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** Another example is when the future Greg in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518021135/http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/011002.html October 2, 2001 strip] mentions that he hit his shin on the drawer in the kitchen on July 8th, 2003, and the comic's creator actually [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/030708.html follows through with it]!

* [[Jumped the Shark]]: The strip used to be a celebration of nerdery and the writer's [[Author Avatar]] goofing around with representations of [[Write Who You Know|his large group of friends]]. Now the comic is about a man who apparently has no social circle outside of his daughter (who's a toddler) and his wife (the comic version of which, at least, acts like she hates him). When he added representations of his friends back in, they too act like they hate him most of the time, and every time they break the fourth wall, they tend to rant at him about how distant he's grown from them. Greg's marriage to Liz seems to have been the point where the comic jumped from being a silly, happy thing to a representation of one man's descent into misery.

** Tony.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Lampshaded when Greg points out that Liz had a background cameo in one strip before she became a regular ''or'' his girlfriend (and later wife).

 

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