“I thought you were going to dress as John Phillips from ‘The Mamas and the Papas’.”
“No, Harriet: it wasn’t easy, but I came up with something even more embarrassing.”
Harry’s a lucky man: he’s married to the only person in Westview (besides Wally Junior) who appears to be getting younger instead of growing old at an accelerated pace. Harriet’s orangely-blonde ‘do at least makes her look much younger than she did only a few years ago, and she’s shed a little of that Mama Cass girth.
I’ll say this for Harry Dinkle: he’s the one character in this strip who looks like his old self in flashbacks. A few weeks ago, college-age Les was depicted without his helmet hair and picture-window specs, looking almost manly. TB has had less success updating Cindy Summers’ narwhal-inspired 80s coif. And during Funky’s flashback last summer, teenage Holly was transformed from a Picasso-eyed ditz into Britney Spears. But classic Dinkle retains his character, with his low-slung Gestapo hat and airline pilot uniform. Nowadays, however, he’s just another of TB’s doughy, indistinguishable, cranky old white men.
Son of Stuck Funky 
