Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for January 17, 2018

Jorge must be good, it’s not every season that a kid transfers in to Milford and makes the varsity team……oh, yes it is.

If Marty had said what Marjie just did about the hyphens, Gil would have smirked and made a sarcastic comment.

Mix and match? Is this basketball or Garanimals?

Remember that guy on “The Electric Company” who assigned sounds to all of the punctuation marks and then read a book? Gil must talk like that also in order for Marjie to be able to pick up on his comma-usage.

P1, Yeah, but what are you going to do outside the showers?

P2, You’re getting a little ahead of yourself if you think Gil actually has a plan.

P3, And welcome to the varsity shower ritual. Mop’s gonna need to shine that court before the opener.

Two practices and were set to give-and-go with the season. At this rate Milford will win the Valley Title, loose in the first round of the state play downs and we will be into baseball before MLB Spring Training starts. The Padillas will also feature prominently in baseball and softball.

If he can jump out of the stadium like his cousin says. Then he can play small forward

Marjie, in her fashionable high waters and Birkenstocks, listens intently to GilPa’s gibberish. Mix-and-match, ebb-and-flow, give-and-go, too-and-fro, dosey-doh. Ahhh, the tactics and strategies and endless. With The Colony listening behind these two on the bleacher, are the ants included in home attendance?

What does it say about the rest of the team when a guy introduced last week makes varsity right away? Maybe Marty’s onto something (aside from another round).

What kind of shoes are Gil and Marjie wearing? Why, Sketchers.

wait till Gil learns about zone defense. he can throw in more cliches like two-one-two or one-two-two. e e cummings and i think marjie has a thing for hyphins or maybr hi-fins listening to hi-fi

For real entertainment, try and picture what coach Knight (formerly of IU and Texas Tech) would say/do to a reporter who asked such a silly question.

I love it! Rubin and Whigham snarking the snarkers!

Are they really in Bedford Falls and not Milford? Panel three looks like they’re standing right where George Bailey was dancing with Mary when Alfalfa (yes it was really him) opens the floor under them.

P2: What voltage will you install? 210? Gil: 210, 211, whatever it takes.

Martin Mull: What voltage does it take? Michael Keaton: 220, 221. Whatever it takes. From the movie Mr. Mom, 1983.