9/18/12
Exciting haircut theater, featuring Marty “Circular Saw” Moon as the voice of action not shown and Terry “Superman” Gallagher as an Irishman whose participation in this game shows that Gil “Modified Devo Black Pomp” Thorp has really given no thought to fielding a credible team.
9/19/12
While the usual officials have been temporarily installed to screw up the NFL, Foot Locker employees are called in to referee Valley Conference games. “Wheeee! Watch me throw the bean bag up in the air. That kid hit that other kid after he crossed over that line thingee.”
9/20/12
“Hey, new kid! Wipe that Funky Winkerbean smirk off your face and remember your fifteen minutes of football instruction. Now get back out there and kill the guys in the dark jersey within those painted lines, okay?”
9/21/12
Man this game is taking too long. Abbreviate please. Irish kid, Asberger’s kid, other kids and…
9/22/12
Irish kid again and…back to this Doyle Dane creep spewing some kind of nonsense. What is he talking about? And who is he talking to? And why is Woody Allen in attendance? Find out this week and maybe we’ll talk about it next week. If you have a Doyle Dane moment, share it with us.
9/20 panel one: “Hey Irish kid! See how I can speak — without moving my lips — while doing my Easter Island impression?”
9/22 panel two: Would a sophomore really refer to a varsity player as “that Irish kid”?
Comment by Moon Mullins — September 23, 2012 @ 7:46 pm
9/22 p3 is absolutely the most confusing, non-sensical panel in modern GT history. I’m sure it is foreshadowing for some plot twist that we will see in the future, but then, we are still waiting for Mr. Baskt to come back from Charleston (and the Thorp kids to reappear), so who knows?
Woody Allen – good one, Ned!
Comment by milfordian — September 24, 2012 @ 2:04 am
So Doyle Dane hatches a scheme to impress Mia Meeks … by using Terry’s brand new high school fame. Mia, obviously, will decide she likes Terry. Doyle will get desperate and try to talk to Mia with an Irish accent, but he’ll sound like a Chinese woman speaking Ukrainian. Some unpaid volunteer coach will try to provide fatherly advice, freeing up Gil to line up unpaid volunteer coaches for basketball season.
Comment by Philip — September 24, 2012 @ 4:57 am
In the real world, how much trouble would Gil Thorp be in for using a player who DOESN’T KNOW THE RULES OF THE GAME? Some liability issues, ya think? Who’d be first to sue: Mrs. Gallagher, or the United Parents of Oakwood?
In the comics world, is this supposed to be evidence of Gil’s coaching acumen? I think it’s more like evidence of his laziness and narcissism, but maybe that’s just me.
Comment by John S. Walters — September 24, 2012 @ 5:44 am
I see high school players all the time who don’t know the rules. This is especially fun when they treat a kickoff like a punt and expect the kicking team to down the ball for them…
Comment by billytheskink — September 24, 2012 @ 6:57 am
Is that Jamar Gaddis next to Woody Allen? Who cares???!!!
Comment by semperfi4evr — September 24, 2012 @ 7:41 am
is milford playing there one game in london like the nfl ? because why would everybody be saying that irish kid
Comment by mr12ozcan — September 24, 2012 @ 5:10 pm
One word: “Wap!”
High school is a living lab, a veritable petri dish chock full of bacteria and viruses.
Is Marty Moon looking more demonic this fall? Will he ever find the Keymaster?
Comment by Dood — September 25, 2012 @ 11:34 am
I can’t stand it! “Doyle Dane” is how mad men used to refer to ad agency Doyle Dane Bernbach, the folks who (50 years ago) created iconic campaigns like VW’s “Think Small” and Avis’ “We’re #2, We Try Harder.” The agency, later known as DDB, was generally known for using humor rather than the cold, calculating hard sell that this smarmy “Doyle Dane” character seems to be jabbering about.
Comment by Tank town Playdown — September 26, 2012 @ 12:57 am
I guess Doyle Dane is a passable name for an instantly repulsive character, and perhaps better than Batten Barton. We all wondered what the Gallagher plot would hinge on, and now we know– the machinations of a seventeen year old flamer who imagines he’s a marketing genius.
Comment by vaganova — September 26, 2012 @ 2:33 pm
At least Marty Moon’s schemes in past years made some sense – this Doyle Dane plot is just is bizarre – “Making this Irish guy I hardly know more popular will somehow make me less of a manipulative weido!”
Which is to say – bring back evil Marty!
Comment by Steve — September 27, 2012 @ 8:34 am