Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 04, 2020

P1: The girl in the foreground was in such a rush to eat that her burger got stuck up her nose.

P2: The ice cream truck arrives. The clown driving it was last seen on “America’s Most Wanted”. This should be a short stop.

P3: "Dude, I was surprised as you were until Kaz told me that there’s way more in the shower room. I guess they put it in there because it’s cold in there. "

Happy Fourth Of July to you guys!

P4: The van from Milford’s new marijuana dispensary pulls up, and …

Spoiler Alert….all paid for by Marty Moon…with money saved from going through the program!!!

The Blue Bell truck showed up after seeing the request yesterday from michaeljwolf. Ask for strippers next, and this may go to August.

P1, Phoebe tries to snort her chunk of the six-foot sub.

P2, We had an ice cream man in our neighborhood who also sold us beer.

P3, Thing latches on to Chris’ shoulder.

Wait… who’s Chris?

Another timeout follows after the next half inning to allow roadies to setup in right field the stage for the after the game concert.In all ŕeality , Chance the Rapper, Madonna , and the Rolling Stones are scheduled to appear.

Two innings after eating 20 pizzas, there have been so many time outs, that they are all ready for their next meal

After Cirque due Soleil performs a new character (Harry Stassen) shows up with Vote for Me fliers

Wtf is she doin’ with that foot long in P1?

P3: “Here. you can lick mine if I can lick yours!”

One sub feeds all the people, Biblical

Ahhhh….don’t you love a good feel story….

Happy “Herb’s” Hash Hauler pulls up next. Then the Rolling stones do this one for the opening number of Mr. Reality’s afore mentioned concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-jXKLA_wU

P1 reminds me of Airplane!, except she has an eating problem instead of a drinking problem. Pretty convenient that all of the fans and players randomly brought blankets to the game. Unless whoever ordered all this food also send the blanket truck to the game.

And speaking of sending, I’d like to send you to today’s Mopped Up Thorp: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

This is pretty damn expensive. If this came out of the Milford budget, they’ll probably have to cancel two or three sports next year to pay for it. And if Gil and Kaz paid for it themselves, there should be an investigation into their salaries and any unclaimed income they’re getting. And don’t say it’s from State Champion Gil Thorp memorabilia, nobody is buying that crap.

So this was wild. I was going back through past July 4th MUT strips to find the panels that I copied into today’s strip. While reading through a few past strips in that timeframe, I came across this declaration by Double D, three years ago. She was 100% correct, we do still reference her years later!

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/unforgettable/

Not a bad way for them to spend the 4th!

Maybe it was jerky Flannery O’Connor teacher or maybe Dr. Pearl taking care of fiscal year balances, but it would be cool if was Chet’s card by way of Charlie. I hope Chance doesn’t go blowtop in this large crowd! (Actually, it would make it semi-interesting.)

Dammit, I’m trying to follow the game! What’s the score anyway?

In all reality , to start the next inning paratroopers from the 82 nd Airborne land on the field and hand out American Flags for the crowd to wave during the concert .

I’m guessing the Coach brigade chipped in.

As a late afterthought on July 4 and with all due respect to our friends south of the border (to us up here, anyway):

P3: “Yank my doodle, you dandy!”

Sorry.

I’m ashamed. I missed the most obvious: All I wanted was for someone to “buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks”.

can someone leave a link for Sunday’s Gil Thorp? TIA!

So Gil says to Mimi, “is Pedro finally finished? Boy, it takes him a while to clean a pool. By the way, don’tcha think that it’s kinda weird that the garage always gets so messed up right before he comes? It takes me as long to clean it up as he does to do his thing. Oh, yeah, Kaz told me about a great new French pastry shop that has a live jazz band. It’s called “Pastries and A G-String”. Maybe we can check it out and maybe bring Pedro and make it a threesome. We should make a reservation because the owner, Tom, Waits for no one.”

Where are the AMAZING Sloppy Joes?