History YMMV / MallardFillmore

* NeverLiveItDown: After Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006, many people started nicknaming his character as "Drunk Duck" or worse. It's still going on today, nearly a decade later.
** It doesn't help that Tinsley spent years making fun of Ted Kennedy for his drunken antics. He only stopped after the news of his DUI came out. Even worse, he did a [[TakeThat take that]] on the judge who sentenced him. Regardless of what you think about the strip, that's incredibly petty.

** Tinsley's issue wasn't so much that his comic was parodied by Stewart but rather that Stewart didn't subsequently invite him on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' like other famous conservatives. Which naturally justifies insinuating him to be a pedophile.

* DontShootTheMessage: To some left-leaning readers, Tinsley's viewpoints are on occasion quite reasonable, but his method of delivery distorts them so horribly that they despise the strip anyway.

* DontShootTheMessage: To some conservatives (and even some centrists), Tinsley's viewpoints are actually quite reasonable, but his method of delivery tends to distort them so horribly that they despise the strip anyway.

* BileFascination: Why some liberals read it. There are actually a few blogs devoted to reading Tinsley's strips just so they can mock them.

* UnfortunateImplications: Tinsley did not take kindly to a parody strip done for [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]'s ''Literature/AmericaTheBook''. He responded by dedicating several actual strips to complaining about [[http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp Stewart "stealing" his work]], culminating with a rather disturbing [[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50708.jpg Jewish caricature of Stewart]] proclaiming himself a pedophile. Tinsley (who apparently does not grasp the idea of "satire") did not get the overall joke, as the strip was on a page with other comic parodies, including a similar mocking of rival strip ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' (along the same lines as too political and unfunny) and even ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (which, of course, was never a political strip). Incidentally, the Fillmore parody wasn't drawn or written by Stewart himself, but by Maria Schneider (a cartoonist who also writes for ''Website/TheOnion'').

** TheComicsCurmudgeon [[http://joshreads.com/?cat=72 said of Mallard Fillmore]]: "I think papers carry this strip for “balance”, ''i.e.'', to shut up the ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' critics so they can keep it on the comics page. A nice little irony for Mallard’s author."
** There's been so much negativity and vitriol whenever the comic is discussed on TheComicsCurmudgeon that it is now taboo to talk about it - one of the few strips to have a blanket ban.

* DudeNotFunny: It's nearly impossible these days to find a strip where Tinsley is not attacking the disadvantaged and marginalised. He once did nearly an entire month of strips attacking and mocking transgender individuals. He once called California Senator Barbara Boxer a neo-segregationist on ''zero evidence''. Similarly, he made an innuendo (hell, it was more of a blatant declaration) that UsefulNotes/BarackObama wanted to euthanize the elderly. The fact that Sarah Palin had already made that accusation was no excuse. Then there was the time King Features decided to support Breast Cancer research by asking all of their participating strips to color their strips pink on Sunday. Most did, a few didn't, ''MyCage'' satirized the silliness of the idea...and ''MallardFillmore'' insulted breast cancer patients. Because there is no fairness in the universe, ''MyCage'' was cancelled a week later yet ''MallardFillmore'' continues to run.
** Every January, Tinsley "subtly" complains about the mere existence of Martin Luther King Day by instead having his readers complain that he didn't cover "Squirrel Appreciation Day." It crosses into this territory when in 2013, his strip called the complainers (i.e. metaphors for black people) to ''rodents''.

** It doesn't help that Tinsley did a [[TakeThat take that]] on the judge who sentenced him. Regardless of what you think about the strip, that's incredibly petty.

* DudeNotFunny:It nearly impossible these days to find a strip where Tinsley is not attacking the disadvantaged and marginalised. He once did nearly an entire month of strips attacking and mocking transgender individuals. He once called California Senator Barbara Boxer a neo-segregationist on ''zero evidence''. Similarly, he made an innuendo (hell, it was more of a blatant declaration) that UsefulNotes/BarackObama wanted to euthanize the elderly. The fact that Sarah Palin had already made that accusation was no excuse. Then there was the time King Features decided to support Breast Cancer research by asking all of their participating strips to color their strips pink on Sunday. Most did, a few didn't, ''MyCage'' satirized the silliness of the idea...and ''MallardFillmore'' insulted breast cancer patients. Because there is no fairness in the universe, ''MyCage'' was cancelled a week later yet ''MallardFillmore'' continues to run.

* Hypocrite: Tinsley is for personal responsibility...in other people. When its himself, he will attack a judge and a cop for giving him a DUI.

* InformedRealLifeFame: Tinsley did a week-long series of strips promoting the drafting of conservative economist Walter E. Williams as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. In the strips, he depicted the groundswell of popular support for Williams' drafting as being so huge that it causes a frightened Howard Dean (who was Chairman of the DNC at the time) to throw a tantrum out of frustration. In reality, Williams was little-known other than by hardcore listeners of the Rush Limbaugh Show where he sometimes guest-hosted when Limbaugh was on vacation.

* Hypocrite: Like most conservatives, Tinsley is for personal responsibility...in other people. When its himself, he will attack a judge and a cop for giving him a DUI.

* DudeNotFunny:It nearly impossible these days to find a strip where Tinsley is not attacking the disadvantaged and marginalised. He once did nearly an entire month of strips attacking and mocking transgender individuals. He once called California Senator Barbara Boxer a neo-segregationist on ''zero evidence''. Similarly, he made an innuendo (hell, it was more of a blatant declaration) that BarackObama wanted to euthanize the elderly. The fact that Sarah Palin had already made that accusation was no excuse. Then there was the time King Features decided to support Breast Cancer research by asking all of their participating strips to color their strips pink on Sunday. Most did, a few didn't, ''MyCage'' satirized the silliness of the idea...and ''MallardFillmore'' insulted breast cancer patients. Because there is no fairness in the universe, ''MyCage'' was cancelled a week later yet ''MallardFillmore'' continues to run.

* DudeNotFunny: It's thankfully rare, but Tinsley occasionally goes beyond being merely annoying or tasteless and makes some jibes (they really can't be called "jokes") that will have you saying "WhatTheHellHero" if you like him and howling for his blood if you don't. He once, for example, basically called California Senator Barbara Boxer a neo-segregationist on ''zero evidence''. Similarly, he made an innuendo (hell, it was more of a blatant declaration) that BarackObama wanted to euthanize the elderly. The fact that Sarah Palin had already made that accusation was no excuse. Then there was the time King Features decided to support Breast Cancer research by asking all of their participating strips to color their strips pink on Sunday. Most did, a few didn't, ''MyCage'' satirized the silliness of the idea...and ''MallardFillmore'' insulted breast cancer patients. Because there is no fairness in the universe, ''MyCage'' was cancelled a week later yet ''MallardFillmore'' continues to run.

* UnfortunateImplications: Tinsley did not take kindly to a parody strip done for [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]'s ''Literature/AmericaTheBook''. He responded by dedicating several actual strips to complaining about [[http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp Stewart "stealing" his work]], culminating with a rather disturbing [[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50708.jpg Jewish caricature of Stewart]] proclaiming himself a pedophile. Tinsley (who apparently does not grasp the idea of "satire") did not get the overall joke, as the strip was on a page with other comic parodies, including a similar mocking of rival strip ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' (along the same lines as its too political and unfunny) and even ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (which, of course, was never a political strip). Incidentally, the Fillmore parody wasn't drawn or written by Stewart himself, but by Maria Schneider (a cartoonist who also writes for ''Website/TheOnion'').

** Tinsley's issue wasn't so much that his comic was parodied by Stewart but rather that Stewart didn't subsequently invite him on ''Series/The Daily Show'' like other famous conservatives. Which naturally justifies insinuating him to be a pedophile.
** Creator/StephenColbert [[Series/TheColbertReport responded]] to Tinsley's attack of Stewart by joking that the caricature may have been "clip art from ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion''".

** Tinsley's response to the controversy? "honestly, I didn't even know Jon Stewart was Jewish."
** Tinsley's issue wasn't so much that his comic was parodied by Stewart but rather that Stewart didn't subsequently invite him on ''The Daily Show'' like other famous conservatives. Which naturally justifies insinuating him to be a pedophile.

** Creator/StephenColbert [[Series/TheColbertReport responded]] to Tinsley's attack of Stewart by joking that the caricature may have been "clip art from ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion''".

* UnfortunateImplications: Tinsley did not take kindly to a parody strip done for [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]'s ''AmericaTheBook''. He responded by dedicating several actual strips to complaining about [[http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp Stewart "stealing" his work]], culminating with a rather disturbing [[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50708.jpg Jewish caricature of Stewart]] proclaiming himself a pedophile. Tinsley (who apparently does not grasp the idea of "satire") did not get the overall joke, as the strip was on a page with other comic parodies, including a similar mocking of rival strip ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' (along the same lines as its too political and unfunny) and even ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (which, of course, was never a political strip). Incidentally, the Fillmore parody wasn't drawn or written by Stewart himself, but by Maria Schneider (a cartoonist who also writes for ''TheOnion'').

** StephenColbert [[TheColbertReport responded]] to Tinsley's attack of Stewart by joking that the caricature may have been "clip art from ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion''".

** TheComicsCurmudgeon [[http://joshreads.com/?cat=72 said of Mallard Fillmore]]: "I think papers carry this strip for “balance”, ''i.e.'', to shut up the ''{{Doonesbury}}'' critics so they can keep it on the comics page. A nice little irony for Mallard’s author."

* UnfortunateImplications: Tinsley did not take kindly to a parody strip done for [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]'s ''AmericaTheBook''. He responded by dedicating several actual strips to complaining about [[http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp Stewart "stealing" his work]], culminating with a rather disturbing [[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50708.jpg Jewish caricature of Stewart]] proclaiming himself a pedophile. Tinsley (who apparently does not grasp the idea of "satire") did not get the overall joke, as the strip was on a page with other comic parodies, including a similar mocking of rival strip ''{{Doonesbury}}'' (along the same lines as its too political and unfunny) and even ''{{Peanuts}}'' (which, of course, was never a political strip). Incidentally, the Fillmore parody wasn't drawn or written by Stewart himself, but by Maria Schneider (a cartoonist who also writes for ''TheOnion'').

** StephenColbert [[TheColbertReport responded]] to Tinsley's attack of Stewart by joking that the caricature may have been "clip art from ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion''".

* UnfortunateImplications: Tinsley did not take kindly to a parody strip done for [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]'s ''AmericaTheBook''. (The last panel of which is the image for this page.) He responded by dedicating several actual strips to complaining about [[http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp Stewart "stealing" his work]], culminating with a rather disturbing [[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50708.jpg Jewish caricature of Stewart]] proclaiming himself a pedophile. Tinsley (who apparently does not grasp the idea of "satire") did not get the overall joke, as the strip was on a page with other comic parodies, including a similar mocking of rival strip ''{{Doonesbury}}'' (along the same lines as its too political and unfunny) and even ''{{Peanuts}}'' (which, of course, was never a political strip). Incidentally, the Fillmore parody wasn't drawn or written by Stewart himself, but by Maria Schneider (a cartoonist who also writes for ''TheOnion'').

* PreachingToTheChoir: A standard of political strips.

* DudeNotFunny: It's thankfully rare, but Tinsley occasionally goes beyond being merely annoying or tasteless and makes some jibes (they really can't be called "jokes") that will have you saying "WhatTheHellHero?" if you like him and howling for his blood if you don't. He once, for example, basically called California Senator Barbara Boxer a neo-segregationist on ''zero evidence''. Similarly, he made an innuendo (hell, it was more of a blatant declaration) that BarackObama wanted to euthanize the elderly. The fact that Sarah Palin had already made that accusation was no excuse. Then there was the time King Features decided to support Breast Cancer research by asking all of their participating strips to color their strips pink on Sunday. Most did, a few didn't, ''MyCage'' satirized the silliness of the idea...and ''MallardFillmore'' insulted breast cancer patients. Because there is no fairness in the universe, ''MyCage'' was cancelled a week later yet ''MallardFillmore'' continues to run.

** Tinsley's issue wasn't so much that his comic was parodied by Stewart but rather that Stewart didn't subsequently invite him on ''The Daily Show'' like other famous conservatives. Which naturally justifies insinuating him to be a pedophile.