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The articles at Platypus Comix boast so many tropes that they now have their own page. | |
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Self-Plagiarism | |
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Self-Plagiarism: The ABC Afterschool Special gallery calls Summer Switch, "...the one that teaches you not to plagiarize!", since the plot sounds nearly identical to that of Freaky Friday, and the two stories even share some characters and an author (Mary Rodgers). | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: "Why you may never see some of your favorite childhood shows on DVD", a list of shows whose fans need to Keep Circulating the Tapes, has some comments regarding Fox Kids shows that stayed up for several years after some corporate exchanges, between Disneynote who, according to the page, acquired a significant portion of Fox Kids' library while purchasing the [[Creator/Freeform Fox Family Channel]] and such studios as Saban Brands, Shout! Factory, and Mill Creek Entertainment, rendered them obsolete. For instance, the article ends with the lament, "It's a real tragedy moments like 'Fish Don't Stink' can't be legally bought," followed by a link to the Bobby's World clip. Amazon started selling official Bobby's World DVD boxsets in 2012, but this ending remained. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: In his review of The Hudsucker Proxy, he chastises Warner Bros. revealing Norville's big idea on the DVD cover. | |
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Negated Moment of Awesome | |
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Negated Moment of Awesome: Peter has acknowledged "Failed TV Pilots," a recap of an ABC special about failed TV pilots, as a negated moment: | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: The 4Kids' One Piece article laments that when fans of the anime tried to predict or joke about changes 4Kids would make when importing the show to America, some of those predictions and jokes actually proved accurate. | |
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Older Is Better | |
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Older Is Better: Before listing his favorite Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition DVD or Blu-Ray box sets, Peter begins "The Five Best Sets Ever" by noting that old DVDs often have better picture quality and more bonus features than he might get if he streamed those movies and shows instead. A chance exists that this trope doesn't apply 100%; he says these qualities of streaming media could bring people back to the "primitive lifestyle" of VHS. | |
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Celebrity Resemblance | |
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Celebrity Resemblance: "Proto-Stars" describes the then-current Wendy's spokesgirl◊ as, "a beautiful actress with vaguely Wendy-ish Lupa hair". | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: "Super Bowl Past-Blast: 1985", Peter explains that while the Super Bowl Half-Time Shows of recent years typically consist of performances by popular musical acts, earlier on they instead have performance troupes that appealed to children, usually Up With People. For 1985, the performance was "The World Of Children's Dreams" by the United States Air Forcenote themed after Hollywood, pirates, the circus, space, sports, and American freedom. Peter then left it at that. | |
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Surprisingly Improved Sequel | |
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Surprisingly Improved Sequel: invoked "Cinderella Gets Weird" uses Cinderella III: A Twist in Time as an example. | |
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Product Displacement | |
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Product Displacement: Discussed in "Blast From the Past", after Peter points out a R-Type arcade cabinet with its logo altered to read, R-TY◊. | |
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I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham | |
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I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Peter begins the installment about The Spooktacular New Adventures of Caspernote which he refers to as simply, Casper, per the title used on the copy he reviewed by calling Casper the Friendly Ghost unfunny and uninteresting. Consequently, he avoided watching this show, until he learned that it shared two writers with Animaniacs: Sheri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. He ended up calling the episodes he saw of Spooktacular New Adventures the funniest and least boring Casper cartoons he ever saw. | |
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Popularity Polynomial | |
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Popularity Polynomial:invoked "Bicentennial", written in 2008, comments on the then-current domination of live-action over animation in popular children's television by pointing out that live-action shows◊ dominate◊ the ads◊ for children's television in 1976, suggesting that "history is cyclical". Indeed, just as the '80s brought an abundance of new children's cartoons, so would the 2010s a few years after that article's publication. Part of "Winter 1992" recalls how animation went from becoming popular enough to get its own network, to almost disappearing from that channel in favor of live-action programming, to becoming a large draw for it once again. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: Peter writes some for X-Entertainment's recaps of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, starting with a 2011 article about the 1980 parade. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series: "For Portlanders Only" has not updated since 2010, and Warner Bros. Club (a division of Toon Zone, an animation site to which Peter is an occasional contributor) has not updated since 2008. | |
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Clueless Aesop | |
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Clueless Aesop: At least some of the stories Peter features in "Emails Your Mother Reads" boast some. | |
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Better by a Different Name | |
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Better by a Different Name: "Braver" makes the Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "Girl's Knight Out" seem like a proto-Brave, albeit with a more courageous and rational Tomboy Princess in the form of Princess Calla. | |
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Super Bowl Special | |
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Super Bowl Special: Peter explains in "Super Bowl Past-Blast: 1994" that he watches the Super Bowl live mostly to watch all of the commercials, and eventually decided to write annual articles covering ads shown during a past game. | |
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Caption Humor | |
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Caption Humor: Articles that rely on this include those included in "The Ancient Lost Art of 'TV Guide' Advertising", "Things You Can't Ever Have" (found in the Interactive Entertainment Celebration Section), and "What's Powell's Throws Out" (found in the Oregon Survival Guide). | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus: Mentioned off-handedly in "Super Bowl Past-Blast: 1995", which featured a Bud Bowl that doesn't revolve around the usual beer bottles, instead telling the cartoon-style story of a man trapped on a "Far Side" Island with a few companions and deluding himself into believing he's watching the Bud Bowl on a television made of sand. | |
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Wolverine Publicity | |
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Wolverine Publicity: Discussed in the Simpsons slideshow, regarding episodes promoted with ads that make Bart Simpson appear to have a larger role than he actually does. | |
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Just Eat Gilligan | |
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Just Eat Gilligan: Peter admits wishing in "Sabrinas Through Time III" that after Sabrina accidentally turned the Alpha Bitch Libby into a pineapple, she and her aunts ate Libby, instead of turned her back to normal.note Aunt Hilda made the same suggestion in a gag missing from Peter's recording. | |
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Fan Disillusionment | |
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Fan Disillusionment: Part Two expresses his disllusionment with reading as a whole: | |
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Bile Fascination | |
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Bile Fascination: invoked "Cinderella Gets Weird" admits that some people might only enjoy Cinderella III: A Twist in Time for this, although Peter found quite a few genuinely good qualities as well. | |
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Zeerust | |
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Zeerust: The first ad◊ in "V-The Final Battle" features a special promoting EPCOT Center by featuring then-developing technologies that could revolutionize the future. Peter points out that among the seven predictions listed in the ad, three or four of them had failed to come true by the time EPCOT turned 25. "Spring 1980/Pink Lady And Jeff" kicks off with a wildly exaggerated description of how the Intellivision could change the TV-viewing experience. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: Peter originally made a series of articles on U.S. Acres since at the time, an archive of its strips were nonexistant. The official Garfield website now features an archive of the strip, which led to the article losing much of its relevance. However, it still has little value left — the Garfield site removed a caption box from the October 13, 1986 strip that encouraged kids to mail drawings to Jim Davis, the final five strips are not archived (the strip rolls back to the 1987 strips on April 15), leaving out the culmination of the End-of-Series Awareness strips, and the collection books are long out of print, leaving the article one of the few places to see the covers. | |
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Amazon Chaser | |
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Amazon Chaser: In "The Top 10 Best Videos from MTV'S First Day", regarding his rules for what makes a good song in his opinion: | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: Played for Laughs in "Cynical Ad Campaigns of the 90's. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: From Part Six: | |
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Quote Mine | |
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Quote Mine: In reference to an ad◊ in "Dallas" for CBS' miniseries Master of the Game: | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: He claims that the videos in "The Ads of the Star Wars Holiday Special" look blurry and distorted because he "applied a special filter" to protect readers from the cheesiness of The '70s. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Like several of the amateurish articles RetroJunk features, "Retrojunk's Greatest Article Ever" contains plenty of bad spelling and grammar. Also, its attempts at Fanservice fail since many of the "Top Ten Hottest Cartoon Women Ever" have inadequate pictures, the top two choices are male, and the # 1 choice is not a cartoon character. | |
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Middle School Is Miserable | |
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Middle School Is Miserable: The article "Kellogg Middle School: The Happiest Place on Earth" sees Peter recount his time in middle school, and the title quickly proves to be a sarcastic. He notes that middle school in general is a hellish time in general for a lot of kids, and that this wasn't helped by the sordid state of Kellogg itself; he specifically recounts an incident in 1991 where a female student was kidnapped right in the middle of class. | |
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Game Mod | |
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Game Mod: "So You Want a New Mario Game, Do You?" is about Super Mario World ROM hacks. | |
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Special Effect Failure | |
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Special Effect Failure: invoked "Platypus Comix Covers The 1981 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!" includes footage of two Days of Our Lives cast members botching a lip-synced musical performance. It also includes a picture◊ of somebody walking into a shot where he shouldn't be, revealing Strawberry Shortcake (who was supposedly interacting with Ed McMahon) to be nothing more than superimposed footage. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
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Big "WHAT?!": Peter's reaction when the biggest song on the 1984 edition of MTV's Year End Countdown turned out not to be "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, as he anticipated, but "Missing You" by John Waite instead. It's so big, it's imprinted on a screenshot of◊ Van Halen (whose song, "Jump", made it in at #2). | |
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Technology Marches On | |
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Technology Marches Oninvoked: "The Future of Tomorrow...Tuh-Day!" takes a humorous look at the excitement the public experienced during 41 years' worth of advancements made to the Internet. | |
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Harsher in Hindsight | |
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Harsher in Hindsight: invoked Lampshaded: One of the pictures◊ in "Spring 1984" promotes a Love Boat episode, in which several Miss America winners gather to honor the then-newest Miss America, Vanessa Williams. Peter subsequently asks, "Why do I get the feeling this episode was going to live in infamy for a while?"note Williams would later lose her title after nude pictures of her turned up in Penthouse magazine. The Neil Goldschmidt quote in one of the TV special ads included in "1988 Writer's Strike" mentions giving teens "special attention◊." Below the ad, Peter comments, "...Neil Goldschmidt really meant it..."note Goldschmidt was later revealed to have committed sexual abuse. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The series consists of reviews of the first episodes of Saturday morning cartoons from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, accompanied by videos of some of the commercials and bumpers that played during the cartoon's premiere. The first article recaps the day Pokémon: The Series began airing on Kids' WB!, but Peter decided not to review the episodenote "The Problem With Paras" because the series seemed Strictly Formula. Also note that article has three pages, while others (such as the Beetlejuice review) only have one. For even more weirdness, the original version of the Pokémon installment only had one video. The rest of the commercials simply got written descriptions and pictures. | |
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Faux Horrific | |
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Faux Horrific: When discussing From a Buick 8 in Part Two: | |
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Significant Anagram | |
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Significant Anagram: "The Ads of the Star Wars Holiday Special" has two, both of which involve spelling a word backwards (riffing on the TOBOR commercial saying that TOBOR is ROBOT spelled backwards): | |
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Hilarious in Flashback | |
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Hilarious in Flashback: In "Spring 1997", an ad◊ for the series premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer bears this annotation: One of the ads◊ in "Fall 1989" promotes Free Spirit (1989), a sitcom starring a Cute Witch who becomes a Magical Nanny to three motherless children. Paltridge points out Alyson Hannigan, who would later play Buffy the Vampire Slayer's witchy companion Willow, portraying one of the children. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: "Spring 1980/Pink Lady and Jeff" includes a link to a website containing further information about Pink Lady and Jeff, but marks it as NSFW on the grounds that no working man would want the other employees to see him visit a website with so much pink. | |
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Sincerity Mode | |
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Sincerity Mode: In a part that we won't link to from here, Peter admits that he recently bought a Webcomic Print Collection, but didn't find it funny at all. However, he refuses to refer to the comic or its author by name, to lessen the chances of him getting his feelings hurt. | |
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Chickification | |
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Chickification: Discussed in "Superman's Hall of Super-Shame!" The "Stepford Lois" section laments how The '50s eliminated Lois Lane's strong-willed personality to make her a Damsel in Distress who dreamed only of marrying Superman. | |
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Needs More Love / Sugar Wiki | |
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Needs More Love: invoked Peter wishes that more Americans would read Nemi. He tried to give her some more exposure by reviewing the third and fourth Nemi books. Unfortunately, this might have made Platypus Comix more popular among people who ship Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato. | |
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Nerds Are Virgins | |
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Nerds Are Virgins: When discussing the Free Spirit Halloween special, the sight of Winnie using her witchcraft to perform stage magic prompts Peter to recount which comic marked the debut of Zatanna's father, Zatara the Magician ("...Action Comics #1, right after Superman."), since the two of them also used that shtick. He then offhandedly admits that he doesn't have a girlfriend yet. | |
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Misaimed Merchandising | |
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Misaimed Merchandising: invoked Peter closes the Animaniacs article by wondering why his local Fox Kids station showed a commercial for a wine-tasting event during each episode from the first season. | |
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Tainted by the Preview | |
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Tainted by the Preview: invoked "Spring 1984" implies that the network television premieres of Time Bomb and Alien could have fallen victim to this. The Time Bomb ad appears to oversell◊ it, to the extent that a viewer could ultimately feel disappointed, while the one for Alien undersells◊ it, to the extent that a reader might skip it.note The Alien ad re-appeared in "In Search of the Perfect Tagline", alongside some rejected campaigns for the original theatrical run. | |
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Long List | |
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Long List: This list of every comic series Peter has ever made. The list of every comic Peter made and posted online also has a rather daunting length, since it even mentions stories no longer included in the Platypus Comix archives. | |
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Unusual Chapter Numbers | |
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Unusual Chapter Numbers: Volumes 8 and 9, which contain slideshows of ABC Afterschool Special ads, have a drawing of a computer mouse instead of a number at the start, possibly to reference how much more clicking the reader has to do compared to previous volumes. Volume 10, a slideshow of ads for the first two seasons of The Simpsons, begins with the awesome smiley replacing the number 10. "Parents' Guide to Kids' TV" does not have a number at all. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: Probably unintentional at the time, but "Jack Valenti's Movie Ratings System" ends with Peter concluding, "Movie makers think the system is too strict and parental activist groups think it is too lenient, and no matter what happens, they always will. I have to wonder...does the Canadian Ratings Board have to put up with this?" Years later, he would learn that Canada actually has more than one movie ratings board, including one (the British Columbia Film Classification Office) that attached a silhouette of a cougar to movies that the MPAA would rate "R". Cue a tribute to The Restricted Cougar. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: "Kellogg Middle School: The Happiest Place on Earth" epitomizes this trope completely. As such, it's one of the darker articles on the site. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: "Parents' Guide to Kids TV" does not show any retro ads. Instead, it comments on how the Moral Guardians writing the children's television previews sometimes had overly strict standards, and also incorrectly predicted which shows would become successes and which ones would never catch on. | |
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Ironic Nickname | |
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Ironic Nickname: At the end of the first part of "Who is Archie Comics' Most Obscure Character?", he claims Marvelous Maureen has one. | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Invoked on Peter's behalf when he decided to celebrate Spider-Man's 50th anniversary with a review of Spidey's newspaper comic. The storyline he reviewed made Peter and MJ pawns in Loki's scheme to take over Asgard, but with less drama and epicness than Peter hoped. Peter hints in "Sabrinas Through Time II" that he might have felt less disappointed with Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch if had a greater focus on Sabrina's adventures in the Witch World. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: The public service announcements in "ABC PSA Insanity!" warn children about such dangers as chewing food too quickly, or drowning food in condiments. Peter admits finding them trivial in comparison to drugs, which PSAs from his childhood warned him about most often, but evidently ABC thought otherwise before the War on Drugs. "The Top 5 Most Annoying Christmas Carols" gives some pretty extreme examples of how continued overexposure of the top choice, "The Christmas Shoes", could ruin people's lives. | |
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Nominal Importance | |
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Nominal Importance: In his coverage of Otherworld, Smith, the youngest of the Sterling family, matters so little to the show that Peter doesn't even bother bringing up his name, instead urging the readers to "forget about him because he won't be mentioned again". | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: Peter admits in "The Platypus Comix Almanac of Special Houseguests" that he "implied once or twice" that he likes Winnie Goodwin from Free Spirit (1989). By the time this almanac came out, Peter had already inserted Winnie into one comic each from Electric Wonderland and Keiki, wrote about Free Spirit twice for the Dark TV Vault (see below), and even kicked off a series of Free Spirit Fan Web Comics. | |
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Network Decay | |
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Network Decay: Discussed in "MTV's Top 20 Videos of 1984" as part of an conversation he imagines having with a cable man in the present day. | |
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Vanilla Edition | |
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Vanilla Edition: The review of The Hudsucker Proxy acknowledges a complete lack of bonus features on the DVD, so Peter links to a Hudsucker-themed excerpt of Entertainment Tonight as compensation. | |
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Forced Meme | |
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Forced Meme: Errors in Corporate Judgement included several failed attempts for entertainment materials to appear relevant to late '80s-early '90s children. Among them, a Magic Eye puzzle◊ using "Froggy" as a synonym for "awesome." Peter subsequently decided to close the article by declaring "Froggy" official slang for his website. | |
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Cowboy BeBop at His Computer | |
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Cowboy BeBop at His Computerinvoked: One part of this review of the Pokémon: The Series comic chastises the cartoonist for drawing Starmie shooting water from its jewel◊. note Ironically, Peter himself made an error: he mistook the five-tipped Staryu (who, to his credit, can't shoot water from its jewel either) for the 10-tipped Starmie. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: Why I Couldn't Update This Week! details a week in which Peter had to stay in a cheap hotel during his house's remodeling, then got sick. Fortunately, it ends with Peter randomly finding a $5 bill, as an apparent pick-me-up from God. | |
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Villain Decay | |
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Villain Decay: "Fall of a Movie Monster" discusses how scary cinematic villains gradually become less scary due to media overexposure, using the Xenomorph from Alien as an example. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Peter finds it surprising that the Simpsons episode "Brush with Greatness" has no ad hyping up the guest appearance of one of The Beatles, until he figures they decided Ringo Starr didn't seem worth the trouble. | |
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...Or So I Heard | |
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...Or So I Heard: In the Platypus Comix Subculture Guide: | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Discussed in "Five Best 'Aladdin' Episodes", when four Aladdin: The Series episodes with Dark Magical Girl Sadira share a slot. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: The review of some American Pokémon comics deems most of the strips moronic and unfaithful to the franchise. However, it also comments that one strip starring Misty and Psyduck◊ would actually have made an amusing gag for the anime. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: At the end of "So You Want a New Mario Game, Do You?", Peter says that "there are even more hacks for NES titles" and to "Stay tuned for more showcases soon". This was in 2005 — he never made a follow up article. "The Twilight Princess Diaries" documents Peter's progress in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but only up until the first time Link turns into a wolf. | |
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MST | |
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MST: Every now and then, Peter will do a humorous summary of a So Bad, It's Good or completely awful movie. Also played to the letter in his review of St. Helens. "The Boxcar Children (with colorful commentary)" shows off some of the snarky comments Peter scribbled into his copies of Boxcar Children novels. | |
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'80s Hair | |
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'80s Hair: Peter takes time in his article about the Free Spirit Halloween special to admire Winnie's unruly hairstyle: Later, he comments that the breeze from broomstick-flying caused Winnie's and Jessie's hair to look "...even more 80's than before◊." | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: In the installment reviewing Bears in Love, Peter deemed the comic even less funny than Garfield, Hägar the Horrible, The Family Circus, and Marmaduke. | |
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Grandfather Paradox | |
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Grandfather Paradox: In "Why I Don't Want to Travel Back in Time", Peter theorizes that if Marty McFly from Back to the Future had indeed failed to make his parents fall in love, he would cease to exist, and therefore never prevent his parents' meeting in the first place, which means they would get married and give birth to Marty, who would eventually go back in time and make himself cease to exist... On the last page, he realizes Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show also caused one after he pushed the History Eraser Button, and appeared to erase his own birth, raising the question of how Stimpy would push that button... | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: While "Walt Disney: One Man's Nightmare" makes it clear that Peter didn't find a lot to enjoy about the biased Walt Disney Biopic One Man's Dream, he did admit appreciating the shot of Walt's original business card◊ as a reminder of how his career started out as humble as that of any aspiring cartoonist. | |
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Dada Ad | |
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Dada Ad: The 4Kids' One Piece article refers to a Burger King commercial with some abstract shapes for mascots as, "this strange fever dream of an ad". | |
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Rule 34 | |
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Rule 34: In "Super Bowl Past-Blast: 1985": | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Peter's disgust in Part Six with the drawing style◊ of some 2004 Cricket comics makes him (and King Leonidas from 300) exclaim, "This! Is! Zoot!"◊ | |
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Cynical Mentor | |
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Cynical Mentor: "My Ocarina of Time Walkthrough" plays this for laughs as Peter tries to give tips on winning The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to someone with a habit of saying stupid things. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The layout of the Bloom County archive page resembles one of the strip's recurring splash panels. | |
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Interpretative Character | |
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Interpretative Character: "Sabrinas Through Time" showcases various incarnations that Sabrina the Teenage Witch went through in both print and TV, including a supernatural troublemaker, a magical do-gooder, and an Animesque fantasy heroine. Peter followed it up with reviews of Sabrina's first animated appearance, an Archie Show TV special titled Archie and His New Pals,note This article also shared brief thoughts on Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which had both yet to debut when Peter wrote the first "Sabrinas Through Time" and the first episode of the live-action sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Happens in the installment about ABC Afterschool Specials, as ABC's fluffy children's specials give way to Darker and Edgier, teen-oriented stories. | |
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Think of the Children! | |
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Think of the Children!: Regarding the Sheer Indulgence pantyhose commercial in "The Ads of the Star Wars Holiday Special": | |
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What Were They Selling Again? | |
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What Were They Selling Again?: Peter comments in "Super Bowl Past-Blast: 1994" that he only remembers an ad for the 1994 Isuzu Rodeo just for the "Gut-Be-Gone" the man in the commercial receives for his birthday. | |
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Unintentional Period Piece | |
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Unintentional Period Piece: Invoked whenever Peter points out something in an old work that conflicts with modern society. | |
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I Warned You | |
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I Warned You: Peter opens his article on U.S. Acres Runs Amuck by saying, "I'm going to have to warn you ahead of time not to be eating or drinking anything while viewing what you're about to read." After another paragraph elaborating how funny U.S. Acres is at this point, strips from the book are shown uninterrupted by commentary. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Peter Paltridge. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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Viewers Are Morons: The Action Files Part One: Picture Not So Perfect begins with a tutorial◊ explaining the concepts of word balloons and text boxes, and ends with a glossary◊ defining such words as "accident", "photograph", and "future". Peter's scathing review of The Adventures of D & A called it "another creation that underestimated kids' intelligence and tried to serve us dumbed-down sludge we couldn't connect to in any way." | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Ever since the third installment, Peter has begun each article by putting the show into historic context, then pointing out today, one could enjoy the episodes on DVD. Then, he segues into the rest of the article with, "That's all well and good. But it's not the FULL EXPERIENCE..." He doesn't use this phrase when reviewing shows that don't have comprehensive DVDs available. | |
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Mistaken for Pedophile | |
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Mistaken for Pedophile: Peter's "Farewell Toys R Us Tour" ends with him being kicked out when an employee catches him taking pictures and assumes the worst, when he was only taking pictures of the scenery and toys. | |
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Crazy Is Cool | |
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Crazy Is Cool:invoked In his opinion, the title character of Nemi. | |
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Terrified of Germs | |
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Terrified of Germs: "Why I Couldn't Update This Week" depicts Peter as this, at least when staying in an old hotel room. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In Part One, he boasts that he could find a way to make a FernGully: The Last Rainforest book◊ seem marketable in 2010. Cue a crude alteration◊ of the cover to include Avatar characters. | |
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Accidental Innuendo | |
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Accidental Innuendo: invokedIn Part Six, Peter shows a SpongeBob SquarePants story◊ from an anthology book written by first graders: | |
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Wanting Is Better Than Having | |
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Wanting Is Better Than Having: Peter reveals at the end of his critique of an early draft of the Free Spirit pilot that he finally found the Missing Episode "Love and Death" on YouTube, and downloaded it to his computer. However, he also admits refusing to watch it right away. | |
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Everything's Better with Sparkles | |
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Everything's Better with Sparkles: "Tour My Christmas Tree" declares "the greatest tree ornament in all existence◊" one that Peter made of a construction paper tree with, "Oh, Yeah!" written in glitter. Peter claims that he could make anything better by writing,"Oh Yeah!" on it with glitter. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Peter declares Wezens die je toch nooit zietnote Dutch for "Creatures You'll Never See" from Part Four "The Weirdest Book of All Time". | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: One part of "Starship HBO" warns that if the HBO logo has aliens inside, they might want to subject people who enter their ship to a Sex and the City marathon, which he calls, "...worse than an Anal Probe." | |
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What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? | |
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What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: invoked In "The Boxcar Children (with colorful commentary)", Peter designates The Deserted Library Mystery as his favorite Boxcar Children book, since it had more life-threatening stakes than any before or after it. | |
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Strangled by the Red String | |
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Strangled by the Red String: invoked "Love is Hard" showcases some fictional romances that audiences found unbelievable, because the writers decided to pair the couples before determining if they had proper chemistry. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: In "Sabrinas Through Time II", Peter calls Sabrina's then-latest animated show, Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch, "limply-animated" by The New '10s standards. A reader might expect her first cartoon appearance, the Filmation TV special Archie and His New Pals, to have even worse visuals. Surprisingly, Peter ends the article by noting the special had a noticeable Animation Bump compared to the studio's other work. A clip he embedded of the musical number "You Need an Image" (which he acknowledges as an Ear Worm) illustrates this. | |
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Viral Marketing | |
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Viral Marketing: invoked "V-The Final Battle" shows four◊ examples◊ of NBC using◊ this◊ during May 1984 sweeps to promote the second V miniseries. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: Volumes 11 onward each use a different font for the volume numbers in their respective introductions. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out/Reference Overdosed: See ShoutOut.Platypus Comix. | |
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iProduct | |
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iProduct: Discussed in "Seven Failed Brand Crossovers"; the section about "Colgate TV Dinners" explains that TV dinners got their name to ride off of how high-tech and advanced it seemed to own a TV back then, musing that The New '10s equivalent would bear the name, "iDinners". | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: When asked in "My Ocarina of Time Walkthrough" why he decided to write a walkthrough that no one might use, Peter answers, "Because it's fun. I'm also crazy." | |
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Designated Love Interest | |
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Designated Love Interest:invoked "Love is Hard" discusses some examples, such as Mary Jane from the Spider-Man Trilogy, and Lana Lang from Smallville. | |
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Wrongfully Attributed | |
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Wrongfully Attributed: "Cinderella Gets Weird" ends with Peter concluding that Cinderella III "...is incredibly unfaithful to the tone of the original film and even blasphemous to it in places, 'but don't you see, that's what makes it so grand.'" He quickly realizes afterward that quote didn't come from Cinderella, but rather, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. | |
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Once Original, Now Common | |
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Once Original, Now Common: invoked Discussed in "Superman's Hall of Super-Shame!", using Superman and Doom as examples. They both launched new genres in their respective mediums (Superman the superhero comic, Doom the first person shooter video game), and both became perceived as quaint by fans of later entries in those genres. invoked Peter admits in the "Super Bowl Past-Blast" articles that the special effects in such ads as this 1992 Exxon Supreme commercial and this 1985 canned foods promo might seem less revolutionary today than when they first aired. | |
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We Interrupt This Program | |
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We Interrupt This Program: His copy of the One Man's Dream TV special was interrupted at one point by breaking news from CBS. It reports on Poland being under martial law, but Peter found the special so insufferable by this point, he initially welcomes it as something interesting. | |
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Spiritual Antithesis | |
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Spiritual Antithesis: Peter considers Loser (2000) to be this towards American Pie. | |
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Lyrics/Video Mismatch | |
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Lyrics/Video Mismatch: On Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time": | |
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Special Thanks | |
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Special Thanks: Peter laments in "Sabrinas Through Time III" that the opening credits to the Sabrina the Teenage Witch sitcom don't give George Gladir credit for creating the title character. To compensate, he closes his review with, "Created By George Gladir". | |
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Retroactive Recognition | |
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Retroactive Recognition: invoked When discussing an ad◊ in "V-The Final Battle" for The Duck Factory, Peter points out that the man making goofy faces looks familiar - it's Jim Carrey. | |
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Writing Around Trademarks | |
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Writing Around Trademarks: Each YouTube upload in "Super Bowl Past-Blast: 1985" abbreviates the game's name as, "SB". Peter admits that the NFL's trademark of the full name prevented him from spelling it out. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: Peter quotes a song by The Police in "1988 Writer's Strike", after an ad◊ for 14 Going on 30. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "The Five Most Embarrassing Moments of the Real Ghostbusters", Peter imagines his selection for #4 prompting J. Michael Straczynski to quit The Real Ghostbusters. | |
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Slow-Paced Beginning | |
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Slow-Paced Beginning: invokedPeter says that the first year of U.S. Acres wasn't very good since it relies too much on exposition, and the attempts at spontaneous jokes usually fall flat. He goes on to say that the strip gets funnier when the Debut Queue is over and done with, reaching its zenith by U.S. Acres Runs Amuck: The Fourth Book. | |
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Hilarious in Hindsight | |
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Hilarious in Hindsight: invoked When reviewing a TV special about Bugs Bunny's 50th birthday in "Dr. Ruth and Chuck Norris: Together At Last", Peter notices Raven-Symoné wishing a happy birthday to Mickey Mouse and Donald Ducknote whose 50th birthdays did not happen in the same year as Bugs', even though this special aired several years before Raven started appearing in Disney Channel movies and shows. | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: Peter recalls in "The Boxcar Children (with colorful commentary)" that while he enjoyed reading about the Boxcar Children embark on adventures without adult supervision, he found the writing style so condescending, he wrote his own series of Boxcar Children comics. | |
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Narm | |
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Narm: Invoked in articles featuring commercials from the 1970s and '80s. | |
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Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity | |
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Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: "Magazine Alley" warns that Highlights For Children can cause this if you read it too often. | |
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End-of-Episode Silliness | |
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End-of-Episode Silliness: Most of the articles hosted at Platypus Comix itself end with two links: one that leads back to the home page, and one that varies on each article, leading to a page that has either an adequate or nonexistent relation to the article's subject. Articles written on Peter's Toon Zone blog bear neither links. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: "My Ocarina of Time Walkthrough" only goes up to Link receiving the Zora Tunic. | |
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Late to the Punchline | |
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Late to the Punchline: Peter admits in the Beetlejuice review that he didn't notice Beetlejuice and Lydia blowing snakes instead of noisemakers until after he took a screenshot◊ of the scene. | |
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A Dog Named "Dog" | |
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A Dog Named "Dog": Peter pokes fun at Skunk Fu's use of this trope, saying the ninja monkeys featured in the episode are most likely all named "Monkey". | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
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Oddball in the Series: The second installment, covering the premiere of The Pink Panther Show, was written on Peter's Toon Zone blog instead of at his website. Unfortunately, this inadvertently led to the videos ceasing to work after a site update. | |
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Fanon Discontinuity | |
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Fanon Discontinuity: invoked Peter has confessed that for him, Beetlejuice begins and ends with the cartoon. He didn't see the movie Beetlejuice until after he saw the show. When he did, he felt disappointed that, among other things, Beetlejuice was a seldom-appearing villain instead of the star, and that he and Lydia were enemies instead of friends. | |
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Tough Act to Follow | |
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Tough Act to Follow: invoked Peter worries at the end of the Summer 2014 edition that none of the future installments will share anything as impressive as the one chosen to close that page: Michael Thommason selling over 11,000 video games◊ for $750,250.00. | |
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Spiritual Licensee | |
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Spiritual Licensee: invoked The review of The Sweatbox, a rarely-seen documentary about the evolution of Disney's Kingdom of the Sun to The Emperor's New Groove, delivers the following praise to New Groove: | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": In Peter's coverage of the Free Spirit (1989) Halloween special, he admits that his first article about the show didn't include any clips of the now-most famous cast member, Alyson Hannigan, because he didn't think she'd want people to see how unprofessionally she acted back then. However, since the Halloween special marks the only time the sitcom gave Hannigan's character A Day in the Limelight, he shares some footage of her anyway. Afterward, he tries to imitate her as best as he can through typing. | |
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Seasonal Rot | |
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Seasonal Rot:invoked Referenced in the first Free Spirit article, saying the disappearance of the show without giving any closure robs us of "The really weak final season after Winnie and Thomas have gotten married, Alyson Hannigan has left the series, and an annoying little child has been adopted". His Past-Blast on Super Bowl 29 featured Bud Bowl VII, describing it as "the ad that killed the Bud Bowl" for shoving the beer bottle football players aside in favor of a Live-Action Cartoon in which a delusional castaway thinks he's watching the Bud Bowl, culminating with him sending himself into the game and winning it for the Budweiser team. | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun: Peter claims in "The Ads of the Star Wars Holiday Special" that if Kenner still sold the Trailtracker during his childhood, he and each of his friends would have wanted one. He even wishes to buy one now. All this amazement for a toy truck that traces lines drawn with a crayon. | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:invoked Referenced◊ in the review of The Hudsucker Proxy, regarding a Carmen-themed Dream Ballet that Peter suspected only made the movie to Avoid the Dreaded G Rating. | |
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Awesome Art / Sugar Wiki | |
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Awesome Art: Invoked. "My Favorite Comic Book Covers" contains some examples. | |
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Continuity Lock-Out | |
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Continuity Lockout:invoked He experiences this in Part Six with ElfQuest, saying that his troubles with fantasy tropes as a whole (elaborated below) prevent him from understanding a single sentence of the work. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The Summer 2011 edition had a picture of a Wii autographed◊ by eight actors from Glee. Peter lamented, "...but no Jane Lynch." He later repeated this phrase for other autographed objects featured. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: When Peter reviews the second episode 4Kids Entertainment aired of One Piece, he laments that their version of the script spends so much time explaining why Luffy fought Coby in front of the Marines/Navy, the scene no longer seemed like a joke. | |
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Follow the Leader | |
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Follow the Leader: invoked When showing ads for Fish Police and Capitol Critters: | |
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Audience-Alienating Era | |
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Audience-Alienating Era: invoked Peter claims in "The Boxcar Children (with colorful commentary)" that The Boxcar Children became less exciting after Gertrude Chandler Warner made the children grow up, and that he appreciated her successors de-aging them. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: In "Lux Sux!", he admits that the producers of Life Unexpected were completely accurate in their portrayal of his hometown of Portland, Oregon. However, he feels that the show fails in almost literally every other aspect. | |
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Stacy's Mom | |
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Stacy's Mom: In "Kids WB Yourself!-The Last Day", he repeatedly cites the mother◊ in Will and Dewitt as an example. | |
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