History ComicStrip / USAcres

* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1988/06/23 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.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1987/05/23 Sheldon suggests to Booker on a hot day]] that [[ExactWords 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.

* TheDoorSlamsYou: It happens to Wade [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1988/09/20 in this strip]].

* DownerEnding: In the final weekday strip Orson looks at the newspaper only to realize their strip wasn't there and he disappears. The Sunday strip offered a more heartwarming farewell.

* {{Duck}}: Occurs in [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1987/07/20 this strip]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: Bo and Lanolin appear to [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1986/07/20 offer a one-liner in a Sunday comic]] long before their "official" introduction.[[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.[[/note]]

* Catch22Dilemma: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1989/02/08 This strip]] shows why Wade will always have claustrophobia.
* CatchingSomeZs: Yes, they look like they do in ''Garfield'', and yes, [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1987/10/30 they also play with them sometimes]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1987/03/31 Orson told Booker and Sheldon]] the story of the boy who [[CryingWolf cried wolf]] and Booker learned the boy... needed a big club to hit the wolf with.
** Also, [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/11/03 A worm trying 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 ''hand''bag.
** [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1987/08/26 Orson believes goalies must be ready to spring at any moment to avoid being hit with the ball.]]
** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1986/06/08 What a waste of a perfectly good bucket and water.]]

* DelayedReaction: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/07/22 Sheldon asked for a lick of Booker's ice cream. It took a few seconds for Booker to realize Sheldon couldn't lick through his shell.]]
** Also, when [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/07/12 a worm impersonated a chopstick to trick Booker]], the worm talked to Booker, who called him "Mr. Chopstick" and only later realized how odd it was for a chopstick to talk.

** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1986/06/05 Orson's reaction]] when Booker suggests they could take their corncobs to the store and get a refund.

** [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/06/01 Roy wanted his eyes to be bigger. Too bad for him it was Lanolin who granted that wish.]]
** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1988/08/16 Roy encounters Bo while carrying a heavy sack. He then tells Bo to step aside so he get walk by. Bo obliges... except Bo happens to be standing in front of a cliff, and the strip ends with Roy about to walk right off it.]]

** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1987/03/15 Booker and Sheldon ask Orson to read them a story]], with [[TemptingFate Booker asking Orson to "make it scary"]]. The problem is that Orson is MrImagination, causing the scary scenes to come to life, prompting Booker (alongside Bo and Wade, who join in for the storytelling session) to shout for Orson to get them out of the scary story. Luckily for them, Orson manages to fulfill their request with "and they all lived happily ever after".
** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1987/08/30 Booker encourages Wade to jump into a pool]], [[TemptingFate claiming Wade will stay afloat via his inner tube]]. Wade does so... and promptly slips out of his inner tube and sinks. Luckily, Wade manages to save himself.
** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1986/09/18 Orson asks Roy to teach Sheldon how to fly.]] He turns around JustInTime to stop Roy from launching Sheldon in a slingshot.

** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1989/01/15 Roy decides to play a prank on Wade]] by dangling a fake spider in front of a napping Wade before waking him up. Wade, scared by the spider, proceeds to scream... only for [[WrittenSoundEffect the scream to travel across the Earth before striking Roy from behind.]]
** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1989/04/23 Roy uses a vending machine to get corn, but the yielded return is less than he desired.]] He then inserts over a dozen more coins into the machine -- this time, the sheer amount of corn floods and buries Roy all the way to the mouth.
* BeeAfraid: [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1987/08/02 Wade and Roy run away in fear from a Big Stinger Bee.]]

* CameraObscurer: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1989/03/16 Wade forgot the lens cover on when he tried to take a picture of the Through Ness Monster]].

* FiveFiveFive: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1989/02/08 This strip]] contains one.
* AccordionMan: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1987/11/02 This worm's never been so humiliated.]]

* AllPartOfTheShow: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/09/11 A worm named Marty invited friends named Waler and Orville to watch a shadow show.]] when Booker started stomping on Marty, his guests thought it was part of the show.
* AndNinetyNineCents: [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/12/11 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.
* AndroclesLion: Parodied. [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1989/02/15 A tree lets Sheldon have its apples]] because he "once pulled a thorn from its trunk".
* AnimatedAdaptation: As stated in the above description, the comic strip was adapted into a segment of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', an animated series based on Jim Davis' more well-known comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''.
* AntiSneezeFinger: In [[http://garfield.com/usacres/1988/09/05 this]] comic, Roy does this to Orson, resulting in himself finishing the sneeze Orson started.

** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1989/02/25 Roy while drinking hot chocolate]].

** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1986/04/14 Roy's debut.]]

** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1986/04/05 During his first day at the barn]], Orson comments that, "if this place had a few curtains and a fresh coat of paint... it would still be a dump".

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: After the Viacom acquisition, ''U.S. Acres'' lost its only archives when the official Garfield site was shut down and their Gocomics page disappeared. As the books are out of print as well, it's now ''very'' hard to read the comic despite a long period of it being easily available.

* DoorSlamsYou: It happens to Wade [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1988/09/20 in this strip]].

** Parodied in the April 10, 1988 strip, where Lanolin and Roy 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.

* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: Occurs in the May 1, 1988 strip, which has Lanolin remove her fur to cool off in a pond on a hot day, only for Roy to steal her wool. Lanolin retaliates by taking Roy's feathers.

** Played straight in the May 1, 1988 strip, which has Lanolin remove her fur so she can cool off in a pond on a hot day. Roy attempts [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen 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.

* FurIsClothing: One strip has Lanolin remove her fur so she can cool off in a pond on a hot day. Roy attempts [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen 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.

* WrittenSoundEffect: [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1989/01/15 This strip]] shows its capacity to knock you '''from behind after traveling the whole Earth'''.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the strips final week, Wade finally conquers his fear of everything, which causes Orson, Roy, and Booker to run off screaming.

'''Orson''': I know it's popcorn.
'''Roy''': Why didn't you warn me?!