# Comic Strips You Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524 "2007-05-02T20:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/21 "2007-05-02T22:14:46Z")
Family Circus haters, listen up. Anyone that thinks Family Circus is the pinnacle of Suck has obviously not been reading Marmaduke. Don’t believe me? Take Teh Suck Taste Test. Read Family Circus and then Marmaduke back to back for a month and tell me which is worse. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/22 "2007-05-02T22:25:39Z")
[QUOTE=oft wears hats] That said, I don’t see why it gets a prominent spot in nearly every funnies section I’ve ever seen. [/QUOTE] It appears to be a wildly popular strip. The only thing I can figure is that what makes me retch from the sacchrine makes people who’ve had children go, “Ohhhh, how so very _true_!” On the other hand, I’ve never talked with _anyone_ who thought Family Circus was funny. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/23 "2007-05-02T22:27:17Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Reminds me of the anecdote in _The Pre-history of the Far Side_, in which Larson tells us how, more than once, his comics’ text was replaced with others in the real live print runs of newspapers. In the funnier of the examples, the Far Side cartoon was a Stone Age fortuneteller telling a fortune to a caveman. It was interspersed with the text of a Dennis the Menace, mouthing off to his mom over dinner. The fortuneteller’s line: “Oh no, not lima beans AGAIN???” Not too funny, but surrelistically passable. Dennis’ line: “I see your shrivelled, decaying head on a museum shelf somewhere.” [/QUOTE] Actually, the fortune teller’s new line was, “If I get as big as dad, won’t my skin get too tight?” which makes absolutely no sense. You’re confusing it with an earlier mix-up which appears in the same book: New _Far Side_: A family of snakes at the table. One of the snakes says “Lucky I learned how to make peanut butter sandwiches or we would have starved to death.” New _Dennis_: Dennis and a friend eat sandwiches while Mom is on the phone. Dennis says “Oh brother- not hamsters again!” However, that isn’t my favorite _Far Side_ mix-up. It’s one that appears in the same book: Larson drew a cartoon depicting slugs chanting gibberish prayers to their god, a giant shaker of salt. The next day, the cartoon was an exterminator attempting to get rid of an infestation of children in a treehouse. However, one newspaper accidentially ran the slug caption with the cartoon. The result? The exterminator is pointing to the treehouse, saying “Enny-oony-wana! Enny-oony-wana!” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/24 "2007-05-02T22:29:15Z")
I hate that web comic about a bunch of slacker geeks that has a lot of Star Wars references. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/25 "2007-05-02T22:45:06Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] _Mutts_ annoys the heck out of me. Maybe pet-owners find it amusing because it echoes how their pets act; I can’t imagine why that cat repeating “Little Pink Sock” over and over is acceptable content for an entire day’s strip. In addition, the cat’s “shpeech” impediment is grating to read (what, like the animal can really speak English? [/QUOTE] Oh, heavens yes! I have plenty of hate for many of the other strips mentioned here, but for some reason this is the one that pisses me off and makes me wish violent torture on anyone connected with it every time I read the comics page. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/26 "2007-05-02T23:15:53Z")
I’m beginning to wonder if our paper is the only one that runs _The Elderberries_. Poorly drawn, barely legible, and not funny in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/27 "2007-05-02T23:20:26Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] Family Circus haters, listen up. Anyone that thinks Family Circus is the pinnacle of Suck has obviously not been reading Marmaduke. Don’t believe me? Take Teh Suck Taste Test. Read Family Circus and then Marmaduke back to back for a month and tell me which is worse. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. [/QUOTE] You’re familiar with [this](http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/), are you not? Because it totally makes Marmaduke worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/28 "2007-05-02T23:22:58Z")
This is a pretty funny Family Circus parody > **[Family Circus](https://xkcd.com/100/)** > > This was my friend David's idea ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/29 "2007-05-02T23:24:31Z")
[Earlier _Family Circus_ thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266178) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/30 "2007-05-02T23:43:04Z")
I’ll post what I did in that previous thread. From the movie **Go** : > [@](#): > > Claire: What do you have against the Family Circus? > Todd: Okay, you sit down to read your paper, and you’re enjoying your entire two-page comic spread, right? And then there’s the Family fucking Circus, bottom right hand corner, just waiting to suck. And it’s the last thing you read, so it spoils everything you read before it. > Claire: You could just not read it. > Todd: I hate it, yet I’m uncontrollably drawn to it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/31 "2007-05-02T23:44:49Z")
For near-complete lack of amusement or interest on any scale, it’s hard to beat [For Better or For Worse](http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/). It makes Apartment 3-G look like consuming human drama. Sample plot line of FBOFW: Dull Canadians go “to university”, meet equally dull people, return home to unattractive aging parents who have developed lumbago. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/32 "2007-05-02T23:44:57Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] Aha! Found it. [Unspeakable, unnameable evil meets adorable tykes.](http://www.joeydevilla.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/28/1425558.html) Hilarity ensues. [/QUOTE] That’s fucking awesome! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/33 "2007-05-03T00:00:28Z")
Although _Garfield_ hasn’t been mentioned yet, since we’re posting links to parodies, I couldn’t help but post [this one](http://www.thereverend.com/barfield/index.html)- pictures from real _Garfield_ strips edited with new dialogue. It becomes more and more insane. Very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/34 "2007-05-03T00:10:19Z")
Mary-motherfuckin’-Worth. My balls, your mouth. Make the connection. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/35 "2007-05-03T00:55:55Z")
Dondi, Nancy, FBOFW, FC, Garfield is especially horrid to me, Brenda Starr, Dick Tracy, Marmaduke, Dennis the Menace… It’d be quicker to list comics I do like, frankly. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/36 "2007-05-03T00:56:09Z")
I have a large collection of comic strip books. I have some Ziggy books,some Marmaduke books,some Cathy books, even Family Circus books,none of which I am all that fond of,but they fill out the collection. One strip I don’t have any books of,and never will, is …For Better or For Worse. In fact,if this thread was titled- **Name Something That You Hate** FBOFW would still head my list,with Rap music being a very distant second. ---
**Author:** ![Aioua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Aioua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aioua)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/37 "2007-05-03T01:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] I hate that web comic about a bunch of slacker geeks that has a lot of Star Wars references. [/QUOTE] [Ctrl-Alt-Del?](http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/) Everyone hates CAD, mostly because the creator is a huge douche. (Look up the ROMicide) I do, dearly, hope you don’t mean Penny Arcade. Because then I have to kill you. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/38 "2007-05-03T01:22:34Z")
Mallard Fillmore, Dennis the Menace, the Duplex. And one that is just annoying but starting to get towards hate- Peanuts. Dudes- Sparky is **dead**. _Get over it._ ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/39 "2007-05-03T01:33:51Z")
Another for Mallard Fillmore. It’s not funny, but if the guy actually got anything right I’d at least be able to say “OK, good point”. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524/40 "2007-05-03T01:51:26Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Although _Garfield_ hasn’t been mentioned yet, since we’re posting links to parodies, I couldn’t help but post [this one](http://www.thereverend.com/barfield/index.html)- pictures from real _Garfield_ strips edited with new dialogue. It becomes more and more insane. Very funny. [/QUOTE] But nowhere near as funny as the time someone simply cut up a whole lot of _Garfield_ strips and reassembled the panels from various days in random order. That was seriously hilarious - so much so that Jim Davis’ layer ordered it taken down from the web. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-strips-you-hate/402524.md?page=3)