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The character Rob Wilco should have his own article instead of his habits, hobbies and interests being listed here. Darby Conley should also have his own article.
- Working on both of these. -DynSkeet
I compleatly disagree with Rob Wilco having his own article. As much as I like the strip, he's much to insignificant.--FelineFanatic13 23:21, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- It's fine for him to have an article. There are much, much more vague things on Wikipedia.EgyptianSushi 03:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
70.165.71.229 22:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)==Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever???== Wow. I must have missed that strip. When did they reveal that? -DynSkeet (talk) 02:51, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
- Since I haven't seen this answered, in one of the newer books - Scrum Bums I think - Rob tells Satchel something like 'We're going to Nova Scotia because you're part Duck-Tolling Retriever', some time before they actually go to Chéticamp. Most other references, including Conley himself, say his dad's a yellow Lab. --216.76.180.157 06:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thats maessed up.Satchel looks nothing like a Toller.
[edit] Handy?
Didn't satchel get a new watch for christmas a while back? Mr.KISS 66 07:53, 19 December 2005 (UTC) Well, that was the same watch. According to the strip, Bucky Katt fished his watch out of the sewer after Satchel's arm was run over by a bicyclist and fixed it (which explains his idiot savancy). That Christmas, Bucky gave it to Satchel.
- 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)
[edit] Rob's Brother
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 dorg or cat's mouth. Half the strips youknow 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.
[edit] Proposed merges
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)
[edit] Añoranza
[1] Please advise. Haizum 01:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Iraq War
Iraq WarThe neutral and common title for that conflict is as above. "Iraqi Freedom" is absurd propaganda and only a redirect, thus the name should be fixed. Añoranza 04:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Books
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)
- 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)
[edit] Mac Manc McManx
Although he uses cockney slang, M&M&M's speech patterns don't seem to me to be cockney. Examples of cockney talk would be anything in the BBC soap opera "Eastenders" or the ITV sitcom "Up the Elephant and around the castle", though probably the best internationally known would be from "My Fair Lady". Of course, it's hard to compare a cartoon with actual speech. Can you imagine the size of as speech bubble if it had markup for accents? Would it even be readable? Assuming M&M&M's speech is close to how it would sound, though, I can't get it to fit what I know to be cockney. But there IS an accent it does seem to fit. He sounds a dead-ringer for Jasper Carrot, who is from Birmingham. Would this make sense? Well, as much as anything in this character. The Manx are from the Isle of Man, but the name is more Scottish. His mother's from Hartlepool, but his farther went to Liverpool. It's so all over the map that the idea his accent and slang come from the same place almost sounds harder to believe than a Brummie accent would. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.102.5.19 (talk • contribs).
Try reading the entire sentence. 192.251.125.85 23:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rainbow Monkeys
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)
[edit] References
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)
[edit] MacManx a Main Character?
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)
- Aw, you don't like Mac? :) spirobrewer October 31, 18:13 Central Time
[edit] Notable Strips
I didn't see it here but I thought that the time when all the cat dictators came into the apartment was notable. I think there was Mouseallini (sp?) and Kitty Amin and a lot others I cannot think of.
[edit] Get Fuzzy Film
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)
[edit] Deleted paragraph
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)
[edit] Minor characters
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)
[edit] Triple M Links
Mac's description feature Manchester United and Manchester City without links, so I added them. Also I fixed the word 'revealed' as it was incorrectly spelled.
Also, is that film still in production? I've got no clue. XD - John Jacques
[edit] Controversy- drug references
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)
[edit] Strip title
Does anyone know why the strip is named Get Fuzzy? — Loadmaster 22:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I know. It is from darby conley's brothers band. His brother had a band named the "Fuzzy Sprouts". Darby made an advertisement for his brother and it said "life's too short to be cool, Get Fuzzy"
[edit] Images
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)
[edit] Lobel Libel
Heh. I just find that funny. Lobel libel. --205.201.141.146 22:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
