On today's Little Oaf - 20 December 2020

 Ok, so, it appears this girl has eyes for Little Oaf. We see he doesn't know common terminology, is still fascinated by common modern things, like drinking fountains, and claims to be a good dancer, although today, just about any kind of body movement counts as some kind of dance, like the imbecilic floss dance. Then his buddy asks how his date was and he's so dense that he apparently stands there for the next several hours(what happened to his next class or classes after lunch?) until way past dark until he catches on. Didn't the lunchroom staff ask him why he's still there hours later when they went home?

And didn't Penelope wonder why he wasn't home right after school, since it's after dark now? Wouldn't they go home together, either walk or have a parent pick them up?

Joey just throws a bunch of panel "gags" together and calls it a Sunday strip. Gaaahh!!

I suspect that even in the hands of a more accomplished writer this woebegotten cave kid out of water concept would have a few issues but this one seems to have bought them by the carload at an outlet store for stupid concepts.

https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/20