# Get Fuzzy meets Pearls Before Swine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226 "2006-04-18T23:41:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/21 "2006-04-19T18:45:53Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > I despise Pearls Before Swine. It is the stupidest strip ever and NEVER funny. You are going on Rat’s list. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/22 "2006-04-19T18:58:07Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > I’m sorry but I can’t believe anyone thinks this is funny. I saw that cartoon yesterday and thought “damn, Get Fuzzy is _really_ starting to suck now!” The interminable “Boogy/Booger/etc” joke was horrid, and now this. I despise Pearls Before Swine. It is the stupidest strip ever and NEVER funny. Get Fuzzy used to be good. I get the feeling the writer has run out of ideas and is just phoning it in now. Such vitriol! If those comics aren’t among the 5 best dailies in America, I need to know what you think are. And don’t say Cathy. Please. Don’t say Cathy. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/23 "2006-04-19T19:07:30Z")
My list would probably be: Get Fuzzy Mutts Rhymes with Orange Zits Foxtrot All of those with a big disclaimer that on any given day I might find them stupid. I do miss the pirate one…what was it called? (consults Google oracle…) Overboard. That one was good. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/24 "2006-04-19T19:11:01Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > I do miss the pirate one…what was it called? (consults Google oracle…) Overboard. That one was good. You can get it on the web. [http://www.ucomics.com/overboard/](http://www.ucomics.com/overboard/) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/25 "2006-04-19T19:15:53Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > My list would probably be: > > Get Fuzzy > Mutts > Rhymes with Orange > Zits > Foxtrot > > All of those with a big disclaimer that on any given day I might find them stupid. I do miss the pirate one…what was it called? (consults Google oracle…) Overboard. That one was good. Well, I agree with Foxtrot, at least. Pearls and Foxtrot (if they were together in the same paper here in Chicago) would be the ones I read. As for not likeing Pearls, what can I tell ya? Pastis has good weeks and bad weeks (personally, I don’t like most of the croc skits, although this week’s is funny. The croc dressed as an Easter bunny is simply adorable! I hope I don’t lose too many manliness points for saying that:)) If you don’t like stupid puns, that eliminates about 20% of strips. However, it’s the personalities of rat and pig that just tug at my heart. I’m just a big softie, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/26 "2006-04-19T19:57:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Portland _Oregonian_ prints Get Fuzzy right above Pearls Before Swine, and the effect this week is hilarious! Yesterday morning the mini-mart was out of the _L. A. Times_, so I had to pick up an _Orange County Register_ (so I could have change for the bus). For reasons of my own, I always read the funnies page from bottom to top, and the _Register_ lays out these two strips in the same way as does the _Oregonian_. With a fold between them. When I first saw _Get Fuzzy_, I thought they’d screwed up at the _Register_. Then I looked closer and saw Satchel. And then I remembered Monday’s strip. I count myself fortunate that the bus driver allowed me to stay aboard. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/27 "2006-04-19T20:57:00Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > My list would probably be: > > Get Fuzzy > Mutts > Rhymes with Orange > Zits > Foxtrot > > All of those with a big disclaimer that on any given day I might find them stupid. I do miss the pirate one…what was it called? (consults Google oracle…) Overboard. That one was good. Well, we agree on those. Although Mutts isn’t a fave, it’s at least quality. Same goes for Zits: not my style, but there’s thought behind it & the art is phenomenal. What’s the issue with Pearls, I must ask? I’ve always thought it was a breath of fresh air, along with Get Fuzzy, Boondocks, and the-artist-formerly-known-as-Non-Sequitor-which-now-for-some-reason-is-atrocious. Bill Watterson, meanwhile, laughs from his throne. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/28 "2006-04-19T21:03:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > However, it’s the personalities of rat and pig that just tug at my heart. I’m just a big softie, I guess. What are you, some kind of freak? I want to be Rat when I grow up. I also believe other people are stupid, and I too hate them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/29 "2006-04-19T22:00:37Z")
My favorites are the Pearls Before Swine strips involving the dumb crocs and ‘zeba’. Definitely one of the few strips I read regularly. Cross-overs are not that uncommon, but the current one with one artist flagrantly ripping off the other is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/30 "2006-04-20T07:06:32Z")
> [@lawoot](#): > > Find the _Baby Blues_ right after that series - the joke continues there. Do you have a date? Because I’ve forced myself to trawl the _Baby Blues_ archives for March and April 2006, and I can’t find a continuation of the “Rat babysits the kids” storyline. > [@Ghanima](#): > > I despise Pearls Before Swine. You ees gettin a veesit from de crocadills! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/31 "2006-04-20T07:18:43Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Do you have a date? Because I’ve forced myself to trawl the _Baby Blues_ archives for March and April 2006, and I can’t find a continuation of the “Rat babysits the kids” storyline. The story continues in the following Pearls Before Swine strips. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/32 "2006-04-20T11:55:01Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Do you have a date? Because I’ve forced myself to trawl the _Baby Blues_ archives for March and April 2006, and I can’t find a continuation of the “Rat babysits the kids” storyline. In the Sunday Baby Blues, there have been several panels with Wren chewing on dead crocs in the background. More of a nod than a continuation. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/33 "2006-04-20T12:58:09Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > In the Sunday Baby Blues, there have been several panels with Wren chewing on dead crocs in the background. This past sunday? I don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/34 "2006-04-20T13:00:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > This past sunday? I don’t see it. Go to the Baby Blues archive for Monday March 27, 2006. It’s the Monday after the crossover. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/35 "2006-04-20T13:04:46Z")
> [@Trion](#): > > Go to the Baby Blues archive for Monday March 27, 2006. It’s the Monday after the crossover. Ah, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/36 "2006-04-20T18:22:25Z")
> [@Birdmonster](#): > > Well, we agree on those. Although Mutts isn’t a fave, it’s at least quality. Same goes for Zits: not my style, but there’s thought behind it & the art is phenomenal. What’s the issue with Pearls, I must ask? I’ve always thought it was a breath of fresh air, along with Get Fuzzy, Boondocks, and the-artist-formerly-known-as-Non-Sequitor-which-now-for-some-reason-is-atrocious. > > Bill Watterson, meanwhile, laughs from his throne. I have never understood the love that Mutts & Zits get. Mutts is never funny (the artwork is nice though); it’s seems so glurgy to me. And Zits is just so middle-of-the-road with a boring and unlikeable main character. He’s such a cliche. Pearls Before Swine is almost always at least mildy amusing and frequently hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/37 "2006-04-20T19:22:26Z")
I’ve never read PBS - my paper (Chicago Trib) only carries GF. So the joke wasn’t very effective for me. Not a big fan of GF anyway. Well drawn, and the dog is okay, but if I had a cat like that I’d kill it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/38 "2006-04-20T20:02:22Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Mutts is never funny (the artwork is nice though); Yeah, it’s not funny, but I like the artwork. Dinsdale: [Pearls is on the net.](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) I don’t take a daily paper and read the comics on the web. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226/39 "2006-04-20T22:05:46Z")
It was funny once, but now that it’s been going on all week it’s getting annoying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-meets-pearls-before-swine/353226.md?page=1)