12/3/09
What could be more pathetic than the manner in which Jam-Jar’s uppance has come? Embarrassed in the privacy of the Okumbe home…forced to sweat and comically tug at his collar, then sent out in the cold and not allowed to date an Amazon twice his height? I’m quite devastated to know a heavy beating is not going to be happening…but what’s really much more pathetic is how thrilled Velerie’s father is about this whole thing…”A great parental moment”? Really? You seem to have set the bar extremely low.
12/4/09
What could be more pathetic than yesterday’s Okumbe celebration? How about the guy who sees a drunken student in an alley, manages to determine who it is, and then call the principal about it? OK, actually that’s pretty impressive…in a really, really lame sort of way.
12/5/09
…and what’s more pathetic than all that? Why it’s the sham of a marriage displayed at the Thorp house in panel three. The soulless shell of a relationship seems readily and depressingly apparent…two totally hollow-inside humans prattling on about nothing, as they slowly eat and drink themselves to death. Also, um, wait, who the hell is that weird-lookin’ lady there, since it sure isn’t Mimi? Whoever she is, it was sure nice of her to put Gil’s crappy artwork on the fridge.
12/7/09
Christ, Gil. I know you support heavy on-the-job drinking, but just throw D(r)uncan off the team before you accidentally walk off the bottom of the panel or decapitate Pearl with those flipper things you’re swinging around there. Also, if you’re gonna do a flashback panel, why couldn’t it have been of the Goshen Oktoberfest? It might have made this comic (almost) worth looking at…
12/5, panel 2: “You shouldn’t need outside help to have standards.” On planet Earth, 16-year-old kids need outside help to have standards. In fact, 34-year-old golf millionaires need outside help to have standards, or at least to get past the first fire hydrant.
12/5, panel 3: “How does that help Duncan stay in control?” says Gil, with a beer in one hand and a blonde in the other.
Comment by Philip — December 7, 2009 @ 5:36 am
Great calls JB! As for Mr. Okumbe’s [Goldberg's?] parental moment… yes, that bar is lower than whale poop… it is sure a better parental moment than having to tell his kid to put her pants on when she goes out in public.
Neil, we’re still waiting to learn what tragic flaw dwells in JarJar….. other than being one of your nutboyish [ie crappy] cast members….
If I were Gil I’d tell Dr. Pearl that I’d spoken with D(r)uncan and the rotten stoolie that fingered him as drunk was probably drunk himself. The poor lad was staggering because he’d ordered the seafood special at PUB and he had a ragin’ case of salmonella and was in a feverish delerium. Where’s the bac reading? Innocent until proven guilty, sukkah!
Comment by semperfi4evr — December 7, 2009 @ 9:01 am
I don’t understand today’s strip. Goshen had to forfeit an entire season…so Gil goes over to congratulate their coach? “Thanks a lot! If it weren’t for you, we’d have no victories this season at all.” Is Gil that big of a douche, or am I missing something?
Comment by Scott de B. — December 7, 2009 @ 9:17 am
No, Gil IS that big of a douche………
Comment by Knoxy — December 7, 2009 @ 9:56 am
Valerie: “Dad, you were perfect”
Mr. O: “Trust me sweety it was a great parental moment. Now let’s hop into that bubble bath like you promised”
Comment by Knoxy — December 7, 2009 @ 9:58 am
Scott #3, I agree! Today’s strip is very confusing. And has anyone ever heard the expression … ” his life flipped over” before? WTF?
Maybe Neil’s hitting the eggnog a little early – eh?
Comment by Gil'sBarber — December 7, 2009 @ 10:41 am
Gil is establishing grounds to forfeit the rest of the football season — and maybe the basketball season too, “just to be on the safe side” — and then he can disappar into PUB until July.
I mean, look at 12/5 panel 3: Gil appears to be chugging down a full-sized bottle of red wine, in full view of the wife and kids. If that’s his consumption rate at home, imagine what he does in the privacy of his office, or in the back-corner booth at PUB that’s permanently reserved for him. I’d say the only difference between Gil and Duncan is that Gil can hold his liquor.
Comment by johnw — December 7, 2009 @ 11:55 am
#7 That’s exactly why Gil needs to keep Duncan on the team. If anyone can teach Duncan how to repeatedly appear drunk at just about every appearance in public, yet still be thought of as a respected member of the community (and not get fired despite failing to care at all about his job or students), it’s Gil.
Comment by Wikitorix — December 7, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
wow jamar sweated so much that the m on the back of his jacket came off . gil should take one for the team and give dr pearl a mercy f*ck she will forget the whole thing . plus that drunk who saw duncan should know that finding out a family member is a hypocrite does lead to alcohal carouseing
Comment by mr12ozcan — December 7, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
I am always amused by the choice of names in this strip. One of the many reasons I get my jollies reading the strip and your all’s comments…
Now who would coach Fazio be? A few weeks ago the QB was named for a man who died recently. Further, Rick Bozich is a sports writer at Louisville’s Courier-Journal. So have we encountered coach Fazio before? I do not recall him…
Comment by rowdyman — December 7, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
Rick Bozich played utility infielder for Milford a few years back…
Comment by rowdyman — December 7, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
For the life of me I can’t figre out why Johnny Cash is delivering Gil’s lines in 12/5 p3. And does Gil know he’s walking the line with Mimi?
Comment by Killebrew — December 7, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
Looks like Gil stole one of D(r)unkin’s 40′s.
In Strip 2 the role of the concerned (a/k/a nosey) neighbor is being played by Ed “Chief” Platt.
Comment by Regina — December 7, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
#3 – Gil was congratulating him on having the balls to stick to his standards and forfeit the season rather than condone bad behavior in his players. Which now, of course, means that Gil has a chance to be a hypocrite! Er, I mean, to demonstrate his own moral rigor. Though Robbbbbb will be annoyed he passed up drinking and probably the whole team will get smashed and humiliate Jamar and prove to the principal that they need the structure and discipline Gil provides… oh, I can’t keep it up.
Comment by The Ridger — December 7, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
12/07: I don’t know what it is about the hand in panel #1 – it is freaking me out! Is it Mimi’s hand, or just some undetached appendage moving through the panel. If you look at it with my blurry eyes (hit the PUB too hard this weekend), it looks like a dog’s head with its tongue out.
No weirder than the rest of the strip lately. Suspend Drunkin from football but put him on the B-Ball team. Then when Jamjar shows up as the “small but speedy” point guard Drunkin can give him an elbow to the chops. Or is that what the tall band geek will do to exact his revenge on Jamjar? Either way, back to the PUB!
Comment by milfordian — December 7, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
“#3 – Gil was congratulating him on having the balls to stick to his standards and forfeit the season rather than condone bad behavior in his players.”
But is ‘congratulate’ the right word, then? I would commend such a coach; I wouldn’t congratulate him.
Comment by Scott de B. — December 8, 2009 @ 9:09 am
10 and 11 Rowdyman: Rick Bozich was also a reporter for the school paper in the strip last year. I’m in Louisville and e-mailed the real RB to let him know he was “famous” and he e-mailed me back thanking me LOL. I also asked him why we can’t get a copy of our colorized GT strips on line but he never answered.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — December 8, 2009 @ 9:47 am
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