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* [[Beard of Evil]]: Played straight. [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''.
* [[Hesitation Equals Dishonesty]]: Played terribly straight. Start your sentence with "Um," and you're a villain.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Andy, Mark's St. Bernard. Once untied a captured Mark with his teeth.
* [[Narm]]
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Mark Trail used to be allowed to age, but is now caught in a time freeze so powerful that even he can't punch his way out of it. He even occasionally revisits old storylines, trapped in an eternal loop where everything is the same except where censored to match the values of the outside world.
* [[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 was -- his rendition of Rusty for instance has been nicknamed "the [[Eldritch Abomination|Elrod Abomination]]" by more than a few. Fortunately, Elrod is at least in the same league as Dodd was when it comes to drawing wildlife.
* [[Pieta Plagiarism]]: Happens a few times