My Cage: Difference between revisions

** The strip for [http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=My_Cage&feature_date=2010-10-17 October 17th, 2010] made another shout to the Comics Curmudgeon community and its founder, Dean's Comic Booth, The Daily Comics Review, and several Curmudegeonites and other fans of the strip by name.

** To [[John Hughes]] in a Sunday Strip shortly after his death.

* [[Species Surname]]: Just about everyone, including the parody celebrities.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20081017&name=My_Cage Kenny The Unicorn is definitely not Max's illegitimate son.]

** [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090510&name=My_Cage Norm and Bridget's off-panel break-up] was also intended as a slam against ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'', which ended its run with a [[Wall of Text]] epilogue after a main character's wedding that attempted to explain what should have been shown in the strip in only a few panels. In ''[[My Cage]]'', the only people happy after the wedding are the bride and groom, because they hated the wedding and the honeymoon and they thrive off being miserable.

* [[Take That, Critics!]]: [http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=My_Cage&feature_date=2010-10-06 In one of the final strips,] the authors made a special mention of a Comics Curmudgeon forumite named kahvigirl who had written a diatribe where she accused ''My Cage'' of being nothing more than "''[[Cathy]]'' in furry drag". They awarded this poster the Golden Squishy for "Best insult of 'My Cage' on the Internet".

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Norm quits his job after yet another idiot was put in charge. "We'll be OK as long as there aren't any [[Law of Inverse Fertility|surprises.]]"

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Used in this [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080817&name=My_Cage sitcom parody], and then later made official with Norm and Bridget's marriage. In still more [[Lampshade Hanging]], [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20100207&name=My_Cage Maureen once complained] about people expecting her to go through with this trope. Cue Norm's panicked attempt to distract Bridget.

[[Category:My Cage]]

[[Category:Comic Strip]]