FAMILY CIRCUS. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
In "Bad Girls" the following exchange takes place in Mayor Richard Wilkins' office between His Honor, his chief henchman, and the Deputy Mayor:
MAYOR: I, I just love the Family Circus! That P.J., he's getting to be quite a handful. (looks at swords) Well . . . I haven't seen anything like this in, uh . . . Well, a good long while. Where's the owner of these fine implements?
TRICK: The common term is 'slain'. But I've been seeing this breed around. Are we expecting any trouble?
MAYOR: Do you like Family Circus?
TRICK: I like Marmaduke.
MAYOR: Oh! Eww! He's always on the furniture. Unsanitary.
TRICK: Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kinda dog.
ALAN FINCH: I like to read Cathy.
Family Circus is a smaltzy, overly-cute, long-running (since 1960) newspaper-syndicated carton by Bill Keane.
