So Branden’s big one sentence motivational speech doesn’t seem to have worked. Why was this a complete failure when Stormy’s epic 5-day motivational locker room talk last fall kinda sorta worked? Several reasons:
- One sentence speeches are not motivating to anyone.
- Stormy is a lumberjack. Brendan is a tennis player. Everyone would rather listen to a lumberjack than a tennis player.
- The Milford boys are dumb and forgot what they were angry about five minutes after it happened. The Milford girls are all petty, bitter shrews who will hold a grudge forever, long after they even remember how this all started. Hell, I barely remember why they’re mad at this point.
Lots of disturbing girls depicted today (and a big thanks to Frank McLaughlin for his continued destruction of any guy’s fantasy of what’s inside the girls’ locker room.) Most disturbing of course is: what the hell is going on with Paris’ hair? It’s not quite a she-mullet, but it’s damn close. Does she store extra snacks in that little pouch of hair back there?
Since the current two plotlines have beached themselves to die a slow painful death, let’s start a new one, shall we? I guess the reason we haven’t seen Mimi for a while was she was doing a guest spot over at Funky Winkerbean, where she caught a case of cancer. What? People can’t “catch” cancer you say? Well they can if they hang out in Funky Winkerbean long enough.
Panels 1 and 2 would have been more effective if there was any apparent continuity in characters. Paris is in both panels, and so is Helen, but everybody else seems to be different. Say, for instance, Branden is in the middle of both panels, with everyone turning their backs on her. Also, in panel 2 everybody is glaring at Paris. I hadn’t realized that she was the source of all the team’s problems.
Neat trick by McLaughlin in panel 3: he hides the phone AND Mimi’s hand behind her hair, so he doesn’t have to draw either one. I do wonder how well her voice is carrying through her long, lustrous locks (the kind only seen nowadays in Clairol commercials).
Odds on the mysterious “radiology” reference…
– Mimi has cancer (most likely breast) — 30%
– Their kid has cancer (most likely melanoma, with a Curt Schilling cameo to come) — 20%
– Gil has cancer (most likely prostate) — 10% (but my first choice)
– It’s all a big tease, and will turn out to be anticlimactic (for instance, she’s calling to set up an appointment for a mammogram, to be followed by a lecture on the importance of early screening) — 40%
Comment by johnw — May 8, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Another possibility for Radiology — that’s where you go to get an ultrasound. Mimi is pregnant! (the mind reels)
Comment by Indexer — May 8, 2007 @ 11:41 am
.01%: Mimi is She-Hulk and she needs to go down for her monthly gamma radiation booster.
Comment by Scott de B. — May 8, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
That’s almost a cubist rendering off Mimi in Panel Three. Rubin (or the other guy) probably didn’t intend it that way, though. OTOH, I have the feeling that Salvador Dali may be writing the masterplots for this trainwreck of a comic strip.
Comment by Ennui Willie Keeler — May 8, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
“The Milford girls are all petty, bitter shrews…”
At first, I read that as “The Milford girls are all pretty, bitter shrews…” I was seriously concerned for Jason’s health. I tried to call 9-1-1, but since I was holding the phone just like Mimi in panel 3, nobody could hear me on the other end.
Comment by Cash — May 9, 2007 @ 1:09 am
Now I’m starting to wonder if the last panel was supposed to be a joke – as in Mimi’s team has a cancer in its clubhouse.
Comment by James G — May 10, 2007 @ 4:38 am
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