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
- I've been a Yankers fan since I was a kitten
- movies about humans are so boring / people are so boring... movies shouldn't have people in them
- metallic rule describing Vegeta effect / Do unto cats and you'll get messed up (proposition) -> bucky invents exmat
- literal object as representational art / object playing itself in art piece / turned off TV as reality show
- digging up oil instead of using less oil -> rob turns the page over when his pets unknowingly start reading the news instead of the comics. I don't know what to say about that part of it.
- Harry Potter isn't fictitious, he's British -> ok but, when this strip has rare cameos of other comic strip characters how would he know what is and isn't real. Charlie Brown is repeatedly mentioned as not real but Dilbert is implied to be real by showing up in one strip
- tormenting him is my hobby
- you have to eat animals or they'll just be up in our face all the time/ I should object to ignorant little creatures imposing their will on me? -> you know Animal Farm isn't canon because Bucky was the first one to say it
- creative destruction (individual items) -> the motif of Bucky destroying collectible items because he doesn't recognize them as valuable but then deciding that if he makes a new product out of them that one must be valuable or in any event desirable to buy or have by some kind of subjective value theory.
this motif has come up in the strip many many times and it has never really clicked for me as inherently funny or interesting until I started asking what Bucky considers valuable and then it wrapped around to being interesting. I think he assigns some kind of economic value to specifically the act of one product displacing another product. on one hand you could make arguments that's vaguely accurate to real animals: they have no concept of value other than maybe the concept of controlling territories and thus 'value' only existing in the forms of 'mine' versus 'not mine (yet)' or how much trouble it is to take over something. on the other hand, if you read this motif through Bucky being not a cat but a repeatedly failed startup that's where it gets truly interesting. do startups actually create value or do they merely seek to destroy the value of other things so they can control value? - 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
- claim that Animal Farm shares a universe with another piece of media -> I love these. honestly they are one of the funniest things to me
- Animal Farm and Get Fuzzy take place in the same universe -> I find it odd that Stalin is mentioned by name in one of the books but there are never any jokes make about Animal Farm even as a piece of fiction. the characters are constantly shifting all discussions from people to animals, so, yeah. if there was ever an actual commentary on workers' states it would probably be with animals
likelihood of this being true: low. I would sooner believe the one about Warriors or Kimba because of the more truly animal-centric feel of those stories where this strip is actually centered on humans even though things pets do take up most of the 'airtime' or panels or however you'd say it
Fields or ideologies
- Fy / fiction
- Fy / slice of life
- ES / Henri Bergson
- ES / anticommunism
- W / Western Marxism