# The Dysfunctional Family Circus rises from its soggy grave!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dysfunctional-family-circus-rises-from-its-soggy-grave/333495 "2005-12-01T02:21:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dysfunctional-family-circus-rises-from-its-soggy-grave/333495/1 "2005-12-01T02:21:39Z")

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Hear ye, hear ye! The Most Sublime and Abhominable Achievement of Western Civilization, the venerable **Dysfunctional Family Circus,** following two untimely deaths, has once again risen from its soggy grave! 😃 Check out [http://dfc.ochremedia.com/](http://dfc.ochremedia.com/)! (If not yet registered with the cite, you can use **dfcAnon** as both username and password.)

For the backstory on the DFC, see these threads:

> **[The Psychotic Family Circus goes dark! Burn in Hell, King Features Syndicate!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=301043)**
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> The unspeakable cultural pollution that is Bil Keane’s “comic strip” The Family Circus was at least partly redeemed by making possible one of the most hilarious exercises in black humor ever to grace the Internet: The amateur captioning project known...

> **[Ohmigod -- is "The Family Circus" going to live on after Bil Keane?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266178)**
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> For so long I’ve been waiting and hoping for Bil Keane to drop dead so readers everywhere will finally be able to open the comics page without having to risk a glimpse of his stupid, horrible, humorless, abomination of cutesiepoo whitebread smugness....

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dysfunctional-family-circus-rises-from-its-soggy-grave/333495/2 "2005-12-01T02:22:56Z")

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See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysfunctional\_Family\_Circus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysfunctional_Family_Circus)