# "Family Circus" is actually kind of funny today! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904 "2009-01-12T12:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904/41 "2009-01-14T15:46:30Z")
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, but I think I speak for most when I say, unless you have children The Family Circus is the most **unfunny, annoying, cornball, sickening, puke-inducing [color=black]bit of nostalgio-rama[/color] ever conceived!** Thank you for your attention… ---
**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 14, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904/42 "2009-01-14T15:55:23Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > No offense to old people but… old people. > > There’s a vocal contingent of newspaper readers who don’t want new or unique or fresh. They want familiarity. They want to open that paper and see the same strips they saw as a youth. Whether they’re good or not is irrelevant. And they’ll raise holy hell if they aren’t there. The medium is the message. These same prunewits would raise that same holy hell if they started re-running the classics, like _Terry and the Pirates_, or the Alex Raymond _Flash Gordon_. ---
**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904/43 "2009-01-14T16:06:27Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I’m gonna go out on a limb here, but I think I speak for most when I say, unless you have children The Family Circus is the most **unfunny, annoying, cornball, sickening, puke-inducing [color=black]bit of nostalgio-rama[/color] ever conceived!** > > Thank you for your attention… [Bil Keane is the most subversive artist working today.](http://www.habitsofwaste.wwu.edu/issues/5/reviewersplayground2.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904/44 "2009-01-14T17:11:02Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Oh, I don’t know. If you consider that “snowballing” is sexual slang for passing jizz back and forth from mouth to mouth, the strip’s odd layout contributes greatly to its humorousness. FINALLY I learn what the reference in Stepmom means!! > [@DMark](#): > > The only thing more mystifying than people who find Family Circle funny are people who found those stupid soap opera type cartoons like Mary Worth even slightly interesting…you could read that cartoon for months on end with absolutely NOTHING happening. This led to an actual funny moment on The Golden Girls. Dorothy: Mary Worth?! My goodness, I haven’t read that in years! Blanche: Let me catch you up! It’s later that same afternoon… ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904/45 "2009-01-14T19:42:28Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I’m gonna go out on a limb here, but I think I speak for most when I say, unless you have children The Family Circus is the most **unfunny, annoying, cornball, sickening, puke-inducing [color=black]bit of nostalgio-rama[/color] ever conceived!** > > Thank you for your attention… You think those of us with kids are an exception? -FrL- [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-circus-is-actually-kind-of-funny-today/480904.md?page=2)