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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the Creator/DCComics humor series, ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.
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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The San Diego Union-Tribune pulled the comic after the Ilhan Omar strip because [[https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/about-us/readers-rep/story/2019-08-30/union-tribune-drops-mallard-fillmore-comic-strip it's readers felt that the strip's subject matter was insensitive]] given that there had been a rise in anti-semitic attacks making the headlines around that time, including a shooting at a synagogue in Poway (a city in San Diego County) months prior.

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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The San Diego Union-Tribune pulled the comic after the Ilhan Omar strip because [[https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/about-us/readers-rep/story/2019-08-30/union-tribune-drops-mallard-fillmore-comic-strip it's its readers felt that the strip's subject matter was insensitive]] given that there had been a rise in anti-semitic attacks making the headlines around that time, including a shooting at a synagogue in Poway (a city in San Diego County) months prior.

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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: While Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run, one of his strips about Rep. Ilhan Omar may have as he's been MIA from his own comic since late 2019.

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** Mallard Fillmore makes an appearance early on in the ''Webcomic/WeaponBrown'' comic... as a head on a plate. [[TakeThat According to the annotations, Yungbluth says that he let the comic strip off easy]].
** '' Literature/AmericaTheBook'', [[TakeThat mocks]] Fillmore's use of StrawmanPolitical rants in lieau of humor by posting a satirical Fillmore strip that begins with Fillmore talking about something that bugs him, and ending on the last panel with "Oops! I forgot to tell a joke!" Bruce Tinsley, the comic's author, didn't take this well, and proceeded to make a follow-up strip specifically blasting Jon Stewart.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: While Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run, one of his strips about Rep. Ilhan Omar may have as he's been MIA from his own comic since late 2019.2019.
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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The San Diego Union-Tribune pulled the comic after the Ilhan Omar strip because [[https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/about-us/readers-rep/story/2019-08-30/union-tribune-drops-mallard-fillmore-comic-strip it's readers felt that the strip's subject matter was insensitive]] given that there had been a rise in anti-semitic attacks making the headlines around that time, including a shooting at a synagogue in Poway (a city in San Diego County) months prior.



* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: While Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run, one of his strips about Rep. Ihlan Omar may have as he's been MIA from his own comic since late 2019.

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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: While Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run, one of his strips about Rep. Ihlan Ilhan Omar may have as he's been MIA from his own comic since late 2019.
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* TheMoralSubstitute: The strip was marketed as such to the left-leaning ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}''. It's not unusual for newspapers to run both strips side-by-side.

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* TheMoralSubstitute: The strip was marketed as such a conservative counterpart to the left-leaning ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}''. It's not unusual for newspapers to run both strips side-by-side.
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* TheMoralSubstitute: The strip was marketed as such to the left-leaning ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}''. It's not unusual for newspapers to run both strips side-by-side.
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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Subverted. Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run.

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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Subverted. While Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run.run, one of his strips about Rep. Ihlan Omar may have as he's been MIA from his own comic since late 2019.
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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the Creator/DCComics humor series, ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.

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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the Creator/DCComics humor series, ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Subverted. Bruce Tinsley's DUI arrest in 2006 didn't hurt the strip in the long run.
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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the DCComics humor series, ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.

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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the DCComics Creator/DCComics humor series, ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: How the strip came to be.

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* %%* ExecutiveMeddling: How the strip came to be.%%
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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the DCComics humor series, ''CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.

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* NamesTheSame: "Mallard Fillmore" was also the name of a character in the DCComics humor series, ''CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.

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