11/27/08
Apparently the best way to make Jeff Ponczak seem dynamic is to cut away to people who are even more boring and lame than he is. Cue conversation between ethnic producer guy and Matt who apparently found his hat. Why should producer guy care about Matt’s petty problems? Perhaps he sees the horrible scarred face and hopes to help the pathetic lad. After all, he wouldn’t want him to end up like he did, having to stand in Marty Moon’s dark basement watching two morons talk about high school football.
11/28/08
Meanwhile, Marla Drutz takes time out from being a real-life VP/General Manager of a Detroit TV station to make a non-real life horrible decision about a local high school schmuck. Jeff, smart? Funny? Likeable? The only way you could think that would be if you’d hired Marty Moon to host a talk show…oh wait.
At least she took the time to grow her hair out between panels one and two. (Or perhaps Chief Whigham just decided Thanksgiving weekend was a day he could completely ignore continuity?)
11/29/08
Hey look, it’s that time again! Another patented Rubin-style* storyline has entered its final stage. So Gil is going to try the Wing-T for the second year in a row? How exciting! Though the way everyone is holding their helmets, I think they may just be a bit too excited about it.
*After 2.5 months of a single slow-moving, drawn-out plot, we are then subjected to around two weeks of a bunch of inexplicable crap crammed in at the last minute, which is then quickly and poorly resolved so we can move on to the next seasonal mess.
WING-T! FUCK YEAH!
Comment by Monkey Time — November 28, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…
We’ll see who gets the shame – Hank or Gil.
Comment by Bryan — November 29, 2008 @ 12:24 am
Wing-T is actually Gil’s favorite brand of fortified wine.
Comment by Sgt. Saunders — November 29, 2008 @ 2:12 am
Wait, they’ve been toying with the Wing-T at practice all year, which is a waste of precious practice time if you’re not going to use the damn thing… their offense has sucked since Sacko was benched, leading to a 3-game (I think) losing streak… and NOW he’s going to install it? Just in time for a job-saving end-of-year victory, but too late to make a run in the playdowns? Fire Gil!
And as I said in the last comment thread, it’s completely laughable to think that a professional TV station would hire a high school student as an air personality on the basis of one live appearance. It’s more like something a community access station would — oh, wait.
It’s also the second season in a row that a high schooler has been given a job that he’s obviously unqualified for. (See Elmer Vargas, Professional Communications Expert.)
Comment by johnw — November 29, 2008 @ 6:28 am
How many games was Gil going to wait before he dragged it again?
Comment by bevo — November 29, 2008 @ 6:31 am
C’est vrai —> WHCC: Wireless Home Community Channel. The proximity of ‘studio’ and ‘broadcast booth’ to ‘spirit cellar’ explains so much. Suggest the Marla Drutz [character] is doing her community service obligation for a shoplifting misunderstanding.
Comment by SemperFi4evr — November 29, 2008 @ 7:49 am
I wonder if Maryland’s offensive coordinator James Franklin gets his game plan from Gil…
Comment by Bill-DC — November 29, 2008 @ 7:57 am
11/27/08 Quantum Shift: In panel 1, Matt the Hatt can be seen in the control room directly behind Jeff. (Which, by the way, would be a really, really weird place to put the control room in real life.) In panel 2, the control room has apparently moved about 30 degrees clockwise, so it’s now to the left of ‘Czak-o-dog. Wu’ hoppen? Either it’s one of those mobile control rooms, or Marty’s entire “Prep Spotlight” set is balanced precariously on a slowly spinning Lazy Susan.
(Say THAT five times fast.)
Comment by johnw — November 29, 2008 @ 8:24 am
“And now it’s time to play around some more.”
What the hell?
Comment by sourbelly — November 29, 2008 @ 8:47 am
YES! WING-T 2: WING-T-ER! WOOOOOOOO!
I’m not even going to touch the whole Jeff Ponczak thing. Suffice to say that I am actually disgusted at how that’s apparently playing out.
Comment by 5-4 Emptyeye — November 29, 2008 @ 10:33 am
I think Hatt and Ethnic producer guy were in a double switchblade fight that they both lost.
I guess next to Marty Moon, 6-9 Zacko is the Chris Rock of Football. Funny? Funny-looking, yes (check out that “Shemp” hairdo) but funny? I predict the Shemp and Marty show will definitely be what drives Marty to hit the bottle even harder than he’s been doing lately.
YEA WING-T time! The only thing that tames my excitement is Gil’s creepy index finger that’s almost as big as his head.
Numer twelve is so excited, he grabbed a bucket instead of his helmet.
Comment by Regina — November 29, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
Marla Drutz used to work at W X-amine Y-our Z-ipper. Makes her
perfectly qualified for this strip.
Comment by Rob — November 29, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Naturally Gil’s coaching rivals will have completely forgotten about his use of the Wing-T– it’s been an entire year. And naturally they won’t have a plan in mind in case he tries it again. But you have to love Milford football, in which the Wing-T can shock the opponent into submission. If Gil were to try the even older and more obsolete Single Wing or the Short Punt, the Mudlarks might well go undefeated.
Comment by vaganova — November 29, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
I knew the WING-T would come in sooner or later, like Chekov’s gun. If only there were a gun.
Comment by mr. beautiful — November 29, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
Do you mean Chekov’s gun or Plaxico’s gun?
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — November 30, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Those scar-like facial lines, apparently an attempt to “go noir” as if we were watching John Garfield instead of the usual Milford tackling dummies, have absolutely got to go.
Comment by vaganova — November 30, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
Oh, no….the wing-T. Then we’ll move quickly to the four-corner stall.
Comment by JJ — December 1, 2008 @ 5:22 am
[...] So what to make of the Swifti Mart outside of Milford and its fuzzy-slipper-wearing Hungarian immigrant clientele? Who knows just yet, but perhaps Neal can run lawyer Ashley Aiello’s fictional career into the ground as successfully as he destroyed poor Marla Drutz. [...]
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