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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.

The three live in an apartment in UsefulNotes/{{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}}s.
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!!'''This comic contains examples of:'''

* AbortedArc
** 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 AffablyEvil 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 few 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.
* TheAce
** Fungo.
** Bucky ''thinks'' he's one.
* AchillesPowerCord: In the [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2013/02/26#mutable_891486 strip for February 26, 2013]].
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: In the strip for [[http://assets.amuniversal.com/be9076709a390130392c001dd8b71c47 May 18th 2013]], Bucky tries to build up an immunity to poison by eating spiders.
* AffablyEvil: Whitey. He may be a mafia hitcat, but he's also very polite and friendly
* AirVentPassageway: Bucky tried to take this route once in an attempt to get to his ferret nemesis. He got lost.
* AlliterativeName: Mac Manc [=McManx=], sometimes called M3
* AprilFoolsDay: Joined ''FoxTrot'' and ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' for a [[http://blog.old-castle.org/~edgar/archives/ft050401.gif gag]] [[http://blog.old-castle.org/~edgar/archives/pearls2005036620401.gif involving]] [[http://blog.old-castle.org/~edgar/archives/getfuzzy2005036620401.gif a Ouija board]] in 2005.
* ArtEvolution: 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.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Rob's mother tries to make her cat go vegetarian. Portrayed fairly accurately aside from the fact that the cat's still alive, as she is in obvious distress over the situation, even begging Rob to kill her.
* AscendedMeme: The strip had been compared to {{Garfield}} since it started. At one point in the comic Bucky gets a Garfield book and immediately notes how their lives are so similar.
* AsTheGoodBookSays
** In one strip, Rob tries to get Bucky to treat Satchel better by quoting him one of Jesus' sayings from the Gospel According to Matthew; Bucky thinks he's quoting some random guy named Matthew. Bucky also assumes the chapter/verse were the time of day Matthew said it. (It was ''TheGoldenRule'', Matthew 7:12).
** Rob once told Bucky that "he [Bucky] would have to swear on the good book" (or something to that effect). Bucky leaves, and then stands on ''Richard Scarry's Best Rainy Day Book'' and says every bad word he can think of.
* AsideGlance: Rob does this from time to time after some of Bucky's more nonsensical comments.
* BadassPacifist: Chubby Huggs.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
** Every once in a while Satchel gets ''angry''. One time he picked Bucky up and threw him out of the room, another time in a heated argument over Bucky wanting a 2-volume phone book when Satchel only got him a 1-volume phone book, Satchel obliges by ''tearing the phone book in half''.
** Could also overlap with "Beware the Dim Ones", because Satchel has been known to do things, with the best of intentions, that nonetheless culminate in seriously tweaking out and/or injuring Bucky. For example, see a recent arc when Bucky, who had already had problems with Satchel's red-green colorblindness, used a granny smith apple for his threat level system, prompting Satchel to throw him out the window for his own safety. The landing broke Bucky's arm.
** Perhaps the best example of this is when Bucky casually makes a rude remark about one of Satchel's friends. Satchel ''flips out, grabs Bucky and loudly and angrily threatens him'' before storming off, leaving Bucky ''visibly terrified''.
*** [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2002/11/19 As awesome]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2002/11/20 as it sounds.]]
** 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.
* BilingualBonus: 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.
--->"Cracking dinner medals."
* BlackBestFriend: Rob's pal Joe Doman, although he's not seen much these days since [[PutOnABus relocating to France]].
* BoisterousWeakling: Bucky
* BrandX
* CampStraight: Satchel. Often doubles as AmbiguouslyGay.
* CanadaEh: Satchel is Canadian.
* CatsAreMean
** Bucky could be the TropeNamer.
** 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 ColdWar-era Soviet experiments.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: During an early 2012 series of strips where Bucky tried presenting his greatest idea to Rob and Satchel, the "Buckcord" (which is actually a fork with an electric cord taped to it), Rob tries telling Bucky that forks and electricity do not mix. Naturally, Bucky then tells Rob that he came up with a [[SarcasmMode safe]] way for kids to handle the Buckcord, by presenting a child-safe outlet to stick the Buckcord into, which actually turns out to be [[WhatAnIdiot a toaster]].
* CompanionCube: Smacky and Ms. Pretty, to Bucky.
* ConeOfShame: Used a few times. Even referred to as "the cone of shame".
* ContinuityNod
** As the comic went on, fewer references to [[NoodleIncident noodle incidents]] were made and instead the characters refer to past events.
** Rob's glasses still show up. Sometimes he's actually wearing them because he doesn't have his contacts, other times they're just lying around.
* CrunchTastic[=/=]PerfectlyCromulentWord: Bucky comes up with these on a regular basis, with "groovitude" being a recurring favorite of his. And don't forget "Dinnerfy" and "Eatification".
* CurseCutShort: There have been several variations of "Son of a...", including being interrupted by another character.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rob most of the time. Satchel seems to be slowly becoming one of these, probably because of Rob's influence.
* DogsAreDumb: Poor Satchel. He's so dumb [[UpToEleven he doesn't know what a loser is]], so when Bucky makes [[{{Glee}} the L sign]] he thinks he's being called a [[strike: unicorn]] "losercorn".
* DropInCharacter: [=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.
* [[BurnTheWitch Dunk The Witch]]: Bucky uses this on Sachel half to bully him and half to give him a much-needed bath.
* EskimosArentReal: 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
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Monkeys are an obsession (and would-be TrademarkFavoriteFood) for Bucky.
* EvilLaugh: Bucky's is more of a "disturbing smirk" ("KEH!").
* EvilTastesGood: Parodied
* ExtremeOmnivore: Satchel admits he'll eat pretty much anything, and at one point is tricked into eating a pillow. Bucky would like to think of himself as an Extreme ''Carnivore'', mostly to spite his vegetarian owner.
* FiveManBand: Only temporarily in one story arc, but....
** TheHero: Bucky Katt
** TheLancer: Mac Manc Mcmanx
** TheSmartGuy: Shakespug
** TheBigGuy: Foodar
** TheChick: Satchel Pooch
** TheHeart: Chubby Huggs
* FlippingTheBird: Bucky does this to an expert on valuables... somehow.
* FunnyAnimal: Almost every animal that appears is a mix between this and TalkingAnimal.
* FunnyForeigner: Bucky's cousin Mac Manc Mcmanx is one of these.
* FunWithAcronyms
** '''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.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
** Thanksgiving turkey, Easter bunny, Valentine's Day beaver...
--> '''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.
** [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2013/03/13 March 13, 2013]]. Rob tells Bucky that he's talking out of (his ass).
** One strip had Bucky using a [[BrandX knock-off]] Super-Soaker. The toy was labeled "La Super Doucher."
** When Cousin Willie returns home from his tour of duty in Iraq, his reaction to Dunkin Donuts no longer making crullers, "Really? How the hell long was I over there?" is left completely uncensored.
* GoshDangItToHeck: 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.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Bucky tries this with a ''plastic'' bottle, with predictable results.
* [[GroinAttack/{{Other}} Groin Attack]]: The [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2013/04/21#mutable_924143 strip for April 21st, 2013]]. Satchel accidentally hits Rob in the groin while practicing swatting mosquitos with his eyes closed.
* HighOnCatnip: Several examples. The effects differ from strip to strip. Sometimes Bucky acts hyper and other times he acts like a stereotypical stoner.
* {{Hipster}}: Bucky sure sounds like one in [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2011/12/26 this]] strip.
* HollywoodNewEngland: Mostly averted, aside from occasional references to Rob's Red Sox fandom.
* HypocriticalHumor: At one point Bucky takes an old coonskin cap of Rob's and converts it into a vest.
-->'''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... [[GoToYourRoom Go to your closet]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Bucky spouts this constantly. In fact, the strip is largely based around some hairbrained plan or idea of his.
* InTheBlood: According to Bucky's cousin Mac, the entire family shares Bucky's feelings toward monkeys.
* ITasteDelicious
* JerkAss: Bucky
* JiveTurkey: Oreo, Satchel's love interest, suddenly starts talking like this at one point later in the comic's run, even to Satchel's confusion.
-->'''Oreo:''' Aw, come on, Satchmo, this ain't cool, yo!
-->'''Satchel:''' Um... wait, what isn't? Um... "yo"?
-->'''Oreo:''' Bringin' the hydrophobe (Bucky), yo!
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Bucky again.
* LighterAndSofter: Parodied with Bucky's "Napworks" film studio concept.
* LimitedWardrobe
** Surprisingly averted. Rob is shown in a variety of T-shirts, including one reading "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 6x9=42]]" and another from "[[StealthPun Lowe Tech]]."
** There's also the [[FandomRivalry "Rugby > Football"]] shirt.
* LiteralMinded: Pets in general seem to have trouble with this.
* {{Malaproper}}: Bucky and Satchel again.
* MathematiciansAnswer
-->'''Rob''': So... you got a name?
-->'''Dog''': Of course.
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Rob''': Can you '''tell''' me your name?
-->'''Dog''': Yes, I can.
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Satchel''': Be more specific.
-->'''Rob''': '''What''' is your name?
-->'''Dog''': Ibid Q. Muttly.
* TheMessiah: Chubby Huggs. He loves everyone. He even hugs his pillow every morning to thank it for being so soft. Bucky is terrified of him.
* MixedAncestry: Satchel. His parents are a purebred Shar Pei and a Labrador, and he doesn't understand why he can't be a showdog.
* MundaneFantastic: It's a world where cats and dogs (and some other pets) can talk, but aren't ''quite'' as intelligent as humans. Sometimes this becomes a plot point, but most of the time it's just background noise.
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Everyone thinks the spy Bucky hired is invoking this, but his name really is Bob Jimbob.
* NerdGlasses: When the strip began, Rob was always shown wearing these. They were phased out over time with it being explicitly stated that he switched to contacts. They still appear every now and then.
* NiceGuy: Satchel
* NoodleIncident: Occasional references to past Bucky misdeeds such as the "hockey stick incident" and the "baseball game incident".
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One story arc involved Bucky suing Fungo, and taking him to see Judge Judy. Needless to say, Judge Judy was ''not'' impressed with Bucky's case (or lack thereof as far as she was concerned).
* NoFlowInCGI: A rare comic strip example: Darby Conley crossed Satchel with a Labrador to avoid having to draw so many wrinkles than if he were a pure-bred Shar-Pei.
* OneSceneTwoMonologues: most commonly between Bucky and Satchel, typically leading to a series of non-sequiturs
* OverlyLongGag: The newer strips tend to draw their jokes out to ridiculous lengths, often to the point where it's same subject several weeks later and has pretty much devolved into rephrasing the same punchline as many times as possible..
* PetTheDog: Smacky, for Bucky.
* PhraseCatcher: Bucky tries to invent a catch phrase for himself, and tries to get Satchel to be his PhraseCatcher, because "when you're Übergroovy, people say [your catch phrase] for you".
* PunnyName: Rob's brother, Roger Wilco.
* PurpleEyes: Bucky.
* RealityEnsues: Rob's mom tries to make her cat go vegetarian. Said cat is miserable and unhealthy as a result.
* RealMenWearPink: Bucky owns a doll which he named "Miss Pretty"
* ScaryShadowFakeout: Bucky Kat, having been warned by a horoscope to "Beware of [[TheGrimReaper the Grim Reaper]]", [[http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2012/03/28 ends up frightened by Rob in a loose-fitting jacket holding a football flag.]]
* SelfDeprecation: Darby did this in the ''Pearls'' storyline. It depicted him as a lazy, rude slob. In contrast, Stephan Pastis was neat, professional, and polite.
* SilenceYouFool: Bucky sometimes says this to Satchel.
* ShoutOut / TearJerker
** The [[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 Out}}s 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
** [[http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2011-05-16/ This strip]] references ''VideoGame/ZeroWing''.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Bucky's is neighboring ferret Fungo Squiggly.
* TheSlacker: Mac Manc Mcmanx is likely one of these.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Bucky
* SpeciesSurname
** Bucky ''Katt'' and Satchel ''Pooch''.
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] regarding Mac Manc Mc''Manx'' and the fact that he has a long tail instead of the short ones the Manx are known for. Played straight when Mac explains that his father's last name is [=McManx=], but his mother's maiden name is [=McTabby=].
** In one series of strips, Bucky meets a cat simply named "Cat Cat". He figured he was getting to old to be named "Kitty Kitty".
* StealthPun: An English bulldog is called King Henry the VIII by the other dogs. Rob asks if they call him that because he's big and he's British. Satchel replies that it's "because he's big and ''he goes for the neck when he's mad.''"
* StoutStrength: Chubby Huggs
* StrawmanPolitical
** Bucky is sometimes depicted as a particularly deranged form of Straw Conservative. YMMV, while Bucky mocks the liberal beliefs of Satchel and Rob, he's never really expressed any political opinions of his own.
** He did try to vote for Pat Buchanan once, since he was the most "anti-people" choice there was.
* SymbolSwearing
** Satchel learned how to swear from reading comic books; He actually says the names of symbols instead of actual swear words.
** The comics themselves tend to rotate between this, CurseCutShort, and GoshDangItToHeck.
* TakeThat: A few jabs at [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys the French]] in early strips.
* TooDumbToLive: 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.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood
** Tuna for Bucky, Jerky Bits and later, Fig Newtons (preferably microwaved) for Satchel.
** [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkeys]] would be one for Bucky, if he could ever succeed in eating one.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: 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.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Rob joins one for [[ButtMonkey Red Sox]] fans.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Bucky attempted to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this one by making "art" by destroying Rob's things, much to Rob's consternation.
* TheUnintelligible: A running gag regarding the way Mac talks.
-->'''Rob''': Mac, I'm sorry dude, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
-->'''Mac''': Cheers. I'll write it down and that.
-->'''Rob''': ''"Stuffing your kite..."'' OK, see, I understand each individual word... I don't quite understand the order you seem put them in...
-->'''Mac''': Cracking dinner medals.
* WallOfText: During the Sunday Comics, the amount of words can get very unwieldy.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Satchel's Dad was a search and rescue dog and when the two meet again his dad thinks of his son being a house dog as nothing and browbeats the poor pooch until Satchel's mother comes in and gives the poor boy a hug.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly sometime in the early-to-mid-2000s, an animated feature film of the comic was in the works, or at the very least, in the planning stages, though nothing ever materialized.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: 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.
* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: 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.
-->'''Satchel''': It...it...it looks...it looks like...like he's seen...seen a...a...seen a ''GHOST!''
-->'''Rob:''' Well, ''duh'', I thought you'd never finish that sentence.

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