Crankshaft/YMMV
- Non Sequitur Scene: In 2009, there was a week-long arc that appeared to show Ed in the future living in a nursing home. He is hooked up to oxygen and barely conscious throughout the whole thing, and his nurse takes him to a Mudhens baseball game. Then the strip went back to normal without comment. Finally, in late 2010, a storyline ran where Ed and a one of his old baseball buddies went to visit their former teammate "Beanball" Bushka... who lives in a nursing home, is hooked up to oxygen, and looks exactly like a 90-year-old Ed Cranshaft.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Last year, there was a mild controversy based on a strip that had Crankshaft telling his girlfriend she was too old to worry about sexual assault.