# FoxTrot and Get Fuzzy, 4/1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213 "2005-04-01T11:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Merejane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Merejane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merejane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/1 "2005-04-01T11:10:37Z")
I’m guessing it’s an April Fool’s joke that Bill Amend and Darby Conley cooked up, but I wonder whether it’s a joke that one of them played on the other, or that both of them are playing on their readers. Anyway, the two strips are _almost_ identical today. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/2 "2005-04-01T12:08:54Z")
> [@Merejane](#): > > I’m guessing it’s an April Fool’s joke that Bill Amend and Darby Conley cooked up, but I wonder whether it’s a joke that one of them played on the other, or that both of them are playing on their readers. Anyway, the two strips are _almost_ identical today. What, no links? You’re not going to make me go looking for stuff on the internets, are you? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/3 "2005-04-01T12:16:09Z")
Okay, I went looking anyway. [Foxtrot.](http://www.foxtrot.com/) [Get Fuzzy.](http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/) I imagine those links will be good only today. If the authors didn’t plan that out, that’s one freaking amazing coincidence. They really are almost exactly the same. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/4 "2005-04-01T12:21:14Z")
_Pearls Before Swine_, too. It looks like a vast write-winged conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/5 "2005-04-01T12:24:14Z")
Here’s a link for [Pearls Before Swine](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20050401.html). Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/6 "2005-04-01T12:24:45Z")
[Pearls Before Swine](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) ---
**Author:** ![Merejane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Merejane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merejane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/7 "2005-04-01T12:26:55Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Okay, I went looking anyway. Sorry about that, **Kyla**! I was AWFK, and when I got back and saw your first post, you had already tracked down the links. Those links will get you to comics from previous days, so you can use them even after today to get back to today’s comics. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/8 "2005-04-01T12:36:57Z")
I have all three in my daily paper, but I’d love to know if anyone else is is on the joke. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/9 "2005-04-01T13:09:54Z")
The Chicago Trib only has Get Fuzzy and Fox Trot, and no other cartoons in that paper are in on the gag. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/10 "2005-04-01T13:38:36Z")
OK, so we found three. Anybody else come across any other comics participating in this? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/11 "2005-04-01T14:09:58Z")
The joke explained, since I am so slow. 😛 Warning: explaing a joke takes all the fun out of it. So he was punched by a ghost and not the person standing next to him, since ghost are real, and apperently, take any order that comes along. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/12 "2005-04-01T14:12:49Z")
Shades of The Aristocrats - the movie shown at Sundance, with 100 comics all telling their version of the same joke. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/13 "2005-04-01T14:14:38Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > The joke explained, since I am so slow. 😛 > Warning: explaing a joke takes all the fun out of it. So he was punched by a ghost and not the person standing next to him, since ghost are real, and apperently, take any order that comes along. Ha! Dude . . . are you in the same thread I’m in? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/14 "2005-04-01T14:20:40Z")
[Cathy](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/cx_ca_uc/latest) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/15 "2005-04-01T14:21:48Z")
April Fool! ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/16 "2005-04-01T14:21:58Z")
Jeez, I’m just trying to make to suck the humor out of it, no big deal. 🙂 But, my post seems to sum up what happens in [Pearls Before Swine](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) Simply substitute “him” for “her”, and you have [Foxtrot.](http://www.foxtrot.com/). Sure the joke is that they all have the same concept, but it seems like I am either reading the strip while under the influence of being crazy, or I have described it accurately. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/17 "2005-04-01T14:22:52Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > [Cathy](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/cx_ca_uc/latest) Your link does not take me to a Cathy that mirrors the other jokes. **Genghis Bob** , nicely done. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/18 "2005-04-01T14:27:22Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > [Cathy](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/cx_ca_uc/latest) Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/19 "2005-04-01T14:28:25Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > April Fool! Stupid April Fools Day. That’s it, I’m not posting _anything else_ today! ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/20 "2005-04-01T14:29:30Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > Jeez, I’m just trying to make to suck the humor out of it, no big deal. 🙂 But, my post seems to sum up what happens in… Sure the joke is that they all have the same concept, but it seems like I am either reading the strip while under the influence of being crazy, or I have described it accurately. I read the first-layer joke… (the situation in any one of the strips, not the meta-joke that they’re all doing the same thing except for character and minor dialog variations) differently… [spoiler]Character #1 is fooling around with a ouija board. Character #2, presumably a usual foil, shows up. Character #1 pretends to get a message from a ‘spirit of the beyond’, asking for some sort of violent and hurtful act aimed at character #2. Character #1 obliges, unshown. Character #2, completely missing the fact that character #1 has faked the message to have an excuse to hit him/her, replies with a comment along the lines that they were surprised ghosts would have reason to ask for him/her to be hurt. Character #1 fakes an appreciative message from his(/her?) ‘ghosts’[/spoiler] “Once you dissect a joke, the situation is the same as if you’d dissected a frog: it’s dead.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213.md?page=2)