April 24, 2011: Sunday Showdown!

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Clockwise from the bottom left:

• Loretta kicks off the Sunday with a pretty cold blooded move. Despite having shown no indication that she could even set a VCR clock, she somehow manages to manipulate the parental controls in the living room TV to block out all sporting events. It just goes to show, when Loretta really wants to hurt you, she will go all out! She looks down right evil sitting smugly in the kitchen delightfully soaking in Leroy's panic and agony. A well deserved point for Loretta.
• Leroy earns some extra style and creativity points by objecting to the grey sludge that Loretta calls yankee pot roast with just the wearing of a Boston Red Sox cap (perhaps he prefers some Boston baked beans?). It's a rare display of real life product placement by the Lockhorns that doesn't involve local shops and restaurants in Nassau county. Also, is that the same framed piece of blank paper hanging on the wall from the previous panel or do the Lockhorns just enjoy putting these things up in every room? Leroy ties things up 1-1.
• I find these insults by Loretta where she initially acts like she's being supportive of Leroy only to backhand him with the punchline to be, in some ways, meaner than a devastating insult to the face or an overtly cruel action along the lines for the first panel. I think the dull witted Leroy needs a little time here to process Loretta's little turn of phrase. He knows that there's something insulting about it but he needs time to connect the dots. It's just going to be doubly painful when he figures it out. Loretta takes the lead 2-1.
• Past instances on the golf course have made it quite clear that Leroy is a pretty terrible golfer, however, going by his surprisingly impressive form, he may be a halfway decent fencer. Of course, this matters little to Loretta who takes this opportunity to coolly mock Leroy's ridiculous situation from afar (she even threw in her friend's husband on the burn as a freebie). Loretta clinches the day 3-1.
• For someone who probably just got into wireless phones, Leroy is getting awfully technical with his operating system/marriage analogy. It's, predictably, a fairly weak joke. It doesn't really say that marriage is bad per se, just that it's different (and that the difference is implied to be negative). I shouldn't even be reading this much into one of Leroy's anti-marriage lines, they should be plain, simple, and direct to the point that: marriage = bad. I'll still give him the benefit of the point but Loretta still takes the day 3-2.

Official Count:

Leroy - 43
Loretta - 40

Push - 31