no? I guess unless a girl plays “real” sports, she’s not to be taken seriously.

Happy Easter everybody! — TFH

Home Inclusion

We’ve reached the payoff, the zenith, the apex, the…well, the conclusion of the storyline. Les offers his hospitality. It’s not like Darin has any REAL family left in Westivew (unless, y’know I missed the story arc where the Fairgoods left town and/or passed on). While we never did meet John Darling’s widow, it’s probably safe to say Jessica’s mother is still around. Oh well, who are we to nitpick? The fans of FW will nonetheless be treated to new sets of eyes watching Les’ awkward love triangle unfold…while Jessica picks through the Darling murder box and uncovers a horrible, horrible secret. Could it be his murderer was her biological father? One can only hope…

-Stuck Funky

Thanks to TFHackett for allowing me the opportunity to guest host! While it’s unfortunate I wasn’t able to keep the (father of) Stuckfunky torch burning on a daily basis I’m glad that fans have a place to trade barbs on a daily basis (I was thinking that final comment thread would hit 700 comments on the old SF site). To the readers of the old site (way back to the blogger years), thanks for your years of readership! Once the stats started going up, I figured it was only a matter of time before the C&D rolled in. (I sure wasn’t expecting the second one). If you’ve only been following this blog for the past year, thanks for putting up with my jibberish. You may hear from me again. Regular programming will resume tomorrow…I promise.

Alterior Motives

The exposition on awesome continues as we learn that the move back to Westview is more than just a broken dream…it’s two broken dreams. Why two? Well from the counter of Montoni’s, Darin will be financing Jessica’s documentary (an painful digging into the past)…and the second broken dream? It would appear that all the research Jessica needs conveniently sits in a small file box in Les’ office…for it was Les who wrote a book about the murder of John Darling in his first of many futile attempts to secure a book deal. I’d like to see the look on his face when his co-opted material gets Jessica the regional Oscar. Speaking of painful digging into the past, I suspect a bit of revisionist history…as it would appear that Jessica was the popular cheerleader and not at all a member of the AV club.

-Stuck Funky