Milford’s devious trickery is capped by inserting a wide receiver with a compound fracture in his left leg. “Surely he won’t be able to hobble past us!” thought the Valley Tech secondary. “Let’s not cover him and instead go spray paint Milford’s bus again.”
Later on, after the Valley Tech team has been recruited by the Detroit Lions, two Milford players engage in an illicit act in the bus doorway (no doubt inspired by the graffiti suggestion now scrawled on the side of the bus.)
And even more laterer: A boring conversation happens, which will NOT distract me from the lovely foreground mullet. Hooray for Mullet Friday!
Mullet guy is 10 feet tall.
Frankly, I’m more interested in the buss hijinks than what Gil has to say. What he’s saying is making no sense anyway.
I can’t wait for Marty to start hittin’ the bottle on camera when he has to deal with 6-9 as his cohost.
Okay, Hatt, where’s your hat…without it, you look like every other generic guy in Milford.
Comment by Regina — December 5, 2008 @ 4:34 am
On the contrary, Regina, you can tell Matt Rogers apart from anyone else by the fact that, 3 months later, he’s continuing to rock that bizarre black-pocket-on-white-shirt ensemble that I commented on way back when.
Behind Gaddis’s head in Panel 1…I guess those are supposed to be trees, but they look like hideously overgrown shrubs instead.
Comment by 5-4 Emptyeye — December 5, 2008 @ 6:06 am
I know Milfordites routinely talk with their mouths closed, but Gil’s really got his jaws clenched tight as he utters gibberish to Marjie.
By the way, am I an idiot for not remembering who Marjie is, or am I an idiot for reading this strip in the first place? Or both?
Comment by sourbelly — December 5, 2008 @ 8:12 am
I thought Marjie was the student paper editor/writer. Or, is she on loan from Apartment 3G? Hmm…. Cross over story line.
Comment by bevo — December 5, 2008 @ 8:43 am
No, Marjie is a correspondent for Milford’s real newspaper. I think.
Comment by Scott de B. — December 5, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Is Gil…making a pass at Marjie? I mean, “season” sure is a weird euphemism for “sexual relationship,” but no more so than “being all but forced to go to The Bucket.” I don’t wanna know what “gimmicks” Gil has in store for her.
Comment by Tim O'Shenko — December 5, 2008 @ 9:57 am
Yes, Marjie covers the Mudlarks for the town’s real newspaper. What, you guys can’t keep track of characters who show up for a single panel once in a blue moon? You need a copy of The Official Gil Thorp Concordance, now available through the Milford Catalog o’Varsity Stuff. Makes a great holiday gift.
And I’m just about positive that Gil’s delivering an indecent proposal there in panel 2. Although I think it’s Neal Rubin’s subtle way of trying to explain why Gil waited a half-season to install the Wing-T: sure, it worked once, but it won’t work again. That’s why he let the offense flail through a losing streak. Yeah, right. Fire Gil! (Is the domain name “FireGilThorp.com” taken?)
Comment by johnw — December 5, 2008 @ 10:00 am
At least Chief Whigham resisted the urge to put a random freak hand in one of the panels.
Comment by Regina — December 5, 2008 @ 10:28 am
But he made up for it by giving the Hatt ginormously long legs.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — December 5, 2008 @ 10:58 am
I’m waiting for the write-in campaign to Chief Whigham to begin, calling for the resurrection of Frank McLaughlin’s “Androgynous Mullet Person” character.
Comment by mr. beautiful — December 5, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Look at his tiny, tiny feet in panel 1. With cankles.
Comment by Kim — December 5, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
“You can’t build a season on gimmicks, Marjie, BUT YOU CAN BUILD A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT!!!”
Yes, without question, this is probably the lamest pickup line in the history of lame pickup lines… but you can tell from Marjie’s avid. animalistically lustful expression that he had her at “You can’t”
And poor Mimi will never be the wiser- by now she’s no doubt comatose from Pepper Vodka and diet pills, in a desperate attempt to blot out the agony that is her life with Gil.
But the worst thing is- if not for the rock-solid love of the saintly Mrs. TCM, I’m pretty sure that I’d find myself in some hellhole of a bar tonight, trying that line on every women that came within range.
:(
Comment by TCM — December 5, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
I don’t want to spoil tomorrow’s strip for you guys, but I do want to say that it is one of the BEST GIL THORP STRIPS EVAH!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — December 5, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
Re: 12/6 strip. Yeah, I really didn’t see that coming.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — December 5, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
The best Gil Thorp strip ever would be a derranged Marty Moon busts into the studio and shoots 6-9 and Hat Boy before tunring the gun on himself.
But seriously, folks, 6-9 and Hat Boy deceived a whole bunch of people, and as a reward they get a TV show. If I were a view of WHCC, I’d write the General Manager and threten a boycott.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — December 5, 2008 @ 11:04 pm