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Piranha Club (Comic Strip)
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- 66 feature instances
- 25 referencing feature instances
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The Piranha Club (formerly Ernie) is an American newspaper comic by Bud "Bo" Grace. Started in 1988, it focuses on loser Ernie Floyd and the various eccentric and sketchy characters around him in Bayonne, New Jersey.Earning only moderate success in its native US, Ernie has become very popular in Scandinavia, particularly Sweden, where it runs in several large newspapers and has its own comic book since 1996. Two runs of collections have been published, as well as a video game.The strip ended on February 3, 2018, after 30 years. | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats: The Piranha Club perform their secret rituals in piranha hats. | |
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Blind Without 'Em | |
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Blind Without 'Em: Doris, before switching to contacts. | |
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You Can Keep Her! | |
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You Can Keep Her!: One storyline has Mother Packer being kidnapped by a pair of bumbling crooks. Of course, Dr. Pork had no intention of getting her back. Eventually they let her go after Mother Packer beats the crap out of them, who then proceeds to go after her son-in-law... | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: After decades of dating, Ernie and Doris finally got married, and had a daughter. | |
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Pro Wrestling Episode | |
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Pro Wrestling Episode: One storyline revolved around Arnold becoming a pro wrestler under the name the Masked Slapper, with Sid as his shifty manager. | |
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Diet Episode | |
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Diet Episode: The second half of the "Cheese Of the Month Club" arc, with Ernie trying to lose the weight he gained due to the first part. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Provided he's not dealing with his wife or step mother, the most reaction you'll see out of Dr. Enos Pork is the changed angle of his cigarette. It's surprisingly effective at conveying his current state of mind. | |
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Angry Guard Dog | |
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Angry Guard Dog: When Sid needed a recording of an angry barking dog for his home security system scam (the original tape with a barking chiuaua didn't exactly impress the customers), he asked the owner of the local junkyard if he could record the man's dog. The owner agreed, since "Old Satan hadn't had much fun lately". Sid wisely decided to hire some extra help, with mixed results. | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_2ec6e90f | comment |
Yet Another Christmas Carol: The strip used this as a Christmas storyline with Sid as Scrooge, Enos as Jacob Marley, Ernie as Bob Cratchit, Doris as Mrs Cratchit and Spencer as Tiny Tim. | |
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Sleazy Politician | |
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Sleazy Politician: One Piranha Club member manages to get himself elected Mayor of Bayonne. | |
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The Prankster | |
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The Prankster: Spencer Husselmeyer makes Bart Simpson look like a saint. Common pranks include greasing Ernie's toilet seat, putting tacks in Ernie's shoes, shoving raw fish down Ernie's pants, greasing Ernie's doorknobs, terrorizing Ernie with his slingshot and making Ernie eat salt. | |
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Playing Pictionary | |
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Playing Pictionary: Literally. On a double date/game night with Doris' insufferable roommate Felicia, Doris completely fails to guess Ernie's drawing ("An omelet! An amoeba! Ecstacy! A SCUD missile!"). Crosses over into Terrible Artist, since nobody else manages to identify it either, even after being told what it is. note A dog. Meanwhile, Felicia's Insufferable Genius boyfriend Basil produces perfect renditions of the Sistine Chapel and Rembrandt's Night Guard in under 15 seconds.note Well, nearly perfect: he ran out of time and had to leave out The Fall of Adam and Eve. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Lethal Chef: Effie Munyon, who notably is never seen eating her own food. She IS capable of cooking decent food, but seems to end up making hideous concoctions out of some misplaced desire to seem unique. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: An early Sunday page purportedly drawn by Grace's neighbor's dog, Sheba. A series of strips supposedly drawn by Bud's brother-in law. | |
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I'll Take Two Beers Too | |
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I'll Take Two Beers Too: Ernie had a Sunday strip showing the local football team invading a bar where Ernie and Sid are drinking. It goes something like this: | |
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Back-Alley Doctor | |
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Back-Alley Doctor: Enos Pork does operate out of a seemingly legit Head/Nose/Throat clinic, but he is a textbook example of this trope. His medical degree is from an unaccredited school in South America, he uses his surgical tools as kitchen utensils, and he's been seen more than once offering sidewalk medical services. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The evangelical church run by televangelist Reverend Bob. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: Almost every appearance of Doris' cat Bobo ends with a trip to the ER for Ernie. | |
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Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy | |
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Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: Sid can't get a date even with a Mongolian immigrant just off the boat because she knows a chain of people the last one of whom dated him in 1968. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Elvis Zimmerman and Ernst. | |
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Author Appeal | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Squids and tentacles, not in a sexual context ,but Grace has stated that he enjoys drawing things like this due to a drawing by Basil Wolverton of MAD fame he saw when he was a kid. | |
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Evil Uncle | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_688afa6a | comment |
Evil Uncle: Sid to Ernie. Greedy, manipulative and a fraudster through and through. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
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Extreme Omnivore: Ernst, the Piranha Club mascot and Sid's pet piranha, to the point where Sid uses him as a garbage disposal. He can even devour non organic material like car tires and metal with no problem. He still refuses to eat broccoli though. | |
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Honest John's Dealership | |
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Honest John's Dealership: Elvis Zimmermann who'd sell a decrepit trashcan of a car to his own mother... In fact, he did. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Henpecked Husband: Enos Pork, who is routinely abused by both his wife and his step mother. | |
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_76a5eaf8 | comment |
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: After a while, Uncle Sid pretty much took over as the main character of the strip. Eventually this made "Ernie" too much of an Artifact Title, and the name of the strip was changed to Piranha Club. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Duane, who is constantly out to get people to buy him a drink or two with the help of his trusty frog. | |
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Never Mess with Granny | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_8183248 | comment |
Never Mess With Mother Packer: Seriously. Don't. She has a Hair-Trigger Temper and the only reason why she isn't the World's Strongest Man is because she's the World's Strongest Woman. Perfectly exemplified in one storyline where she beat the snot out of MIKE TYSON. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: Used frequently. Doris to Ernie (at the start), Arnold to Doris, Effie to Sid... | |
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Fake Charity | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_8b6e817e | comment |
Fake Charity: The Piranha Club often promotes various charity drives for their Fund for Orphans and Widows. Said orphans and widows often look suspiciously like club members in bad costumes. | |
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Con Man | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_9919aebd | comment |
Conman: Yes. An entire club full of them. Fortunately most are Stupid Crooks, and they spend most of their time conning each other. | |
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_9a5ae2a2 | comment |
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Pretty much any member of the Piranha Club out to make a deal... Honestly, their salesmen smiles look more like Slasher Smiles than anything else. They call themselves Piranhas for a reason. | |
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Broke Episode | |
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Broke Episode: One storyline involves Sid trying to get out of an audit by the IRS by pretending to be completely destitute, complete with operating a "business" out of an abandoned car in the junkyard, where he has recruited Arnold as a partner/live-in car alarm. This actually works, as the IRS agent ends up putting Sid on financial aid rather than tossing him in jail for his comprehensive list of taxation fraud. | |
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Stealing from the Till | |
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Stealing from the Till: Sid has been the Piranha Club Treasurer for decades, and in all that time, the club has mysteriously kept going deeper into dept. | |
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NotWearingPants | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_9f50b387 | comment |
Not Wearing Pants: Subverted in an early strip. It's not a dream, though Sid takes advantage of Ernie thinking it is. Ernie eventually ends up in jail for indecent exposure. | |
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Alien Abduction | |
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Alien Abduction | |
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Drop the Cow | |
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Drop the Cow: Whenever a joke or storyline has been going on for too long and there is no satisfactory resolution in sight, the usual prodecure is to turn the madness up a notch and follow it up with cut-away gag to Bud being escorted away from his desk by people from the insane asylum — quite often while wrapped up in a straitjacket. | |
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Money Fetish | |
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Money Fetish: Most of the Piranha Club members, but Sid especially. | |
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Ambulance Chaser | |
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Ambulance Chaser: "Wild" Willie O'Haberman as well as Enos Pork, MD. Literally. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
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Stupid Evil: More like stupid stingy, but Sid would rather freeze in the dark than to pay his electricity bill. Not because he doesn't have the money, but because he refuses to use them on anything non-hedonistic. | |
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Alien Among Us | |
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Alien Among Us: Zerblatt the alien was left behind by his people due to going off on a drunken bender and ended up assimilating into human society. | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery: Anytime Enos Pork gets someone under the knife. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: Sid's elderly mother came to visit for quite a while during one story (Sid had put an ad in the Bayonne newspaper, hoping to scam lonely mothers who lost contact with their kids, only for his own mother to show up, even though he hadn't put his actual name in the ad), and quickly showed she didn't care that her son was well into late middle-age, constantly lecturing him on his cheating and boozing. | |
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Too Hot for TV | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_c312bb2d | comment |
Too Hot for TV: Like most cartoonists, Bu Grace has a sizeable amount of strip sketches he never intended for publishing due to raunchy content. Interestingly, due to Sweden's much more relaxed publication standards, the Ernie comic book there often publishes both these, and specials Grace draws just for Scandinavia, containing both nudity and sexual situations. | |
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Nice Guy | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Ernie is the most decent, upstanding and honest guy you can find in Bayonne, which makes him a frequent target for Sid's and the Piranha Club's scams. Arnold might count, too, but given the frequency he's suckered into being Sid's unpaid cohort, his niceness is more oftenly played up as a naively misplaced sense of trust and general stupidity than anything else. | |
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Shoddy Knockoff Product | |
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Shoddy Knock Off Product: Anything Sid sells that isn't flat-out falling apart. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: As mentioned below, Bud Grace tends to take advantage of the lack of censorship in Swedish media by drawing nude characters you do NOT want to see nude, such as Enos Pork's mother in law, and Arnold's equally ugly sister. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: On a double date/game night, Felicia's Insufferable Genius boyfriend Basil produces a perfect rendition of the The Night Watch. | |
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Everything's Deader with Zombies | |
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Everything's Deader with Zombies: Zombies make an occasional appearance, most notably Bob The Zombie and his voodoo mistress, as well as a zombie Elvis Presley along with a zombie Colonel Parker. | |
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Coat Full of Contraband | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_ce380920 | comment |
Coat Full of Contraband: Pops up from time to time... Most often in restaurants. With the "contraband" in question being stomach pumps... | |
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Elvis Impersonator | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_d43a63c3 | comment |
Elvis Impersonator: One storyline involves Duane showing off a cockroach he claims is a reincarnated Elvis, complete with guitar, rhinestone suit and singing ability. Ernie accidentally kills the cockroach and ends up in court, accused of having murdered Elvis. When he angrily blurts out that he killed an Elvis impersonator, the judge immediately drops the charges and invites him over for dinner. Another storyline has Sid getting Arnold to embark on a career as an Elvis impersonator. This ends rather abruptly when Arnold attempts to wiggle his hips like the original, and his tight pants explode, hospitalizing both him and several fans. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: This comic is full of them, but particularly Effie (especially in early strips). | |
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Acquired Poison Immunity | |
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Acquired Poison Immunity: One storyline involves a tribe of South American natives attempting to murder Sid and steal Earl. They give him a drink made from 27 mushed-up toxic leaf frogs, which amazingly has no effect. It's then revealed that years of Effie's cooking has left Sid essentially immune to poison. Another storyline revolves around Sid and Elvis having a pie eating contest, with everyone expecting Big Eater Elvis to win. It then turns out that Sid had Effie make the pies for the contest, allowing Sid, who's used to her food, eat at a leisurely pace and win, while Elvis can only soldier through about 3 bites, while violently vomiting the whole time. | |
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Shady Real Estate Agent | |
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Shady Real Estate Agent: Sid, as well as others. | |
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Gonk | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_e542d80a | comment |
Gonk: Arnold. He's fat, short, pimply and has ridiculously stripy hair. He's quite often mistaken for some obscure breed of dog/goat/possum/muskrat/mongoose thing. | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_e6b5d22f | comment |
Catchphrase: Reverend Bob has "I've got to get a new parish" and "Give me strength." Duane has his ever-reliable "Shee thish frog?" and variations thereof. "Geeze!" is a series-spanning one. | |
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Moment Killer | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: If Doris and Ernie are sitting on a couch, trying to have a romantic time, expect Doris little brother Spencer to be standing by the end of the couch, staring at them. Ernie tried to bribe him to leave the room once, only for Spender to keep watching through the window. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_f237981e | comment |
The Alleged Car: Ernie's '57 DeSoto. | |
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Redheads Are Uncool | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_f24d830f | comment |
Redheads Are Uncool: The syndicate suggested Ernie should have red hair, to fit this trope. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: Bud Grace gives everyone one of these◊ for the final Sunday strip. | |
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Running Gag | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: People deciding to go to some far off, unhospitable place whenever the prospect of marriage comes up. Also people mistaking Arnold Arnoldski for a dog. Also, in the early strips, the corpse of Jimmy Hoffa turning up in unexpected places. | |
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If It Was Funny the First Time... | |
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If It Was Funny the First Time...: Bud Grace used to love making jokes about Doris being overly eager to get married (they often ended with a frightended Ernie running away to the Antarctic, China, etc. to escape her). Word of God suggests that these jokes would have continued indefinitely if it wasn't for Executive Meddling... In fact, it sort of has, but is more common between Sid and Effie these days. | |
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WhyWereBummedCommunismFell | |
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Why We're Bummed Communism Fell: Parodied in one storyline where the fall of communism reduced the entire CIA to following the world's last practicing Communist around, a Russian immigrant named Boris who relocated to Bayonne when the USSR collapsed. They desperately try to keep him alive and Communist, because if he dies, the CIA will be forced to resort to massive layoffs. He eventually abandons communism as well and begins selling "sexy lingerie", which turns out to be husky-sized surplus sets from the former Soviet blocks. His only customer? Effie. | |
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Fell Off the Back of a Truck | |
| Piranha Club (Comic Strip) / int_fd649e2 | comment |
Fell Off the Back of a Truck: Most of Sid's "wares" come straight out of trashcans and containers. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty: The Piranha Club meets in a dilapidated building they haven't paid rent for in years and the various furnishings inside are falling apart, this mainly due to the fact that none of the members pay their membership fees, and Sid embezzles the clubs funds at every turn. | |
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