I’ve never read Get Fuzzy before, but I think the point is that ghosts (supernatural beings) are invisible, so they don’t congregate in regular places. They congregate where invisible creatures would congregate–places like Salma Hayek’s shower.
The second speaker in the third panel is a ghost. If you don’t figure that out, the cartoon won’t make sense.
I’m pretty sure the speaker is supposed to be Rob. Yes, it’s a little strange that the speech balloon is pointing at his knee, but it wouldn’t really make sense for a ghost to appear at that point and say that line, especially when the strips preceding and following that one are ghost-free and skeptical in nature.
Who the hell is that cat?
Misty is a mystic cat with her own public access show.
Huh. New to me. I only read the books so I’m probably years behind.
Since **Sefton **didn’t get it right, I’ll put in my two cents:
It kind of depends on you having seen the previous day’s strip, where Rob questions why a spirit would hang out around a litter box (smelly and disgusting) - therefore, in this strip, he is elaborating on that theme. If you can’t find a spirit in an environment as enticing as Salma Hayek’s shower, then you won’t find one anywhere. Because a spirit can (supposedly) go anywhere, they would go someplace where they can see her naked. This says more, perhaps, about Rob than it does about spirits.
‘Splainin’ a joke never makes it more funny, does it?
Roddy
Over the last few days of the strip, Rob was pointing out how asinine it was for the ghost to haunt a litter box; in the previous day’s strip, Satchell mentions other ghosts being in filthy basements. So now Rob is saying if there really were ghosts, they wouldn’t hang out in dirty nasty places like these, but rather in a place where they could see Salma Hayek nude.
In other words, if there aren’t at least some ghosts taking advantage of the opportunity to gaze (unobserved) upon her bodacious body, then that must be because there aren’t any ghosts at all.
All the speech balloon points in this strip come from the bottom of the balloon. With a lot of words and a tall character, there’s not room to line the point up with his mouth. It’s clearly Rob talking.
ETA: I shoulda written quicker and previewed. Roderick’s got it.
- how anybody finds this strip the least bit funny. I know there are tons of really dedicated GF fans out there, but I don’t think I’ve ever cracked a smile at any of them.
It’s not something I would pick out on my own, but my wife likes it, so I went through a spell where I read all the books she had. They’re easily digestible and just good enough to make you keep reading. The humor is mostly (the cat) Bucky’s responsibility, so it helps if you’ve ever owned a cat, and doubly so if you liked to personify it.
I’ve gotta say that if I someday become a ghost and get to choose where to hang out, it will be a hot chick’s shower. I expect it to be crowded with a lot of other horny and lonely ghosts. Being that Salma Hayak’s shower is not so haunted, we can assume that either ghosts do not exist at all, or that if they do exist, they do not choose where they get to hang out and peep.
It used to be funny. Now, however, it is full of meh at best, and fail at worst. The artist keeps bringing in new characters, and none of them are particularly funny or interesting.
Bucky used to be very much modeled on a Siamese cat who could walk and talk. Now, he’s just psychotic. The whole strip has degenerated into a mess.
I have a coffee mug that I bought which has a great GF strip. I’ll have to dig it out and post it.
Well, if I were a ghost, I would go where I could see Salma Hayek nekkid, so I’m going to agree with that explanation.
I’m glad you started this thread, because when I read the strip, I didn’t get it either. I couldn’t figure out what the hell Salma Hayek or showers had to do with ghosts.
Yeah, okay, I guess this must be it.
It’s hit-or-miss, and IMO too densely drawn/written, but it is amusing sometimes, and laugh-out-loud funny once in a great while (like a few months ago when Bucky called something “NASCAR-on-the-radio boring”).
The two pets are named after Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil who were legends in the early Negro Leagues Baseball.
I was lucky enough to meet Buck O’Neil a few times. He was an extremely charismatic man who would walk into a room full of strangers and later walk out of a room full of best friends.
Buck O’Neil never had a mean thing to say about anybody but he did say that he didn’t much care for the strip. He couldn’t understand why that cat named after him was so mean.
Another person who doesn’t care for the strip. I want to like it. It seems fairly intelligent and has decent art, but it’s so much work to read it. Tons of reading to do and often with only the slightest of punchlines.
That’s what turned me into only an occassional reader. I’d read these paragraphs of set-up only to be let down by a lame punch line. After a few of those, I’m out of there.
Seconded. It used to be pretty entertaining. These days, even though I still have it in my Houston Chronicle comics page, I don’t bother reading it any more. It just fails to catch my interest.