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Family'''''One Big Happy''''' was a family-life comic about 6 -year -old Ruthie Lombard, her 8 -year -old brother Joe, and their parents and grandparents. Unlike most comics, it showed a generally realistic portrayal of what kids are actually like and how they actually talk. PrimarilyThe primariy focusesfocus aroundwas Ruthie, but the rest of the Lombard family has their own quirks.
 
Much of the comedy comescame from Ruthie simply being a kid and misinterpreting the adult world, or doing things that come naturally to kids but surprise adults. The rest iswas all realistic yet entertaining slices of life., Moremore of a light-hearted portrayal of everyday life than a laugh-out-loud comic.▼
 
The strip appears to have gone into reruns some time between 2010 and 2020.
 
Not to be confused with [[One Big Happy (TV series)|the short-lived TV series of the same name]].
 
▲Much of the comedy comes from Ruthie simply being a kid and misinterpreting the adult world, or doing things that come naturally to kids but surprise adults. The rest is all realistic yet entertaining slices of life. More of a light-hearted portrayal of everyday life than a laugh-out-loud comic.
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* [[The Faceless]] - Buggy Crispino, a little kid who "seduces" any female he can (i.e. he repeats things he must have heard teenagers say and tries to talk just like them), never has his face shown. Usually, his body is never shown either.
** [[The Un-Reveal]] - Buggy finally appeared on [https://web.archive.org/web/20120725132115/http://www.creators.com/comics/one-big-happy/59763.html April 12, 2010] -- in a Ladybug costume with a hat and goggles that obscured most of his face. The closest we get to seeing his face afterwards is seeing his hair.
* [[Malaproper]] / [[Mondegreen]]: Ruthie is ''very'' well known for this.
* [[Most Writers Are Adults]] - Mostly averted. This writer has a great idea of how kids actually talk and act and what they care about, and captures it very well for the most part, although a good deal of the dialog is exaggerated for the sake of the punchline. It is, however, mostly realistic.
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** Strictly speaking, they live in two separate houses next door to each other, but with all the visits and time spent together, it's basically the same thing as if they shared the house.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] - sort of. The author [http://www.11points.com/Interviews/11_Questions_With_Rick_Detorie,_Cartoonist_Behind_One_Big_Happy has said] that his family will tell him stories to write into the strip.
* [[Shout -Out]]: In a recent strip, Ruthie and Joe are supposedly about to travel back in time, when Ruthie comments about the food they packed, "Won't the popcorn turn into corn on the cob, then into corn stalks? And the orange juice will turn into oranges before our very eyes!" Joe then comments that [[Calvin and Hobbes|he would have been better off with a stuffed tiger as his copilot]].
* [[Sibling Rivalry]] - Ruthie and Joe fight like any sister and brother would. They also play together like sister and brother too. Very realistic.
* [[Slice of Life]] - Basically what it's about.
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