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*** And he called Sara a skank in another.
** There was one strip where Pierce shows that he protects his borrowed pencils from germs... ''by putting condoms over them''. They never spell out what it is, of course, but it's hilariously obvious. Is this the first newspaper strip to get away with showing a condom on-panel?
* [[Gigantic Gulp]]: Jeremy buys two huge movie sodas for himself and his mother. When she exclaims about their "obscene" size, Jeremy calmly explains he got them for the free refills. Another strip shows Phoebe walking through the halls of the school with a latte nearly as large as she is on a dolly. When asked abut it, she replies "Some days a venti just won't do."
* [[Girl Posse]]: The aptly-named "Posse."
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Walt unwittingly suggested Goat Cheese Pizza for the name of Jeremy's garage band. He wasn't actually offering the name, but rather the pizza in question.
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{{quote|'''Jeremy:''' Yessir, nothing says ''I care'' like a delicious home-made plate of cookies!
'''Sara:''' And nothing says "knuckledragger" like the sexist expectations of a boyfriend. }}
* [[Hot for Teacher]]: Jeremy has an attractive guidance councilor who causes him to have some... lurid fantasies. (Not by choice; in one strip where this happens, when she asks him what's on his mind, he asks, "Can't we just talk about my schedule instead?")
* [[Hurricane of Excuses]]: Jeremy's explanations for why he's late.
* [[Improbably High IQ]] / [[Improbably Low IQ]]: Parodied. Jeremy and Hector once took an Internet IQ test with Jeremy scoring impossibly low and Hector scoring impossibly high, despite their virtually identical educations. Jeremy began to wonder if he was really that stupid and Hector started treating him like a dolt. Jeremy was only convinced the test was flawed after his father scored even higher on it.
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* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Played with. In one two-week arc, Jeremy, Hector and Pierce wear weighted vests that simulate the weight gain of pregnancy. The whole two weeks play out as if they actually are pregnant, with the first strip in the series featuring "pregnant" Jeremy, Hector and Pierce walking down the hallway, without any context as to why they're that way.
{{quote|'''Walt''': Oh, hi mom... no, nothing much new. Connie is just teaching Jeremy some Lamaze techniques.}}
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Most jokes about Phoebe deal with this.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: From Jeremy's perspective, anyway.
* [[Never Say That Again]]: "Do me a favor, dad, and just act like the middle-aged white guy you are."
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* [[Short Distance Phone Call]]: Post-[[Flanderization]], it has become a running gag in the comic.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' in one strip.
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Richandamy, based on a real couple from the authors' lives, who appear to have achieved some kind of symbiosis and seem [[Make-Out Kids|locked in a permanent embrace]]. The only times they are ever seen apart is when Rick uses the men's bathroom. The other characters' attitude towards them alternates between a strange sort of admiration and utter disbelief.
** In one strip where they temporarily break up, the other characters can't pronounce their names separately, saying "Richand Amy" or "Rich Andamy." The mere attempt causes physical pain.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: Since Halloween 2009, the last week of October has apparently become Zombie Week; specifically, Reasons Why Zombies Would Make Cool Parents.
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