Moovians

  Well, that went nowhere. Oaf brought a jar of primordial soup back to grow some aberrant life form. Then he pipes up with his usual dumbass remarks and Doc wisely dumps the jar into the incinerator. So much for that arc. Ava does appear to have lost one of her shoes. Now let's move on to the next silly arc. Can hardly wait. 🥱

  Well, I must be getting punchy as this Little Oaf caused a slight smile as the Mom apparently has been sandbagging it and is on to Penelope's little scam with the gadgets, and has bought her own anti-convince-o-ray, a Gadget Reverser Pro. The Felix the Cat wall clock kitsch is a nice touch.  On a scale of 1-1000, all the previous Little Oafs have been -5's or lower, this one is likely a 1. It's not likely, but maybe, just maybe, Lemon may be catching on. Perhaps even suggested this to the hapless hack writer Joey.  It does appear that Little Oaf has somehow gone from being a paper mache creation of Penelope's into being accepted into the family openly. Of course, this is  a comic strip. 🙄

  1939: 118 of 312 (+0) – 2 complete months 1946: 199 of 313 (+0) – 3 complete months 1947: 123 of 313 (+0) – 0 complete months 1948: 30 of 314 (+0) – 1 complete month 1949: 286 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months 1954: 246 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months 1956: 313 of 313 (+0) – 12 complete months 1963: 54 of 313 (+0) – 1 complete month 1968: 138 of 314 (+0) – 2 complete months 1969: 226 of 312 (+1) – 4 complete months 1970: 292 of 313 (+0) – 8 complete months 1971: 215 of 313: (+0) – 4 complete months 1972: 287 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months Just one strip added this week, this time from 1969. There are now 2,527 strips in the archive, spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenure on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 62.10% of the strips produced during those 13 years.

  Well, I'm afraid I don't get this one at all. Talk about just phoning it in, just put some nonsense together and get back to eating turkey. Apparently Ava said she didn't leave a note so Doc assumes someone broke into the time lab. Then it jumps to what appears to be an ad for a home security system, voiced by Oaf, who somehow (well, I guess like his handcuff craft) comes up with apparently the Safelab system and has a glint on his tooth, which is a ripoff of some tooth brightener ad. This has to be about the dumbest daily strip since the NuOop rebooted.

  Ok, so now we are getting modern. Ava reveals she dated a woman in college. That's so 21st Century. Or perhaps she means the demon was a female, which leaves wiggle room for the reader to make their own assumptions as to if Ava goes both ways (with humans that is). Nothing wrong with that, of course, just different from the Oop strip. But as we know, this isn't the Oop strip but Alley Oaf so pretty much anything goes as this is it's own canon. Next, we go on to the next 3 panels, where Doc promises Ava that her working conditions will improve (likely to ward off any talk of a union with Oaf and Foola). She indicates she would like to go on some time travels with them the next time they go (seems like this silly ass one would have made her want to stay back in the (relative) safety of the Time Lab).  Doc balks at that and offers to finally buy her the office chair she's had her eye on (wonder what she was using before, a folding metal chair Doc got at a yard sale or so...

  That's good thinking Doc. However Oaf is his usual oafish self. Build a stronger roof on his cave? Caves have roofs? And just how would this blithering idiot do it? At least it appears this silly arc is just about done. Now, on the next likely equally silly arc. I guess we are just gluttons for punishment. 😫

  Words fail me with mess. Perhaps someone else can find something eloquent to say about this? Talk about an arc that just peters out. Let's hope tomorrow they somehow end up back at the time lab and they can erase their memories and never mention this lame piece of crap again..Probably the worst arc since Lem/Say took over and ran it into the ground. Read it if you dare and have a strong stomach.  https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/11/25

WTF! I'm not sure what this is supposed to be? Is that some part of the demon being sucked into the jar? Oh wait, I think I got it. That was indeed the demon going into the jar looking for the kitten. And it was saying they forgot to put the kitten in there. It's also interesting that Oaf is actually the one who figured out how to do it. Maybe his IQ has increased from -1 up to 0 or even 1.  It's getting scary to think that perhaps I followed Joey's logic here. 😯 When I first looked at it, it appeared that it was Oaf who was saying that. Here it is, see for yourself:     https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/11/24

  Continuing on with the silliness. Foola just happens to bring along her macrame string, how plot convenient. And of course the "gag" continues in that she also brought some origami paper and pipe cleaners. Give me an effin' break. Not sure where she stored it, maybe she's a magician.  Then Oaf has to add to the silliness by saying he wishes he had brought along his handcuff craft. So he's either a play cop or he's into bondage. Now there's an out of left field remark, but with this stream of consciousness story that Joey is purveying, apparently anything goes in this wack-a-doodle tale. To quote Bruno Mars, "Don't believe me just wait". Check it out here:   https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/11/23 On to tomorrow's probably unrelated gag. 🙄

So Little Oaf goes to the mall and is bored? Figures... Then he is so dumb he sees a cardboard caveman standup and apparently thinks it is a real person! Just how dumb is this little idiot anyway. And if he is that dumb, just how is he faking his way in school? Plus, he's still walking around half naked with just those furry shorts on and no shirt. Is there no dress code at the mall or even school? Such goofy nonsense. If the little knucklehead wants some rocks or dinosaur stuff, why not have Penelope send him back to Moo to bring some back? And if he was indeed going to try to buy that kind of stuff, what was he going to use for money and how would he even know what it was worth vis-a-vis the stuff he was trying to buy. Adding to that, where would he get the money in the first place? Is he getting some kind of allowance from Penelope's parents? So many questions, no good answers, but that's par for the course for this dumbass strip. I vote, as I have before, for them to ki...

  1939: 118 of 312 (+0) – 2 complete months 1946: 199 of 313 (+0) – 3 complete months 1947: 123 of 313 (+1) – 0 complete months 1948: 30 of 314 (+0) – 1 complete month 1949: 286 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months 1954: 246 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months 1956: 313 of 313 (+0) – 12 complete months 1963: 54 of 313 (+0) – 1 complete month 1968: 138 of 314 (+0) – 2 complete months 1969: 225 of 312 (+0) – 4 complete months 1970: 292 of 313 (+0) – 8 complete months 1971: 215 of 313: (+0) – 4 complete months 1972: 287 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months I guess Jimmy must be back from vacation as one 1947 strip was added this week. There are now 2,526 strips in the archive, spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenure on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 62.08% of the strips produced during those 13 years.

  Well, as far as the Oaf strips go, I'd have to say this is one of the better ones. Now of course, none of these are even in the same league or universe of any Alley Oop strip ever but STRICTLY basing this on ONLY the Joey strips, this one seemed to have a tiny bit of action and a slight bit of humour. Foola has apparently saved the day, and the future of the world's civilization, or something like that, while the other 2 stooges just stood around, as usual. Oaf was his usual dimwitted self in panels 2 and 4, which was slightly humorous and almost made me smile. 😏 On a scale of 1 to 100, I'd give this a 2 or 3. None of the others strips were above a 1, so perhaps Joey's coming down from her trip. Maybe.

  Oh hell! Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, it just did. I was hoping this Ollie Arp BS was long gone. So apparently that dimwit is bringing some kind of nuclear waste to dump into whatever that green crap is. Then they see the 3 stooges, freak out and disappear. Not exactly sure what dumping nuclear waste from the future into Earth in the beginning or whatever this is is supposed to do something. Then Ollie's companion (don't recall her name and really don't care) shows up with another barrel of waste, apparently sees the stooges, then disappears when she sees Zanzarr. Then Oaf assumes they'll be back because they left the waste, or something. Just about the worst episode yes. I'm not sure how Doc knew they were from Universe 3 as I have erased all that Turtle/Time Speed cop BS from my memory. Perhaps some others have a better memory of what that story was all about. Joey apparently took waaaaay too many 'shrooms before writing this. Pro tip ...

 Well, once more Joey tops herself with complete inanity. So Zanzarr/Ava is pissed that Oaf threw whatever that crap is on it/her and threatens to alter all life on Earth. Didn't it/she earlier threaten to end all life on Earth? Maybe it/her softened it's/her stance once the crap splattered her? Maybe it/her evolved due to that? Stay tuned! (or on second thought, just go to sleep and tomorrow will likely go off in a completely different direction anyway). Then after splattering it/her with that crap Oaf dials his idiocy up to 11 (get the reference? 🤪), begging the pool of crap to hurry up and evolve into a tiger!! Gee Whiz!!! Once more a game of "Can You Top This?"   I wait with bated breath for tomorrow's riveting episode. 🙄

  Keeping in mind that this is Alley Oaf, not the once great Alley Oop, apparently Oaf and Foola somehow formed a union since they apparently are now employees of Doc. Joey teased this union idea a couple or more years ago. Just another silly, unnecessary added wrinkle to this inferior product. The time lab traditionally hardly had enough money to even operate, much less pay wages, which Oop would have had no use for anyway.  In the real Oop strips, the relationship between Doc and Oop et al was pretty much informal. Doc would get Oop to do some time trips for adventure or to get funds for the Time Lab, like when Oop went back into the old West to find out where some bank robbers had hidden their stolen chest with gold so it could be retrieved from the hiding place in the time frame of the modern lab. Or when O. L. Driller paid them to go to Earth 2 in search of oil or some such. The idea of Oop being an employee was never mentioned.

  Well, Oaf actually accidently did something right, and snapped Ava out of whatever her situation was (so now how do they get back to modern times? I guess Doc still has some kind of time machine?)  And of course we find (remembering that this is NOT  Alley Oop but Alley Oaf) that this Doc has a lab in a 1600 time bubble so the labour laws of modern time don't apply, which of course pisses off the 2 Stooges. Too bad that the real Doc from the Alley Oop strip (which is long gone) didn't think of that angle, but that would have been too idiotic for that strip. At least in this strip, Oaf and Foola glare at Doc, giving him the evil eye and Doc's lame explanation is slightly funny. This strip is to Alley Oop as the Bizarro world was to the world of Superman. 🤡

 Another ho-hum set of panels. So Ooola begs Zanzarr not to destroy life on Earth, although we know obviously that life was doing pretty much fine in the time era that Doc et al came from. Then Oaf says violence is usually the answer after throwing the soup on Zanzarr. Lets  hope this dumbass arc ends tomorrow and we can get on to another equally dumbass arc in whatever time era the writer chooses (likely by throwing a dart at a board with a bunch equally dumbass story ideas on it). Man, this crap is getting tedious! This BS makes the Mary Shelley arc with her running up the snowy Alps in pumps look like a great classic story. However that was the ersatz Bender Alley Oop while this is Alley Oaf, two completely  different characters completely, with ZERO commonalities. This Alley Oaf has to stand 100% on it's own as there is no link whatsoever to the classic Alley Oop. I won't even compare it to even the Bender version, much less Hamlin or Graue. In fact, fr...

 No strips added this week so the archive remains at 2,525 stips or 62.05 of the strips with Hamlin's byline. 

" The Trouble With Tribbles" anyone? So now we're ripping off classic Star Trek episodes? 🙄 I figure this strip should also reflect the grown up Oaf, as it is just as silly and insipid as the weekday edition. Little Oaf, as usual, presages the grownup idiot. At least Joey is consistent(in this instance), I'll give her that. Penelope's "lab" certainly has acquired all kinds of gear, kinda like going to an Army surplus store. In the header, Little Oaf is wearing a mask, but of course not in the strip itself nor is Penelope. Also in the header somehow he has trained some dinosaur to carry tea and water on it's head, although it doesn't look too pleased by that. Not sure what that bunny on her shirt is, I can't quite place it, but I imagine it's a ripoff of some other strip. Maybe from Rabbits, although that wouldn't exactly be a ripoff since that's Lemon's strip.

  Ok, it is indeed a bit of whimsy. It certainly beats the humdrum nonsense we've seen so far in this silly arc. Taken as a gag a day strip and not as an adventure strip, it to me is a bit better than anything in this arc so far. I'll take what I can get at this point. A day at a time. The strip today seems to be in on the gag and poking a bit of fun at itself, not taking itself seriously. That may be the best tack to take, as this whole arc is the height of silliness. Time to bail and get on to the next one. This may be the best one of this arc, but like an old boss used to say "being King of the pigs isn't really that big of a compliment". 😏 Perhaps a bit of the old Mad Magazine writer is showing through.

  Well, like Oaf, Joey is also out of ideas obviously. In the meantime, why doesn't Doc just transport them back to modern times and be done with this nonsense? Apparently since Oaf and all came from today's world, whatever this creature is claiming it will do either didn't come to pass or if it did, it just became whatever passes for today's reality. Where is Spy vs Spy when we them? 😴

  Well, so much for even a mild "joke" today. Since this is no longer an adventure strip and doesn't even try to be, but a gag a day wannabe,  perhaps Joey should read a copy of "Jokes For The John" to get some humour ideas. Maybe one joke out of a week of strips turns the corners of my mouth slightly upwards otherwise it is like an unfunny Seinfeld show, which was how he famously described it as "a show about nothing".  Along with it being hard to get a hair appointment, it must also be hard to find a cobbler to fix the heels of her shoes, which keep appearing and disappearing. Life was tough in the primordial Earth. 🙄

  OK, so the reanimate souls apparently works. Appears to have a few bugs however. 🙄 Guess we'll just have to wait to see what happens from here. As I said yesterday, in the hands of an experienced, talented writer, this has some opportunities. The current writer however hasn't a clue to where to go from here. It's day to day. The last two panels show a tiny bit of humour however. I'll take what I can get at this point. At least she's trying. 😏

  It's hard to believe, but it looks like there may be a tiny bit of action today, instead of the slow slog we have become used to. Actually a bit funny with Doc giving her a warning about leaving the job without requesting time off, then her blasting him with her flame thrower breath. Whatever has happened has turned Ava into a flying fire breathing monster. Under the direction of an accomplished writer, this could turn out to be the first actually exciting storyline since the NuOop came out. Sadly however, I have a feeling this will be just another dead end. Hoping for the best, fearing for the worst, fingers crossed. 🤨

  Well well, looks like perhaps Ava has succumbed to the intense atmosphere on the primordial Earth (we can only hope) and appears to have been toasted to a crisp. Oaf is his usual dumbass self, a true pendejo . Who knows, perhaps (however unlikely) there might be some kind of a semi-interesting story here?  Nah! 😪

  Umm, so Pac-Man looks realistic? And Little Poop gets freaked out from a more realistic opening screen? Seriously? Actually, I vote (as I and others have before) to just drop this dumbass Little Poop Sunday nonsense and do a long form Sunday episode of the (execrable) daily story. Maybe move the "story" along a little quicker instead of wasting time with this piffle. Maybe get to the star crashing sequence where Ava and all the rest get crushed? Or Ava transfers them all just in the nick of time to Hamilton's time where they meet up with Mentis and Oaf can do his idiotic "ALLEY OOP!" yell while he swings on a conveniently placed vine? Or.....?

  1939: 118 of 312 (+0) – 2 complete months 1946: 199 of 313 (+0) – 3 complete months 1947: 122 of 313 (+1) – 0 complete months 1948: 30 of 314 (+0) – 1 complete month 1949: 286 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months 1954: 246 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months 1956: 313 of 313 (+0) – 12 complete months 1963: 54 of 313 (+0) – 1 complete month 1968: 138 of 314 (+0) – 2 complete months 1969: 225 of 312 (+0) – 4 complete months 1970: 292 of 313 (+0) – 8 complete months 1971: 215 of 313: (+0) – 4 complete months 1972: 287 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months One 1947 strip added this week. There are now 2,525 strips in the archive, spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenure on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 62.05% of the strips produced during those 13 years.

  Well now, perhaps there may just be some kind of "story" starting here. Ava appears to be floating and her lab coat appears to have tatters on the fringes, as if she's been through "something". I'm not holding my breath however, with this writer. Perhaps we "may" find out why she went here and left the coded message for Doc. Also, notice that both Doc and Ava are freaked out, while dimwit Oaf is smiling and greets her like it's just another day.  On the other hand, this is likely to fizzle out like all the hapless misadventures that have taken place since the NuOop started. Now, if only the new star can crash into them and end this strip for good. It's unlikely we can be so lucky however. 😩

  So now Oaf has become an epicure? And with no water on Earth yet, whatever that crap Oaf is tasting must be just powder, I guess? Leave it to Oaf to just jump in and try eating whatever that is. Let's just hope it's poisonous and Oaf dies by tomorrow's panels. Please let the star crash into these three stooges tomorrow and put us      out of our misery. 😧

  Missoulian Spook "This pattern originated when Dan Bailey crossed his Muddler Minnow with Theodore Gordon's Bumble Puppy. Bailey called it the White Muddler. Real fame began after Vince Hamlin, Alley Oop comic strip creator, used it with great success on Montana streams. In 1956, Hamlin drew it into one of his cartoons as the "Missoulian Spook" hanging from the mouth of a leaping trout. Joe Brooks touted it to great popularity using Hamlin's name." Missoulian Spook Orginator:  Dan Bailey, 1940s. Hook:  Mustad 9672, or equivalent, size 4-12. Thread:  Grey 2/0. Tail:  White turkey quill segments. Butt:  Red chenille. Rib:  Flat silver tinsel. Body:  White floss. Underwing:  White calf tail. Wing:  White turkey quill segments. Sides:  Thin teal flank strip. Head and collar:  Spun deer hair clipped to shape. Vince and his wife, Dorothy, were our neighbors at Pine Creek outside Livingston, Montana. They had a one-story log cabin w...

  Oh Brother!! So now Doc has somehow, in his spare time, developed this gadget that you swallow and allows you to breathe methane, etc. And with no apparent testing, assumes that it will work just fine. Hang on to your hats folks, this could, but likely won't, get interesting. The only thing that could really make this great is if he times it to just a few seconds before and dead center in the spot where the planet crashes into Earth. Of course that won't happen, it will just be another lame jokefest from Oaf. 🥱

 So the nonsense trend continues. I'm guessing 4 billion years ago would likely be when the Earth was struck by some object. Some quick research found this: Water arrived on  Earth  at exactly the same time that the moon was created over  4 billion years ago , according to a new study. This phenomenon is thought to have  happened  when an “ancient planet” called Theia smashed into  Earth It will be interesting (highly unlikely however) to see what our aspiring "adventure" writer does with this scenario. As usual, we get another silly "joke" by Oaf in the last panel. With any luck, our hapless trio will arrive seconds before the planet smashes into the Earth. Unfortunately it will likely be some lame event where Oaf goes looking for an arcade like the last time travel fiasco.

  So apparently Ava reanimated something or another and went "somewhere" into time and space. Meanwhile Oaf does another Oafish act and starts dialing a bunch of numbers. Much hilarity ensues...NOT!  If only Joey would take a comedy and/or adventure writing course instead of inflicting this amateur pablum on real Alley Oop fans. 😢

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  Oh boy! Looks like Doc is getting out one of his fancy re-enacter's get ups, like when he had that ready made Revolutionary War outfit in his closet when they went back to Hamilton's time. Perhaps he's taking the gang along to observe Hamberden getting shot in the Civil War? And of course we get "treated" to another dimwitted Oaf gag...(GAG!)🤢

  More dumbness today, as is usual for the Sunday strip. From the dialogue, it appears that the movie they were watching was one made from the daily Oaf nonsense. The reference to a pocket size time machine is a clue, plus a plot that didn't make them think at all. Time to dump this Little Poop crap and make the Sunday's just an extended daily strip that advances that "plot", such that it is. 🤦‍♂️