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* [[Granola Girl]]: Most of the characters are well into what much of the heterosexual mainstream would consider this side of the spectrum, but it is played straight (for want of a better word). Ironically, in the last couple of years, straight male Stuart is the most [[Granola Girl]] character in the cast!
** However, the one-shot character called Milkweed, who appeared in a few strips in the 1980s, was a critique of being ''too'' much of a [[Granola Girl]]. Even the DTWOF main characters (including Sparrow) were irritated by her.
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: There are five children of lesbians in the strip. The first and most prominent is Raffi, son of Clarice and Toni. His birth came complete with [[Lamaze Class]] and [[Screaming Birth]] (everyone except Toni, the birth mom, went bananas) featured in a bonus segment in the collection ''Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For''. When he starts going to school, a fellow student teases him, calling him "Heather." He has been friends since childhood with Stella, daughter of Toni's long-term extramarital crush Gloria and her partner Ana. Mo's ex Harriet decided to have a child, Isabel, as a single mother. Sparrow has a child, J.R. (Jiao Raizel) with Stuart. Finally, Jasmine enters the strip with a child, Jonas, who begins to [[
** Raffi and Stella's have a classmate who is the adopted daughter of a gay male couple.
* [[Het Is Ew]]: Lois and Ginger react this way to Sparrow dating Stuart.
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* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: According to Sydney, her chemo clinic.
{{quote|'''Sidney:''' The TV's blaring, the place is littered with cutesy little angels and bears and now they'll have the Christmas crap up too. I think the entire collectible kitsch industry is kept afloat by chemo nurses. }}
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* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: With two characters being academics, and Bechdel herself a bibliophile, there are many academic and literary references well outside the usual [[Small Reference Pools]]. This troper took a gender theory class where she recognized quite a few theories and writers she had first heard of through this strip. The occasional latin pun crops up as well, and many political issues get discussed in depth.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: After Lois humiliates Emma by kissing her in the public, she is never seen or mentioned again (except in one panel in one of the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] strips mentioned above).
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