4/11/09
4/13/09
You know you live in a podunk, non-existent town when…
- You think you’ve discovered a new star softball pitcher, but you’ve forgotten that overhand pitching isn’t allowed.
- You watch the local news for wacky clips of the local high school coach…(since you, like the filmers of the original footage, have never even heard of the Internet.)
- Your first reaction to seeing such a wacky clip is to dig through your stash of outrageous headgear, select something particularly hilarious, and then bring it into the coach’s office as a gag gift.
- You’re the sixth person to do this today. Plus your name is Phil.
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And…this plot is going where? This would have been funnier if something had happened to Gil other than the ball bouncing on his thick cranium. I hope the station added wacky Benny Hill music like a previous poster suggested.
I like Mimi’s mustache in the first panel of the second strip. Even she is delighted by it as well as being delirious over Gil’s mishap. Perhaps she’s hoping she can finally cash in on the big insurance policy that she bought for Gil.
I like how everyone in this tank town treats a potentially serious head injury as a joke.
Comment by Regina — April 13, 2009 @ 2:01 am
I admit, I don’t own a television, but don’t most TVs these days pick up more than one station?
Comment by Charlene — April 13, 2009 @ 3:00 am
Mimi looks like she’s turning into the Joker in today’s panel 1.
Comment by Scott de B. — April 13, 2009 @ 5:14 am
Mi looks like she has a dirty Sanchez in panel 2.
Comment by Regina — April 13, 2009 @ 5:57 am
MY GOD!!! What’s wrong with Molly’s arm in panel 2? Even assuming that she could fake an umpire out into thinking that she was pitching underhanded, it looks some major corrective elbow surgery is going to be in order by the second game of the season. Since apparently Mimi has the same abilities at “coaching” that Gil has, maybe they should hire Matt, the kid in this picture:
http://www.qcbaseball.com/images/pitching_matt.jpg
Comment by scott s — April 13, 2009 @ 6:09 am
4/11 panel 2 may be the worst attempt at “sports action” I’ve ever seen. Everything — EVERYTHING — is wrong. Not only does Molly seem to be throwing overhand… not only is she, as Scott S pointed out, dislocating at least one major joint… but her stance is all wrong, the flight of the ball is a physical impossibility, she appears to be no more than 10 feet away from the catcher, and the ball itself is too small. I guess that explains why the onlooker’s eye is exploding: her retina hit the ejector button.
And why, of all the embarrassing possibilities of GilKonk, do we have to see Mimi’s unalloyed delight in her husband’s pain? Is there a pending plotline about the collapse of their loveless shell of a marriage? Or is she just the black-widow type?
Comment by johnw — April 13, 2009 @ 6:49 am
Phil’s pith helmet is a nice effort, but it is no match for the flower-print bike helmet. I wonder who gave that to Gil… Shep, Andrew? Probably not, that’s too creative for either of them.
Hopefully all these hats won’t lead us back to a storyline about the guy who wears the most infamous hat in Milford.
Comment by billytheskink — April 13, 2009 @ 7:08 am
Mimi’s expression in 4/13 panel one seems to be something different entirely than the delight of schadenfreuden … The tilted head, the parted lips, the eyes closed in an ecstasy that will not speak its name… Oh baby.
Comment by Rooty-Toot-Toot — April 13, 2009 @ 8:00 am
#6, you’re right, there’s no way Mimi’s “delight” has anything to do with what’s on the screen especially since she’s turned away from it.
Comment by Sourbelly — April 13, 2009 @ 8:42 am
I’m glad Rooty-Toot-Toot said it first, but that panel is just all kinds of wrong. If seeing Gil get conked in the noggin is what turns Mimi on, there’s no telling what kind of hijinks go on in the Thorps’ boudoir.
So they parlayed this into a wacky hat gag? C’mon, we had a wacky hat gag last year when people dug out their sombreros to needle Elmer Vargas. People in and around Milford often find wacky hats to be the most effective way to communicate.
What if Gil brings some of these hats home and Mimi gets a look at them. She might be all “Hey Gil, why don’t you put on that flowered bike helmet and I’ll fling some stuff at your head, because that would be totally hot!”
Comment by Ned Ryerson — April 13, 2009 @ 8:45 am
I’m worried about the fact that there seems to be both a firefighter’s helmet and a helicopter pilot’s helmet in the pile. Clearly at least one member of the Milford FD puts mildly annoying the local football coach above, you know, not dying when they run into burning buildings.
Comment by Schroduck — April 13, 2009 @ 9:32 am
Schroduck,
Is Milford big enough to even have a fire department? Maybe Gil is a volunteer fireman, and that’s his own helmet. You do need somebody around for when kid gets stuck in tree, after all.
Comment by Scott de B. — April 13, 2009 @ 10:01 am
Clambake sighting! http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090413&name=Crankshaft
Comment by Satchel Paige — April 13, 2009 @ 10:58 am
that’s not delight, that’s ecstasy.
Comment by Emily — April 13, 2009 @ 11:27 am
I could not find WHCC-TV 7 but there is a WHCC-FM. http://www.whcc105.com/
Comment by Wing-T Nut — April 13, 2009 @ 11:57 am
Nah, he’s too dark to be Clambake.
Comment by Regina — April 13, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Ecstasy, absolutely. I think yesterday’s comment about someone being there prior to Gil’s arrival had it right. Perhaps there is a menage-a-trois happening right before our eyes in panel 1. We only get the facial shot of Mimi for evidence.
Comment by meathook — April 13, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
Yes in panel one of the 4/13 strip Mimi seams to be focused on something more than the news.
Comment by Bobby Joe — April 13, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
Thats not Mimi… that’s Bridget Bardot!!!!
Molly threw the ball so hard it turned into an elipse!
Its funny that you can even see the BOINK lines on Video tape!!!! Even though they (and the “M” color) are different in both screens!
Comment by El Lumpbo — April 13, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Now on TV, and in animated gif form:
http://www.backglass.org/scotts/games/Stuff/BallBounceTV.gif
Comment by scott s — April 14, 2009 @ 8:47 am
I think you’re all on the wrong track with panel 2. Molly Kinsella is clearly expelling the ball from her mouth.
Comment by Fran Ledue Page — April 14, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
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