# "Get Fuzzy" and "You Damn Kid"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 15, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096 "2004-04-15T02:27:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/1 "2004-04-15T02:27:53Z")
I love [Get Fuzzy](http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/). It’s the only daily strip in the newspaper that actually makes me laugh out loud. There’s nothing else out there that I’ve found that is even nearly as good as this strip.
Though [You Damn Kid](http://www.youdamnkid.com/) is pretty good too. Alternate papers only for this one, I believe.
That is all. Carry on.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/2 "2004-04-15T02:37:19Z")
I’m also a big fan of Get Fuzzy. The only strip I probably like more is Pastis’s “Pearls Before Swine”. Those are the two comics I read daily.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/3 "2004-04-15T02:38:02Z")
I agree with Get Fuzzy. It gives me my “smart ass animal and hapless human” fix I’ve needed since Bloom County went out.
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### Author:  [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/4 "2004-04-15T02:47:15Z")
I didn’t used to like GET FUZZY because I thought the cat was drawn ugly. But I put that idea aside. . . because the Bucky character is sooooo Siamese!!! And Satchel is just the most adorable dog. It’s a great strip!
I don’t know the other one, though. We don’t have it in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/5 "2004-04-15T02:54:08Z")
Seen the YDK about Detox Man and Sponsor Boy?
[God grant us the serenity!!](http://www.youdamnkid.com/d/20031023.html)
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/6 "2004-04-15T03:03:56Z")
Wait…You Damn Kid’s appearing in newspapers?
Since when?
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### Author:  [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/7 "2004-04-15T04:27:09Z")
Huge Get Fuzzy fan here. I’m signed up to get the comic emailed every day and I love it to death.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/8 "2004-04-15T04:35:08Z")
Our newspaper gets neither of these. ☹ Our best strip (just about the only good one we have anymore) is Dilbert…
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/9 "2004-04-15T05:07:12Z")
Okay, I like _Get Fuzzy_. But I just read about the last dozen _You Damn Kid_ strips and I guess I’m missing the attraction. It reminds me of _Family Circus_ (and that’s not a compliment) - both strips seem to think that just by relating something they’re making some kind of point, the main difference being _Family Circus_ is trying for “warm and fuzzy” and _You Damn Kid_ is trying for “edgy and controversial”.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/10 "2004-04-15T05:48:41Z")
Get Fuzzy is the one strip I read without fail every day and is so true to life.
Rob:“There’s a cat code?”
Bucky:“There’s like 250 codes”
Rob:“How many of those don’t involve sleep?”
Bucky:“Ummm…4”
And right in front of me, my cat is curled into a flurry ball.
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### Author:  [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/11 "2004-04-15T06:08:18Z")
I adore Bucky. He’s my buddy Jodi if she were a cat. Evil, yet delightfully sadistic. I especially loved last week’s storyline with his trip to the vet. “My god will strike you down, Robert.” (I have to confess, though, that after I quit laughing at that one, my next thought was, “My god, that cat’s gonna barf for hours coming out of the anesthesia.” Yes, I spend far too much time at work.) Razor Bucky. Heh.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/12 "2004-04-15T08:23:08Z")
I like _Get Fuzzy_, but quite frankly, the personality plays tend to get repetetive after a while.
_Monty_ is my favorite strip at present. Wacky cast of characters, geeky subject matter, sometimes misses the mark, but always tries to be different. It reminds me of Dilbert when it wasn’t all about work…it was about a guy who had pun wars with his dog and could find dinosaurs hiding behind his couch at any time. Which is not to say I don’t find the work-Dilbert funny, but it wasn’t what first attracted me to the strip.
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### Author:  [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/13 "2004-04-15T12:01:19Z")
My girlfriend bought me last year’s calender and two of the books, though I usually do my reading of the strip [online](http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html). (I also refer to all (6) of the pets in our household collectively as “the fuzzy butts”.)
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/14 "2004-04-15T12:11:34Z")
I like Get Fuzzy, but my current favorites are [url\[http://www.somethingpositive.net/](http://www.somethingpositive.net/)]Something Positive and [Sinfest](http://www.sinfest.net/).
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/15 "2004-04-15T12:24:08Z")
Get Fuzzy is the best new strip since Dilbert. Consistently great. I also love the structure – not one gag, but one in every panel.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/16 "2004-04-15T19:51:13Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> I just read about the last dozen _You Damn Kid_ strips and I guess I’m missing the attraction. It reminds me of _Family Circus_ (and that’s not a compliment)
:eek: :eek:
Kids discovering their aunt’s vibrator, getting smacked by the nuns at school, or passing the time away playing with ashtrays when stuck at AA meetings is too _Family Circus_ for you?
My mind reels.
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/17 "2004-04-15T19:57:36Z")
I loved the Get Fuzzy where Bucky is making “art” by going around the house and smashing things with a hammer. At the end he tells Rob, “Well, you’re obviously less familiar with postmodern deconstructionalism than a cat would be…”
Then there was the cowboy hat and belt, to signify Bucky’s “signature ruggedness”.
And yes, we have cats. 4 of them, including an obese Siamese patterned cat who closely resembles Bucky. Ours, however, has a very gentle disposition, and all his teeth.
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### Author:  [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/18 "2004-04-15T20:02:57Z")
I love Get Fuzzy. I’ve only been reading it for about 6 months, back when **Mauvaise** turned me on to it (I’m a Yankees fan, and this was the strip where Rob - Red Sox fan - was pretty dejected last October.)
Never heard of You Damn Kid, but I’ll start checking it out.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/19 "2004-04-15T22:49:19Z")
Bucky is quite simply the best comic strip cat since Bill The Cat. Hands down.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-and-you-damn-kid/240096/20 "2004-04-16T00:08:15Z")
I, too, love _Get Fuzzy!_, but _You Damn Kid_ seems like a cross between _Ernie Pook’s Comeek_ (by Lynda Barry) and Kaz’s _Underworld_, with the difference that those two are usually funny. I also love Ben Katchor’s _Hotel and Farm_ and _Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer_. All those are found in the City Paper, DC’s weekly alt (which also caries _The Straight Dope_!)
I just don’t get _Pearls Before Swine_. Or rather, I get it, I just don’t see why people like it.
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