Mud Mountain TRIUMPH
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Crock, 3/2/26
The comic strip Crock and I have long-running and mutual antagonism, so I am generally reticent to say nice things about it, but I do occasionally think them. Like sometimes I think, “Crock sucks, but unlike Marvin, it doesn’t really do gross-out bathroom jokes.” Alas, I was mistaken! Here’s a comic about how the cook at the local fancy restaurant used to piss and/or shit in the food.
Luann, 3/2/26
Ah, yes, Luann’s mom correctly sees her sexual and family history as being of a kind with other roles that define her economic relations with others, a truth as obvious for all of us as it is taboo to speak about. I’m glad someone in this family knows what’s up (other than Toni, who is clearly the smartest as she managed to avoid this get-together entirely).
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/2/26
Oh, shit, oh crap, this is it, Rex Morgan, M.D., has been fully hollowed out and occupied by the roots country crowd and they’re about to formally seize control of the strip, they’re gonna make Rex put on some dumb retro cowboy outfit and go up on stage so they can jeer at him
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RMMD: “…Rex put on some dumb retro cowboy outfit” I’m thinking more of a Rodeo Clown.
RMMD. If only Barney Google could have warned him: Never get involved in a land war in Asia and never introduce hillbillies into your comic strip.
Crock Pee and poop aside, I’m very interested in what’s going on with that shady character at the other table staring quizzically at a lollipop(?) I get the impression that there might be a more humorous punchline being delivered other there.
Luann: I mean seriously, if ‘lover’ is a career path then there had better be names
RMMD I like how the color seems to be draining out of the wall in that last panel as the hotel itself starts to despair in the face of what is coming.
Luann: it seems the DeGroots have completely forgotten that they own The Fuze.
Speaking of bathroom humor, Hagar and Lucky are shown sharing a whiz together in a pine forest but it’s not connected to the joke. More of a bonding moment, I suppose.
RMMD:
“I see you’re all ‘Doug in’ behind that counter, young man!”
JP: This is a fake out. April is stopping the truck to get everyone out so she can kill Bogdan. She just wishes he’d shut up!
Mary Worth: After the slow long development of the earlier arcs, this is hurrying along.
Phantom: The other jungle patrol are reporting as if they were kids talking about the ice cream truck that is nearby.
RMMD: Despite the many topics in medicine today, the creators were bitten by the roots country bug and that bug has grown.
RMMD:
“Now did you travel back through time to get that haircut, son?”
RMMD: Rex can always do The Doctor sketch at the Grand Ole Glenwood Opry.
MW: “My dearest Trixie, I’d love to help you, but my fortune is tied up in ascot futures.”
GT: Keri. Doomscrolling. Imagine my surprise.
Well, “Rex” is a good cowboy name, so I guess he’s halfway there.
RMMD – “Glenwood will be the new Nashville! And every adult male will be required to grow sideburns as long as mine!”
MW: Why are so many characters rolling their eyes back when they speak as of late? Have they become self-aware of the inane dialogue they’re forced to recite?
JP: Wearing blue, losing teeth, referring to himself in the third person…Bodgan is transforming into Cookie Monster.
RMMD: But wait…if the strip becomes all roots country all the time, how will the characters make weird hand gestures? They’ll be too busy holding their instruments! But Beatty can’t draw a strip without at least one hand gesture. This may cause a singularity to form.
Luann’s Mom 100% has an unsuccessful tradwife influencer channel.
Rex Morgan, M.D.: “And Glenwood will be the new Nashville! You know, overpriced, trying to attract every major league sport with flashy stadiums, and crawling with tourists, mainly bridal parties who get on pedal taverns and flash schoolchildren. And my haircut will fit right in with the hipsters!”
Luann: We make fun of Luann‘s awful fumbling teen sexuality, but at least it nails adult relationships. Like when you’ve been married to someone for about 20 years and yet somehow it’s never come up that she wasn’t a virgin when you met, and now you’re real angry that she had a boyfriend several decades ago. And you discover this in front of your teen kids! #relatable!
Luann. Luann is writing thus down. Be prepared to be reading all this on the Internet after you name names.
Luann: So after a week of Frank’s “I wanted to pursue a career in music but I did the responsible thing so I could be a productive member of society,” we’re getting Nancy’s “the balance of my adult life has revolved around my husband and children, to the point that I have no identity and personality apart from them.” I mean, I can’t say I expected Luann to be the first strip to embrace the current trend to fascism (my money would have been on Mary Worth, or maybe 9 Chickweed Lane), but I’m not surprised it’s an early adopter.
RMMD: Doug here dresses like the people who’ve been fitted with mind control devices in the latest season of Fallout, which creates a disturbing yet completely plausible explanation for why everyone in Glenwood acts the way they do.
Crock. Captain Poulet, if this is La Cesspool what did you expect?
That’s fantastic news about The Enthusiast. I’ve been a fan of Crock for years; it’s wild to see Josh tackling the world of comic strips like that.
@Professor Well Actually:
They don’t. Mafioso Grey owns it. They’re just window dressing.
Here we go again with comments vanishing.
C’shaft: Pregnant? Leaving the country? Buying into one of Westview’s three failing businesses? Place your bets now!
Dustin: Yes, because if there’s one thing The Youth of Today can’t relate to it’s employment instability and the inability to pay cripplingly high rents.
MW: I’ll say this for Widower Hart, he does a killer impression of Dick Tracy’s Mr. Bribery.
@pugfuggly: He’s thinking “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?”
RMMD – “No, I meant relocatin’ to Australia, so I’ll be as far away as possible from this dump. Did you know Tamworth is ‘Australia’s answer to Nashville'”?
Don Abundio, translated:
“What’s your usual score on this hole?”
“8 or 9”
“8 or 9?”
“Yeah”
“And sometimes more, if there are good-looking chicks waiting to play through”
Luann: Brad may be overstating his case as usual, but he does have significantly more hair than he did a few years back. That counts as a monumental achievement in the world of Luann.
I for one would read Rex Morgan, M.D., Presented by Sturgill Simpson, and so should you.
RMMD: The roots country revolution will be televised, on a local public access channel.
@MKay: Rex can be like Archie Campbell on “Hee Haw”,
Maybe we’ll get it see June in a tied-up flannel shirt and “Daisy Dukes”?
GT “Also, it turns out that I’d gotten to high school without ever learning the difference between a ‘title or honorific’ and a ‘pronoun’. So I get it, it was suuuperrr embarrassing for my dad in front of the principal, and I’ve spend my afternoons at home studying grammar”
Blondie “No son, with the way inflation’s been going, that 500$ a month, added up over a year, will barely cover one pair of shoes. You’ll need to consider more if you want any entertainment in your budget.”
MT If the buffet fish smells enough to notice across the room, you probably should avoid it for the sake of your GI tract
Crankshaft If you’re going to include seatbelts and carseats, take a few moments to set it up *properly*. This feels like a “spot the errors” panel: no seat back for the driver, headrest shorter than any adult size for the passenger, baby bucket seat shoved behind a child who can’t fit in it – in a crash the top edge of that thing will hit his neck at the base of his skull and kill him. Good grief!
MW Brigman’s eyerolling as she draws this, isn’t she?
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Brad isn’t very likable, so maybe his hair transplant idea came from his idol, Elon Musk
Crock: Maybe the cook is some kind of child prodigy who was only very recently toilet trained. I think Tiger Woods was playing golf before he stopped using diapers.
One of the statistics I learned during Covid that really stuck with me was that sixty percent of men don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom (and about 30% of women), so the odds are very high that it wasn’t just the chef. With the time period that Crock takes place, I would put money on that percentage being so much higher that none of the men in this restaurant – customers and employees alike – washed their hands.
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Sex work is work. No shame here, Luann’s mom.
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Finally, a medical story is happening again in Rex Morgan, M.D. because Doug there is clearly having an aneurysm.
Luann: “What do you mean…’names’?
Mom pulls out the 1990 NBA media guide.
RMMD — Let’s workshop a new town slogan — “Glenwood:Wipe your Muddy Boots on Us!” It sure beats the “Glenwood: Rex Morgan is what passes for a medical professional here” campaign.or the guerilla marketing “Glenwood: We were this close to changing our name to Bellusoville”
RMMD: Doug’s enthusiasm is because he’s only been working the hotel desk to make ends meet until he makes his big breakthrough as a roots country bass player. Either that, or he got suckered into buying an “investment property” outside town, and finally sees a way to unload it on the developers who will be putting in the theaters, cheap hotels, go-cart tracks, and other amenities that will make Glenwood the next Branson.
Crock: I didn’t realize the restaurant in Crock was considered a prime spot for clandestine international meet-ups — but if you look carefully, you’ll see that’s Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy having a secret tête-à-tête in the back room. Of course, they both have obvious listening devices sticking out of their drinks, but that’s life in the secret agent biz!
Rex Morgan: Looks like the Glenwood Motel is about to become Glenwood’s version of the famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Meaning all the biggest country stars will visit there from time to time, and have sex with other people’s spouses in the parking lot.
Luann: “How about ‘Student,’ ‘Lover,’ ‘Spouse,’ ‘Mom,’ ‘Owner/Manager of the Fuse.’ ” “I don’t care if that’s how someone said to do it on TikTok, Mom, you’ll never get the Walmart greeter job with all that on your resume.”
Pluggers: Apparently you’re a plugger if you have to get drunk just to do your laundry. (I mean, she could just buy a dryer like a normal person, but her fellow preppers convinced her to live electric-free and put all her money into freeze-dried chili.)
@But What Do I Know?: RMMD: How about borrowing South Dakota’s billboard campaign (approved by Gov. Kristi Noem).
Meth.
We’re On It.
RMMD: Yay! Glenwood could be the new “Nashvegas”, full of drunken bachelors’ and bachelorettes’ parties and tacky overpriced theme restaurants and tourist shops.
Lockhorns: I see no cocktail glasses 9n the table. Try asking after a couple of martinis, Loretta. For you as well.
FC, about a decade and a half hence:
“What did you call this position, Dolly?”
“The ‘boomerang’ .
Luann: Does stay-at-home mom count as a career, in terms of an assignment for an allegedly college-level career paths class? If not, that makes Luann 0 for 2 in the oh-so-difficult task of “describe how an adult got into their career.”
RMMD – As a 20-year resident* of Nashville, I can only say:
YES! Please – get some of these crazy folks out of here. When I moved here, it was charming, quirky, and felt like a real community. Now it’s overcrowded, all the fun stuff has been taken over by overpriced cronut shops, bespoke jeans-makers, and twee murals made of fake flowers and neon. And you can’t hear yourself think.
Glenwood needs you!!!
*And I was dating my husband who lived here for five years before moving here, so literally, half my life spent in Nashville.
@Ukranazi Stepan: You too? Just thought I was (a) getting forgetful (b) being paranoid (c)accidentally violated some social norm and was being blocked.
@Lauralot: Now that is something to think about. If artistic minded folks on the board, sub in Cookie Monster for Bogdan!
Like when Elmo replaced Paul Atreides in the recent Dune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHK5fBm1YWk
Slylock Fox-Unfortunately Slylock arrested the wrong animal. The anteater was just there with a friend.
RMMD-The IRS is after Mud and he needs a place to hide out.
FC-“Hang on. I want to see if they will do anything else.”
Luann-Manager of the Fuse? That place has a manager? I thought it was taking care of itself.
Beetle Bailey-Jokes on you. That bag of chips is mostly air.
Crock-“Have you seen the food we serve here? Unclean hands is the least of your concerns.”