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.
I laughed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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’.
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.
“You can wordify anything if you just verb it.”
-Bucky the Katt
Hey, it ain’t easy to squeeze out those turd jokes–especially when you’ve been sitting on a hard stool all day.