“…to the least popular boy!” There! I said it, OK? Among the joys of living in a town which no one ever leaves is always having a “friend” nearby to evoke unpleasant adolescent memories. By the way, here’s how Westview’s High’s “most popular girl” treated Les back in the day:
Cindy has flown all the way back to Westview not just to seek Funky’s sage counsel but to tie up some loose ends, including handing off the chairmanship of the Coming Reunion. This would be their 37th; the 30th reunion took place in 2008. If there’s a downside to being Most Popular, it’s automatically being installed as Reunion Chairman for Life. Meanwhile Les has “résumé” confused with “job description”.
Yuck. I’m assuming that someone out there knows all about whatever it is these two droning imbeciles are jabbering about, as I have no idea. And now that I know they’re into it, I have no desire whatsoever to look it up and find out for myself either.
I guess the “joke” is that “Nordic” people tend to have a gloomy pessimistic outlook on things, which is just an outrageously anti-Nordite statement to make IMO. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if that one guy in Sweden stops reading the strip over this slur. I like the idea of Les taking a dig at Funky for being such a dreary snore, though. Takes one to know one, beardo.
Har har har, I get it. Add “music hipsters” to the list of modern-day whackadoodles. Or maybe it’s a fond homage to those annoying plastic converter things you used to need to play 45 RPM records. Who knows and frankly, who cares? All things considered, this isn’t the worst FW gag I’ve ever seen but DAMN is that gigantic single panel jarring, it’s just huge.
Note the park bench, as it isn’t just any old park bench…it’s a very special park bench. I like how the seasons change in Westview, just instantaneously all at once. That would be so cool in real life, you know?
One final beady-eyed nitpicky point: the floating music notes should be coming from the headphones, shouldn’t they?
Well, Funky, my guess would be that you’d have one nickle, as I for one have never encountered that phrase before. No idea who Sarcastic Old Bastard is, but he sure is lovingly detailed so I wonder if he’s some Real-Life Friend.
I’m more of a casual exerciser myself, so can anyone tell me…aren’t you supposed to do your stretching before you start running?
Look at Les’ delicate little pose there, right dead center of course, and tell me you don’t want to set him on fire. You can tell that was the very first thing that Tom Batiuk drew, then he sat back and admired his work for a while, then sighed and figured he had to get Funky in there “because the gum-chewers who fail to appreciate Les will expect it.”
Well, such work deserves consideration.
Or we could just cut to the chase.
Son of Stuck Funky 
