Doug: Difference between revisions

* [[Amusement Park]]: Funkytown.

* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Parodied, of course, with Quailman.

* [[Arc Number]]: 47. It's on many street signs, it's Doug's locker number, etc.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Relatively minor in mostly the animation style, in later episodes the characters are less rubbery.

** There is a quite noticeable evolution in the art between the first and second episodes, though. The pilot features a very wobbly style where the characters' outlines are constantly moving, making the show's world look more surreal and scribble-like. This effect was toned down severely by the second episode, and is gone entirely by the end of season one.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: The Sleech brothers in the Disney series.

* [[Balloon Belly]]: Doug gets one in "Doug Tips the Scale".

* [[Baseball Episode]]: Two, actually. "Doug Out in Left Field", where Patti forms her own baseball team for the kids who were rejected from the school's team, and "Doug's On First", where the parents of the kids on Patti's team think it's unfair about what position each player is playing.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Skeeter's revealed to be this in one episode, though it was hidden because he's [[Book Dumb]]. It took Doug the entire episode to accept it, reluctantly.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Doug's Bad Trip". The episode is actually about Doug and his family going on a road trip, but the title suggests...[[Mushroom Samba|other things]].

** Some of the last names sound dirty if you really think about it: Bone, Dink, Buttsavage, etc.

** In the episode where Roger's cat has kittens, he tells his mom that he didn't know the cat was a girl. She replies by telling him that there's a talk that they're long overdue for.

* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Roger says "Yeah, what do you know, Skeet-Face?"

* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Many of Doug's [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]] fill this role. There's also the episode where Doug and Skeeter collaborate on a comic, with both of them as superheroes.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Principal Buttsavage is occasionally referred to, but Doug realized in the Nickelodeon Finale that he (and we) never actually met the guy.

** Except Doug DID go to see the principal in an early episode. Even though the audience doesn't see him Doug CLEARLY does. [[Negative Continuity]]?

* [[Kid Com]]

* [[Kissing Warm Up]]: Doug practices kissing on a balloon.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Several characters have one, for example Judy, Roger, and Mr. Dink.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Not that you could ever really call the show dark to begin with, but the Disney episodes have a noticeably more lighthearted feel than the Nickelodeon ones did.

* [[Panty Shot]]: In the episode Doug's Mail order Mania Judy gets one after falling from her upside down apparatus in the closet.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: Many.

** Mayor Robert "Bob" White. A bobwhite is a species of quail.

* [[Quietly Performing Sister Show]]: In its original run, Doug was sort of this to [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|Ren & Stimpy]] and [[Rugrats (Animation)|Rugrats]]. Doug didn't become the pop-culture smash and merchandising bonanza that its fellow Nicktoons did, but was popular enough to remain on Nick's schedule in reruns years after its cancellation.

* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Doug proves this when he returns an old lady's money to her instead of keeping it, despite all of the insults he received from most people about it.

* [[Secret Diary]]: Roger gets his hands on Doug's journal in "Doug's Runaway Journal". Turns out {{spoiler|he couldn't read any of it because Doug's handwriting is so bad.}}

** The "Spacemonks" game that Doug plays is a small tribute to ''[[Wing Commander (Video Game)|Wing Commander]]'', using several similar scenes from the game, including the infamous space funeral.

** "Silver Skeeter" (see [[Superpower Lottery]] below) is, of course, a tribute to the ''[[Silver Surfer]]''.

** The Nic-Nacs episode could count too, aside from the whole [[G-Rated Drug]] business. Though it's very different from typical anti-drug/anti-smoking episodes, and just as much about being skeptical of marketing messages as it is about avoiding dangerous substances -- not to mention openly hostile toward the company behind the product in ways that a program that relies on sponsorship from [[Mega Corp|Philip Morris subsidiaries]] (they owned Kraft at the time) could never get away with had they not substituted a made-up product for cigarettes.

* [[Welcome Episode]]: The first episode of the series, which features Doug moving to Bluffington and meeting most of the main cast.

** Keep in mind this is a superhero whose main attributes are a belt on his forehead and wearing his underwear over his pants.

** He's Doug. [[Nice Guy|Of course he'll never purposely hurt anyone]].

* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Where The Hell Is Bluffington?]]: Or Bloatsburg (where the Funnies came to Bluffington from), for that matter.

* [[Write Who You Know]]: Doug writes and draws almost the whole cast of the show into his Quailman comics, sometimes multiple times.

* [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant]]: Roger's cat Stinky fell into this trope.