This Week in Milford

June 15, 2012

Doubling Down On Smug

Filed under: Boredom in Milford, Gil Thorp, Milford Idiots, Mimi Thorp — nedryerson @ 10:39 pm

6/13/12

Have the Moms shoved Mimi up against the fence? No? Crap, that would have been cool. Mimi is getting in the last, sanctimonious word in this round.

Meanwhile, the girls counterattack. “Our Moms are stupid bitches. Let’s stomp them and expose their intolerance! Yeah, that sounds rad!”

Should we pitch this story idea to Lifetime and feature Darby’s woe or punch up the Jaxxxon factor and go more Gorillas in the Mist?

6/14/12

Darby’s wingman has a plan. She wants to do something to blast her friends’ moms out of the water and she wants to bring the coach in on it. Awesome! (I don’t care what the plan is. I’m sure it’s tissue thin.)

6/15/12

Oh cardboard cut out Moms, how lame are you? Even the narration box thinks you’re idiots. Finish them, Mimi.

The art on the wall of the Java Jernt looks like it might be a crab or an old man or a sheepdog. It could also be somebody’s MRI or an Etch-a Sketch. Either way, I find it more interesting than the words in Mimi’s speech balloons. Oh, maybe I should pay attention to get a better understanding of the girls’ scheme, but I don’t care, so blah blah blah, what is that on the wall!?

6/16/12

You tell ‘em Mimi! Those judgmental Moms needed to be thoroughly judged and dragged through the mud by the MEDIA. Um, not exactly…the media in this tank town shits its pants over a picture of a kid sitting in a tree. It’s okay Mimi, go ahead and revel in getting to the dismantling of a couple one dimensional asshats. This is what you do. It’s like a cottage industry for you and Gil.

They folded? Like a cheap suit. Like a tattoo parlor that markets fake bootleg DVDs to teens. Like all the newspapers that are printing Gil Thorp. Like the map to Charleston that Mr. Bakst got from Kelly that actually turned out to be of Minsk, which really explains a lot. That’s how they folded Mimi. Now you and Gil should partake in some celebratory fisting.

13 Comments »

  1. “Power twins, activate!”

    Summer o’ “Bob and Darby and Dinny and Amanda”? Snore….

    Comment by Milfordian — June 15, 2012 @ 10:50 pm

  2. Dammit. I was hoping the girls’ plan was to shave their heads in confused solidarity. Or maybe all get pregnant with baby gorillas, just to teach their moms a lesson.

    Comment by jasbeattie — June 15, 2012 @ 10:51 pm

  3. They folded… like Hobart and Wildcat and anyone else who dares to oppose the Thorps. Who celebrate, not with a fist-bump, but with a fist-meld. How do they do that?

    So is Mimi going with the Chola look permanently, or do her eyebrows only look like that when she’s in a state of moral dudgeon?

    But the saddest note of all in this pathetic wrap-up of the spring storyline (is there any doubt that we’re switching to summer on Monday, with no mention of how the teams finished their seasons?) is the fact that Mimi threatened to go to the Milford Star — and not to Marty Moon! Proof positive that Marty has been reduced to an emasculated shell of his former self. Sad, sad, sad.

    Comment by John Walters (@johnswalters) — June 16, 2012 @ 6:11 am

  4. I think the picture on the wall is Jake from Adventure Time. http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Jake

    I don’t know how to make a proper link like Coach Jason did … please don’t send me to the Spam Bucket! Or the Java Jernt!

    Comment by jules — June 16, 2012 @ 7:12 am

  5. I wasn’t familiar with Jake, but I can see the resemblance jules!

    Comment by nedryerson — June 16, 2012 @ 7:58 am

  6. I thought the girls were going to all wear uniforms made of out of the empty 12-pack boxes of Diet Coke. Oh, wait. They save those for swimming parties.

    I like the suggestion that all the players except for Darby get pregnant because that will extend this plot for at least nine months or more as we try to learn the names of the fathers for the eight future Mudlarks.

    Comment by bevo — June 16, 2012 @ 8:25 am

  7. Cant stand this storyline, mainly because I cant tell the moms apart from the kids!! They all look the same. You dont know whos accusing who of what.

    Comment by Rob — June 16, 2012 @ 3:06 pm

  8. @jules: Jake would fit right in in Milford with his shape-shifting ways.

    Maybe I’ll enjoy this strip more if I imagine the gossipy moms with the voice of Lumpy Space Princess.

    Comment by teenchy — June 16, 2012 @ 7:11 pm

  9. When these kids aren’t shown doing something that resembles sports, they are cramming food in their faces.
    Who PAYS for this stuff?

    Comment by Dale — June 17, 2012 @ 4:21 pm

  10. And…that’s a wrap, people. Great job, everyone, in once again selling the utter mediocrity of a wholly unsatisfying storyline. After all, this strip doesn’t stink by itself.

    Don’t forget to review next week’s shooting schedule at the Milford Country Club…

    Comment by Dood — June 18, 2012 @ 7:51 am

  11. I know Ned’s not commented yet but check out the strategically placed word balloon in 6/19 P1. Heh.

    Comment by delvaldawg — June 19, 2012 @ 4:59 am

  12. #11 – Oof. Awkward!

    But hilarious.

    Comment by jules — June 19, 2012 @ 6:19 am

  13. I know, right?

    Milf
    Yup

    Comment by Ned Ryerson — June 19, 2012 @ 9:10 am


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