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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Kate is the Light Feminine, while Danae is the Dark Feminine.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Danae.


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** Highly questionable; her penchant for amoral wacky schemes taking advantage of the latest in social manipulation and political corruption cause Joe and Kate to react in a manner more fitting of this trope.
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* SnowedIn: Danae and Kate, along with their pets, getting snowed in kicks off a particularly bizarre storyline.
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** Though in a subversion, he points out things that ''should'' be obvious, but that people are too dumb to realize.
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* PottyEmergency: In one arc, Danae and Kate are snowed inside this house. This then becomes an emergency when their pets Lucy and Petey have to answer the call of nature.

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* PottyEmergency: In one arc, Danae and Kate are snowed inside this the house. This then becomes an emergency when their pets Lucy and Petey have to answer the call of nature.
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* PottyEmergency: In one arc, Danae and Kate are snowed inside this house. This then becomes an emergency when their pets Lucy and Petey have to answer the call of nature.
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* GreasySpoon: Flo's, also counts as TheLocalHangout.

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* GreasySpoon: Flo's, also counts as TheLocalHangout.a LocalHangout.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Joe's brother clearly fits. In fact, he's an exaggeration of the concept, not even trusting Google.


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* GreasySpoon: Flo's, also counts as TheLocalHangout.


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* TheMunchausen: Eddie is like this, often telling outlandish stories about his life at Flo's place, sometimes hoping to mooch a free lunch by telling them. The thing is a few of them are actually true, as Diane and others have found out, so it's very hard to tell which of his stories are true, which are exaggerations, and which are outright lies.
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* HorsingAround: Lucy the pony is unusual in that as a talking horse she'll actually explain why she's acting spooky or headstrong.
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* LittleMissSnarker: Danae.

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* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: [[http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2004/02/16 Weapon-grade FACTS.]]

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* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: [[http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2004/02/16 Weapon-grade FACTS.]]]] Bomb squad went in to catch a [[http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/1992/05/01 weapon grade speech]]
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* EvilLawyerJoke: As many as possible

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Alphabetization screwup, and fixing YMMV dot due to In Universe use


* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[invoked]] Parodied in a one-shot. An art critic finds an empty frame hanging in a gallery and goes into a spiel to the effect of "this is brilliant!" and includes words something like "true art is dead". [[spoiler:Then a maintenance guy comes along and hangs a sign in the frame saying "Exhibit Coming Soon".]]



* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Parodied in a one-shot. An art critic finds an empty frame hanging in a gallery and goes into a spiel to the effect of "this is brilliant!" and includes words something like "true art is dead". [[spoiler:Then a maintenance guy comes along and hangs a sign in the frame saying "Exhibit Coming Soon".]]
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Parodied in a one-shot. An art critic finds an empty frame hanging in a gallery and goes into a spiel to the effect of "this is brilliant!" and includes words something like "true art is dead". [[spoiler:Then a maintenance guy comes along and hangs a sign in the frame saying "Exhibit Coming Soon".]]
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** Then on March 2, 2013:
-->'''Flo:''' Really? Diane wanted to be the next ''Pope?!''
-->'''Joe:''' Yeah... So I had to tell her the harsh reality of the selection process... that they only choose an old white male who has the most minions supporting him for the post.
--> [[[{{Beat}} Both look at Eddie]]]
-->'''Eddie:''' Don't worry, I tahned them down again
-->'''Joe:''' Wait... 'Again?'
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* OhNoNotAgain: January 28, 2013 recaps the previous week:
-->'''Joe:''' What's going on out there?
-->'''Flo:''' Eddie didn't check the tide chart, so his boat got stuck in the mud flats... '''''Again'''''
-->'''Joe:''' Uh... So?
-->'''Flo:''' So he had to walk all the way back... '''''Again'''''
-->'''Joe:''' OK... but...
-->'''Flo:''' Well... Some tourists saw him and thought he was walkin' on watah, so he's become a cult diety... ...Again
-->'''Eddie:''' Hey, it could happen to anyone
-->'''Joe:''' Well, '''''once''''', maybe...
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* CanadaEh: Minor character Pierre.
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* CaptainObvious: The in-universe [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin very appropriately named]] Obvious Man.
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* [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans Are Monster]] [[HumansAreWarriors Warrior]] [[HumansAreMorons Morons]]: Lars, an alien, reveals that all human technologies were gifts from his people. Unfortunately...

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* [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans Are Monster]] [[HumansAreWarriors Warrior]] [[HumansAreMorons Morons]]: HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Lars, an alien, reveals that all human technologies were gifts from his people. Unfortunately...
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* [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans Are Monster]] [[HumansAreWarriors Warrior]] [[HumansAreMorons Morons]]: Lars, an alien, reveals that all human technologies were gifts from his people. Unfortunately...
-->'''Lars''': The only thing [[SonOfAnApe you talking monkeys]] have done on your own is turn all our benign knowledge into ''weapons''!\\
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'''Danae''': Doesn't that make ''you'' guys the slow learners?\\
'''Lars''': Oh, and [[NeverMyFault rationalization]]. Talking monkeys have that nailed.
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* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: [[http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2004/02/16 Weapon-grade FACTS.]]
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** The Graevsytes, a family of monsters often featured in the strip around Halloween, are obviously patterned after TheAddamsFamily and/or TheMunsters.

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** The Graevsytes, a family of monsters often featured in the strip around Halloween, are obviously patterned after TheAddamsFamily Series/TheAddamsFamily and/or TheMunsters.
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* BearsAreBadNews: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Don't ask]].
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Originally, the comic was a single-panel gag cartoon, similar to Gary Larson's ''TheFarSide''. It grew more political in tone during the 1990s. The comic has become more traditional, with a multi-panel format and recurring characters.

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Originally, the comic was a single-panel gag cartoon, similar to Gary Larson's ''TheFarSide''. It grew more political in tone during the 1990s. The comic has become more traditional, with a multi-panel format and recurring characters.
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!!This work contains the following tropes.

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!!This work contains the following tropes.



* CanonWelding: Four recurring elements: Snarky little girl Danae, the observing everyguy, the LeisureSuitLarry-ish lawyer and Offshore Flo's Diner were merged into one story with Joe (the everyguy) at the center: Danae and her sister are his daughters, Bob (the lawyer) is his brother/drinking buddy, and Flo is his mother.

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* CanonWelding: Four recurring elements: Snarky little girl Danae, the observing everyguy, the LeisureSuitLarry-ish VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry-ish lawyer and Offshore Flo's Diner were merged into one story with Joe (the everyguy) at the center: Danae and her sister are his daughters, Bob (the lawyer) is his brother/drinking buddy, and Flo is his mother.
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** The Graevsytes, a family of monsters often featured in the strip around Halloween, are obviously based on TheAddamsFamily and TheMunsters.

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** The Graevsytes, a family of monsters often featured in the strip around Halloween, are obviously based on patterned after TheAddamsFamily and and/or TheMunsters.

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** The Graevsytes, a family of monsters often featured in the strip around Halloween, are obviously based on TheAddamsFamily and TheMunsters.



* HahvahdYahdInMyCah: Flo, the owner of Flo's Diner, and the fisherman who frequents that establishment, both talk like this.

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* HahvahdYahdInMyCah: Flo, HollywoodNewEngland: The strip's setting is "Watchacallit, Maine", and the characters of Flo (the owner of Flo's Diner, Offshore Diner) and the Captain Eddie (the fisherman who frequents that establishment, establishment) both talk like this.with pronounced regional accents.
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* LuckyRabbitsFoot: One strip has Kate gushing about the lucky rabbit's foot keychain she just acquired. Danae points out that if she got another one, she'd be twice as lucky. And that if she got two more, she'd be... almost as lucky as the rabbit.
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Translated from Latin as "it does not follow", ''Non Sequitur'' is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller, usually credited as Wiley. The strip is often political and satirical, though other times, purely comedic. The strip can be found online at gocomics.com.

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Translated from Latin as "it does not follow", ''Non Sequitur'' ''[[http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/ Non Sequitur]]'' is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller, usually credited as Wiley. The strip is often political and satirical, though other times, purely comedic. The strip can be found online at gocomics.com.
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* CanonWelding: Eventually, Danae's father was effectively the same guy who would look at odd situations in the single-wide-panel strips. The fisherman, Flo's Diner, the evil banker/lawyer-type-suit-wearing-man, and other elements were also welded into being part of the same "world".

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* CanonWelding: Eventually, Danae's father was effectively Four recurring elements: Snarky little girl Danae, the same guy who would look at odd situations in observing everyguy, the single-wide-panel strips. The fisherman, LeisureSuitLarry-ish lawyer and Offshore Flo's Diner, the evil banker/lawyer-type-suit-wearing-man, and other elements Diner were also welded merged into being part of one story with Joe (the everyguy) at the same "world".center: Danae and her sister are his daughters, Bob (the lawyer) is his brother/drinking buddy, and Flo is his mother.
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* AmoralAttorney: All of them. All the time.

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