- Moment of Awesome for newspaper comics as a whole. There are several other magnificent strips that contend for the honor, but most of the other contenders cite Pogo as one of their inspirations for getting into comics to begin with. Also, the '50s comic strips had enough space to make things pretty and less political sensitivity, although they were subject to censorship pressure of many other varieties.
- However, even this didn't stop Kelly from mocking Senator Joseph McCarthy during the height of the red-baiting bully's power in the 1950s. Unlike the reporter Edward R. Murrow, Kelly faced real risks in doing this since he didn't have a major broadcast network backing him up and the newspapers carrying Pogo could have ruined him by dropping the strip in droves.
- Nightmare Fuel: Every other "bad guy" in the strip is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Simple J. Malarkey is a true and terrible villain
.- The panel where Malarkey reveals himself hiding behind a tree – his face covered in tar and making him seem eternally in the shadows – and threatening to shoot Mole is considered one of the most terrifying moments in newspaper comics.Malarkey: Last shell, Mole?
- The panel where Malarkey reveals himself hiding behind a tree – his face covered in tar and making him seem eternally in the shadows – and threatening to shoot Mole is considered one of the most terrifying moments in newspaper comics.
- Parody Displacement: "We have met the enemy and he is us" is more famous now than the original quote from Oliver Hazard Perry that it parodies: "We have met the enemy and they are ours".
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