# Help! Melodramatic Funky Winkerbean annoys me, yet I must read!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-strips\
**Created:** [January 10, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-melodramatic-funky-winkerbean-annoys-me-yet-i-must-read/49395 "2001-01-10T20:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-melodramatic-funky-winkerbean-annoys-me-yet-i-must-read/49395/6 "2001-01-11T01:25:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by magdalene \*  
> \*\*Didja know that there is a musical about Funky Winkerbean? I’ve never seen the comic strip, but I was one of the stars of “Funky Winkerbean’s Homecoming” in junior high. In a truly ironic casting decision, I played “the most popular girl in school” who gets to turn Funky down for the big dance.
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> Song highlights include:
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> “Why oh why can’t I be popular” and “I want a hunk.”
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> The musical gave me no desire to ever, ever, ever encounter more of Funky’s genius. \*\*

Do you have any idea how funny this is? I am wildly jealous; I wish I was in a Funky Winkerbean musical. I am adding something to my list of things to do before I die list.  
Anyway–Funky Winkerbean is still around?  
“Look kids! Funky Winkerbean! And the Noid!”

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