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5 | !!!'''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking]] for ''ComicStrip/{{Zippy}}'', by Creator/BillGriffith.''' |
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7 | ->'''Smithers:''' ''[reading ''Ziggy'' strip]'' So Ziggy goes to the repair shop ... there's a sign on the doorbell reading 'Out of Order'! |
8 | ->'''Mr. Burns:''' Ah, Ziggy, will you ever win? |
9 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' |
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11 | ''Ziggy'' is a comic strip originally drawn by Tom Wilson. It is a one-panel strip on dailies, and a sequential on Sundays. The strip is a LongRunner, having run in newspapers since 1971. The strip focuses on the eponymous character, a human of some sort who lives at home by himself with his cat, dog, parrot and fish. |
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13 | !!This comic provides examples of: |
14 | * AnimatedAdaptation: ''Ziggy's Gift,'' a Creator/RichardWilliams-directed Christmas special from 1982, which won an MediaNotes/EmmyAward. |
15 | %%* ButtMonkey: Ziggy. |
16 | * CirclingSaw: Someone did this to Ziggy once while he was reading [[DramaticIrony a book about things that only happen in the movies.]] |
17 | %%* CrapsackWorld: Quite often in the early strips. |
18 | %%* FreudianCouch |
19 | * FunnyAnimal: Ziggy's parrot talks to him regularly. It is also implied that the cat and dog can talk to him. |
20 | %%* GagNose: Ziggy. |
21 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Okay, he's a human (supposedly), that's still an animal. But ''why doesn't he wear pants?!'' Or have a crotch? In December 2009, ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' addressed this issue in an arc in which Rat leads others in protesting Ziggy's pantslessness. Stephen Pastis gave Tom Wilson a heads-up about the issue, and the same week Ziggy broke with tradition and started wearing pants. |
22 | %%* LongPants: One [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation possible answer]] to the above before Ziggy actually started wearing them. |
23 | %%* MerchandiseDriven: So much so in the 1980s. |
24 | * MinimalistCast: The only regulars are Ziggy and a few of his pets. |
25 | * TheMovie: ''Ziggy's Gift'', directed by Creator/RichardWilliams. |
26 | * NoFourthWall: In one strip, Ziggy addresses the reader, saying that if he or she thinks life is hard, he or she should try living in a 3×3½-inch panel. |
27 | * PaintingTheMedium: If the letter "I" is used, it's always in lower case. |
28 | * SadistShow: Everyone, including his own ''parrot'', is cruel or snarky to Ziggy. |
29 | * TotallyRadical: Most of the pop culture references are already ages old by the time Ziggy gets around to covering them. His computer is depicted as being a late-1970s modular type (much like an Apple [=IIe=]). |
30 | %%* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: A running gag. |
31 | * WalkingTechbane: Many 1990s and 2000s gags deal with Ziggy's incompetence with the computer. |
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