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* [[Eating Lunch Alone]]: Doing it at the campus cafeteria makes Cecilia feel unbearably self-conscious.
* [[Education Through Pyrotechnics]]: The machines used for experimental research frequently blow up in people's faces.
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* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: To keep going, the series needs the characters to remain grad students, meaning they have to postpone the completion of their respective theses indefinitely. Ultimately averted with Mike, who does complete his own thesis after years of procrastination, but stays anyway as a member of the teaching staff.
** As the main character [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=359 put it] in a [[Break the Fourth Wall|press conference]] in 2003, "Basically, if Mike graduates, we're all out of a job..."
* [[Flanderization]]: Tajel. At first, Tajel demonstrates all sorts of semi-stereotypical things, such as camping out at the mall after Thanksgiving to take advantage of Black Friday sales. This changed soon enough, of course...
** Professor Smith changed too. Originally he was [[The Faceless]] (see [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] below), then started to become more of an [[Absent
* [[Freud Was Right]]: I refuse to believe that the line break in the middle of "encephalic" in [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=999 this strip] (in the part about "The Campus Tower") was anything other than deliberate.
* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: Of course, the strip title (though that itself is an old joke). And [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1100 this strip] has a how-to guide!
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* [[Walking Techbane]]: Prof. Smith, shown as an example of how this trope works in [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=821 this strip].
* [[Wedding Day]]: Tajel and Khumalo's wedding.
* [[White
* [[Write Who You Know]]: The author is himself a Stanford alumnus and former graduate student (he spent grad school turning bugs into cyborgs).
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