As the ‘goats gird their loins for the game, Bull waxes philosophical, quoting Lily Tomlin but also pretty much summing up the day-to-day lonely hell that is life in Westview, Ohio.
Inspiration Meets Desperation
Tag: football
Scapeghosts
sourbelly: “…it looks like…Cory’s face has been run over by a steamroller.” Looks like that steamroller has struck again!
“Ghost? Haunt? Get it?” Anybody else making that statement would be credited with possessing some wit. But since the speaker is brain-dead Bull Bushka, Les immediately assumes that it must be an inadvertent Yogi-ism.
De-lighted
The Pay-to-Play arc concludes (hopefully) today as Les and two of his harem witness yet another cost-cutting measure. I’d wager that even with the lights off, the visitors hand the Scapegoats a whuppin’.
Forced Busing
I’m starting to think that TB is responding to readers who miss the “gag-a-day” format of Act I; except now, the situation derives from a “topical” issue, and of course the gags are absurd or unfunny or both. In today’s strip we get the setup/punchline formula, a la Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon…”Money is so tight for the football team…” “HOW? TIGHT? IS IT?”
Cutting Remarks
“$600 a player?” Now I understand why Bull is so glum! The pay-to- play – participate – whatever fee in the schools in my town is a more down-to-earth 75 bucks. Turns out things could be even worse, though: according to the article that The Ridger linked to, these fees can run up to a grand! Unfortunately, it looks like the only ones in Westview who can afford the six hundred bucks are the parents of the uncoordinated skinny white kids. The punchline sucks, too: Bull would have to comprehend that Les is talking about “cutting” costs, not players.
Son of Stuck Funky 