YMMV / A Girl and Her Fed

• Genius Bonus: There are a lot of historical references in the strip, as might be expected when you have Benjamin Franklin as a primary character. One which actually gets missed a lot, though, is that Ben previously helped two people. The first, listed earlier on, was Abraham Lincoln — another is not expressly named until much later, but turns out to be Edward Murrow, a philanthropist and war reporter who made his name in 1930 and later would be an incredibly powerful reporter during the Red Scare.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 9/13/14. When Clarisse goes headhunting for a political ally, she says, "I need someone who's part of a living legacy. Also someone who's not related to a dead president or senator." Her target suggests Donald Trump — "Household name, started his own dynasty..." — but she says, "I have standards." Well, apparently the standards of a Card-Carrying Villain who plans on murdering a majority percentage of the world so she'll be a powerful ghost when she dies are higher than half of America's. Given the themes of the strip, no one would have batted an eye if the joke was actually made during his presidency.
• One of Us: An in-universe example, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has spent most of the last two decades on the internet, and in particular, loves TV Tropes, posting under the name Abe-1809. Based on her reaction to that revelation (particularly including the Alt Text), Mare also is one. Later, he describes the concept of tropes to an elderly Japanese woman. She responds with another common internet meme . . . .

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