Even the bullies are nerds in Westview! In fact, they out-nerd the nerd they’re picking on: their costumes are much more authentic than Little Billy’s t-shirt attire. Weirdly enough, this is not the first time TB has referenced “Conan the Consensus Builder”:
(Above: 9/1/2009 strip)
Stop the presses: TB boldly name drops a real-life celebrity! Though he’s not so bold as to let us see “MeGagan’s” costume. She must be a babe, though: the mere thought of her in a meat dress is enough to send Cody’s eyebrows a-waggin’.
No wonder Cody and Owen are besties: both enjoy dressing up for Halloween, and then berating anyone who incorrectly guesses at who or what they’re supposed to be. Admittedly, today’s strip is actually funny! Generic Blonde Chick (Mallory or whoever) is kinda flirty, even playfully knocking on “Ben Reilly’s” head, before Owen’s fanboy douchery gives him away.
But the real treat today, of course, is the sight of Les in panel 2, strutting down the hall in full Elizabethan drag! “Hey Mr. Moore! Nice Shakespeare costume!” “Why, I’m not Shakespeare, you dunce! This is a Francis Bacon costume!”
Les vents to his “work wife” Linda about how another student tried to pass off a purchased paper as his own work. I wonder if that student’s offense was dealt with as lightly as was Maddie’s? “Everyone deserves a second chance, Cory…so here’s what I’m going to do. Your dad owns a pizza parlor…so why don’t you make a pizza in the shape of a whale?”
Well, we’ve certainly gotten to know our Maddie a little better over the last couple of weeks; for example (as snarker John commented on Wednesday), we’ve learned that she and Jinx are BFF’s. But although we know she’s in the band, when has it ever been demonstrated that she’s “musically creative like [her] Dad”? And how “musically creative” does one have to be to master “air guitar”?
And a musical “Moby Dick”? Why…it’s been done:
Son of Stuck Funky 
