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Joe. Interests are sci-fi, sketch, soaps, old movies, comics, and VCR repair. I'm of the mid-to-late-stage Facts of Life generation. I have a blog I don't update often enough. http://soapssnlscifi.wordpress.com
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I didn't watch the Melissa McCarthy episode until earlier this week, mostly just from being tired, but even though it's way past my usual mini-review time, I still wanted to have this to look back at (and if you enjoy reading it, thanks - if not, my apologies). #snl
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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forgottencomics.bsky.social
Today is the one year anniversary of Forgotten Comic Strips. What was your favorite newspaper comic strip discovery in all of this?
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Highlights from tonight’s #Corrie.
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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"Dan Dunn" by Norman W. Marsh, 1933-1943
December 25th, 1940 as seen in the Sacramento Union
A special Christmas strip of detective comic "Dan Dunn." Our characters deduce that the man in the Santa Claus suit chomping on a cigar is not the real Santa but a known friend of theirs. A dog goes "Wuf!"
December 25, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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"Dickey Dippy's Diary" by William James Sinnott, 1910-1927
June 11th, 1915 as seen in the Atlanta Journal
Comic strip "Dickey Dippy's Diary." Door-to-door books salesman Dickey Dippy visits the home of a young single woman who asks if he's a benedict (aka married). Not knowing what the word means, Dickey says he's a bull moose (aka Teddy Roosevelt's political party). The woman lets him inside and starts flirting with him, and once Dickey realizes this, he jumps out through the window.
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"Little Pal" by Leo O'Mealia, 1913-1928
November 18th, 1917 as seen in the Decatur Herald
Comic strip "Little Pal." Pierpont, aka Little Pal, is flustered when his wife suggests he takes up knitting. Turns out the Cincinnati fire department are knitting clothes for soldiers fighting the Great War. Little Pal starts knitting, and starts to enjoy it. Don't worry about the little monkey thing, that's like Leo O'Mealia's mascot and isn't in the scene diegetically.
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"Holly of Hollywood" by Pop Momand, 1932-1938
September 12th, 1937 as seen in the Casper Star-Tribune
Comic strip "Holly of Hollywood," a Sunday topper strip for "Keeping Up with the Jonses." Holly wishes there were normal people in Hollywood she could date instead of just movie stars. Her gal pal brings up a guy named Wilbur Whipup, and Holly says he reminds her of the ocean, "Because he makes me sick!"
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"Miss Cairo Jones" by Jerry Albert and Bob Oksner, 1945-1947
December 9th, 1945 as seen in the Boston Globe
Sunday edition of serialized comic strip "Miss Cairo Jones." Heroine Cario Jones and a soldier named Scott are on the run from a couple of killers. A woman running a boarding house successfully hides them under a thin mattress.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"Keen Teens" by Stookie Allen, 1946-1961
April 4th, 1952 as seen in the Miami News
Single panel informational comic strip "Keen Teens," a profile of exceptional teenagers. A profile of teen athlete Gladys Miller. Full text: "Gladys Miller. Florida's amazing girl athlete. Only 14, this Miami High School kid is a good enough swimmer to be in Pete Desjardin's famous water show. She's a find adagio, tap, ballet and acrobatic dancer - and she's a terrific baseball player. She's a fine bowler and won prizes at roller skating. Took up ice skating and in 2 months did an act that professionals found hard to do! She and famous John Dietel, the pro, did an act at the Youth Roundup show that was sensational. And the kid is also a top-notch rider of fine horses!" Strip was originally called "Teen-Age Triumphs."
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"Kelly & Duke" by Jack Moore, 1972-1980
November 15th, 1977 as seen in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Comic strip "Kelly & Duke." Two chickens meet on a field, one of them wearing a football helmet, who calls themselves "Honey Island, the Renegade Chicken." Honey Island asks the other chicken if they should get together at eight, but the other chicken suggests eight thirty. She needs time to arrange the disappearance of her husband.
June 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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"Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" by Winsor McCay, 1904-1925
November 6th, 1911 as seen in the Spokane Chronicle
Comic strip "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend." A man dreams of being a trapeze artist with a stunt involving falling from a great height from a hot air balloon and using bouncy shoes to fly back up. Waking up after falling out of bed, the man blames his wife's Welsh rarebit for the dream.
December 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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"The Man in the Brown Derby" by H. T. Webster, 1923-1931
August 17th, 1924 as seen in the Atlanta Journal
Sunday comic strip "The Man in the Brown Derby." Egbert Smear comes home to find his wife Nellie depressed on the couch. She's sad that they've never been to Europe. She reads a classified ad for a vacation rental on the Isle of Wight, which includes many bedrooms, servants and "two packs of hounds." Egbert figures that won't do, they'll be a pack of hounds short if a guest came by.
December 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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"Fearless Fosdick" by Al Capp, 1953-1955
June 21st, 1955 as seen in the Pueblo Chieftain
Advertising comic strip "Fearless Fosdick," promoting Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic. At a carnival, a goon has Dick Tracy-spook Fearless Fosdick trapped in a curved length of pipe attached to a strength-testing game, intending to hit the detective in the head with a mallet. Fosdick adjusts his position so that he flies out of the pipe in a curve and knocks the goon out. As his prize, he gets a bottle of Wildroot, combing his hair back into place. A spinoff for Al Capp's "Li'l Abner."
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"Little Joe" by Robert Leffingwell, 1933-1972
October 27th, 1957 as seen in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Sunday comic strip "Little Joe." Joe shows his elderly friend Utah the garage that their Native American friend Dead Pan has built next to his tepee. They see smoke coming from the structure, so Joe gets a bucket of water and ends up splashing Dead Pan. Turns out it was just smoke signals. Seems he has an "extension," like you would for a telephone. Joe, upset, puts the bucket over Dead Pan's head.
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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"Ick" by Rick Moyer, 1997-1998
January 16th, 1998 as seen in the Boston Globe
Comic strip "Ick." After the success of child-proof caps on medicine bottles, Research and Development test other child-proof technologies. A baby is shot from a gun and bounces off the chest of a man wearing a "child-proof vest."
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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"Out of Bounds" by Don Wilder and Bill Rechin, 1986-1998
January 16th, 1989 as seen in The Times
Comic strip "Out of Bounds." A football player writes to his mother. "Dear Mom. I would have written sooner except I was caught for holding."
June 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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"Broncho Bill" by Harry F. O'Neill, 1928-1950
September 18th, 1934 as seen in the Porterville Recorder
Western comic strip "Broncho Bill." A cowboy investigates the scene of a shooting, discovering hoof prints from a horse with a missing shoe. This strip started as "Young Buffalo Bill" before a name change in 1932.
January 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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"Just Among Us Girls" by Paul Robinson, 1927-1935
June 15th, 1929 as seen in the Battle Creek Moon-Journal
Single panel comic strip "Just Among Us Girls." Two women have a conversation. One says, "I'll bet you can't name one of the wonders of the world, Tess?" The other replies, "Easy - I wonder how Nellie dresses like that on fifteen a week?"
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"Good News Bad News" by Henry Martin, 1978-1993
November 9th, 1981 as seen in the Birmingham News
Single panel comic strip "Good News Bad News." A woman introduces three people important to her life. "Evie, I'd like you meet Ted Walker, my mentor; Alice Ferrington, my role model; and Bussy Matthews, my networker."
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"The Life Stories of Danja Dog" by Kevin Hand and Bryant Fukutomi, 1995-1998
July 9th, 1996 as seen in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Comic strip "The Life Stories of Danja Dog." Superhero dog Danja Dog sees his girlfriend Girl Dog being taken away by her owner. Danja's sidekick Okole yips and barks, and Lizard translates. "Dog says we follow the man! And he swallowed a chicken bone."
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"A Place Called Yuck" by Trevor Guthke, 1997-1999
December 10th, 1997 as seen in the Daily Illini
Comic strip "A Place Called Yuck." In a parody of "The X-Files," Agent Smoulder returns from an alien abduction. He tells Agent Smully that only one alien does anal probes and is giving the rest of the aliens a bad name. Smoulder's in love with one of the aliens and intends to go back with them. Meanwhile, the aliens took the strip's mascot character, Crazy Frog (unrelated to that other Crazy Frog), and turned him into a cyborg.
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"It's a Great Life if You Don't Weaken" by Gene Byrnes, 1915-1919
March 26th, 1917 as seen in the Daily Gleaner
Comic strip "It's a Great Life if You Don't Weaken." A father has been carrying his son for a few hours and is getting tired. When he suggests the boy start walking, he throws a loud fit. The two come across another boy with a wagon made from a soap box, and the father buys it for a quarter, or $6.70 today. As the man pulls his son in the wagon, he exclaims, "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
June 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Classic TV Streaming Update: Okay, stretching classic but some obscure stuff just dropped on Tubi. Specifically one season sitcoms S#*! My Dad Says and All About the Andersons.
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
soapsscifi.bsky.social
This is why it annoys me that TV isn't going back to 15-minute soaps. There is a market for these types of dramas and they would be cheaper and easier to make. Many people today don't have time or interest in an hour show 5 days a week.
televisionaryzw.bsky.social Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 2d
Five minute micro dramas the new hip thing huh?

Nothing new under the sun.
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM