Well…in case you didn’t see it coming, or if nobody’s spoiled it for you yet: yes, it’s all a sham. “Boom Boom” and Ocho Dos* revel vicariously, but they are the ones being punk’d. Did you really think ol’ young Bull would ever do serious harm to our main man Les? Yeah, so did I.
*The Wally lookalike wearing the number 82 jersey
The weirdest beatdown in high school history commences. Leaving his henchmen in the hall, Bull strides manfully through a pool of Les’ piss, closes the door, hauls off and…slaps him? What happened to that promised fist-down-throat action? “Smack”? “Ahhhhh”? Are they…kissing? Meanwhile, “Boom Boom”, arms folded, gives an approving “um-hmmm“, Wally Ohcho Dos makes an “attaboy!” gesture, and…well, TB’s just given up trying to draw new tertiary characters, so we have to settle for the back of the blond guy’s head.
Bull and his posse are shocked, shocked, that Les has not shown up for his three o’clock beating. But Number 82, who looks like high-school Funky with a G.I. Wally haircut, spots a clue to Leaky Les’ location.
More fond memories of bullying! Bull is almost concilatory compared to yesterday: the fist has been supplanted by a meaty index finger, and rather than make Les bleed, he proposes to “settle things”. Bull should have kept up the violent retoric, as this new approach yields a cooly mocking response from victim Les. Speaking of “cool”, somebody please tell Bull’s friend, Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington, that “burn” was not used in that context in the seventies (except on That 70’s Show).
Makes. No. Sense. The food in the Westview cafeteria is so bad (How bad is it?) that the students are in no hurry to load their trays and eat. In fact, Nerdlinger there in the varsity jacket (didn’t know the Debating Team got varsity jackets) is already retching in disgust. The teachers, though, smile, grab their trays, and muscle the students out of the way in their haste to get to that Meatloaf Surprise.
Son of Stuck Funky 
