Tyler Durden and Dr. Phil and ACK! Cathy!
Is Tuffy Curtis' Tyler Durden? This thought only occured to me this morning, with today's strip:
I think it's his sudden disappearance that got me wondering. He just set loose a spider horde of epic proportions that conveniently stopped the exam Curtis was sure to fail. Just last week he pulled a water gun on noted bullies Derrick 'n Onion. So, I wasn't paying attention to the Tyler Durden-ness of Tuffy then. Have other characters seen Tuffy? Stand by.
And, here's another one that dawned on me this morning (my bus ride was so full of enlightening moments). Is this Dr. Phil giving a pep talk to the Scapegoat football team?
That's yesterday's strip. I read it and was so confused. Is "build a bridge and get over it!" a Dr. Phil aphorism? I wondered who the bald guy in a suit was. Today, it was like a slow dawning . . . that's Dr. Phil, isn't it?
Finally, today is Veterans' Day. A sure chance for our comic artists to appreciate and thank our veterans. And in today's News and Observer, the only two strips to acknowledge this? Surely it is Beetle Bailey, right? No. How about B.C., realm of ultra-conservative Johnny Hart? WRONG AGAIN!
No, the answer is: Peanuts (which, since it's a rerun doesn't even really count, does it?) and, in an upset, Cathy!
Good for Cathy! Even though she seems to be standing on the colonized surface of the moon.
Come to think of it, who on the comics pages needs Dr. Phil more than Cathy does? Actually, who needs a Tyler Durden more than Cathy?
I think it's his sudden disappearance that got me wondering. He just set loose a spider horde of epic proportions that conveniently stopped the exam Curtis was sure to fail. Just last week he pulled a water gun on noted bullies Derrick 'n Onion. So, I wasn't paying attention to the Tyler Durden-ness of Tuffy then. Have other characters seen Tuffy? Stand by.
And, here's another one that dawned on me this morning (my bus ride was so full of enlightening moments). Is this Dr. Phil giving a pep talk to the Scapegoat football team?
That's yesterday's strip. I read it and was so confused. Is "build a bridge and get over it!" a Dr. Phil aphorism? I wondered who the bald guy in a suit was. Today, it was like a slow dawning . . . that's Dr. Phil, isn't it?
Finally, today is Veterans' Day. A sure chance for our comic artists to appreciate and thank our veterans. And in today's News and Observer, the only two strips to acknowledge this? Surely it is Beetle Bailey, right? No. How about B.C., realm of ultra-conservative Johnny Hart? WRONG AGAIN!
No, the answer is: Peanuts (which, since it's a rerun doesn't even really count, does it?) and, in an upset, Cathy!
Good for Cathy! Even though she seems to be standing on the colonized surface of the moon.
Come to think of it, who on the comics pages needs Dr. Phil more than Cathy does? Actually, who needs a Tyler Durden more than Cathy?
posted by big al at 3:52 PM
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Yeah, it's Dr. Phil, everyone's favorite fake psychiatrist.
Was Funky Winkerbean ever funny/not the most asinine piece of crinkly crud you've ever stumbled over?
Well, if you're right, it won't be the first time Curtis has channeled Fight Club.
Actually, "Anon", yes - Funky Winkerbean used to be about Funky and his pal Les going to high school, and it had a bunch of running gags, like the band camp with it's barbed wire and search lights, and how Les was always getting stuck on the rope in gym class - for some reason, he could climb up it, but he could never get back down.
The funniest strip I remember was a storyline where Funky and Les were eating in a burger joint, and somehow Les's retainer got thrown away with their garbage. So Les and Funky had to sneak around to the dumpster out back to find it. So in this one strip, Les tells Funky "If anybody comes by, don't tell them I accidentally threw my retainer away! It's too embarrassing!" So then Les has his head in the dumpster rooting around, and this girl walking by sees them and asks Funky (who's standing guard) what he's doing, and Funky's like "He forget to finish his fries!" Hahahaha, good times, that. Good times.
And then one day the author decided to make them all grow up. It didn't happen in real time, like For Better Or For Worse, or super super gradually, like with Blondie or Gasoline Alley. No, it just went from one day with them all being in high school, to the very next day when they were all suddenly ten years older, and it was all about being a soap opera strip instead of a funny strip. Even then, they'd still do something funny every once in a while - like when they'd call in the "drug sniffing dog", and it was a pink toy poodle - with asthma. Or when they hired a new security guard for the school and he was like ninety. I guess they figured that kind of helped balance things out when they'd do storylines like the student of Les who attempted suicide after finding out he wasn't in love with her.
I don't even know what's up with it any more, though. Not only have they pretty much given up even pretending to have "humor", but it doesn't seem like they even bother wrapping up their storylines half the time. Also, punching the guy who saved your life when you were standing on a land mine - that's real classy their, buddy.
So, what happened with Tuffy? Has anyone seen him since then?
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