Tag: sports

Celebrate Good Times? Come On!

I would’ve welcomed a “Sundays with Crazy Harry” strip here, but I suppose TB’s gotta let the Sunday-only readers revel in the Westview girls’ triumph. Fishstick Annie cuts down the net— jeez, somebody hold that ladder! And the gray-jacketed OSHAA guy (they all wear gray jackets) passes out the Ohio-shaped medallions (round on both ends and “hi” in the middle!). Superstar Summer and Second Fiddle Keisha pass out the hugs to the nameless scrubs. The rather cheap looking trophy is hoisted, Stephen Hawking Annie admires her medallion, and Channel One is on the scene to record Bull spouting his idiocy.

Epicus Doomus
March 9, 2012 at 11:42 pm

…Now for the Annie Goats victory lap, which TB will no doubt treat like V-E Day or something.

Yeah…that’s coming…

We Are the Champions


Note from TFH: I know that among the readers of this blog there are a number of fans of the Firesign Theatre. It is with great sadness that I share with you the news that founding Firesign member Peter Bergman has succumbed to leukemia at the age of 72.
Firesign Theatre’s Peter Bergman dies at 72,
Los Angeles Times

bobanero
March 7, 2012 at 12:22 pm
…I suspect that in the next couple of days Summer will be sealing the championship with a “Walk Off Free Throw”.

Jeffcoat Wayne
March 9, 2012 at 1:03 am
…Look at the trajectory and spin on that ball, and tell me it’s not headed over the backboard under realistic circumstances.

TheDiva
March 9, 2012 at 1:32 am
…I get the sinking feeling that tomorrow we’re going to see the spirit of the Blessed Saint Lisa guiding the ball into the net on the rebound in defiance of all probability and physics.

TB apparently understands physics about as well as he understands the traveling rule. It could only be the Hand of St. Lisa reaching down today to guide the errant shot through the hoop (hence the incredulous expression on the face of Cedars #3).

Louder
March 8, 2012 at 12:57 am
…A big deal was made that there were 12 seconds on the clock when St. Summer made her dive at the ball, so there has to be at least 8 seconds on the clock. More then enough time for the other team, so it’s not a “walk-of free throw.”

True enough, but you didn’t want to see the inevitable postponed for another week, did you? Didn’t think so. It’s over, Westview wins; big girl Brandy Bowles skulks away dejectedly. On to the pizza party and the Kili climb…

Rim Shot

I tells ya, TB, we can’t take this anymore. We let you get away with the ball-in-the-air-for-two-days gimmick once already (above). It was lame then. To recycle it four years later is beyond lame. You nearly redeem yourself with the interesting panel 2 “inside the rim” perspective. But just about every basketball rim I’ve ever seen is orange or red, not powder blue. I was also disappointed by the lack of a sound effect when the ball hits that powder blue rim, like, I dunno, “doink“?

Sum' Mo' Time

Today’s strip is just packed! More of TB’s trademark bald exposition (either that or Holly is so sports-illiterate that she can’t even read a scoreboard). Les looks like he’s about to hurl; must be that flu bug. What the hell is doing Keisha sitting next to the coaches on the bench? Summer’s game face is replaced by a mask of bewilderment as she is handed the ball by Newark, NJ’s Mayor Cory Booker. I think that’s a basketball, although in the POV shot in panel 2, she’s holding it like a flatbread.

Captain Trips

How’s this for dumb luck? There’s twelve seconds left, but Cedars has the ball (thanks, Cayla Exposition!) when Summer, dehydrated, disoriented and deliriously lurching around the court, stumbles into the Cedars player, accidentally knocking the ball loose! The Cedars girl (wearing Jordan’s number, interesting) responds to the perceived steal with some Three Stooges-like mayhem, drawing a foul and of course setting Freckles up for her Big Moment.