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.
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That said, I don’t see why it gets a prominent spot in nearly every funnies section I’ve ever seen.
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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.
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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.”
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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!”
I hate that web comic about a bunch of slacker geeks that has a lot of Star Wars references.
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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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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You’re familiar with this, are you not? Because it totally makes Marmaduke worthwhile.
This is a pretty funny Family Circus parody
I’ll post what I did in that previous thread. From the movie Go:
For near-complete lack of amusement or interest on any scale, it’s hard to beat For Better or For Worse. 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.
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Aha! Found it. Unspeakable, unnameable evil meets adorable tykes. Hilarity ensues.
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That’s fucking awesome!
Although Garfield hasn’t been mentioned yet, since we’re posting links to parodies, I couldn’t help but post this one- pictures from real Garfield strips edited with new dialogue. It becomes more and more insane. Very funny.
Mary-motherfuckin’-Worth.
My balls, your mouth. Make the connection.
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.
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.
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I hate that web comic about a bunch of slacker geeks that has a lot of Star Wars references.
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Ctrl-Alt-Del? 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.
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.
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”.
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Although Garfield hasn’t been mentioned yet, since we’re posting links to parodies, I couldn’t help but post this one- pictures from real Garfield strips edited with new dialogue. It becomes more and more insane. Very funny.
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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.