Talk:The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

message: The New Zealand band mentioned in the article got their name from a particularly strong batch of Fat Freddy's Cat themed LSD blotter.  Rico nz (talk) 09:07, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Fat Freddy's Drop

message: Various anons, possibly the same person, I'm not sure, keep adding that Fat Freddy's Cat is also known as "Fatfreddyscat" or "Fat Freddy Scat". To my knowledge this is not the case; I have some vague recollection that the phrase is used as a pun in one of the Fat Freddy's Cat strips but that it was never intended to be the cat's name. Anyone know for sure so that I can revert with confidence (or not, as the case may be)? If you are (one of) the user(s) that keeps adding this fatfreddyscat thing, could you point me in the direction of the source of your info (i.e. Freak Brothers comic number & page). Thanks --Lancevortex 16:20, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The burden is on the editor to demonstrate context by citing secondary or tertiary sources. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:23, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Fat Freddy Scat?

message: The "Dealer McDope" listed as a regular character is actually an allusion to the character of that name created by Dave Sheridan (b. 1942, d. 1982) for the Rip Off Press title Mother's Oats Comix. IslandGyrl 14:12, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That does explain the rarity of his appearances in FFB.  —Tamfang 00:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dealer McDope

message: it has been said that inspiration for the characters in Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers were people associated with Texas rock bands of the sixties. i do not know if this is true.
Freewheelin' Franklin: Gary Scanlan {Sir Doug's road manager} 
Phineas Phreak: Spencer Perskin of Shiva's Headband 
Fat Freddy: Fat Charlie Pritchard of the Conqueroo
http://garagepunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=89420&sid=9d7cfbd7aedd455a137167ab405127f0
: I've reverted your addition of this to the article as a) as you say yourself, you don't know if it's true and the only evidence is an forum on the Internet, and b) you deleted another section of the article. --Lancevortex 08:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  inspiration for the characters of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers 

message: The Freak Brothers are not hippies.
They do not resemble hippies.
They are Freaks, dropouts, oddballs, outcasts, losers, heads, whatever but not one of them is a hippy.
Where are their hippy credentials?
Hippies are not the only ppl who smoke pot.
Thanx.
:I can think of several places in the comics where the FFB are referred to as "hippies". This is actually a fuzzy area; the current article claims that "freaks" and "hippies" are synonymous, but this is not universally accepted. Frank Zappa, for example, made a distinction between the two: he counted the Mothers of Invention as freaks, but he definitely disliked hippies (listen to some of the songs on "We're Only In It For The Money".) --24.58.14.1 23:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Freewheeling Franklin was once referred to as a hippie by a redneck who was spoiling for a fight with him. 83.104.46.71 (talk) 21:21, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freaks, not Hippies 

message: In one of the comics, a reporter asks Phineas about his political aspirations (the strip in which he communes with nature and sets fire to his clothes and the forest) and refers to him as "Mr. Freek". This is a continuity drop.
Phineas's last name is Phreak - Phineas T. Freakears was a false name he used whilst running for sherriff in "Grass Roots"
: Do any two stories give consistent surnames? —Tamfang (talk) 19:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phineas' last name 

message: I first saw this expression in The Freak Bros Comics in 1975 approx.
Ernest  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.245.221.79 (talk) 15:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nerds now called Nurdes 

message: The title should be moved to The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers since the article The is officially included in the original covers... Kintaro (talk) 08:37, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move the title, please 

message: This is an unsupportable opinion. Underground comics tend to have a *higher* standard of artwork than mainstream comics. Just match up Shelton, Crumb, Mavrides, Jaxon, Crumb, Rick Griffin, Justin Green, Art Spiegelman, artists on Fantagraphics and Drawn and Quarterly, and so on, to newspaper comics and superhero comics. Newspaper comics in particular have steadily declined in quality of artwork.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.25.177.117 (talk) 23:56, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, to be fair, underground comics began when Walt Kelly and Hal Foster were still going strong! —Tamfang (talk) 05:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "For a counterculture production, the standard of artwork is exceptionally high"

message: This is pure opinion. Every part of it is debateable at best. Slapstick humor is used but not central to the comics. How good the slapstick is merely the opinion of the writer of that phrase. The claim that the slapstick humor in the FFFB is reminiscent of silent comedies is also just unsupportable opinion.66.25.177.117 (talk) 00:01, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. —Tamfang (talk) 05:19, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "The Freak Brothers live a slapstick existence reminiscent of the best silent comedies."

message: I have a comic book that is not listed in the page: Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories No.1 (Collector's Item), Pub. Knockabout, UK, 1983, . Not for sale in USA or Canada, so I don't know if editions got published there.
The page Fat Freddy redirects to this article, so I guess the book belongs here. But it does not belong in the mainstream list of titles, so how should it be added? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:54, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember possessing such a thing, bought in either Illinois or California; presumably put out by Rip Off Press. —Tamfang (talk) 05:17, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fat Freddy's comics and stories 

message: It could be notable that Shelton has said that (no matter if that's a joke right there or not) the origins of the Freak Brothers was when one night, he saw a double feature with the Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges and he walked out and thought he could do something like that. He did a 5-minute short film called Texas Hippies March on the Capitol and did a comic to promote the short film. But it turned out that people liked the comic much more, so he kept the characters in the comic and stuck to that, and that was the birth of the Freak Brothers. --80.187.109.151 (talk) 14:07, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins in a short film 

message: At one point I added to the physical description of Phineas that his nose bears more than a passing resemblance to a [marijuana] joint, but this was subsequently edited out.  Surely this is as apparent as, say, the nose on your face? (OK, horrible pun).  Does anyone mind if I put it back in?Partnerfrance (talk) 20:28, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That's personal POV and not allowed. If you find some notable cultural critic saying that and can cite him or her with a quote, we can footnote it that way. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:55, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  That is a fair point and I will not make the change, although I have to admit that it seems to me to be no less clear than saying that Freewheelin' Franklin wears cowboy boots or that Phineas is the typical personification of a left-wing radical, both of which statements are contained in the article.  Sometimes "the thing speaks for itself".  But I will abide by the POV rule!  Thanks.Partnerfrance (talk) 16:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Phineas's nose

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message: I propose that the section about the cartoon be split into a separate page called The Freak Brothers. The content of the section is large and well-sourced enough to make its own page. RockabillyRaccoon (talk) 21:15, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't seem necessary to me but I don't suppose it would do much harm. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:27, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal 

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