August 7, 2011: Sunday Showdown!

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• Once again Loretta has managed to drag Leroy on another unwanted trek to an art museum (perhaps they are at the Met to catch the final day of the wildly popular Alexander McQueen exhibit). Loretta is always eager to force Leroy into these high culture field trips because, aside from making him unambiguously miserable, she gets an overwhelming home field advantage over the culturally dull Leroy. Today is a perfect example, as Loretta is all too eager to mock Leroy over his humiliating mistake of confusing a common light fixture for some sort of modern art piece. Loretta gets the point.
• My heart really goes out for poor Leroy in this scene. The combination of the unusually somber overhead angle, his body language indicating a sense of utter defeat, and the downright hopeless expression on his face make him look particularly pathetic. However, such conspicuous displays of pitiable vulnerability mean nothing to an ice cold assassin like Loretta. She seems to take even greater joy in swiftly kicking Leroy while he's down by saying she has absolutely no faith in him. She understands the brutal nature of the game. Loretta goes up 2-0.
• I think we all know that Leroy wouldn't remember whatever Loretta was wearing if she ever went missing. In all likelihood Leroy would probably be the one responsible for Loretta being missing in the first place. If Leroy is trying to pull a Loretta-style fashion critique on her about the ugliness of her dress, he may be getting the reasoning wrong. An especially heinous looking dress would be easier to remember rather than a reasonable looking one. I think he's just dropping less than subtle threats that if she doesn't return the dress he will murder her. Leroy gets on the board; it's still 2-1 Loretta.
• Two boxes in one Sunday Showdown? I don't like the looks of that. I hope this isn't the start of some gradual box caption takeover. I do not want to be around when the captions for an entire Sunday offering are entirely boxed in. That being said, it's a shame a Leroy isn't here for Loretta to cash in on this quality crack about Leroy's sloppy eating habits. Actually I think the gravy colored tie would be quite a versatile gift since almost everything Loretta cooks looks like lumpy gravy anyway. Loretta fails to lock up the day; she still leads 2-1.
• Leroy confides to his bizarro doppelganger about Loretta's uniquely antagonistic approach to reminiscing. With regards to just scene aesthetics, it is a nicely arraigned shot showing the parallelism between Leroy and Loretta. Loretta is also likely making some unflattering comment about Leroy to her raven haired doppelganger but unfortunately for her it's Leroy's line that gets the foreground and the caption. It's a shame, Loretta's seems a lot funnier. After going down two games off the bat, Leroy manages to salvage a 2-2 push.

Official Count:

Leroy - 83
Loretta - 84

Push - 52