Listen: Les Moore has come unstuck in time (to paraphrase a line from Slaughterhouse-Five). The widower Moore flashes back to his nerdy high school days, where once again he’s striking out, even worse than yesterday, with “Kelly”. Back in the present day, Funky still can’t believe his best friend’s predicament. Maybe since Les hasn’t named the “two women” he’s talking about, Funky thinks there are two more women besides Susan and Cayla who are attracted to Les?
Never mind that: Les’s blue shirt from yesterday has morphed into its customary yellow!
Tag: Montoni's
Those Old Chestnuts
Today we’re hearkening back to the days when this used to be a “comic” strip. Les borrows one of Bull’s fractured sports metaphors to illustrate his lack of success with the ladies. In TB’s latest round of retconning, Teenage Funky sports a turtleneck, and is full of worldly advice on how to score, whereas we longtime FW readers know that despite his “cool” name, Funky was only a shade less uncool than Les.
Jump to the present, where the lifelong friends are so out of touch with one another that Funky is shocked, shocked to learn of this long-simmering love triangle.
Kish Me
Lesser Whark sez: That’s an accurate rendition of a classic Space Invaders cabinet. However, why didn’t they sell it to a collector when they were hurting for cash? Even if it’s covered in 30 years of pizza stains, if it still works it’s worth refurbishing and selling.
Riff Chick
April 29, 2011 at 2:27 am
Durwood: “i-phone tech techno tech screen wireless mobilization pizza unit.”
Tony: “I’m old and technology used today is different from when I was young and used to what was around me.”
Riff Chick distills the essence of the past week’s arc (much more succinctly than the Funk-sposition in today’s panel 1). Poor, shellshocked Tony resignedly trudges his huge, tired culo to the basement, to take refuge in the only technology (besides the fax machine) to which he can relate.
A tip of the SoSF slouch hat to my mate Lesser Whark for his iOS expertise this past week!
Drag 'til You Drop
Lesser Whark sez: “The complexity of drag and drop is only justified if you might put the ingredients somewhere other than on the pizza. Montoni’s: the only pizzeria where you can order pepperoni in your soft drink.”
Sensing Tony’s technophobia, Darin proceeds to just flat-out just fucking with Tony’s head.
Lesser Whark again: “These two strips [Thursday’s and today’s] contradict each other. Does the app just direct people’s browsers to the Montoni’s website (a waste of an app, especially given their discussion on the 25th)? Or, does it replace the website, as described in the second strip?”
Beep Beep!
Funky and Tony look to be about the same age. Except Tony is supposed to be 20 years older than him. –Riff Chick
Could those glasses be any less masculine? It’s like Funky borrowed them from Dame Edna. –David O
I like Funky sporting those Al Davis Granny-Glasses chains again. –sourbelly
Oh yeah, those Funky glasses are just too much. Looks like he just got back from bingo. The guy ages in dog years. — Epicus Doomus
To me he looks at least twenty years older than Tony, who at least is standing up on his own. –Miskatonic Sophomore
Considering Funky’s usually being looking seventy-eighty-something lately, maybe this can be seen as an improvement. –John
Lesser Whark
April 21, 2011 at 5:52 am
Just how does he plan to ‘get’ that app written? Will he write it himself (lots of time), or contract it out (lots of money)?
Apparently, there’s a third option: pull it out of his ass. Darin unveils his (useless and totally unnecessary) mobile app for Montoni’s pizza. Tech-savvy though he may be, Darin has yet to learn that folks in Westview are a little touchy about distracted driving!
Epicus Doomus
April 21, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I just hope White Minivan Cell Phone Girl (if she survived, that is) doesn’t start fooling around with her pizza apps while driving and end up sending someone else hurtling through time.
(The whole time I was writing this post, I couldn’t get this song out of my head: “Goin’ Mobile”, the Who)
