Sunday, June 24, 2012

June 24, 2012: Sunday Showdown!

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Clockwise from the bottom left:
  • I cannot remember the last time a secondary character had a featured burn in a panel. Along with her body type and facial features, we can see that Loretta gets her poison tongue from her mother as well. Unfortunately for Loretta, she cannot also inherit her mother's well earned point. Additionally, I couldn't locate it, but I could have sworn there was a past panel where Loretta joked that Leroy went to clown college. Given the current scene that would have been an odd coincidence. The day starts off with a push.
  • Poor Leroy, every once in a while he'll muster up enough will and gumption to try to improve his wretched health only to fail miserably due to his complete ineptitude at exercise (seriously, how does one get that tangled up attempting to simply jump rope?). If there was ever a fellow who could use some guidance from a professional trainer, it's Leroy. As for Loretta, I am impressed at her use of digital media and the Internet to expand the audience for Leroy's humiliation from merely the neighbors to the entire world wide web. Loretta scores the point and takes a 1-0 lead.
  • It's another addition of Leroy sticking it to the younger generation! This time, he's directing his bitter displeasure at those wild, blue-haired, youths of Levittown. He's never going to catch up to Loretta if he continues to be preoccupied with directing his efforts at these other superfluous targets. On a side note, I have always wondered where the blue haired old lady stereotype came from. According to Wikipedia, the blue hair was the effect of excessive blue rinse use to reduce the yellowing appearance of grey hair in elderly ladies in the past. Who knew? It's a push, Loretta still leads 1-0.
  • As silly as Leroy's choice of "romantic poetry" is, Ernest Thayer's famous ode to baseball is kind of a long and detailed poem (I can't imagine Loretta just standing there while he went through the entire rendition). Leroy's selection and recitation of it is clearly not a display of his lack of intelligence; I suppose it goes more towards his utter lack of romantic sense. Loretta displays a real cold blooded killer instinct here. Most spouses when presented with flowers on bended knee would probably forgive whatever incongruous poetry selection their significant other made. However Loretta stayed firm to her hatred and mocked Leroy without a trace of compassion on her face. That's why she gets the point and clinches the day by going up 2-0.
  • Loretta better be careful about continuing to call her cake "crazy bread". That is a registered trademark of Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. From what I can see though, her crazy bread doesn't appear all that crazy, it actually looks like a reasonable facsimile of a cake. Dare I say, it even looks halfway edible (it looks to have completely fooled Loretta's friend on the far right). Now if everyone can eat a piece without getting violently ill, that will indeed be the craziest part of all. Leroy gets the point and manages to avoid the shut-out and make it look a lot closer than it was. Loretta takes the day 2-1.
Official Count:
Leroy - 63
Loretta - 76
Push - 37

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