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It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'', ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.
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It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'', ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.
sense. Author Bill Griffith actually put instructions on the strip's website on [[http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/aaaunderstanding.html how to read the strip]].
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* WidgetSeries
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[[caption-width-right:192:[[CatchPhrase Are We]] [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Having]] [[StopHavingFunGuys Fun]] [[AreWeThereYet Yet?]]]]
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* CatchPhrase: Zippy has several, including "Are we having fun yet?" and "Yow!"
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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchPhrase: Zippy has several, including "Are we having fun yet?" and "Yow!"
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* DadaComic
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.
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* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.
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!!!'''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking]] for ''ComicStrip/{{Ziggy}}'', by Creator/TomWilson.'''
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'' or simply ''Zippy!'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was adapted to a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith and King Features ensured much greater distribution than before.
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'' or simply ''Zippy!'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was UndergroundComics, later adapted to into a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith and King Features ensured much greater distribution than before.
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It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.
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It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'', ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''.''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.
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'''Provides examples of:'''
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* AnimatedActors: A 2015 story arc reveals that Zippy has been played all these years by an actor. The actor quits from exhaustion at spouting [[TalkativeLoon all that surreal nonsense]] and Griffy auditions a number of replacements.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ding-Dongs and Taco Sauce
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* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Zippy wears a bow on his head, but his wife Zerbina's bow is outrageously bigger.
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* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Zippy wears a bow on his head, but his wife Zerbina's bow is outrageously bigger.
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** One particular statue, the muffler-holding [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Muffler Man]], was a major recurring character.
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** One particular statue, the muffler-holding [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin [[MeaningfulName Muffler Man]], was a major recurring character.
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* {{Gonk}}: The San Francisco Doggie Diner; Zippy himself (partly inspired by a microcephalic character from ''{{Freaks}}'').
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* {{Gonk}}: The San Francisco Doggie Diner; Zippy himself (partly inspired by a microcephalic character from ''{{Freaks}}'').''Film/{{Freaks}}'').
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* ShoutOut: To ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].
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* ShoutOut: To ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].
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* AuthorAppeal - diners and roadside memorabilia.
* AuthorAvatar - Griffy, a very nervous and self-deprecating example.
* AuthorAvatar - Griffy, a very nervous and self-deprecating example.
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* AuthorAppeal - diners AuthorAppeal: Diners and roadside memorabilia.
*AuthorAvatar - AuthorAvatar: Griffy, a very nervous and self-deprecating example.
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* {{Cloudcuckooland}} - Dingburg, the strip's setting.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Zippy, of course.
* CompanionCube: Zippy talks to the above roadside memorabilia. It talks back to him.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Zippy, of course.
* CompanionCube: Zippy talks to the above roadside memorabilia. It talks back to him.
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* {{Cloudcuckooland}} - {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Dingburg, the strip's setting.
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}} - {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Zippy, of course.
* CompanionCube: Zippy talks to the above roadside memorabilia.It talks They talk back to him.
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* CompanionCube: Zippy talks to the above roadside memorabilia.
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* EenieMeenieMinyMoai - Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.
* EvilTwin - Zippy's cynical, business-suited doppelganger, [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=21-Apr-97&Category_Code=a1997&Product_Count=17 Lippy]].
* EvilTwin - Zippy's cynical, business-suited doppelganger, [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=21-Apr-97&Category_Code=a1997&Product_Count=17 Lippy]].
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* EenieMeenieMinyMoai - EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.
*EvilTwin - EvilTwin: Zippy's cynical, business-suited doppelganger, [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=21-Apr-97&Category_Code=a1997&Product_Count=17 Lippy]].
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* GreasySpoon - an increasing number of strips have occured in diners. Griffith even sponsored a few color Sunday strips devoted to saving various diners and roadside ornaments from demolition.
* LimitedWardrobe - Zippy and the other Dingburgers all wear the same style of muu-muu.
* LimitedWardrobe - Zippy and the other Dingburgers all wear the same style of muu-muu.
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* GreasySpoon - an GreasySpoon: An increasing number of strips have occured in diners. Griffith even sponsored a few color Sunday strips devoted to saving various diners and roadside ornaments from demolition.
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* RecursiveCanon - The Dingburg strips are revealed to be the fictional creation of the in-universe Griffy, as a result of his obsession with Zippy and the other pinheads. God has referred to it as real, but he has been explicitly stated as being an idea. Mr. The Toad has also managed to worm his way into Griffy's work, and thus into Dingburg.
* ShoutOut - to ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].
* ShoutOut - to ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].
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* RecursiveCanon - RecursiveCanon: The Dingburg strips are revealed to be the fictional creation of the in-universe Griffy, as a result of his obsession with Zippy and the other pinheads. God has referred to it as real, but he has been explicitly stated as being an idea. Mr. The Toad has also managed to worm his way into Griffy's work, and thus into Dingburg.
*ShoutOut - to ShoutOut: To ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall
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* PaintingTheFourthWall
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was adapted to a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith and King Features ensured much greater distribution than before.
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') Pinhead'' or simply ''Zippy!'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was adapted to a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith and King Features ensured much greater distribution than before.
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* VerbalTic: Pinheads never say "the." It's always "th'."
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith that started out in UndergroundComics before getting picked up by King Features. It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was adapted to a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith that started out in UndergroundComics before getting picked up by and King Features. Features ensured much greater distribution than before.
It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditionalsense.sense.
It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[PunctuationShaker th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith that started out in UndergroundComics before getting picked up by King Features. It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.
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''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[PunctuationShaker [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith that started out in UndergroundComics before getting picked up by King Features. It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.