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''Dear journal...''

One of the first three original Nicktoons, featuring eleven-year-old Doug Funnie and his experiences with his friends, family and community. Creator Jim Jinkins developed the concept and drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up. Beginning with Doug's arrival in Bluffington, he dutifully writes about his every adventure in his journal, which frames almost every episode. Very early on, he gained a best friend in Mosquito "Skeeter" Valentine, a nemesis in school bully Roger Klotz, and a love interest in the [[Shorttank|tomboyish]] Patti Mayonnaise. His dog Porkchop frequently steals the show with his antics, not unlike [[Peanuts ~~(Comic Strip)~~|Snoopy]]. Many other colourful characters (both literally and figuratively) were featured.

One of the first three original Nicktoons, featuring eleven-year-old Doug Funnie and his experiences with his friends, family and community. Creator Jim Jinkins developed the concept and drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up. Beginning with Doug's arrival in Bluffington, he dutifully writes about his every adventure in his journal, which frames almost every episode. Very early on, he gained a best friend in Mosquito "Skeeter" Valentine, a nemesis in school bully Roger Klotz, and a love interest in the [[Shorttank|tomboyish]] Patti Mayonnaise. His dog Porkchop frequently steals the show with his antics, not unlike [[Peanuts|Snoopy]]. Many other colourful characters (both literally and figuratively) were featured.

In many episodes, Doug pretends to be one of his personal superheroes to solve the problem; the methods the hero uses are adapted to fit a real-life situation. For example, one episode has the vice principal Mr. Bone refusing to have a popular rock band play at their school; he considers it heathen entertainment. Doug pretends to be Quailman dealing with the strict alien robots called Robo-Bones. When Quailman couldn't overpower the robots, they turned on him with horrible yodeling (Mr. Bone was part of a yodeling quartet). Quailman ended up saving the day by suggesting that they sing in key and form a band, which made everyone happy. Doug learned that, instead of fighting Mr. Bone, they should make a compromise. He suggested Mr. Bone's yodeling group to open for the rock band, figuring that the student body suffering for five minutes was worth it.

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Nickelodeon's ''Doug'' is now in reruns on [[Teen Nick]]'s "[[The 90s Are All That]]" block.

Not to be confused with the [[YouTube]] series [[~~Doug Derky (Web Video)|~~Doug Derky]].

Not to be confused with the [[YouTube]] series [[Doug Derky]].

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* [[The Everyman]]: Doug is a mild-mannered, [[Book Dumb]] student with a mostly unrequited crush on a girl, is only a moderate athlete, and can never stay ahead for long.

* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Doug for Patti.

* [[Expy]]: The Beets' name and Liverpool accents are obviously based on [[The Beatles (~~Music~~)|The Beatles]] (although singer Monroe Yoder looks more like [[The Who ~~(Music)~~|Roger Daltrey]].

* [[Expy]]: The Beets' name and Liverpool accents are obviously based on [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] (although singer Monroe Yoder looks more like [[The Who|Roger Daltrey]].

** Many of the characters are reminiscent of [[~~Peanuts (Comic Strip)|~~Peanuts]] characters. Doug is kind of like Charlie Brown in personality and character design, Porkchop is Snoopy, Patty Mayonnaise is the Little Red Haired Girl, Skeeter is Linus, amongst many others.

** Many of the characters are reminiscent of [[Peanuts]] characters. Doug is kind of like Charlie Brown in personality and character design, Porkchop is Snoopy, Patty Mayonnaise is the Little Red Haired Girl, Skeeter is Linus, amongst many others.

*** This is Lampshaded in the series premiere of the Disney series when Doug sees a computer simulation of possible haircuts and one is that of Charlie Brown. He even says good grief.

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Doug had shades of this.

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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: It's a journal, not a diary!

* [[Jerkass]]: Roger.

* [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: Roger on other occasions. He even helped organize Doug's 1 year anniversary in Bluffington.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Roger on other occasions. He even helped organize Doug's 1 year anniversary in Bluffington.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Slightly in [[The Movie]], how was Mr. Bluff '''''not''''' arrested at the end? Yes, he did get comeuppance but he broke so many U.S. laws it's ridiculous. He polluted a lake he didn't even own, he bribes the police, he bribes the media. Hell, he bribes everyone! And that's just the beginning.

* [[Kid Com]]

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* [[Love At First Sight]]: Doug is lovestruck the second he sees Patti bike past outside the Honker Burger in the very first episode.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The song "Anybody Else at All" from the Disney World musical is a fun, bouncy tune...about Doug losing his self-confidence.

* [[Mascot ~~With~~ Attitude]]: Porkchop.

* [[Mascot with Attitude]]: Porkchop.

* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: Patti Mayonnaise. One episode she actually asks him out on a date, which ends kind of awkwardly. This back-and-forth behavior continues throughout the rest of the series.

** This is [[Justified Trope]] due to their ages. After all, most preteens are pretty nervous when it comes to dealing with matters of the heart for the first time.

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* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: [[Subverted Trope]] by Patti in the later Quailman comics who keeps pronouncing Guy Graham/Rupert Schmupert's last name the French way which he keeps correcting.

* [[Myth Arc]]: ''Disney's Doug'' had Doug and Skeeter occasionally visiting Lucky Duck Lake in an attempt to discover if a monster exists in there (a nod to the legendary Loch Ness Monster). The monster itself finally makes an appearance in [[The Movie]] and plays an important role.

* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: In-universe. Doug actually calls Skeeter out on this in one episode when the latter's superhero alter-ego, the Silver Skeeter, kept showing off new powers that came out of nowhere and were just what he needed to save the day.

* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: In-universe. Doug actually calls Skeeter out on this in one episode when the latter's superhero alter-ego, the Silver Skeeter, kept showing off new powers that came out of nowhere and were just what he needed to save the day.

* [[New Season, New Name]]

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Doug literally does this to Patti's old house which is falling apart.

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* [[Punny Name]]: [[wikipedia:DINKY|DINK (or DINKY)]] is slang for an affluent couple with no children.

** Mayor Robert "Bob" White. A bobwhite is a species of quail.

* [[Quietly Performing Sister Show]]: In its original run, Doug was sort of this to [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|Ren & Stimpy]] and [[~~Rugrats (Animation)|~~Rugrats]]. Doug didn't become the pop-culture smash and merchandising bonanza that its fellow Nicktoons did, but was popular enough to remain on Nick's schedule in reruns years after its cancellation.

* [[Quietly Performing Sister Show]]: In its original run, Doug was sort of this to [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|Ren & Stimpy]] and [[Rugrats]]. Doug didn't become the pop-culture smash and merchandising bonanza that its fellow Nicktoons did, but was popular enough to remain on Nick's schedule in reruns years after its cancellation.

** Nickelodeon did promote the hell out of the show when it was still running, if for no other reason than the fact that they show ''was'' popular with kids and ''especially'' parents, who thought Ren and Stimpy and other shows like it were too obnoxious.

** Averted with the Disney series, it was promoted almost as much as ''[[Hannah Montana]]''!

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* [[Secret Diary]]: Roger gets his hands on Doug's journal in "Doug's Runaway Journal". Turns out {{spoiler|he couldn't read any of it because Doug's handwriting is so bad.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** The "Spacemonks" game that Doug plays is a small tribute to ''[[Wing Commander (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Wing Commander]]'', using several similar scenes from the game, including the infamous space funeral.

** The "Spacemonks" game that Doug plays is a small tribute to ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'', using several similar scenes from the game, including the infamous space funeral.

** "Silver Skeeter" (see [[Superpower Lottery]] below) is, of course, a tribute to the ''[[Silver Surfer]]''.

** A rather blatant one to ''[[Arthur (~~Animation~~)|Arthur]]'' appears in the first episode of Disney's Doug.

** A rather blatant one to ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' appears in the first episode of Disney's Doug.

** One episode has a sequence where Doug dreams he performs in a concert wearing [[Talking Heads (~~Music~~)|a really big suit]].

** One episode has a sequence where Doug dreams he performs in a concert wearing [[Talking Heads (band)|a really big suit]].

** Doug lives on 21 Jumbo Street, a shout to the then-popular cop show ''[[21 Jump Street]]''.

** In one episode, Doug goes to see a Smash Adams movie that opens with an evil dentist about to torture the titular character with a dental drill while shouting [[Marathon Man|"Is it safe? Is it safe?!"]]

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* [[Soapbox Sadie]]: Judy, in one episode.

* [[The Southpaw]]: Doug is left-handed. It was a plot point in the episode where Doug is on Patti's baseball team (never having played baseball before) and she realizes that he is left handed and tells him to stand on the ''right'' side of home plate so he could have an easier time swinging at the ball. He manages a hit almost instantly.

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: An [[In Universe]] example. The costume of a supposedly scary movie monster has a visible zipper.

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: An [[In-Universe]] example. The costume of a supposedly scary movie monster has a visible zipper.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Beebe Bluff's father owns most of the town, but she goes to a public school and is an alright person. She also saves them in [[The Movie]].

* [[Start My Own]]: After being rejected by the Honkers softball team because she's a girl, Patti forms the "Patti's Pulverizers" softball team.

* [[Stern Teacher]]: Mrs. Wingo, "You're knocking on trouble's door"

* [[Stock Ness Monster]]: The Lucky Duck Lake Monster.

* [[Story-Breaker Team-Up]]: Done inside the show itself when Doug and Skeeter teamed up their imaginary heroes: [[~~Superman (Comic Book)|~~Superman]] [[Expy]] Quailman and [[Silver Surfer]] Expy The Silver Skeeter.

* [[Story-Breaker Team-Up]]: Done inside the show itself when Doug and Skeeter teamed up their imaginary heroes: [[Superman]] [[Expy]] Quailman and [[Silver Surfer]] Expy The Silver Skeeter.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Skeeter's superhero Silver Skeeter has a superpower for any and all situations, which Doug finds annoying because it lacks any serious tension.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The show often uses [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] versions of movie themes.

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* [[Tempting Fate]]: After Doug's aunt gets him on a children's cowboy show, Skeeter tells him "At least no-one we know saw it." Cue Roger bursting through the door, wearing a cowboy hat and spurs...

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Patti and Beebe

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: [[In Universe]] Porkchop (the dog) leaves footprints all over Doug's canvas, and it's hailed as an artistic masterpiece.

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: [[In-Universe]] Porkchop (the dog) leaves footprints all over Doug's canvas, and it's hailed as an artistic masterpiece.

** Anything that comes out of Judy's mouth.

* [[Tuxedo and Martini]]: Smash Adams.