History ComicStrip / Blondie1930

** Dagwood did not appear at all on the Sunday strips until January 1, 1933 (not counting a few appearances in late 1931). Instead, these featured Blondie's other boyfriend, Hiho (an {{expy}} of Rodney, the DoggedNiceGuy in Young's earlier ''Dumb Dora'', his name being a pun on Rudy Vallée's catch-phrase). Upon Blondie's engagement to Dagwood, the first weeks of 1933 saw her trying to get rid of Hiho, eventually setting him up with a girl by the name of Betty, who he married.

* BuxomIsBetter: Blondie is considered a BrainlessBeauty because of her ample chest. [[UglyGuysHotDaughter Her daughter Cookie]] also applies. Until very late in TheFifties, however, she was quite plain given the standards of women of her age.

* AsideGlance: Daisy and Dagwood often do this.

* BigEater: Dagwood, again.

* BrainlessBeauty/ DumbBlonde: Blondie during the first few years of the strip.
* BuxomIsBetter: Blondie, of course. [[UglyGuysHotDaughter Her daughter Cookie]] also applies.
** Until very late in TheFifties, however, she was quite plain given the standards of women of her age.

* DagwoodSandwich: TropeNamer.

* MorningRoutine: Common gag.

* NotAMorningPerson: Dagwood.

* PornStache: Herb Woodley and Mr. Beasley sport these.

* StandardFiftiesFather: Dagwood

* SweaterGirl: Blondie, often.

** Dagwood and Herb

* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Blondie: Sanguine/Phlegmatic
** Dagwood: Melancholic/Phlegmatic
** Alexander: Choleric/Sanguine
** Cookie: Phlegmatic/Sanguine
** Daisy: Leukine
** Dithers: Choleric/Melancholic
** Herb: Phlegmatic/Melancholic
** Tootsie: Sanguine/Phlegmatic

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Dagwood's parents really didn't like Blondie.

* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Dagwood is reading the paper and quotes an article that says that, due to visit by the royal family[[note]]The strip was published at the time of the Prince William-Kate Middleton wedding[[/note]], everyone is brushing up on their curtsies. Blondie remarks that no one knows how to curtsy anymore. Dagwood says that he does and stands and demonstrates one perfectly. When she asks how he learned that, he says that Mr. Dithers demands one every morning.

* EmbarrassingPyjamas: Dagwood Bumstead, husband of Blondie, often ventures out of the house in pyjamas and bathrobe to fetch the morning mail or morning newspaper. Some outings have Dagwood locked out of his house with a dilemma: wait quietly however long for Blondie to venture out the door, or make a racket that's sure to call the neighbors' attention to himself. Adding just that much more misery is that Dagwood's usual jammies are white with large red donuts, which he's had for years.

* ComicBookTime: While the Bumsteads and other characters have remained more or less the same since the early 1950s, their house and office have moved forward (albeit slowly and incrementally) with the passage of time. Even Blondie's job title changed, from housewife to caterer in the early 1990s.

* BedtimeBrainwashing: The [[http://tinyurl.com/pwhhwmp strip for July 12th 2014]]. While Dagwood is sleeping on a couch, neighborhood kid Elmo Tuttle whispers "Just wanted to wish you a restful and happy Hot Dog Month" in his ear. When Dagwood wakes up he has a hot dog cookout. Elmo is shown eating one and calling himself a "career button-pusher".

* ChristmasCreep: In the strip for [[http://safr.kingfeatures.com/idn/etv/zone/xml/content.php?file=aHR0cDovL3NhZnIua2luZ2ZlYXR1cmVzLmNvbS9CbG9uZGllLzIwMTMvMDkvQmxvbmRpZS4yMDEzMDkxNF85MDAuZ2lm September 14th, 2013]]. As Dagwood and Blondie are walking through a mall, Dagwood complains about the stores playing Christmas music in September.

* AnimeHair: Dagwood. The most plausible explanation is that he uses pomade and a few strands of his hair are resistant to it. Alexander has a similar hairstyle. In Dagwood's original incarnation, he had bangs slicked toward each side of his forehead, a fashion from the 1920s/30s. Somehow, these eventually became the antenna-like appendages we know today.

Media adaptations include a series of comedy films (and long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, produced from 1938 to 1950; two single-season TV sitcoms, produced in 1957 (also starring Lake) and 1968; and two animated TV specials produced in 1987 and 1989 (from [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]], who had earlier collaborated with King Features on ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth''), with Creator/LoniAnderson and Creator/FrankWelker voicing Blondie and Dagwood.

Media adaptations include a series of comedy films (and long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, produced from 1938 to 1950; two single-season sitcoms produced in 1957 (also starring Lake) and 1968; and two animated TV specials produced in 1987 and 1989 (from [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]], who had earlier collaborated with King Features on ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth''), with Creator/LoniAnderson and Creator/FrankWelker voicing Blondie and Dagwood.

''Blondie'' centers around Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard Middle American salaryman with a strange haircut, a single button on his shirt, and a passion for food (particularly monstrously tall sandwiches). He is HappilyMarried to [[MsFanservice Blondie]], who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. The couple's teenaged children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, whose appearance likewise resembles her mother's. The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. The other recurring characters include friendly next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Dagwood's MeanBoss J.C. Dithers and his GrandeDame wife Cora, local MouthyKid Elmo, hapless mailman Mr. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers [[AerithAndBob Claudia and Dwitzell]], and GreasySpoon counterman Lou.

Derivative works include a series of comedy films (and long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, two single-season sitcoms (produced in 1957 and 1968), and two animated TV specials in the late '80s (from [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]], who had earlier collaborated with King Features on ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth''), with Creator/LoniAnderson and Creator/FrankWelker voicing Blondie and Dagwood.

* WrongInsultOffence: [[MeanBoss Mr. Dithers]] takes [[http://blondie.com/todays_strip/ offense when]] someone claims he runs his company "almost like a dictatorship", when he clearly runs it "''exactly'' like one.

* StandardizedSitcomHousing: The house used for the film series was later used in numerous Columbia/Screen Gems sitcoms during the '50s and '60s, ''I Dream of Jeannie'' being the most familiar example.

''Blondie'' centers around Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard Middle American salaryman with a strange haircut, a single button on his shirt, and a passion for food (particularly monstrously tall sandwiches). He is HappilyMarried to [[MsFanservice Blondie]], who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. The couple's teenaged children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, whose appearance likewise resembles her mother's. The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. The other recurring characters include friendly next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Dagwood's MeanBoss J.C. Dithers and his GrandeDame wife Cora, local MouthyKid Elmo, hapless mailman Mr. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers [[AerithAndBob Claudia and Dwitzell]], and GreasySpoon owner-counterman Lou.

The strip was [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness very different in its early years]]; Dagwood was originally depicted as a playboy and heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disinherited after marrying Blondie, a {{flapper}} (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as being below their class. He has since worked hard at J.C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family. 90 years have severely eroded the original FishOutOfWater aspect of his character, and the strip as a whole is pretty much a SliceOfLife comic at this point, its characters [[ComicBookTime having been stuck at the same age since the early 1950s]].

''Blondie'' centers around Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard Middle American salaryman with a strange haircut, a single button on his shirt, and a passion for food (particularly monstrously tall sandwiches). He is HappilyMarried to [[MsFanservice Blondie]], who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. The couple's teenaged children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, whose appearance likewise resembles her mother's. The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. The other recurring characters include friendly next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Dagwood's MeanBoss J.C. Dithers and his GrandeDame wife Cora, local MouthyKid Elmo, hapless mailman Mr. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers [[AerithAndBob Claudia and Dwitzell]], and Lou, who runs the GreasySpoon diner that Dagwood frequents.

''Blondie'' centers around Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard Middle American salaryman with a strange haircut, a single button on his shirt, and a passion for food (particularly monstrously tall sandwiches). He is HappilyMarried to [[MsFanservice Blondie]], who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. The couple's teenaged children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, whose appearance likewise resembles her mother's. The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. Among the other recurring characters are friendly next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Dagwood's MeanBoss J.C. Dithers and his GrandeDame wife Cora, MouthyKid Elmo, hapless mailman Mr. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers [[AerithAndBob Claudia and Dwitzell]], and Lou, who runs the local GreasySpoon diner.

''Blondie'' centers around Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard Middle American salaryman with a strange haircut, a single button on his shirt, and a passion for food (particularly monstrously tall sandwiches). He is HappilyMarried to [[MsFanservice Blondie]], who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. The couple's teenaged children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, whose appearance likewise resembles her mother's. The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. Other recurring characters include friendly next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Dagwood's MeanBoss J.C. Dithers, MouthyKid Elmo, mailman Mr. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers [[AerithAndBob Claudia and Dwitzell]], and Lou, who runs the local GreasySpoon diner.

''Blondie'''s creator, Murat "Chic" Young, continued to write and draw the strip with the help of various assistants (including [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Alex Raymond]]) until his death in 1973, after which his son Dean took over, also in collaboration with a succession of assistants (currently John Marshall, previously Jim Raymond and Stan Drake among others).

** The Woodleys' niece Bunny was written out by the late 1930s, while Baby Dumpling/Alexander's best friend Alvin rarely appeared after 1950.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Daisy is a short-furred blueish-grey dog in the comics. In the films she is played by a wire-haired white furre dog with dark patches.

Derivative works include a series of comedy films (and long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, two single-season sitcoms (produced in 1957 and 1968), and two animated TV specials in the late '80s (from [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]], who had earlier collaborated with King Features on ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'').

* TheNapoleon: Dithers is considerably shorter than Dagwood.

* TheCheerleader: Blondie formerly. She even was featured as one in an ''extremely'' early strip (November 1931).

Derivative works include a series of comedy films (and long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, two single-season sitcoms (produced in 1957 and 1968), and two animated TV specials in the late '80s (from Marvel Productions, who had earlier collaborated with King Features on ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'').

* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Dagwood is reading the paper and quotes an article that says that, due to visit by the royal family[[note]]The strip was published at the time of the Prince William-Kate Middleton wedding[[/note]], everyone is brushing up on their curtsies. Blondie remarks that no one knows how to curtsy anymore. Dagwood says that he does and stands and demonstrates one perfectly. When she asks how he learned that, he says that [[BadBoss Mr. Dithers]] demands one every morning.