# Zippy-Diner Connection? Why?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229 "2013-03-18T04:20:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/1 "2013-03-18T04:20:40Z")
Cartoonist Bill Griffith’s “Zippy” is a very strange strip. I read it and sometimes don’t get it-although it is often absurdly funny. Why is the strip obsessed with diners? Zippy and the other characters are often portrayed eating in diners, being crazy, or on the road to a diner. What’s the significance?
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/2 "2013-03-18T04:34:48Z")
Here is my refrigerator full of FLANK STEAK…and over there is my UPHOLSTERED CANOE…I don’t know WHY I OWN them!
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/3 "2013-03-18T06:27:34Z")
You can’t explain Zippy. Zippy just _is_.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/4 "2013-03-18T07:24:24Z")
Bill Griffith always had a fondness for American pop culture, of which diners are a quintessential exemplar.
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/5 "2013-03-18T17:13:05Z")
The two characters in the diner…arguing over who will eat the last blueberry muffin…is…so profound!
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/6 "2013-03-18T17:37:15Z")
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
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### Author:  [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/7 "2013-03-18T22:23:03Z")
> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Cartoonist Bill Griffith’s “Zippy” is a very strange strip. I read it and sometimes don’t get it-although it is often absurdly funny. Why is the strip obsessed with diners? Zippy and the other characters are often portrayed eating in diners, being crazy, or on the road to a diner. What’s the significance?
I have no idea, but I was all excited to see the Charcoal Pit again the other day- it’s one of the precious few things I miss from Delaware. That’s three times that it’s been in the strip.
The strips where Griffith memorializes the New York of the past and such are just beautiful. Zippy is Zippy, though.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippy-diner-connection-why/653229/8 "2013-03-18T23:17:14Z")
Scott Adams responds to Bill Griffiths’ criticisms:
[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-05-18/?CmtOrder=Rating&CmtDir=DESC](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-05-18/?CmtOrder=Rating&CmtDir=DESC)
[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-05-19/](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-05-19/)
Bill shoots back:
[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product\_Code=20-Sep-98&Category\_Code=sun1998&Product\_Count=37](http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=20-Sep-98&Category_Code=sun1998&Product_Count=37)
I’ll take Zippy every time…