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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip)
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U.S. Acres was a short-lived comic strip created by Jim Davis, far better known for his role as the creator of Garfield, and assisted by Brett Koth. The strip focused on a cast of talking animals who lived together on an unnamed farm: Orson, a pig with an overactive imagination and fondness for books Roy, a prankster rooster Booker, a yellow chick Sheldon, a partially-hatched chick Wade, a paranoid duck who is afraid of everything Lanolin, a really mean sheep Bo, her really kind (but not too smart) brother Cody and Blue, a puppy and kitten, respectivelyThe strip, begun in March 1986, was not a success (especially compared to Garfield), and it came to an end just three years and one month later in April 1989. As a result, U.S. Acres and its cast are much better-known in animated form, due to appearing in Garfield and Friends. There, it existed for seven years as the "B" in that series's A-B-A format — that's right, the animated version lasted more than twice as long as the strip did!They also have their own Facebook page, though it's been abandoned since 2017 and links to the now defunct Gocomics archive.The characters also appeared in the Android and iOS Garfield's Defense' games to help said title character against food aliens and zombies. Predictably they have also made the occasional cameo in Garfield's own comic strip.Known as Orson's Farm outside the US and on the Garfield and Friends DVD set, since the versions used are international instead of domestic. The strip is also referenced as such on the "Professor Garfield" children's educational website.The Viacom acquisition in August 2019 led to the rights to U.S. Acres transferring to them along with Garfield. While a new Garfield show was announced almost immediately, there is currently no indication of any new developments on U.S. Acres aside from the regular acknowledgement of it as Paws, Inc's only other IP. While Paws, Inc. hosted a complete archive of the strip on the official Garfield website for years, in June 2020 the entire Garfield website was shut down and took the entire comic archive with it. With the books long out of print and selling for hundreds of dollars, the comic is almost completely out of reach of casual readers now. It's unknown if Viacom intends to find a new host for the archive or reprint the strips in some form. | |
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I Will Show You X! | |
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I Will Show You X!: The July 12, 1987 strip◊ has Orson thwart Roy's attempt to awaken him with bugle playing by putting bubble gum in Roy's bugle, which results in Roy getting stuck to the wall behind him with pink wads. Orson smugly greets Roy upon waking up with "Good morning, Roy", to which Roy replies by attempting to charge towards Orson while yelling "I'll good morning you!!" | |
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Debut Queue | |
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Debut Queue: The entire cast was introduced one at a time, starting with Orson, followed by Roy, then Booker and Sheldon, then Wade, then Bo and Lanolin, and finally Cody and Blue. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In the November 3, 1987 strip, Orson said even Lanolin couldn't ruin that day. She shouted "I just washed my car!" and it rained. In the March 24, 1989 strip, Booker blows on a dandelion seed head, causing the seeds to disperse and fly away. The flower next to it laughs at the seed head, only to be plucked by Orson immediately afterwards. Booker asks Orson to make a story scary in the March 15, 1987 strip. Orson being Mr. Imagination, it doesn't take long for Booker to change his mind. Booker encourages Wade to jump into a pool in the August 30, 1987 strip, telling Wade that his inner tube will keep him afloat. Once Wade jumps in, he slips right out of his inner tube and sinks, though he manages to save himself before drowning by drinking the pool water. In the April 9, 1986 strip, Orson finds a book of jokes and claims that he's in the mood for a good laugh. Upon opening the book, he finds himself the target of a joke. In the November 13, 1986 strip, Orson warns Roy not to eat corn so close to the stove, but Roy dismisses him. It turns out to be popcorn, which promptly pops inside Roy's body, much to his discomfort. In the June 24, 1987 strip, Booker decides to do a cannon ball dive with a jump onto the springboard. It bounces him off in the direction from whence he came. Orson, after donning his "Power Pig" costume, declares himself leaping over barns in the August 22, 1987 strip. He ends up slamming into a wall of a barn. In the October 17, 1988 strip, Booker succeeds on getting onto a hammock. He claims "Victory!", only for the hammock to flip him off it. In the November 15, 1988 strip, Bo is excited to see the sunset, but Lanolin is not enthused, claiming sunrise and sunset always happen the same way. Cue the ensuing sunset taking place in a very unconventional way (i.e. turning out to be a flat disk and falling over after hitting the ground), which piques Lanolin's interest. Lanolin tells Roy to stop smirking in the June 14, 1988 strip, or else she'd slap it to the moon. Roy, however, dismisses her. Bad move — the strip ends with Roy's mouth landing on the moon. Possibly played with in the April 4, 1986 strip, in which Orson wonders where his food is, but a corn on a cob is thrown and hits him on the head before he even finishes the question. When Booker places a gigantic megaphone at Roy in the January 1, 1989 strip and claims "Prepare to Die, rooster!", Roy dismissively mocks him with "What are you going to do, cheer me to death?". Booker promptly throws a small snowball into the megaphone... which becomes big enough to cover most of Roy's body when it gets out of said megaphone. When Wade hears the sound of sleigh bells in the December 19, 1988 strip, he gets inside a chimney and looks upwards for Santa Claus. The strip ends with a large bag full of toys falling on top of him. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: The October 7, 1987 strip featured Booker plugging a hole and then yelling that the worm's mother was a garden hose. When the worm tried to return to the surface, it hit its head on the cork. The October 16, 1987 strip had a worm telling Booker his mother swam after garbage scows. Guess what Booker's "Mom", Orson, was ready to do at the end of the strip? Feeling bored in the December 11, 1987 strip, Wade told Cody his mother had fleas so Cody would chase him away. In the November 28, 1988 strip, Orson wondered why Roy considered himself qualified to be the judge of an "ugly face contest". When Roy said he knew ugly when he saw it, Lanolin jokingly mentioned "he should". Roy then asked "what was that about my (Roy's) mother?" The January 21, 1989 strip had Roy, over a frozen lake, teasing a fish by saying "Hey, fish! Your mother wears waders!" Then a strong fish breaks through the ice and drags Roy's face into water. Roy ends the strip with a broken and frozen face. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head Asplode: The June 9, 1987 strip had Roy's head blow up after Booker popped a balloon with Roy's face on it. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: In the October 19, 1986 strip◊, Orson uses hypnotism on Wade in order to make him not fear anything. It works, and Wade goes from being a Lovable Coward to shortly being a fearless and reckless Jerkass who fears absolutely nothing. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Done in a quickie from the animated series where Orson tries to explain what a quickie is; Booker comes in and thinks that it's about being short, with Roy and Bo joking about doing long or short jokes, with time running out before Orson can finish his explanation: | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: Unlike in Garfield, the cast of U.S. Acres are clearly shown to be speaking instead of just thinking. (This might also be the reason for why Cody and Blue weren't in the cartoon.) | |
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Androcles' Lion | |
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Androcles' Lion: Parodied. In the February 15, 1989 strip◊, a tree lets Sheldon have its apples]] because he "once pulled a thorn from its trunk". | |
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I Meant to Do That | |
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I Meant to Do That: Roy hits Sheldon with a snowball in the December 28, 1986 strip and celebrates by banging on the wall, making the roof's snow fall on him.◊ He claims he "meant to do that". Orson's attempt to pole vault over a fence in the June 18, 1986 strip.◊ | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: While Booker and Sheldon were still unhatched eggs, their mother, having decided she was tired of sitting on eggs, literally just got up and walked away. The eggs remained unguarded in their nest until Orson found them the following week. | |
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You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses | |
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You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: A worm invoked the trope to avoid a beating from Booker in the April 20, 1988 strip. Booker was initially proud to have shown "chickens do have hearts" but later banged his head on a tree out of frustration once he remembered "worms don't have eyes". A worm wondered if a fish would eat a worm with glasses in the October 16, 1988 strip. | |
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Down on the Farm | |
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Down on the Farm: Played straight. Jim Davis is from just outside of Muncie, Indiana. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Orson is driven off in a "Furd" truck. | |
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Stop Drowning and Stand Up | |
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Stop Drowning and Stand Up: Wade in the May 8, 1988 strip complains that he's drowning, but stops the melodramatics when Orson advises him to stand up. | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
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I Know You Know I Know: From the March 2, 1987 strip: | |
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Karmic Butt-Monkey | |
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Karmic Butt-Monkey: Roy frequently suffers Amusing Injuries, or a brutal beating from Lanolin, but he usually deserves it for being a unpleasant jerk to the animals of the farm. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Booker tried to trap a worm by sitting on its hole in the April 4, 1987 strip. The worm used a spiked helmet like those from German soldiers and said "Ach du lieber! A flyink chicken!" | |
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Impossible Hourglass Figure | |
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Impossible Hourglass Figure: Parodied in the July 13, 1987 strip◊ when a female worm who only has eyelashes eats a peanut and gains the appearance of having broad shoulders and hips. | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Roy while drinking hot chocolate in the February 25, 1989 strip. Roy's debut in the April 14, 1986 strip. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: After passing a sign reading "The end is near" in the July 29, 1988◊,Orson smacks into the end of the (truncated) last panel. The whole last week and final Sunday comic were about the strip ending in one way or another. The last of the daily strips addresses the strip's end quite literally by having Orson disappear after finding that the strip is no longer in the paper. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: U.S. Acres was supposed to be a pun on "U.S.A." | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After three weeks of living with his mom and brothers, Orson was sent away and abandoned due to being a runt. It's accurate because often in pig litters, the runt pig doesn't get fed because it can't fight the other pigs for a suckling spot on his mom. And If a farmer doesn't want to raise it, they'll try to give it away. And if another farmer doesn't want to raise it, it'll either starve to death or be put out of its misery by rifle. | |
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Delayed Reaction | |
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Delayed Reaction: Sheldon asked for a lick of Booker's ice cream in the July 22, 1988 strip◊. It took a few seconds for Booker to realize Sheldon couldn't lick through his shell. When a worm impersonated a chopstick to trick Booker in the July 12, 1988 strip◊, the worm talked to Booker, who called him "Mr. Chopstick" and only later realized how odd it was for a chopstick to talk. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: In the October 15, 1988 strip◊, Orson asked Booker and Sheldon if they wanted him to read a book or if they wanted to watch TV. They both eagerly replied "Television!" so Orson then got inside a television set and started reading a book inside it. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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Macguffin: The top secret, highly experimental, thermonuclear, exploding Grelbin device which Roy (as Pinfeather in another of Orson's Walter Mitty-esque daydreams) stole in "Double-Oh Orson" from the animated version, where Orson imagines himself as a secret agent like James Bond. | |
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Catching Some Z's | |
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Catching Some Z's: Yes, they look like they do in Garfield, and yes, they also play with them sometimes, like when Orson uses the speech balloon tail from his Z like a light switch in the October 30, 1987 strip◊. | |
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Power-Up Food | |
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Power-Up Food: Parodied by Orson as Power Pig. In the April 20, 1986 strip◊, he claims to eat "power corn for energy". | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Everyone gets their fair share of being this, but it's Wade and Roy who have it worst and most frequently. You're supposed to feel sorry for Wade getting tortured while you're supposed to laugh at the expense of Roy. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: An arc that began in November 23, 1987◊ had a worm disguise himself as a chicken just by putting on a fake beak and comb. | |
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Downer Ending | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: In the final weekday strip◊ (originally published April 15, 1989), Orson looks at the newspaper only to realize their strip wasn't there and he disappears. The Sunday strip offered a more heartwarming farewell in the May 7, 1989 strip◊ by having Orson, Booker and Sheldon watching themselves on TV and Orson aping Porky Pig's "That's all, folks" . | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: In addition to a cuter and rounder art style, the early strips feature a couple of human characters (a farmer and his daughter), who are only seen from the waist down. Humans do not appear for the rest of the strip. | |
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Flirtatious Smack on the Ass | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_50a06d47 | comment |
Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: The November 9, 1988 strip◊ has Roy incur Lanolin's wrath by slapping her rear end. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_5860c090 | comment |
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Though Roy tends to take turns annoying everyone, he and Lanolin are very frequently at each other's throats. This is shown much more vigorously in the comics, though is definitely still there with their animated versions. | |
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Accordion Man | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_5a502557 | comment |
Accordion Man: The November 2, 1987 strip has Booker play a worm like an accordion after the worm is flattened into the shape of one from ramming into a tree. | |
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False Reassurance | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_5a963d1c | comment |
False Reassurance: The worm dressed as a chicken to trick Booker and Sheldon in the November 26, 1987 strip◊ told them he knew what he was doing in response to Booker warning him that the worms will hear him. The end panel shows a bunch of worms waiting for their chance to harm Booker and Sheldon. When Lanolin knitted Orson a scarf in the March 27, 1987 strip◊, Bo was worried Lanolin was pulling a trick on him (Orson). She said she wasn't and then it's revealed the scarf was made of Bo's wool, as Orson walking away with the scarf causes Bo's wool to unravel and leave him naked. | |
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Your Costume Needs Work | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_5bc2106 | comment |
Your Costume Needs Work: In the August 28, 1988 strip, Roy dared Orson to dress like a bear. When a real bear showed up, Roy said it was the worst bear suit he'd ever seen. | |
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That's All, Folks! | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_5d777251 | comment |
That's All, Folks!: The last strip has Orson imitating Porky Pig's famous catchphrase in the final panel. | |
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Brainy Pig | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_614d9a06 | comment |
Brainy Pig: Orson is portrayed as a smart pig who loves to read. He is also very helpful to his friends and often gives advice to them. | |
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Spit Take | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: The March 22, 1989 strip has Orson spit after seeing that Roy was soaking his feet in his trough. Orson is seen spitting in disgust again in the April 2, 1989 strip after seeing that Roy had been bathing in the trough and hearing the rooster remark that he hasn't bathed in months. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_68923ef0 | type |
Fur Is Clothing | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_68923ef0 | comment |
Fur Is Clothing: Parodied in the April 10, 1988 strip◊, where Roy and Lanolin roll up the feathers/wool around their arms as if they were sleeves, then yelp in pain at the realization that they do not have sleeves and just painfully yanked their feathers/wool out. Played straight in the May 1, 1988 strip, which has Lanolin remove her wool so she can cool off in a pond on a hot day. Roy attempts stealing it, before she grabs him and drags him into the water. Next panel, Lanolin is wearing Roy's feathers, and he's chasing after her to get them back while wearing her wool. | |
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Puff of Logic | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_6add177d | comment |
Puff of Logic: In the final daily strip from 15 April 1989, Orson is reading the newspaper and discovers that U.S. Acres is no longer on the comics page. He has just enough time to shout "HEY! WHERE'S-" before he vanishes in a puff of logic. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The name "Orson" sounds like the word "porcine", meaning "pig-like", befitting a pig. Orson gave Booker that name because he (Orson) likes to read, making Booker glad Orson didn't like kumquats. Lanolin is named for a type of wax secreted by sheep. Sheldon is called Sheldon because he's just an egg shell with legs. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_6cc2137b | type |
The Scream | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_6cc2137b | comment |
The Scream: The January 15, 1989 strip◊ has Wade see a fake spider and scream so loud, it circles the world. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: The August 10, 1988 strip starts with Booker and Sheldon arguing, with Orson trying to break up the fight by asking what they were arguing about. Booker fails to provide an answer, leading Sheldon to claim that Booker forgot. Booker denies it... and the strip ends with Booker and Sheldon arguing about THAT.◊ | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_72852a93 | type |
Henpecked Husband | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_72852a93 | comment |
Henpecked Husband: A certain worm seems to have this problem. The strips below are just a couple of examples of his feeling dominated by his wife: In the April 6, 1987 strip◊, he was brave enough to fight Booker, but cowers to the point of apologizing profusely when his wife scolds him for being late for dinner. When a hole-to-hole salesworm shows up at a hole in the September 1, 1988 strip◊ and asks if the worm who answered was "the man of the house", he responded "I'll get her". | |
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Box-and-Stick Trap | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_73dc8ac | comment |
Box-and-Stick Trap: One arc in July 1987 includes Booker's several attempts to catch worms with that kind of trap. One of the strips features a worm using Booker's trap as a bait to capture Booker and Sheldon with a bigger version of the trap. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_79fdc157 | type |
Camera Obscurer | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_79fdc157 | comment |
Camera Obscurer: Wade forgot the lens cover on when he tried to take a picture of the Through Ness Monster in the March 16, 1989 strip◊. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_7aa989ea | type |
Token Evil Teammate | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_7aa989ea | comment |
Token Evil Teammate: While the others are rather pleasant, the only ones who are probably far from nice are Roy and Lanolin. While they're aren't malicious, they are at worst plain Jerkasses. | |
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Horsing Around | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_7c8a4602 | comment |
Horsing Around: In the July 27, 1986 strip◊, Orson willingly gets Booker and Sheldon to ride him, but once Roy brushes Booker and Sheldon off Orson, rides Orson, and gets too bossy with him, Orson makes a sudden brake and sends Roy flying into a puddle of mud. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_7dbfa45b | type |
Spy Speak | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_7dbfa45b | comment |
Spy Speak: Bo takes it literally in the September 19, 1987 strip. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Hog Noon" from the cartoon series, Deputy Wade mentions that Hammerhead Hog is wanted for robbery, rustling, and using the accounts and descriptions of a game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball. | |
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You and What Army? | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_85d27cfe | comment |
You and What Army?: In the October 17, 1986 strip, Orson once used hypnosis to make Wade no longer afraid of anything. The first sign it was working was when Wade responded to a command by asking "You and what army, waller breath"? | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_884e513b | type |
Medium Awareness | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: In the April 14, 1989 strip◊, Orson told Sheldon their days were "not only numbered, but signed and dated" and he lived each moment as if it was his last panel. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: In the May 23, 1987 strip◊, Sheldon suggests to Booker on a hot day that he should make sure his plant has plenty of water to drink. Too bad Booker's solution involves giving his plant a glass of water with a straw, neglecting the fact that plants can't drink through the straw. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_8e84bb03 | type |
Acme Products | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_8e84bb03 | comment |
ACME Products: The worm family owns products by ACME. | |
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...And 99¢ | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_8f663510 | comment |
...And 99¢: In the December 11, 1988 strip, Roy tricked some of his friends into falling into a waller. When the mud dried rendering them immobile, he tried to sell them as "lawn ornaments" and charged $4.99 for each. | |
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555 | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_984763bb | comment |
555: The February 8, 1989 strip has Wade find a phone number in the newspaper he can call to cure his claustrophobia. The number is 555-4296. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_99156d7e | type |
Head Desk | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_99156d7e | comment |
Head Desk: Booker's reaction in the April 20, 1988 strip◊ when it occurs to him that he'd been tricked by a worm who invoked You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses is to repeatedly bash his head against a tree. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_9f80e1da | comment |
Sarcasm Mode: The Echo Canyon in the December 9, 1988 strip◊. | |
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Eek, a Mouse!! | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a293102a | comment |
Eek, a Mouse!!: A worm had this reaction after entering a mouse hole to hide from Booker in the July 16, 1988 strip.◊ | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a2e2a85 | type |
Policeman Dog | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a2e2a85 | comment |
Policeman Dog: In the animated segment "Rainy Day Robot", Gort, Wart, and Mort disguise themselves as a car to steal Orson's crop of vegetables. Unfortunately for them, their disguise attracts a policeman dog, who tickets them. When Mort explains their ruse to the policeman dog, he doesn't believe them, saying that "That's the third time today I've heard that excuse." | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Jim Davis's assistant Brett Koth gained a co-writer's credit in the strip's last couple years, even though he did no more work on the strip than he had as assistant on Garfield at that point. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: As stated in the above description, the comic strip was adapted into a segment of Garfield and Friends, an animated series based on Jim Davis' more well-known comic strip Garfield. The animated version notably outlasted the original comic strip by about three years. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a6c677c4 | type |
Not Hyperbole | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a6c677c4 | comment |
Not Hyperbole: Because of his allergy to flowers, Roy doesn't like it when Booker brings any to the chicken coop. In the July 17, 1988 strip◊, he said "Don't bring those flowers in here! You want me to sneeze my feathers off?!" Enraged, Booker picks a giant flower and brings it to Roy in retaliation. The sneeze was so strong that both Roy and Booker lost their feathers. In the June 14, 1988 strip, Lanolin threatens to slap Roy's beak to the moon. She literally does that later. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: The June 7, 1987 strip◊ has Roy get Wade in trouble with Lanolin by framing him for hitting Lanolin in the head with a corn cob, resulting in Wade getting undeservedly roughed up by Lanolin and Lanolin never finding out it was actually Roy who threw the corn cob. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a7382a73 | comment |
Imagine Spot: Two concerning Sheldon's future. When Sheldon remarks that he wonders what he'll look like when he's grown up in the March 11, 1988 strip◊, Booker imagines a tiny egg shell with enormous chicken feet sticking out. In the March 26, 1988 strip◊, Booker hears Sheldon remark that he hopes he never gets fat and proceeds to imagine Sheldon walking around with a portly belly that somehow hasn't burst through the egg shell . | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a7faec8e | comment |
Written Sound Effect: The January 15, 1989 strip shows Wade's scream of "YAAAAHHH" having the capacity to knock Roy from behind after traveling across the whole Earth. | |
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The Un-Smile | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a823fa03 | comment |
The Unsmile: Taken to comedic extreme in one strip. After studying a book on smiling, Roy and Lanolin dare each other to make a broader smile. The final panel shows Orson gaping at two giant toothy mouths that stretch past the top of the strip. In an earlier strip, Orson tries to coax a smile out of Lanolin. She notes with a scowl that she is smiling. Orson asks for a bigger one, leading to a huge teeth bared grimace. | |
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Football Hooligans | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a8aba532 | comment |
Football Hooligans: Some strips had Association Football as a theme. In the August 25, 1987 strip◊, Lanolin showed the area where the parking lot would be. She explained that's where that'd hold "the fight after the game". Her face held an expression she was looking forward that moment. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: ...and so are all other humans. The only humans who appear in the strip are a farmer and his daughter, who picks up a young Orson. They are only seen from the waist down, and never appear again afterward. | |
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Bee Afraid | |
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Bee Afraid: Wade and Roy run away in fear from a Big Stinger Bee in the August 8, 1987 strip.◊ | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_ad641426 | comment |
Trademark Favorite Food: Booker likes to eat worms, Orson's favorite food is pig slop, Roy likes corn and the worms enjoy dirt. Though Orson and Roy have expressed they'd rather have pizza one time. | |
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Sneeze of Doom | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_af8838cb | comment |
Sneeze of Doom: Occurs in the September 4, 1988 strip, where Orson's sneeze manages to force Roy into the ground. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_b06bbf4b | type |
Be Careful What You Wish For | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Booker encourages Wade to jump into a pool in the August 30, 1987 strip, telling Wade that his inner tube will keep him afloat. Once Wade jumps in, he slips right out of his inner tube and sinks, though he manages to save himself before drowning by drinking the pool water. | |
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Portable Hole | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_b2d56b20 | comment |
Portable Hole: In the October 15, 1987 strip◊, Booker ripped a hole from the ground so the worm he was chasing would be stuck underground. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Bo. For example, the August 19, 1987 strip shows that he's too dumb to understand that he has to turn the TV on before he can watch it. Wade is this as well. He falls off cliffs, when he can just fly to avoid injury. He goes ahead and just sits under a place where a boulder above him could easily fall and squish him. He even places his bed right on the cliff, where he ends up falling from, once he got out of bed. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In the January 12, 1988 strip◊, Roy tells Booker that the rooster is the king of the barnyard that all other animals respect and fear — all while they're hidden in a wooden crate. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_b9c673a6 | comment |
Market-Based Title: The strip was known as Orson's Farm in most countries outside the U.S. and Orson's Place in Canada. | |
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Catch-22 Dilemma | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_ba8b13ad | comment |
Catch-22 Dilemma: The February 8, 1989 strip◊ shows Wade finding a phone number he can call to cure his claustrophobia, but unfortunately finds himself still in a pickle because he has to call the number in a rather confining phone booth. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c0e3994b | comment |
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Lanolin Sheep almost always responds to Roy's pranks with extreme violence. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c144e884 | type |
Character Check | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c144e884 | comment |
Character Check: Though a few characters went through Adaptational Personality Change in the cartoons, the "Quickies" usually adapted gags from the comics loyally, meaning the cast would regularly behave exactly as they did there. This is particularly obvious with Bo and Lanolin in some Quickies. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c2c15b23 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Comment: During his first day at the barn in the April 5, 1986 strip, Orson comments that, "if this place had a few curtains and a fresh coat of paint... it would still be a dump". Orson's reaction when Booker suggests they could take their corncobs to the store and get a refund in the June 5, 1986 strip. | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better! | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c4d293c4 | comment |
Let's See YOU Do Better!: In the January 22, 1988 strip◊, Booker showed Sheldon a hand trick and Sheldon said it's an old one. Booker then dared Sheldon to do it and somehow, Booker did see Sheldon doing it despite Sheldon living inside a shell. Roy says he can swim better than Orson can in the June 16, 1987 strip.◊ When asked to show it, he says he doesn't want to get his feathers wet so Lanolin takes them away so he can swim without getting them wet. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The October 28, 1987 strip◊ has Orson as Power Pig declaring that he is "Fast as a speeding bullet! Strong as a locomotive!" Once he realizes his imagination took him to pre-history in the April 3, 1989 strip◊, Orson says "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore". In retaliation for Roy intruding on Orson's "swimming pool" in the May 11, 1986 strip,◊ Orson dives on Roy, prompting the intruder to say "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" The April 10, 1986 strip has Orson looking for a book to help himself relax. He remarks that one of the books is too small, and another one is too big, and the third one is just right. The unused horse character Jodie has a similar coloration to Applejack. In one strip, Sheldon ponders the meaning of life, only to be yelled at by Roy because he is trying to watch Dinky's Circus. | |
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The Door Slams You | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_ceb854cb | comment |
The Door Slams You: Wade gets hit by Orson opening the door in the February 27, 1988 strip◊. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_ced06d48 | type |
Instant Cosplay Surprise | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_ced06d48 | comment |
Instant Cosplay Surprise: Done on Roy in the July 20, 1986 strip◊ when Orson, Booker and Sheldon force him to dress as Bo Peep. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_cf511248 | type |
All Part of the Show | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_cf511248 | comment |
All Part of the Show: In the September 11, 1988 strip, a worm named Marty invited friends named Walter and Orville to watch a shadow puppet show. When Booker started stomping on Marty, his guests thought it was part of the show. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d2b8cd85 | type |
Idea Bulb | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d2b8cd85 | comment |
Idea Bulb: Orson has a lightbulb appear over his head when he decides to turn his lemonade stand into a shade stand in the June 2, 1986 strip◊. The May 7, 1988 strip◊ has Orson have a lightbulb appear over his head when he gets the idea to cool off by saying "Hi" to Bo and using Bo's rapidly waving arm as a fan. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d394829d | type |
Frivolous Lawsuit | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d394829d | comment |
Frivolous Lawsuit: When Orson read the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in the May 11, 1988 strip◊ and asked if any of the listeners knew what she did after trying the too hot and the too cold bowls of porridge, Lanolin suggested she sued the bears. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d40d7fc1 | type |
Hypno Fool | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d40d7fc1 | comment |
Hypno Fool: Wade gets hypnotized to calm his fears and Hilarity Ensues when the hypnotism ends up performing a total 180° on his personality. | |
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Denied Food as Punishment | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d5b7a6e3 | comment |
Denied Food as Punishment: In the June 23, 1988 strip◊, a worm boy named Willy is denied dessert for refusing to eat his dinner. He doesn't consider it too much of a punishment because his parents were having dirt for dinner and a mud pie for dessert. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d6618014 | type |
Last Request | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d6618014 | comment |
Last Request: ''Booker asks if a worm has "any last requests" in the November 10, 1988 strip◊ and the worm suggests "Melancholy Baby". | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d7133ebf | type |
Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d7133ebf | comment |
Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient: In the June 4, 1987 strip◊, after Booker doesn't believe that worms eat dirt, the readers are shown a worm going to Dirt Burger and ordering "medium rare, hold the gravel". | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d7c45a19 | type |
Cape Snag | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d7c45a19 | comment |
Cape Snag: Power Pig's cape is stuck at the phone booth's door in the February 6, 1989 strip. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d8085f48 | type |
Hollywood Voodoo | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_d8085f48 | comment |
Hollywood Voodoo: In the June 9, 1987 strip◊, Booker comes along with a balloon which looks like Roy. When Roy wants to know what this is about, Booker claims it was a voodoo balloon. Roy isn't impressed, so Booker stabs it with a pin, result: Roy's head asplode. | |
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U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_de328285 | type |
Expressive Accessory | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_de328285 | comment |
Expressive Accessory: The duck head on Wade's inner-tube, which looks exactly like his actual face and often mirrors the expression on his actual face. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_df582b0b | comment |
Continuity Snarl: In some strips, Booker is known to enjoy ice cream and chocolate chip cookies but when Sheldon suggested leaving out milk and cookies for Santa, Booker was disgusted. | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_e0c470a1 | comment |
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In the 1987 Christmas strip,◊ Bo gives one of his trademark circulation-cutting hugs to the entire main cast at once while shouting "Merry Christmas". Orson directs him toward "them out there", and in the final panel, Bo is charging through the fourth wall to give the reader a circulation-cutting hug. | |
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Sphere Eyes | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_e2016174 | comment |
Sphere Eyes: Much like in Garfield, character's eyes are depicted as white spheres that are close together. | |
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Road Runner vs. Coyote | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_e38c48c5 | comment |
Since the relation between Booker and the worms is Road Runner vs. Coyote, with Booker himself playing the role of the coyote, any occasion where he manages to catch a worm is this trope. The November 2, 1987 strip, for example, has the worm become flattened into an accordion-like shape and played like an accordion by Booker. | |
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Stock "Yuck!" | |
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Stock "Yuck!": In the June 5, 1987 strip, a worm tries to eat spinach but doesn't like the flavor. The remaining spinach moans over the fact "Nobody likes spinach". | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: The art goes from round and cutesy to very loose and frenetic, a radical departure from Garfield either way. The U.S. Acres cast remain in their 87-88 designs throughout Garfield and Friends, which is expectedly the era the strip was most uniform with Garfield's artsyle. | |
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Interspecies Adoption | |
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Interspecies Adoption: Booker and Sheldon are chicks in addition to being Orson the pig's adopted sons. | |
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Duck! | |
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Duck!: Occurs in the July 20, 1987 strip◊ when Roy hollers "DUCK" after hitting a baseball with his bat. Everyone else ducks, but Wade just turns his head, apparently thinking Roy was calling for his attention. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: In the June 29, 1988 strip◊, Booker was afraid he and a worm would fall off a cliff. From that height, the worm believed "plummet" would be more like it". Whenever Lanolin points out that it is raining in the November 21, 1987 strip, Bo says it's "partly dry"◊. | |
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Rake Take | |
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Rake Take: In the March 2, 1988 strip◊, Wade believed that, if he were fast enough, he could race right by danger before it could do anything to him. A rake in his way proved him wrong. | |
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Height Angst | |
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Height Angst: Booker and Sheldon both regularly wish they were taller. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In the final week of the daily strips, Wade finally conquers his fear of everything, which causes Orson, Roy, and Booker to run off screaming. See it in the April 12, 1989 strip◊. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Booker dared a worm to show his face in the March 4, 1989 strip.◊ The worm then showed a portrait. During the ugly face contest arc, Roy told Lanolin she couldn't "make a reeeally ugly face".◊ He forgot to specify whose face was supposed to be made ugly, as she ends up twisting Roy's face into a grotesque visage. Orson was trying to take Bo's photograph in the July 21, 1987 strip and asked him to show his teeth.◊ Bo removed them from his mouth. In the August 2, 1986 strip◊, Roy declares that "Water that touches pig lips will never touch" his. Aside from the fact that he doesn't have any lips, he drinks Orson's water through a straw so any lips he could have wouldn't be touched. Orson, upon finding Booker and Sheldon watching TV inside the barn, suggests for them to "go outside and do something" in the August 18, 1987 strip.◊ Too bad Orson forgets to specify what the "something" he recommends them to do is, as the two chicks just continue watching TV outside the barn. When Booker and a worm he catches are hanging from a cliff while Booker is holding him in the April 27, 1988 strip, Booker tells the worm to "do something".◊ The worm promptly shakes his lower body repeatedly, with Booker banging on the rocky cliff, in the attempt to shake Booker off. In the October 3, 1987 strip◊, a flower is worried when Orson shows up, fearful that Orson might pick it off the ground, and its thought is thinking "please don't pick me" repeatedly. The strip ends with Orson sitting on it. When Bo sneezes in the August 30, 1988 strip, Lanolin pulls out a handkerchief and tells Bo to "blow".◊ She intends for Bo to blow his nose with it, but Bo blows the handkerchief instead. In the May 23, 1987 strip◊, Sheldon suggests to Booker on a hot day that he should make sure his plant has plenty of water to drink. Too bad Booker's solution involves giving his plant a glass of water with a straw, neglecting the fact that plants can't drink through the straw. | |
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Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen | |
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Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Occurs in the May 1, 1988 strip, which has Lanolin remove her wool to cool off in a pond on a hot day, only for Roy to steal her wool. Lanolin retaliates by taking Roy's feathers. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Roy and Lanolin are the meanest of the cast, both of whom often tried to one-up the other. They fall a bit closer into Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory in the animated adaptation. | |
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"Kick Me" Prank | |
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"Kick Me" Prank: Orson wants Roy to stop his practical jokes in the November 17, 1986 strip◊. Roy gives Orson a tap on the back while promising he'll stop. It's then revealed to the readers that Orson is now wearing a "Kick Me" sign. The November 14, 1987 strip◊ has a flower using a "pick me" version of the prank. | |
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I Can See My House from Here | |
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I Can See My House from Here: Wade remarks "Hey, I can see the barn from up here" in the January 8, 1989 strip◊ when he's standing on the edge of Orson's trough. The August 8, 1987 strip◊ has Booker say "I can see our house from up here" while he and Sheldon are atop a small hill. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_f0089082 | comment |
Early-Bird Cameo: Bo and Lanolin appear in the July 20, 1986 strip◊ to offer a one-liner long before their "official" introduction (Lanolin debuting officially in the January 15, 1987 strip◊, her brother Bo showing up in the January 19, 1987 strip◊ and both properly introducing themselves to Orson in the January 21, 1987 strip◊.note On a related note, they, along with Cody and Blue, also appear on the back of the first book's cover, even though their debut strips aren't until the second book. | |
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Pushover Parents | |
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Pushover Parents: In the March 29, 1986 strip◊, a kid offers to take Orson in and tells him not to worry about her dad because he's a pushover. When it's finally time to convince the girl's father to let Orson live with them in the March 31, 1986 strip◊, Orson does the trick by crying. | |
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Anti-Sneeze Finger | |
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Anti-Sneeze Finger: In the September 5, 1988 strip, Roy tries to use his finger on Orson's nose to prevent him from sneezing, resulting in himself finishing the sneeze Orson started. | |
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Team Rocket Wins | |
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Team Rocket Wins: Since the relation between Booker and the worms is Road Runner vs. Coyote, with Booker himself playing the role of the coyote, any occasion where he manages to catch a worm is this trope. The November 2, 1987 strip, for example, has the worm become flattened into an accordion-like shape and played like an accordion by Booker. Similarly Roy was nearly always on the recieving end against Lanolin. He did get the last laugh in one Sunday strip however, when the two get into a crow/bleat match and Roy blasts her with a speaker system. Incidentally this ended up one of the first Quickies in Garfield and Friends. | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": The February 13, 1988 strip◊ had two worms use "go" in reference to passing away. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: Roy Rooster decided it was time for Booker to start rooster training in the January 11, 1988 strip◊. In the June 11, 1988 strip, Roy asks Lanolin to be honest and tell him what she thinks of him. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The series pretty much runs on recurring jokes. Sign gags, face gags, scaring Wade, slop jokes, and imagination jokes make the bulk of them. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Sheldon is called Sheldon because he's just an egg shell with legs. | |
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Low Clearance | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_fbc1a68d | comment |
Low Clearance: Played for Laughs in the August 21, 1988 strip◊, where Bo hits his head on a tree limb. Lanolin asks him how many times Bo has hit his head on that tree limb, and Bo goes to his room to count the tally marks on the wall, which add up to 132 in total. He goes back to Lanolin to report the statistics... where the tally goes up by one at that moment. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: In the March 31, 1987 strip◊, Orson told Booker and Sheldon the story of the boy who cried wolf and Booker learned the boy... needed a big club to hit the wolf with. Orson isn't too pleased about Booker not realizing the real moral of there being consequences to constantly lying about emergencies. In the November 3, 1988 strip◊, a worm tries to sell gloves to another worm. When his potential customer got inside home without even speaking to him, he thought she went inside to pick up her handbag rather than the obvious reason a worm wouldn't be interested in buying gloves. In the August 26, 1987 strip◊, Orson believes goalies must be ready to spring at any moment to avoid being hit with the ball. It takes a special kind of stupidity to not see that the point of the goalie is to have someone prevent the ball from entering the net. The June 8, 1986 strip◊ has Orson offered a bucket by Booker when he's having trouble getting water from a pump. Instead of drinking the water after collecting it in the bucket, Orson just stands on the bucket while working the pump and continuing to waste water. | |
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Sleeps with Both Eyes Open | |
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Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: Booker and Sheldon watch in astonishment as Wade sleeps with his eyes open. Booker asks how he's able to do it, and Sheldon explains that it's easy for Wade because he's afraid of the dark. | |
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Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"! | |
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Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: In the October 29, 1988 strip◊, a worm dared Booker (a literal chicken, mind you) to cross a line and vanished inside his hole before Booker responded. After Booker crossed the line, the same worm (or another one) showed up from another hole and acted like Booker had yet to decide if he'd accept the challenge or not. Booker was confused. | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish | |
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip) / int_ffaa675b | comment |
Asian Speekee Engrish: In the September 6, 1988 strip◊, Orson sneezes and later receives a phone call from China. The caller says "Bress you". | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Orson is abandoned at the beginning of the strip's life because he's the runt, just like pigs do in real life. | |
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