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''Get Fuzzy'' is a newspaper comic written and drawn by Darby Conley, that chronicles the day to day (mis)adventures of a Siamese cat named Bucky, a Labrador-Shar Pei cross named Satchel and their owner/roommate, Rob Wilco.
 
'''''Get Fuzzy''''' is a newspaper comic written and drawn by Darby Conley, that chroniclesran from September 1999 to November 2013 with occasional Sunday strips appearing until February 2019. It chronicled the day to day (mis)adventures of a Siamese cat named Bucky, a Labrador-Shar Pei cross named Satchel and their owner/roommate, Rob Wilco.
The three live in an apartment in [[Useful Notes/Boston|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]].
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=== '''This comic contains examples of:''' ===
 
The three live in an apartment in [[Useful Notes/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]].
 
 
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* [[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.
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** Bucky ''thinks'' he's one.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Whitey. He may be a mafia hitcat, but he's also very polite and friendly
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Bucky tried to take this route once in an attempt to get to his ferret nemesis. He got lost.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Mac Manc McManx, sometimes called M3
* [[April Fools' Day]]: Joined ''[[FoxTrot]]'' and ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' for a [https://web.archive.org/web/20060627063851/http://blog.old-castle.org/~edgar/archives/ft050401.gif gag] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060627064322/http://blog.old-castle.org/~edgar/archives/pearls2005036620401.gif involving] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060627064337/http://blog.old-castle.org/~edgar/archives/getfuzzy2005036620401.gif a Ouija board] in 2005.
* [[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.
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** Possible example: Bucky is waiting to have his fang re-attached and Satchel comments they're in the same animal hospital that bandaged his arm. Bucky asked if it hurt, and Satchel goes on to happily describe it as one of the most painful experiences of his life, leaving Bucky worried and shaking. While it could have Satchel not realizing he was scaring Bucky, remember that Satchel was ''heavily'' sedated while his arm was worked on, and even said he felt good when Rob first saw him.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Within the same language. Bucky's cousin from Manchester, Mac Manc McManx, speaks in Mancusian dialect and is largely unintelligible to the rest of the cast.
{{quote| "Cracking dinner medals."}}
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Rob's pal Joe Doman, although he's not seen much these days since [[Put on a Bus|relocating to France]].
* [[Brand X]]
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** Often doubles as [[Ambiguously Gay]].
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Satchel is Canadian.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Bucky could be the [[Trope Namer]].
** Averted with Chubby, see below.
** 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.
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* [[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".
* [[Drop in-In Character]]: McManx keeps popping up. He seems to think he lives with Rob; even when he does get back to England, it's only for a visit.
* [[Burn the Witch|Dunk The Witch]]: Bucky uses this on Sachel half to bully him and half to give him a much-needed bath.
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: Bucky tries to tell Satchel that Hawaii is a myth perpetrated by the Liberal Media.
** He also claims that Harry Potter is fictional because it contains fictional elements, namely owls, trains, and England
* [[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!").
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** [[The Chick]]: Satchel Pooch
** [[The Heart]]: Chubby Huggs
* [[Funny Animal]]: Almost every animal that appears is a mix between this and [[Talking Animal]].
* [[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.
** Possibly lampshaded in one strip, when Joe wore a shirt with '''A.C.R.O.N.Y.M''' printed across it.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Thanksgiving turkey, Easter bunny, Valentine's Day beaver...
{{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.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Taken to odd lengths at times. While "Holy cow!" is a fairly common expression, things like "What the cow?!" or "Oh my cow!" aren't. Bucky tends to use [[Garfield]] in these cases.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: At one point Bucky takes an old coonskin cap of Rob's and converts it into a vest.
{{quote| '''Rob:''' I know you like that coonskin thing, but it just seems kind of morbid, you know...wearing the skin of another animal...<br />
'''Bucky:''' And that's different from your leather jacket ''how''?<br />
'''Rob:''' ''Well'', it... see... when ''I''... um... [[Go to Your Room|Go to your closet]]. }}
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Bucky spouts this constantly. In fact, the strip is largely based around some hairbrained plan or idea of his.
* [[In the Blood]]: According to Bucky's cousin Mac, the entire family shares Bucky's feelings toward monkeys.
* [[I Taste Delicious]]
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* [[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.
* [[Literal -Minded]]: Pets in general seem to have trouble with this.
* [[Literal Junk Food]]: A strip had Rob discovering Satchel taking a piece of trash out of the garbage can and spraying liquidized cheese spray on it, so that it "tastes better". Naturally, Rob is disgusted.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Smacky, for Bucky.
* [[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"
* [[Reindeer Aren't Real]]:
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]:* Bucky tries to tell Satchel that Hawaii is a myth perpetrated by the Liberal Media.
** He also claims that Harry Potter is fictional because it contains fictional elements, namely owls, trains, and England
* [[Retconning the Wiki]]: In one strip, Bucky edited [[That Other Wiki|Wikipedia]] to say that he won Wimbledon and that his "album" went "fourple platinum", as well as that he beat up [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|Fungo]].
* [[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.
* [[Shout-Out]] / [[Tear Jerker]]: The [https://web.archive.org/web/20131001022904/http://community-2.webtv.net/Taimm/THERESATOWELDNA4FR/ tribute to Douglas Adams' death] (about two-thirds of the way down the page).
** 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
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* [[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.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Tuna for Bucky, Jerky Bits and later, Fig Newtons (preferably microwaved) for Satchel.
** [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Monkeys]] would be one for Bucky, if he could ever succeed in eating one.
* [[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.
* [[Tropaholics Anonymous]]: Rob joins one for [[Butt Monkey|Red Sox]] fans.
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Rob''': Mac, I'm sorry dude, but I can't understand a word you're saying.<br />
'''Mac''': Cheers. I'll write it down and that.<br />
'''Rob''': ''"Stuffing your kite..."'' OK, see, I understand each individual word... I don't quite understand the order you seem put them in...<br />
'''Mac''': Cracking dinner medals. }}
* [[Wall of Text]]: During the Sunday Comics, the amount of words can get very unwieldy.
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* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Many of the animals in this universe clearly have human-level intelligence, but are kept as pets and livestock, denied the right to vote, given medical treatment involuntarily, and do not get paid for work
* [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]]: An early strip has Rob and Satchel awoken in the middle of the night by a shriek and discovering a terrified Bucky clinging to the living room drapes.
{{quote| '''Satchel''': It...it...it looks...it looks like...like he's seen...seen a...a...seen a ''GHOST!''<br />
'''Rob:''' Well, ''duh'', I thought you'd never finish that sentence. }}
 
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