Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 14, 2017

Uncle Dorkus is cruising for a bruising. Gil ain’t going to let somebody come into his office and crap on his livelihood.

Gil is gonna open up a can of “whoop…”

P1, Gee, Uncle Tonoose, she’s not the only one.

P2, You are not the father, Tonoose!

P3, Uncle Tonoose, you’re about to get first-hand knowledge of what a concussion is like from the Gilfather himself.

It’s nice to see Mom’s Spock ear isn’t sticking out from her helmet today.

Too many distractions, no way they make the play downs this year!!!

In all reality , P3 Gil says , You’ll have to excuse me , I have a basketball practice to run now . BYE bye . Mr Soto why don’t you step in and knock some sense into Uncle Gary , how was your flight from Dubai ?

I see Mom’s sporting one of those novelty squirting flowers on her lapel in case things get heated.

This storyline is taking waaaaayyy too long to develop—it’ll be baseball season before Uncle Gary is sent packing

That’s right, I’m in the concussion business, and I’ve got a delivery for you right here. Apparently, the playdowns are scheduled so the championship game will coincide with the Super Bowl.

P1- Fraud? Wonder if anyone besides Ric heard Gary Unmarried utter that accusation?

P2- All the stress of alleged post concussion syndrome is making Ric’s Milford Monk more prominent.

P3- I smell a one way trip to Carbone Cave for an out of work lawyer.

Are we to believe that Mom is just now learning about the football-concussion connection? How does Rick’s NOT having a concussion move this risk from acceptable to unacceptable? Or does she think both doctors were wrong? Just trying to follow the “logic” here.

Where does one buy one of the commemorative Solar Eclipse of 2017 sweaters featured in P3?

Time to pull out the baseline numbers from pre-season? And time to pull Unk Gary from this strip.

This story could be a lot better if the following dialogue and action occurred: RS: I’ve just about had enough of you…UG: Oh yeah? whadda are you gonna do about it? Your mom wouldn’t like if you don’t show me some respectRS: this is what I’m gonna do, b***h (a$$ kicking commences at this point)

Is Uncle Gary really supposed to think Rick will want him to manage his singing career after all this?

P-1: World’s largest parking lot direction arrow.

P-2: Nhea! Oh, yeah well Nhea to you too.

P-3: Reassure me coach. My brother likes to watch.

What makes Uncle Butthead so sure Rick will sing his heart out if he can’t play football? I would cut out my tongue first.

I am seriously believing that Uncle Gary is the Mom’s boyfriend. He is just too controlling. If she is that wimpy she needs her husband to come back home.

Mom’s permission should be a moot point by now. Parents have to sign permission slips before practice starts in August, not in December at the end (hopefully) of the season.

Gil and Kaz need to “Gillooly” this jerk.

Why was Uncle Larry allowed in the treatment room anyway? Is he a legal guardian? Or just a family member giving the kid a ride? Is he Mom’s brother, or Dad’s? Because Larry is in desperate need of a kick in the pants.

P4: Gil dons a straw hat, grabs a cane and breaks into song: “There’s no business like concussion business like no business I know…”

GilSlap Grid to full power, standby close-minded jerk suppression barrage.

P 4 — Gil: “Let’s continue this conversation outside…..Say, Uncle Toonoose,have you ever visited Carbone Cave???”…

Have yourself a merry little concussion, if R&W allow, bang your head until you see a star or cow, just have yourself a merry little concussion, now.

Methinks Dad gets an emergency Skype to settle his brother in law down.

Doctors play by their rules, not ours!

Nothing at all to do with this strip but I think most of you will like this one!

https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/mothergooseandgrimm/

So Uncle Creepy takes him to a doctor and then accuses her of being a fraud. If she’s a fraud, then why go in the first place? And speaking of first place, today’s Mopped Up Thorp won first place in the “Parodies of Gil Thorp featured in the comments section of GoComics”.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Panel two reminds me of a true Beach Boys story. Early on Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl, and Dennis’ dad – and Mike Love’s uncle) was their manager. He was an old school tyrant. Finally Mike had had enough. After one of their first three or four concerts he finally beat the crap out of his Uncle Murry. Time for Uncle Tonoose to get his lesson.