History ComicStrip / Heathcliff

* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: [[http://heathcliff.wikia.com/wiki/Garbage_Ape Garbage Ape]] shows up to Heathcliff's delight and knocks over the neighborhood trash cans. He makes regular appearances, with no more explanation than that -- in [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/176/724/15a one strip in 2016]], he somehow became ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack an AT-AT Walker]] for no apparent reason. Oh, and he has a sidekick: Trash Chimp.

* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: [[http://heathcliff.wikia.com/wiki/Garbage_Ape Garbage Ape]] shows up to Heathcliff's delight and knocks over the neighborhood trash cans. He makes regular appearances, with no more explanation than that. Oh, and he has a sidekick: Trash Chimp.

* CoolCat: Heathcliff
* DogsAreDumb: Played into the ground.
* FatCat: Guess who?

* ThoseTwoGuys: An awful lot of the comics (which, during weekdays and Saturdays, is a single gag panel[[note]]Other comic strips that follow this format include ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'', ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'', and the previously mentioned ''ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}''.[[/note]])seem to follow the same formula of Heathcliff doing something strange, and two random people in the background explaining what he's doing.

* ThoseTwoGuys: An awful lot of the comics (which, during weekdays and Saturdays, is a single gag panel[[note]]Other comic strips that folow this format include ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'', ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'', and the previously mentioned ''ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}.[[/note]])seem to follow the same formula of Heathcliff doing something strange, and two random people in the background explaining what he's doing.

* ThoseTwoGuys: An awful lot of the comics seem to follow the same formula of Heathcliff doing something strange, and two random people in the background explaining what he's doing.

* CanonImmigrant: The Catillac Cats have made [[https://img.fireden.net/co/image/1468/99/1468993129697.gif two]] [[https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2018/02/20 appearances]]

* CoolCat: Heatcliff

* SitcomArchnemesis: Grandpa Nutmeg is this to Heathcliff.

* CoolCat

* FatCat

* FollowTheLeader: Hmm. A fat, lazy, cantankerous orange cat... [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Where would that same idea later show up...]] You don't suppose the insanely iconic ''Garfield'' would honestly fall under Follow the Leader, would you?
** Brought up during the segment "Cat Court" on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', when he takes Garfield to court for ripping him off.
-->'''Heathcliff:''' I was in the funny papers ''five years'' before this lame knockoff!

The strip is also notable in that it had ''two'' cartoons based on it. The first, in 1980, was produced by Creator/RubySpears and (in the second season) was paired up with an animated adaptation of ''ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}''. The second and more familiar one, produced by Creator/DICEntertainment, came in 1984, paired with the ''Catillac Cats''. A film adaptation was planned for 2011 but never got off the ground.

* TheSpeechless: This is how the casual reader can tell the difference between Heathcliff and [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} the other guy]]. Heathcliff understands language but never actually says anything. Notable in that there are talking animals in the strip, e.g. birds and mice.

* ComicBookAdaptation: 1985 to 1991 through MarvelComics, beating ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' by 27 years.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: A 2013 strip mentions Facebook.

The strip is also notable in that it had ''two'' cartoons based on it. The first, in 1980, was produced by Creator/RubySpears and (in the second season) was paired up with an animated adaptation of ''ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}''. The second and more familiar one, produced by DICEntertainment, came in 1984, paired with the ''Catillac Cats''. A film adaptation was planned for 2011 but never got off the ground.

The strip is also notable in that it had ''two'' cartoons based on it. The first, in 1980, was produced by Ruby-Spears and (in the second season) was paired up with an animated adaptation of ''ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}''. The second and more familiar one, produced by DICEntertainment, came in 1984, paired with the ''Catillac Cats''. A film adaptation was planned for 2011 but never got off the ground.

* ComicBookAdaptation: MarvelComics put out a monthly comic book from 1985 to 1991.

A [[PrintLongRunners long-running]] NewspaperComic begun in 1973 by George Gately. He helmed it until his 2001 death, when his nephew, Peter took over. The strip's title character is a fat orange cat owned by the Nutmeg family — an elderly woman, her husband, and their grandson Iggy. Not unlike ''{{Garfield}}'', Heathcliff is a wisecracking, fat, orange cat who gets into all sorts of mischief.

The strip is also notable in that it had ''two'' cartoons based on it. The first, in 1980, was produced by Ruby-Spears and (in the second season) was paired up with an animated adaptation of ''{{Marmaduke}}''. The second and more familiar one, produced by DICEntertainment, came in 1984, paired with the ''Catillac Cats''. A film adaptation was planned for 2011 but never got off the ground.

* FollowTheLeader: Hmm. A fat, lazy, cantankerous orange cat... [[{{Garfield}} Where would that same idea later show up...]] You don't suppose the insanely iconic ''Garfield'' would honestly fall under Follow the Leader, would you?