Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 22, 2021

P1: Those cupcakes are eye opening.

She’s smart enough and good enough, and doggone it, people like her!

P2: Mimi explains her evil plot.

2 weeks to get a full scholarship at a university, not Fred’s Junior College of the Softball Arts?!? Come on!!

And it seems a bit presumptuous to assume she wants to go to college, since she has always expressed the opposite. Could be face punchin’ time!

I just sold you for $125,000 cash. Meet your new master — the NCAA.

Mimi takes her wedding ring off when meeting with single mothers? Verrrry Intererrresssting.

Wow. Great new way to eat a cupcake. Stick your thumb in the bottom and eat around it. Bet she bites her thumb and sues Mimi to get that $$.

P1 Wanna watch me lick the icing off the top of this cupcake without moving it?

Nice work polishing the backsplash Mopman!

P2 she can make up the difference by delivering some packages a couple times a week for a guy I know

P3 your mother sold your soul to me for a lifetime supply of cupcakes, your mine now b***h and you will do what I say and I say you are going to college and play ball – accept it!

Are we in a time warp..we just skipped two weeks. What the deuce is going on with BurritoMan’s bid for the Library Board….oh wait, that meeting could still be going on!!!

In all reality , OK Coach you win ,I’ll go to college and make you proud but on one condition , that my Mom moves in with you and Gil .

P3- CK’s EES tells all. Time for passed balls, Manny Sanguillen like swings and errant throws. Corina’s way of telling Mimi tanks a lot.

“And my new University will also love hearing about how I took a crowbar and put you in a hospital for eight months.”

P1: Mrs. Karenna quotes the late great Ross Perot, “I’m all ears”

P 4: “…your new university, son….I’ll be the new head coach there too….it’s part of the deal I set up…don’t bother fighting it….the tail don’t wag the dog, kid….”

The good news is, they jumped ahead two weeks in one day…time to wrap this up and move on to golf

If CK buys this crap and agrees to go to college just to please the old ball coach, it will be a new low in the already very low bar set by R&W and the Milford “illuminati.” One vote from me for the shutdown and tank job.

I wonder how Vic did at the prom? Probably missed it during the 2 week jump

Go to college, get a degree in Urban Studies and make less than a high school dropout. Go Mimi!

Maybe " and two weeks later" will get us to golf earlier? Maybe?

Did Zane spend these last two weeks being a bulldog? Did the boys’ team even bother showing up for the rest of the season? Has Abe sold all the library’s computers on Ebay? And… did Vic hook up with Mrs. Robinson? For no answers to any of these questions, tune in tomorrow, same time, same comic strip!

P1, Mrs. CK attempts to pull a plum out of the cupcake. With all of the emphasis on giant hands in this strip, you’d think the people depicted in it would be able to hold things better than the folks in Mary Worth. But, noooooo!

P2, Mimi can’t tell that they’re Folgers Crystals.

P3, As Spicoli said to Mr. Hand, “You dick!”

P1 – Mom is left handed, that’s good to know. Maybe? I can see Columbo giving one of his monologues, “What’s curious is this evidence clearly proves that the arsonist was left-handed…”

P2 – Holy cow, if that isn’t the look of an evil mastermind, I don’t know what is.

P3 – Considering CK is wearing all her gear, and has her mitt on, and is at home plate, the game is still going on? Did Mimi call timeout just to spring her surprise on her? Plus she just now found out that CK had 7 RBI, since she’s asking a question. That’s what happens when you show up to a game in the last inning.

And speaking of showing up, it would be nice it you would show up and read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

So it’s been well over two weeks since THE GREAT DEBATE, and the Board still hasn’t decided which is the lesser dope to add to the Board? Are they planning additional debates? A talent competition? Evening gowns? Bathing suits? Just pick Zane already so he can decline and give it to Burrito already since he started to soften up and we need some heartwarming, “Leave It to Beaver” type ending.

Obviously neither ball team is making the playoffs/downs this year, since we’re nearing July and the teams have barely been on camera. (Not counting the lame one or two panels of non-sports dialog like today’s P3.)

Let the strangling begin

7 RBI? Who uses RBI as the plural of RBI? C’mon Mimi, it’s RBIs.

P 2: Is she planning to snort that coffee or drink it?