# Another "please identify this old comic strip"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** comic-strips
**Created:** [November 20, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231 "2022-11-20T00:30:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231/1 "2022-11-20T00:30:19Z")
It may still be around for all I know, but the last time I saw it was well over 30 years ago; I started seeing it probably in the 60’s. There’s absolutely no reason for me to be curious about it except nostalgia.
Situation: Italian-American family (no accents, I think). Father, mother, 2 kids. Everyone was chunky-to-fat, including the kids, and they all had dark curly hair. The biggest joke was Dad trying to find a way to get home with the pizza before it got cold, but he never did.
It was a normal multi-panel strip, and I believe it ran daily and Sunday, but it might have been Sunday only. There wasn’t any kind of story or plot, just everyday life stuff.
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### Author:  [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231/2 "2022-11-20T05:01:54Z")
My money is on _Moose Miller_.
[ ](https://cdnmarquee.comicskingdom.com/system/blog/feature/999/Moose.20190814.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231/3 "2022-11-20T12:13:24Z")
I thought that was it at first, the wife looks right, so does the basic style. Maybe I’m conflating two strips. I looked through a bunch of images and I didn’t see any children in this strip. And the father was always driving when he was bringing pizza home, in a little car that sort of putted and bounced.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231/4 "2022-11-20T14:14:51Z")
It ran from 1965 to 2020. It was originally titled _Moose_, then it was retitled _Moose Miller_, and then it was retitled _Moose & Molly._ They had three children. Were they explicitly said to be Italian-American?:
> **[Moose & Molly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_%26_Molly)**
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> Moose & Molly is an American comic strip by Bob Weber, published by King Features Syndicate. It began on September 20, 1965, as Moose, and retitled Moose Miller six years later. It was renamed Moose & Molly in 1998. In April 2020, Bob Weber retired the comic strip. Weber based many of Moose's adventures on his own family's experiences.
> The Millers own a number of animals including at least two dogs (Bowser and Butch) and a cat (Tabby).
> This comic strip–related article is a stub. You can help Wi...
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-please-identify-this-old-comic-strip/975231/5 "2022-11-20T17:01:24Z")
Yes, I read through that too. Some of the things I am remembering are not in that strip: the children were in every strip, or just about, while in Moose & Molly the children don’t seem to be around much (just looking at Google images); the all-important little car that the father races home in when he has pizza; and the children having dark hair, the couple of times Moose’s kids showed up they were blond.
No, nothing said they were Italian-American, just a sort of convenient mental tag I had put on them in my memory. Like I said, I may be conflating two different strips. Or maybe some of the details changed from the 70’s, which is probably the last time I looked at it regularly. If the old strips are available online I’ll look through them to see if it looks more familiar.