# Unfunny cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897 "2003-12-09T12:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/41 "2003-12-09T17:28:07Z")
Some people have mentioned that they like “Non Sequitur”. This surprises me, as I find it to be one of the most appallingly bad strips I have ever seen. I think it’s the fact that it _thinks_ it’s so funny. I can’t stand the smugness of a comic strip that screams “Ooh! I’m funny _and_ I make you think!” when it isn’t and doesn’t. The Captain Obvious ones are just that - _obvious_, as in they might’ve been funny thirty years ago. They prominently feature these “pregnant pause” panels, where some newfound insight (usually something stupid) is supposed to be sinking into a character’s skull, enlightening them and causing us to (not) laugh at their ignorance at not having realized it before. I _hate_ those! And the precocious little goth chick annoys me the way any sprout with delusions of intellectual superiority would. And while we’re on the subject, I fail to see any relevance whatsoever in the guy who keeps being reincarnated. JMHO. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/42 "2003-12-09T17:35:11Z")
**Mallard Fillmore**. That duck needs stuffing, roasting, and throwing in the garbage. Not funny, just a tired rehash of all the ultra-right bullhockey. Heck, **Doonesbury** , left-leaning and all, does a better job of satirizing the liberal loonies. **Zippy** has pretty much degraded to the same few tired themes of shtick, over and over. Those points have been made – time to move on! **Garfield** is an old and tired rehash too. When the strip was **Robotman** , it was good; now that Robotman has been abandoned and it’s become **Monty** , it’s truly lame. Alas, for the dear departed **Calvin and Hobbes** and **Bloom County**! Worth reading are **Zits, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy, Sylvia, Rhymes With Orange**. Erratic but often worth it are **Foxtrot** and **Boondocks**. Just one tri-cat’s opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/43 "2003-12-09T17:35:22Z")
I don’t get the web comic Day by Day. Most bloggers seem to think it’s brilliant. It’s often topical, political humor but even when I’ve been keeping in touch with the issues, the punch line usually leaves me scratching my head as if the Delphic Oracle was telling jokes. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/44 "2003-12-09T17:50:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dorkusmalorkusmafia \* > \*\*Wow, danceswithcats is harsh. That by hating all the comics that I love. Really, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Mutts, etc. Maybe you should go back and tell us what comics you love afterwards. 😛 \*\* My apologies, as I failed to be sufficiently descriptive. Those comics listed are my favorites, the rest being comedic slurry, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/45 "2003-12-09T18:21:46Z")
As far as non-prehistoric comics go–sorry, but Bloom County and Calvin Hobbs went out of business a long time ago–[Pearls Before Swine](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) is the funniest strip going. Unfunny strips **Never intended to be funny, failed to be entertaining:** Mary Worth Rex Morgan, MD Prince Valiant Apartment 3-G **Funny once, boring now:** Beetle Bailey The Wizard of Id Hagar the Horrible Garfield ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/46 "2003-12-09T18:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr2001 \* > \*\*“Family Circus” would be funny if instead of a caption, it had a blank line for you to write in your own. \*\* I recommend [The Dysfunctional Family Circus](http://www.brainwashingvats.com/i/f/fc.html), and the king of them all [The Dysfunctional Family Circus Archive](http://www.implausible.net/dfc/ffDFC111/index001.html). ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/47 "2003-12-09T18:45:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr2001 \* > \*\*“Family Circus” would be funny if instead of a caption, it had a blank line for you to write in your own. \*\* There used to be a web site called the Dysfunctional Family Circus which allowed readers to do exactly this. They kept all the submissions and they were rated. The top-rated ones really were hilarious. My favorite is pretty offensive, so I’ll put the caption in a spoiler box. The scene has Dolly standing on a bathroom scale, looking down at the display, and Billy is standing off to the side, also looking down at the scale’s display. The caption reads: “Wow, Daddy’s right, Dolly. Pound for pound, you ARE cheaper than a hooker.” ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/48 "2003-12-09T18:48:17Z")
Doh. Is 13 minutes too long to claim “simulpost”? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/49 "2003-12-09T19:27:47Z")
None of you have to endure “Red and Rover”, I take it? It’s by Fred Basset’s brother. I have to bathe my eyes in hydrochloric acid each Sunday when I see it it’s so horribly unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/50 "2003-12-09T19:41:00Z")
[slight hijack] A friend of mine in central PA says the local paper had a poll, which comic strip would get the removed to make room for ‘Opus’, and Prince Valiant got the axe. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Creative\_Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Creative\_Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creative_Munster)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/51 "2003-12-09T20:13:02Z")
Not on this server it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/52 "2003-12-09T21:38:48Z")
Re: The person that mentioned my comic… I don’t think the content is suitable for newspaper syndication. I didn’t want to have to censor or sterilize it for that audience. We’re actually going for comic book/trade paperback publication. I personally think Peanuts should go. I’ve always hated it and found it mostly pointless. Garfield as well. All the other ones are still at least drawn by real people (in case you didnt know, Jim Davis has a bunch of artists that work on Garfield for him now.) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/53 "2003-12-09T22:04:35Z")
Cathy isn’t about her struggle to succeed. It’s about a victim of [virulent disease](http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000084.html) trying to remain incognito and ignore her impending death by focusing on shallow and unattainable goals. Back when Schultz died and they started printing the really old Peanuts (Peanutses. Peanutti. Whatever) I checked it out just for historical interest. But now there’s no reason to read or print them anymore. Just stop. My personal least favorite is Marvin. This comes in three jokes: “Quip while sitting in the corner,” “Parents waking in the middle of the night,” and “Telepathig housepets.” Once in a while there will be a different joke, and the artist will let you know this different joke is coming by devoting the first third of the strip into an exposition (“New joke! On Marvin! Wait, come back!”). ---
**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:** [December 9, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/54 "2003-12-09T22:43:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\*The most astonishingly useless ones, the ones I think everyone skips over because I can’t conceive of anyone reading them regularly: > > • The Phantom > • Gasoline Alley > • Little Orphan Annie\*\* The only problem with [The Phantom](http://www.toonopedia.com/phantom.htm) is the stories drone on for so long! Even so, that’s one of the strips I still read. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/55 "2003-12-09T22:55:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*From my local paper: > > **Hi and Lois** > **Blondie** > **Sally Forth** > **Dennis the Menace** > **The Family Circus** > **Marmaduke** > **Rose is Rose** > **Sylvia** > **B. C.** > **Frank and Ernest** > **Cathy** > **Garfield** \*\* All my favorites, gah! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/56 "2003-12-09T22:58:42Z")
I don’t get the newspaper often, but last time I did, it was depressing. Get Fuzzy was the only strip worth reading. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/57 "2003-12-09T23:04:19Z")
/turns on microphone, taps it once \*\*Attention people of this Pitting! The materials you are currently referring to are fucking _COMIC STRIPS or FUNNIES._ Cartoons are the ones that move on your talking picture box. Unfunny cartoons may include such “gems” as “Courage the Cowardly Dog,” or post-Kricfalusi-era “Ren & Stimpy.” I now hereby Pit each and every one of you for this offense. Good day to you.\*\* /turns off microphone, walks away ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/58 "2003-12-09T23:07:28Z")
The above was just a joke, actually the ones I like are: [list=1] [li]Andy Capp[/li][li]Pogo[/li][li]Ripley’s Believe it or not[/li][li]Henry[/li][/list=1] Most of them are probably gone by now, so you see I don’t read comics much. The continuing comics (bad description) as they’re stories, not comics are:[list=1] [li]Mary Worth[/li][li]Rex Morgan, MD[/li][li]Mark Trail[/li][li]Mandrake the Magician[/li][li]Dick Tracy (tho I did like the characters names)[/li][/list=1] I guess this kinda dates me. 😉 [On Preview] Chastain86, whatever. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/59 "2003-12-09T23:10:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PhiloVance \* > \*\*Chastain86, whatever. :rolleyes: \*\* Sorry, was that joke too sophisticated? You’re a Marmaduke fan, right? ---
**Author:** ![mjolner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6bbea6/32.png) [@mjolner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjolner)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897/60 "2003-12-09T23:13:36Z")
The three daily cartoons by Bill Holbrook, Kevin and Kell [www.herdthinners.com](http://www.herdthinners.com), Safe Havens and On the Fastrack are all very nice and funny cartoons. Kinda amazing to me that one artist can do three daily cartoons at once without going completely insane 🙂 Stone Soup is also a good and usually entertaining strip done by a semi-local artist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfunny-cartoons/217897.md?page=4)