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* [[Awesome Art (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Art]]: "''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' meets real life", complete with numerous '''stunningly''' brilliant utilizations of [[Art Shift]].
* [[Awesome Music]]: See [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* [[Cargo Ship]]: In "The Gods Must Be Goosey", {{spoiler|the Goose and Eustae's Truck are getting married at the end of the episode.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]:
** Katz. Most of the villains are sort of cartoonishly ineffectual, even if they are loaded with [[Nightmare Fuel]], but Katz is implied to have successfully killed many, many victims. "Care for a bit of sport before dying, dear boy?"
{{quote|"Care for a bit of sport before dying, dear boy?"}}
** The Great Fusilli initially seems like a [[Affably Evil|charming (if somewhat sinister) traveling magician]] taking his show on the road, and allows Courage as well as his owners, Eustace and Muriel to perform for an imaginary audience. However, his true evil nature is revealed when Courage stumbles upon a back room full of lifeless human puppets. It turns out that Fusilli is a [[Serial Killer]] of sorts who uses enchanted strings that turn people into lifeless puppets, effectively killing them so he can play around with their lifeless bodies for his entertainment. As one would expect, Courage defeats the villainous magician, but not before Eustace and Muriel have been turned into puppets, leaving Courage to essentially play with their lifeless bodies in order to pretend that they're still alive. Thankfully negative[[Negative continuityContinuity]] is in effect, but it's still considered to be among the darkest, creepiest, and most downright disturbing episodes in the series for a very good reason.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]:
** The soundtrack to the episode "The Tower of Dr. Zalost".
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** Freaky Fred.
** Di Lung. The recurring Asian guy.
** King Ramses' also qualifies for some reason.
** The computer.
* [[Ethnic Scrappy]]: [[Asian Rudeness|Di]] [[Nouveau Riche|Lung]], wholeans isheavily increasingly-widelyon consideredmany to be one of the absolute worstChinese and mostAsian racist cartoon characters of all timestereotypes and is basically just a Chinese and even ''[[Up To Eleven|more]]'' obnoxious version of Eustacevery atmuch ''best''unlikeable.
* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Say what you will about Katz, but he is '''definitely''' one seriously smooth bastard.
** Despite being '''the''' absolute biggest [[Jerkass|douchebag]] in the entire series, [[Insufferable Genius|Di]] [[Asian Rudeness|Lung]] is basically how "cool" of a person Eustace ''wishes'' he could be (wears [[Cool Shades|utterly badass-looking sunglasses]] and drives a [[Cool Car|vintage hot rod]], is ''[[Nouveau Riche|obscenely]]'' [[Nouveau Riche|rich]] and lives in a [[Big Fancy House|mansion]], is a [[Mad Scientist]] who can easily just ''[[Smart People Build Robots|build]]'' a better dog for himself rather than having to look for a new one, is actually able to survive on his own without being utterly reliant on his wife, etc).
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** Courage, Muriel, and Eustace together as a group is usually called "the Bagges" or "the Bagge family" by fans.
* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: Frequently.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** [[Asian Rudeness|Di Lung]] (ignoring his intelligence) is basically the show's version of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfCsb4Ck75w RiceGum]; both of them are [[Hypocritical Humor|comically massive hypocrites]], both of them are [[Ethnic Scrappy|living "rich Asian asshole" stereotype caricatures]], both of them have gotten [[Kick The Son of a Bitch|completely owned]] by a white guy with nerd/reading glasses (iDubbbzTV for Ricegum; [[Jerkass Has a Point|Eustace]] for Di Lung), and both of them have become '''huge''' ironic memes due to how much many of the people that know about them [[Love To Hate|love to hate]] them. However, Di Lung is considerably more "purely Asian" than RiceGum.
** The Alien Brain Visitor's "[[The Mysterious Mr. Enter|creepy government agent with top hat and trenchcoat]]" costume '''eerily''' resembles one of the online avatars/logos of [[The Mysterious Mr. Enter]], who is actually somewhat notorious for being one of '''the''' all-time biggest fans of ''CTCD'' itself and even seemingly considering the series to be "above criticism".
* [[Hype Backlash]]: Mostly a result of how much people such as [[The Mysterious Mr. Enter]] have boasted about how "emotional" and "terrifying" they consider the show to be (despite the fact that the show is mostly just a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' mixed with a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', with a ''ton'' of [[Surreal Horror]] and [[Art Shift|Art Shifting]] thrown in).
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Eustace, in his more humane moments.
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** Most of Courage's nightmares from the last episode could count, especially that [[Nightmare Fuel|blue thing]]. It really had no importance to the rest of the episode except to scare you straight and it really wasn't seen or mentioned again in those other nightmares.
** The way [[Complete Monster|Katz]] gets defeated in "Katz Under the Sea".
** Di Lung appearing out of absolutely nowhere during important scenes and then yelling "WATCHWatch WHEREwhere YOUyou'REre GOINGgoing, YAya FOOL''foo;!''" for a nearly-always [[Hypocritical Humor|hilariously hypocritical]] reason. [[Running Gag|At least ten times, no less.]]
** "Snowman's Revenge" has Snowman breaking out into a [[So Bad It's Good]] musical number about... a chilly love story? Huh?
** "Courage Meets The Mummy" opens with an archeologist dusting off a gem inside the Mayan temple, which then shoots out a beam of light which gets reflected off some things and causes a disco ball to come out of the ceiling while some music plays for a brief moment. Afterwards, the archeologist just shrugs it off and continues dusting off the gem stone.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Kitty could see Eustace and Muriel doing things in secret (sneaking cake, not fixing things) when they couldn't tell.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: aA lot of season three and four episodes aren't nearly as memorable as pretty much every episode in season one and two. They're still considered pretty good, though.
* [[Signature Scene]]s: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFDldk9D_Qc "You're Not Perfect"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pWC-4dx3Q0 "Return The Slab"] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-E3ysa-eDI "The Violin Girl"] are easily the show's three most iconic examples of [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare-inducing]] [[Art Shift|art shifts]]s ...which are one of the main reasons for its popularity.
* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: See the [[Anvilicious]] entry above this one.
* [[Squick]]:
** The idea of on of the Valkyries falling in love with the ''incredibly'' disgusting Troll king, and soon the other Valkyries and the trolls falling in love is just, gross. Don't think about their Honeymoon to much...
** That scene doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] because the as the Valkyrie and Troll King were singing about how much they love each other, they would ''not. Stop. '''Singing''' '', Despite the fact that the rest of the Valkyries and Trolls were on their way to the cave. Added bonuses include going to the scene of the Valkyries and Trolls running their way over there, and cutting back to the Valkyrie and Troll King, ''STILL SINGING'', and cutting back over and over, but also Courage [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshading it]].
** The entire "The Clutching Foot" episode. Namely the scene where [[Nausea Fuel|Courage licks the foot as a cure]].
* [[Tear Jerker]]: "The Last Of The Star Makers". *sniffle*
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]: Many of the show's secondary characters get little screen time despite their plot potential, but Di Lung especially stands out, being a rich and badass Asian version of Eustace who usually only appears for about five seconds per episode (so that he can yell "[[Catch Phrase|WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING, YA FOOL]]" at random people as one of the show's ''many'' [[Comic Relief]] sources).
* [[Ugly Cute]]: Most of the show's characters, due to its art style. One example is The Hunchback Of Nowhere.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The Magic Tree of Nowhere, the first nightmare in the episode "Perfect", the Harvest Moon in "The House Of Discontent", the [[Demon Head|scary]] violin-playing girl in "Courage In the Big Stinkin' City", and King Ramses' in "King Ramses' Curse".
** Most of the show's characters, due to its art style.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Several.
** The first nightmare in the episode "Perfect".
** And the Harvest Moon in "The House Of Discontent".
** [http://www.livevideo.com/video/70AFB415CB714799BBD43E60D7C19EE7/courage-the-cowardly-dog-the.aspx The Magic Tree of Nowhere.]{{Dead link}}
** The [[Demon Head]] in "Courage In the Big Stinkin' City".
** King Ramses' in "King Ramses' Curse".
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: A lot of people probably think ''Courage'' is for an adult audience with all the strange horror.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]
* [[The Woobie]]: Courage takes ''a lot'' of crap, and a lot of the other characters have dealt with troubling pasts.
** The Hunchback of Nowhere.
** In direct contrast to most "villains", Freaky Fred is a perfectly kind individual whose shaving... ''thing'' lost him his pet, his girlfriend, his job, and landed him in a mental institution.
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