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* [[Covert Pervert]]: Heather losing her composure to stare slack-jawed at a burlesque show paints her with a touch of this.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Justin
* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: Karen is ''very'' curious about Heather and Aiden's goings-on. Heather delights in provoking a [[Your Head Asplode]] reaction when Karen tries to puzzle out whether Heather's mood and expressions indicate getting laid or not.
* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: Angela in her ''[[Firefly]]'' dream, Heather and Aiden in unison at a burlesque show.
* [[The Ditz]]: Karen. Complete with [[Valley Girl]] speech patterns. She's dumb enough that she thinks "oblivious" is an infection and she dislikes reading to a comical degree.
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** ...and then Angela has a dream that's pure [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Aiden, if tattoos [[Fetish Retardant|are your thing]].
* [["Falling in Love" Montage]]: Used in flashback during the breakup scene.
* [[Fauxtivational Poster]]: Angela likes to hang them in her office.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: [[Double Subversion]] with Heather. She first claims that her parents' divorce was amicable and that her childhood ended up better off for it. A dream sequence later reveals that she has some major abandonment issues due to her interpretation of the divorce. She even knows deep down that she's wrong.
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* [[The Matchmaker]]: Karen attempts to do this with Heather and Aiden — that is, she wants them to have sex together, but not to have a relationship. Her reasons are still somewhat unclear; she wants Heather to be happy, but it is possible that she is also sore over a one-night stand with Aiden not leading to a relationship.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Angela has a bit of an [[Oh Crap]] moment when she hears that her ex-boyfriend Seamus' reasons for breaking up with her were ''identical'' to Heather's, more or less right down to the same wording.
* [[Milestone Celebration]]: Subverted quite nastily. The 100th strip has Angela and Heather declaring their love for each other and affirming their relationship in a genuinely heartwarming fashion...the 101st strip is the full-color [[Wham! Episode]] where Heather breaks up with Angela.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Part of Heather thinks of her mother this way - another part of her is wise enough to know that it's not the case at all.
* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: Angela apparently took her polyamory views and Heather's bisexuality to mean that literally all of Heather's friends were hot for Heather and vice versa.
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* [[Sex Equals Love]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Heather and Aiden}} eventually have sex, but it doesn't make their relationship any less ambiguous. They're still trying to figure out whether they're even ''in'' a relationship for a long time afterward.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Angela and Justin. Plenty of [[She's Not My Girlfriend|He's Not My Boyfriend]] moments, but the [[Slap Slap Kiss]] moment and a few ambiguous exchanges make it clear that Aeire wants readers to consider it a possibility.
* [[Shout
* [[Show Within a Show]]: [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080114 Justin's book], featuring the adventures of an angsty machine-gun–toting bat named Rawrbat. He wrote it in his early teens and turned it in to a high school English teacher; the teacher liked it and sent it to a publisher, leading to a best-selling release. Justin himself despises it because he is now stuck with fame derived from an [[Old Shame]].
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Done [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080509 here] and [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20081212 here].
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* [[Take a Third Option]]: When George and Molly drunkenly kiss at a party, there is speculation among those in the know about whether George will resign or fire Molly. In a big [[Pet the Dog]] moment, George {{spoiler|simply reworks the schedule so that neither of them works at the same time as the other.}} This is in stark contrast to Heather's cheerful and benevolent boss, who {{spoiler|is forced by the higher-ups to fire Karen for lusting after him...''after'' she had given up on her crush}}.
* [[Take That]]: Aeire [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20090105 really] [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20090904 doesn't like Twilight]. Or at least its fans.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20071019 The breakup.] Complete with the first use of color, which has only been used, aside from [[Splash of Color|splashes]] in one filler strip and one guest strip since.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: It is legitimately unclear whether Angela and Heather will ever get back together, or even contact each other for that matter. Karen, Jack, Justin and Lucy have all been set up as possible [[Chekhov's Gunman|Chekhov's Gunmen]] that would make a reunion plausible.
** Also applies to the Angela/Justin [[Ship Tease]], which is more on the Won't side but nonetheless appears increasingly plausible.
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