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Characters

Most episodes of the comic focus on illustrating personality traits and aspects of the lifestyles of people who are identified as pluggers, and there are no continuing storylines. Consequently, the names and occupations of the anthropomorphic animal characters are rarely mentioned.
Recurring characters

Andy Bear is a father of three who works as a foreman and estimator at a construction company. He is married to Sheila Roo.[2]
Sheila Roo is an aerobics instructor from Australia and the wife of Andy Bear.[2]
Carl Rhinowski, a rhinoceros construction worker.[2]
Earl Houndstooth, a dog, is married to Henrietta Beak.[3]
Henrietta Beak, a hen, is married to Earl Houndstooth[3] who works at Costco.[4]
Doreen, who works at Costco with Henrietta.[4]

Past characters

Hamilton Ivory, an elephant and Andy's technophobic employer.[2]
Ginger, a canine café owner.[2]
Alan Litigator, a lawyer and alligator.[2]
Moose K. MacMoose III, a wealthy, retired moose.[2]
Dingo, a bear cub.[2]
DeeDee Doo, a hair stylist who, being a bird, actually has no hair of her own.[2]
Arthur Goldwyn, a salesman lion.[2]

Hippocrass posted:

lol at Pluggers having deep lore.

Also:

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

Which animal would you say that lady plugger is?

Schwarzwald posted:

I think the comic is telling a joke.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I hope Josh catches fire.

howe_sam posted:

The NCAA is still an exploitive crap sack organization, but at least athletes can now get a taste.

you broke my grill posted:

you don't need to know the specifics of college football to under Crankshaft, it's just "old man mad that things change"

Hippocrass posted:

lol at Pluggers having deep lore.

Also:

Trash Goblin posted:

I want to add to the chorus of people who are enjoying WAR, but one thing I want to add that I really like about it as how she simply seems to enjoy being a mom as another aspect of herself as a person. She isn't sugarcoating anything, but nor is it all about how rough being a parent is. She comes across as confident yet curious, and there's something empowering about that even without wanting kids of my own.

Kazinsal posted:

Scary Go Round (May 20-24, 2004)

LvK posted:

haha holy poo poo, the '90s profile pic for the Kangaroo:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970208084918/http://www.pluggers.com/cast.html

LvK posted:

haha holy poo poo, the '90s profile pic for the Kangaroo:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970208084918/http://www.pluggers.com/cast.html

LvK posted:

haha holy poo poo, the '90s profile pic for the Kangaroo:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970208084918/http://www.pluggers.com/cast.html

kidcoelacanth posted:

i refuse to believe that pluggers has canon or lore. you can't make me look at it

LvK posted:

haha holy poo poo, the '90s profile pic for the Kangaroo:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970208084918/http://www.pluggers.com/cast.html

Hippocrass posted:

lol at Pluggers having deep lore.

Also:

LvK posted:

haha holy poo poo, the '90s profile pic for the Kangaroo:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970208084918/http://www.pluggers.com/cast.html

amigolupus posted:

The thing that bothers me about Luann is that Team Evans used Steph, who they introduced as Evil Tiffany and is meant to be seen as a bad person, to tell off Bets about how she's a terrible funhaver. It just says a lot about how much they hate Bets.

Murdstone posted:

lol how does any of this exist when it's a daily panel based on mail-in gags from old people?

Julet Esqu posted:

They have always hated Bets.

When she first showed up, Gunther was attracted to her because she's a woman who likes sci-fi and cosplay. For her what set him apart from all the other nerds was that he's good at sewing and could make costumes for her. (Oh no. She's using him! Isn't that selfish and bad?) Even worse, it was soon revealed that she is an influencer. (Oh no. That wasn't a thing in Greg and Karen's day. That's bad. She's bad. Bad for Gunther!) Granted, she has always had the genuinely bad habit of livestreaming private moments, often without warning Gunther that she was going to start. (These girls today and their fancy gizmos. You never see Luann with a fancy gizmo. Isn't she so good and Bets so bad?) Gunther's such a weenie, though, he never actually told Bets he wasn't cool with the surprise streams, so of course she assumed he was on the same page and continued, and we're all supposed to be pissed that she didn't read his mind. He seems to have eventually gotten used to it.

I really don't think Bets was supposed to last this long in the strip, but, like most Bad characters, she ended up being more interesting and relatable than the "good" cast. I think readers were supposed to be disgusted by her desire for fame (wanting to be famous is a Bad character flag in this strip) and want Gunther to dump her for Luann. But Luann sucks and nobody has ever wanted to experience the massive energy suck that would be Luanther except Greg.

I guess Team Evans finally came to terms with the fact that people like Bets, so if she's going to stick around they need to remove anything that made her interesting so that she's "worthy" of Gunther. Goodbye hopes and dreams and interests of her own. Hello "Gunther's girlfriend."

Haifisch posted:

Safety Dance posted:

Q-Rais just published a video on Youtube about a spaghetti demon that eats people (I didn't watch the version with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVyASy6ifWg

LvK posted:

haha holy poo poo, the '90s profile pic for the Kangaroo:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970208084918/http://www.pluggers.com/cast.html

Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons

Green Intern posted:

It's like she fell out of that one Orangina commercial.

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

I would guess Olivia Newton-John and the 'Physical' music video as the main inspiration for the character.

Kennel posted:

Oh, Pluggers used to be by Jeff MacNelly (also known for political cartoons and Shoe) until 1997.