Get Fuzzy: The adultry has arrived!

One of the smart things that Darby Conley has done in Get Fuzzy is to create in Satchel a character responsible for spouting traditionally lame punchlines. Of course, lots of comics have characters like that. But in most of those comics, the lame punchlines are supposed to be the source of the humor. Not so much in Get Fuzzy.

Instead, as in the strip above, Satchel will generally slowly put together some sort of lame pun, and then the other characters will react to that lame pun. It imbues Get Fuzzy with a certain hip self-awareness and works as a mild critique of the traditional comic strip structure.