Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The world has watched the Patterson family grow up in real time, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!
Parents and children alike will relate to the obstacles that the Patterson family faces. Curfews, parent date nights, babysitting, pets and distractions are all hurdles that the Pattersons must overcome in order to enjoy each other as a family. They face the same obstacles that real life families do, which is what makes them so loveable.
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templo SUD said, 8 months ago
Note, people, there is also CANADIAN “Sesame Street” which has its own set of characters. So Mitt cannot cut funding.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago
I used to like PBS. Then they decided to do revisionist history and marxism in their programming. The local PBS has been running things like Cuba being the “worker’s paradise.” And worse.
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Why should the taxpayers pay for that?
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There’s some irony in that OPB is almost entirely supported by donations, but they have the problem that, since ~80% of donations to charitable causes are made by conservatives (IRS), and most non-conservatives donate mainly to political things, OPB has had a heck of a time keeping running.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 8 months ago
This strip is sure showing its age, if it was first shown when Mr. Rogers was alive.
Arye Uygur said, 8 months ago
@BenderSastre: Since you posted your question to me very late, 2 days ago and yesterday I saw you had posted hours before I posted, so I’m reposting now:
I’m American-born (I guess by your name you’re from South Asia). My grandparents came from Romania, Poland and Latvia. I hated my mom’s borscht (smothered pink with sourcream) but loved the clear Polish borscht when I stayed with a family in Poland.
My avatar is a map of China; the red area is Xinjiang Province – the Uyghur Autonymous Republic, just north of Tibet. Without being political, I love Uyghur music (played with a dutar) and since I speak some Turkish I can communicate somewhat with Uyghurs as they are a Turkic people.
gmartin997
said, 8 months ago
@SUSAN NEWMAN
Fred Rogers only died in 2003, Susan. Besides, we all know we’re reading a strip first published 29 years ago.
bgby4884 said, 8 months ago
I love how people on the Left expect me to pay for things they hold dear. Especially things that are none of the governments business!
Finbar Gurdy said, 8 months ago
@bgby4884
Like corporate welfare that ends up in offshore accounts, eh? PBS is a drop in the bucket compared to that…
kevindix said, 8 months ago
Sadly, the Canadian Sesame Street (later Sesame Park) finished its run in 2002.
lightenup
said, 8 months ago
@bgby4884
I live in a very conservative, right-wing area and many parents here are happy to have their kids watch all of the childrens’ programming on PBS.
Good try, but both left- and right-wingers expect you to pay for things they hold dear.
swami mommy said, 8 months ago
@bgby4884
exactly.
pointy_stick said, 8 months ago
Only Republicans would bother trying to politicize a 20 year old comic strip. Almost as pathetic as pretending the world is only 6,000 years old.
Kadedee said, 8 months ago
Sesame Street received a $1 million stimulus bill grant and created “1.47″ jobs, they were to create a healthy eating program, but it seems the money has run out so the program is only 50% completed, now there is a successfully run government funded program wouldn’t you agree? Sheesh!!!!
hippogriff said, 8 months ago
One of the targets of hate groups that is rarely mentioned are clergy like Fred Rogers. They rather keep hating.
sjsczurek said, 8 months ago
You want to talk about Mr. Rogers and PBS?
Take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lNDzvSZ18
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Forthy-three years past, but still relevant.
lookwhatbobfound said, 8 months ago
There was a place for PBS back many years ago when I was a kid & a teenager because there was only about 2-5 channels & none of them spent time on kids’ shows except Saturday morning or did the adult documentaries & talk shows like PBS did. But things have changed. There are dozens of stations doing the same type of shows as PBS does now & they’re doing it profitably. There is no reason for the taxpayers being forced to pay the govt. to keep financing PBS.