Today’s lesson from the Cartoonist’s Studio: how to turn one unfunny gag into two!
Seriously, Mr. Batiuk? Seriously? Groundhog Day isn’t ’til tomorrow, dude.
Tag: Westview High School
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Merry Pookster
January 28, 2012 at 1:54 pm
…Let’s re-do an old storyline for the next week before we continue with girls BB.
Clearly Pookster peeked ahead (tsk, tsk!) to find that, yes, TB is rehashing revisiting a pet topic of his: students plagiarizing from online sources. This time the offender is Owen. Poor, dumb Owen. In his mind, since he copied from Teh Internets instead of an actual, physical book, well what’s the problem?
Raging Bull
Well would ya look at Bull, actually up and moving around and, well, coaching for once! And Summer delivering a forearm smash to a defender (is that legal?)! Yes, the She-Goats are bringin’ it! Meanwhile, Linda grimly delivers the punchline, the whole time secretly wishing for for her husband’s ticker to give out right on the court.
Bag o' Tricks
Before Ann can succeed in boring the girls to tears, Bull mercifully cuts her short to get us to the point of this little history lesson. But the former coach will not be dismissed, and we find out what she’s got in that shoulder bag she’s been fiercely clutching.
Sloppy Second Wind
Epicus Doomus
January 18, 2012 at 2:35 am
He couldn’t just make her a forgotten former successful coach willing to impart her wisdom upon the She-Goats, oh no. She’s gotta have a back story involving some sort of struggle she had to overcome and succeed in spite of, just like every other FW character. Or else she wouldn’t really fit in, right?
Epicus’ comment nails it. At the time, she tried to keep a brave face behind those Catwoman glasses…but the lack of R-E-S-P-E-C-T afforded to the first-generation She-Goats still sticks in Ann’s craw thirty forty fifty who the hell knows how many years later.
