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Josh Fruhlinger started this blog in July 2004 — thus his riches. Its original title was I Read The Comics So You Don't Have To (a Boston-area newspaper that featured a similarly-titled column forced the name change). In the blog, Josh selects several newspaper comic strips every day and offers (usually sarcastic) commentary on them.Over time, the blog has developed a great deal of media attention as the authors of many comics have discovered it. Some comic artists or writers are even fans of the blog, including Chris Browne (Hägar the Horrible), Mark Tatulli (Liō, Heart of the City), Francesco Marciuliano (Sally Forth and also the web comic Medium Large), Ed Power (My Cage), "Jumble Jeff" Knurek (the Jumble puzzle/comic), James Allen (Jack Elrod's assistant/successor on Mark Trail), and Bob Weber, Jr. (Slylock Fox). Marciuliano, who is also registered on the boards, even created a logo for the site (and the image for this page) during a major site redesign in early 2010. Also, Bob Weber has actually used the blog to sell official Slylock Fox merchandise directed at the adult fans of his strip.Josh has also developed a great deal of Running Gags within the blog, including Aldo Kelrast, a character in Mary Worth, whose storyline became one of the strip's most popular after Josh began joking about it. Archie has even made reference to one of the blog's running gags. He also coined the trope name Nephewism.Read it here. | |
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Memetic Badass | |
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Memetic Badass: In-universe, Mark Trail, Margo Magee, and Mary Worth when a peon interferes with her meddling. | |
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Anti-Humor | |
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Anti-Humor: On occasion. For instance, in a Marmaduke comic featured in this post, Marmaduke is eating out of a bag of chips while Dottie sits next to him, asking, "Did someone give Marmaduke a bag of corn chips?" What kind of "Marmaduke is a people-eating hellbeast" joke will come up? | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: August 18, 2016 featured "the best ever instance of Mark keeping a straight face while a government bureaucrat spells out an entire URL over the phone for some reason." | |
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Angrish | |
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Angrish: Josh occasionally lapses into a typed version, for instance in response to a Snuffy Smith with a blatant coloring error or an extra-glurgy For Better Or For Worse. | |
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Nephewism | |
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Nephewism: The Trope Namer, though the entry lumps the Chaste Toons trope in with this as well. | |
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Furry Confusion | |
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Furry Confusion: Josh notes that a dog plugger owning a pet dog is confusing. He says "Pluggers don't have health insurance, so they take their kids to the vet" | |
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Carnivore Confusion | |
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Carnivore Confusion: Discussed here, in reference to a Pluggers strip where a bear-man thinks that salad is "something that 'food' eats." | |
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Scunthorpe Problem | |
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Scunthorpe Problem: At one point the comment system's spam filter kept catching posts containing "MILF"...and Gil Thorp takes place in Milford. | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: Josh's assessment of Otha "Clambake" Yancey, a colorful character from a 2007 Gil Thorp story arc: | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: After constantly joking about the Archie comic strip being written by the "Archie Joke Generating Laugh Unit 3000," the strip began referencing that line. The author of Mary Worth opened a CafePress store and created merchandise prominently featuring some of Aldo's greatest moments. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: When Sally Forth had a strip of Ted reading the blog, Josh was unsurprised as he says his target audience is the "pop-culture-obsessed emotionally arrested man-child". | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: Discussed with regards to Marvin, which Josh notes has a built-in, transitory audience of new parents raising babies and toddlers; as a direct result, most of the jokes involve some lazy variation of Marvin befouling his diaper and it being smelly, a relatable enough situation only for those who have immediate personal experience with changing a baby. For Josh, though, who doesn't have children and has spent years reading the strip rather than eventually abandoning it, the constant emphasis on Marvin stewing in his own crap — and malevolently enjoying it — has become downright horrifying. | |
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Eye Take | |
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Eye Take: Josh noticed how often these come up in Shoe, and dubbed them "the Patented Shoe Goggle Eyes of Horror". | |
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"Ha! It's funny because [some creepy reason]." The best part is that, for once, he's not extrapolating anything; these are always the intended joke. | |
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The Internet Is for Porn | |
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The crazy pervert inbound visitors. See, when someone goes to the site from a search engine result, Josh can see what they searched, and he took to posting some of the most creepy and outlandish ones for the amusement of readers. | |
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Author Vocabulary Calendar | |
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Author Vocabulary Calendar: Frequently uses the word "ratiocination" (definition: "logical and methodical reasoning" or "the process of exact thinking") to describe the mystery/puzzle-solving abilities of Slylock Fox. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Josh admits he's got a phobia of bees. | |
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Alternative Character Interpretation | |
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Alternative Character Interpretation:invoked Much of the blog is based on this. His application of plothole logic to Slylock Fox can easily make you unable to see it as anything other than a hell dimension populated by poor souls cursed to be animals for all eternity, constantly under surveillance and presumed to be guilty of all accused crimes. A little more mundanely, Slylock Fox is very into abuse of police/investigative powers, and among other things uses them to stalk Cassandra Cat. Marmaduke is a ravenous, uncontrollable Hellhound who regularly consumes his "owner"'s neighbors and buries their stripped bones in the back yard. Also, his owner is apparently Adolf Hitler due to similar hair and mustache styles. Instead of being a caring, helpful soul, Mary Worth is a Machiavellian, manipulative harpy who cannot stand people living in ways she doesn't approve and compulsively meddles in the affairs of those she encounters. Mark Trail is asexual and secretly hates Rusty. Stanley and Harriet from The Better Half are addicted to prescription drugs. Rex Morgan was thought to be gay, though this tapered off after one unusually homoerotic storyline, and Rex's characterization as the long-suffering Only Sane Man has now prompted Josh to reevaluate him as a snide, arrogant, dismissive, and deeply anti-social man who detests his job just for bringing him into the orbit of other people, especially his hapless patients. The Keanes of The Family Circus are a bunch of ultra-fundamentalist religious cultists. Dennis Mitchell's many, many examples of Menace Decay might seem like dull, gentle family humor, but Josh's extrapolation of simple hidden meanings within those jokes (particularly any involving Mr. Wilson) make him seem like a cruel, sociopathic Straw Nihilist who enjoys making others question their life choices, morality, free will, and inevitable decay into nothingness. The Daddy Daze daddy can't actually understand his infant's pre-verbal babbling; instead, he's going slowly insane due to loneliness and projecting his deranged thoughts onto his child. Throughout the bizarre July 2007 Gasoline Alley plot where Slim plotted to airdrop a meteorite on a local basketball court that was annoying him, Josh played up the connotation of an old man getting insanely angry at black teenagers for all it was worth, always describing the attempt with some variation on Slim "keeping his neighborhood white". | |
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Guest Host | |
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Guest Host: "Uncle Lumpy", a long-time commenter who has filled in for Josh periodically since 2007. He typically mixes in a few comics that Josh rarely or never covers (e.g. 9 Chickweed Lane), according to his own tastes. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: One of the blog's charms is that it doesn't shy away from erudite historical, philosophical and literary references. | |
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Fetish Retardant | |
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Fetish Retardant: In-universe, Josh has noted that he's never turned on by highly sexualized female characters such as June Morgan or Blondie, yet is head-over-heels in love with Margo McGee. Part of it is his well documented love of strong, take-charge women. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Guest commentator Uncle Lumpy has one at the end of this post. | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: invoked Josh loves pointing out a) potentially awesome ways the plot could develop and b) how boring the plot actually develops. When it does turn out awesome, however... | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: Josh describes Hagar killing his dog as "not cool". | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Josh speculating on what sort of offscreen rowdiness Gil Thorp characters had gotten up to: Josh speculating about the consequences of Darrin and Jessica having sex in Funky Winkerbean: | |
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Ban on Politics | |
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Ban on Politics: It's an official blog rule that even just mentioning Mallard Fillmore will get you banned from the comments section. | |
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Used in the Dennis the Menace (US) entry on this page, where Josh decides to interpret "Mrs. Wilson says you're living in the past" as if it referred to Time Travel: | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: An interesting non-character example. Either Josh loses interest in many comics, or runs out of ways he can play on the same running gag, or he finds replacements to mock when the older riffing material gets stale. note we hardly ever see The Lock Horns since he started poking fun at The Better Half, nor Garfield or Marmaduke since he started on Heathcliff Regardless, many many comics have come and gone from his circulation over the years. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Comics that convey this message are frequently called out and mocked for it. | |
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Animal Is the New Man | |
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Animal Is the New Man: According to Josh, Slylock Fox is set in the wake of the "animapocalypse". All animals mysteriously gained sentience on a single fateful day, then killed off most of humanity and hijacked human civilization. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Josh dropped a big one on Pluggers. | |
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Human Mail | |
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Human Mail: Josh interprets a silly Hi and Lois strip this way. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: (In a commentary on Mary Worth) "Place your bets on what this 'troubling' medical condition may be: pregnancy, venereal disease, dementia, Electra Complex, droopy-ponytail-itis" | |
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So Bad, It Was Better | |
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So Bad, It Was Better:invoked His thoughts on Dick Tracy are that it was at its best in the years when it was completely terrible, and when the new team signed on and cleaned it up significantly, it was no longer enjoyable to mock. What happened to the days when Dick Tracy was a complete psychopath? | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: But of course! The Curmudgeon's raison d'etre... | |
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FirstGuyWins | |
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First Guy Wins: Parodied in his commentary on the last For Better or for Worse, where Josh makes fun of the much-despised Elizabeth/Anthony pairing by saying that April will ditch her cowboy boyfriend as soon as her first boyfriend Gerald gets divorced. | |
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I Knew It! | |
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I Knew It!:invoked In Apartment 3G, he correctly guessed that Ruby was Luann's biological mother over four years before The Reveal proved it. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: A huge amount of the blog's comedy is found in describing the real world ramifications of a given strip, especially if given dark, gory or sexual undertones. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
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One Crock Sunday strip featured a soldier named "Freerloiter" getting injured in battle and receiving a lobotomy, which has caused him to lose "his artistic talent". When Crock asks him what he's going to do next, he responds "I think I'll move to Baltimore and start a comics blog." (Crock responds by pulling the plug on his life support.) | |
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Hypocrisy Nod | |
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Hypocrisy Nod: Often, Josh complains heartily about some aspect of a comic, only to turn around and demand that the very next strip include more of what he disliked about the first comic. He always lampshades this. Example! | |
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Rule 34 | |
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Rule 34: He found one of Cassandra Cat on someone else's blog and posted it to his own. It later got taken down from both blogs, at Bob Weber, Jr.'s requestnote though the pic is easy to find, if you know where to look. | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead: When Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, died in 2011, Josh was very somber, recalling the era when the strip was a lot edgier, and how the man himself had a great sense of humor about all the parodies of his work. Even the comments section has nothing but respect for the man, everybody agreeing that their mocking was in good jest, and that despite how unfunny many may have found the comic, every single commentor still respected him as a cartoonist and human being. Also on the death of B.C. creator Johnny Hart: "Instead, I’ll just note that the dude died at his drawing board. That’s hardcore." And when Al Scaduto of They Do It Every Time passed away at the age of 79, no one, not Josh nor the commenters, expressed anything but respect for the man. Josh even mentioned that, despite not quite getting the strip and its bizarre idiosyncrasies of language (later dubbing them "Scaduto-isms"), it grew on him to the point where he was delighted to feature new installments submitted by commenters' mail. Josh's response to the creator death-driven end of Crock, even though Josh disliked the strip, and it had made a Take That! at his expense just five days before. Jack Elrod's passing left Josh particularly saddened, as the weirdness of Mark Trail under Elrod's tenure was partially what had inspired him to create the blog in the first place. | |
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Furry Reminder | |
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Furry Reminder: Josh's initial reaction to a Shoe strip is, "HOLY CRAP THEY'RE FLYING!" | |
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Afraid of Needles | |
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Afraid of Needles: Josh himself, as he admits here | |
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Bold Inflation | |
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Bold Inflation: The man likes using italics and capital letters in spots for emphasis. His fondness is lampshaded in the title of this entry: "Lotta italics today and I'm not ashamed of that" | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Josh delves into the metatextual layers of a Dennis the Menace strip, culminating in his decision that "perhaps Dennis is menacing us, by showing us the real human consequences of our hidden desires." The next strip was Shoe: | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile: His quip about The Family Circus here: Josh once referred to a Gil Thorp plot as "A roller-coaster ride, if roller-coasters had no hills and didn't move at all." | |
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Think of the Children! | |
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Think of the Children!: What he says of a Hi and Lois strip depicting a heart-shaped candy box as black even in color, implying that the title characters are in an S&M relationship. He used this same statement to imply that the writers seem to be well aware of this, suggesting that's why they un-bowdlerized Thirsty back into a drunk. | |
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Caustic Critic | |
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Caustic Critic: Josh can be this at times, especially to strips that he dislikes, though he's generally more sarcastic and jovial than outright hostile. Except for the one and only time he discussed political cartoons. Josh can get pretty hostile about strips he wants to see end, with Marvin, Luann, and (when it was still running) Crock being among the hardest hit. Generally, though, he just mocks the on-going nature of long-running strips, often citing them as horribly out of touch with modern times (such as Crock's belief that kids these days "swap iTunes" as a sign of commitment). He has come to genuinely and openly hate Funky Winkerbean. Considering he was a fan of the strip when the blog started and had been impressed by the writer's willingness to go through with depicting Lisa's death from cancer, this should say something about the direction the strip has taken since then. He's not too wild about its spinoff strip Crankshaft, either. Averted by Mallard Fillmore. He hates it, but has only talked about it once. Plus, mentioning it on his blog is a bannable offense. Averted by Get Fuzzy; it's one of the few comics he genuinely likes. Since its entertaining on its own merits, he rarely brings it up, and when he does, it's just as often an attempt to explain why it's amusing to those outside the fold, which he undertakes with a surprising amount of maturity, considering this is the internet. The Pluggers and Snuffy Smith comics generally get reviewed with a mildly sneery checklist of pretty much every stereotype regarding rural people. His opinion of B.C. seems to have softened since the passing of creator Johnny Hart and the strip's subsequent transformation into a Legacy Comic. Hart had made the comic preachy, unfunny and overtly religious in a way that didn't suit the tone of the comic after his finding religion. The legacy writer's decision to go in a more bizarre direction with it leads to a more incomprehensible but more enjoyable comic. Similarly, Dick Tracy has fallen off the rotation since the creative team changed - Josh has stated he just doesn't find it as perversely entertaining anymore, now that the plots are shorter and saner and the artwork is better. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Josh once complained about how most comic strip parents were coded as Baby Boomers even when they were clearly too young for that (generally due to the ongoing march of Comic-Book Time). Then a certain Zits strip came across his desk, depicting Jeremy's dad as a literal dinosaur because he used to rent movies from the video store as a teenager—which would make him a Gen-X'er or even an older Millenial. Since Josh is himself a Gen-X'er with fond memories of the video-rental age, this made him feel very old indeed. | |
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Fridge Brilliance | |
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Fridge Brilliance:invoked There were comics that Josh had initially disliked when the blog started, but as he reviewed them more he began to genuinely appreciate them. Two examples are Curtis and They'll Do It Every Time. This is somewhat true with The Better Half in which he never even acknowledged it until Uncle Lumpy started blogging it while he was on vacation. But realizing that their marriage is more fucked up than on The Lockhorns, he started taking a interest in it. Though it seems if anything more of a "fascination" than actual appreciation. | |
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Enhance Button | |
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Enhance Button: From the August 10th, 2017 Mary Worth: Also happened in the March 15th, 2018 Mary Worth to point out a coloring error on Wilbur's arm. Josh comes to the completely logical conclusion that Wilbur is secretly an Old One. | |
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A Degree in Useless | |
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A Degree in Useless: When pro basketball player Jaquan Case decides to put his career on hold and pursue a master's degree in history in Gil Thorp, Josh — himself a history MA — immediately pegs this as a terrible idea, even assuming that when Jaquan returns two summers later, it's to take bloody revenge on the people who ruined his life with that suggestion. | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: He says that “Hillary’s Soliloquy� is a good name for a band. | |
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The Noseless | |
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The Noseless: What Josh realises to his horror in regards to Jon Arbuckle, when he and Dagwood Bumstead appeared together in the same panel. | |
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Child Eater | |
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Child Eater: Marmaduke | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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[Trope Name] | |
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[Trope Name]: This entry. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Similarly, he used to make jokes about Rex Morgan and... all other males. As of 2021 (and for several years prior), the running gag is that Rex is emotionally distant and finds all human contact inconvenient at best. | |
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Snooty Sports | |
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Snooty Sports: Golf-related comic strips are a frequent source of snark material. | |
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Ho Yay | |
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Ho Yay:invoked Used frequently in the earlier years of the blog, but less often later. Josh used to have a Running Gag about Beetle Bailey and Sarge's secret gay relationship, but he eventually abandoned it. As he pointed out in 2017: Similarly, he used to make jokes about Rex Morgan and... all other males. As of 2021 (and for several years prior), the running gag is that Rex is emotionally distant and finds all human contact inconvenient at best. And then there's Herb and Jamaal. In this case, the joke was mostly about one specific strip from 2007 where, "[a]s noted by several faithful readers," the two leads appeared to be having sex. See here. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: Josh writes some of his own for a Dennis the Menace riff. He says that Dennis hates baseball, America's favorite pastime. Therefore, he hates America, and is a terrorist/fascist/commie. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: My Cage, Pearls Before Swine and Sally Forth have all made positive references to the blog. Retail made a less positive reference to it in a strip about a blog called "hateoncomics.com." Ironic, considering Josh has never covered Retail. The Jumble (whose artist is a regular commenter) has included Josh in a few puzzles, including one where he is put on trial and found guilty by the entire newspaper comics page. Archie occasionally drops references to the AJGLU 3000 into background detail. The authors of Mary Worth have released "Aldomania" merchandise. One Crock Sunday strip featured a soldier named "Freerloiter" getting injured in battle and receiving a lobotomy, which has caused him to lose "his artistic talent". When Crock asks him what he's going to do next, he responds "I think I'll move to Baltimore and start a comics blog." (Crock responds by pulling the plug on his life support.) | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Josh will occasionally comment on how horrible or immature a person he thinks he is based on how he reacts to a scene. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In the commentary for Dennis the Menace (US) on 2008-03-11: | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Sarah Morgan being better than everyone else, to the point of being a powerful entity who is not bound to the rules of pathetic mortals. | |
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Sarcasm Failure | |
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Sarcasm Failure: Occasionally, Josh will find a strip's message so annoying that he can't even joke about it and just runs a comment along the lines of "Seriously, what is this?" There was also the occasion when, after repeatedly joking about the homoerotic undertones of Rex Morgan's fishing trip with Niki, his reaction to the strip where Rex tells Niki "And always wet your hands before you handle a trout!" was "Honestly, I … I don’t even know what anybody expects me to say about this stuff anymore." | |
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Ensemble Dark Horse | |
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Ensemble Dark Horse (In-Universe): Aldo Kelrast, naturally, but Josh appreciates pretty much any more colorful single-arc character that diverts focus from a boring main cast, especially if said characters have the audacity to insult them; past fascinations include fraudulent Negro Leagues star Clambake from Gil Thorp, the "drunken, vomitous" Celeste Black from Judge Parker, or the recurring Frank Nelson salesclerk guy from Gasoline Alley. | |
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Audience Participation | |
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Audience Participation: Every Friday, Josh picks a funny reader comment as the "Comment of the Week", and puts it in a special box on the homepage. He also recognizes a wide slate of runners-up. | |
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Hellhound | |
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Hellhound: Marmaduke. | |
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Family Theme Naming | |
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Family Theme Naming: Josh speculates that Lois from Hi and Lois was originally named Ladybug before she got married and left the Bailey family, considering that her brothers' names are Beetle and Chigger. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: When discussing the creators of Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, Josh always refers to them as "Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC." | |
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Memetic Molester | |
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Memetic Molester: In-universe, Rex Morgan. Kelly Welly as well. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: The tooth fairy, according to this. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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A little more mundanely, Slylock Fox is very into abuse of police/investigative powers, and among other things uses them to stalk Cassandra Cat. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Marmaduke's owner can't get the dog to stay off the furniture, stop digging up the yard, or refrain from eating the neighbors" | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum: Discussed in the commentary to this Dick Tracy storyline. | |
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Running Gag | |
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It's gotten to the point that he has a Running Gag where he wonders if he's overplaying a particular gag, only for a strip to take it to new and disturbing heights. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: Parodied. Josh often explains the punchline of a comic in the most outlandish and unfiltered manner possible. Occasionally played straight, to draw attention to how unfunny the intended joke actually is. Ha ha, it’s funny because he’s in excruciating pain. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: The title "This week's COTW of the week!" Note that COTW stands for Comments Of The Week. From 2007-02-04: | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: October 21st, 2004: Josh posts an email from "Doc Martian" consisting of "ANDY CAPP!" 10 times in the subject line and 44 in the body. April 22nd, 2016: In a post titled "This one’s for you, Doc Martian, wherever you are", Josh decides "why not Andy Capp?" and does his first commentary on the comic. | |
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