October 16, 2011: Sunday Showdown!

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• Today's Sunday Showdown finds Leroy once again recovering at the hospital from his latest encounter with Loretta's cooking and/or murder attempt. Instead of using this situation to his advantage by pointing out how he gets to eat real, edible meals now or how wonderful it is to be away from Loretta, he squanders his opportunity by complaining about the lack of attention by the hospital staff. In their defense, I suspect that after examining Leroy and checking his vitals the medical staff assumed he was near death anyway so they just left him to die in peace. We start things off with a push.
• Correction Loretta, Leroy also becomes an unstoppable dancing machine when he becomes deliriously drunk and when he spots a poor unsuspecting leggy bimbo at a party to start grinding up on. He also most likely dances for joy anytime you are away from the house. In fact, a more accurate statement would be that Leroy only doesn't dance with Loretta. Of course all this would have been a point for Leroy if he managed to get it out before Loretta. Alas, he is beaten to the punch and the point. Loretta is up 1-0.
• As slovenly and disgusting as Leroy can get around the house or during his darker periods of despair and depression, he does manage to clean up nicely whenever he's being dragged to some formal function by Loretta. His sharp dressing still won't protect him, however, from an acerbic assault by Loretta. This time Loretta goes for a head shot, going for the low hanging fruit of "Leroy is balding" jokes. Uninspired but effective, Loretta goes up 2-0.
• Huge misplay by Leroy in this panel! When given the benefit of a disgusting meal by Loretta to earn an easy point on, Leroy inexplicably decides to make an awful, painfully outdated complaint about telemarketers calling during dinner time (quite possibly the most dated of gripes about "modern life" that the Lockhorns still make on a regular basis). He turns a slam dunk point and an opportunity to try and salvage a tie into a worthless push and locks up another Sunday for Loretta. With an ever increasing double digit deficit to overcome and only roughly two and a half months make up the difference, Leroy can ill afford such costly blunders. Push.
• Loretta puts an final exclamation point on one of her most dominating Sunday Showdowns in recent memory by running up the score on Leroy. Despite being, what looks to be an unusually far distance away for a cocktail party (although space and time are unpredictable whenever you decide to throw a party in limbo), Loretta throws a piercing dart at Leroy's overblown, hot air infused, balloon of self indulgence and pomposity; without even getting off the couch no less. Loretta seals a 3-0 shutout and takes the Showdown.

Official Count:

Leroy - 97
Loretta - 115

Push - 77