What, Cathy Wasn't Terrible Enough?

While browsing The 4 Letter Network's Page 2 section, you may have noticed a "comic" called "Girls & Sports". I use the term comic extremely loosely.

In the type of humor that even Garfield considers itself above, this strip teaches us that while boys are only interested in sports, women have basically zero interest. And this leads to cah-razy conflict! Or not. Every one has a needlessly boring ending and is thoroughly devoid of character. A few examples:

First Panel:

Girlfriend (or Wife): Bradley, don't forget we're having dinner with my parents on Sunday.

[Stop. Worst cliche' in the book there.]

Guy (who can only be described as playing the N64 with an upside-down controller): Absolutely not. It's the Super Bowl. End of discussion.

Second Panel:

Girl: Fine, we'll reschedule. You know, not everyone's life revolves around football.

[All right. Hope the punchline is good.]

Third Panel:

Guy: 93 million people watch the Super Bowl. And yet my girlfriend's parents aren't two of them.

[Yup, that's the joke. The only vaguely amusing thing about this strip is the guy's friend possibly dead-on starting at the dude's girlfriend's ass. But given the utter lack of thought put into the comic, I seriously doubt that's the case.]


Since I couldn't stand to do another breakdown, I'll paraphrase the other one I looked at for this entry.

* Guy talks about some commercials contest during the Super Bowl
* Friends leave, saying real fans focus on the football
* Girls come up, and they are teh hawtz, telling him they'd love to come

HA HA FUCKIN HA! DO YOU GET IT. Girls love the commercials of the Super Bowl, and not the game itself! Oh that is rich.

Look, I don't care about potential mysogyny. Let's be clear on that. But when something is so absurdly unfunny, I feel like I have to hit the creator over the head with a truncheon for ever having aborted it out of his mind's womb. The worst part? There are people out there who think it's funny. And there are people who think it's funny enough to FORWARD it to other people.

So an open letter to America: Guys. Our creativity is stifled enough. Can we please not let this kind of crap be rewarded with anything besides a fist to the face?

In the meantime, I'll resume skipping ESPN in things not labeled TMQ.

- Matt