Celebrate

Cidu Bill on Jan 5th 2010

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Carl Fink: Am I missing some cultural reference? Is “celebrate” about making splashmarks on walls now?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, comic strips, comics, humor | 17 responses so far

17 Responses to “Celebrate”

  1. fuzzmaster Jan 5th 2010 at 12:05 am 1

    This one stumped me, too. My only guesses were some kind of fireworks reference in the drops on the wall, or the old (movie?) custom of throwing champagne glasses into a fireplace.

  2. JamesK Jan 5th 2010 at 12:07 am 2

    Callihan’s Crosstime Salon featured the throwing of glasses into the fire-place after awful puns or great exclamations.

    I’m suspecting Darby is just trying to get onto CIDU, though…

  3. Elyrest Jan 5th 2010 at 12:23 am 3

    I took it that Bucky’s way of celebrating anything is destructive. Water? Smash the glass.

  4. PeterW Jan 5th 2010 at 12:46 am 4

    The closest I’m getting is that Bucky destroys anything Satchel loves.

  5. Kevin A Jan 5th 2010 at 12:53 am 5

    At first I thought it was the traditional glass breaking but I’m thinking the fireworks angle is correct. (It’s slightly more effective in the huge full-size strip on comics.com.) Satchel’s expression of “mmmm! I loves the water!” is the brain-twister for me (while being oddly delightful).

  6. Annie Benson Jan 5th 2010 at 05:12 am 6

    Art. Bucky is expressing Sachel’s celebration of water by turning it into one of his “Broken Stuff” sculptures. Ok, it doesn’t make perfect linear sense. But that’s art for ya.

  7. Dyfsunctional Jan 5th 2010 at 07:12 am 7

    But how does one “celebrate” a (tangible) object, anyway?

    - I sure do celebrate my new car.

    - The neighborhood’s not bad, but I don’t celebrate it, either.

    - There’s nothing I celebrate more than jelly beans.

    That panel doesn’t make any sense, and it was all downhill from there.

  8. Karen Jan 5th 2010 at 07:21 am 8

    Nggggh. Using the word “celebrate” in that way makes my brain hurt. But yeah, I think what the cartoonist was going for was that Bucky hates anything Satchel loves (or celebrates. GAH).

  9. Nicole Jan 5th 2010 at 09:01 am 9

    I was lost as well… I just moved on

  10. GP Jan 5th 2010 at 09:07 am 10

    This is generally the kind of strip that sets up the week and makes more sense after the next few days’ strips come out.

  11. Morris Keesan Jan 5th 2010 at 09:24 am 11

    GP is right. This makes much more sense after today’s (Jan 5) strip. Bucky is “celebrating” by breaking things. This isn’t particularly funny by Get Fuzzy standards. It’s just Conley riffing on the “Bucky is a jerk” theme.

  12. farmer Jan 5th 2010 at 09:48 am 12

    Jewish wedding?

  13. Tim Jan 5th 2010 at 12:05 pm 13

    Mazeltov!

  14. gramma(r) Jan 5th 2010 at 12:31 pm 14

    MORRIS, I don’t think ANYTHING is particularly funny by Get Fuzzy standards. It’s usually just Bucky being annoying, with an occasional half-funny bit of wordplay. It was funny the first month or so. I read it because I like the art, but I get annoyed by the lack of anything clever being said or done.

  15. paperboy Jan 5th 2010 at 01:41 pm 15

    Sometimes the “reason” is revealed later. Be patient.

  16. Snardo Jan 6th 2010 at 10:02 am 16

    I thought this one was a reference to something often seen in movies: After a toast with small glasses of sherry or similar adult beverage, the empty glasses are hurled into a fireplace where they smash against the stone. I have no idea how this tradition was started or whether anyone actually does it anymore. Apparently Bucky likes it though.

  17. paperboy Jan 7th 2010 at 01:23 pm 17

    Aha! I told you to be patient. Today’s strip shows Conley was making fun of cultural traditions, in this case the “old siamese [cat] tradition” of yelling “hey!” and throwing a glass “with every bit of good news”.

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