I don’t know about anyone else, but I find Gil’s particular brand of smug dickishness to be particularly chafing today. After clearly throwing away his chances at playoff-downs by shipping his star player 400 miles away the day before the game, he proceeded to ignore tensions amongst his players after the game…preferring instead to run home to go make a pitcher of lemonade.
It used to be that a) Gil cared whether his team won or lost, b) Marty Moon would ride Gil’s ass for questionable decisions and c) the citizens of Milford expected their teams to not suck. But now that the highest level of apathy has set into the entire town, Gil can consider himself “born lucky”, sport a shit-eating grin for his epic failure as a coach, and go down to the links for six weeks.
Fabulous. Just what I wanted, a damned golf story. Unless there’s some Tiger Woods-themed shenanigans, or Marty Moon gets hustled out of his life savings again, I’m afraid this is gonna bore our collective golf balls off. To quote Lanny Penn, who appears to have taken up permanent residence in this blog’s sidebar…
(And for those trying to find irony in my discussion of apathy, while at the same time not caring enough to update the “Random Amusing Panel o’ the Moment”…that’s not a fair comparison, because I never stopped caring. In fact, I never cared one bit in the first place.)
Memo to Gil: I think the words every man longs to hear might be more along the lines of “Hey Big Boy, I’ll be in the hot tub naked in 5 minutes and I want to pleasure you!”
Comment by semperfi4evr — July 13, 2010 @ 9:10 am
Ease up, Marine!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — July 13, 2010 @ 9:38 am
I, too, found Gil to be more of a choad than usual today. Come to think of it, when’s the last time we had a likeable character in this strip? Brick House, maybe?
Comment by sourbelly — July 13, 2010 @ 10:29 am
You’re right on two things, Jason. Gil is a total lazy, smug dickhead and you’re a slacker. (Just joking on the second part!)
Why is that huge random hand reaching out to Gil? It looks like something out of Attack of the 50FT Woman.
Mimi is totally happy that she won’t see Gil for a while so she can get some desperately needed loving from Messers Kessler and Baskt.
Comment by Regina — July 13, 2010 @ 10:59 am
Heeheehee…Gil made lemonade.
Sorry! Childish jokes are all I have left at this point!
Comment by jules — July 13, 2010 @ 11:02 am
Yeah, jeez Jason, cut yourself some slack. You updated the blog for just this one, totally uninspired strip! That’s dedication, Holmes!
This doesn’t make sense. I don’t think Gil is going to play golf. He’s been sentenced to community service and he’s going to spend all summer driving the ball collection cart at the Milford Country Club driving range or fishing used condoms out of the swimming pool or whatever other dirty jobs they can find for him. He’s managed to keep his criminal offense and prosecution from everyone by doing the judge a favor.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 13, 2010 @ 11:51 am
So does this mean that Gil is going to be working at the Milford Country Club? What kind of summer story will this shape up to be? Someone will be stealing things out of the lockers and Gil will call in detective Kaz. The guilty party will turn out to be summer janitor-Steve Luhm.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — July 13, 2010 @ 12:41 pm
Mimi’s next line: “Now get your ass down to the golf club! Carlos the cabana boy is due here in 10 minutes. Then the gardner. Then the window washer.”
Comment by numbskull72 — July 13, 2010 @ 1:00 pm
What is this charity event and why isn’t Gil involved? How will this play into the summer storyline? When will Kaz punch somebody?
The way they write this we’ll get two weeks of teaser plots that end abruptly and then finally we’ll get the real story which will be super lame.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — July 13, 2010 @ 2:24 pm
i think mimi wants to lick some carpet maybe she will have a affair with cassie and after all the hubbub . cassie then reminds people shes 18 and legal .
Comment by mr120zcan — July 13, 2010 @ 2:40 pm
Man, this is Rex Morgan, MD-worthy dickishness. (And peculiar inattention to a shapely wife, come to think of it.)
I suspect that Gil will be filling the Carl Spackler role in this summer’s golf story. “License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations…”
Comment by jvwalt — July 13, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
Run laps around the golf course? You gotta be fucking kidding me right? The kids are gonna slip Carl Spackler a few bucks so he’ll frag Gil’s ass.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 14, 2010 @ 6:52 am
Probably no hobo golfers at MCC this summer – guess it’s back to “Beetle Bailey” for me!
Comment by milfordian — July 14, 2010 @ 6:53 am
Today’s strip: Cameo by Wilfred Brimley.
I wonder who Gil’s gonna pawn this job onto? (If one of those kids doesn’t belt him with a golf club first.)
Comment by Regina — July 14, 2010 @ 7:21 am
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