6/23/11
“OK Gil, if you have something to say just take your turn at that podium we stole from the local community college for the sole purpose of dramatic speeches by townspeople at local school board meetings…Yes, yes, a student organized the rally, we knew that, but OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOUR ARM?!? HOW CAN IT BEND THAT WAY??? AUUUGGGHH!!”
6/24/11
Hey it’s everyone’s favorite Goshen police officer, Bruce Cabot, a.k.a Officer Gus “Unnecessary” Exposition. He’s here to verify that no student would be caught dead fraternizing with Gil…they all sit at least two tables away. (Oh and that he played three sports. Don’t forget about ol’ three-sport Gus.)
“Yep, Gil and Kaz weren’t drinking with students per se…They just drank heavily by themselves, roughed up a few local hooligans then drove home drunk. Get your facts straight, Hobart. And don’t f*ck with Gil. I played three sports here.”
And hey look, it’s a panel three appearance of Kelly, who can apparently only be drawn from the same template each time she appears!
An open schoolboard meeting doesn’t seem like the best place to start talking about slander.
Did the whole town know about the bar incident? It does now.
Gil was in a bar that had a history of being raided for serving minors. He probably wouldn’t have been there if one of his players wasn’t in the band.
Yes, the rally was organized by a student. (Not really. She instigated it. Jeff organized it.)
But the student is the daughter of a teacher.
Comment by dale — June 24, 2011 @ 11:36 am
What in the wide, wide world of Dylan Bauza is Kay Morgan doing sitting next to Kelly? Did she bring sloppy joes and cheezy poofs to the school board meeting? Is she there to foster-parent the laid-off teachers? The budget situation must be dire.
But, hey, Gil’s on a roll: “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
Why isn’t Marty calling these school board meetings?
Comment by Dood — June 24, 2011 @ 11:42 am
Gil’s gonna wear himself out with all that gesturing.
That drawing of Kelly grabbed my attention, too. What is going on with that? When was the last time Kelly appeared other than in that “sticking her head out from somebody’s side pose”? Was it when she was sending Mr. Bakst to Charleston?
Comment by Ned Ryerson — June 24, 2011 @ 11:53 am
Didn’t she appear standing up, walking with Kaz somewhere, within the past year? Kelly as drawn here looks a lot like Torrey Peake (speaking of summer o’ fun stuff).
In 6/23, panel one, is that Mr. Baskt way in the back on the left-hand side (from our perspective)? On the opposite side stand Fred MacMurray, who’s there to either supply Gil with some illicit Flubber or to check on Chip and Ernie’s academic progress.
Comment by Dood — June 24, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
To correct myself, I clicked on Jason’s link and that was the scene I was thinking of, with Kelly, in Ned’s words, doing the “sticking her head out from somebody’s side pose.”
Comment by Dood — June 24, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
I guess we could just call that the Kelly pose?
Comment by Ned Ryerson — June 24, 2011 @ 12:18 pm
Then hoe it down and scratch your gravel,
To Dixie’s Land I’m bound to travel,
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land
Comment by exmiscellanea — June 24, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
“The rally is hardly important, which is totally why I brought it up yesterday. Now stop putting the Vulcan sleeper hold on Bruce Cabot of the Goshen P.D. and git the hell off my podium!”
Comment by jules — June 24, 2011 @ 3:09 pm
At least we learned that Hobart is this idiot’s last name, not his first, not his only (e,g, Liberace).
Comment by For Micah — June 24, 2011 @ 3:13 pm
DOOD:
Funny you should reference “Animal House” with the “when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” line. I was already thinking the only way to save this story line was to go with “Animal House” scene where the Deltas appear before Dean Wormer and the rest of the frat Nazis. We just need Kaz loudly muttering various obscenities under his breath whenever Hobart speaks, then, when the outcome doesn’t go the teachers’ way, the all walk out singing something like “Look for the union label.”
Comment by J.D. Springer — June 24, 2011 @ 4:06 pm
#9 For Micah– not at all sure this asshole’s surname is Hobart. His board and administrative colleagues kept addressing him as “Hobart” earlier on, suggesting that’s his given name. Maybe Gil is just being subservient here, addressing him as Massah Hobart, parallel to Massah Rhett. In any case, Hobart’s uppance is coming– I for one am hoping he gets laughed out of the room for actions intended to impersonate a human being.
Comment by vaganova — June 24, 2011 @ 4:41 pm
J.D.: That’s far better than what we’re likely going to get. Marty from the inside of his Imagine-O-Crate(TM) can’t handle these detailed plot complexities. Or maybe Marty can: Toga! Toga!
Comment by Dood — June 24, 2011 @ 4:57 pm
Ned, you ruined my life!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — June 24, 2011 @ 6:19 pm
6/25
If pensions are 100% funded by the teachers, there wouldn’t be an issue of the schoolboard or even just the Hobart faction trying to cut them back.
Comment by dale — June 25, 2011 @ 8:30 am