YMMV / The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

• Designated Villain: The police department. Cops who appear in the strip are generally just doing their job enforcing the law. They may be stupid, and obnoxious as portrayed by Shelton; but still, it's due to the Freaks' main (and illegal) activities that the police are put constantly at odds with the protagonists.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Possibly also a Genius Bonus: one of the victims of the Charles Manson Family in 1969, murdered alongside Sharon Tate and others, was a well-known Los Angeles drugs dealer called Voytek Frykowski.
  • In one story, Phineas and Franklin think that Fat Freddy has died of an overdose, but he is only temporarily paralysed ("You cheap bastards, I could hear every word you said!"). This is mostly played for Black Comedy. However, some readers will be unable to forget the possibility that all of these druggy hijinks could end in death, making everything else that little bit less funny.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "The Idiots Abroad" contains a scene where Fat Freddy falls into Loch Ness and is covered with tiny Loch Ness monsters. Tiny freshwater plesiosaurs? That could never happen!.
• Tear Jerker: In one strip Phineas recounts the how he once found a patch of wild marijuana. He then goes there every so often to roll some joints and meditate. However, one day, he shows up with seven other people who had also discovered. The eight of them fight over it and rip out as many plants as they can carry, much to Phineas' regret.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: The Three Stooges. On drugs.
  • Alternatively, Ed, Edd n Eddy, on drugs.
• Values Dissonance: In "Phineas Gets An Abortion", after his girlfriend's father shoots at his van, Phineas states "(He) knew (he) was asking for trouble falling in love with a 16-year old." There's no way you'd get away with that today, at least if you wanted to keep the character saying it sympathetic.

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