# Doonesbury is SO FUNNY!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386 "2003-09-03T19:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 4, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/41 "2003-09-04T17:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wang-Ka \* > **The only thing missing is Sluggo staggering around, muttering "brains… brains…"** Well, shit, _I’d_ read _that._ ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/42 "2003-09-04T17:31:44Z")
If you want to talk partisanship, keep in mind two things: 1, Trudeau took not a few swipes at Clinton as well, and 2, geez, ever read The Boondocks? I can’t remember seeing a Boondocks strip that wasn’t “Bush is a dope” or “This black entertainer makes other blacks look bad”. Which is a shame, because at times, the strip is really funny (My favorite ones ever were when the little kid and his grandfather were playing Grand Theft Auto 3). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/43 "2003-09-04T18:45:40Z")
I hope Gary Larson had a good day today. I miss the Far Side. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/44 "2003-09-04T18:55:19Z")
From the official [Peanuts](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/contact_us/index.html#q3) website FAQ: > [@](#): > > **Q. Who draws the PEANUTS strip today?** > > A. By the wishes of Mr. Schulz, no new strips are - nor ever will be - drawn & published. > > The strips still published in your daily newspaper and on our [Snoopy.com](http://Snoopy.com) web site are actually reprints from the 50 year/18,000 strip history of PEANUTS. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/45 "2003-09-04T19:18:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wang-Ka \* > Garfield, one of the mightiest heavy hitters in my lifetime, is now pretty much written and drawn entirely by a committee of assistants, from what I’m told… and it isn’t funny. Hell, it’s not even remotely interesting any more. Was it ever? Okay, yeah, maybe the first year or two was amusing (anyone else remember Lyman?), but 98% of **Garfield’s** life has been factory-produced stuff designed for low offensibility and easy merchandising. The scary thought is that enough people like that strip to sustain it. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by ElwoodCuse_ > If you want to talk partisanship, keep in mind two things: 1, Trudeau took not a few swipes at Clinton as well, and 2, geez, ever read The Boondocks? I can’t remember seeing a Boondocks strip that wasn’t “Bush is a dope” or “This black entertainer makes other blacks look bad”. I think that’s one of the strengths of **The Boondocks,** myself, where it’s willing to take a strong stand on issues. It gives the characters depth to have them passionately believing in something, instead of being generically non-offensive for the audience. The fact that outspoken Huey is often made the butt of the jokes certainly adds to the humor. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/46 "2003-09-04T19:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > The scary thought is that enough people like that strip to sustain it. It’s not even that it takes that many people to keep a strip in a paper. Every so often papers will either try out a replacement strip (pulling a current one) or run surveys for favorite and least favorite strips. Most people couldn’t care less IMHO but any time a strip gets pulled the cranks who’ve read it every day for the last umpteen years write angry letters howling in protest and demanding the strip be restored. Since no one who either doesn’t like the strip or doesn’t care bothers to write in, the editors put the shitty strip back in. God forbid a paper should have more than one page of comics (some do, most don’t) or not run the fucking Jumble on the comics page or otherwise cosume comic strip space with non-strip material. So the cranks win and the Zombie Strips continue. ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/47 "2003-09-04T21:35:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \* > How about _Mark Trail_? Has that asexual forest ranger and naturalist gotten Cherry in the sack yet? I did not see the humor in that name until years later–the virginal Cherry. Or was it Chery? It’s Cherry. One of the funniest/most oddly disturbing things I ever witnessed concerned _Mark Trail_ and the _Washington Post._ The _Post,_ which takes its comics **very** seriously, dropped _Mark Trail_ from its roster at one point in the early 90s. Strangely, the _Post_ got protest letters. Stranglier, the _Post_ got enough protest letters that they actually reversed the decision and reinstated _Mark Trail._ Strangliest, they got enough protest letters that the _Post_ actually printed a special section, in which they re-printed all **40-odd** _Mark Trail_ episodes that had been missed while the _Post_ had removed it from their roster. I have had few stranger experiences in my life than reading 40-odd _Mark Trail_ episodes at one sitting. Better than acid, I tells ya. Sua ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/48 "2003-09-04T21:58:16Z")
But, friend **SuaS.** , the pressing, no the critical, question of the moment is: If the virginal Cherry is no longer virginal, has the damn’d dog died? For the love of all that’s holy, that fly bitten old St. Bernard must be 70 years old. Also, anybody from Ohio—what ever happened to _Dan’l Hale_? Is it still going (it must be up to the construction of the National Road by now) or did it just peter out. I think it was started as part of the Sesquicentennial celebration in ’53 but it was still going strong in ’58. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/49 "2003-09-04T22:06:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \* > \*\*If you want to talk partisanship, keep in mind two things: 1, Trudeau took not a few swipes at Clinton as well, and 2, geez, ever read The Boondocks? I can’t remember seeing a Boondocks strip that wasn’t “Bush is a dope” or "This black entertainer makes other blacks look bad \*\* Yes, I agree somewhat. Trudeau is certainly very liberal- but he is foremost a comedian. Thus, when the Dems do something damn foolish, Trudeau can see the humour in it, and lampoon them in Doonesberry. Mallard is simply not funny, and always supposrt the GOP/Right. I think Boondocks is too damn mean to be funny. They guy is just plain mean. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/50 "2003-09-05T01:57:24Z")
Flush 'em all, I say, and just rerun a page full of the Kat! (_Krazy_, that is) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/51 "2003-09-05T06:27:18Z")
Hey **Kaspar** – I have recently been introduced to the genius of _Krazy Kat._ On a whim, I picked up one of Fantagraphics’ new cleaned-up, chronologically complete collections, and while it took a bit to get into the idiosyncratic rhythms, it gradually dawned on me just how amazing what I was reading really was. I got to the end of the collection and immediately turned back to the first page to read it again. I completely understand why it’s Bill Watterson’s favorite work of comic art ever. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/52 "2003-09-05T07:25:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*Okay, yeah, maybe the first year or two was amusing (anyone else remember Lyman?), \*\* Oh yes. He hasn’t entirely disappeared. You can find him [in here](http://www.garfield.com/fandg/arcade/scavenger.html). Spoiler to help you find him: Go right and get the front door key from the chest on the porch. Open the front door and go back through two doors, then right, to get to the kitchen. Go all the way into the kitchen and click on the cupboard door the mice _do not_ point to - that’s the flashlight. Now retrace your steps to the red room, which is the library. Go right one frame and click on the bookcase. Put the books in _alphabetical_ order. The bookcase will slide open. Go down the stairs, then to the left - poor Lyman is in the dungeon! ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/53 "2003-09-05T15:49:52Z")
[Doonesbury hijack] Does anyone remember the (ancient!) Doonesbury cartoon where one of Joanie’s daycare kids says: “It’s a baby woman!” I remember seeing it on a t-shirt several years ago. Now that I’m pregnant with a little girl, I’d sure like to get that shirt. Any ideas? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/54 "2003-09-05T15:52:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*Hey **Kaspar** – I have recently been introduced to the genius of _Krazy Kat._ On a whim, I picked up one of Fantagraphics’ new cleaned-up, chronologically complete collections, and while it took a bit to get into the idiosyncratic rhythms, it gradually dawned on me just how amazing what I was reading really was. I got to the end of the collection and immediately turned back to the first page to read it again. I completely understand why it’s Bill Watterson’s favorite work of comic art ever. \*\* It’s quite astounding, isn’t it? Krazy’s not an easy strip at first, especially to modern sensibilities (not that anyone “got it” when it was first published), but it’s so rewarding when it finally clicks. Strip fans, go pick up a _Krazy Kat_ kollection and marvel at it! P.S. _Nancy_ rules. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/55 "2003-09-05T15:54:53Z")
Oh, on a non-hijack topic…Garfield has not been funny since I was in second grade. I will write a week of Garfield right now: 1. Spider comes to chat, cat kills spider with rolled up newspaper. 2. Mouse walks by with party gear, cat doesn’t kill mouse. 3. Cat steps on scale and is insulted for being fat. 4. Jon is a dork and can’t get a date, even though he calls every woman in the phone book. 5. Odie is stupid, and falls off the edge of a table. See, I can be a cartoonist too! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/56 "2003-09-05T16:27:51Z")
“Week”?! You just wrote a YEAR! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/57 "2003-09-05T16:30:28Z")
But what happens on Saturday? And what about the big color Sunday strip? You’ll have to work harder than that to be part of the Jim Davis Garfield Production Sweatshop Team! You could check out Doonesbury’s website for merchandise. I think they can put any strip on a shirt at this point but you’ll have to find the strip; the search engine used to be pretty good but I haven’t tried it since the strip moved to Slate’s site. > [@](#): > > Strip fans, go pick up a Krazy Kat kollection and marvel at it! I love Krazy Kat and have one of the Fantagraphic collections plus a postcard book. Nice to know I’m not alone. I plan on picking up the full run as soon as I have two bricks to rub together. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/58 "2003-09-05T17:23:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > > Oh yes. He hasn’t entirely disappeared. You can find him [in here](http://www.garfield.com/fandg/arcade/scavenger.html). Bastard. I played the entire game. 😃 Funny they should include Lyman (and I, for one, remember him - Odie’s original owner and Jon’s roommate, and they never explained where he went) and not Odie. Now, does anyone remember Nermal, the world’s cutest kitten? Or the vet that Jon wanted to date? Or the cranky old man next door? 🙂 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Skillet38](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Skillet38](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skillet38)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/59 "2003-09-05T17:55:44Z")
Krazy Kat the comic = INCREDIBLY WONDERISHIOUS Krazy Kat the novel = er, depends on how you like your post modernismsss [/end hijinks] ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386/60 "2003-09-05T21:08:02Z")
Thanks, **flodnak,** for the link. I’m not usually a big Flash fan, but that was nice. Too bad you couldn’t talk to Lyman, though! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-is-so-funny/199386.md?page=4)