Fuzzywig, in his natural environment…
So I’m done with the countdown of consumer products that have blown up in the past two decades. What can I replace my SYW intro space with now? How about a little tribute to my shelf critters you all know and (hack, cough) love! I could certainly keep that series going for a long time. I may as well start with the face of the franchise… and what a face it is.
Fuzzywig the raccoon has been the star of Shelf Critter Theatre since it began five years ago. His laid back, stoner personality quickly took shape because…. well, just look at him!
The face only a mother high as a kite could love…
He was named after the first role he played on The Nest as Fezziwig from my (pre-SCT) pony themed send-up of A Christmas Carol. Fuzzy came to the Shelf via an impulse purchase I made at The Bass pro Shop outside of Kansas City in 2014. In every fictional world I’ve ever created, one of the characters gets imbued with my heavily sarcastic and cynical view of the world, and Fuzzy certainly picked up those traits.
A Share Your World question themed around Fuzzywig (Melanie may feel free to steal these from me!):
When you just need to forget the world for a few hours, what helps you get away from it all?
Well, we certainly know what Fuzzy would pick. Of course, you probably have your own “Good Stuff.” And speaking of good stuff, let’s get on with those real SYW questions from this week, brought to us as always by Melanie…
This logo brought to you by LSD, the SUPER good stuff…
What would be much better if you could just change the color of it?
Blood! As much as it may shock those who see all of the gratuitous cartoon violence I come up with on this blog, I am one of those very squeamish people around blood, or realistic Hollywood blood. When they lanced my infection in the hospital and rivers of bloody pus oozed out everywhere, I had my head firmly covered by a pillowcase.
And maybe it’s the red color of blood that’s off-putting? Perhaps if we bled blue or purple or pink or something like that, it wouldn’t bother me so much.
I’m sure hemophiles like Zeeba would rather it stay good old American red…
Do You Think Cats Have Any Regrets?
I should probably ask a cat this question….
Ody?
I guess there’s one regret…. hey man, I had no idea cats could catch STD’s from unicorns!
Do you ever count your steps when you walk?
No, and my ADHD mind would quickly wander on to something else if I tried.
Unless you’re playing hopscotch, there’s no need to count your steps.
Is there a supreme power?
Yes, but you’ll have to pay more for the extra toppings…
The Almighty Pizza the Hutt…
Please feel free to share some gratitude with everyone!
Is this where I always post an old ESN comic?
So I randomly came upon my 200th comic… and it even has the Supreme theme of the last question!
Evil Squirrel's Nest 
oh man we agree… blood would look great in green or yellow… but what will HRM say when the story of blue blood ends?
I’m pretty sure the myth about royals having blue blood should have ended when Louis and Marie got their heads wacked off.
I think blood is red because it’s a color that simply screams “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLP!!!!!!” If it were a pastel instead it wouldn’t scream at all. Thanks for the ESN comic flashback – Buster gets it in the end (or maybe it was his neck or spleen or something other than his “end” ??).
Pam
It’s usually Buster’s spleen that ends up getting the bad end of the spear. It probably bleeds white because Buster’s completely run out of red dye by now…
Thank you, E.S. (aka Bill, The Awesome ‘Creator’ of cartoons and SCT, hey! Isn’t that a SUPREMECY for ya?) thank you for Sharing Your Crittery World! I agree fully with number 1, although I’m not that squeamish. Now vomit? Squeamish to the nth degree, I’ll join right in. The description of the contents of your lanced owwie did make me a tad nauseated, but I’m eating Bing cherries and the color thing… *urp* Excuse me.
I will feel free to ‘borrow’ the scintillating critter questions after I’ve ‘saved’ up four of them (no pressure). It will be an “E.S” SYW tribute post. Stay tuned. Ody apparently learnt a valuable lesson about why one should ‘glove the love’. If he avoided being neutered, he has the envy of any male critter (pet) who was. I can say Ziggy, upon a personal moment with his now non-existent gonads (a lick or two and it suddenly dawns on him that they’re MIA and not coming back), will stop and get this far off reminiscing look in his eyes. I’m sure he’s reliving his glory days and the seeds he sowed. It wasn’t me who insisted on the ball departure, it was the State of Utah, who has some funny ideas about who and what ought to be neutered, I can nominate several politicians ’round here who would benefit. *koff koff* I think I got off track, maybe it’s latent penis envy or something? Nahhhh
Okay, we’re back … I think.
Last thing, I roared at “Drailman et Buster”, not only ‘et’, but “et al(l)”. Did he clean up his plate? Mwahahahahah
Ody is ball-less, since I was warned of the dangers of having (then) two male un-neutered cats in the same house. I didn’t need a literal pissing contest in my house between two little brothers. That said, they do leave some kind of stub in the aftermath, and I’m sure that was enough to turn on Mitzi… who, well, she gets exited over everything. And she’ll probably be next week’s featured critter, so I’ll make sure when she comes up with her question, that she spells everything right and uses proper grammar.
I just have to give a shout out to my Fuzzywig coffee mug that you sent me just cause I’m a special snowflake.
I don’t mind blood, strangely enough. But purple would be pretty neat!
I’ll bet if you whacked Grimace upside the head with a coffee mug, he’d bleed purple…
Having donated another batch of blood platelets this week, I don’t have any problems with the color red. The pain as a needle the size of a tree stump on the other hand…🩸
As someone who had three bad IV lines placed and countless blood draws in a span of five days not too long ago, I’m completely DONE with needles of any kind…
I just KNEW Buster would get it again! I couldn’t feel another Buster busting coming.
Always, until the end of time…
Ha, “Or else Pizza is gonna send out for *you*!”
To be fair, no-one is going to be okay watching “rivers of bloody pus” oozing out of anywhere…
I don’t know, the doctors seem to get a kick out of it….. “ooh, you should see what’s all coming out!” No!