# Rate my one-panel comic idea 1-10 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 1, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621 "2016-03-01T11:44:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/21 "2016-03-01T19:19:02Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I gave it a 4. A Larson like artist could bring it up. It’s actually pretty Larsonesque. Not one of his best, but still Larsonesque. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/22 "2016-03-01T19:19:30Z")
First thing I thought of was “A [Bizarro](http://bizarro.com/) cartoon”. I chuckled. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/23 "2016-03-01T19:42:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > It’s actually pretty Larsonesque. Not one of his best, but still Larsonesque. Yes, I think so. That’s what’s missing though, it’s just a word joke now, Larson could do the cowboy and the dogs much more justice. The cowboy’s expression and attitude would be a big part of the joke. Larson probably started a lot of cartoons with a 4 joke like this. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/24 "2016-03-01T19:44:33Z")
Would Larson have used “dogies” or “doggies”? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/25 "2016-03-01T20:32:08Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Would Larson have used “dogies” or “doggies”? Not sure, but I think maybe he’d have the cowboy on a horse playing a guitar and singing ‘Git along little dog(g)ies’ to a whole herd of dachsunds. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/26 "2016-03-01T20:36:18Z")
There should be a bunch of 15th century rulers of Venice fighting in a yard, and the cowboy leaning over the fence saying “Get along, little Doges”. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/27 "2016-03-01T21:22:09Z")
Change it to a whole yard full of miniature Neil Patrick Harrises clobbering each other, and have the cowboy saying, “Get along, little Doogies.” Then you’ve got something. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/28 "2016-03-01T23:01:26Z")
OP chiming in. I agree with most every comment posted (except, perhaps, the Neil Patrick Harris idea). Oddly enough, it first came to me with Rodney King saying the line to two dogs fighting. I abandoned that tact for various reasons, including that it would become too serious a cartoon, it would be hard to recognizably depict Rodney King’s image, and it felt too ‘cluttery’. Also, I definitely think it should be doggie vs. dogie. “Doggie” is cuter, “Dogie” is too obvious. Looking forward to what tomorrow’s shower will produce.\* mmm \*answer: absolutely nothing ETA: I agree, the quality of the drawing would make or break it ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/29 "2016-03-01T23:03:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I would change the caption to simply “Get along, little doggies.” > > Cowboys gotta keep it simple. > > But still pretty funny. I think you might be right about this. mmm ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/30 "2016-03-01T23:27:03Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I abandoned that tact OK, what kind of intitution would have a sign that says “Abandon Tact, All Ye Who Enter Here”? Hooters? Cartoons are like gossamer and one doesn’t dissect gossamer. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/31 "2016-03-01T23:47:57Z")
Not a fucking clue about any of the possible references in this hypothetical cartoon. It’s a 1 I’m afraid. (Someone explain?) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/32 "2016-03-01T23:58:09Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Not a fucking clue about any of the possible references in this hypothetical cartoon. It’s a 1 I’m afraid. > > (Someone explain?) There’s a cowboy song that says in part “Git along, little dogies!” aka, calves get moving in the direction I want! Someone could then be telling two squabbling doggies to get along (work it out amongst themselves). > **[Git Along, Little Dogies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies)** > > "Git Along, Little Dogies" is a traditional cowboy ballad, also performed under the title "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo." It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 827. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. > The "dogies" referred to in the song are runty or orphaned calves. > It is believed to be a variation of a traditional Irish ballad about an old man rocking a cradle. The cowboy adaptation is first mentioned in the 1893 journal of Owen Wist... ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/33 "2016-03-02T00:12:01Z")
Or instead of the cowboy in the alternatives above, have some cows (calves) saying to the herd of dachshunds “Get along, little doggies.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/34 "2016-03-02T01:10:13Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Or instead of the cowboy in the alternatives above, have some cows (calves) saying to the herd of dachshunds “Get along, little doggies.” But this changes the key part of the joke, that ‘get along’ carries two meanings. In other words, I thing the doggies should be fighting. mmm ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/35 "2016-03-02T01:22:57Z")
Pet store sign in Casper, WY. "Special Today Only! Dachshund Puppies $25.00 each Get a long little doggie!" ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/36 "2016-03-02T20:53:42Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I would change the caption to simply “Get along, little doggies.” > > Cowboys gotta keep it simple. > > But still pretty funny. I dunno. I think it’s too on the nose there. Maybe “Can’t ya get along, little doggies?” (If I could figure out how to spell caint-cha in a way that looked normal, I’d use that. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/37 "2016-03-03T04:47:24Z")
I dunno about the cartoon idea, but I rate Ella singing the cowboy song at an 11. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLVX2D-Ev20) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621/38 "2016-03-03T09:51:12Z")
Cute…not great, not terrible…cute. The art would determine the success more than anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-one-panel-comic-idea-1-10/747621.md?page=1)