User:RD/9k/Get Fuzzy (Q55,20)
Main entries
Books
- The Dog Is Not a Toy (House Rule #4) [vol.1]
- Fuzzy Logic [vol.2]
- The Get Fuzzy Experience: Are You Bucksperienced [vol.3]
- Blueprint for Disaster [vol.4]
- Say Cheesy [vol.5]
- Scrum Bums [vol.6]
- I'm Ready for My Movie Contract [vol.7]
- Take Our Cat, Please! [vol.8]
- Ignorance, Thy Name Is Bucky [vol.9]
- Dumbheart [vol.10]
- Masters of the Nonsenseverse [vol.11]
- Survival of the Filthiest [vol.12]
- The Birth of Canis [vol.13]
- The Fuzzy Bunch [vol.14]
- You Can't Fight Crazy [vol.15]
- Clean Up On Aisle Stupid! [vol.16]
- Catabunga! [vol.17]
- Groovitude [vol.1-2]
- Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun [vol.3-4]
- Loserpalooza [vol.5-6]
- The Potpourrific Great Big Grab Bag of Get Fuzzy [vol.7-8] / Grab Bag
- Treasury of the Lost Litter Box [vol.9-10]
- The Stinking [vol.11-12]
- Jerktastic Park [vol.13-14]
- I'm Gluten Furious [vol.15-16]
Characters
- Bucky Katt -> horror/villain/antagonist swatch. no bright green swatch for him.
Motifs (Groovitude)
- Groovitude [vol.1-2]
- Bucky can't define bourgeoisie / Bucky Katt does not know what bourgeois means (descriptive observation) / your boo-joy minds wouldn't understand it -> not surprising; I mean, he's a cat, not a human. but this becomes more interesting the more you contrast it with later instances across the strip of him constantly trying to create questionable businesses and scam people. over time it begins to look more and more like he doesn't know what the bourgeoisie is because it's the water he's immersed in. successful or failed, it's what he's chosen to be.
- manual labor isn't really a cat thing
- Bucky, you're why I try to eat vegetarian / "I'm too tough to care about issues" "a lot of people try to protect animals from that attitude" / "that's different from your leather jacket how?"
- fine line separating genius and insanity / there's a fine line separating genius and insanity -> connect this to every time Bucky redefines words and attempts to use post-structuralism
- things mean different things to different people / "we're gonna grow fish?!" "the eggs are for eating" -> there is something to be said here about the weird way the word "meaning" is used in philosophy and how things don't just mean whatever you want them to. because eggs are material objects. mao and the rock and the chicken.
- I thought "don't stick forks in electrical sockets" was a figure of speech
- combination of statements that fails to calculate correct result / "Bucky, you were named after a guy called Buck O'Neil ... You were named after a Monarch, too" "I was named after Buck O'Neil, too?"
combination of statements that fails to calculate correct result + Idealism = 'pataphysics.
Motifs (Big Book of Fun)
- Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun [vol.3-4]
- newly introducing Bucky to concept of feelings / Template:To kill a mockingbird ... I thought it was a little off topic
- fake smiles? the Good Morning Show must have some evil plan
- an old magazine? how does it know what's going on now?
Motifs (Grab Bag)
- The Potpourrific Great Big Grab Bag of Get Fuzzy [vol.7-8] / Grab Bag
- method actor
- you don't understand my genius / "That's more a reflection on your education than my script" / "He's not exactly playin' with a regulation deck" "he's playing Magic: the Gathering?"
- dogs are like the Yangtze River
- I'm not a cat Bucky, I'm a woman [3]
- it's easier to ask for antacids than to ask for permission [4] [5]
- The revolution will not be televised [6]
Motifs (Miscellaneous)
- I'm dreaming that Bucky took my piggy bank [7] -> excellent example of why "you can't know anything but your own experience" is a deepity
- a properly me-centric world / viewing the whole world through a proper me-centric frame / "I realized the world has never presented itself to me in anything other than a Bucky-centric way" (Get Fuzzy) [8] -> this 2008 comic strip has figured out a lesson that a lot of modern philosophers still haven't figured out
- dollar dollar asterisk (Get Fuzzy) [9] -> the motif of somebody, usually young people, absorbing censored media and not learning about whatever word or concept was censored. this is one of the stated use cases for censorship. the other one is to visibly distinguish between what is acceptable and what is unacceptable even though everybody already knows what's being censored.
Related
- subjective theory of value (right-Liberalism)
- Water in a desert proves the subjective theory of value -> Bucky's scams to sell dog toys back to Satchel weirdly remind me of this. like how is he defining what prices are and when things have a price tag? it has to be some crude idea like 'if I can successfully put a price tag on it it must be worth whatever I say it is' or 'if someone will pay a given price it's worth that'. and the latter is basically the subjective theory of value that some real economists unbelievably still stand by
Fields or ideologies
- Fy / fiction
- Fy / slice of life
- ES / Henri Bergson
- ES / anticommunism
- W / Western Marxism