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As of fall 2011, the comic is on hiatus as the creators prepare to give it a [[Retool]]. The relaunch will have a more consistent storyline, and the angelic characters are going to be remade as being alive.

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* [[Adorkable]]: Hank, big time.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The strip takes place in modern times, but Patches has yet to notice that [[The Eighties]] are long gone, and Treiss regularly dresses like she's just come from the Renaissance faire.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Originally, the characters were drawn in a slightly more cartoony, slightly Disney-esque manner, and the strip was in black and white. First, color was added in, and eventually there was a rather dramatic style shift to a slightly more anime-esque style. The most noticable aspect of the shift was Bear, who went from simply having a slightly large chin to having a chin that makes up half the volume of his head.

* [[Art Shift]]: Seemingly at random or when someone is dreaming.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Treiss began as one of these. Hank is loosely based on DeBray.

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Belle is one of these.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: It is...''unwise''...to speak slightingly of Patches, or to even give Bear the idea that you're thinking negatively of her. She drives him crazy, but you don't mess with Bear's sister.

* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Beau. He actually ''is'' Buddy's big brother, but also tries to be one to the rest of the crew at times, which they don't always appreciate.

* [[Cats]]: In the storyline where Ivy joins the cast, the housemates go see the musical ''People''. (Think about it.)

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Generally averted, although Belle has her moments.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Bryony, who is the litter-mate (so not technically 'little' sister) of Bear and Patches. Being dead hasn't interfered in her developing a relationship with them both, although Bear didn't know she existed for some time.

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: Annie

* [[The Ditz]]: Patches

* [[Dream Sequence]]: Bear has a rather epic one in which he was in ''[[Oblivion]]'' with Buddy. Later in the series, Patches takes the entire cast on one through various [[Anime]].

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Treiss is of some unspecified Eastern European background, a fact which only becomes evident when her wacky parents come to visit.

* [[Gamer Chick]]: Subverted. Annie isn't a very good gamer, but she's enthusiastic, and eventually "bribes" her way into Bear's gaming group... [[Little Miss Badass|with a medieval flail]].

* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: Litter-mates Bear and Bryony are extremely similar in appearance, except for Bear's chin and Bryony's pink wings.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Bear has one when Beau tells him of the existence of his sister Bryony.

* [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: Annie turns into a little pink cyclone when she eats too much sugar.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]/[[In-Series Nickname]]: Bear refuses to refer to or address Treiss as anything except "chinchilla." This is a [[Call Back]] to how they met.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Treiss, a snow leopard, has feelings for Hank, a German shepherd, who is clueless. Bryony has a fairly obvious crush on Reaper, who doesn't seem to know how to respond.

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Treiss did this to start the strip. The call came in the form of Belle's newspaper ad, trying to find one more tenant for the household.

* [[Just for Pun]]: Bear the cat makes friends with a bear named Cat in one strip.

* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Beau invokes this trope to describe the bickering and teasing between Bryony and Reaper.

* [[Mall Santa]]: Beau performed a stint as one in the first year of the comic. It was a small CMOH.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Belle. She does it willingly and unwillingly. A lot.

* [[My Little Pony]]: Patches and Bryony play with these, as does (on occasion) Mr. Cuddles.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The characters occasionally address the readers directly, usually to announce hiatuses or for other similar purposes.

* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Treiss wears one just about every day, and in one storyline, Belle drags her to the mall for a more modern one.

* [[One of Us]]: Or rather, the Baileys qualify as ''two'' of us. A large majority of their nerdy interests show up in the strip itself; additionally, DeBray has written product manuals and Tracy is a published comic book artist and colorist.

* [[Peanuts]]: Buddy recreates the menu from ''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'' as a welcome dinner for new neighbor Hank.

* [[Poke the Poodle]]: The 'angels' in a ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' parody literally do this.

** The character of Ivy is blind because the real Ivy is too.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Sort of inverted. One has to wonder if Bear or Buddy [[Walking Shirtless Scene|even ''own'' shirts]].

* [[Take Over the World]]: Both Bear and Mr. Cuddles the tarantula have this as their basic life goal.

** Buddy is Bear's second-in-command-in-training, by the looks of it.

** Surprisingly though, it's also an example of [[No Swastikas]], as while Hank is shown wearing the little red armband, the swastika itself is never shown, with the arm its on being not in frame, or being covered by something else. The most you see of it is a little black squiggle in the center of the white circle.

* [[Totally Radical]]: Buddy tends to speak like this.

* [[Valley Girl]]: Patches talks this way.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Bear comes up with one on the spot to end up watching the Super Bowl on Hank's television. It works.

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