I mean, I’m going through the archives to see what else I missed, and yes, it’s the same budget/diet/fashion/hair/mom jokes over and over again. It’s because I’m pretty sure you can read each other’s damn minds. Pooch knocks the edge of the pack once, twice against the table. Is it because we’re just that fucking good he asks. The special won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding. Jensen frowns, leaning across the table to make wide, concerned eyes at Pooch. 1 It features Kathleen Wilhoite as the voice of Cathy Andrews, and was written by Guisewite, executive-produced by Lee Mendelson, produced by Bill Melendez, and directed by Evert Brown. “She couldn’t stick to a budget or a diet if her life depended on it, and I think the author made Irving marry her only out of pity. Cathy is a 1987 animated television special based on the Cathy comic strip by Cathy Guisewite. “Cathy is a neurotic wimp, unable to control her impulses, and thinks only with her stomach or her closet,” the commenter writes. On Wednesday, the cartoonist Cathy Guisewite announced that, after thirty-four years her comic strip, ' Cathy ,' would come to an end on October 3rd. In the comments below today’s edition of “Cathy” on, one person cheers the cancellation. (With “30 Rock,” however, the joke is probably on the critics: one gag had Tracy Jordan directly referencing a moment when Liz invoked the “Chocolate-ACK!” trope, which could indicate that the “Cathy” parallels are tongue-in-cheek, or at least intentional.)īut back to the Cathy hating. Women took offense at the Tina Fey character’s fixation with food and her unrealistic approach to finding a relationship. The anti-Cathy movement, briefly revived by the news of the strip’s end, somewhat resembles the anti-Liz Lemon uprising detailed in Salon last April. Are there not more pertinent issues for Cathy to be worrying about? As 'Cathy' began its syndicated ascent, Guisewite placed a star near every city in which a newspaper published her strip. Many find the strip’s hesitancy to challenge Cathy with more substantial issues out-dated, or worse, misogynistic. Now, after almost 34 years of writing and drawing 'Cathy,' the author is ready to retire the long-haired, diet-challenged, naive yet nervy heroine without a nose who cried the 'Ack' heard 'round the world. It’s this cutesy approach to feminine insecurity, however, that has caused critics to cry foul. Aack Cathy, the iconic and much-maligned comic strip by Cathy Guisewite, chronicled the day-to-day tribulations of its titular working woman for 35 years, met with equal praise and derision. “I like to think that ‘Cathy’ is the voice for women who can’t say, ‘I feel stupid about something silly, but it still really ruined my day,'” creator Cathy Guisewite told the Chicago Tribune in a story today.
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