# Get Fuzzy too tasteless for Chicago? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329 "2007-11-30T17:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/1 "2007-11-30T17:13:40Z")
Todays Tribune comics included a reprint of Get Fuzzy along with the explanation that the current strip was not appropriate to their standards of taste. Come on, it’s cute but hardly offensive, right? Here. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/2 "2007-11-30T17:15:26Z")
I guess it was the implied “shitty” that alarmed the Trib. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/3 "2007-11-30T17:15:59Z")
Hmmm Chicago is the windy city? It’s fair and it’s art. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/4 "2007-11-30T17:16:11Z")
Boo! I think it’s cute. Of course, it doesn’t spell it out, but that’s the “problem”. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/5 "2007-11-30T17:19:29Z")
What’s so offensive about the word “Shin-bitty?” ---
**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:** [November 30, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/6 "2007-11-30T17:24:48Z")
If any of you feel offended, stick your head in a barrel of shaving cream. The strip made it into the Springfield paper. I’ll be watching to see if they get any sniffy letters. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/7 "2007-11-30T17:34:21Z")
…Shaving cream? Why shaving cream? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/8 "2007-11-30T17:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] …Shaving cream? Why shaving cream? [/QUOTE] [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rpq6u8hYgk) is why. [Lyrics](http://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/song/song-1288.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/9 "2007-11-30T17:54:57Z")
Ah. Gracias. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/10 "2007-11-30T17:54:59Z")
Hell, that’s the closest that damn strip has come to being funny in some time, and the Trib decides to block it? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/11 "2007-11-30T20:02:58Z")
I’m sure the Trib reports on how many people were killed in Iraq on any given day, how many people were murdered/raped in Chicago, about the famine in Darfur and other hellholes, about how the government is buttfucking all of us, etc. Or do they just report on bunnies and kitties? The amount of obscenity taking place on the planet at any given moment far outweighs an implied potty word in a fucking _comic strip_, for cripe’s sake. Apologies to mods for cursing; I’ll put $2.00 in the swear jar. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/12 "2007-11-30T20:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=Dinsdale] Hell, that’s the closest that damn strip has come to being funny in some time, and the Trib decides to block it? :smack: [/QUOTE] I disagree. Get Fuzzy has me rollin’ two or three times a week recently. I think Darby Conley is really hitting his stride. For example: > **[GoComics](https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20071127.html)** ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/13 "2007-11-30T20:40:53Z")
Chronicle had no problem running it in Houston. Somebody at the Chicago Tribune needs a life. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/14 "2007-12-01T20:04:32Z")
And of course they _never_ think Blondie is controversial. 'cause…you know…it sucks. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/15 "2007-12-01T20:07:28Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Todays Tribune comics included a reprint of Get Fuzzy along with the explanation that the current strip was not appropriate to their standards of taste. [/QUOTE] Did they like today’s strip any better? ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/16 "2007-12-01T20:38:57Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] I guess it was the implied “shitty” that alarmed the Trib. [/QUOTE] It isn’t even that bad since _dog-sick_ equals _dick_. So it’s basically rude on a junior high school level. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/17 "2007-12-02T03:36:17Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] And of course they _never_ think Blondie is controversial. [/QUOTE] Even that one where the woman called the Little League coach a scumbag and the punchline was that she was yelling at him so much because he was her husband? (I’m not making that up- that was a real strip, and quite controversial, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/18 "2007-12-02T03:43:23Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Did they like today’s strip any better? [/QUOTE] Today’s strip was also replaced. My, but we are delicate here in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/19 "2007-12-02T03:49:12Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I disagree. Get Fuzzy has me rollin’ two or three times a week recently. I think Darby Conley is really hitting his stride. For example: Yeah, Get Fuzzy is one of only two or three comics I even look at these days. It doesn’t always make me lol, but it sure as hell has a better record than anything else. The strip the OP is about, though, isn’t funny. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-too-tasteless-for-chicago/428329/20 "2007-12-03T16:28:27Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Today’s strip was also replaced. My, but we are delicate here in Chicago. [/QUOTE] We may be the city of big shoulders, but those shoulders have brittle bones. :dubious: