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* The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''.
** Bill Watterson may, at one point, have intended to visit the Noodle Incident someday, but in the Tenth Anniversary ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' collection, he explains that the reason he never did was because nothing he could come up with would ever be as fantastic or as interesting as anything the readers would be able to come up with while trying to work out exactly what happened.
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'''Calvin''': '''''That wasn't a story! That was the unvarnished truth!'''''
'''Hobbes''': Oh, don't be so modest. You deserved a Pulitzer. }}
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'''Mom''': What noodles?
'''Calvin''': Oh... Uh... Ha ha! Did I say noodles? You must have heard wrong. I didn't say noodles. }}
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'''Dad''': I don't WANT to look cute! }}
* A literal noodle incident happens in ''[[FoxTrot]]'', and as a result Jason gets all of his ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' collections confiscated.
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* In the popular comic strip ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', Pig is enemies with a sea anemone due to an unknown event that occurred years in the past.
** All just a [[Feghoot]] for "Annie-May, my anemone enemy".
* In the ''[[Heathcliff]]'' comic, it's never explained why the protagonist's father is in prison (which he's always breaking out of) although the [[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats|animated adaptation]] suggests it's for far worse crimes than anything his son does.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
** Exactly how it went between Snoopy and the Head Beagle when Snoopy was charged with "not pursuing his monthly quota of rabbits" was never shown. All Snoopy said was "fortunately, [[Reasonable Authority Figure|the Head Beagle was very understanding]]".
** Speaking of which, the whole "Thompson is in Trouble" [[Story Arc]] was one Noodle Incident after another. It started with Snoopy getting a coded message from the Head Beagle saying that [[Arc Words|"Thompson is in trouble"]], with Snoopy recognizing the name instantly and remembering a past incident with "that stupid Thompson" that "almost got us all killed". (It's only confirmed later that Thompson is another beagle, but one can only guess what happened the last time, although Snoopy complains through the whole story that Thompson would "never listen to advice" and other such faults.) Snoopy leaves quickly to find this Thompson, does some investigating, questions a waitress in a restaurant "full of shady types" (who remembers Thompson), gets lost in the rain, and finds Thompson, [[You Are Too Late|but he's too late]]. The readers find out in the next strip where Snoopy writes his report to the Head Beagle that he had witnessed Thompson try to deal with ten-thousand rabbits by himself, and was presumably killed. (Again, it is not revealed why.) In the last strip of the arc Charlie Brown asks Snoopy if he thinks he'll ever know what happened, and all Snoopy can say is that [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|"Those rabbits gave him an offer he couldn't refuse!"]]
* ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'':
** In the strip [https://www.dailyrepublic.com/files/2015/03/BBT20150321.jpg seen here,] we can only imagine what happened at the party that Mrs. Halftrack is referring to.
** In another strip, Sarge is at his desk, and he's angry:
{{quote|'''Sarge:''' Where's Beetle?? He can't just come in here two hours late with some cockamaimie excuse and expect me to listen!
''(Beetle enters wearing a sombrero, striped prison shirt, a life preserver, and lipstick on his face.)''
'''Sarge:''' I'm listening...}}
* ''[[Garfield]]'':
** The protagonist's owner Jon has a lot of these, and one is sure to come up whenever he brings out his yearbook or family album, or even simply talks about his past. The scary part here is, as as goofy as Jon is, he seems to have an extended family full of relatives who are goofier.
** A lot of his weird dates too. [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1996/10/09 In one strip] he gets a blind date with a woman named Ruby who was just released from prison; the only clue as to why she was there is him telling Garfield to "hide the potato peeler".
** [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1996/09/06 In another strip], a woman tells off Jon, saying he is "the second most pitiful excuse for a man" she has ever met. This actually makes Jon feel better, although it causes a flabbergasted Garfield to exclaim, "I gotta meet this other guy!"
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