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In most of the stories, the point-of-view character is Alex Jones, the human ambassador to the Hoka planet, who generally finds himself being the [[Only Sane Man]]. His outsider viewpoint, and the fact that unlike his furry charges he's capable of stepping out of the role he's been given, grant him a measure of [[Genre Savvy]], but it doesn't always do him much good.
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* [[Baseball Episode]]: "Joy in Mudville"
* [[Blackmail]]:
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** In "The Napoleon Crime", Alex, finding himself cast as the Duke of Wellington, can remember only that he responded with "Publish and be damned!" to a blackmailer. At the end, when a reporter tells him that he can make him look ridiculous, Alex decides not to resist temptation: "Publish and be damned!"
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: In "Full Pack (Hokas Wild)", three aliens who resemble a tiger, a snake, and a monkey make an unscheduled stop on the Hoka planet right near a bunch of Hokas who are re-enacting ''[[The Jungle Book (Literature)|The Jungle Book]]'' (with humans playing Mowgli and Messua).
* [[Could Say It, But...]]: Alex once explains a story by saying he can't explain because he's unwilling to accuse officials of having swallowed the story of a drunk or possibly deranged individual.
* [[Duel to The Death]]: Once Alex Jones challenged the Pirate Greenbeard to a duel -- when Greenbeard was the persona he adopted to infiltrate the pirates. Staging it behind a wall, he convinced the Hoka pirates that he had actually fought it.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first Hoka story features the Hokas' ancient enemies, the reptilian Slissii. They are never seen again; Alex later explains that they fled the planet.
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* [[Legion of Lost Souls]]: The Hoka version of the French Foreign Legion includes not only Hokas that want to be Legionnaires, but those who are inspired by certain works of fiction but are unable to get other Hokas to join in.
* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]:
{{quote| '''Alex''': I've really begun to wonder if some evil masterminds aren't at work behind the scenes. It's either believe that or believe we're only characters in a series of stories that are being written by a [[Self
* [[Magic Antidote]]: A "soberpill" removes all intoxication the moment it's swallowed.
* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]: You can hang a Hoka, but it won't hurt him (they have unusually strong neck muscles), and he'll consider it all part of whatever fiction is currently being lived out.
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