# Family Circus appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586 "2003-02-17T05:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/1 "2003-02-17T05:49:29Z")
How does Bill Keane keep coming up with this stuff?! Every day, day after day, they just keep getting fresher and funnier! I just tried to find some good examples to link to, but they’re all so good…how do I choose? After a couple minutes going through the archive my sides hurt so bad, I thought they were going to split! Oh, man… Today’s got me laughing so hard that I knocked over a glass of milk. My mom asked who spilled it and I said, “Not me!” GET IT?!?! Oh, that Bill Keane. Will he ever run out of ideas? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/2 "2003-02-17T05:52:40Z")
I’m amazed at your ability to say that with a straight face. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/3 "2003-02-17T05:57:18Z")
Pure genius. One of the great comic writers of our time, if not of all time. (no smiley needed) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/4 "2003-02-17T06:11:24Z")
Dang, but I sure miss _The Dysfunctional Family Circus_. Even the hidden online archives have been taken down. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/5 "2003-02-17T06:43:47Z")
How does Bil Keane (one “l”) keep coming up with this stuff? Well, he’s been getting help in drawing the comic from his son Jeff since 1991. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/6 "2003-02-17T08:45:24Z")
See, what it is, is, Bil uses Jeffy’s Hypno Hair to tap his subconcious for creative ideas… [sub]But the psychic fern was patient; it knew that, soon, its time would come.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/7 "2003-02-17T08:48:44Z")
Yeah, Keane and his megacorp shut down one of funniest sites ever when they stumbled onto Spinwebbe. I miss it greatly. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/8 "2003-02-17T08:54:56Z")
Sometimes, when I read Family Circus, I laugh so hard that I vomit blood. I just have to remember: It’s O.K. to read Family Circus… But I don’t _have_ to masturbate right after reading it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/9 "2003-02-17T16:12:58Z")
[here you go](http://www.brainwashingvats.com/i/f/fc.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/10 "2003-02-17T17:15:14Z")
It looks like Bil Keane was actually going for a more “Dysfunctional Family Circus” bent in the beginning. Take a look at [this one](http://www.familycircus.com/files/60/6070804.htm)–that caption would be at least a yellow, and probably green. They call him “Daddy”, but it doesn’t even look like the Daddy we all know and love today. Could it actually be…Uncle Roy? [This one’s](http://www.familycircus.com/files/60/6070807.htm) a doozy, too! (I don’t remember that picture on the DFC. I suspect that Spinn didn’t use it because it would be too easy!) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/11 "2003-02-17T17:49:27Z")
I hate the strip, but I read it every damn day. With others that I hate, I just skip 'em… hrh ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/12 "2003-02-17T17:49:46Z")
You know those Sunday panels where one of the kids makes some roundabout journey, with a dotted line showing every distracting stop along the way? Let’s put Billy on the U.N. weapons inspection team! It’d make a great Sunday panel. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/13 "2003-02-17T18:54:23Z")
Ohmygosh! This one is a riot! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/14 "2003-02-17T18:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*How does Bil Keane (one “l”) \*\* Keane claims his father knocked the “L” out of him when he was young. One of the few funny things Keane has said or done (although _Channel Chuckles_ wasn’t that bad). ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-appreciation-thread/155586/15 "2003-02-17T20:41:59Z")
That’s not the Dysfunctional Family Circus. That’s jsut some guy who mistakenly thinks he’s funny.