# "Get Fuzzy" cartoonist slipped this one by today - **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783 "2012-01-08T01:58:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/21 "2012-01-09T00:43:50Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > So, the funny thing is that he says a word, that sort of sounds like “turd” (especially in light of the changed pronounciation of “the” in the last panel)? Because that doesn’t seem funny to me, unless you find the word “turd” inherently funny. > > Or maybe the funny thing is that the dog is very subtly insulting the cat, in a way the cat certainly won’t realize? No, the dog actually understood the cat to be saying “I’ve been de turd.” The dog isn’t terribly bright and often misunderstands things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/22 "2012-01-09T01:51:40Z")
I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/23 "2012-01-09T02:18:35Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Now that’s a combo I haven’t thought of before! > > Calvin: Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. > > Holmes: The fair sex is your department. 😃 Now that’s quality humor. Honestly, this is kind of why I stopped reading Get Fuzzy (and Pearls Before Swine, while we’re at it). The humor is too predictable, and when it’s not, it’s because it’s out of character. Bucky thinks he has a big vocabulary, but he’s always using words incorrectly. In this case, he manages to use a word correctly in a weird context, just so he can set up the straight line for the dog. Not my cuppa. Sorry to drop a terred in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/24 "2012-01-09T03:32:07Z")
QtM: +2 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/25 "2012-01-09T17:53:48Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > QtM: +2 **Xema** , **Lefty** : Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week, with more Calvin and Holmes humor. But I’ll probably have to resort to poop jokes in another day or so also. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/26 "2012-01-09T21:46:55Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before, but IMHO _Get Fuzzy_ would work better as an animated cartoon than as a comic strip. The dialogue and situations are sometimes very funny, and might be even funnier with the right voice actors performing it; but the strip is often too wordy, with the characters being crowded out by their speech balloons, and it strains to fit the four-panels-a-day format. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/27 "2012-01-09T21:51:17Z")
I always like it better in book collections where I can slide by the more setuppy strips. But there’s definitely been some gold over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/28 "2012-01-09T22:01:22Z")
While it can be inconsistent, I’ve always liked _Get Fuzzy_. I chuckled at this particular strip. But, like **Tangent** , I’m hard pressed to see how punning on “turd” counts as being “slick” or “slipping one by.” Sorry. ETA: I’m pretty sure I recall Conley actually slipping one by a couple years back, though. A cleverly disguised dick joke, or something about sex… Hmmm… I’ll try to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/29 "2012-01-09T23:57:38Z")
Starting new thread ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/30 "2012-01-10T01:26:39Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > like **Tangent** , I’m hard pressed to see how punning on “turd” counts as being “slick” or “slipping one by.” > Sorry. You’d be surprised at how panicky comic page editors are about things like that. Many a strip has been scuttled or altered for much more benign things than the suggestion of a turd. Trust me, this counts as ‘slipping by’. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/31 "2012-01-10T14:19:30Z")
This is as good a thread as any to ask this: why does this comic strip artist take so many vacations (or miss so many deadlines)? I see this written in the newspaper above Get Fuzzy – “This comic is a repeat until the artist returns from vacation on [future date]” – roughly once every two months, much much more frequently than any other comic strip in the paper. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/32 "2012-01-11T19:24:07Z")
“You can wordify anything if you just verb it.” -Bucky the Katt ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783/33 "2012-01-11T20:17:54Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > This is as good a thread as any to ask this: why does this comic strip artist take so many vacations (or miss so many deadlines)? Hey, it ain’t easy to squeeze out those turd jokes–especially when you’ve been sitting on a hard stool all day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-cartoonist-slipped-this-one-by-today/608783.md?page=1)