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* [[Comic Book Time]]: Chip started out as an eight-year-old, but has been a teenager for quite some time. Dot and Ditto have aged slightly as well. |
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Chip started out as an eight-year-old, but has been a teenager for quite some time. Dot and Ditto have aged slightly as well. |
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [http://www.artbaxter.com/images/blog/2008-postings/topless_backs/lois-9.28.71.gif This] strip from September 28, 1971. |
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [http://www.artbaxter.com/images/blog/2008-postings/topless_backs/lois-9.28.71.gif This] strip from September 28, 1971. |
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* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Lois is usually a decent, honest woman. But in her profession as a real estate saleswoman, she stretches the truth as much as anyone else in the business. |
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* [[Hot Mom]]: Lois. Surely breasts that round and pert are unusual on ''most'' suburban housewives. |
* [[Hot Mom]]: Lois. Surely breasts that round and pert are unusual on ''most'' suburban housewives. |
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* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Subverted with Trixie, who has long, reflected conversations with The Sunbeam. Not ''a'' Sunbeam. ''The'' Sunbeam. |
* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Subverted with Trixie, who has long, reflected conversations with The Sunbeam. Not ''a'' Sunbeam. ''The'' Sunbeam. |
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hi and Lois ("high and low"); oldest son Chip ("chip off the old block"); younger children Dot and Ditto (twins - "ditto" means "copy of"); Trixie ("full of tricks") |
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hi and Lois ("high and low"); oldest son Chip ("chip off the old block"); younger children Dot and Ditto (twins - "ditto" means "copy of"); Trixie ("full of tricks") |
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* [[Spin-Off]]: The Flagstons first appeared in ''[[Beetle Bailey]]''. Lois is Beetle's sister. |
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* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Don't twins have enough identity issues without being named "Ditto"? |
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Don't twins have enough identity issues without being named "Ditto"? |
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