Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 03, 2021

Small typo in Red Shirt Kid’s dialogue. He meant to say “shut,” not “speak.”

Beat me to it, jroggs. Shut up already & head to the great white north.

I’m dealing with negative expectations for this strip, based on just 300 samples this year.

P 1.5 “No dude, you shut up, I’m coming over to your table to taco-stomp your lunch.”

Who’s going to go blowtop mad first, Macy or Mopman? Someone call Vito and get the odds for me, will you?

Will there be an altar call at the end of this sermon?

Dude- can you sit down?

SDSU. and where’s the teacher who should be monitoring the lunch room? Better yet, who cares what the kid who is afraid of the Power 5 conferences thinks?

P1- Girl in the background holding her burger surmises Chance from the rear as ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me” plays in her head.

P2 & P3- Years ago we followed the exploits of Derek “Slim” Chance. Young Macy looks like he’s been living at Mo’s Diner and has transformed into Fat Chance.

P2: A member of the crowd stares up appreciatively as a giant balloon floats past in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.

Probably not? I guess Chance isn’t curious enough to find out if he can raise his voice.

This may be the most boring story arc EVER…

I was really hoping that we were done with this soapbox nonsense yesterday but it looks like it’s gonna drag out another week or so and did the normally reticent Rubin learn a new word from a crossword puzzle?

Stop pretending like you care what this ass hat has to say.

Those are some tiny shoes for a D1 running back recruit. Or is it just a giant hand drawing wannabe??

Chance hit that growth spurt and is now 12’3" and touching the ceiling. I think he’ll be the goalie on McGill’s other football team.

Coach Thorp report to Dr Pearl’s Office imediately blares the PA system .Close the door Gil, in all reality can you explain what Hell is going on ? You have no idea , I figured as much, go get Mopman for me .This Sh*t ends now.

I hope this ends with Kianna back-flipping through the sloppy joes and kicking Chance back into his seat. She points at Tev and hollers “Choker!.”

This isn’t over yet?!?!

So this is twice in a week that Ruben has used “normally reticent” to describe Chance. Did he just learn that term from somewhere and is super excited to use it whenever he can?

And speaking of super excited, you should be super excited that today’s Mopped Up Thorp is online: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Not that anyone would remember the four or five plays, since he wasn’t on varsity…