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* [[Rich Bitch]]: Margaux, especially in the later two seasons.
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: Punky's wardrobe. Then again, it's what makes her [[Crazy Awesome|so cool]]. In syndication, Punky's clothing style, while still unorthodox, was not as colorful and patchwork as it was on NBC.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: Worked around after a while. Much like what would later plague FOX shows ''[[King of the Hill]]'' and ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', the timeslot for the show was impacted by overruns of NFL coverage. After a while, NBC eventually commissioned a handful of 15-minute episodes as insurance.
** At least one non-O&O local NBC station (WPTZ, Plattsburgh, NY) regularly ran a local news show that preempted it.
*** Our NBC ran it regularly, but no station in our area ran the syndicated show.
*** Zig-zagged: During NBC's first set of replays of season 2 of the cartoon, episodes were trimmed to accomodate bumpers featuring the casts of some of NBC's family-friendly primetime sitcoms.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The title character is named after a childhood crush of NBC Entertainment president Brandon Tartikoff (although the actual Punky's first name was Peyton), even leading to the real Punky being cast in the 1985 episode "The Search".
* [[Talking Animal]]: Pretty much averted, but subverted in an animated episode and zig-zagged in a live-action episode. In the animated episode "Brandon The Dialogue Dog," Glomer gives Punky's dog Brandon the gift of gab. In the third season episode "It's A Dog's Life," Punky dreams that she and Brandon switch bodies and we hear Punky's voice as thoughts coming from Brandon's head.
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