# Aunt Fritzi's Hot -- who knew? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704 "2006-01-26T15:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/1 "2006-01-26T15:27:30Z")
Okay, I’m an old guy and i remember Aunt Fritzi from my childhood in Donna Reed Dresses and the like – but now Aunt Fritizi is [hot](http://www.comics.com/comics/nancy/archive/nancy-20051229.html). The strip is incredibly improved (though still only a mild chuckle on its best days. What say you dopers? What happened to prim Aunt Fritzi? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/2 "2006-01-26T15:32:30Z")
People read Nancy? Marc ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/3 "2006-01-26T15:45:51Z")
[Fritzi](http://www.deniskitchen.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/PC_FR.B.GIF) [Ritz](http://www.pennydreadfull.net/soti/soti_chapt10/fritzi_ritz.gif) [has](http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/7855/DISH/zz1fritziritz13C.gif) [always](http://webpages.csus.edu/~sac53175/fritziRitzPaperDoll1.jpg) [been](http://www.thecbarchive.com/CDTC/FritziRitz/FritziRitz058TN.jpg) [hot!](http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HRCG/75/0222811452o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/4 "2006-01-26T16:01:31Z")
Always. Now, for some unfathomable reason, she’s poured herself into a Kmart velour playsuit and blah teenage mall-rat hair while Nancy and Sluggo lounge on the couch dressed like a couple of 1930s street urchins. The gags continue to be like that old joke about restaurant food: bad, and served up in teeny portions. Any humor is provided by incongruity and/or irony like the above. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/5 "2006-01-26T16:13:25Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Okay, I’m an old guy and i remember Aunt Fritzi from my childhood in Donna Reed Dresses and the like – but now Aunt Fritizi is [hot](http://www.comics.com/comics/nancy/archive/nancy-20051229.html). The strip is incredibly improved (though still only a mild chuckle on its best days. > > What say you dopers? What happened to prim Aunt Fritzi? Why shouldn’t Aunt Fritzi be hot? The strip was originally all about her as a pretty-but-dumb young babe trying to make it in the movies, just as _Blondie_ was originally about a pretty-but-dumb gold digger and not a housewife. Nancy came along later and gradually took over the strip. Take a look at the article in Don Markstein’s \* Toonopedia \* for details: [http://www.toonopedia.com/nancy.htm](http://www.toonopedia.com/nancy.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/6 "2006-01-26T16:36:36Z")
Well, to be honest, my memories of Aunt Fritzi are from the shoulders up, as she was always peeking into the panel – truly sidelined in a strip that once was named after her. Don’t get me wrong, the strip isn’t funny, but to me, it along with Henry were only slightly below Precilla’s Pop and Trudy as being “not really funny” to me. So, in seeing a full framed, full figured Aunt Fritzi – I was taken aback – she looks prettier to me now than in the shots above, but the attractiveness of any drawn character is truly dependent on the artist involved as I’m sure Mary Jane Watson/Parker will attest to. Oh, and ask Lois Lane about it while you’re at it. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/7 "2006-01-26T16:48:20Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > The strip was originally all about her as a pretty-but-dumb young babe trying to make it in the movies …appearing in Tijuana Bibles when rent money was scarce. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/8 "2006-01-26T17:52:34Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Always. Now, for some unfathomable reason, she’s poured herself into a Kmart velour playsuit and blah teenage mall-rat hair while Nancy and Sluggo lounge on the couch dressed like a couple of 1930s street urchins. Yeah, those two kids look like time warp refugees. Let this poor strip die. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/9 "2006-01-26T18:12:09Z")
> [@Blackclaw](#): > > Yeah, those two kids look like time warp refugees. > > Let this poor strip die. Better idea: Go back to calling it **Fritzi Ritz**. Ditch Nancy and Sluggo. Make it about the comedic travails of young, single **Fritzi** again. Kind of like **Cathy** , only funny and with a protagonist who isn’t an irritating neurotic twit. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/10 "2006-01-26T18:52:50Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Better idea: Go back to calling it **Fritzi Ritz**. Ditch Nancy and Sluggo. Make it about the comedic travails of young, single **Fritzi** again. Kind of like **Cathy** , only funny and with a protagonist who isn’t an irritating neurotic twit. So sensible and yet, so beyond possible given editors. I can hear echoes of “Why can’t she be more like Cathy?” fading even as I read this wonderful suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/11 "2006-01-26T18:58:26Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Ditch Nancy and Sluggo. Perhaps a Hannibal Lecter accident. Dinner with _The Family Circus_. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/12 "2006-01-26T19:04:03Z")
> [@Blackclaw](#): > > Let this poor strip die. Some people think it has value. See recent thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352673](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352673) See also “The Zen of Nancy” – [ur][The Zen of Nancy](http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/books/comics/06-96/NANCY.html) And an interview with Denis Kitchen of Kitchen Sink Press: [Bushmiller Society Secret Cult - Denis Kitchen Interview](http://www.deniskitchen.com/docs/TMCM.Bushmiller.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/13 "2006-01-26T19:05:08Z")
Sorry – “Zen of Nancy” – [http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/books/comics/06-96/NANCY.html](http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/books/comics/06-96/NANCY.html) ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/14 "2006-01-26T19:47:06Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > People read Nancy? _Nancy_’s still around?! Lord almighty, I had no idea. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/15 "2006-01-26T20:02:22Z")
Back in high school (1970-1974), one of my English class texts was an anthology of poetry. Among the selections was a poem titled _Nancy_. I recall that Nancy was described as a poorly-behaving child, whose psychological problems probably stemmed from the disreputable profession of her guardian. The poet didn’t come right out and _call_ Fritzi Ritz an [ahem] “escort,” but it wasn’t that big a leap to imagine that he believed she was. Wish I could find that poem again. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/16 "2006-01-26T20:04:59Z")
[R. Crumb would be so proud](http://www.comics.com/comics/nancy/archive/nancy-20060111.html). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/17 "2006-01-30T17:21:50Z")
[Has Nancy been taken over by Dopers](http://www.comics.com/comics/nancy/index.html)? ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/18 "2006-01-30T19:24:10Z")
Sweet Zombie Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/19 "2006-01-30T19:48:39Z")
Shoulda been “[hooha.com](http://hooha.com).” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704/20 "2006-01-30T20:36:04Z")
Nah, she was [hotter](http://www.deniskitchen.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PC_FR.EB&Category_Code=PC) in the 30’s. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzis-hot-who-knew/341704.md?page=2)