Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 21, 2023

P2a: My wife hasn’t been home in months.

If you’ve got to chopper a kid out, the game is friggin’ OVER.

Where are they playing, Mount Everest?!? They can’t drive an ambulance onto the field? A copter for a broken leg?!? Come on!!!

P2: Sound effects reveal what Gil wants to do to this punk.

“Pick up where we left off?” As opposed to starting the game over from the kickoff?

Radar announces over the PA, Pedro Martinez’s chopper was shot down over Lake Ontario. No survivors.

Kim falls into the trap. His backup QB will throw a pick six.

P3.5 “Loser washes dishes with Jun Jun for a month.”

P1 Don’t get too close to that helicopter, Mr. Reality. Those rotors and skids look a bit ominous. Just saying…

(WHUP! WHUP!) “THANK YOU COACH THORP, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?”(WHUP! WHUP!)

Sometimes I feel / Sometimes I feel / Like I’ve been tied / To the whupping post / Tied to the whupping post / Tied to the whupping post / Good lord I feel like I’m dyin’

18-3 for Milford at the end of the first quarter. Milford has scored since then and VT only had one guy able to move the ball, and was behind when he injured with seconds left in the game. Milford hasn’t had a good year… So who has VT been playing to have a perfect season up until now? And how do you protect it given the fact you’re in a deep hole with no way out? “Do it for Pedro!” gonna be you’re rallying cry in the 15 seconds you have left?

A helicopter? C’mon Henry…. If he was sitting up, there’s no way it was a life and death situation that would require a helicopter

Maybe Whigs wanted to draw one though

Joe Theisman didn’t even get a chopper. Now that was a broken leg !!!!!

P1-3- Is that rain or Luke’s body hair flying around causing a health hazard?

The chopper isn’t for Pedro. Marty fell out of the press box again. Easy on the corrected coffee there, chief!

P 4 (Kim): “…but coach Thorp?….isn’t second place in The Valley on the line for you?…”

“But Rubin’s doing a great job with the strip. Why does Tribune want a change?” “Great job?? Ha! Have you seen the numbers, Henry? We’re losing papers left and right! Thorp isn’t a modern strip under Rubin! It’s old fashioned. That’s why we want to bring you aboard.” “So you want me to change it? How?”“Henry, just look at everything you already write. We want more explosions! Helicopters! Football players hit so hard they nearly die! Girlfriends knocked up, fistfights in the lunchroom, hateful attitudes everywhere! Most of all, we need villians, like The Joker and The Penguin, and if you want to turn Thorp into Batman, do it! We need light sabres, ray guns, space ships, and stuff the kids expect in a comic strip. None of this sports stuff every day.” “Well, I don’t know anything about sports anyway.” “Then you’re our man.”

P 2…that’s what Mimi sez to Ericka…

Sorry your starting QB is being air lifted to a hospital, but I thought this was a great time to talk trash.

A helicopter? Really? For what may (or may not) be a broken leg? That’s way over the top for a HS football injury. Maybe Whigham just likes drawing helicopters…. although not sure who makes a double rotor helicopter. They would have to be counter rotating rotor blades which would negate the need for a tail rotor, which this one still has. And what the hell does the rest of the conversation in P2/3 even mean or have any relevance to the incident?

Tomorrow, out coaching Thorp! The MacArthur End Around.

“Are you afraid that you’ll miss that big meeting, be late for the wedding, or your ambulance will be stuck in heavy Milford traffic? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Worry no more! Next time you have to be somewhere in a hurry, just shout MEDICA at the top of your lungs. We’ll be there in a flash! Discounts for seniors and vets, call today! Se habla español.”

hey henry be original you should have sent a locomotive to pick him up

coach kim complains do you believe my wife makes me wash the dishes gil replys theres a golf instructor in scottsdale who will take care of your overbearing wife

coach kim also whines why did coach doyle get to go on the helicopter

hey coach gil who broke pedros leg beats me kim the author only told me three player names this year leo and the two vape boys

WHUP! There it is.

“Wait! Hold that Chopper! Kwan just broke a nail! Please help him!”

This storyline is broken worse than Pedro’s leg

p 2.5 (Gil): “…that’s right punk…I heard about what your wife, or grandma, or who ever tf that is said about me and I want to show you, and them, a thing or two…so go ahead and send the next stiff you got for qb out there and get ready to call for another helicopter son…”

If there was one more panel, Gil would add, “Plus we welcome failure around here.” So now VT has to use their backup QB who never plays, the ending to this should not be close. And speaking of close, the new Mopped Up Thorp is close. So close that it’s actually here!

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2023/11/21/it-all-balances-out/

Who was it that doubted this train wreck could get any more ridiculous?

An appropriate song, in more ways than one, would be REO Speedwagon’s “Time For Me to Fly”.

Or to paraphrase Husker Du

“…there’s only two lunkheads here/but they don’t fly…”

What happened to Picard? Wasn’t he the Milford doctor at one time?

The helicopter isn’t for Pedro. It just dropped off Kwan to throw some strikes to protect the perfect season!

How many characters stowed away on the helicopter to get out of this trainwreck?