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It's often poked fun at by [[The Comics Curmudgeon]], and is ripe [[Snark Bait]] due to its over-the-top [[Green Aesop|green aesops]]. Also notable for [[Demonization|demonizing]] the endangered elephant into something that ''is'' a danger to all in one strip.
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: It frequently featured miscolored animals, such as ducks with green bodies and brown heads (instead of the other way around) and baby-blue chicks. Who often grow to the size of Buicks and talk out of their butts, but that's another issue.
* [[An Aesop]]:
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* [[Asexuality]]: [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Some would say Mark is an asexual]].
* [[Babies Make Everything Better]]: In a ludicrous strip once, it was said that a man who abuses his wife was under stress from work would be all fixed and a good husband if he adopted a child. Um... No.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Played straight. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150228212556/http://www.hickorytech.net/~flapper/trail.html More explanation here.]
* '''[[Bold Inflation]]''': Often when something [[GASP]]-inducing happens.
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Beards are evil, long sideburns are evil, and bald is ''sometimes''.
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* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Andy, Mark's St. Bernard. Once untied a captured Mark with his teeth.
* [[Narm]]
* [[Off-Model]]: Ed Dodd was very talented when it comes to drawing animals, but sometimes his rendition of people... suffered. This was one of the reasons why the shots in the frame were zoomed in on an animal with the speech bubbles coming from an unseen human to the side of the panel, giving it the unintentionally hilarious effect of looking like the animals are the ones spewing exposition.
** The current artist, Jack Elrod is even ''worse'' at drawing humans than Ed Dodd
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* [[Purity Stu]]: Mark.
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