Get Fuzzy

Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. The strip features the day-to-day adventures of advertising executive Robert Wilco and his two anthropomorphic pets: cat Bucky Katt and dog Satchel Pooch. Get Fuzzy was first published by United Media Syndicate in September 1999. Initially appearing in 75 newpapers nationally, the strip grew in popularity very quickly.

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American - Comic strip - Darby Conley - Robert Wilco - Anthropomorphic - Cat - Bucky Katt - Dog - Satchel Pooch - United Media Syndicate - September - 1999

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Rob is a sports fan and named both pets after stars of baseball's Negro Leagues – Buck O'Neil and Satchel Paige. Coincidentally, Bucky also has only a single fang, his "buck" tooth. An alternate theory is that Bucky is named after late 1970s New York Yankees outfielder Bucky Dent who hit a game-winning home run against the Boston Red Sox in a tie-breaking playoff game to determine the American League Eastern Division champion in 1978. This would make sense, since Rob is a Boston Red Sox fan and Bucky is Rob's constant foil.

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Negro Leagues - Buck O'Neil - Satchel Paige - New York Yankees - Bucky Dent - Home run - Boston Red Sox - American League - 1978

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Bucky's and Satchel's personalities are extreme simplifications of the stereotypes of "cat" and "dog". Bucky is cruel, self-centered, and aloof, while Satchel is sweet, trusting, and at times quite naïve (Bucky once sold Satchel his own Nerf football by writing "Sooper" above "Nerf" to make it a "Sooper Nerf"). Rob, the middleman, is often a little frazzled from dealing with these two, or more specifically, from dealing with Bucky's destructive nature and overall nastiness.

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