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- Loretta comes up with a pretty awkward and frankly lame diss in this first panel. She does a lot of stretching to mock Leroy's lack of income. Her joke relies on replacing the word "incompatible" in the sentence with the word "income" but that ends up making her say that Leroy and she are not income; which makes no sense. Additionally, it applies to both Lockhorns rather than just singling out Leroy. It's only by Leroy's unhappy reaction and Loretta's gleeful expression that I can assume she's going after Leroy. It is just an overly aggressive effort by Loretta to land a point; which I still have to begrudgingly award despite the low quality product. Loretta leads 1-0.
- Leroy's outfit sort of reminds me of the late Robert Pastorelli's painter character from "Murphy Brown". For someone whose home painting style is supposedly like the chaotic drip art style of Jackson Pollack, Leroy's outfit seems spotless. I understand Loretta's emphasis on chromatic uniformity for the den, what would the Lockhorns' home be without its rooms completely painted from ceiling to floor in one solid color? The Lockhorns do what they do best when they are working in a monochromatic void. Loretta tallies up another point and leads 2-0.
- Now this is a classic Lockhorn room, nothing but a single color dominating the entire landscape. It looks like they're in front of some green screen for their scene. Whatever news Leroy had to tell Loretta must have been absolutely devastating. This may be the saddest I have ever seen Loretta. She looks legitimately broken up as if her mom died or something. Leroy clearly had no intention of sparing Loretta the sad news by telling it to her in her sleep, he just wanted to break it out in the big marquee third panel for everyone to see. Leroy gets the point. Loretta still leads 2-1.
- I wouldn't say a high end television is a gender specific thing. A reckless spender and all around couch potato like Loretta should be in favor of a new flat screen television. Since when did she become this snooty, anti-television advocate? She'll be parked in front of that baby watching some basic cable trash just like Leroy soon enough. Once again I suppose it all comes back to Loretta's overarching desire to prevent Leroy from ever doing any activity that makes him happy; she is so dedicated that she would spitefully deny herself the pleasures of the TV as well. That sort of dedication earns Loretta the point and allows her to clinch victory by taking a 3-1 lead with one panel to go.
- Those poorly constructed bookshelves must be for all the books Loretta reads in lieu of watching that idiot box in the living room. It looks like with the day won, Loretta is content to just relax and enjoy a victory pizza with a gal pal at some aggressively Italian pizza place. I'm just glad that she didn't make any insults about Leroy with regard to the phallic nature of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The lack of Leroy turns this panel into a push, but it doesn't mean anything to Loretta who cruises to another Sunday victory 3-1.
Official Count:
Leroy - 11
Loretta - 14
Push - 2
Sunday Showdown Count:
Leroy - 1
Loretta - 3
Push - 0
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