July 19, 2009: Sunday Showdown!

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• With the summer beach season in full swing the Lockhorns are enjoying a lovely day at the shore partaking in some of their favorite activities. For Leroy, it's sexually harassing busty bimbos in his speedo while for Loretta it's doing everything in her power to ruin Leroy's fun. While Leroy trades toothy grins with a blond bombshell, Loretta makes subtle overtures to the lifeguard that unless he starts cock blocking Leroy, she will murder him. There's nothing like the beach in summer. Loretta gets the point.
• These tough economic times have really taken their toll on Leroy. Normally his uncontrollable alcoholism manifests itself at social cocktail parties and during extended periods of time at home with Loretta. His economic troubles have driven him to enter liquor stores in the middle of the day to wet his whistle. No doubt Leroy will be red faced and finished with his paper bag covered "stimulus package" by the time they make it home. Since, Leroy knows his excessive drinking habits disgust and embarrass Loretta, Leroy earns the point.
• Leroy may not be a religious man but he does display an astonishing degree of faith and loyalty to his personal bible of marriage hating. He never misses an opportunity to denounce the institution of marriage everywhere he goes and in every manner imaginable. Today, he's shunning the informative lecture and is just going to carry a sign around like a crazy person. This sort of negative behavior obviously annoys Loretta so I'm going to have to award the point to Leroy as well.
• The usual running joke about Loretta's never ending attempts at poisoning Leroy's food is so beyond obvious here that I'm not going to even bother making it. I just feel bad for the poor young man that the Lockhorns somehow managed to trick into coming to dinner. He's having a hard enough time trying his best to choke down the green slurry that Loretta prepared, but now he has to worry about collateral poisoning as well. Leroy banks his usual dinner time point and takes control 3-1.
• It's hurtful enough when Loretta questions Leroy's manhood by mocking his inability to provide for his household, but when she does it in front of their friends and neighbors, it becomes down right devastating. Obviously the last thing Leroy wants is to look foolish in the eyes of his unhappy looking friends. Fortunately, they seem to be so preoccupied with the thought of leaving that they are hardly listening to Loretta's pointed remarks. Nevertheless, her comments still hurt Leroy, which is always the ideal scenario. The point goes to Loretta, but Leroy wins the day 3-2.

Official Count:

Leroy - 63
Loretta - 71
Push - 65