# Funky Winkerbean spoiler question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 28, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841 "2010-06-28T21:04:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/1 "2010-06-28T21:04:09Z")
Did Funky buy the farm in the car wreck, and is his ghost wandering about?
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### Author:  [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/2 "2010-06-28T21:24:24Z")
I’m guessing a coma like Tony Soprano’s “Kevin Finnerty” experience.
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/3 "2010-06-28T21:33:49Z")
I’m guessing a coma too. It’s not real life because he actually looks happy.
However, when he eventually regains consciousness I predict that he’ll have significant brain damage, requiring that he be confined to an electric wheelchair and undergo extensive physical therapy.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/4 "2010-06-28T21:47:50Z")
Yeah, but I believe he mentioned that the town square had been spiffed up…as if there had been a passage of time?
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/5 "2010-06-28T21:52:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Yeah, but I believe he mentioned that the town square had been spiffed up…as if there had been a passage of time?
Maybe it’s a sick version of “It’s a Wonderful Life” showing how much better the world would have been if Funky had never existed.
At this point the strip has already passed the pathos event horizon and is plunging into the pathos singularity, so it’s to be expected that the normal rules of tragedy will start to break down.
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### Author:  [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/6 "2010-06-28T22:36:26Z")
Are they still publishing _that_?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/7 "2010-06-28T23:04:08Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#):
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> Are they still publishing _that_?
You are better off not knowing.
Move along, nothing to see here.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/8 "2010-06-28T23:08:55Z")
I wonder if it is doing another one of those infamous time-jumps, keeping the Funky Phantom around just long enough to introduce the new aspects.
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/9 "2010-06-28T23:13:17Z")
My first thought at the “town square had been spiffed up” line was that he was in the past, when it was newer. This could be because he’s dreaming or because he has actually traveled back in time (cue Twilight zone theme).
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/10 "2010-06-28T23:22:19Z")
I think it’s a Twilight-zone type of episode, such as “A Stop at Willoughby” or “Walking Distance”\*\*\*\*. \*\*\*\* Funky is about to wander through the streets of the Westview of his youth (aka the setting of the original strip). \*\*\*\*
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/11 "2010-06-28T23:25:14Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> I think it’s a Twilight-zone type of episode, such as “A Stop at Willoughby” or “Walking Distance”\*\*\*\*. \*\*\*\* Funky is about to wander through the streets of the Westview of his youth (aka the setting of the original strip). \*\*\*\*
While in real life(such as it is), he is slowing bleeding to death.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/12 "2010-06-29T00:03:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> Did Funky buy the farm in the car wreck
[Apparently not](http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/)(see strip dated June 25th, currently second from the top)
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/13 "2010-06-29T00:05:12Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> [Apparently not](http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/)(see strip dated June 25th, currently second from the top)
Well, damn.
I really liked the “bleeding to death” possibility.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/14 "2010-06-29T00:26:51Z")
> [@](#):
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> I think it’s a Twilight-zone type of episode, such as “A Stop at Willoughby” or “Walking Distance”. Funky is about to wander through the streets of the Westview of his youth (aka the setting of the original strip).
I don’t read this strip usually. But I’ve just had a look through the last few days and noticed [this strip.](http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=Funky_Winkerbean&feature_date=2010-06-12) What’s the betting that the old geezer turns out to be himself?
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/15 "2010-06-29T00:35:55Z")
[Rod Serling]Presented for your consideration…could a dying man’s consciousness travel back in time to give his younger self the means to save his future failing business?[/RS]
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/16 "2010-06-29T00:50:11Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> I don’t read this strip usually. But I’ve just had a look through the last few days and noticed [this strip.](http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=Funky_Winkerbean&feature_date=2010-06-12) What’s the betting that the old geezer turns out to be himself?
I bet you’re right.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/17 "2010-06-29T01:04:58Z")
Maybe re really had the drink and this is a drunken rambling.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/18 "2010-06-29T02:09:34Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> I don’t read this strip usually. But I’ve just had a look through the last few days and noticed [this strip.](http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=Funky_Winkerbean&feature_date=2010-06-12) What’s the betting that the old geezer turns out to be himself?
I’d call it a certainty – Rod Serling once heard that irony is good for the blood, and figured that, if a little is good, a whole lot must be great. Twilight Zone, here we come!
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/19 "2010-06-29T02:19:27Z")
I thought Westview _already_ existed in the dystopian future where Biff owned everything…
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-spoiler-question/544841/20 "2010-06-29T02:23:46Z")
> [@jayjay](#):
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> I thought Westview _already_ existed in the dystopian future where Biff owned everything…
Oh, Dear G-d!
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