Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 19, 2023

To 110 degree heat?

Meanwhile, as week six of ToBe and Rod’s three week incarceration begins…

In all reality , Hey Gil , don’t those bugs crawling on your leg bother you ?

P 2.5 (Gil): “…oh?…why is that?…”

P1.5 Mimi cuts up the lemons life has given her (an unhappy marriage and Meemaw’s overdue trip to the worm farm) and makes bitter, unsweetened lemonade for Gil to choke on.

P2.5 “Only that you have really taught Mimi how to SCHWWWIIINNNGGGG!”

P3.5 Mimi: “Ummmmm, to the summer of 69?”

Ahhhh. Countrytime lemonade on the veranda. Is that a friendship ring Mimi has on her necklace from Ericka? That new summertime hit by Squeeze “Tempted by the Fruit of Another” plays on WMFD, thanks to a trusty transistor radio.

Keep it moving Henry, I’m getting bored. Unless the unlikely threesome breaks out before it becomes a Milford After Dark episode.

Wait, so that was Ericka next to Mimi in yesterday’s P2?

Yay, I’ve been waiting for the return of Pitcher of Lemonade! Sorry Kool Aid Man.

Doesn’t Gil ever wonder why Erika is hangin’ around so much lately?

Golf tomorrow by the look of it. Thanks to those of you who waited.

It’s a shame that Gil doesn’t know the naked truth about Mimi’s relationship with Erika.

Well, this is a productive strip. Let’s not advance any plot lines, it’s lemonade break time

??

Is this Apartment 3G or Mary Worth?

I suppose it’s too hot in Scottsdale this summer for Mimi to travel there. So let’s see whether she can bring the heat to Milford instead…

P3: The Kommandant from Hogan’s Heroes makes an appearance, with Gil as Sgt. Schultz: “I know nothing!”

OK, Sherlock Fans! Does that cough signal: a) Ain’t No Cure for the Summer-Time Blues, b) Double Shot of My Baby’s Love, c) What Am I Gonna’ Do About You, d) She Walks These Hills (In A Long Black Veil) or e) If Ever I would Leave You (It Wouldn’t Be Before Football Season) ?

Gil trying to figure out how to segue from golf discussion to “threesome.”

Hello? Mom? Dad? Keri? I finished my candy bar but I still can’t find the plane. Where is everybody?

Did Like crash this party in P3, or is Gil sprouting a forest now too? And speaking of crashing, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is now online, but don’t everybody rush there at once or we’ll crash the server.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2023/07/19/knew-we-forgot-something/

Rough day for Rod.

P1- Black v-neck, purple accent in front, gold necklace.

P2- Round neck, no accent no necklace.

P3- If those white stripes on the glasses are supposed to be reflected light, it’s not working.

Where did they park the plane and where’s Luke ?

I’m reading this a day late and I haven’t commented (or read the comments) in months, but I expected some jokes about the lemon-cutting onomatopoeia “SNIK” and there are none! What the hell has happened to you people? How can you ignore such low-hanging fruit? (pun semi-intended).