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* Nearly every Newspaper Comic in existence is written under the belief that not everyone gets the newspaper every day, so most of them are of a Gag-a-Day format to avoid this. However...
** Both Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse daily strips and Ward Greene's [[Scamp]] daily strips began as essentially one continuous story, but both eventually shifted to gag a day formats.
*** That also makes them particularly tricky to separate into individual stories for reprinting in comic book form (besides the obvious fact that they have to make up a meaningful name for the story arcs), for example, Gottfredson's ''[[Mickey Mouse]] as the Monarch of Medioka'' (Printed in WDC #593-599) starts of with a conversation referring to the immediately preceding adventure, and the plot is set in motion by spending of the money they made off of said adventure. The preceding story, ''In Search of Jungle Treasure'' was printed in issues ''4 and 5'', so unless you have a complete collection, you pretty much have to take their word for it.
** Modern newspaper strips with running plots generally get around this by [[Decompressed Comic|decompressing]] the plot so much that every minor detail happens over at least 3 days. Of course, this also means you have to read several months' worth of strips to get anything meaningful out of it.
* ''[[Fleep]]'' was an [[Ontological Mystery]], so the entire story was progressed through clues slowly gained over the various strips. It was canceled for being too confusing.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Usually avoided in pro wrestling, since most of the characters (at least if the fall between the two extremes of "irrelevant" and "universally popular") will switch from [[Heel]] to [[Face]] and back again (or vice versa) quite a few times over the course of their part in an overall story arc, with other characters all but forgetting about the bad deeds they committed as Heels or the good deeds they committed as Faces (unless, of course, a character is [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|explicitly confronted with his/her past]]). However, since [[
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