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The comic is a [[Slice of Life]] comedy with a sitcom atmosphere and a predilection for sexual jokes. Almost all main characters, [[Mr. Fanservice|males included]], get their naked shot, and many of the storylines revolve around the main characters' sexuality or relationships.
 
In short -- it's ''[[ThreesThree's Company]]'', just with more nakedness, and no Don Knotts (too many comedy of errors as it is!). Or, ''[[The Forty 40-Year -Old Virgin]]'' in webcomic form.
 
Even the first page is NSFW, so we'll [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/reverse_cowgirl link to the second]. '''This page should not have direct NSFW links.'''
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'''Gary:''' But what if it's good?<br />
'''Jung:''' If it's goo... Gary, that makes no sense. }}
* [[A -Cup Angst]]: One of Kiley's defining traits. She reacts this way when she runs into DiDi (which has happened twice so far). In later strips, we see that she's obsessed with her small breast size. It doesn't help when others [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/fondle_your_breasts point] [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/the_worst_therapist_in_the_world it] [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/a_little_kid out] to her.
* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]:
** Gary, several times.
** Zii also partakes, watching all-male pornography while calling DiDi's name. She does not notice the contradiction there.
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* [[Brick Joke]]:
** Jung's review of Dillon's play.
** Kiley reading a pamphlet about breast enlargement when she first meets Yuki, after her [[A -Cup Angst]] when she saw DiDi.
** ''Whisper whisper'' '''badminton racket''' ''Whisper whisper'' '''Tabasco sauce''' ''Whisper whisper'' '''Paddington Bear'''
** Gary's "Giant-Size Man-Thing".
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* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Set in Montreal. DiDi is a francophone Québecois, thus the French accent.
* [[Cat Fight]]: Dillon and Sandra when Sandra taunts Dillon about her relationship with Matt. Not a real catfight, of course, but looks like it, since Dillon is dressed as Black Canary and acts alike.
* [[Caught Withwith Your Pants Down]]: [[Flamboyant Gay|Flaming gay]] Dillon walks in on Zii having some alone time...while calling out the name of her female roommate...and watching ''[[Parallel Porn Titles|Perry Hotter, Part 16]]''.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]] [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/all_your_comics This] strip: the authors of the comic, as authors of their other comic selling merchandise for it.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The Swirly-Go-Round, which Dillon teaches Gary very early on}}, comes very handy when {{spoiler|Gary wants to satisfy Kiley}}.
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** DiDi calls Sandra for a girls' night out... while she's having sex with Matt.
* [[Compliment Backfire]]:
{{quote| '''[[A -Cup Angst|Kiley]]:''' MY IQ IS SMALLER THAN MY BREAST SIZE!<br />
'''Gary:''' Uh... don't cry... I'm sure your IQ's '''much''' bigger than your breasts! }}
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Zii promised to watch all the [[Transformers]] cartoons after breaking one of Gary's most valuable ones... except that it isn't broken.
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** Sonya: {{spoiler|H-How can I be in love with Yuki?! I'm... I'm in love with li'l Zii!}}
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Zii gets trolled on the internet, so she drives to the kid's house, has sex with his mom, and convinces her to break up with the troll's father (of course, he'd been having affairs with his secretaries for years, so it wasn't *just* Zii).
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]:
** DiDi [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20080904.html causes this] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20080906.html a lot].
** [[Yaoi Fangirl|Zii]] is easily [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|Distracted by]] [[Boys Love|the Yaoi]].
* [[Dope Slap]]: DiDi's [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]] gives her one when she fantasizes about punching out Yuki {{spoiler|to get Gary to give her an orgasm}}.
* [[Double Standard]]:
** Zii [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/being_pimped calls Gary out] for offering her up for a threesome without asking, and rightfully so. But this is not very different from ''many'' things Zii has done to other people over the years. This also comes just a couple panels after Zii ''didn't'' call out ''Amber'' [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)|for tricking Gary]] [[Questionable Consent|into giving her oral]].
** After hearing Gary slept with Kiley instead of Yuki, Zii is ready to tear into him for cheating... despite the fact that Zii has had no problem with breaking up two prior relationships before.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)]]: How exactly do you think [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/sensory_deprivation this strip] would've been received if the genders were reversed?
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Being around the main characters can be a bad idea when you're holding something fragile.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Dropped A Bridget On Her]]:
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* [[Fainting]]: Gary used to pass out rather often in sexual situations, but he gradually got over it.
* [[Fan Service]]: Pretty much one of the driving forces of the comic, and quite often played for laughs.
* [[Fan Service Withwith a Smile]]:
** DiDi and Sandra work at a Hooters-esque restaurant.
** Zii works at a comic book store and [[Cosplay|cosplays]] as various characters.
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* [[Geeky Turn On]]:
** The reason why Zii got a job in the comic book shop. Also, how else you could explain the costumes? (August 15, 2009, NSFW.)
** Not so much a turn on, but when Gary gives Yuki a bouquet of faux flowers he made out of drumsticks and [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario mushrooms]] she warms up to him considerably and even starts showing genuine (if platonic) affection for him. {{spoiler|Except in her erotic dreams, where he's morphed into a combination of himself and Zii.}}
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]:
** Kiley does this to Yuki to stop her from tearing up every magazine with naked men in the store where she works. She even says this exact line. [[Captain Obvious|Well, y'know, except for the "man" part]].
** Performed by DiDi on Zii {{spoiler|when she considers sex (then a threesome) as a way of apologizing for breaking Gary's rare Transformer toy}}.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: On July 7, 2009 (NSFW), two clothed girls hugging distract a crowd of people from a naked stripper.
** Though they seem to be reacting more like [[Cuteness Proximity]] than [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]. Of course, the stripper manages to regain the crowd's attention in the ''following'' comic this way.
* [[Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies]]: After seeing DiDi's [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081213.html reaction] to a scene in ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'', Zii wants to watch another scary movie with her; however, they end up watching ''[[REC]]'', and both get scared.
* [[The Glomp]]: Yuki does it to Zii.
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** [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20080930.html Zii has] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081002.html a pair] (subverted later, as [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090312.html they're shown] [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090725.html working together]).
** As does Gary -- his [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090630.html make out with Dillon's].
** DiDi's [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100211.html bad angel] gets called up for the first time since the 3rd grade (due to her contemplating a little [[Les Yay]]), and is [[Distracted Byby the Sexy|promptly impressed with her own bust]]. However, she's scared off by her gigantic [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100213.html good angel].
* [[Gratuitous French]]:
** DiDi. The series ''is'' set in Montreal, though so far she seems to be the only one afflicted with the condition.
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* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: Matt being interrupted during sex is a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Is That Cute Kid Yours]]: Sandra has mistaken Zii for DiDi's daughter.
* [[ItsIt's the Best Whatever Ever!]]:
** Jung was prepared to give Dillon's theater play a horrible review, but after all the entertainment from Sandra's fight with Dillon over Matt, he gives the play the review "Best. Play. '''Ever.'''"
** When Amber describes to Zii how wonderful she felt when Gary used the "Swirly-Go-Round" technique on her, she says it was the "Best. Orgasm. '''Ever.'''" Zii gets angry because she feels Gary has been holding out on her.
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* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Happens twice [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110201.html here].
* [[Late to The Punchline]]: Gary gets one when he actually sees Zii as a ''girl'', rather than just a friend (December 12, 2009, NSFW.)
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: Zii makes a reference to how much time she's spent as Gary's roommate. To express the frustrations she's caused him, he responds with [[Webcomic Time|a time frame that matches up with the amount of years the comic had run at the time.]]
{{quote| '''Zii''': It's only been a ''month'' since I moved in!<br />
'''Gary''': Really? Feels like two years. }}
* [[Let's Wait Aa While]]: Gary tells Yuki this (November 8, 2011, NSFW.)
* [[Little Black Dress]]: DiDi [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110312.html wears one] for her date with {{spoiler|Sandra.}}
* [[Long List]]: [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100204.html DiDi's list of guys she considers inviting to the play].
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* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Amber thinks Gary is gay when he goes to her and Dillon's apartment so that the latter can teach him more about the "Swirly-Go-Round" kissing technique. This changes to "bi-curious" when Gary mentions that two girls (Yuki and Sonya) are trying to go out with him, and she decides to trick him into doing the "Swirly-Go-Round" on her.
* [[Moment Killer]]:
** Several, such as when Sonya arriving (due to Zii trying to [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone|throw Gary a]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|boner]]) just as Yuki was volunteering to model at least topless for Gary's drawing.
** It seems like everything in the world is trying to keep Matt from giving DiDi a toe-curling orgasm, from nosy roommates to [[Groin Attack|Japanese chicks afraid of penises]].
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Non-malicious variant; DiDi had so many boyfriends that she can't remember their names. For example, she calls Erik "Armand", "Philippe", "Derick" and "Jerry".
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*** Leads to Amber's [[My God, What Have I Done?]] look as she has a [[Heel Realization]] (though she hadn't realized how much it might have affected Gary then) about this, and Chanelle telling her "Either make him your man or give me his number! [[Take a Third Option|Or both.]] I'm not picky."
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: Gary meets up with Zii and Didi, who meet up with Gary's old roommates Matt and Dillon, and then Gary ends up meeting Yuki who is Zii's stalker who ends up liking Gary, Zii meets up with Sonya who she hooks Gary up with but Yuki likes him too and then Didi meets up with Sandra who happens to be Matt's old girlfriend and then Dillon becomes roommates with Amber-Amber who is Gary's favorite porn star and then Sandra meets this transexual who is Matt's <ref> She seems to be M to F</ref> and then Erik who is Didi's ex-boyfriend falls in love with Zii and then Gary performs ''oral sex'' on Amber-Amber and Sonya who Zii seduced is set up to date Gary in competition with Yuki who together decide to 3-way him but Yuki needs help with her tentacle/penis fear and gets Kiley to help her which leads Gary to meet Kiley when Yuki leaves her phone and [[Austin Powers|oh no, I've gone cross-eyed]]...{{spoiler|and then Kiley jumps Gary.}} ...and Zii was Amber's first lover in high school, beginning with a kiss in a game of "Truth or Dare"...
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]:
** Zii says in one of the early strips that her real name is Suzi, but nobody calls her that.
** Everyboy only calls DiDi on her nickname except Sandra, who usually calls her Desirée.
** Gary was originally only called "Violator-San" by Yuki, but ever since he gave her those flowers (made out of [[Super Mario Bros.|Mushrooms]] and drum sticks) she's started [[First-Name Basis|calling him by his real name]].
*** [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110407.html Or not.]
* [[Only Sane Man]]:
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* [[Pity Sex]]: Subverted. DiDi wants to "deflower" Gary, who is a hopeless virgin. Various mishaps prevent her from doing so; later, Zii explains to her that she shouldn't do that, because Gary would associate sex with being pathetic...and because she wants Didi for herself.
* [[Poirot Speak]]: DiDi peppers her speech with random French words.
* [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold|Porn Star with a Heart of Gold]]: Amber-Amber -- as Gary [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090716.html imagines her to be.]
** And now that she's become an actual character, it seems to be true. (Although Amber is very... pragmatic... about certain matters...)
* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]:
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* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: One gets the sense that some of the things Zii does would be considered dickish or even constitute sex crimes if she wasn't one of the three main characters. The strip portrays everything she does as mere harmless sexual antics though and [[Karma Houdini|nobody calls her out on it.]] [[Broken Base|Some fans are perfectly fine with this, and some are not.]]
* [[Punny Name]]/[[Gratuitous French]]/[[Bilingual Bonus]]: The strip name.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: At the end of volume 3, {{spoiler|Sandra}} is put on a plane to Brazil. She ''is'' said to come back to Montreal, but only after "several weeks". Given the short timeframe of the events in the strip, it might take a long time before that happens.
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: Sandra was featured in the May 10th, 2012 strip.
* [[Questionable Consent]]:
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** Matt? Dillon? MattDillon? Huh...
** [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100213.html This strip] directly mentions ''[[Candy Candy]]''.
** Zii wants to be called "[[Starship Troopers (Filmfilm)|Rico]]" when she's getting whipped (August 11, 2009, NSFW.)
** [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110628.html Gary is a] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Brony]] who has a #savederpy t-shirt.
** And now he's wearing a ''[[Re Boot]]'' [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/you_truly_are_an_actor t-shirt...]
** [[Deadpool]]'s recent wave of [[Wolverine Publicity]] got referenced when Gary tried to explain picking up girly comics as "It's a Deadpool variant!"
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** Gary [[Zack Ryder|is a total Broski]], as seen [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/crossed_a_line here].
** Yuki sings "[[Bubblegum Crisis|Konya Wa Hurricane]]" under the shower.
* [[Shower of Angst]]: May 14, 2011 (NSFW) [[A -Cup Angst]]
* [[Skinny Dipping]]: Senna went skinny dipping with Sandra... in Brazil, using her private jet.
* [[Skinship Grope]]: July 31, 2008 (NSFW.) It's a lot less innocent for Zii than for DiDi, mind.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Textbook example in [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/never_want_to_see_you_again this strip].
* [[Sleeps Withwith Everyone but You]]: Zii and DiDi are very promiscuous, but neither of them sleeps with Gary (or each other, althought Zii would very much like to).
** For the record, both have come very close to sleeping with him, only to step back because they don't want Gary to think desperation is the ticket to getting laid in the future.
** However, the fact that the only one giving Gary '''any''' sort of tutoring on the practical side of sexual interaction is [[Camp Gay|Dillon]] (and, until recently, the only one Gary gets to practice ON), should point out how useless Zii is in her self-appointed "wing-girl" status and further cements this trope.
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** The on-line [[Troll]] upon finding out who Zii is.
* [[Squee]]: Dillon does this when he finds out he's going to appear in a movie.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]:
** Zii wants Yuki to leave her alone. {{spoiler|Zii eventually gives up, and has sex with her. While Gary was on a pseudo-date with her. Loudly, all night. '''While Gary could hear.'''}}
** Later, {{spoiler|Yuki realizes that she's attracted to Gary, and leaves Zii alone.}}
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* [[Title Drop]]: Finally happened on September 3, 2011 (NSFW.)
* [[Tradesnark]]: Minor one: [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090602.html Dillon's "open mouth swirly-go-round" kissing technique]
* [[Translation Convention]]: Used with DiDi's French and Yuki's Japanese (brackets around English text). Averted with Senna's Portuguese (the forum provided translations have been copied to the [[Ménage à 3 (Webcomic)/Trivia|trivia page]]).
* [[Transsexual]]: Senna, Matt's coworker and latest one night stand.
* [[Troll]]:
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