This sparked rebellion, ultimately leading Schucat’s successor to hand authority over to student leaders. Until the mid-60s, it marched in regular, military order, until beloved director Jules Schucat was fired. The aesthetic irreverence is accompanied by a long history of on-field pranks, and off-field controversies that have gotten the band banned not only from a handful of other schools, but also by their own.īut there was a time when the Stanford band wasn’t so wacky, or even unusual at all. These are the oddities that have come to represent the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB). Above, is the 1990 band dancing during the Oregon State game Photograph by Robby Beyers / Courtesy Stanford University Archives. Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt ordered that they not return, which is (as it turns out) not something in his legal authority to do. The band formed a chainsaw at halftime that shifted from ‘OWL’ into ‘AWOL’ during the game against Oregon State. At the time Oregon was involved in a debate that pitted environmentalists against the logging industry, which was destroying homes of threatened spotted owl species. Show More Show Less 14 of45ġ990 - The band was banned from the state of Oregon. Photograph by Robby Beyers / Courtesy Stanford University Archives. Above, the disparity between the teams is highlighted. We like to drop our pants on the field – always while wearing underwear – for comedic effect, and people got confused.” But pee or no pee, they had a year of potty humor, the urination allegation followed by their “NO BALLZ” formation accompanied by the corresponding phallic image at a USC game. A year later, he started the April Fool's tradition, pretending that Watterson had sold him the rights to Calvin and Hobbes, explaining that Watterson was "continent and looking forward to some well-earned financial security.1986 - The Stanford band was prohibited from playing at UCLA in November, for shows played earlier that year, including alleged on-field urination during a game against the Washington Huskies, The band refutes the urination accusations: “We do not pee on the field we leave that to the University of Washington football team. Finally, in 2015, Breathed brought Bloom County back, posting the strips on Facebook.
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That series lasted until 1995, the same year Calvin and Hobbes came to an end.īreathed then re-continued the Outland story in a new strip called Opus in 2003. Breathed launched a Sunday-only strip, Outland a month later, an experimental strip based on a minor Bloom County character that soon evolved into essentially a Sundays-only Bloom County, as Opus and Bill the Cat each came to Outland.
The original run of Bloom County (a political satire comic set around the residents of a boarding house in Middle America) actually ended before Calvin and Hobbes in 1989, just two years after Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (a controversial aware due to Bloom County not appearing on the editorial page of newspapers). RELATED: Daniel Kibblesmith Takes the Terrible ‘Adult Calvin’ Strips to the Extreme
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