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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)

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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	comment	One of the more popular Newspaper Comics of its time, Lynn Johnston's For Better or for Worse debuted in 1979 and ran until 2008, appearing in over 2,000 newspapers at its peak.Set in Milborough (a fictional suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), the strip's main characters are the Patterson family: mild-mannered parents Elly and John and their children Michael, Elizabeth, and April. All but April are based closely on Johnston's real-life family: herself, her (now ex-) husband Rod, and their children Aaron and Katie. Johnston claimed that she created April because she wanted another baby, but knew it wasn't practical for her in real life.The strip is perhaps best-known for the fact that, unlike most comic strips, it did not use Comic-Book Time, and took place more or less in real time for most of its run. Michael and Elizabeth were a young child and a toddler at the strip's beginning, and by the end had grown into adults, with Michael married and raising his own children while Elizabeth married at the end of the strip. Youngest child April was born 11 years into the strip's run and was roughly 16 at the strip's conclusion.In its heyday, the strip was also celebrated for its realism, eschewing Sitcom stereotypes in favor of a nuanced, relatable look at typical adult, child and teen concerns. A storyline in which a supporting character came out as gay cemented this reputation, as well as various stories dealing with prejudice, bullying, the mentally and physically handicapped, theft, cheating and abuse. The Pattersons were often shown as a good, "normal" family, often forced to deal with others from broken homes or worse situations.Unfortunately, the same intimacy that allowed Johnston such insight also takes in her shortcomings and shortsightedness, something the author herself (a proudly self-described "Child of The '50s") has acknowledged. This became steadily more apparent in the strip's final years, as — concurrent with Johnston's discovery that her husband was cheating on her and the subsequent messy divorce — the strip wound down and the characters all began settling into domestic bliss rather than continue being exciting young adults, resulting in two of the three Patterson kids marrying their childhood sweethearts due to massively contrived circumstances. Much speculation ensued from disappointed fans over this development, in particular whether or not Johnston may have been attempting to deal with her personal trials by creating the life she wanted for herself through the strip.Starting in September 2007, flashbacks to the early years of the strip were interspersed into the present-day plotlines. The last regular daily strip of For Better or For Worse was published on August 30, 2008, and the last Sunday strip was published the next day. Though Johnston had announced her retirement from the strip entirely, she relented, largely due to the collapse of her marriage removing one of her key motivations for retiring. To ramp down her workload, starting in September 2008, Johnston began in effect to retell the strip from the beginning, through what she described as "new-runs". For some time, the strip consisted of a mixture of reprints from the early years with newly drawn strips also set during the era when Michael was a young child and Elizabeth was a toddler. In 2010, the new-run strips were phased out, and the strip remained in syndication but almost exclusively with straight reprints. As of 2022, the For Better or For Worse strips appearing in newspapers generally correspond exactly to those which originally appeared 39 years before. Only rarely does this pattern change, with an occasional new strip being drawn to ensure that holiday-themed strips appear on the relevant holiday.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The "going after". Lynn later stated that she was surprised that readers actually wanted to see Howard punished — the attack had been his only role in the story, and she saw nothing wrong with simply letting him leave afterward, as who cared about what he might do afterward so long as he didn't bother the Pattersons again? The arc and its fallout resulted in criticism from fans and sexual assault survivors due to it being used to shill Anthony and sweeping aside Elizabethâ€™s trauma.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_15070c2b	type	Timmy in a Well
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_15070c2b	comment	Timmy in a Well: While Farley dives into the river to save April as a toddler, Edgar runs back home and barks at Elly and John, refusing to come inside and leading them to the rapids.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: April as a toddler took Farley and Edgar outside with her after asking "someone" (herself in the mirror) if she can go to play. She reassured Farley that he would be safe with her. Farley ended up saving her life when April fell in the river.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the second to last strip, Iris tells Elizabeth the promise she made with her husband defines her "for better or for worse".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_19aa50f3	type	Torment by Annoyance
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_19aa50f3	comment	Torment by Annoyance: Michael repetitively messes with the spring door stop, causing it to "boing" incessantly. Finally, Elly yells, "All right, you can watch television!"
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Elizabeth to John, especially when she was little. Francie is also this to Anthony. Elly to Jim, moreso after Marianâ€™s death.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Anthonyâ€™s family was never seen in the strip, not even at both of his weddings.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1c6a80fe	type	Dropped in the Toilet
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1c6a80fe	comment	Dropped in the Toilet: After graduating college, Michael Patterson took home Naked Ned, a novelty of a naked man with suction cups on its hands and feet. Mike and his wife Deanna have a daughter, Meredith. Meredith got hold of Ned, and threw him into the commode, flushing it away. Both Mike and his college roommate, Joe Weeder, were saddened at the loss of Ned. However, Ned managed to clog the sewer lines enough the necessitate a plumber, who retrieved Ned from the drainage pipe. Joe Weeder took possession of Ned to preclude Meredith from imperiling him again.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Grandpa Jim gets angry when April tells him that Elly's new hire threatened her for finding her on an online website. He says it's good April told him, and they both notify her mother. Grandpa Jim is not happy when Elly remains in denial. It says something that John agrees with his father-in-law and tells Elly that she needs to fire Kortney.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_21af4dc3	type	Heroic Dog
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_21af4dc3	comment	Heroic Dog: Farley suffers a fatal heart attack while rescuing April from drowning in a river. John calls him a good boy. Edgar also counts. While that was happening, he went back home and barked at Elly and John to come help. Then Edgar led them to the river where April and Farley were drifting and stood watch.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Michael's best friend Lawrence is eventually revealed to be the result of his mother's past relationship with a Black Brazilian man she met in Central America. At first he was colored as white/pink, but when society began accepting mixed-race people he got a tan.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_22a27b19	comment	Mentioned with April's career plans. April likes playing in 4 Eva — later 4 Eva and Eva — but she doesn't want it to be her dream job. She tells Gerald that being a musician would consume her life, the way it turned Becka into a domineering Alpha Bitch. Thus, the band is just a hobby. She becomes a veterinarian in adulthood instead, a much more financially stable job and also in line with her love of animals.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: A lot of the humor of the first few years of the strip was based on the family's dreading meal time owing to Elly's love of cooking stews and casseroles and insistence that they go into gastric distress to prove their love for her. Also, she was known to go on diets and force the whole family to join her.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Played with: Anthony invokes this by pressuring ThÃ©rÃ¨se to have a child, despite her repeatedly telling him that she's not ready yet. He goes so far as to outright lie to her, promising that she can go back to work after recovering from the birth and he'll be primary caretaker, while fully expecting that once she's popped the baby out, mysterious female hormones will kick in and make her give up her career in a heartbeat for becoming a housewife. Didn't work. He flat-out admits this while recounting this to Liz later, seeing absolutely nothing wrong with this, and honestly believing that its failure means something is wrong with ThÃ©rÃ¨se, rather than him.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: April at times, who doesn't have her family's lack of empathy, marries someone who is not a childhood sweetheart, and is pretty much supposed to be Lynn's Butt-Monkey...
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2472c017	type	Abuse Discretion Shot
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2472c017	comment	Abuse Discretion Shot: In Brad Luggsworthâ€™s backstory, his fatherâ€™s abuse of him and his mother isnâ€™t shown until Brad comes home to find police and paramedics arresting his father and treating his injured mother. His horrified reaction to her bruised and bloody face is disturbing for a family friendly comic strip.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_24a045cd	type	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_24a045cd	comment	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Elly and John seem to be under the mistaken impression that feeding, clothing and housing their children is a sacrifice on their part instead of the moral obligation it actually is. What makes it worse is that exploiting their children's hard work because they did the least that a human being is supposed to do is seen as a wonderful thing instead of an example of sleaze and evil. Sadly, this is Truth in Television (or truth in comics, as it were). Elly and John's attitude is VERY common among real-life parents of their generation.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Michael's family life is exceptionally similar to that of his own parents, with him eventually moving into their house with his similarly-made-up brood. Also one of the major criticisms of Elizabeth's relationship with Anthony: Elizabeth eagerly shed teaching school amid a different culture in exchange for settling down to be as much like her homebody parents as possible.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_25c2c0d0	type	Sudden School Uniform
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_25c2c0d0	comment	Sudden School Uniform: The unnamed public high school institutes uniforms sometime between when Elizabeth graduated and when April started. John and Elly note to each other the additional expense in the strip.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2711e392	type	The Complainer Is Always Wrong
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2711e392	comment	The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Partially inverted; Elly frequently complained and carried on about how horrible and thoughtless her family was, although their crimes weren't always as obvious as was clearly intended. The Kelpfroths were horrible neighbors because they chronically complained about Michael and his family, for reasons both valid and invalid. They were also known to repeatedly violate the terms of their lease, so that the landlady could be all gleeful when she finally got an excuse to evict them. April, as The Unfavorite, often had the odd opinion out and was meant to be seen as having the wrong opinion.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_27ec6351	type	Like Is, Like, a Comma
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_27ec6351	comment	Like Is, Like, a Comma: Teenaged April, like, speaks like this, like, often.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Lawrence's father wasn't shown in the comics for most of its run. At first readers likely assumed he was his mom's ex-husband Pete. It turned out this wasn't true however. His father came from Brazil, but went back there before he was born. Much later, this was expanded on. Lawrence revealed that he tracked his father down on finding out he was visiting the US, and they finally met. It turned out his parents had been in a very brief relationship when they both worked at a medical relief mission in Central America. While his parents had planned after this to meet up in Canada, his father never arrived. Lawrence learned he had two half-brothers from a later marriage his father had. Lawrence's father apologized for never contacting him or his mother, and it seemed they were going to build a relationship. However, he was not shown again or mentioned. Jeremy Jonesâ€™s father is a traveling musician and rarely around. This causes him to lash out at people, especially April, who was beginning to show some musical talent.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: A staple, especially in the strips involving Elly's parenting or home-making skills. One week-long arc had Elly and John flipping out when April wanted to skip eating dinner with them and finish up her homework. After being forced to apologize and join them, Elly lectures about how mealtimes are for them spending time as a family and discussing their day. Cue both parents completely ignoring their daughter after dragging her back into her place. One strip had Elly having a conversation with one of her friends about how she loves being a mother and she is always there whenever her children need her, during the entire conversation a five year old Elizabeth repeatedly tries to get her attention, eventually Elly yells back at her "Will you please get lost, I'm trying to have a conversation here!".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Usually played straight, but for awhile, as the plots became more complicated, the characters' outfits started to get more complicated and varied. By the end of the strip, however, everyone, men and women, appeared to just wear a t-shirt and pants outside of special occasions.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Elizabeth, on her wedding day.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy April likes animals, plays in a band, and moves away to a city in another province and stays there for good, vs. Girly Girl Elizabeth who chooses a traditionally-feminine profession, moves back home because she becomes homesick in Mtigwaki, and marries her high school boyfriend. Career woman ThÃ©rÃ¨se does not want children, does not stay home after giving birth, and lets her ex-husband have full custody of her daughter, vs. Deanna getting pregnant by "planned accident" and leaving her career to start a sewing school.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Anthony without his mustache looks almost exactly how he did when he was in high school.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3110f888	type	Illness Blanket
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3110f888	comment	Illness Blanket: In one strip, Elly gets sick and lies on the coach wrapped in a blanket.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: As kids, Michael used to refer his sister Elizabeth as 'Lizard Breath'. He would sometimes do it as an adult when he wanted to annoy her.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Everyone for Liz and Anthony, except April.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: John, in the later years.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_35051d93	type	Playing Pictionary
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_35051d93	comment	Playing Pictionary: One strip has young Elizabeth showing her father a painting after a day of preschool. Her dad starts to comment on what a nice face it is — until Elizabeth interrupts to tell him that it's just a pizza.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_377effa6	type	My Own Private "I Do"
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_377effa6	comment	My Own Private "I Do": Michael and Deanna secretly married before moving in together. Later, his mother-in-law Mira got to plan a big, fancy wedding for them, while Mike, Deanna, and everyone else let in on the secret mocked her behind her back, making light of all the fuss. Mira went way over the top with her control-freak tendencies where the wedding was concerned. When Michael and Deanna are having the conversation that leads to the private ceremony, Deanna reveals that she was engaged once before, and she accepted his proposal solely because of her mother's insistence. If you read the 'between strips notes' in some of the collections, Deanna's older sister ran off and eloped with her fiancee in the middle of the wedding plans solely because of Mira's Bridezilla-ness; Mira refused to speak to her older daughter for years because of it. It's pretty obvious that Mira really, really wants to plan and execute a fancy wedding, to make up for the five-minute ceremony she had.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When Grandma Marian, Grandpa's first wife, is dying of heart complications, she's completely calm about it and accepts that her time has come. She even manages to joke about it.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_39e41f39	type	Tomboyish Ponytail
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_39e41f39	comment	Tomboyish Ponytail: April wears one as a teenager. Elizabeth wears one for a while before her makeover.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Goes back and forth, but in the long run its probably aiming more on the idealistic end due to its amount of heart and themes.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Hard to avoid in a strip that uses real-time and various characters age from childhood to adulthood. April moved from a standard goofy kid to a fairly bratty teenager, and Elizabeth went from nerdy and loud to a thoughtful young woman. A few villains later turned up having done a Heelâ€“Face Turn. And notably, Elly used to be a fussy, angry, crabby young mother prone to outbursts, and developed into the more calm "voice of reason" of the strip, and John became a lot less of a snarky character (he used to poke fun at Elly constantly, much to her consternation). Candace notably - she is pretty much held up as a deviant girl who acts out... but over the course of the college era, eventually gained a mother figure in the form of her aunt. Becky was April's best friend... then lost that status in high school... but then worked to become April's friend again once she started to mature. Michael started off as a bit of a troublemaker in school — argumentative, a class clown, and a pain. Once he meets Martha at summer camp, he becomes a lot more introspective, thoughtful and sincere.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Played for Drama; while John had a legitimate excuse to not talk to toddler April because he was on the phone, Elly was more focused on showing vacation photos as April was asking if she could play outside. She goes Oh, Crap! when Edgar leads her to the riverbanks, where Farley is keeping April from drowning.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3db32baa	type	New Baby Episode
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3db32baa	comment	New Baby Episode: Almost every single married couple in the strip has at least one child, many of their births shown in the strip: Leah Nichols in July of 1986. April Patterson in April of 1991. Paul Mayes in April of 1997. Rosemary Mayes in April of 1999. Meredith Patterson in October of 2002. Robin Patterson in November of 2004. FranÃ§oise Caine in March of 2005.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Mentioned with April's career plans. April likes playing in 4 Eva — later 4 Eva and Eva — but she doesn't want it to be her dream job. She tells Gerald that being a musician would consume her life, the way it turned Becka into a domineering Alpha Bitch. Thus, the band is just a hobby. She becomes a veterinarian in adulthood instead, a much more financially stable job and also in line with her love of animals. One of Elly's employees, Kortney, is slacking off at work. She threatens April for finding her on a chatroom during store hours; Elly is in denial and can't bring herself to fire Kortney, even when her own husband advises it. She believes that if she just treats Kortney nicely, the lady will become better as an achiever. April snarkily says that the lady has already achieved doing nothing while getting paid. Sure enough, Kortney starts stealing inventory and covering it up with Blatant Lies about them being donations to the local church, using stolen checks and a Forged Letter. Moira, Elly's second-in-command, eventually takes the initiative to fire Kortney when she and April find that evidence and Elly is on vacation. She tells Elly gently that Kortney didn't appreciate having a good boss like Elly and was taking advantage of her. A lot of ThÃ©rÃ¨se's behavior is exactly what you expect from someone whoâ€™s being forced into a life they donâ€™t want: She was convinced to have a baby and be a wife in the suburbs, Anthony lied to her about being the primary caregiver in hopes she would be magically compelled to be a Housewife after the birth of their daughter, never got help for her PPD and was essentially a replacement for the woman her husband really loved. So itâ€™s no surprise that she cheats on Anthony and walks away from it all.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Ruby became a mother figure to Candace after her relationship with her own mother fell apart. Thereâ€™s subtext that Anthony sees John as a father figure. Until his decline, Jim was implied to be this to April.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3fafbfd4	type	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_3fafbfd4	comment	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Lynn Johnston's notorious inability to remember the ages of her characters led to interesting things like Mike's one year older friend Gordon (with spouse Tracey) aging from their twenties to their sixties in the space of a few years, then being in their 30s in their final appearance. Also occurs with Anthony's two-year-old daughter Francie, who speaks and looks like an exceptionally articulate ten-year-old, and Liz's student Jesse who transforms from an adorable seven-year-old tyke to tall and teenaged in the space of only three years. (Johnston later admitted in interviews that she'd just decide to change the way a character is depicted sometimes, leading to some abrupt shifts in age and appearance.)
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_40bb59d0	comment	One of Elly's employees, Kortney, is slacking off at work. She threatens April for finding her on a chatroom during store hours; Elly is in denial and can't bring herself to fire Kortney, even when her own husband advises it. She believes that if she just treats Kortney nicely, the lady will become better as an achiever. April snarkily says that the lady has already achieved doing nothing while getting paid. Sure enough, Kortney starts stealing inventory and covering it up with Blatant Lies about them being donations to the local church, using stolen checks and a Forged Letter. Moira, Elly's second-in-command, eventually takes the initiative to fire Kortney when she and April find that evidence and Elly is on vacation. She tells Elly gently that Kortney didn't appreciate having a good boss like Elly and was taking advantage of her.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Emotional blackmail of the most repulsive sort is a recurring theme in the strip; most of the time, it involves a parent tricking a child into acting against his or her own best interests by subjecting him or her to a logical fallacy that has as its basis the belief that willingly inconveniencing yourself is the only way to be a good child.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_42c9a131	type	Appeal to Worse Problems
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_42c9a131	comment	Appeal to Worse Problems: Very frequently used to shut up characters' trivial complaints. Grandpa Jim uses a speech about how people are starving in third world countries to shut up his grandson Michael's Obnoxious In-Laws when they complain about him having gotten married earlier without their permission.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In Mira's early appearances when Deanna brought Mike home to meet her parents, she was called "Eva" and was a perfectly pleasant woman with no hint of the meddlesome control freak she became.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Mira Sobinski, Deannaâ€™s mother and Michaelâ€™s mother in law is an annoying busybody who walks over everyone and bosses them around, to the point where Deannaâ€™s sister moved with her family clear across the country to Halifax and Deanna and Michael eloped (although they did later have a formal wedding). It wasnâ€™t until she berated the couple for having a small apartment while they had just had their second child and Deanna was recovering from a C-Section that her mild mattered husband Wilf told her to shut up and Michael kicked her out of the house, although she never really apologized or became nicer. The final straw was when she intentionally caused a ruckus with their downstairs neighbors, after complaining about their ceiling banging (which they were doing less frequently) After this arc she only made spordaic appearances in the strip, only doing mildly inconvienient things like giving Meredith and Robin too many stickers which they put all over themselves and the house, and giving Meredith, Robin, and Francie candy when their parents are trying to calm them down (they were excited about Elizabeth's wedding) During Tedâ€™s marriage to Irene, his mother was judgmental and would regularly come over and criticize her. This resulted in Irene divorcing Ted after only six months.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking is Love: At least when Anthony does it!
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4c56f0d2	type	Not Wanting Kids Is Weird
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4c56f0d2	comment	Not Wanting Kids Is Weird: Much of the story of ThÃ©rÃ¨se and Anthony's marriage was communicated to readers via a week of New Yearâ€™s party bathroom gossip, with a group of young women clucking over how awful ThÃ©rÃ¨se was for having a job and not wanting a baby. See also Babies Make Everything Better above.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I have fallen in love...but it's not with a girl." After a months-long arc of troubles with an employee, Moira finally drops the bomb on Elly, who is returning from vacation: "I fired Kortney."
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The stripâ€™s first few years were more of a Deconstruction of the domestic family strip and in a gag a day format instead of story arcs. The aging in real time concept wouldnâ€™t start until 1981.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: Anthony was often compared to John, by other characters and John himself. Naturally, this is why he was the perfect man for Liz.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_527b0932	type	Annoyingly Repetitive Child
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_527b0932	comment	Annoyingly Repetitive Child: Invoked in one comic. Michael plays with a spring doorstop, causing it to emit a "boing" sound. Eventually, Elly caves in and lets him watch TV.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_535156bc	comment	The Bestest Present, a one-off 1985 half-hour Christmas Special by Atkinson Film-Arts which aired on CTV (following The '80s trend of adapting popular comic strips into Christmas specials). Michael and Elizabeth are still young children, and are even voiced by their Real Life inspirations, Aaron and Katie Johnston. (Elly and John are voiced by professional voice actors, but Lynn's then-husband Rod cameos as a mailman.)
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Liz and John try to rouse Farley after he's saved April and has fallen asleep from the ordeal. Only he's not waking up, and he's not breathing. They wrap Farley in a blanket, take him to the vet, who says the dog's heart stopped from the river's cold water. John said he knew Farley was old, but thought his heart would beat forever.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_555d6a8b	type	Locked in the Bathroom
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_555d6a8b	comment	Locked in the Bathroom: Lizzie locked herself in the bathroom once when she was very young.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: According to Johnston, Mira and Wilf were married in a quick ceremony in Poland before getting on a boat to Canada- in the 1960â€™s, when travel out of Poland was difficult and a plane would have been more likely used. Michaelâ€™s book Stone Season is supposed to take place in the 1950s, but everything about it leans closer to the 1850s.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5834239a	type	The Diss Track
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5834239a	comment	The Diss Track: April Patterson composed a ditty aimed at her schoolmate antagonist. "Wormy, Germy Jeremy Jones" gains traction among April's classmates, and annoys Jeremy enough to sic the principal on April.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5860c090	comment	Connie originally was this in the earliest strips. According to Johnson this was so Elly could have a nemesis, but she became more sympathetic over the years.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: The only teenage female character who has pre-marital sex is the "roadside hands-on gig" Becky, who gets demonized for it.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: April thinks this as a toddler after Farley dies saving her. She lies awake at night, wishing that she hadn't gone out to the river.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5bf25e11	type	Extra Digits
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5bf25e11	comment	Extra Digits: The Pattersons' neighbor Anne Nichols has three children. The youngest, Leah, was born with six fingers on both hands. Anne has the extra fingers surgically removed shortly after birth.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The power of family and friends. Life is not perfect but for better or for worse things will turn out fine.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: Elly constantly complains about how nobody ever helps her with the chores... but berates anyone who tries because they're "doing everything wrong". She uses passive-aggressiveness on her husband, then laments that he never gets the message; wobbles and wrings her hands over punishing her children for misbehaving, then whines that she simply doesn't understand how they could be so rowdy. The later years imply that Deanna is drifting towards this trope as well.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_63357bac	type	I Just Write the Thing
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_63357bac	comment	I Just Write the Thing: Johnston has alluded to this in the form of "The Characters Said So", although it may just be trying to deflect criticism.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Farley was old, and his heart was weak. He spent the last few minutes of his life rescuing April from drowning.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_651e4362	type	Chain of People
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_651e4362	comment	Chain of People: Elly and John do this to pull a toddler April and Farley from the river currents. Elly grabs a branch and holds onto John, who manages to catch April's hoodie.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: The Pattersons are frequently accused of this, due to Protagonist-Centered Morality. Perhaps best illustrated by Michael when he witnessed a car accident; unlike his friend Weed, who wanted to help, Michael was more interested in snapping photos of the wreck for an exclusive story, and became outraged when police shooed him off. He only briefly regretted his actions upon learning his childhood crush Deanna was in one of the cars; this did not, however, stop him from insisting that the accident was "fate bringing them back together".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Elly Patterson. In fact, the entire Patterson family was modeled after the Johnston family, with each character's first name being the middle name of their real life counterpart — except Elly, who was named after a childhood friend of Lynn Johnston who died at a young age, and April, who was created to fulfill Johnston's desire for a third child that she never actually had.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_69121204	type	The Un-Favourite
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_69121204	comment	The Un Favourite: April is treated as if she's a selfish little monster for, you know, her parents having her late in their lives and thus being ready to retire when she's not old enough to kick out of the house. If a person, thing, or activity was supposed to be viewed negatively it's because April adored it. These "negative" acts included things like adoring her ailing grandfather and going out of her way to spend time with him, disapproving of Anthony cheating on his wife with Liz, and finishing her homework.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6a37ac44	type	Innocent Awkward Question
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6a37ac44	comment	Innocent Awkward Question: In one strip, Michael asks his dad what sex is. After awkwardly stumbling through the "male and female biological sexes" definition, Michael laughs at him and says it's the number between five and seven.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: Liz once lost Deanna's engagement ring while trying it on.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Patterson Family Enemy Number One ThÃ©rÃ¨se would be a lot less sympathetic for jealously accusing her husband of still neglecting her because he's obsessed with another woman...were those "suspicions" not completely accurate. Johnâ€™s distant cousin Fiona Brass is crass, lazy and a con artist. But sheâ€™s right that John and Elly were too trusting of someone they barely knew to help them with a baby and that Michael and Elizabeth are rather sheltered and naive. Brad Luggsworth as a kid was a bully, but he wasnâ€™t wrong that Michael and his family were unaware of their middle class privileges. While she went WAY too far by banging pots and pans and then starting a fight with the Kelpfroths, Mira was right about them going too far with their ceiling banging when they lived below a family with 2 small children (and it's implied to have caused damage to the ceiling). Not to mention that they do it every time the Pattersons make any noise, even if itâ€™s a toilet flushing or playing mostly quietly, which makes the Kelpfroths overzealous and sensitive.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: James Allen, the offspring of Anthony and Elizabeth, shown only in the final strip to make it clear to all readers that this much-discussed couple will be happy together. Not quite Dead Guy Junior, as James is born in time for his great-grandfather and namesake Jim to hold him before finally expiring.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6eae387f	type	Dress Code
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6eae387f	comment	Dress Code: April finds a loophole in her school's uniform dress code when she notes that knee length socks are compulsory, but that it does not specify colour. She proceeds to buy the brightest rainbow striped socks she can find.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: Michael's best friend Lawrence, in a storyline that got the strip pulled from many newspapers, either temporarily or permanently.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6f83b232	comment	Wish-Fulfillment: Many have pointed out that the picture-perfect wedding between Elizabeth and Anthony followed suspiciously closely on Johnston's real-life divorce. April was born because Johnson had wanted (but not had) a third child. Lynn knew it wasn't really practical in real life and said in the Animated Adaptation that she did the next best thing.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_711a2ad1	type	Impossible Leavening
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_711a2ad1	comment	Impossible Leavening: Elly's attempt to hide a large mass of dough she'd added too much yeast to is foiled when it starts exploding out of the trash can as John comes home.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Michael picked up a huge one when he left Deanna to get their two young children out of the apartment alone during a fire, while he rushed back up to his "writing room" to collect the laptop containing his freshly completed first novel. Even published writers who were fans of the strip criticized this. (Adding exponentially to the surreality, Johnston later admitted she was using the laptop in this story simply as an update for "paper manuscript" and thus hadn't considered backups, the fact that Mike had emailed his mother a copy, etc.) Becky once wore a midriff baring top to show off her belly button ringâ€¦in winter. In the beginning of the "Storm In April" special, Elly takes a toddler April to the library and places her at a table and expects her to sit quietly. It goes about as well as youâ€™d expect, and Elly blames April.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Lawrence and the Enjo family in the stripâ€™s early years.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: ThÃ©rÃ¨se. Connie originally was this in the earliest strips. According to Johnson this was so Elly could have a nemesis, but she became more sympathetic over the years.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_77d826c7	comment	Mrs. Hardarce was Michaelâ€™s Stern Teacher in Grade Four in the strip. Her biography reveals that she had dreams to be a nurse but her mother forced her to be a teacher instead. She later "achieves her dream"â€¦by becoming the sole caregiver for her sick husband.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: A lot of cases (the family was based off of Lynn's), but often averted, which often provoked surprise from people, who assumed they knew a lot about the "lives behind the lines": Rod Johnston is actually a dentist with a love for model trains (he actually had a ride-able scale model built around the family home). But Lynn carefully points out in some of the commentary that "Rod would never say this" if John says something particularly hurtful — she was creating conflict for the strip. Averted in cases like Michael's. His basis (Lynn's young son) was occasionally scolded by complete strangers for being "such a handful", when he was a lot calmer in real life than Michael was. He also did not grow up to be a reporter nor a writer — he jokes in one documentary that his mom basically suggested he become a reporter, and when he declined to follow her advice, she simply wrote that trait into Michael. Lynn Johnston desperately wanted grandchildren, and her kids at the time had none. And so Michael had two, and Elizabeth very quickly became a lot more family-oriented, and was revealed to have given birth in the final strip (her basis finally did breed, to Lynn's joy). Played straight examples include Lynn's son seeing a car crash, then discovering that the victim was someone he knew, Lynn's desire for another child (but unwillingness to actually go through the physical struggle yet again) resulting in the birth of April in the comic, and numerous real-life arguments, comments and jokes said by people Lynn knew (such as the time Michael said "don't get your panties in a bunch" to his own mother).
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Elly in one strip thinks Mike is going to comment on the new neighbours' (Japanese) ethnicity and shushs him, but he surprises her when he says "They're MY age!"
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: April is once sent to her room for misbehaving - and instead takes a nap.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When April tells Elly she has proof that Kortney threatened her for being on a chatroom when she was supposed to be working, Elly is in denial. April asks Elly, "Why do you keep defending her?" Elly weakly says she knows Kortney could do great things as an achiever. April snarks that she's already achieved being paid for doing nothing.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7c9dcc1	comment	April, as The Unfavorite, often had the odd opinion out and was meant to be seen as having the wrong opinion.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Grandpa Jim gives himself one after realizing that he's been wallowing in self-pity over his limitations that have come with age, then concludes by mentally noting that it's always good to give a speech like that to someone you don't like.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: At one point, Lawerence and Michael create and act as superheroes named after bodily functions and noises. Elly scolds them for being gross, then walks into the kitchen and starts laughing. April uses Elizabeth's bra as a slingshot to shoot koosh balls at the dog. When Elizabeth tells on her, Elly is too busy laughing to immediately say anything. When Mrs. Kelpfroth finds out that Michael wrote about her and her husband being terrible neighbors, she admits the title "Knock on the Ceiling Twice" is clever since they've been banging on the ceiling. When Michael's toddler daughter Meredith helps him set the table, being a toddler she mispronounces all the words. Michael loses it when she says "fault and pecker" (salt and pepper)
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: John with baby Lizzie, although he tries to deny it. Elly isn't fooled.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_812fc350	type	Turn of the Millennium
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_812fc350	comment	The Later Years: The present day as of the production of the cartoon, the Turn of the Millennium. Michael is a young adult, attending university (or recently graduated) and in a serious relationship with Deanna Sobinski (they would marry in late 2001). Elizabeth is in her late teens (and, amusingly, dating her eventual husband Anthony), and April is a rambunctious child doing her best to exhaust her aging parents.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_81c113ae	type	Kids Hate Vegetables
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_81c113ae	comment	Kids Hate Vegetables: Elizabeth has a serving of peas on her plate, and her mother insists that she eat them. After much protest and negotiating, Elizabeth appears to get the peas off her plate. It's not until Elly clears away the dinner dishes that she discovers Elizabeth had hidden her peas under the plate's rim.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care: In one strip, a young Elizabeth gives Farley Michael's Halloween candy (including chocolate!) Let's hope the Pattersons got him to a vet as quickly as possible, as that could make him seriously ill.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: Tracey doesnâ€™t have much characterization outside of being Gordonâ€™s wife, business partner and mother of Paul and Rosemary.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: When the Kelpfroths are revealed to be smokers, Lovey Salzman says that she canâ€™t evict them due to the paperwork. In reality, Ontario rental laws do allow termination for smokers, especially since thereâ€™s a health risk to the two small children in the apartment. In Stone Season, one of the many conflicts between protagonist Sheleigh and her abusive husband Harvey is that he refuses to let their sons go to school. However, it takes place in 1950s Saskatchewan, where compulsory education laws were put into place by that time. In reality, both parents would be jailed and the kids placed into care. During Anthonyâ€™s parental leave, he does work at home for Gordon. But because heâ€™s legally on leave, he shouldnâ€™t be doing both paid work and receiving benefits. He would either have to return to work or have him and Gordon be investigated for fraud.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Michael's childhood best friend Lawrence, who came out in a series of dramatic strips.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: All of the kids constantly go around the neighborhood unsupervised, even at very young ages.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_853df68b	type	Rail Enthusiast
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_853df68b	comment	Rail Enthusiast: John, who became so obsessed with this in the declining years of the strip that it moved him Out of Focus.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Gordon to Allyson Creedmore during his high school years.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Mentioned by April after Michael and Deanna's apartment burns down; since their neighbor is selling the house next door, they could buy it and move in with his money from the book deal; sure it's smaller, but it can definitely hold four people. Michael and Deanna veto this.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: By definition, the Pattersons are their creator's mouthpieces... which becomes a serious problem when their creator needs to work out issues. Over time, a distinct "if you're not with the Pattersons, you're against them" theme emerged. Lynn Johnson was on the record as firmly believing in the "not a Patter', don't matter" school of thought, to the extent that she was actually surprised that readers wanted to see Howard convicted for "going after" Elizabeth, because hey, he wasn't going to bother the Pattersons again, so who cares about any other people he might go after?
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Elly averted these styles for the better part of a decade until in one arc in 1989, she got the idea to cut off her long straight hair, as Georgia had done. But when she actually went to get it done, one thing led to another and she ended up getting a body perm instead (from a hairdresser with an edgy '80s girl mullet). Elly was not happy with the result, but John claimed to like it (though it is possible he was just being kind or diplomatic), giving her second thoughts. Connie also liked the perm, but Elizabeth's frank (if unwelcome) comparison to the Bride of Frankenstein seemed to settle the issue. Johnston drew Elly with some curl in her hair for about four months; she started drawing it straight again in September of that year and never gave her that look again. Michaelâ€™s second girlfriend, Rhetta Blum, arguably counts as another example of this, especially in her early appearances. Connieâ€™s stepdaughter Molly had a short and teased hairstyle.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: A staple of the biographies of several supporting cast members: In Anthonyâ€™s early appearances as a teenager, heâ€™s shown to be a cheerful and happy guy, if rather dorky in contrast to the rather insecure Elizabeth. But years later in his online biography, heâ€™s shown to be a more angsty and miserable person as opposed to a more upbeat and confident Elizabeth. Anne Nicholâ€™s husband Steve was shown in the strip to be a loving husband and father despite his faults of hoarding junk and cheating. Anneâ€™s biography has his hoarding Played for Drama and him to be a neglectful alcoholic and borderline abusive to Anne, especially in one scene where he comes dangerously close to beating her because she confronted him on staying out late. Mrs. Hardarce was Michaelâ€™s Stern Teacher in Grade Four in the strip. Her biography reveals that she had dreams to be a nurse but her mother forced her to be a teacher instead. She later "achieves her dream"â€¦by becoming the sole caregiver for her sick husband.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Liz's coworker Howard Bunt, whose obsession eventually culminates in the Attempted Rape mentioned above.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8c678d33	comment	Death by Newbery Medal: Farley's death. The old sheepdog had rescued the then-preschooler April from drowning and had suffered a severe heart attack as a result.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Pretty much any guy Liz was romantically involved with who wasn't Anthony would be revealed to be a Jerkass, cheat, or rapist, in order to make Anthony look better by comparison.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Farley's death, Lawrence's coming out.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8f4a4aad	type	Tongue on the Flagpole
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8f4a4aad	comment	Tongue on the Flagpole: Elizabeth gets her tongue stuck on a flagpole after her mother warned her of the risk. Her reasoning (after Mom painfully peels her tongue off the frozen metal)? "I wanted to see if it was true!"
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8fdd68fc	type	Self-Serving Memory
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_8fdd68fc	comment	Self-Serving Memory: The reason for the Patterson's inability to learn from their past; Elly, for instance, honestly believes that she was a loving, firm, fair and calm parent, when in fact she was none of those things.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Elly gets some with how she treated Kortney. April reports to Elly, with Grandpa Jim backing her up, that Kortney threatened to knock her teeth out for catching her on an adult chatroom. Elly remains in denial and decides to give Kortney a second chance. She finds out several months later that Kortney was stealing from her on a regular basis, including the model trains on display. Fittingly, April helped Moira uncover the evidence and deliver the I Told You So to her mother.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_94274db1	type	Life Embellished
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_94274db1	comment	Life Embellished: April was created because Johnston wanted to have another child but wound up not actually doing so. Michael and Elizabeth's eventual marriages came despite Johnston's own children having yet to "settle down" at the time.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Anthony (Betty) and Paul (Veronica) for Elizabeth (Archie). Alternatively, thereâ€™s Elizabeth (Betty) and ThÃ©rÃ¨se (Veronica) for Anthony (Archie).
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Despite multiple traumas faced by the cast (John and Phil nearly dying on a camping trip gone wrong, April nearly drowning, Elly watching her mother die and fatherâ€™s physical health decline, Elizabethâ€™s sexual assault, Michael and his family losing their home in a fire, FranÃ§oise being abandoned by her mother), nobody is ever seen going to a therapist. The one exception is ThÃ©rÃ¨se in the supplemental stories going to therapy for her PPD and issues with Anthony and her parents, and sheâ€™s naturally in the wrong for it.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: In 2004, Kortney Krelbutz, the assistant at Elly's bookstore, is discovered to have been stealing items from the store and forging checks and charity letters to cover them up, resulting in Moira firing her while Elly's on vacation in Mexico. Kortney retaliates by attempting to sue them for wrongful dismissal, but the lawsuit is quickly thrown out, especially once the cops discover that she assisted in the robbery of a model train in the store a couple of years ago.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: After the incident with Elly's new car, Gordon shows up at school with his face bandaged. He explains that he fell while taking down Christmas lights. Brian asks Mike why he's so suspicious. Mike tells him that they went to Gordon's house for Christmas and they hadn't put up any lights.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Ted. Michael has some shades of this, especially when he let Elly edit Stone Season.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Grandpa Jim◊
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9a25af71	type	Instant Book Deal
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9a25af71	comment	Instant Book Deal: Michael, pretty much once he decides on this as a career. Lynn Johnston had this happen to her pretty much IRL. On the strength of some cartoons she drew for an ObGyn office ceiling (reprinted into two books) Universal Press Syndicate asked her to do a daily strip and signed her to a 20 year contract. It's thought this is why she thinks it so easy to get one.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Mira, Michael's mother-in-law, is one for Elly due to Mira being a control freak and antagonizing the Patterson family. ThÃ©rÃ¨se is supposed to be one for Elizabeth due to wanting a career and being more sophisticated, but readers sympathized with her.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9cbf01d6	comment	ThÃ©rÃ¨se wants to pursue a successful career and is demonized for not complying with her husband Anthony's wishes and giving it all up to become a stay-at-home mom. The fact that she apparently gets postpartum depression is glossed over by Anthony. She then abandons, then completely rejects her own daughter
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9dc2ee3d	type	Ceiling Banger
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9dc2ee3d	comment	Ceiling Banger: The Kelpfroths, Mike and Deanna's downstairs neighbors in their old apartment. To the point where they eventually caused actual damage, which finally gave the landlady (who hated them as much as Mike and Deanna did) the excuse to evict them.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Shannon, who despite her speech impediments apparently had no flaws and made inspirational speeches at the drop of a hat.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: An unfortunate subtext. Good people know that Fate will reward them; messing about with this Natural Order of Things can only lead to unnatural desires. ThÃ©rÃ¨se wants to pursue a successful career and is demonized for not complying with her husband Anthony's wishes and giving it all up to become a stay-at-home mom. The fact that she apparently gets postpartum depression is glossed over by Anthony. She then abandons, then completely rejects her own daughter April's sometimes-friend Becky dreams of becoming a star, like the rest of her friends. When she rises to fame, she becomes progressively bitchy, though she does have her occasional sympathetic moments. Liz showed some ambition, becoming a teacher at a First Nation village, learning their culture and bonding with her students. She gave all of it up for Anthony, though according to the epilogue she did resume her work, presumably in her hometown. Perhaps rather tellingly, the only one who's shown to have achieved her ambition is the black sheep of the family, April.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Lawrence comes out to his mother and step-father, the latter reacts by throwing him out of the house, much to Connie's shock and horror. A couple of hours later, Greg is hit with a lot of regret, and the next day he welcomes his stepson back promising to respect his sexual orientation.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a2246cef	type	Strip Archive
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a2246cef	comment	Strip Archive: All the strips, even ones that were never put into collections, are now available for free on the strip's website. They have put a block over strips that are due to be reprinted in the near future, however, along with a line about "Not spoiling the surprise".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a49914aa	type	Bowdlerization
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: In the lead-up to Michael and Deanna's wedding, Deanna's mother threw one more massive hissy fit about Michael allowing Lawrence, an openly gay man, to be his best man. However, unlike the earlier Lawrence stories, an alternative storyline was also circulated to papers that deemed their readership too sensitive to the subject that changed the fight to being concerned with a flower arrangement. Notably, both strips used the same art, simply reworking dialog slightly to make both of them work - and in the censored version, Lawrence had provided the flower arrangement, hence he remained relevant. When the strip was re-ran from the beginning, any strip with Michael being spanked as a punishment was altered to have him being punished in a different way, because spanking is considered a controversial form of discipline in this day and age unlike in the 80s when the strips were originally published.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Mr. Bâ€™s death was an emotional and heartbreaking arc as April watched her bunny decline and dieâ€¦until it ended with Black Comedy with Elly placing the body in the freezer before burial.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Lynn Johnston loved showing the toddler aged characters (especially April) run around or play naked from time to time.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Elly's musician brother has made a few appearances and the kids just adore him. Hilarity Ensues when he attempts to take them off the parents' hands for a night and he wears himself out trying to get them to bed.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a68421bb	comment	April was born because Johnson had wanted (but not had) a third child. Lynn knew it wasn't really practical in real life and said in the Animated Adaptation that she did the next best thing.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Mr. B, the family's pet rabbit, eventually dies of old age late one night in April's arms.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a7016efe	type	Lonely Rich Kid
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a7016efe	comment	Lonely Rich Kid: Michael's friend Weed, Anthony in his backstory.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a794cb71	type	Hereditary Wedding Dress
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a794cb71	comment	Hereditary Wedding Dress: During the planning of Elizabeth's wedding to Anthony in For Better or for Worse, Liz's sister-in-law Deanna just happened to find her late grandmother Marianâ€™s wedding dress in a crawlspace in the house Mike inherited from his parents, and naturally the Pattersons insisted Liz wore it by having Deanna talk Elizabeth into it as her reaction to the engagement, not giving Liz any time to think about it or if she wanted her own dress. At least they had it cleaned first. Deanna altered it to the point where it looked like a different dress entirely, resulting in a fan theory that the dress realistically fell apart after years of being shoved in a cardboard box in a moldy crawl space and Elizabeth and Deanna secretly bought a dress and passed it off as her grandmotherâ€™s.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Grandpa Jim's stroke appears to have left him mentally damaged, but he is in fact just fine mentally. He just can't speak. So we get strips where he mentally begs people to stop babying him, but can only communicate with a loud noise that people take as him thanking them for babying him (or, in one memorable strip, his own grandson calling him 'crazy'). Yeah...
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Johnston, in an attempt to avoid dating the strip too badly (and probably also to get around syndicate censorship), tries to create her own teenage slang for stuff. Some of these include the insult "foob" and the phrase "Roadside".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aa5b4f2c	type	Wedding Episode
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aa5b4f2c	comment	Wedding Episode: Several throughout the years: Ted and Ireneâ€™s wedding in March of 1986. Phil and Georgiaâ€™s wedding in June of 1987. Gordon and Tracey in August of 1995. Michael and Deannaâ€™s private wedding in November of 2000. Michael and Deannaâ€™s public wedding in August of 2001. Jim and Irisâ€™s elopement in August of 2002. Anthony and ThÃ©rÃ¨se's wedding in August of 2003. Elizabeth and Anthonyâ€™s wedding in August of 2008, which is also the stripâ€™s Series Finale.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aa9bdb08	type	Youthful Freckles
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aa9bdb08	comment	Youthful Freckles: Anthony.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ab2e5fde	type	Fun with Flushing
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ab2e5fde	comment	Fun with Flushing: April flushed something, probably a toy boat, down the toilet when she was a toddler. It was the punchline of a strip where they define the word "goomby" or something similar (that's what April says upon flushing it; rhymes with "good-bye"). The following strip shows the father with a plunger, and eventually picking the commode up off the base, saying "Whoever called that thing a convenience never had small children!" Meredith as a toddler flushed the Naked Ned doll down the toilet, which becomes a Brick Joke a few years later when Michael finds it after the family's toilet needs to be fixed (Robin clogged the toilet by flushing a sock down it)
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: When Elly is venting about her latest body issues to Anne, she tells her if she can lose ten pounds and reduce her thighs, then sheâ€™ll be happy. Anne responds with "Face it, Elâ€¦youâ€™ll never be happy."
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: While Elly is pregnant with April, Elizabeth and Michael are discussing the new baby. Elizabeth says she hopes it's a girl, and very much to her surprise, Michael says, "Me too, then I won't have to share my room." Elizabeth's non-verbal reaction is the very epitome of this, as she realizes she WILL have to share her room if it's a girl.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ae136edf	type	Plagiarism in Fiction
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ae136edf	comment	Plagiarism in Fiction: When Becky starts falling behind on schoolwork, she asks April for a copy of her upcoming book report. April does a variation; she gives Becky the outline for her book report because she doesn't want to get busted. It turns out even with that, Becky is still failing.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: John in the early days was pretty likely to just make a joke at Elly's expense when she was being particularly fussy or crabby about something. It usually went unappreciated.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Anthony's ex-wife ThÃ©rÃ¨se is given a myriad of informed flaws. She rarely appears in the strip proper, so for the most part we have only Anthony's point of view and the local gossips to provide us with these "facts". The only times we see her acting on any of them are fairly mild and sometimes even justified (i.e. her jealous suspicions that her husband was still obsessed with Liz). April is supposedly a rebellious teenager, yet is only occasionally shown talking back to her parents. Note that in the strip's eyes, things like deciding to skip dinner to focus on finishing her homework, insisting that somebody is stealing from her mother's store and abusing her trust, and reminding them of promises they've completely broken all count as being "defiant". She's at least vindicated when Kortney is fired, after she helps Moira gather the evidence.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_afe75982	type	Unsound Effect
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_afe75982	comment	Unsound Effect: Used frequently.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b351349c	type	Flowery Elizabethan English
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b351349c	comment	Flowery Elizabethan English: Someone who steals the door of Michael's dorm room talks like this when Michael asks where his door is. His speech bubbles even have flowers in them.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: Used sometimes within the strip. Used almost constantly in the author's daily notes accompanying the strips on the official website.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The "new runs" seem to be one long series of these toward her now ex husband.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: The (long) series in Mtigwaki where Elly narrates about the Natives' lives; Shannon's speech about the disabled.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b5b5ba3c	type	Rape Portrayed as Redemption
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b5b5ba3c	comment	Rape Portrayed as Redemption: While she was "merely gone after", Elizabeth's Near-Rape Experience had uncomfortable undertones of this, as it was used to drive her back home into the smothering care of her parents until Anthony was "on the market" again.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b5f7c29b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b5f7c29b	comment	When Anthony emotionally cheats on ThÃ©rÃ¨se with Elizabeth during his entire engagement and marriage and Elizabeth leads Eric, Paul and Warren on, itâ€™s portrayed as Starcrossed Lovers and romantic.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The 8-31-08 strip◊.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Both Liz and Michael end up marrying their elementary school sweethearts.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: According to Johnston, ThÃ©rÃ¨se is one. The Kelpfroths downstairs are implied to be this as well, since the main thing they complain about is the presence of child's toys and various other child-related items being strewn across the property. Despite this being a rather reasonable complaint in a shared living space, the strip naturally took the view that only people who loathed children would dare ask for a clean property.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: The strip's site has no forum, but some of the regular contributors to the letters page can veer close to this.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_be64f6bc	type	Bonding Over Dislikes
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_be64f6bc	comment	Bonding Over Dislikes: Mike and his first girlfriend Martha bonded over disliking their first names (Mike was named after a high school friend of his mom's that he's never met, Martha after an aunt). After hearing this, Martha eagerly asks what else they hate in common.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_bf2a09c1	type	Five-Finger Discount
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_bf2a09c1	comment	Five-Finger Discount: Michael shoplifts a scarf for his mother in an early strip. He doesn't get caught, but he feels guilty and returns it to the store - and this time he IS caught (but doesn't get in any real trouble).
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: While Michael and Deanna were living in their apartment, Mira kept trying to convince them to move somewhere bigger, due to not having a lot of space for themselves and their family, plus the frustrating neighbors. While sheâ€™s right about that, Deanna is right to point out that the space is fine, they like the area they live in, and itâ€™s close to work. Plus, the only reason Mira wants them to move is so she can see them every day, which Deanna does not want.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c0965210	type	Canada Does Not Exist
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c0965210	comment	Canada Does Not Exist: The strip's Canadian setting really isn't played up, and at times deliberately obfuscated. This can result in the impression that the strip actually takes place in America, apparently in an effort to make it more relatable to American audiences. She makes a point of using American legal expressions during the trial of Howard Bunt, and avoids mentioning that Canadian Thanksgiving is in October.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c10da874	comment	The Early Years: The '80s, the same period as The Bestest Present.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c1d57cf7	type	"The Villain Sucks" Song
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: April writes a song called "Germy Wormy Jeremy Jones", about a kid whoâ€™s been bullying her and her friends. It becomes a hit with the rest of the student body until the principal is forced to step in and ban them from singing it.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c251665e	type	My Hair Came Out Green
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c251665e	comment	My Hair Came Out Green: Liz goes for a dye job, and apparently her hair ends up bright purple.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c280632d	type	Dreaded Kids' Table
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c280632d	comment	Dreaded Kids' Table: In the final Christmas strip, April is made to sit in the kitchen with FranÃ§oise, Meredith and Robin despite her being in her late teens. Itâ€™s explicitly stated that she was sent to babysit.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The main reason why Deanna refused Miraâ€™s offers to move out of the apartment she and Michael lived in was that Mira kept suggesting a place close enough to her to see them every day. Later, she happily moves into the old Patterson houseâ€¦where Elly can see them every day.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: With the size of the cast, it is perhaps inevitable that certain characters would be written out of the series. However, several simply vanished without an explanation, until rather contradictory prose accounts were written some years later. Iconic examples would be Connie's stepdaughters Molly and Gayle, who vanished without warning after two years of being the focal point of some drama. Averted with Howard, though: she tried doing this but reckoned without the fanbase who wanted to see him get his comeuppance. The most egregious example of this are Anne and her family, who had been neighbors to Elly since the strip began, and her 3 kids being the focus of many story arcs (most infamously her daughter Leah being born with 6 fingers on each hand) She all but vanished from the comic after she got a job and couldn't babysit April for Elly anymore, and her kids never appeared again.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: The Pattersons never retain anything they learn, such as Elly's temporary bout of appreciating her husband after he and Phil nearly died on a camping trip Gone Horribly Wrong, or Michael realizing that "bad things don't just happen to other people". Despite being called out on her behavior by Wilf, Michael, and Lovey, and her other daughter moving all the way to Halifax, Mira never learns when to stop butting in on her daughterâ€™s life.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c4b0db65	type	Speech-Bubbles Interruption
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c4b0db65	comment	Speechbubbles Interruption
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: One example had Elly throwing a fit about her horrible spawn April and prompted John to loom ominously over his youngest daughter, implying he intended to beat her if she didn't immediately come down and apologize to her mother. The "crime" was that April wanted to finish her homework and skip dinner.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: April and her friends watch Chicken Run at her 10th birthday sleepover. At Elizabeth's second birthday party she carries around a Magilla Gorilla doll.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: Farley was friendly to everyone and died saving April's life.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: When Michael writes a story based on the Kelpfroths and it gets published in a local journal, Deanna expresses concern about them finding out. Michael brushes it off by saying that the Kelpfroths donâ€™t read the journal and if they do, they wonâ€™t know itâ€™s them due to Michael using fake names. Cut to the Kelpfroths doing the exact opposite.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Anthonyâ€™s backstory implies that his issues with his parents and stepmother are the source of some of his actions later in the strip.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: Several, the most common being Elly and John taking kid free vacations or one of the kids going to a family farm. Notable ones include: The Pattersons staying at Tedâ€™s cabin in July of 1981. The Pattersons visiting Johnâ€™s sister Beverly and family in their farm in Manitoba in July 1983. Michael taking a solo trip to visit Jim and Marian in Vancouver in June of 1984. The Pattersons returning to the farm in Christmas of 1988. Michael taking a solo trip to the farm in June of 1991. Elly, Elizabeth and April going to Vancouver for Spring Break of 1992. Elly and John taking a cruise in February of 1995. The Pattersons (sans Michael) going on a road trip throughout western Canada and parts of the US in July of 1995. Elly and John going to Mexico in February of 1996. Elizabeth taking a solo trip to the farm in July of 1996. Michael and Weed going to Ireland in August of 1998. Michael and Weed going to Tokyo in March of 2003. John and Elly returning to Mexico in April of 2004. April going on solo trips to the farm in the summers of 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c919de1d	type	"London, England" Syndrome
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_c919de1d	comment	"London, England" Syndrome: When readers learned that Michael was heading to a university in London, several naturally thought he was going to London, England, and not the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Lynn herself said that this was deliberate to get this kind of response.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Michael's writing "genius", when shown excerpts of his writing are generally regarded as clichÃ© at best or junk at worst; Anthony's positive traits and suitability as a husband as related by everyone Elizabeth knows. Deanna was supposed to be a skilled pharmacist, but she made an easy mistake with contraceptives that resulted in Meredith and then her job was downplayed to the point where she was essentially a homemaker.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ca68d759	type	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ca68d759	comment	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology: Deanna's claim that she, a licensed pharmacist, didn't know switching birth control meds would leave you more fertile between cycling off the old and starting the new. (The dual result of this "oopsie" was their first child, Meredith — conception occurred on their honeymoon — and the fan theory that she deliberately did this.) This is lampshaded later when Elizabeth's friend Candace points out how unlikely it would be for a pharmacist to make such a mistake.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: A common accusation leveled at the author, over everything from basic fact-checking to apparently being unable to keep elements of her own strip straight, causing character ages, appearances, personalities and even names to flux wildly, particularly in the last few years. She has on occasion openly admitted that her readers keep better track of her continuity than she can be bothered to.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cae8e25d	type	Misery Lit
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cae8e25d	comment	Misery Lit: Michaelâ€™s first book, Stone Season is this: Loosely Based On A True Story from his college landlady about a young British woman who marries a Canadian solider right after WW2 and ends up in an unhappy and abusive relationship in a failing remote farm, slaving away along with her children for years until he drinks himself to death. Itâ€™s a smash hit in the strip, but many readers thought it was over the top.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Paving the way for the eventual marriage of Liz and Anthony, Liz's boyfriend Paul cheated on her, and her on-and-off boyfriend Warren started being depicted as a manipulative, unstable quasi-stalker. Meanwhile, Anthony's bitchy Clingy Jealous Wife ThÃ©rÃ¨se left him for another person after years of (justified!) jealousy over Anthony's feelings for Liz, but her final appearance in the comic is less resolution and more of the comic making one last attempt to get the readers to hate her.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cf92fea8	comment	April is supposedly a rebellious teenager, yet is only occasionally shown talking back to her parents. Note that in the strip's eyes, things like deciding to skip dinner to focus on finishing her homework, insisting that somebody is stealing from her mother's store and abusing her trust, and reminding them of promises they've completely broken all count as being "defiant". She's at least vindicated when Kortney is fired, after she helps Moira gather the evidence.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Early comics, as shown by some of the reruns Johnston has done, were gag-a-day strips with the same general range of humor as Marvin or Baby Blues. Later on, the strip developed a serious streak where the jokes would be mild to nonexistent for brief periods; for example, the coming-out story often had very gentle jokes in the last panel at best. The strip went into turnaround mode as it neared the end, ending almost every single strip in a groan-inducing bad pun, no matter how serious the content is supposed to be.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Despite both Elizabeth and April going through puberty, they are never shown getting their first periods or discussing anything related to menstruation. There is one strip where April and Liz are catching up after not having seen each other for a few months, and April, who's at a plausible age of menarche, mentions she "started my you-know-what".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d13304f	type	Overreacting Airport Security
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d13304f	comment	Overreacting Airport Security: The family gets in trouble when the kids play with toy ray guns, which no one in their right mind would confuse for real weapons. Luckily, a more reasonable security officer defuses the situationnote This storyline took place long before 9-11, and the ensuing over-zealousness of security protocols.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d140cb45	type	Wring Every Last Drop out of Him
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d140cb45	comment	Wring Every Last Drop out of Him: Grandpa Jim gets progressively sicker and sicker with strokes and heart attacks to the point there have been several "fakeouts" of his death. He has yet another heart attack at the end of the strip, on the day of Liz's wedding. Yet he never actually dies until the age of 89 —somehow surviving two more years (he was born in 1921) after the end of the strip!
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: When April, having a guitar malfunction in a concert, complains that "(her) G-string broke". Two men who overhear find it hilarious.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d1da2c36	comment	Anne Nicholâ€™s husband Steve was shown in the strip to be a loving husband and father despite his faults of hoarding junk and cheating. Anneâ€™s biography has his hoarding Played for Drama and him to be a neglectful alcoholic and borderline abusive to Anne, especially in one scene where he comes dangerously close to beating her because she confronted him on staying out late.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Moira is disappointed that Elly doesn't want to confront Kortney for slacking off in the shop. She says Elly is the boss but also tells her at some point she needs to stop believing in someone who threatened her daughter and is the most likely thief for missing inventory. John says the same thing after Kortney threatens April for finding her on a chatroom during work hours. Eventually, Moira takes action while Elly is on vacation; she finds evidence that Kortney was stealing and fires her on those grounds while showing Elly the proof, including stolen checks and letters. Elly is in shock that she let herself be played for a fool, especially when Moira reminds her that April was a prime witness to this behavior, and April reveals that Kortney's boyfriend stole the model trains that went missing.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: Mtigwaki, the First Nation village Liz taught at.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d5bc2131	type	House Fire
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d5bc2131	comment	House Fire: The December 2006 story arc where Michael, Deanna and their children are forced from their duplex home due to a fire in the downstairs unit (caused by the occupant smoking in bed).
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d5d265ec	type	Housewife
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d5d265ec	comment	A lot of ThÃ©rÃ¨se's behavior is exactly what you expect from someone whoâ€™s being forced into a life they donâ€™t want: She was convinced to have a baby and be a wife in the suburbs, Anthony lied to her about being the primary caregiver in hopes she would be magically compelled to be a Housewife after the birth of their daughter, never got help for her PPD and was essentially a replacement for the woman her husband really loved. So itâ€™s no surprise that she cheats on Anthony and walks away from it all.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Whether Shawna-Marie is white or black depends on which strip you read.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Often mixes with the wholly invented slang mentioned in Totally Radical above, where characters will use an Unusual Euphemism that Johnston invented... and then have to explain it by using a more standard euphemism ("Boxcar!").
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d8e509e2	type	Worse with Context
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_d8e509e2	comment	Worse with Context: In one comic, Michael tells his half-asleep mother that Elizabeth just went outside with her new umbrella and wearing her new boots, which just gets a series of grunts. Then he adds she's only wearing the boots. Elly runs outside to chase down her daughter while a grinning Michael muses that he likes telling the best part last. Another strip shows Elizabeth retaliating after Michael puts soap on her toothbrush. When she tells him she used his toothbrush, it doesn't faze Michael in the slightest. Then Elizabeth tells him she didn't use it for her teeth, but for Farley's.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Moira is this when helping Elly run the bookstore. She suspects Kortney Krelbutz, their new employee, of stealing. Kortney finds ways to cover up with forged letters and checks, and smirks at Moira when Elly absolves her. So Moira waits until she has evidence, and fires Kortney while Elly is away. Then she presents the proof to Elly, telling her while it's good to be nice, sometimes you need to trust your instincts and follow up on seemingly perfect cover stories. As Elly starts to cry Tears of Remorse, Moira tells April to give her mother some alone time, knowing this is a hard pill to swallow.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: When April is pulled out from a freezing river, the only medical care John and Elly give her is wrapping her in a coat. Theyâ€™re never shown taking her to a hospital or checking her for symptoms of hypothermia or if she has any water in her lungs. In Real Life, effects from drowning can sometimes appear hours after rescue and April would have to kept under observation in an emergency room.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e2e4edb2	type	Yiddish as a Second Language
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: Mrs. Saltzman peppered her speech with increasingly more Yiddishisms as time went on.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e35e6fbb	type	Trapped at the Dinner Table
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e35e6fbb	comment	Trapped at the Dinner Table: In one strip, a young Elizabeth isn't allowed to leave the dinner table until she's finished her peas. She tries to hide them by putting them under her plate.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e4385ff4	type	Straying Baby
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e4385ff4	comment	Straying Baby: Portrayed realistically. When April was a toddler, she wandered into the background and opened the gate that led to the nearby river. She had asked her parents she could go outside, and they were too busy to pay attention to her. She then fell into the river and went under while calling for her mother. Farley dives in and grabs April's hoodie, keeping her head above the water, just as Elly and John realize they can't find April and see the duo fighting the currents after Edgar leads them there. They manage to pull out April and Farley doing an impromptu Chain of People, with April apologizing for nearly dying. Liz comes, checking on her little sister...and notices Farley has collapsed. He died from the cold water giving him shock.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Leading to Lynn Johnston having to consciously imitate her earlier style for the post-2008 "new-runs".
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Pretty much everyone in the last few years of the strip gets boiled down to basic personally traits.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Lynn Johnston tried to do this, bless her heart, with Anthony's shrewish, self-centered ex-wife ThÃ©rÃ¨se, who was intended to be seen as a icy-hearted, spiteful, and vindictive witch so that readers wouldn't feel bad about Anthony cheating on her. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way, since most of her "hateful" behavior towards Liz and Anthony stemmed from things like 1) not wanting to have a child, 2) not wanting to give up her job and become the sole caretaker for said unwanted child, 3) being angry at Anthony when he went back on his word that she wouldn't be the sole caretaker for said unwanted child, and 4) getting angry at him because she thought he was cheating on her...which he was. And yet readers were basically expected to take the other characters' word that ThÃ©rÃ¨se was a demoness bride of Hitler.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: A one-off example is a Sunday strip from a couple of years ago about the Pattersons "going green", while the rest of the world continues to waste and rot.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e99cc683	type	Innocent Swearing
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e99cc683	comment	Innocent Swearing: April does this at one point.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Anthony when he had his mustache. Gordon and Weed in the later years, especially in comparison to Michael. Both looked as if they were John and Elly's age. Anthony's daughter FranÃ§oise is supposed to be 2 years old but looks and acts more like a 6-10 year old.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ea582f7c	type	Sent Off to Work for Relatives
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ea582f7c	comment	Sent Off to Work for Relatives: This became a regular event as Michael, Elizabeth and later April became teenagers: Michael is sent to live with his aunt Beverly and uncle Dan, John's sister and brother-in-law, beginning Tuesday 27 June 1991. John grew up on a farm, so he believes his kids should have the same life experience. Michael is initially reluctant, but warms to the farm over the summer. He returns a second time. Elizabeth is sent there beginning on Wednesday 17 July 1996. She starts out gloomy, but the place grows on her. Her trip also results in her buying Mr. B at an auction. April spends three summers at the farm in 2005, 2006 and 2007. She enjoys it the most, due to her already being an animal lover.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ee22ccb3	type	Lecherous Stepparent
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ee22ccb3	comment	Lecherous Stepparent: According to the supplementary materials, Candace has one who repeatedly attempted to assault her or make blatant passes at her. To make matters worse, her mother knew, but cared more about having a man in her life than her daughterâ€™s safety. This resulted in Candace disowning them both and staying away from them.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f2fe3a61	type	Romantic Runner-Up
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f2fe3a61	comment	Romantic Runner-Up: Anthony. Or, at any rate, he seems like he should be one of these, and the strip's insistence on making him Elizabeth's "man of destiny" regardless of this goes a long way toward explaining the extreme antipathy he inspires in the readership.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f34a4c1e	type	Lower-Class Lout
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f34a4c1e	comment	Lower-Class Lout: Quite a few in the supplementary materials: Fiona, Gordonâ€™s parents, Bradâ€™s fatherâ€¦
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: Almost every punchline is a horrible pun like this. Grandpa Jim can't even speak much and is close to death, and he STILL makes puns in his head.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Edgar the dog, for Farley (his dad). He has his father's heroic spirit. It seems that Lynn had originally planned to pair Liz off with Christopher Nichols; when she placed his family under embargo because of his parents' marital problems, she created a look-alike with freckles and eyeglasses: Anthony.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Candace endured years of poverty and cruel treatment before finally getting a loving boyfriend, entering a common law marriage with him and thriving in Toronto. For what it's worth, April as an adult pursues a career as a vet, marries long after the fact, and moves away from her family.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f6a9024b	type	Altar the Speed
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f6a9024b	comment	Altar the Speed: Liz basically drops all commitments and her career to get married to Anthony at the end of the strip's run. Mira and Wilf had one in their backstory, which results in Mira micromanaging the weddings of her daughters.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f81d8982	type	High-School Sweethearts
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f81d8982	comment	High-School Sweethearts: Liz and Anthony, Gordon and Tracey, plus elementary school sweethearts Mike and Deanna. In fact, a running mockery of the strip has become that everyone in the Foobiverse must marry the first non-related person of the opposite sex they meet. The last non-"new-run" strips reveal that April moved to the other side of the country and hooked up with an unnamed "country boy", a fact which elicited cheers; the readers just wanted to see one Patterson kid escape the web. Supplementary material make this apply to Anthony... with ThÃ©rÃ¨se! They knew each other as kids (even younger than when Elizabeth met Anthony) thanks to their father's long-standing business ties.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Of Elizabeth, by a coworker, from which Anthony rescues her. Unfortunately (especially given the strip's by-then iconic reputation for nuanced realism) Johnson initially chose to use the situation solely as a device to give Anthony a Big Damn Heroes moment to kickstart their romance. Thus an immediate aftermath that focused, not on Elizabeth struggling with her trauma or even reporting the assault to the police, but Anthony seemingly taking advantage of her vulnerability to demand she wait for him to escape his horrible marriage. When the inevitable reader backlash erupted, Johnson hastily cobbled together a followup in which Howard the rapist is arrested and tried... in which the focus is almost solely on on Anthony's chivalrous support in Liz' time of need.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fa3d111f	type	Maternally Challenged
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fa3d111f	comment	Maternally Challenged: ThÃ©rÃ¨se has no real desire for a child, and only agrees to have one when Anthony promises he'll feed it and clean up after it and everything while she resumes her career — while secretly hoping all the while that pregnancy will cause some sort of maternal instinct to kick in. When it doesn't, this is shamelessly used to clear Anthony's moral path to the much more conventionally-minded Elizabeth.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Mason and Julia, thrown in at the last minute to (rather unsuccessfully) add suspense as to whether Liz and Anthony would finally hook up. They were dates to Shawna-Marieâ€™s wedding and they were both ditched during the reception (Mason getting drunk to boot).
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: In a nutshell, the situation with Elizabeth, Anthony and ThÃ©rÃ¨se: When Anthony emotionally cheats on ThÃ©rÃ¨se with Elizabeth during his entire engagement and marriage and Elizabeth leads Eric, Paul and Warren on, itâ€™s portrayed as Starcrossed Lovers and romantic. When ThÃ©rÃ¨se cheats on Anthony with another man, itâ€™s treated as a major betrayal and the reason why their marriage ended. On Elizabethâ€™s end, when Eric cheats and Paul breaks up their long distance relationship, theyâ€™re both shown to be the bad guys in the relationship and not deserving of Elizabeth.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Kortney threatens April for finding her on a chatroom during work hours at Elly's business. Later, April helps Moira gather the evidence that Kortney was stealing from them, reports her to the police, and breaks the news to her mother with a sad I Told You So after Moira fires Kortney.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fced5df7	type	Disposable FiancÃ©
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fced5df7	comment	Disposable FiancÃ©: Perry, Deannaâ€™s unseen first fiancÃ© is a classic Bland Perfection example: heâ€™s never seen in the strip, his only trait is that heâ€™s rich and successful and Mira practically arranged for him to marry Deanna. Naturally, Deanna dumps him without a thought after bonding with Michael. ThÃ©rÃ¨se is considered to be an Evil All Along version by Johnston.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Meredith as a toddler flushed the Naked Ned doll down the toilet, which becomes a Brick Joke a few years later when Michael finds it after the family's toilet needs to be fixed (Robin clogged the toilet by flushing a sock down it)
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fe7d9114	type	Sleeps with Both Eyes Open
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_fe7d9114	comment	Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: One issue has Michael fall asleep and start snoring in class with his eyes wide open after studying all night.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In the Animated Adaptation when Michael is working at a hot dog stand, his boss explains to him that, out of a pack of six hot dogs being sold, only the sixth sale generates profit. All the rest go to overhead. Granted, this really isn't something that only a business major would know, but it actually is nice to see someone explain that not every sale of something equals profit, especially in an animated show. Another example in the strip itself, when Michael goes on a business trip to Japan. At one point, Michael is writing his article in the hotel bar, and can happily type away because everyone's surrounding conversation is just white noise to him. The Japanese-speaking people around him have dialogue bubbles filled with kanji; according to Johnston, she wrote the 'small talk' of all the people in English, then consulted with a Japanese friend to translate them properly. Those who know kanji have confirmed that all of this actually does read as real, sensible phrases, rather than random kanji strung together.
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For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Instant Book Deal / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	It Kind of Looks Like a Face / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Jerkass Has a Point / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Kiddie Kid / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Kids Hate Vegetables / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Fertility / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Lecherous Stepparent / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Let's See YOU Do Better! / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Life Embellished / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Lifetime Movie of the Week / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Like Is, Like, a Comma / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Like Parent, Like Spouse / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Locked in the Bathroom / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	"London, England" Syndrome / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Lost Wedding Ring / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Love Dodecahedron / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Ma'am Shock / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Makeover Fail / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mandatory Motherhood / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Men Can't Keep House / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Misery Lit / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Misery Poker / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mistaken for Racist / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Most Writers Are Adults / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Most Writers Are Writers / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Motion Comic / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Murder by Inaction / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Muse Abuse / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mustache Vandalism / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Beloved Smother / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hair Came Out Green / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Own Private "I Do" / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Naked People Are Funny / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	New Year's Resolution / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	No Periods, Period / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Non-Uniform Uniform / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Nose Nuggets / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Not Wanting Kids Is Weird / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Nuclear Family / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	O.O.C. Is Serious Business / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Obnoxious In-Laws / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	One-Steve Limit / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Orwellian Retcon / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Out of Focus / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Oven Logic / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Overreacting Airport Security / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Overshadowed by Controversy / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Periphery Hatedom / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Pet Dress-Up / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Pick Up Babes With Babes / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Pint-Sized Kid / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playground Song / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Pictionary / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Porn Stache / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Properly Paranoid / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Proxy Breakup / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Pungeon Master / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Rail Enthusiast / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Rape Portrayed as Redemption / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Recycled Script / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Refuge in Audacity / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Remember the New Guy? / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Reveal Shot / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Ridiculously Average Guy / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Rooting for the Empire / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Scapegoat Creator / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	School Play / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Screaming Plane Baby / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Screw This, I'm Outta Here / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Seasonal Rot / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Self-Inflicted Hell / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Sent Off to Work for Relatives / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	She Is All Grown Up / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Shipper on Deck / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Silence Is Golden / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Skewed Priorities / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Slice of Life / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Slippery Swimsuit / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Someone to Remember Him By / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Speech-Bubbles Interruption / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Stalking Is Love / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Stay in the Kitchen / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Stock "Yuck!" / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Strangled by the Red String / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Strawman Has a Point / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Strong Family Resemblance / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Sudden School Uniform / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Symbol Swearing / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Sympathetic Adulterer / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Take Our Word for It / int_3c4ddc1e
Teletoon	seeAlso	For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Temporal Theme Naming / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	That Was Objectionable / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The '70s / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The '90s / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Chain of Harm / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The City vs. the Country / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The "Fun" in "Funeral" / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The One That Got Away / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Scrappy / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Thing That Would Not Leave / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Trouble with Tickets / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Un-Favourite / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Unpronounceable / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	"The Villain Sucks" Song / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	This Is My Side / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	This Is Reality / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Timmy in a Well / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Token Black Friend / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Tomboyish Ponytail / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Tongue on the Flagpole / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Torment by Annoyance / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Totally Radical / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Trapped at the Dinner Table / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unintentional Uncanny Valley / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unintentionally Unsympathetic / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unishment / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unsound Effect / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unwanted Glasses Plot / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Urine Trouble / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Very False Advertising / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Visual Innuendo / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wanting Is Better Than Having / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wedding Finale / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Whoopi Epiphany Speech / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wicked Stepmother / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wild Teen Party / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Worse with Context / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Worst Aid / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wring Every Last Drop out of Him / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Writers Cannot Do Math / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	You Watch Too Much X / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Suddenly Sexuality / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Suspiciously Similar Substitute / int_3c4ddc1e
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unusual Euphemism / int_3c4ddc1e

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