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The three live in an apartment in [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]], where Satchel has his own room, while Bucky takes a towel closet (he has not only complained about it, but seceded from the United States). Many of the jokes revolve around the mean-natured Bucky taking advantage of Satchel's naïveté, driving Rob crazy, and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|incredibly lame puns]].

 

* [[Aborted Arc]]: Two examples. Bucky was once blackmailed by the chimpmunkfia but by the next week the arc was completely forgotten. About a year later he got into debt with cat mafia who sent one of their [[Affably Evil]] goons to threaten him into paying. Bucky left with Satchel to buy them off with a blank check and Satchel's sprained arm (Bucky had offered to have Satchel win the money in a fight against two dogs, but Rob intervened) but we never found out what happened. The next week it was mentioned once and never spoken of again.

** A fews comics had Satchel finally [http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2002/11/19 putting Bucky] [http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2002/11/20 in his place.] For a short time Bucky was terrified of saying or doing anything to upset Satchel. After about a week it's just dropped and never really brought up again.

** Bucky ''thinks'' he's one.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Whitey. He may be a mafia hitcat, but he's also very polite and friendly

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Mac Manc McManx, sometimes called M3

* [[Art Evolution]]: The main characters looked a lot more realistic in the early comics. [http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/1999/09/10 Just compare this comic] to any current one. Bucky doesn't even look like the same character.

* [[Artistic License Animal Care]]: Rob's mother tries to make her cat go vegetarian.

** Often doubles as [[Ambiguously Gay]].

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Satchel is Canadian.

** In one strip, Rob is debating the appeal of cats with Bucky, and asks Bucky which of his friends people (who aren't cats) seem to like best. Bucky rattles off a list, which Rob points out consists entirely of personable, easygoing cats, and states that everyone's favorite cats are the ones that act like dogs.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Bucky spent the entire December 2010 run of strips expounding his theory that [[Muppets]] are [[Cold War]]-era Soviet experiments.

* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: Poor Satchel.

** He's so dumb [[Up to Eleven|he doesn't know what a loser is]], so when Bucky makes [[Glee|the L sign]] he thinks he's being called a <s> unicorn</s> "losercorn".

* [[Burn the Witch|Dunk The Witch]]: Bucky uses this on Sachel half to bully him and half to give him a much-needed bath.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Monkeys are an obsession (and would-be [[Trademark Favorite Food]]) for Bucky.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Bucky's is more of a "disturbing smirk" ("KEH!").

** [[The Chick]]: Satchel Pooch

** [[The Heart]]: Chubby Huggs

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Bucky's cousin Mac Manc Mcmanx is one of these.

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: '''C'''anines '''A'''gainst '''T'''raffic; '''A'''tlantic '''R'''esearch of '''S'''upernatural '''E'''ntities; '''I'''ntelligence '''D'''epartment, '''I'''nstitute '''O'''f '''T'''he '''I'''nternational '''C'''athood.

{{quote|'''Rob:''' ...Wait, Valentine's Day ''what??''}}

** There's one arc where Bucky tries to trick Satchel into sewing soccer balls for him. Rob angrily finds out, but Bucky tries to calm him down by giving him the soccer ball catalog. The name? Katt's Balls.

* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: Bucky tries this with a ''plastic'' bottle, with predictable results.

* [[Halfbreed]]: Satchel. His parents are a purebred Shar Pei and a Labrador, and he doesn't understand why he can't be a showdog.

* [[Hipster]]: Bucky sure sounds like one in [http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2011/12/26 this] strip.

* [[Hollywood New England]]: Mostly averted, aside from occasional references to Rob's Red Sox fandom.

{{quote|'''Rob:''' I know you like that coonskin thing, but it just seems kind of morbid, you know...wearing the skin of another animal...

'''Bucky:''' And that's different from your leather jacket ''how''?

'''Rob:''' ''Well'', it... see... when ''I''... um... [[Go to Your Room|Go to your closet]]. }}

* [[In the Blood]]: According to Bucky's cousin Mac, the entire family shares Bucky's feelings toward monkeys.

* [[I Taste Delicious]]

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Surprisingly averted. Rob is shown in a variety of T-shirts, including one reading "[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|6x9=42]]" and another from "[[Stealth Pun|Lowe Tech]]."

** There's also the [[Fandom Rivalry|"Rugby > Football"]] shirt.

* [[Malaproper]]: Bucky and Satchel again.

* [[The Messiah]]: Chubby Huggs. He loves everyone. He even hugs his pillow every morning to thank it for being so soft. Bucky is terrified of him.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Occasional references to past Bucky misdeeds such as the "hockey stick incident" and the "baseball game incident".

* [[One Scene, Two Monologues]]: most commonly between Bucky and Satchel, typically leading to a series of non-sequiturs.

* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Bucky tries to invent a catch phrase for himself, and tries to get Satchel to be his [[Phrase Catcher]], because "when you're Übergroovy, people say [your catch phrase] for you".

* [[Punny Name]]: Rob's brother, Roger Wilco.

* [[Purple Eyes]]: Bucky.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Bucky owns a doll which he named "Miss Pretty"

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Darby did this in the ''Pearls'' storyline. It depicted him as a lazy, rude slob. In contrast, Stephan Pastis was neat, professional, and polite

* [[Silence, You Fool]]: Bucky sometimes says this to Satchel.

** Rob's tastes in music, television, sports teams, etc. frequently involve Shout Outs to same.

** There is a member of the Cat Mafia named Whitey. Whitey is the nickname of James Bulger, a former Irish mobster who operated out of the Boston area

* [[Take That]]: A few jabs at [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|the French]] in early strips.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Bucky is often the victim of this, due to his [[Pride]] and ignorance. Any idea that he comes up, turns out to be very dangerous and ridiculous.

* [[Trapped by Gambling Debts]]: In one arc, Bucky was faced with the threat of getting killed by another cat, because he lost a bet on a baseball game and didn't have enough money to pay the debt.

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: Bucky attempted to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this one by making "art" by destroying Rob's things, much to Rob's consternation.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: A running gag regarding the way Mac talks.

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