So apparently what was really sprained was Ashley’s sense of fashion. Which do you find more hideous? Panel one’s confusing dress-plus-smock? Or the hypnotic squiggle dress she wears to the dance? (At least she has a neck, unlike her mysterious blond friend there.)
I don’t know what those snooty basketball players are talking about in regards to the school dances being for nerds only. First of all, they have a wicked awesome disco ball. Second, there seems to be a whole lot of giggety-ver-schmoikin’ happening on the dance floor. Do nerds get that busy?
“Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.” – Lewis Skolnik
“No one’s gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends!” – Gilbert Lowell
OK, guys you’ve made your point. I’ll tell those stupid jocks they have to live in the gym after the dance is over.
Also, I’m guessing it’s pretty lound in there…I’m pretty sure Mimi thinks she’s answering the question “When was the last time anyone saw Gil?”
In Panel 1, AA looks like she’s already visited the spiked puch bowl. What’s up with the hand.
Panel 2, Mimi is in charge of making sure the punch has been spiked.
Panel 3, Step-and-a-half must have come from the same place Bryce got tank town.
Comment by Mark — March 5, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
Sorry, I must be punch drunk or too sleepy from following this storyline. Panel 1 should read punch not puch.
Comment by Mark — March 5, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Sure, Crip, we’ll find a way to dance. I’ll hold your bad leg up and you hop around on the other! Yeh, and we’ll get the band to play “At the Hop!”
Comment by Gil'sBarber — March 5, 2009 @ 12:20 pm
re: Ashley’s dress-plus-smock, I thought that Ashley had left the hospital still wearing the lead-lined protective smock they drape over you when you get x-rayed.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — March 5, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
It must be a retro dance with a 70s theme. That would explain the disco ball and Ashely’s dress. Although my memory of prom dresses in the late 70s is that they were long, ruffly and generally puce, lavender or mauve.
Comment by laura c — March 5, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
I like that dress. I’m sure it would look fine if it were drawn by someone else.
Comment by Charlene — March 5, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
Sorry Charlene #6, but the only way that dress would look fine is if it were drawn in invisible ink.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — March 5, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
Ashley’s dress? What about Mimi’s maternity tunic and her friend’s I-raided-a-thrift-store-donation-box outfit? It’s like the fashion-impaired olympics, with cankles all around.
Comment by Amber — March 5, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
Giggety-ver-schmoikin?! Oh my God, that is my new favorite phrase. I probably shouldn’t use it in polite company, such as when my parents or the Pope are around, but it’s hilarious!
I had a tee shirt with similar squiggles all over it once…my excuse is that it was 1987. I also wore turquoise hi-tops. (Don’t judge.)
Comment by jules — March 5, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
Wow, the lady talking to Mimi in panel #2 has fat ankles and she seems to be wearing flip-flops!
Comment by Gil's Proctologist — March 5, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
Is AA’s crutch growing out of her breast? And hey you crazy kids, like the nuns use to say…”leave room in between for the Holy Spirit!”
Comment by Regina — March 5, 2009 @ 7:11 pm
Mark, “What’s up with the hand?” is probably one of the few phrases in the English language that is relevant to every single Gil Thorp strip. Heck, you don’t even have to say it, it’s already the first thing that pops into anyone’s head whenever they read this comic.
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