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* [[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.
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* [[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 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''.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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."
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** 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.}}
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