In October, the comic strip 'Cathy' will be going dark after almost 34 years. The folks on 'Red Eye' (weeknight, 3 AM ET on Fox News) are more then happy to see it go.

Host Greg Gufteld called Cathy "a constantly depressed character" and "a hopeless harlot."

Then panelist John Moody disclosed that he "would not date a comic book character with only three fingers."

Most cruelly, Gutfeld blasted the two-dimensional spinster for sucking the sexy out of the entire comic strip experience.

"Remember Beetle Baily, the girls were sexy," Gutfeld explained. "Then Cathy came in, and all the sudden they were not sexy."

Kind of makes you want to give old Beetle Baily another look, doesn't it?

We have a TV Royalty category here at TV Squad, and if there's anyone who worked in television and deserved the honor it's Bill Melendez.

Melendez was an animator for Walt Disney Studios in the 1930 and 40s, working on such classic movies as Fantasia and Pinocchio and Mickey Mouse shorts, then went on to make tons of movies, cartoons and commercials (he worked on many Bugs Bunny shorts and other famous cartoons) for well-known companies such as United Productions of America (where he was an animator on Gerald McBoing McBoing) and Playhouse Pictures. He then met Charles Schulz in 1959 and went on to animate (and often direct and produce) most of the Peanuts TV specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and many, many others. Many people don't know this but he was also the voice of both Snoopy and Woodstock (they didn't talk, of course, but he did all of the howls and other noises). He worked on TV versions of Cathy and Garfield too.