# Get Fuzzy = Garfield Redux?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713 "2005-04-04T18:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/21 "2005-04-05T04:56:35Z")
Get Fuzzy is what Garfield would be if it were written by a collaboration of Gary Trudeau and Gary Larson. I can never remember Garfield being funny, but Get Fuzzy is one of the best strips I have ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/22 "2005-04-05T06:53:18Z")
I can remember, way back many many years ago, when _Garfield_ was actually funny and “cool” (although the art was always bad). That period only lasted for a year or two but it’s frightening to think that in another twenty years _Get Fuzzy_ may become as bad as _Garfield_ is now. ---
**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 5, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/23 "2005-04-05T12:18:18Z")
If Nermal is Tubby Huggs, that what major character vanishes never to be seen again, a la’ Lyman, Odie’s original owner. P.S. This might be obvious to everyone, but I don’t read it regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/24 "2005-04-05T12:29:43Z")
I thought it was Because Odie never thought anything, (Not sure of this, however) that Get Fuzzy was more than enough “away” from Garfield. Also, I doubt that Rob would take kindly to being compared to Jon. Obviously I haven’t been reading the strip as often as most others… but I get a certain feeling that Fuzzy is not Garfield. From what I read… Bucky rarely runs the show by himself. Dare I ask: Does “Pearls before Swine” = “Peanuts”? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/25 "2005-04-05T12:31:20Z")
Slight hijack… Wasn’t it Foxtrot that had a strip about starting to carry around a Stuffed Tiger? ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/26 "2005-04-05T13:01:06Z")
**Meeko** , are you thinking of "_Calvin and Hobbes_? ---
**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 5, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/27 "2005-04-05T13:03:11Z")
No, I’m pretty sure he’s right. It was a tribute strip to C&H. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/28 "2005-04-05T17:10:57Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > _ **Chubby** _ Huggs. Ouch. I hate that I can never remember which it is. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/29 "2005-04-05T19:37:59Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > IDare I ask: > > Does “Pearls before Swine” = “Peanuts”? No, but I’ve thought for a long time that Dilbert is the Peanuts gang all grown up. Dilbert - Charlie Brown Dogbert - Snoopy Wally - Linus Alice - Lucy Ratbert - Woodstock ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/30 "2005-04-05T22:44:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Fungo = The Stupid Dog next door, of course. Who I always thought was Snoopy, as Snoopy had ‘crazy cat next door’ jokes. Neither the stupid dog or crazy cat were ever seen. Isn’t Garfield’s dog next door the big bulldog on the 25-foot leash, that Garfield always stays 26 feet away from? And isn’t Snoopy’s cat next door seen once carried by one of the humans (Marcy?), completely limp, prompting a remark from Snoopy about “boneless cat”? Nah, Snoopy and Garfield aren’t neighbors. Meanwhile, I don’t think a comparison between _Get Fuzzy_ and _Garfield_ is apt. You’ve got a cat and a dog owned by a bachelor, but after there, everything breaks down. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/31 "2005-04-06T00:08:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And isn’t Snoopy’s cat next door seen once carried by one of the humans (Marcy?), completely limp, prompting a remark from Snoopy about “boneless cat”? That’s a completely different cat. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/32 "2005-04-06T01:03:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And isn’t Snoopy’s cat next door seen once carried by one of the humans (Marcy?), completely limp, prompting a remark from Snoopy about “boneless cat”? I believe it was Patty, of the naturally curley red hair (not Peppermint Patty) who had the boneless cat. Unless it was Violet (who went invisible, just like Sherman). ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/33 "2005-04-06T01:06:28Z")
Sorry, Frieda had the naturally curly red hair and the “boneless cat” was named Faron. (I **love** living in the Information Age. God Bless Al Gore!) ---
**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 6, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/34 "2005-04-06T01:06:54Z")
**Something** about this discussion seems a little too **Positive.** ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713/35 "2005-04-06T02:11:54Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > **Something** about this discussion seems a little too **Positive.** I was thinking the same thing. But that is a cute cat 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-garfield-redux/297713.md?page=1)