Doonesbury's 200 Greatest Moments
The funniest, strangest, and most dramatic moments in Garry Trudeau's classic comic strip.
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200 DOONESBURY MOMENTS
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury, Slate and Doonesbury.com invite you to enter the feature's 14,600-strip archive and wander to your heart's content. For the next two weeks this vast labyrinth of storytelling and interconnected lives, a chronicle of popular culture and politics, is open to all comers. To help you get started, we've provided some 200 points of entry. Be sure to bring a flashlight and some snacks.
Oct. 26, 1970: The first Doonesbury strip.
Nov. 19, 1970: First appearance of Mark Slackmeyer.
Dec. 22, 1970: "Even revolutionaries like chocolate chip cookies."
Feb. 22, 1971: First appearance of Bernie, and morphing.
Mar. 21, 1971: First Sunday strip.
Apr. 4, 1971: Mark: "I'm Jewish."
Apr. 5, 1971: Mike starts tutoring Rufus.
Jun. 18, 1971: B.D. at ROTC summer camp.
Jun. 27. 1971: On the road.
Sept. 15, 1971: First appearance of Boopsie.
Sept. 21, 1971: First appearance of Zonker.
Oct. 21, 1971: John Kerry series.
Nov. 3, 1971: On The Greening of America.
Jan. 13, 1972: B.D. volunteers for Vietnam.
Feb. 16, 1972: Captured by Phred the Terrorist.
Apr. 19, 1972: Walden Commune.
Apr. 24, 1972: The naming of the puddle.
Sept. 11, 1972: Mike and B.D. pick up hitchhiker Joanie Caucus.
Nov. 12, 1972: The tale of Douglas.
May 29, 1973: "That's guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty!"
Sept. 17, 1973: "Well, John, how's the cover-up going?"
Nov. 10, 1973: Series on secret bombing of Cambodia.
Dec. 13, 1973: "It's a baby woman!"
Feb. 14, 1974: The Energy Czar.
Feb. 21, 1974: "Dare to be great, Ms. Caucus."
Mar. 19, 1974: Z on cover of Time: "Sex! Sex and peyote!"
May 30, 1974: Joanie accepted into law school.
Jul. 21, 1974: "Look, honey, a student activist!"
Aug. 19, 1974: Joanie meets Ginny, and Clyde.
Dec. 23, 1974: First appearance of Uncle Duke.
Jan. 9, 1975: Duke writes for Rolling Stone.
Mar. 23, 1975: The plant-yakker.
May 7, 1975: Vietnamese orphan Kim Rosenthal adopted.
May 31, 1975: The last days of Saigon.
Jul. 21, 1975: First appearance of Nate and Amy Harris.
Dec. 21, 1975: Christmas greetings.
Jan. 21, 1976: Ambassador Duke arrives in China.
Jan. 22, 1976: First appearance of Honey Huan.
Jan. 27, 1976: Joanie meets Andy Lippincott.
Feb. 8, 1976: Alice Schwartzman and "Bonker" at the bar.
Mar. 8, 1976: The Patty Hearst trial.
Mar. 20, 1976: Andy joins the Virginia Slade campaign.
May 24, 1976: Jerry Brown gubernatorial campaign.
Jul. 4, 1976: "You mean, Jefferson sold us out?"
Jul. 6, 1976: Congressman Ventura sex scandal.
Jan. 12, 1977: Rick goes to work at People.
May 21, 1977: Joanie graduates from law school.
Jul. 10, 1977: "This one's for Feedback."
Aug. 15, 1977: Among the young Republicans.
Nov. 20, 1977: Busted.
Jul. 27, 1978: Studio 54.
Sep. 4, 1978: Boopsie goes to Graceland.
Sep. 11, 1978: Duke as manager of the Washington Redskins.
Oct. 9, 1978: Camp David Accords.
Nov. 27, 1978: Understanding the 70s.
Jan. 4, 1979: Honey in Henry Kissinger seminar.
Jan. 8, 1979: "Senator and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor."
Feb. 2, 1979: The Liberal Cult.
Mar. 5, 1979: Duke testifies on behalf of the NRA.
Apr. 23, 1979: Jerry Brown press conference.
May 14, 1979: Mellowspeak, by Dr. Dan Asher.
May 27, 1979: Commencement address.
May 28, 1979: Boopsie poses for Playboy.
Jul. 23, 1979: David Halberstam interviews Rick.
Sep. 10, 1979: First appearance of J.J.
Oct. 1, 1979: Henry Kissinger: The Whitewash Years.
Oct. 8, 1979: Honey and J.J. become roommates.
Dec. 3, 1979: "Fin de Decade" party.
Jan. 3, 1980: The book on Duke.
Jan. 23, 1980: Re. Ted Kennedy: "We need a verb, Senator."
May 18, 1980: Wait a minute, Mr. Postman.
Jun. 15, 1980: He came to tan.
Oct. 25, 1980: "The Mysterious World of Reagan's Brain."
Feb. 8, 1981: Christmas thank-you note.
Jun. 18, 1981: Joanie and Rick marry.
Jun. 28, 1981: Solidarity.
Aug. 3, 1981: Vietnam Vets counselor Skip Willis.
Aug. 11, 1981: Duke shoots Brenner.
Jan. 25, 1982: Morale problems at the EPA.
Apr. 26, 1982: The wreck of the Rusty Nail.
May. 17, 1982: What the doctor said.
Sep. 6, 1982: Joanie as Lacey's campaign manager.
Sep. 20, 1982: Zonker's first job interview.
Nov. 15, 1982: Sid Kibbutz in action.
Dec. 13, 1982: Buying a computer.
Sep. 30, 1984: Return from Sabbatical.
Oct. 11, 1984: Selling Reagan to black voters.
Oct. 22, 1984: The Reagan White House.
Jan. 2, 1985: Alice buried in snow (take one).
Jan. 27, 1985: "Teaching is dead."
Mar. 4, 1985: Jimmy T. helps record "We Are the World."
May 20, 1985: Alice and Elmont marry in bus station.
Jul. 30, 1985: Marcia Feinbloom ends her search for Mr. Right.
Aug. 29, 1985: J.J. and the shards of the American dream.
Jan. 19, 1986: RSVP.
Nov. 6, 1986: Dick Davenport dies.
Feb. 22, 1987: The entire Constitution on a cereal box wrapper.
Mar. 8, 1987: Another Sunday morning.
Mar. 22, 1987: Sinatra biography.
Apr. 27, 1987: Ron Headrest.
Apr. 27, 1988: Mike and Nichole almost begin affair.
Jun. 18, 1988: Snow White.
Aug. 14, 1988: Roger Rabbit.
Jan. 2, 1989: The coming of Nanny Zonker.
Apr. 19, 1989: Mike dreams up Mr. Butts.
May 7, 1989: Assault rifles.
Nov. 5, 1989: Mark's Konundrum Korner.
Dec. 11, 1989: Eighties Revival Party.
May 24, 1990: Andy Lippincott dies.
Sep. 2, 1990: Boopsie bids farewell to Hunk-Ra.
Dec. 10, 1990: Desert Shield.
Feb. 4, 1991: Ka-boom!
Feb. 24, 1991: Smart bomb.
Mar. 10, 1991: Briefing.
Mar. 20, 1991: "Welcome to Club Scud!"
Sep. 29, 1991: Coup by supporting characters.
Nov. 11, 1991: Doonesbury organizational chart.
Jan. 6, 1992: Unemployed.
Jan. 27, 1992: The rhetoric behind the sound bites.
Feb. 10, 1992: Trash for Cash.
Apr. 20, 1992: The coming of Samantha.
May 31, 1992: Jimmy Thudpucker's 10-Step Career Trajectory.
Jun. 1, 1992: The many lives of Barbara Ann Boopstein.
Jun. 8, 1992: "I'm my parents!"
Jun. 22, 1992: USA Today.
Jul. 12, 1992: Geraldo Riveribus.
Sep. 7, 1992: Family Values check.
Dec. 28, 1992: The ol' mail silo.
Aug. 1, 1993: Production values.
Feb. 9, 1993: Aid for those with AIDS.
Nov. 28, 1993: Beavis and Butthead.
Jan. 24, 1994: Whitewatergate.
Feb. 5, 1994: Alice buried in snow (take two).
Aug. 15, 1994: By the time they got to Woodstock.
Sep. 4, 1994: Where do all the ideas come from?
Jan. 22, 1995: Team Doonesbury: The O.J. Specialists.
Jun. 24, 1995: Duke with a hooker.
Oct. 15, 1995: The Earl of Duke.
Nov. 13, 1995: Mark's imaginary lover.
Feb. 5, 1996: Mike and Kim meet.
Mar. 19, 1996: "Bugchecking is brutally cool!"
Jun. 24, 1996: Back in the Nam.
Nov. 4, 1996: The Mark and Chase show.
Jan. 26, 1997: Ah youth.
May 1, 1997: Mike and Kim's wedding.
Feb. 9, 1998: Clinton's problems.
Aug. 10, 1998: Lacey Davenport dies.
Feb. 8, 1999: Impeachment trial.
Aug. 23, 1999: Walden redux.
Nov. 16, 1999: IPO.
Jan. 3, 2000: The old mail silo.
Jan. 23, 2000: Bill and Al.
Feb. 14, 2000: The flag thing.
Apr. 24, 2000: Business plan.
Feb. 17, 2000: "Join the Duke2000 campaign!"
Sept. 24, 2000: Bushisms.
Mar. 8, 2001: Clinton and Krispy Kremes.
Jul. 30, 2001: Deputy Secretary for the Interior Jim Andrews.
Aug. 6, 2001: Flaws.
Sept. 17, 2001: The hoax.
Oct. 1, 2001: Everything's changed.
Nov. 18, 2001: "Thanks, evildoers!"
Jan. 27, 2002: Mr. Jay.
Feb. 10, 2002: FDR quote.
Mar. 3, 2002: "Got war?"
Apr. 8, 2002: Phil Slackmeyer, RIP.
Apr. 22, 2002: Tea with a trainee martyr.
Apr. 29, 2002: At a West Bank café.
Feb. 10, 2003: Pre-positioning for Iraq war.
Apr. 13, 2003: Helmet-in-chief.
Jul. 20, 2003: Starbucks Sunday.
Feb. 23, 2004: $10,000 reward.
Apr. 19, 2004: B.D. wounded in Iraq.
Aug. 23, 2004: "Thanks for your sacrifice, dude."
Sep. 13, 2004: Ask President Bush.
Mar. 7, 2005: Hunter S. Thompson tribute.
Dec. 12, 2005: B.D. reconnoiters Vet Center.
Dec. 14, 2005: First appearance of Elias.
Mar. 27, 2006: The Saddam-Al Qaeda connection.
Jun. 25, 2006: Catching up.
Aug. 20, 2006: Mike's Summer Daydream.
Nov. 20, 2006: Ethics class.
Mar. 26, 2007: First appearance of Mel.
Sep. 4, 2007: Over-connected.
Nov. 26, 2007: First appearance of Toggle.
Jan. 28, 2008: Toggle arrives at Andrews.
Feb. 25, 2008: The Poetry of Barack Obama.
Apr. 7, 2008: If we cut and run.
Feb. 23, 2009: The uh-oh moment.
Mar. 30, 2009: In Helmand Province.
May 25, 2009: "Okay, so how do I do this?"
Aug. 3, 2009: The Family.
Dec. 21, 2009: "I'm sick of defending him!"
Feb. 8, 2010: Horndogs for lunch.
Feb. 22, 2010: Security detail.
Apr. 26, 2010: Tea Party.
Jul. 12, 2010: The big handoff.
Jul. 25, 2010: The competition.
Aug. 15, 2010: The maverick thing.
Sep. 12, 2010: The legend of Sorkh Razil.