The Outrageous Adventures of Florida Man, The World’s Worst Superhero

by | May 16, 2023 | Comic, Florida Man Episodes | 126 comments

A mild-mannered redneck, Cletus Spunkmeyer was catfish noodling when he was attacked and bitten by a radioactive meth-head. The incident gave him the incredible powers of poor judgement and impulsivity. Now he fights crime and the forces of evil with his trusty sidekick Gator Boy.

And now, our story continues in media res…

“Holy masturbating alligators, Florida Man! It’s your arch-nemesis, The Bureaucrat!”

“I see him, Gator Boy” mutters our peninsular hero as he cracks open a can of Skoal and lights an M-80.

“Foolish Florida Flan! I mean Flooish Florida Fan! I mean, well you know what I mean. Taste the wrath of my nefarious henchmen, the Paper Pushers!”

A heart-pounding melee ensues with appropriate music and sound effects!

POW! BIFF! BAM! ZONK! BARF!

“Curses, foiled again! Paper Pushers, retreat!” shrieks the Bureaucrat as he detonates a Red Tape smoke bomb to cover his escape.

“Manatee mammary, Florida Man. That fight was a close one.”

“Yes, Gator Boy, but it’s the close fights that make this job worth it. Now let’s get shitfaced and make lewd comments to the waitresses at Hooters.”

“Yay! I want to wear an onion ring like a monocle and call myself Count von Scratch-n-Sniff.”

“You’re a great American, Gator Boy.”

And so the day is saved once more by that most proactive of pairs, Florida Man and Gator Boy. Tune in next week for Strip Club Showdown.

 

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126 Comments

  1. DEG

    bitten by a radioactive meth-head.

    I hate it when that happens.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      How else are you going to get meth superpowers?

  2. R.J.

    “ Now let’s get shitfaced and make lewd comments to the waitresses at Hooters.”

    STOP WATCHING ME

    • Brochettaward

      I’m so First that Hooters waitresses and strippers hit on me.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Meh, they do it to anyone who tips. Ask Winston’s mom about it next time she bills you.

      • Brochettaward

        I don’t tip., unless its telling people how to First more It is a honor for service employees to even be in my presence.

    • Pat

      I was expecting David Duchovny in drag. I guess David Lynch really took the reboot in a new direction…

    • rhywun

      LOL love the carefully constructed “diversity” in the pics. Well, except for diversity of female breast size.

    • db

      I’ve never even heard of that chain and apparently there’s one near my office.

    • The Last American Hero

      I went once. It was sad. Waitress 1- 8 months pregnant. Waitress 2 – super skinny, not svelte, like possibly with an eating disorder. Waitress 3 – surprisingly flat chested given the amount of junk in the trunk.

      I kept waiting for the candid camera crew to show up but they never did.

  3. Pat

    catfish noodling

    It turns out I’ve seen this done on television before, but didn’t know what it was called. After a helpful web search turned up this video, I’m finding this activity quite intriguing.

    • slumbrew

      Damn, she is cute.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Knew who it would be. Those videos have weird vibe.

      • Chafed

        Yup. I always expect to hear a banjo.

    • hayeksplosives

      Dude, the national noodling championship is in Oklahoma every year.

      Even Hayeksplosives has gone noodling near the red river. But since I value my digits, I mainly confined my participation to removing the catfish from the arm of the noodler who had just surfaced with said fish glomped down on his forearm.

  4. Madhatter

    Good to see you!!

  5. creech

    Is there some official “rule” that says no matter how many times your proofread something an error will always creep in? I’m in charge of the program for a Rev War militia monument ceremony on Saturday. I pored over the draft ten times. Fifteen minutes after picking it up from the printer today, the “Marquis de Lafayette” contacts me about an error he spotted: I used two different years for one of the soldier’s death dates.
    I looked for spelling errors, grammar errors but forgot about consistency.

    • creech

      Damn, see what I mean?

    • Pat

      Yesterday I sent an email to a major national corporation after perusing their job site and seeing that in literally every single one of their job listings in a particular category, the following sentence was used:

      Successful candidates in the role possess resiliency in diffusing high stress situations.

      While I do possess resiliency in spreading high stress situations evenly throughout an organization, I’m fairly certain the 20-something HR flunky making close to, if not well into, 6 figures probably had in mind defusing high stress situations. Ironically, I wasn’t qualified for the job.

      • rhywun

        You’re probably overqualified.

      • DEG

        Sometimes the hiring manager writes those descriptions. HR just proofreads them/makes sure they fit corporate’s template/etc.

      • db

        At my company, the hiring manager writes them, then HR edits them to add bad grammar and stupid buzzwords, then the hiring manager re-edits, HR adds completely new mistakes, hiring manager edits, HR goes back to original mistakes, etc. etc.

  6. Aloysious

    That first paragraph is gold.

    I will now finish.

  7. Chafed

    Good to see you back Derpe.

    • Brochettaward

      Sports Illustrated is worse than Bud Light by a thousand. They are most known for their swimsuit editions and they’ve destroyed the brand. They’re basically The Bleacher Report with less traffic at this point. They don’t really break news, they lost their top writers, and they feature obese women, trannies, and the elderly in their swimsuit editions.

      • Chafed

        I haven’t seen their subscription numbers in years. I just assume the year they ditched models for the swimsuit edition is the year they started their decline.

      • The Last American Hero

        All print magazines are in decline but I’m real curious what the business plan was.

    • KSuellington

      Hahah, the Bro beat me to it, but they really need a morbidly obese woman this year to round out the trifecta. I th8nk they may have already done that before tho. Maybe a woman with copious facial hair or a retarded girl for a change.

      • Brochettaward

        That’s one of them unicorn cases that supposedly don’t exist where a perverted guy completely abuses the transgendered thing to skeeve on women.

      • Chafed

        It’s true. It astounds me, in the age of gender identity, people will claim this won’t happen. Have they never met a 20 year old man?

      • CPRM

        That campus photo clearly shows it’s The Masons what is behind this.

    • rhywun

      I know isolated events make terrible law but really… it sounds like this guy should probably have been in priz.

      previously been convicted for numerous charges including assault, resisting arrest, burglary, carrying a concealed dangerous knife and malicious mischief

      • Chafed

        He seems to be the avatar of what’s going wrong in many deep blue cities. If they actually punished violent criminals, there would be far fewer of these stori

      • Chafed

        Stori = stories.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      In fairness, I was in downtown Seattle last month and it was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

      • Chafed

        How bad did you think it would be?

  8. Brochettaward

    Pat McAfee sold out to ESPN.

    If I were Rumble, I would have been backing up the brinks truck trying to get him. They need to expand beyond just political commentary badly, though I have no clue how much ESPN offered him. Outside money, I’m not sure what McAfee gets out of ESPN. Whatever is left of their passive audience who flip to it instinctively when bored?

    • Chafed

      I imagine it was a pretty hefty sum. I was never a big ESPN watcher but probably watched Sportscenter a couple of times per week until they went woke. I just found it unwatchable after that. I don’t recall watching ESPN since.

      • Brochettaward

        McAfee says they won’t be censored, but no one is buying it.

        All of the top comments on his announcement video are people saying he sold out and that the show is dead. Pissing off your almost the entirety of your audience isn’t really worth whatever extra ESPN was offering, I’d say.

        I suppose he’ll have a chance to convince them when the partnership officially starts.

      • Chafed

        Unless there has been major turnover in the executive ranks, I don’t believe it.

    • CPRM

      Next thing you know he’ll be wearing shirts with sleeves!

    • CPRM

      Per Yahoo!

      Pat McAfee is leaving FanDuel for ESPN.

      McAfee confirmed the news Tuesday after a report from the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand.

      In doing so, he’ll leave behind a four-year, $120 million contract, according to the report. The former NFL punter turned media personality was in the second year of his deal with FanDuel for “The Pat McAfee Show.”

      The precise value of the deal with ESPN isn’t known. Marchand reports that it exceeds “eight figures” annually.

      • Chafed

        Jeebus. ESPN must be paying him over $30 million per year. That’s Steven Crowder money.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Stop big sportz.

  9. Gustave Lytton

    Watching Boomerang. I miss the 90’s.

    • Gustave Lytton

      24 year old Halle Berry…

      • Chafed

        Go on….

      • Gustave Lytton

        Eddie Murphy makes the right call.

    • slumbrew

      Wow, who did she piss-off? There’s gotta be more to the story. A Hatch Act violation?! Who was the last person to lose their job over that?

      Oddly(?), I don’t pay that much attention to state and local politics, since the default mode is “derp”*. I had forgotten that she went from being a (Soros-backed?) soft-on-crime DA to US Attorney.

      * the posts from New York, California and Minnesota remind me how much worse it can be. Mass is dumb, but could be worse.

      • Chafed

        You are probably right. She appears to be very sloppy. This may have been the administration’s chance to nip it in the Bud.

        I haven’t paid much attention to MA local politics because I’ve been away so long. But my oldest is moving to Boston this summer. Daddy will once again be paying attention.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The Gov here bumped off the Secretary of State (no Lt Gov, so it’s the second highest position and stepping zone to the governors mansion or at least a contestant). The media and commenters are playing it like it’s a victory against corruption. I see fingerprints all over it though.

  10. hayeksplosives

    Just got back from dinner with a former GA colleague who now works at the Southern Outpost of the seattle company for which we both now work.

    Every time one of these dudes comes up here I end up going out with them for dinner at least once during the week. The bartenders/waitstaff probably think I’m running an oddly specific nerd call-girl service.

    Ah, whatever. We have fun reminiscing about the good old days. And only one of those colleagues gets the full service.

    • Chafed

      I am guessing in WA there is good money to be made running a nerd call girl service.

      • hayeksplosives

        Would that be more Risky Business, Night Shift, or Dirty Work?

        I’m thinking Night Shift. I could throw in some calculus tutoring and instruction on proper use of a slide rule as well.

      • dbleagle

        I think you could do something with teaching the three laws of thermodynamics as well.

      • hayeksplosives

        (Wink)

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Would that be more Risky Business, Night Shift, or Dirty Work?

        Two words: Edible. Paper.

        🙂

    • Sean

      “an oddly specific nerd call-girl service.”

      Lulz

  11. Gustave Lytton

    I’ve put Teachers on the backshelf in favor of Ballantines. Like Scotch Bourbon and a whole lot better than I remember from years ago when it languished for years undrank.

  12. Yusef drives a Kia

    I was burning with my machine yesterday and almost got bit. It seems I shut the machine down precisely when I grabbed a probe, and it discharged through my hand, lucky to still be alive. But the new art is fantastic.

    • hayeksplosives

      Dude!!! I admire your commitment to the art, but don’t be killing yo self over it!!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I got in a hurry, I also am finishing something I began for you a while back.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And I can’t create a coherent sentence🙄

    • Rat on a train

      Happy midweek.

      • Sean

        ☕😃

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, Roat, DEG, and, if you’re still around, Wrong Time Zone Glibs Yu and hayek! And in just under the wire, Diggy! 😃

      Good news: only a half day of work today due to an earlier-than-usual-but-that’s-when-I-could-get-in hair appointment. 👩‍🦰
      Bad news: the monthly Board meeting was last night, so it’ll be time to start writing up the minutes from the Zoom recording. 😒

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, U! How are you today?

      • Gender Traitor

        🙁

        ::discreetly slides back to a safe distance::

      • Not Adahn

        Not Sleepy? Maybe you should see the Doc.

      • DEG

        Mornin’

    • Gender Traitor

      …hospitalized for a dental emergency…

      ???? 😕

      • UnCivilServant

        She couldn’t handle the tooth?

      • Gender Traitor

        😄

    • rhywun

      Huh. I thought for sure the Bernie-bro (bra?) was going to win.

      Well, I guess catastrophe slightly delayed.

  13. DEG

    From the e-mail list of a Boston dance. They’re having a dance this upcoming weekend and want you to know that masks are still required:

    Also, while the Federal COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, the actual COVID pandemic has not and we are still maintaining our precautions to provide a safer space for our whole community. Given that we are in an enclosed space in close contact with others while engaging in an often aerobic activity, we will continue to require masks while in the studio. If you have one, please bring/wear a mask (N95/KN95/KF94) when you arrive at check in. We’ll have extras at check-in as always.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh, yes, the perfect accessory to aerobic activity – restricted airways!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Boston Strong!

    • rhywun

      No.

    • Grosspatzer

      On the plus side, masks will improve the appearance of that lot.

    • UnCivilServant

      The response should be a ban on charging for the use of AI.

      • db

        It’s basically slavery.

      • Not Adahn

        Hmmm, is campaigning for AI rights a variant of Pascal’s Wager?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      “News”

    • Gender Traitor

      ‘Or to look hot for ourselves?’

      Because coming off as a self-absorbed narcissist is SO much better than trying to make oneself attractive to others. 🙄

      • Grosspatzer

        Awful lot of pictures there, probably selfies. Put those pics out there for nobody to look at, makes sense.

    • rhywun

      she clapped back with the real reason

      Taps out.

      • Not Adahn

        Isn’t “clapping back” a twerking move?

      • UnCivilServant

        I donno, it’s some post-millenial stupidity that deserves to be responded to with a soldering iron to the eye.

      • Grosspatzer

        This is why I keep coming back here. Where else can you find such a wide variety of useful information?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “I’m so not trying to get attention from others that I’m allowing a story to be written about myself about not trying to get attention from others. Make sure to subscribe to my TikTok y’all!”

      *pats on head* Sure honey, sure…

  14. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates!

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! How’s it shakin’?

      • Grosspatzer

        Mornin’, GT. Hangin’ in there, 4 day weekend coming up – compny-wide “mental wellness” day Friday, taking off Monday to help the youngest Patzer move back after graduation. How is LBC doing?

      • Gender Traitor

        He’s doing fine – as demanding of attention as ever. Scheduled to have the bad tooth extracted Tuesday, so of course I’m fretting.

    • db

      Hey-O

      • Gender Traitor

        ::looks at duration:: Bookmarked for later. Thanks! 🙂

      • Penguin

        Yeah, sorry, it’s not short.

      • UnCivilServant

        Is it also not nasty or brutish?

      • Penguin

        Such is life.

      • Penguin

        It’s a really good, but really long. look at medieval life.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m pretty sure I’ve listened to several of Ruth Goodman’s books.

      • Not Adahn

        I find her plots entertaining, but waaaaay too complicated.

      • UnCivilServant

        Plots? I’m talking about nonfiction. Most recently, a book on Domestic Coal. She’s a historian, and I’m not aware of any fiction she’s produced.

        Who were you thinking of?

      • UnCivilServant

        Quite the convoluted chain of logic you used to get there.