10/17/11
Argo Impenary is like a totally awesome name. Which makes it more than likely that it’s actually just a random series of syllables Marty blurted out from his SkyCrate while trying to read the ingredient list on his Hungry Man meatloaf dinner.
10/18/11
“Wait? They’re allowed to quit in the middle of the game? Why didn’t I think of that?”
“That kid sucks.”
“I think he can still hear you, Kaz.”
“Yeah I know. I tell him he sucks every time he walks by. And yell it on the team bus. Now I’m sad he won’t be around for me to discourage on a daily basis. Wonder why he quit?”
10/19/11
“What’s all this non-alcoholic liquid coming from the sky?”
“I dunno, but whatever it is, I’m pretty sure it’s Abdul’s fault.”
“Maybe if we look directly at it, we’ll get less wet.”
“So if I quit to go to the bar now, I’d still get paid, right?”
“Gil, this is the longest you’ve been at a game since I started working here.Get outta here before someone suspects you’re trying too hard. I’m sure one of these horrible players will tell me when the game is over…presuming I don’t drown myself first.”
Argo Impenary? Named for a box of cornstarch?
If Milford scores again in this game, they’ll go for two but who will kick off? I assume a different kid was handling kickoffs but we’re spared those details.
This is supposed to be Milford’s home opener but Marty’s in the same press box he was in on the road. I swear it’s a treehouse his dad built for him.
Speaking of home/road issues, why does Milford always wear white jerseys? Can’t afford dark ones? (That’d explain the volunteer coaches.) Or are they like LSU and like to wear white at home?
Comment by delvaldawg — October 19, 2011 @ 5:18 am
Milford throws deep – and Tilden’s cornerback slips! What are we looking at? I see the Tilden guy slipping but nothing about the drawing says the Milford player is running to catch a deep pass. In my mind, the deep pass will land 20 yards beyond any player on the field. Maybe a better way to illustrate this would be more of a wider, ground level side view of the Milford player running with a pass coming over his shoulder and the Tilden player on the ground behind him in the process of flopping to the ground. Of course, I can’t draw shit and I’m not sure why this one detail bothers me more than the others, but this one just irked me at 5:00 am today.
By tomorrow, I’m sure we’ll see #85 scoring a touchdown because he suddenly decided to start running a route and didn’t slip himself in doing so.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — October 19, 2011 @ 5:53 am
Gil, nice coaching job, chump. You totally set the kid up to fail. I can’t wait to see the emotional damage you wreak on the poor AS kid. There’s not a book titled “Better Living through Alcohol” for a reason, Borracho.
Comment by semperfi4evr — October 19, 2011 @ 6:42 am
In the GoComics.com comments, there’s the theory that Argo Impenary is a near-anagram for Garo Yepremian (it’s only one letter off). If that’s true, then…why? I mean, what’s the connection between Azal and a Dolphins kicker from the 70′s famous for his clumsy handling of a botched snap? That they’re both foreign?
Comment by Scott Tennant — October 19, 2011 @ 7:24 am
Hey, Azal didn’t throw across the field; that ball was obviously intercepted (by Argo, the other #7!) the instant it left his hand. Sheesh, he can’t kick or throw – he might as well stomp (er, splash) off the field in a snit!
Comment by jules — October 19, 2011 @ 7:45 am
Scott–In the 1973 Super Bowl, while playing for the Miami Dolphins., Garo picked up an errant snap and tried to throw it. It was intercepted by Washington’s Mike Bass and returned for a touchdown, Washington’s only score of the game. The Dolphins won 14-7 to finish the season a perfect 17-0. Ironically the only play I remember from that season was Garo’s botched field goal attempt.
Meanwhile, Gil doesn’t even TRY to coax the kid not to quit–if not of his team’s sake, the kid’s sake. So much for the “never-say-die” attitude.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — October 19, 2011 @ 8:06 am
The planet Argo Impenary is in the same solar system as Marty’s home world. Work, pressbox-star cruiser, damn you! Eighty-eight yards for a touchdown!
Isn’t that heavy rain going to ruin Gil’s sweet Ban-Lon suit?
Comment by Dood — October 19, 2011 @ 8:19 am
So Argo Impenary was a botched attempt at an anagram for Garo Yepremian…oh, okay. Why didn’t Neal use the Internet Anagram Server? He could have come up with all sorts of stuff like:
Yego Repairman
Rape-On Imagery
Mega-Ripe Rayon, etc.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — October 19, 2011 @ 8:54 am
10/19 panel 3 bothered me, too. No. 85 doesn’t look like he’s even thinking about catching a pass. He just sees some guy flopping around on the ground and says, “Bet that hurts. Glad it ain’t me.”
Comment by dale — October 19, 2011 @ 9:03 am
In another odd coincidence, the material Gil’s suit is constructed out of is Mega-Ripe Rayon. (Luckily they did not feature the flashback panel of Gil’s Prior Gay Enema with his Yoga Repairman)
Comment by jasbeattie — October 19, 2011 @ 10:01 am
Ah, sweet, sweet face-boiling rain.
Comment by Dood — October 19, 2011 @ 11:58 am
Classically speaking, Kaz is not going to allow an Impenary Argonaut to take his golden fleece. Hronk!
Comment by Dood — October 19, 2011 @ 12:02 pm
Teeldon keecks a touchdown!
Comment by Mudlarks Fan — October 19, 2011 @ 2:08 pm
Hey, we’ve been visited by Oscar Madison’s friend Zeno, the Albanian football player. Keeck!
(As an aside, I will be sorely disappointed if “KEECK” doesn’t appear as a Thorpian sound effect sometime in the next few weeks.)
Comment by jules — October 19, 2011 @ 2:15 pm
Jules, when “Keeck” (as in “I keeck a tawchdown”) does appear, it’s vodka and tabletops for us.
Comment by vaganova — October 19, 2011 @ 2:31 pm
How come Marty’s not calling any of the sideline hijinks? Is he adjusting his crate-o-nav unit for the Klatuu Nebula? “Milford throws deep–and Tilden’s cornerback slips!”*
*Translation: “Soon I shall slip the surly bonds of this place called Milford!”
Comment by Dood — October 19, 2011 @ 2:59 pm
are you sure gil and kaz are not back in the locker room in that so called rain scene . wheres deke wheres wildcat how bout the pizza flipper / ? foozle me once cant foozle me twice
Comment by mr12ozcan — October 19, 2011 @ 4:02 pm
Now that we know Argo Impenary is an anagram of Garo Ypremian, now I’ll have to play Jumble with all the oddball GT names – or not…
Comment by delvaldawg — October 19, 2011 @ 4:19 pm
@mr12ozcan: I must have a dirty mind because I was thinking that same thing as you. That caption should read “In the gym showers.” Gil and Kaz just seem so … pleased.
Comment by El Santo — October 19, 2011 @ 4:19 pm
Vaganova – it’s a date!
Comment by jules — October 19, 2011 @ 5:19 pm
Jules, you are so on…. We look for mention of “keeck,” yes?
Comment by vaganova — October 19, 2011 @ 10:26 pm
Wow, I never seen so much bad coaching and mentoring than in 1018/2011 panel 3. Kaz and Gil are basically like “Whatever, Kid. So long loser.” .
Comment by Marty Moon Fan Club — October 19, 2011 @ 10:37 pm
Comment 13 is in reference to Garo Yepremian’s classic autobiography, “I Keek a Touchdown.” If all you know about Yepremian is the Super Bowl, then read this book and you will become a fan. I am hoping the story line on Azal is not done. We have found recently that Milford does in fact have a soccer team and my guess is that will be the one team that makes it to the playdowns, and Azal will make the winning goal. Keeck!
Comment by Mudlarks Fan — October 20, 2011 @ 9:16 am
“Keeck” is cool, but I still like “Foootball! You bet!”
Comment by Soccerhead — October 20, 2011 @ 1:27 pm
23 Mudlarks Fan, we’d better hope it’s not a penalty kick. I think the book title “I Keek a Touchdown” was originally a phrase coined by Alex Karras. The transition from toe kickers to soccer kickers was on, and in a time even less enlightened than the present, old Alex thought it was funny to parody the accents and mannerisms of “foreign” kickers. I first saw “soccer-style” when I was a kid watching Cornell games: Pete Gogolak, who was Hungarian, was their first. What I remember most is that the ball behaved so differently than a toe kick that opposing kick returners fumbled at least half the time.
Comment by vaganova — October 20, 2011 @ 2:17 pm
I know much more about the Odd Couple than I do about the Super Bowl. :) Chances are, anything I know about the Super Bowl I learned from Oscar, and for sure anything I know about opera I learned from Felix!
Comment by jules — October 20, 2011 @ 2:58 pm
I prefer opera myself, Jules– I haven’t watched football in many years. Now soccer is a different story…
Comment by vaganova — October 20, 2011 @ 3:08 pm
Blame it on the vaganova
Comment by Web Sight — October 20, 2011 @ 6:16 pm
Yes! I’m not the only pervert who thought Gil and Kaz might be enjoying a shower together (10/19, panel 2).
Comment by Thorpnotized — October 20, 2011 @ 10:15 pm
10/21 panel 3: Damn! “Thud” does not equal “keeck.” But the Reyki’s in the freezer, Jules– Icelandic vodka is ok, right?
Comment by vaganova — October 21, 2011 @ 7:24 am
10/20 we’re to told Milford is “without a kicker.” 10/21 Gil trots out Tolan to attempt a field goal which of course he misses. Most teams in that situation, knowing they had no reliable kicker, would just try to score a touchdown. Not Gil – he loves to set kids up to fail.
Wildcat Maris may be on to something.
Gil Thorp, the Nutboy of coaches – he’s shitty!
Comment by delvaldawg — October 21, 2011 @ 8:14 am
I’m with Mr. 12oz here… 10/19 panel 2 looks like a Plato’s Retreat shower scene, and Gil and Kaz are enjoying it way, way, waaaaay too much.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Comment by jvwalt — October 21, 2011 @ 10:18 am
I just HAD to anagram Argo Impenary and this is what it came out to: ‘Argo Impenary’ anagrams to ‘I am gayer porn.’
GIl and Kaz have to be half in the bag to be standing in the rain. What a pair of doofuses. WHAM!
Comment by Regina — October 22, 2011 @ 7:19 am
Ease up, Regina! All this talk about gayer porn is making me hawt! Bonk! HRONK! FOOZLE!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — October 22, 2011 @ 10:10 am
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