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Alternate Character Interpretation: In one strip, Greg puts forth the theory that Walt Disney, who took existing works and rewrote them to suit his own tastes, was a Fanfic author. Liz threatens to murder him for this.
Cliché Storm: * An in-universe example was done during a dimension-hopping adventure where they wound up in a world where "everything is a Sliders cliche!". Naturally, this involved their dimension-traveling device fizzling out, a doomsday scenario, joining and fighting a rag-tag resistance group led by a double of someone they knew, getting involved with and solving the world's problems and a last second escape. Well, almost all their problems.

Alt Dave: That's great, but what about the huge freaking asteroid about to hit the planet?!
Tony: Sorry, pal! You're on your own!

Continuity Porn: This 2008 comic marks the beginning of an epic story arc that makes references to several past story arcs, including one that began in 2002.
- Another example is when the future Greg in the 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 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 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.
Magnificent Bastard: Apple.
- 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).
Viewer Gender Confusion: Demonstrated here.

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 '''Tony''': Sorry, pal! You're on your own! }}
 * [[Continuity Porn]]: [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/080908.html This 2008 comic] marks the beginning of an epic story arc that makes references to several past story arcs, including one that began in ''2002''.
-** Another example is when the future Greg in the [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]!
+** 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.
 * [[Magnificent Bastard]]: [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/100616.html Apple].