Word: dogpatch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other oversized targets. Walt Kelly's Pogo once made Lyndon Johnson a longhorn steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably to keep Pogo going, shut shop last year. As for Peanuts, Schulz's kids are still too wrapped up in security blankets and warm puppies to say much about the pressure...
...make-believe world Trudeau has organized in Doonesbury is as accurate a microcosm of the universe as Nemo's dreamland-or Dogpatch or the Okefenokee Swamp. But unlike these earlier locales, the backgrounds of Doonesbury are not metaphors. They are instantly recognizable as the White House, Viet Nam-or outer space, where three Sky lab astronauts discover that the nation is so bored with the space program that their congratulations are being telephoned not by the President, not by the Vice President, but . . . Stand by for "the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa!" Trudeau does not anthropomorphize his characters into Shmoos...
...freckle-faced 12-year-old humanoid named Johnnie Whitaker, on leave from his true calling, which is shilling for a line of kid's clothes. Jeff East plays Huck like an old-fashioned fraternity boy dressed up for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance in Al Capp's Dogpatch. Warren Gates as Muff Potter and Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly struggle against the killing banality of Taylor's direction; but only Jodie Foster, as Becky, suggests that she somehow remembers what it is like to be a real person in a real world. · Richard Schickel
...politics, Li'I Abner and Pogo, which have satirized it for years, are at least as up to date as the men in Washington. Two characters that bear a remarkable resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none...
...obey when he married me, and he broke that vow." The divorce settlement gave Alta the family string of weekly newspapers. He kept their $200,000 mansion in Huntsville, complete with a $100,000 mortgage. It has been vacated by Faubus, who moved to Harrison as general manager of Dogpatch, U.S.A., an Ozarks amusement park...