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?
@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.”
It’s always a risk that the cartoonist behind a long-running strip will get bored, realize nobody’s editing this stuff and just change the subject to whatever they actually feel like writing about. Like Rex Morgan, MD and roots country music, Funky Winkerbean and silver-age comic books, or 9 Chickweed Lane and women’s legs. The final form of this is Heathcliff, where the artist doesn’t have a particular interest they want to pursue, and decides to change the plot to something like “the word ‘ham'” just to see if they can.
MW: Harv has suddenly morphed from Peter O’Toole into Fred Astaire. Is this going to be a musical…?
Luann: I feel like the weird, scraggly speech bubble from Luann’s Dad is supposed to be some cute little visual gag indicating that he’s about to go on some deranged slut-shaming rant about his wife’s sexual history. But I prefer to read it as him experiencing a massive stroke while his family is too stupid to notice.
Rex Morgan: Wait, so Mud has been living in that same crappy motel as Truck? Isn’t he supposed to be an actually notable and successful musician? Shouldn’t he be able to afford, like, an actual house to live in? Or is living out of run-down motels some kind of hallowed tradition in the roots country crowd?
@InvasionOfTheZIM: Next stop, chin work? I can see it.
@Banana Jr. 6000:
Luann’s assignment was doomed from the start, because it seems to me that the second Luann tries to talk to her parents about “adulting” and how they feel about her career path, they immediately default to a “Good cop/Bad cop” routine (“I’m proud to be your mother, Luann/I WISH I HAD NEVER GOTTEN MARRIED AND JUST TOURED THE WORLD AS A ROCK MUSICIAN”).
And Bwad, upon learning this was for a class assignment, immediately reverted to the mean big brother who bullied her, trying his damnedest to sabotage her assignment through bad faith (even though, as he notes, HE has the big, interesting story about finding your dream career and making it come true
*), so Luann’ll probably go 0 for 3 on this assignment.Mrs Horner TOLD her that she should avoid asking simple questions where the person can just answer with a single word in her Creative Writing Class, but I guess Luann
learned nothing, as usualdidn’t take that lesson to heart!*Sliding timeline notwithstanding. Something that happened BEFORE he was born was the big inspiration he got to turn his life around after high school?@Ukranazi Stepan:
It’s not just me?
RMMD – Glenwood will rival Bugtussle!
RMMD – As a magnet for overweight celebrities past their prime, Glenwood may not become the new Nashville but it’s got a shot at being the new Memphis.
@TheDiva: Oh no. How dare a woman decide to make her family the center of her identity instead of her career. The horror. The horror.
@ectojazzmage: I think Mud actually lives elsewhere and stays in the hotel whenever he’s in this particular town.
BF – “Kim, I have some bad news. We wrapped up the week last Friday with all the main characters rolling in happiness and good fortune. But a soap opera strip requires drama, so…”
REX MORGAN M.D.: Bruh, you’ll be lucky if Glenwood is considered the poor man’s Branson, what with one 2-star motel and one dive-bar as the sole venue of entertainment in the city.
@Peanut Gallery:
Up next : Blonde Friend is taken by surprise when the other two ladies who run her new place of work ALSO suddenly quit, and give up their roles/duties + stakes in the company to her, and now she suddenly finds herself the sole proprietor/employee of …I *think* it was an artisanal cupcake shoppe?
(Hopefully at THAT point Blonde Friend goes from “This is a perfect opportunity to finally be my own boss” to “OH NO I’ve been conned into buying a dead business!”)
I’m assuming the way things could go wrong for Slut Friend is discovering Benoît’s businesses aren’t all on the level, legally speaking, and her getting that much closer to him means she’s on the hook?
MW – Really hoping for Patrolwoman Han to come by this, ahem, customer service center, leg sweep the manager, and free the
muckmenagents. Mary then persuades H to get a Corgi who wears a Cravat. Because you can’t have a dog without matching neckwear at Charterstone. Estelle’s refusal to wear a spiked collar like Pierre’s is why she had to move out and marry her Vet.@Tom: When you’re being interviewed for a college (snicker) assignment about “Career Paths” that are theorhetically supposed to inspire to go on to careers that the college can help you obtain, it is a bit of a “horror” to discover (because even Luann isn’t interested in the people of her own comic, the only “relatable” aspect of her) that one of her interviewees actually doesn’t have much a career to speak of and should probably be replaced by someone more applicable, someone with more work experience than her own son. (incidentally, we spent the past couple of days with Frank strongly emphasizing that making a dull passionless job the center of his identity was far more “fulfilling” than basing it around his wife and kids…aka the “anchors” who kept him from fulfilling his actual supposed dreams. Luckily those pesky overies slapped up any “dreams” Nancy may have had, so we never have to worry about those getting in the way of her obligated destiny.)
LUANN: “‘Names’?” Geez, Frank, we just establish that Nancy doesn’t really have many hobbies or outside interests. If Nancy wants to name her vibrators, just let her. (By the way who wants to bet that Luann will be dumb enough to included that oh-so relevant part about “lovers” into her final report? The report, I should remind people is a homework assignment the teacher has to read.)
Ahahahah, it’s funny because the lesson Poullet will learn from this experience is that natives are savages and the rules of civilisation don’t apply to colonies, leading to greater brutality!
Crankshaft – I couldn’t care less about these two, but at least it isn’t another week of Batton Thomas blathering.
Gil Thorp – It’s well established that the artist can’t draw people, and now there’s proof that she can’t draw horses either. Her people all look like some kind of deformed humanoids, so I’m wondering what the “oid” version of a horse is. Horsanoid? Equinoid?
Get Sarah Morgan. She can draw horseys.
JP – That’s some genius planning there, April.
@UncleJeff: Maybe June can tie a bow in that hair that hangs over her forehead.
@2+2=7: Don’t forget the mom and pop diner!
“My only ambition is to embody traditional patriarchal female roles but also to contribute to capitalism as a boss”! Luann’s mom is the only true trad-wife!
@2+2=7: LUANN: Luann writes her assignment with AI. Then the so-called professor has AI read it and assign a grade. So it’s all fair, she pretends to write, and they pretend to read it.
“Imperfect to perfect”? Brad learned Aristotelian metaphysics but not thermodynamics
I agree with the Motel clerk: Robert Altman is to Nashville what Terry Beatty is to Glenwood
A sentence? Luann’s mom, I see no verb: this is merely a list.
MW: Are we supposed to believe that call agent is Tommy? If so, there will be a boatload of Mary’s morality served up when next we convene at the Bum Boat. Choices have consequences.
Phantom: “Actually, sir, it’s the General who’s walking in.”
”He’s carrying her!”
”….over his shoulder, like a sack of potatoes.”
”She might be dead.”
”No, she was drooling a bit.”
@2+2=7: #57- Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.
RMMD/ MW- “Well, where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I’d found true love, but I’m stuck in Glenwood, this ain’t Charterstone!”
Luann: Breaking News: Luann’s Mom Not A Virgin When She Met Luann’s Dad. Film at eleven – bow-chika-wow-wow.
And this just in: Luann’s mom also has had affairs since she got married. We will monitor developments as they cum in.
Pluggers – In the “How old ARE pluggers, anyway?” department: I’m probably about old enough to qualify as a plugger, and “three sheets to the wind” was an obscure expression even when I was a kid. But maybe it’s a regional thing.
@White Rabbit:
It is sad because it is true.
Crock – The Spy vs. Spy going on in the other room would be more interesting than the Crock joke going on here.
Luann – Luann’s Mom doesn’t feel like naming Paolo, the sexy European artist she met at college and for whom she did some nude modeling for, in pieces that set Paolo up for artistic success and still inspire him to this day. Some things her drip husband and boring kids will never understand.
Rex Morgan, MD – Glenwood Motel will become the root country version of an influencer house
Luann-“Ok moving on.” Even though it is just Monday I do agree it’s time to start another story.
Luann: So many questions, beginning with “why is Luann making bedroom eyes at her brother in the final panel?”
No doubt Nancy had a few partners before Frank. A lot of women date attractive but unstable men before they settle on someone stable (or well-off) but not necessarily attractive (see Melinda Gates, for example).
Nancy sems to be getting bedroom eyes in the last panel as well: she’s probably thinking about the attractive but unstable men she used to fuck before settling down with boring, unattractive, two-pumps-and-a-squirt, but (sigh) stable Frank. My bet is Nancy drinks a lot.
@Charterstoned: “But I was bashed over the head and abducted off the street!”
“And that was unconscionably irresponsible of you.”
Your sexist bias betrays you! The Crock Cook could be a WOMAN and the food is full of menstrual blood and afterbirth. You ever think of that?! (Pig.)
Oops, I said the H-word. Let’s try again…
Crank: What is this shocking news going to be? Whatever tax dodge Masone Jarre was attempting when he bought the Valentine didn’t pan out, and now they’re unemployed again? Genetic testing has revealed that Hannah is a clone of Mindy? There’s going to be another kid for the strip to alternately forget exists and forget the age of? That last one seems like the most boring answer, so it’s probably that.
MW: It’s amazing how gay … this guy … continues to be, even now we know for certain Moy isn’t writing him that way. Brigham must know what she’s doing, surely?
OTF: I’m torn. On one hand, in our world this would be howling gibberish that makes no sense on multiple levels. But on the other hand, the Holbrookverse does have intelligent machines. But on the third hand, Holbrook’s slapdash worldbuilding tends to use AI to refer to LLM slop machines, not the actual machine intelligences. I guess I’ll just wait and see just how many levels it ends up not making sense on.
Neither of those are sentences. Look, I’m not normally pedantic about this kind of thing but you guys set up the rules for yourselves. I’ll accept that Luann’s mom considers “lover” a legitimate phase in her career path. There’s obviously a lot we don’t know about her past — there’s a lot Luann’s dad doesn’t know about Luann’s mom’s past — and this could be a fun narrative framing device for that kind of reveal. But give us a goddamn verb.
reFOOB — looks like John left the porn channel unlocked for April to find.
Curtis — and queue up one photograph with a thumb in the middle of it.
Mitch is aging faster than the speed of light, but he’s still in a car seat? Okay.
Luann: Current Nancy DeGroot is in a race to the bottom with classic Zonker Harris for the title of Weakest Resumé.
LUANN: I’d like to apologize for my previous assessment if Nancy as nothing more than a generic “mom” stereotype with no inner life besides fussing over her nebbish husband and hapless overgrown children. Clearly I missed that she put “lover” as part of her “career path” to indicate that she is not glossing over her time as the town’s hardest working hooker! That’s right, don’t be ashamed of your whoring, mama!
@cheech wizard: All Branson, Mo has to offer these days is an animatronic mummified Andy Williams….
@Peanut Gallery: More of a naval thing.
Like: “Pluggers always remember to swab the poop deck”. (cartoon of Andy Bear looking at a bidet)
@UncleJeff: Oh, that kind of sheet! I wasn’t thinking of that.
Looking at the anemic offerings in JP, RMMD, MW, today etc. in comparison to these same strips from decades ago and other strips of the time reminded me the problem with these drama strips have been going on for a long time. I look at collections of older drama strips and a lot of them move quickly, very little filler, and they don’t spend months
I recently purchased a copy of “Kelly Green: The Complete Collection” from Classic Comics Press, just got in the mail today and started reading it earlier. It’s a collection of five graphic novels published in France in the 1980s from Leonard Starr and Stan Drake, who’d worked on “Mary Perkins On Stage” and “The Heart of Juliet Jones” respectively – as the forward notes, this crime series, with Drake on pencils, was sold to the publisher Darguard because Starr and Drake welcomed the chance to work on something for the European adult comic market (and their strips enjoyed popularity in Europe), since continuity strips were in bad shape then already, the intro quotes from an interview with Starr:
““Doing a soap opera” Starr explained, “we are, of course, competing with the soap operas on television. There they are feeding them lion meat, and [in the comics pages] we’re used to giving them condensed milk. So little by little we became very dissatisfied. And combined with the reduction of size in the newspapers, the more work we put into it; the more self-defeating it became, because it was hard to look at. You couldn’t read it…couldn’t see all the detail.”
@Peanut Gallery: Exactly. It doesn’t have to have logic or make any sense at all, so long as Mary can present it in a smug and condescending way that affirms her own high morals.
MW: So Trixie’s a dude. No problem. Mr. H looks gay enough to be OK with a same sex marriage.
Luann – Nancy includes “lover” as part of her career track. So we can assume she got paid for it?
“they’re gonna make Rex put on some dumb retro cowboy outfit and go up on stage so they can jeer at him” … you say that like it’s a bad thing!
@Ukranazi Stepan: Here we go again with comments vanishing
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It even happened to Louann! The stuff she scribbled on her paper in panel 1 is gone by panel 2.
@Schroduck: LUANN: Except it retcons a previous strip where Nancy says that her wedding night with Frank was her first time being intimate. Of course it’s entirely possible she was lying back then, especially since the overall conversation was her trying to convince Luann to stay abstinent until marriage. And of course the empty-headed Luann doesn’t even remember the previous conversation.
RMMD: The next Nashville, nah. Since these country-western “stars” coming in are all middle-aged has-beens Branson seems more likely. As Bart Simpson quoting Homer once said, Branson is what Vegas would be like if Ned Flanders ran it.
@Charterstoned:
Sure looks like Tommy.
DT: Say BB Eyes, I don’t think Mumbles and Double Up are going to have many kind words for you for abandoning the mission to go on a personal vendetta.
@Charterstoned: We know you have a choice in call center agents – thank you for choosing Tommy!
“Here’s a comic about how the cook at the local fancy restaurant used to piss and/or shit in the food.”
I can’t decide whether that’s more or less gross than my initial reading, which was “here’s a comic about how the cook at the local fancy restaurant somehow held in his piss and shit for an entire year.”
Today on Beat up Bailey : the inner thoughts of a Party Size bag of CHIPZ!
@GarrisonSkunk: How will the Party Size CHIPZ “finish them”? I’m guessing rat poison.
@Violet: Simple solutions to complex problems: call the new character in MW “The Widower Cravat McCravatface” and have done with it. I don’t think the modbot has a rule for .*? Mc.*?face yet.
For a guy named after a BB gun, BB eyes shore has lousy aim. Like a poor marksman,he keeps missing the target! He’ll never get Silver’s Genesis Device!
@Peanut Gallery: Good guess! The Camp Swampy Rats enjoy new Rat Poison Flavored CHIPZ™,RP is Cookie’s signature cooking spice after all. When all is said and done I think its nice that Beetle makes a tribute to rival B.C.’s classic clam leg strip.
BETTY’. Probable foul. Would junior be old enough to remember what Spidey-sense Is?
BF: Guilt trippin’. We’re the ones responsible for Kims lost job. Sheesh.
JS: Shaddup and take the coffee, Crunchy. Don’t argue about details til after the last drop.
PEANUTS: Surely Franklin has been in spelling bees B4. I excelled in the hem early and would’ve been somebody but for a trick question. “Jelly” supposedly is NOT spelled j-e-l-l-o.
PHANTOM: By standing back, #21 let the newbie claim the power.
6Cx: life in 1412 BS. (before sarcasm)
The Familliar Mucus: “Daddy’s putting his shrimp on Mommy’s Barbie again!”
@Activist: PEANUTS: Surely Franklin has been in spelling bees B4. I excelled in the hem early and would’ve been somebody but for a trick question. “Jelly” supposedly is NOT spelled j-e-l-l-o
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Is “relief” spelled r-o-l-l-a-i-d-s?
@Professor Well Actually: I hear you. This story arc seems to be completely separate from all other continuity in the strip. It’s as if Toni didn’t show up simply because she doesn’t exist.
@TheDiva: re: Luann: Kinder, Kuche, Kirche. And at the Fuze, you can order Quiche.
I don’t think it’s weird to put “spouse” and “mom” in a “career path” list because both of those can represent serious time expenditures. How much time in between there was she spending fucking, though?
RMMD: Careful what you wish for there, Doug. Do you really want drunken bachelorette parties roaming around Glenwood, littering the street with penis shaped party favors? Is that what you want? Doug??
Today’s Crock, reminds me of a particularly disturbing Spongebob episode.
Where Squidward hit his head and reverted back to a baby, mentally.
The restaurant where they work in, Spongebob was going to change Squidward right in the middle of the eating area.
His boss chimes in “Don’t change him where everyone can see! Do it in the kitchen instead.”
Some dark shade in the back of my soul got a chuckle out of that.
@Professor Well Actually: She literally said “Owner/Manager of The Fuze” in the first panel.
SlylickFox And Comix For Kinky Kids: Today Tony the Tiger looses a tooth to Frosted Flakes™.”They’re PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINFUL!”
@The Rambling Otter: This was such a creepy episode, that most fans wish it never happened.
Late Thread Cuisine: Continuing the “meat pie” theme. I think. It has a “crust.”
@Baja Gaijin: Cuisine – You don’t even have to cook the sweet potatoes to make the crust! That has everything – canned soup and canned sweet potatoes, plus what I’m guessing is frozen mixed vegetables.
That target shouldn’t be on the wall – it should be around the neck of whoever dreamed up that glop.
@61 2+2=7: Did you forget Luann told the story in public of her almost zapping her cooter when she tried to “shaving”? Knowing the “right place, right time” for a story is not in Luann’s wheelhouse.
@75 Peanut Gallery: And it doesn’t even refer to sheets. Or sails. They’re ropes that fasten the sails so they don’t flail wildly and cause the boat to drift around like a drunken sailor.
RMMD:
I used to work front desk at a hotel in a semi tourist area. We only got real busy one Friday night a month when the local gay club turned into a swingers bar and they flocked to the hotel after closing time. I never stood at the desk and opined with one of the swingers that I wish they would get more popular so we could be as popular as Lauderdale in the swing community.
Mostly I was just depressed because the swingers were not the sexy bunch of hotties that movies had led me to believe.
@121 I speak Jive: Canned peas and canned corn, not frozen. How can we forget the cream of mushroom soup, no matter how much we want to?
@Baja Gaijin:
Bet it’s delicious! I’ve never had a canned, non-candied sweet potato, but shoot, how bad could it be?
@Baja Gaijin: I recall when “Master Chef…” Jamie Oliver was making some sort of mushroom curry, then he just dumps a can of campbells mushroom soup on top of it.
Ewww…
I mean, I like mushroom soup and I will eat canned, but for someone at his supposed “Caliber” that doesn’t feel right.
@Baja Gaijin: Canned peas and canned corn? Shudder. That is much, much worse. I grew up eating canned vegetables, and the thought still makes me want to barf. I didn’t start liking vegetables until I was older and ate the real thing.
I did suspect that cream of mushroom soup was in it. That’s a requirement for those recipes.
@125 A Grave Mind: The potatoes have nutmeg and allspice added to them. How bad could it be? Um, the filling looks like someone ate it once then their body rejected it.
@126 The Rambling Otter: Jamie Oliver did THAT? Wow.
@127 I speak Jive: Of course it has cream of mushroom soup in it: it looks like barf.
FG: Employee Appreciation Day coming up on March 6. Now I’m wondering how Ming usually celebrates.
Bok always enjoys a nice floral arrangement, but he wouldn’t say no to a fancy box of assorted chocolates.
@The Rambling Otter:
Yeah, I’d say it’s less like the Evansii have forgotten the Fuze exists/is owned by the DeGroots, and more like they treat it as a complete afterthought despite the fact that owning and managing a restaurant would require significant money/effort.
Also : Bonus Luann strips
(for idiot masochists like me, I guess)…As of when I posted this, there were noticeable formatting errors with this collection of strips. I (spitefully) assume this is due to the Evansii belatedly realising the one single “Frank takes Luann on ‘Take Your Daughter to Work’ day” storyline does not actually say what Frank does for a living, and also is only five strips long, like they couldn’t maintain a single week of “Even despite being SHOWN what Frank does for a living, Luann has no idea what her dad’s job is (mostly because she doesn’t care)”
@Baja Gaijin: so it’s a 5-glop recipe? Huh, I vaguely recall a plop-cans-together recipe book and thought Better Homes could do better than that
@The Rambling Otter: Her word balloon says “Fuse” rather than “Fuze,” which means she forgot the spelling for the place she manages or the Evanses did. My bet is on the latter.
@Baja Gaijin: It has more colors than variations on beige. I’ll give it that.
@Anonymous: RIP Archie Campbell.
@131 CanuckDownSouth: I think they made a misprint in the company name; it should be copyrighted “Better Homes and Garbage.”
@133 taig: You know, that’s not a criteria I’d considered when rating food: how many variations on “beige” it is.
@134 Lord Flatulence: I wonder if Rex Morgan’ll mention his passing. Maybe not: Mr. Campbell was far too “mainstream” for roots country fans.
@Anonymous: I
think Tiger Woods was playing golf before he stopped using diapers
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He and Marvin used to share “pee times”.
@Anonymous: He throws so many tantrums, I’m surprised he still doesn’t wear them.
@UncleJeff: Wow.
3 mentions of Archie Campbell today.
And one Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup,
RMMD: Can’t wait for the next issue of No Depression, featuring Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson and an nine-page profile of Mud Mountain Murphy! (Note: Mud’s PR flak expressly forbid questions about the unfortunate pants-shitting episode. Best leave that to Charlie Daniels.)