# My God -- A Funny Beetle Bailey Strip! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085 "2004-03-08T05:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/1 "2004-03-08T05:10:27Z")
Okay, this doesn’t happen often. In fact, I’ve gone for years without getting a laugh out of Beetle Bailey (yet habit keeps me spending a few seconds each day reading it – waiting, hoping…) But [here](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bbailey/about.htm) it is – the strip for **Friday, February 20**. Not only funny, but with a bit of an edge. Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/2 "2004-03-08T05:49:27Z")
Ah, King Features: > [@](#): > > Amazing Spider-Man > Apartment 3-G > Barney Google and Snuffy Smith > Beetle Bailey > Blondie > Dennis the Menace > Family Circus > Flash Gordon > Funky Winkerbean > Hagar the Horrible > Katzenjammer Kids > The Lockhorns > Mark Trail > Marvin > Mary Worth > Mother Goose & Grimm > The Phantom > Popeye > Prince Valiant > Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids > Tumbleweeds > Zippy the Pinhead …where comic strips go to die. But I have to admit, this one did make me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/3 "2004-03-08T13:15:48Z")
Wow. Unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/4 "2004-03-08T13:25:18Z")
I thought you were full of it there until I opened up the link. It made me chuckle out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/5 "2004-03-08T14:12:45Z")
OK, that was good. And that was Beetle Bailey. Haven’t read 'em in years. And this can only mean one thing … The Apocalypse is surely nigh upon us now!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Interior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@Lux\_Interior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Interior)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/6 "2004-03-08T14:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > …where comic strips go to die. Then why do they seem to have eternal life? DIE ALREADY! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/7 "2004-03-08T17:02:49Z")
Are you sure you linked to the funny one? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/8 "2004-03-08T17:08:16Z")
That seems like the same joke they recycle every 5th strip. Does that mean 20% of BB is funny? ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/9 "2004-03-08T18:05:25Z")
I think the link takes you to _today’s_ strip. Use the menu to take you to the 2/20 strip. Yeah, I’d say that’s not a recycled joke, and somewhat topical, too. Hee. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/10 "2004-03-08T18:23:24Z")
[direct link to strip of 20 February 2004](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/beetlebailey.asp?date=20040220) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/11 "2004-03-08T19:32:43Z")
OK, I agree that _is_ vaguely amusing. I am pretty sure I’ve seen the joke before though. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/12 "2004-03-08T20:22:47Z")
I couldn’t get to the strip in question, but I was recently going to make an almost identical post about \*Heathcliff[/i.] I generally can’t stand the comic, don’t know why I look at it, etc., but a couple of weeks ago they had one where Heathcliff was trying to get attention from his owner while she cooked dinner, and there was a panel where Heathcliff was clinging to his owner’s lap with her in a standing position, so he was projecting out perpendicular to her body and parallel to the floor. Kind of funny, unlike every other strip, in which Heathcliff walks on two legs and acts like an adolescent in a third-rate sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/13 "2004-03-08T20:52:17Z")
I found it anti-semitic, unnecessarily gory and historically inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/14 "2004-03-08T21:14:33Z")
Holy crap. Beetle Bailey can be funny?! I snickered in spite of myself. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/15 "2004-03-08T23:04:10Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I found it anti-semitic, unnecessarily gory and historically inaccurate. The Jews killed Beetle Bailey? ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/16 "2004-03-08T23:24:37Z")
I have to admit, I laughed at that one too. Then I thought, “I just laughed at Beetle Bailey. What’s wrong with me?” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/17 "2004-03-08T23:56:21Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The Jews killed Beetle Bailey? Well, of course. That’s not his real name, you know. It’s the Anglicized name he took at immigration. He used to be called Shtetl Baileyman. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/18 "2004-03-10T20:23:04Z")
Somewhere, Johnny Hart is scribbling furiously, am i rite? I had a pile of old Beetle Bailey books when I was little. I still read the strip today (just because I read everything on the comics page), and I am amazed at the number of strips which are practically word-for-word rehashes of the same strip I read years ago. And they aren’t reprints. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/19 "2004-03-10T21:08:09Z")
I didn’t realize until recently that Beetle Bailey is the brother of Lois from Hi & Lois (also a Walker creation, though I believe the creator’s sons now draw it). I don’t know which is the original. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085/20 "2004-03-10T21:11:13Z")
When I was ten years old, I was an unpopular, sickly child. I drew a lot, though I was a horrible artist. I put a bunch of my homemade comic strips in an envelope and sent them to Mort Walker, since I was a big Beetle Bailey fan at the time. He was kind enough to write back with some suggestions, and sent me an autographed Beetle Bailey strip. We corresponded over about three letters. Beetle Bailey is not the strip it once was. But I will not speak ill of Mort Walker, myself. He was very nice to me back then. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-a-funny-beetle-bailey-strip/233085.md?page=2)