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Line 5: It was written in the style of a [[Newspaper Comics\|Newspaper Comic]], with a four-panel format, writing reminiscent of ''[[Peanuts]]'' and ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', and an ensemble cast that seems inspired by ''[[Pogo (comic strip)\|Pogo]]''. The story arcs meander through political commentary and philosophy while simultaneously dealing with the children's own problems such as fitting in at school. The comic ran (intermittently) from April 28, 1998 to December 23, 2008, for a total of 2,231 strips - making for a somewhat larger-than-average [[Archive Binge]]. ~~== Characters: ==~~ * '''Ozymandias ("Ozy") Justin Llewellyn''', a young Arctic fox. Tends towards excessive zen [[The Stoic\|stoicism]] and [[Deadpan Snarker]]-dom. * '''Millicent ("Millie") Mehitabel Mudd''', a red fox. Excitable and [[Rebellious Spirit\|rebellious]], prone to random acts of destruction, but has a good heart. * '''Llewellyn''', a dragon and Ozy's adoptive father. He appears to be slightly over a century old and is prone to [[Historical In-Joke\|Historical In Jokes]], especially ones related to obscure presidents (e.g., he claims to be responsible for [[William Howard Taft]] getting stuck in the White House bathtub), as well as bad Zen jokes. He runs for president every four years, despite having seceded from the United States to form the nation of Greater Llewellynland. * '''Ms. Mudd''', Millie's mother. A lawyer and single mother. Although the most normal of the main four characters, she is implied to have been similar to Millie at her age. Also, her "hair" is blue for some reason. In October 2008, near the end of the strip's run, her full name was finally revealed as '''Mililani Minerva Mudd'''. * '''Avery''', a raccoon child prone to mindless following of pop-cultural trends. * '''Timulty''', Avery's younger brother, who radiates [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] (it helps that he's four years old). * '''The dread pirate Locke''', a fox who lives in a magical land inside Llewellyn's couch, is subject to [[Merlin Sickness]], {{spoiler\|and is Millie's father.}} * '''Felicia''', a sheep and the [[Alpha Bitch]] (who later started moving in the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] direction). * '''Jeremy''', a [[Jerk Jock]] [[Killer Rabbit\|rabbit]] who seems to live to [[Stuffed Into a Trashcan\|stuff Ozy into trash cans]]. He's also attacked Millie a time or two. * '''Stephan''', a truly epic geek. * '''Isolde''', Llewellyn's niece, Ozy's cousin, and an aspiring reporter. Often helps Llewellyn with his plans and babysits Ozy and Millie. Now has a [[Ozy and Millie/Characters\|Character Sheet]]. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes: ===~~ * [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Millie wags her tail when happy. ** [[Justified Trope\|Could be justified by the human level intellect and it being an active choice on her part that she does because she's imitating what she's seen dogs do in-universe]] Line 33 ⟶ 22: * [[Art Evolution]]: [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] at one point. * [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: The fate of Ozy's biological mother. She invented the perfect flavor of ice cream, you see... * [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Millie Mudd [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190328/http://ozyandmillie.org/2008/08/04/ozy-and-millie-2103/ here]. And that was just the latest example. Practically by name [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825182848/http://ozyandmillie.org/2000/08/21/ozy-and-millie-410/ here] * [[Author Appeal]]: A look at some of the author's ''other'' art reveals that [[Pronoun Trouble\|they]] have, of all things, a ''shaving fetish''. This was worked into the comic as a [[Running Gag]]. * [[Author Filibuster]]: Simpson was known to work her liberal views into some of the strips. * [[Barefoot Cartoon ~~Animals~~Animal]]s: Most of the cast, with the exceptions noted below in [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]] and [[The One Who Wears Shoes]]. * [[Beat Panel]]: Usually after Llewellyn or Millie says something off-the-wall. Often followed by a [[Flat What]]. * [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Dr. Wahnsinnig, the school psychiatrist. Her name means "insane" in German. Which is ironic, considering she's something of an [[Only Sane Man\|Only Sane Lemur]] compared to the rest of the staff. * [[Butt Monkey]]: Ozy. * [[Calvin Ball]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825184833/http://ozyandmillie.org/1999/01/26/ozy-and-millie-154/ House Rules Parcheesi.] ** Lampshaded [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190034/http://ozyandmillie.org/2000/07/13/ozy-and-millie-430/ here]. * [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Millie and Llewellyn. * [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Lampshaded [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825183445/http://ozyandmillie.org/2000/11/11/ozy-and-millie-518/ here]. * [[Creator Worship]]: For a long time the comic and its creator were kept on a pedestal, with the fanbase defending it and its innocence to the death. Some of that wavered when it was discovered Simpson had been slipping ~~his~~ fetishes into the comic all along (mostly applying them to the child characters), while others elected to deny it and cover up any mention of Simpson's fetishes. This continued until ''[[Raine Dog]]'' put a serious dent in Simpson's fan following to the point of effectively destroying it. * [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Cute little vulpine fangs. Despite the cast being comprised of several carnivorous animals (some of which are mythological) most often their teeth are downplayed. The art usually only highlights Millie's fangs, whenever she's saying something particularly crazy. * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ozy. * [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190239/http://ozyandmillie.org/2001/04/08/ozy-and-millie-656/ Avery] * [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Llewellyn legalizes [[Mattress Tag Gag\|cutting tags off mattresses]], leading to a lot of trouble with the U.S. government "across the border". * [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Llewellyn. * [[First Kiss]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825182853/http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/10/04/ozy-and-millie-1003/ Millie's kiss to Ozy, delivered to convince Felicia she ''didn't'' like him.] ** Ozy's first, Millie's ''second''. Her [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190316/http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/31/ozy-and-millie-843/ first] was improvised by her school play co-star Avery. Millie was irate; her replies involved a wedgie and a punch in the face, at minimum. As Avery [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal\|wasn't wearing pants]] at the time, that's quite a feat. * [[Follow the Leader]]: Not a proper version of this trope, but deserves mention: Avery. Avery, Avery, Avery. So desperate is he to be a part of the "in" crowd that he will suffer literally any indignity you'd care to throw his way, provided that you tell him, or imply, or otherwise obliquely hint that it's what the cool kids are doing these days. Avery is almost more of a ''parody'' of this personality type most of the time; while other people buy brand-name products to try to be trendy, Avery ''imitates their ad campaigns''. On a meta level, the comic itself is one of many ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' imitators to come along in the wake of Watterson's heyday. * [[Genki Girl]]: Millie. * [[Girls Have Cooties]]: The "cool people" sometimes think so. Line 76 ⟶ 66: * [[Karma Houdini]]: Jeremy is never punished for his bullying. ** May be a case of sorta subjective [[Truth in Television]]. To a kid who gets routinely bullied, it seems that the bully never truly gets what he deserves for it or they would have stopped a long time ago. There is an entire story arc about how Millie gets punished for hitting Jeremy back after he hit her, simply because the teacher didn't see the first offense. Many a bullied kid can tell you similar stories. * [[Least Rhymable Word]]: Llewellyn invents the "authentic Llewellyn-brand borange" just so that orange will have a rhyme. He's a bit unclear about what exactly it does. ** Not to mention that the very first strip has Ozymandias relieved that the kids at school can't make childish bullying rhymes about him because nothing rhymes with his name. * [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Ozy and Millie. Especially now that their parents are married. * [[Long Runners]] * [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man]]: Parodied. * [[Master of Delusion]]: Millie [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825182934/http://ozyandmillie.org/2007/12/12/ozy-and-millie-2011/ here]. * [[Mattress Tag Gag]]: See [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], above. * [[Meaningful Name]]: Dr. Wahnsinnig, the school psychiatrist. Her name means "insane" in German. Line 91 ⟶ 81: * [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: subtle but visible on Millie's mother. * [[Noodle Implements]]: Often combined with [[Historical In-Joke\|Historical In Jokes]] by Llewellyn for such masterpieces as "...that photo of me with Mrs. [[Calvin Coolidge]] and all the whipped cream." * [[Noodle Incident]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825185729/http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/05/08/ozy-and-millie-909/ Isolde accidentally sneeze-fried Ozy three times] * [[The One Who Wears Shoes]]: Isolde and Locke. Also, Ms. Mudd, in the early comics, though they were phased out with the comic's [[Art Evolution]]. * [[Only One Name]]: Llewellyn, apparently. The evidence is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825184933/http://ozyandmillie.org/2008/10/01/ozy-and-millie-2114/ this wedding invitation]. * [[Orphaned Series]]: A followup series showing Ozy and Millie's later life was planned but never written. * [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: In this case, they're a [[Planet of Hats\|Brotherhood of Hats]] whose Hat is "benignly eccentric". * [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Llewellyn's [[Useful Notes/Fonts\|font]] (and those of the other dragons, with the exception of the teenage Isolde). According to [[Word of God]], the weird font represents the dragon accent, and Isolde lacks the accent because she has grown up in the US. Lampshaded [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825182917/http://ozyandmillie.org/2006/04/10/ozy-and-millie-1632/ here] when a character says to Llewellyn "You also speak in a non-regulation font." In addition, Jeremy, the dull-witted bully, speaks in all lowercase, in a cruder handwriting style. * [[Parody Retcon]]: Millie attempts this [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190042/http://ozyandmillie.org/2001/04/29/ozy-and-millie-670/ here]. * [[Phrase Catcher]]: Anybody talking to Llewellyn for long will end up going "Wait. What?" * [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: After a couple of years, Simpson aged the characters about two years, appropriately, but they then remained that age. Line 110 ⟶ 100: * [[Seattle]]: The setting for the comic... ** [[Write What You Know]]: ...probably because D.C. Simpson lives there. * [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Actually a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190302/http://ozyandmillie.org/2001/11/14/ozy-and-millie-791/ Self Fulfilling Wish]. * [[Seven Minute Lull]]: Implied in an early strip. "Implied" because it didn't visually portray the lull. * [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Most of Llewellyn's stories. At one point Ozy remarks, "Some kids look for Waldo. I look for Dad's point." * [[Shout-Out]]: Along with [[~~Added Alliterative Appeal~~Alliteration]]. Millie's middle name is "Mehitabel", as in [[Archy and Mehitabel]] (''[[All Lowercase Letters\|sic]]'') by Don Marquis. Also, Isolde's dragon professor is [[The Hobbit (novel)\|Smaug]] (from [[The Hobbit (animation)\|the animated version]]). * Ozy's great-grandfather is ''named'' Pervical Smaug Llewellyn. ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825184736/http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/08/14/ozy-and-millie-964/ This] comic has Locke quoting the [[Bob Dylan]]/[[The Byrds\|Byrds]] song "My Back Pages". * [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825190244/http://ozyandmillie.org/2001/06/13/ozy-and-millie-2016/ Here.] Actually plausible... * [[Spoof Aesop]]: Several, including "Pirates are good at math." * [[The Stoic]]: Ozy. ** [[Not So Stoic]]: Ozy looked like he was gonna cry after hearing about his birth mother. * [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]]: Captain Locke shows up at this point of the wedding. After confirming that Llewellyn loves the bride, he hits the groom in the face with a pie, starting a food fight. Of course, pie fights are a traditional part of dragon weddings, so it isn't as disruptive as you'd think. * [[Stealth Insult]]: in [https://web.archive.org/web/20210802124153/https://ozyandmillie.org/comic/ozy-and-millie-2045/ this strip]: {{quote\|'''Millie''': Apparently I really don't know what I'm doing. '''Ozy''': I admire how seldom that stops you.}} * [[Stuffed Into a Trashcan]]: Jeremy's (most likely) daily hobby involving poor Ozy. This webcomic exemplifies and often abuses this trope. * [[Such a Lovely Noun]]: Done twice: once by Millie, once by someone from the government. Line 136 ⟶ 129: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Furry Webcomics]] [[Category:Webcomics Long Runners]] [[Category:Gag Per Day Webcomics]] [[Category:~~Ozy~~Web ~~and Millie~~Comics]] [[Category:~~Webcomic~~Web Comics of the 1990s]] [[Category:Web Comics of the 2000s]] [[Category:Defunct Web Comics]]