# WTH is up with Get Fuzzy today?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 20, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450 "2005-12-20T13:34:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/1 "2005-12-20T13:34:59Z")
[Link](http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html)
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/2 "2005-12-20T13:37:39Z")
Yesterday, it was established that Satchel has a clapper. That should clear things up for you.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/3 "2005-12-20T13:41:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Yesterday, it was established that Satchel has a clapper. That should clear things up for you.
But it still doesn’t make it funny…
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/4 "2005-12-20T13:58:35Z")
Thanks, but WTH is a clapper and what does stumbling around in the dark have to do with it?
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/5 "2005-12-20T14:01:15Z")
Well, the clapper is a device that you attach to your electrical devices so that you can turn them on and off by clapping instead of throwing the switch (sings: “clap on, clap off, the clapper!”), but I’m not sure why Bucky is drooling and acting like a zombie.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/6 "2005-12-20T14:01:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Thanks, but WTH is a clapper and what does stumbling around in the dark have to do with it?
Seriously?
Clap on, clap off, the clapper? Nothing?
It’s an attachment you put on to lights (or other electrical appliances) and when you clap, they turn on. Clap again, they turn off.
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### Author:  [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/7 "2005-12-20T14:10:02Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#):
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> but I’m not sure why Bucky is drooling and acting like a zombie.
He’s not drooling, those are the strings from his hood.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/8 "2005-12-20T14:16:54Z")
Thanks. I wonder why the plumber’s helper. Maybe we’ll see in the next few days.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/9 "2005-12-20T14:25:26Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#):
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> I’m not sure why Bucky is drooling and acting like a zombie.
Because it’s funny. And it’s funnier if it isn’t explained what he’s doing.
Besides, anything with a plumber’s helper is automatically funny.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/10 "2005-12-20T14:49:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Besides, anything with a plumber’s helper is automatically funny.
Okay, I’ll have to concede that. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/11 "2005-12-20T15:45:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Thanks, but WTH is a clapper and what does stumbling around in the dark have to do with it?
Wow…I’m not sure if you’re younger than me or older than me and just missed all those commercials in the 80’s.
Clap on! _clap clap_
Clap off! _clap clap_
The Clapper!
It was often this old lady in bed, who finished reading and clapped heartily to turn the lights off.
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/12 "2005-12-20T15:59:16Z")
What the hell is a plumber’s helper? You mean the plunger?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/13 "2005-12-20T17:56:44Z")
Plumber’s helper = plunger.
Clap Clap = disease.
I didn’t watch much TV in the 80’s. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/14 "2005-12-20T21:43:12Z")
I wasn’t sure if Bucky is trying to be a thug or the Grim Reaper.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/15 "2005-12-20T21:59:05Z")
Maybe it’s going to be a “Christmas Carol” story, and Bucky’s the ghost of Christmas past, or present, or something…
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/16 "2005-12-20T22:00:01Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Wow…I’m not sure if you’re younger than me or older than me and just missed all those commercials in the 80’s.
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> Clap on! _clap clap_
> Clap off! _clap clap_
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> The Clapper!
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> It was often this old lady in bed, who finished reading and clapped heartily to turn the lights off.
She would then trip down her stairs, lights alternating with each bounce, and at the bottom declare, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/17 "2005-12-20T22:01:06Z")
oh come on youse guys! Bucky is \*obviouisly \* terrorizing Satchel. Again. It’s what he does!
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/18 "2005-12-20T22:06:39Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Wow…I’m not sure if you’re younger than me or older than me and just missed all those commercials in the 80’s.
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> Clap on! _clap clap_
> Clap off! _clap clap_
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> The Clapper!
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> It was often this old lady in bed, who finished reading and clapped heartily to turn the lights off.
It was very nice seeing Barbara Bush get some regular work in those commercials…
:eek: 😃
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/19 "2005-12-20T22:09:41Z")
> [@Wolfian](#):
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> She would then trip down her stairs, lights alternating with each bounce, and at the bottom declare, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
And, then, eventually, “I’ve fallen! And I can’t get up!”
Which, now that I think about it, could also be the slogan for Viagra.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wth-is-up-with-get-fuzzy-today/336450/20 "2005-12-20T22:12:29Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> It was often this old lady in bed, who finished reading and clapped heartily to turn the lights off.
Because her son doesn’t have time to buy his Mother a bedside lamp, the schmuck.
;j
Sorry.
I think Bucky is terrorizing Satchel as the Grim Reaper with plunger instead of scythe.
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