Talk:Get Fuzzy

message: Monkeywhere? jokes are awesome.
:*Wikipedia is not your personal blog. Mrmcdonnell (talk) 17:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Monkeywhere?

message: Didn't satchel get a new watch for christmas a while back? 
Mr.KISS 66 07:53, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Bucky gave Handy back to Satchel for Christmas, but Satchel eventually wound up getting a digital watch (Dingy/Beepy) as a present later on. I don't think there was ever actually an explanation of what happened to Handy. Conley doesn't seem to be drawing Satchel with either watch very often anymore. --216.76.180.157 06:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Handy?

message: Rob also has a brother, Tim. This is referenced more than once (notably, by their father, Francis).
:yes, and the army vet listed as his brother is really a cousin, named will, i believe.
Marine vet, not Army.
Aside from Bucky's evil, the strip is really just old puns being put it a dog or cat's mouth. Half the strips you know what the stupid pun of the day is by the second box. It's really kind of trite; only rarely does it have a good punchline anymore.
Robs brother is actually named Roger by the way. His cousin was a marine serving in iraq when his leg was shot and had to be amputated. in an unusually serious story line Rob is talking to his father over the phone when he gets the news. Satchel ends the strip by saying "oh, we love willy". Although Rob's brother is rarely mentioned (mostly being called "your idiot brother" by francis) he can be seen in a single strip with rob and francis at a memorial service for firefighters.
Roger also comes to Robs rescue when he threw out his back.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.201.197.148 (talk) 18:35, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rob's Brother

message: The use of separate articles for individual characters (and one character's inanimate toy bear!) causes information about Get Fuzzy to be unnecessarily fragmented and inconvenient to access. Get Fuzzy does not have a particularly large cast of characters or involve a complicated 'universe,' and I see no reason the character descriptions couldn't be incorporated into the main article. This would allow users to get all the information we have about Get Fuzzy in one place.  FoxTrot -- a strip of comparable popularity, with a larger cast of characters -- incorporates all its information into one entry and is, in my opinion, a better article for it. Let's merge all these entries and give Get Fuzzy the definitive article it deserves. Perodicticus 16:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merges 

message: The copyright date of the most recent book, Scrum Bums, is listed as September 1, 2006 because most online bookstores listed that as the date it would be available.  However, the copyright inside the book says 2005 (which coinsides with the original release date in November of 2005).  The entry should be corrected.  Kwyjibear 03:52, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone know why Scrum Bums' release was delayed for so long? Did it have to do with the Bob Lobel suit? If so, maybe that should be mentioned in the article. Perodicticus 08:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books 

message: Is the claim that this is a "Codename: Kids Next Door" reference substantiated? I was under the impression that Bucky was talking about baboons.
Michael Podgorski 19:54, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rainbow Monkeys

message: With the inclusion of a few more references, I think that this article could easily qualify as one of wikipedia's Good article candidates.  Badbilltucker 17:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: It seems to me like he's going to become a main character, or at least a very prominent minor character (i.e. Fungo).  spirobrewer October 29, 0:33 Central Time
: I certainly hope not, as his completely inaccurate dialect drives me mad. But in any case, it's too early to tell. Perodicticus 10:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aw, you don't like Mac?  :)  spirobrewer October 31, 18:13 Central Time
I understand M3 perfectly, actually, but maybe that's 'cause I'm familiar with British dialect. His speech isn't as bad as I thought. I like Mac, but the classic trio of Bucky Katt, Satchel Pooch, and Rob Wilco has been the main thing with Get Fuzzy since 1999, and I don't think Mac would become a main character, but perhaps an occasional add-on.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by LucielleCatt (talk • contribs) 19:09, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  MacManx a Main Character? 

message: Does anyone have any updates whether the Get Fuzzy film is still in production or not?  I, for one, can't wait to see it if/when it comes out, but all the articles that I could find about it is dated August 2003!  Has the project been stopped?  If it has, I think we should update the page.  ( It'd be shame if it did stop though... ) smileydude66 22:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get Fuzzy Film 

message: I have removed the following passage added by an anonymous user:
:If one were to politically and ethnically interpret the strip, it would be possible to argue that Bucky is an interesting phenomenon, namely a Black right-wing Republican: Black in a stereotypical sense because he often uses so-called Black English; far-right Republican because of his total intolerance for any of the liberal or 'humanitarian' sympathies expressed by Satchel Pooch, the quintessential do-gooder. The cartoonist, whether consciously or not, has also powerfully mocked the paranoid tendencies of the American right wing with Bucky's occasional obsessions with 'invasion' by various species, Bucky all the while covered from head to toe in soup pots, silverware, and other household objects intended to make him impervious to imagined assault.
This is unsuitable for Wikipedia on at least three counts: it's unsourced, involves original research/speculation, and is highly POV. A section on the characters' political views might be interesting, but should be based on verifiable published material. Perodicticus 11:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted paragraph 

message: Should some of the more common minor characters (the ones that have been featured multiple times) be included under one heading? Such as Oreo (Satchel's 'girlfriend'), Motor, I. Chihuahua, Burger, Cat Cat, etc? Not sure if they were on here before and deleted as too insignificant or not. 216.199.210.205 20:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor characters 

message: I've read on the internet that the most recent Get Fuzzy strips (starting with 1/23/07, I believe) have been censored in The Washington Post and the Boston Globe for drug references. The strips feature Bucky's 2008 presidential campaign posters, all of which could also be for the legalization of marijuana. Should this be in the controversy section? I don't really know too much about the censorship situation, though the strips seem rather mild to me. Lavender K 21:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure...you can't really base a controversy on speculation. You did say, "...all of which could also be for the legalization of marijuana" so it seems to me that it's all in the way of interpretation. If it were up to me, however, I would put it in. --♥♥HOLLiSTERiSLOVE♥♥ 16:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy- drug references 

message: Does anyone know why the strip is named Get Fuzzy? — Loadmaster 22:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strip title 

message: Most of the images on the main page are poor scans.  They should be cleaned up.  I could do it but the last time I did, it got replaced with an entirely different image (another bad scan).  Which brings up another issue: the images do not need to be replaced every few months.  Kwyjibear 05:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: This article is overly long and conveys too many details related to short story arcs.  Shorten the section on Bucky and abridge the sections on inconsequential topics.
(71.182.178.241 19:29, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to second this. I added the bit about Bucky referencing wikipedia, but I'm not even sure that it is relevant --DarkAvenger 08:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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text: The lack of long story arcs is exactly the reason this article needs to be shorter. We don't really need a detailed history of all that has happened to each of the major characters. It's a freakin' comic strip. I could understand if there was some long, complex plot that is ongoing and continually references things that have happened before, but that's not the case here. I would say take out all the little story arcs and briefly mention the stuff that comes up again and again (e.g. "The strip has shown many times that Satchel is willing to eat non-food items.")If someone wants to list everything that has happened in the strip, put it on a fan site. 170.65.128.6 (talk) 21:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: LOOOOOOOOONG

message: Hey there, watch out for vandalism on the Get Fuzzy page.  There is a user out there who will add random, non-existent characters and alter storyline information.  I caught this person the first time as user:Cootcatcanine and had the account put on hold indefinitely.  However, the user seemed to have re-appeared as user:Gettefuzzyonline.  Please keep a look out for this...  Thanks. smileydude66 03:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright... now User:Gettefuzzyonline has been blocked indefinitely for his/her constant vandalism and additions of nonsense to the article. smileydude66 20:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watch out for vandalism! 

message: That's a very humiliating picture of the poor guy we have on this article.  Can't someone find a good, royalty-free picture we can use instead?  Satchel has a nice picture - why can't we do the same for Bucky?  Jamehec 18:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It also looks like Bucky is hanging himself with a piece of rope. We really do need a new picture for the chump. Konraden88 01:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: New pic made.  Also, Konraden88, you misspelled "champ".  There is no letter U in that word.  ;) Jamehec 06:27, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor Bucky! 

message: Does anyone else think that Bucky Katt could have been named after former Yankees shortstop (and infamous home run hitter) Bucky Dent? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.62.246.217 (talk) 19:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No - Rob Wilco said the name comes from the cat's lone fang - his "buck" tooth.  Since Rob is Bucky's owner, he presumably was the one to come up with the name.  Jamehec 17:48, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, you're both wrong. His name is from a former Monarchs player named Buck O'Neil. He was a famous player in the Negro Baseball League. As for the reference to Bucky Dent, in one strip Bucky carried a guitar with him and Rob snapped at him for denting it. To this Bucky replied "It's only a little Bucky dent" Rob told him to never say that ever again. Presumably because he is a huge Boston Red Sox fan. 216.31.45.229 15:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I stand by my comment about Bucky's name coming from his "buck" tooth.  Pets are named by their owners, and there is no real evidence for any of the other theories.  Bucky's upper cuspid does resemble a buck tooth, and would thence be the most reasonable inference I can think up. Jamehec 16:52, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is ABSOLUTELY evidence that he was named after Buck O'Neill.  Joe tells him in one of the Sunday strips.  I'll find the date for you and post it later. JCO312 19:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There isn't a date on the strip, but it's page 252 of Groovitude. JCO312 19:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: And you could realize that Bucky was named "Bucky" long before he lost his tooth to Fungo in combat. 70.130.138.41 15:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Aaaaand Bucky has always had only one upper cuspid (the one on the right has always been missing).  The tooth that the ferret knocked out was the left one, leaving Bucky with NO cuspids for a week or so.  Really, I can't help but think that Darby Conley is the only person who can answer this one.  Jamehec 20:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

text: OK once and for all this is the origin of Bucky's name: Joe told Bucky and Satchel that they were named after baseball players. This is untrue. Later in the strip, there was a conversation between Rob and Bucky regarding Bucky's want for a cool nickname that went like this: ROB: You do know why I named you Bucky, don't you? BUCKY: Well, I assume it's because I'm such a young buck, but... ROB: No! It's because of your tooth! TOOTH!! 
So it's Bucky's tooth that got him the name...not Bucky Dent or Buck O'Neill. And if need be, I can search my Get Fuzzy books and tell you exactly what anthology it was in. --DancexwithxmexXx 17:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Is he really "Bucky B. Katt"?  I seem to recall his name being given as "Bucky T. Katt", with "T." presumably being for "The".
2600:1004:B147:2CC0:6034:493D:8320:D1A7 (talk) 21:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bucky's name 

message: The April 20, 2007 strip references Wikipedia.
: As a result, a one-day semi-protect has been enacted.  --  Zanimum 16:14, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wackypedia 

message: This is a bit of a non-issue, but it's quite unrealistic for his father to be a retired seeing eye dog since the nearly all of the major seeing dog schools spay or neuter their working dogs. I know it's a fictious comic strip and all, but I thought it should be brought up.
199.80.65.3 21:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Satchel's Father 

message: That list is huge!  Should we think about splitting the characters onto another page by itself?  The article is REALLY long right now. smileydude66 07:08, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe making new pages is the wrong way to go, this page is huge, badly organized, talks if you look at the TOB only about the characters and nothing about the plot, and even though this is a webcomic, it has stories, and those are "Plots", and those stories are divided in time and so on...--Dwarf Kirlston 19:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recurring & One-Time Character

message: Under category of comics, it says this is a men's comic, which I strongly dissagree with. I am a female and I'm obsessed with Get fuzzy... Crowstar 17:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? 

message: Does anybody else think that the strip as gone way down in the last few years? I mean, he seems to just be working off old puns half the time. If that's the best he can do, it is time to put it to sleep.
Please sign your posts, (~~~~) and plus, that statement is POV and shouldn't be included. Also, this is a page to discuss improvements that could be made to the article, not the strip. ~Crowstar~ 18:09, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Getfuzzy 2007-4-20.png

message: Why was my information on this film taken out?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.81.141.176 (talk) 14:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get Fuzzy movie 

message: Does Rob live in an apartment building or a house? I've been reading the collections and it tends to change from strip to strip. --72.17.202.90 (talk) 14:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rob's living conditions 

message: The sections on the characters are extremely long and opinion-based. They need to be trimmed tremendously. We don't need to mention everything the cat does or has done. --AW (talk) 16:11, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, as I was reading it, it came across as being poorly written, and very much unlike an encyclopedia. Need just facts to get the picture of the characters, not a lot of facts about what they have done in the strip. 66.194.118.10 (talk) 18:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just cleaned up Bucky's profile, cutting out most irrelevant references to the strips and rearranging a little amongst the paragraphs (and adding a jab at American nationalism that anyone is free to cut out)... It's not well done, but it's a start at least. 83.191.131.70 (talk) 13:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character sections 

message: Is there really gonna be a Get Fuzzy movie?
Ribeka&Presario (talk) 00:19, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Get Fuzzy '''movie'''?!

message: Where's Shakespug in this article? He should be listed under the minor dog characters section but he isn't. I think I saw him once in the article but, since then, he has dissapeared...Hmmm...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadowwolf14 (talk • contribs) 22:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shakespug?

message: It seems to me that a "Negative Reaction" section without any "Positive Reaction" section presents an NPOV issue.  Unless, of course, that the strip has received only negative reactions, or perhaps overwhelmingly negative reactions.  But I don't believe that's the case.  In fact, I'm fairly certain that it's mostly well received.  -208.97.245.131 (talk) 19:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV weight issue 

message: Does anyone know if Darby Conley is going to release Ignorance, Thy Name is Bucky and most recently Dumbheart in a treasury? Because the collections are in color. Thanks Ribeka&Presario (talk) 01:43, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Treasuries

message: This article practically defines fancruft and original research. Lots42 (talk) 04:30, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifics please. BratmanGodzilla (talk) 15:05, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems 

message: The article as finally been shortened by cleaning up the Characters list and the creation of a new article -  List of Get Fuzzy characters
Rajayuv (talk) 23:19, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortened Finally! 

message: I don't know if this has been mentioned, or disputed, but, I remember seeing a strip where Rob was explaining to Satchel that Beaver-Hating Bucky was named after the Oregon State Beavers Mascot.
Adanvdowesa (talk) 11:57, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, he gave Bucky a doll of the mascot. See the above discussion on Bucky's name origin. Apple8800 (talk) 03:40, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

text: What book and which page was it on? If thats the case it should be changed to reflect what the book says.P0PP4B34R732 (talk) 20:34, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bucky's Name

message: There we go; I know I wasn’t the first one to notice that, so it’s not OR. —Wiki Wikardo 00:06, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically since it is unsourced with a credible reference, it is original research even if it "could" be considered common knowledge. Ckruschke (talk) 17:16, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eschews the setup-punchline format for humorous dialogue 

message: Under characters, there's only a redlink for a page that doesn't exist.173.218.226.123 (talk) 17:21, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the entire page was deleted in May as in-universe fancruft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Get_Fuzzy_characters). So it appears that anyone who was going to that web page or who created it didn't care enough to fight the deletion. Since the page is GONE, I won't be able to copy/paste that info back onto this page. I'll try and go through the history to when this info was removed from the main page and restore some of it. Ckruschke (talk) 17:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Happened To The Characters Article? 

message: Where does anyone get the idea that Bucky's politics stem  only  from an effort to irritate Satchel and not from racism or nativism?  Bucky is obviously a satire of a political reactionary, sort of like the "Steven Colbert" character of The Colbert Report, so where is the reliably-sourced evidence of this "fact"?  2600:1004:B147:2CC0:6034:493D:8320:D1A7 (talk) 21:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bucky's politics 

message: Substituted at 16:12, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment