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Art is a chronically frustrated graphic designer (and the only human living in the house); Kat, a cat girl, is a fun loving photographer; Pip, a penguin, is a stereotypical geek who is obsessed with comics and computers, and Scarlet is a naïve and energetic squirrel girl whose spastic behavior and short attention span masks her true intellect.

 

After the arc covering Scarlet's [[Backstory]], the other members of a Think Tank also live with the foursome.

 

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* [[Author Avatar]]: Mr. Jackson appears [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=194 as a hamster]. [http://www.collectedcurios.com/SAS_0046_Small.jpg Usually].

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Kat's wardrobe consists of a sleeveless belly shirt and short shorts. At least she wears sweaters and such during the winter months.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: The Think Tank pulls one on Pip in [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=564 their "Realm of Lorecraft" board game].

* [[Battle in the Rain]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=632 Kat Vs. Hilary]

** [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=735 Strip 735] has four: [[Batman: Arkham City|Arkham Lockdown]], [[Modern Warfare|Contemporary Warfare 3]], [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyroam]], and [[Saints Row|Saints Boulevard 3]].

* [[Bleached Underpants]]:

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: OZBASIC [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=502 mnemonics].

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Hilary, Kat's arch-nemesis from grade school, downgraded from high-powered advertising executive to sitting in the unemployment office. Next to Pip, who wants to talk about her ''previous'' "career".

** The spider from all the way back in strip 7 makes a re-appearance during Scarlet's flashback, as well as somewhat justifying how Pip managed to blow up the bathroom with a deoderant flamethrower.

** Another recent call back is in strip #765 regarding the Denizen's technology that pip sold to the two nerds in strip #344 that teleported them to the middle of the Gobi desert in Mongolia.

* [[Cassandra Truth]]:

** [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=49 The intruder's female, she's a five foot tall squirrel-thing...]

* [[Cool but Inefficient]]: Pip grabs a rather large gun because it looked dangerous. It actually ''is'' powerful as it was shown to blast off a door, but it's actually just a popcorn popper, and as such has a range measured in only a few centimeters.

* [[Cooldown Hug]]: Art gets one from Kat, when's he's understandably upset with Scarlet after she {{spoiler|THREW HIM IN FRONT OF A DEATH RAY!}}

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Art's skill of collecting troubles and dangerous adventures is only outmatched by the Universe's eagerness to provide them.

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: [[Author Tract|Mr. Jackson really gets on his soapbox]] [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=557 about this one.]

* [[Double Take]]: Art, when he [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=249 hears that Kat killed her former teacher.]

* [[Dream Sequence]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=622 622] to [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=634 634]

* [[Droste Image]]: Pip meets the [[Author Avatar]] hamster in the [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=193 strip] itself. He gives Pip a copy of his latest strip (which at the time was that very strip.) Pip looks at the strip, which is about Pip looking at the strip, looking at the strip, looking at the strip and so on.

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Kat slams Hilary with a flying kick to the face for the above-mentioned lies she spread about Kat.

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: Pip.

* [[Everything's Better with Platypi]]: Leonard.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Jack.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: [[Sequential Art]] refers to comics. Even more so, it's the story of a [[Epunymous Title|guy called Art]].

** An ''artist'' named Art, no less.

** [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=91 "There's a Shift key in my eye."]

** [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=669 Scarlet doesn't like candy canes.]

* [[Flashback Twist]]: Twice. Art asks Scarlet if the washing machine broke. Kat asks Scarlet if anyone messed with the Christmas lights.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Pickles the Dragon. Looks like a cute puppy/dragon hybrid right? It unleashes its "beast" side by {{spoiler|[[Nightmare Fuel|TURNING ITSELF INSIDE OUT!]]}}

* G.I.R.L.: Invoked and averted [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=266 here].

* [[Glasgow Grin]]: A variation. It's stated in Jack's official bio that his "mouth" is actually a crack in his face, meaning he's broken. This pretty much explains why he was the only Denizen who turned out to be evil.

* [[Hive Mind]]: Again, Scarlet and her sisters. {{spoiler|The reason they're such ditzes most of the time is that each is one part out of a 4-part superintelligence.}} As seen when everyone plays the board version of Land of Lorecraft: everyone against Pip, the squirrel sisters {{spoiler|manage to pull off a spectacular plan on Pip to allow Kat and Art to beat him unhindered.}}

** {{spoiler|Which just goes to show, never challenge a bio-supercomputer to a [[Too Dumb to Live|strategy game]]}}

** [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=418 Ummm...yeah.]

** [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=559 Don't touch Pip's bits without asking.]

* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=302 seen here]

* [[Kill Sat]]: Jack's favorite toy.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Pip is by far the guiltiest, wearing his trademark sweater on the hottest day of the summer.

** At first, [[Scenery Censor|Scarlet is naked]]. When she finally gets a (singular) shirt, she never changes it. Lampshaded in one comic when Art suggests she wash it, so she does -- without taking it off.

* [[Living Crashpad]]: Art "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=512 landed] on something ''soft''"

* [[Living Shadow]]: The Denizens

* [[Mission Control Is Off Its Meds]]: OZBASIC, as stated above, is an homage to GlaDOS and is to Kat what GlaDOS is to Chell.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: "Quickly, Helga! To the web-cam!"

* [[Mundane Utility]]: Pip uses a [[Star Wars|TIE Interceptor]] to go grocery shopping.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Pip wears a pair of goggles.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Mr. Funk Cho, [[Johnny Depp|Jimmy Dapp]], [[Sean Connery|Sean Connolly]].

* [[Noodle Incident]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=398 "Do you think anyone will find her out here?"]

* [[Not-So-Innocent Whistle]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=282 Scarlet] after she {{spoiler|accidentally gives Jack the technology for a powerful ray gun.}}

* [[Number of the Beast]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=666 Lampshaded], or something, by the [[Author Avatar]] himself in the 666th strip. [[Bonus Points]] for the [[Zalgo]] reference.

** [http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/Transparent-Hair-296638516 Lampshaded] by the artist.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Art

** The lab the squirrels are originally from, along with the AI that controls the whole thing, bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Portal (series)|Portal]].

*** [[Companion Cube|Buddy Brick.]]

** During a [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=410 photo shoot], Kat and Vanity stay at the [[The Shining|Overlook Hotel]].

** Combination [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]] and [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]] in [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=530 this strip].

** And then there was [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=678 Minecraft].

** The Martian Invasion story arc has [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=711 one to] [[Doctor Who]]. The Eldak are basically expies of the Daleks, their very name is an anagram of the infamous pepper-pots and they use the Dalek's [[Catch Phrase]], "Exterminate!". Then [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=712 another] to [[Star Wars]] when Pip finds some TIE Interceptors to [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=719 play with].

** Pip the penguin apparently has an [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=743 Uncle Feathers] who was a career criminal. Sure enough, his last name turns out to be [[Wallace and Gromit|McGraw]].

** It turns out the housemates' next-door neighbors are [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Roger and Jessica Lapin]]. Bizarrely, Jessica Lapin looks '''nothing''' like either of the Rabbits ... but [https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=988 '''Roger''' Lapin does]. [[Attractive Bent Gender|Look (and when first seen, dress) exactly like Jessica Rabbit, that is]].

* [[Side-Story Bonus Art]]: [http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/gallery/24659192 The gallery] on [[Deviant ART]] -- enjoy [[Fan Service]], [[Trolling Creator|trolling]], [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|trollservice]]...

* [[Significant Anagram]]: Eldak --> [[Doctor Who|Dalek]]

* [[Smooch of Victory]]: Art saves Kat from the Denizens. She rewards him, but the conditions weren't [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=331 quite ideal].

* [[Snowball Fight]]

* [[Tears of Remorse]]

* [[Tender Tears]]

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|Throwing Your Gun Always Works]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=294 Well, it was a fake gun to begin with.]

* [[Transplant]]: Kat and Vanity were characters from a superhero comic Jackson had done years prior.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Whenever Art and Kat are together they're either [[Like an Old Married Couple]] or [[Ship Tease]] happens. [[Everyone Can See It]].

** Lampshaded painfully [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=748 here.]

* [[Unsound Effect]]: 'Violate Violate', from Spider and Scorpion 83.

** And, apparently, Uwe'Boll is one of 4 [[Eldritch Abomination|demons]]: he is that "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=637 whose touch turns all to poo]" ([http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=649 which turns out to be a plot point.])

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=194 Helga]

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Scarlet's sisters were brainwashed into having a crippling phobia of the outdoors {{spoiler|to prevent them from ever running away like Scarlet did.}}

** Of course, this being [[Mad Scientist|Think Tank]], the limitation was eventually circumvented by {{spoiler|tinkering up opaque visors that show everything without depth perception.}}

* [[Wetware CPU]]: Amber, Jade, Violet, and Scarlet formed a four-part organic supercomputer at Quinten R&D.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]:

* [[Your Head Asplode]]: [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=665 Here.]

* [[Your Vampires Suck]]: "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=657 I will NOT have one of cinema's greatest monsters belittled by hair-product-obsessed pretty boys.]

 

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