# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/41 "2005-04-02T02:11:21Z")
> [@rocking chair](#): > > the phila inquirer states: > > "no, it’s not a mistake. what you saw on the comic pages in today’s issue is real… > > blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda… [Here is a link](http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/11281302.htm) (scroll down to **April Fool’s in comics** ). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/42 "2005-04-02T02:24:30Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Here is a link](http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/11281302.htm) (scroll down to **April Fool’s in comics** ). FYI, The link requires you to enroll. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/43 "2005-04-02T02:36:27Z")
Who began the joke? Darby? ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/44 "2005-04-02T04:10:02Z")
From [Bill Amend’s Web Page](http://homepage.mac.com/billamend/) : From the WTF department… Nothing like confusing the heck out a few million newspaper comics readers to get the ol’ e-mail flowing. As most of you who wrote me guessed, the April 1st near-identical FoxTrot, Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine strips were done as an April Fool’s joke. This is the sort of thing that happens when cartoonists get too little sleep and then talk on the phone. If you thought it was funny, I’m happy to accept a third of the credit. If you thought it was annoying, well, blame Pastis, it was his idea. All three strips are shown on that page, if you want one-stop shopping. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/45 "2005-04-02T05:09:17Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > It’s intersting that in order to get a gag over in a couple panels, it’s very useful to have an opertaor-type. I can see the same joke being made with Lucy Van Pelt, Dogbert, The King of Id, or Garfield in that role. In Calvin & Hobbes it would probably be Hobbes, but it could be Calvin with eithe Hobbes or Susie as the victim. > > –Cliffy Possibly, but I doubt that the situation to truly get susie in on it could have occured in three pannels. -Unless Wormwood allowed a show and tell or something… (Of course Calvin would have to have “found” it in the last 5 seconds before the bus came). I assumed Hobbes would have done it, because he always has the elaborate set-up for a joke, where calvin goes for it from the start. One series has Calvin asking Hobbes [[Horribly paraphrased here]] “A penny for your thoughts…” “Nope… not gonna tell you for less than 20…” “What about 5?” “Look I’ll make it ten… it is a great price at ten” Calvin pays up, and Hobbes tells all: A fool and his money are soon parted ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/46 "2005-04-02T05:11:53Z")
Of course Garfield would have been the one to have the board in his strip. But, as the animals never ““Really”” speak ((Save for that Real Early stip where Layman speaks for odie)) it would have been hard to do. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/47 "2005-04-02T12:13:44Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > [[Horribly paraphrased here]] “A penny for your thoughts…” “Nope… not gonna tell you for less than 20…” “What about 5?” “Look I’ll make it ten… it is a great price at ten” Calvin pays up, and Hobbes tells all: > > A fool and his money are soon parted IRRC, he doesn’t get the last word out before Calvin pounces him. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213/48 "2005-04-02T16:00:59Z")
What really made this fun for me is that, in the Kansas City Star, “Get Fuzzy”, “Foxtrot” and “Pearls” are the first three strips at the top of the page. It also made it easy to clip out of the paper, along with the date at the top of the page. This one’s a keeper! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxtrot-and-get-fuzzy-4-1/297213.md?page=2)