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As well as the weeklies there are ''The Beano Annual'' (which continues to sell 100,000+ every Christmas), the monthly [[Beano Max]], the yearly Summer Special (featuring reprinted content from both ''The Beano'' and ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]''), and the Beano Comic Libraries which evolved into the Fun Size Beano before going defunct. Dennis the Menace and The Bash Street Kids had their own annuals for a while, and one of the Bash Street Kids, Plug, even got his own weekly comic from 1977-79. Other spinoffs include a few animated series (some of which were [[Direct to Video]]) and video games.
Its readership peaked in 1950 before the introduction of its most iconic characters and some consider it to have [[Jumped the Shark]] in the mid 60s when artists [[Leo Baxendale]] and [[Ken Reid]] left to draw for DC Thomson's rivals.
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* [[Country Cousin]]: A strip from the 1960s was actually entitled Country Cuzzins, but instead of being this trope involved a group of cousins who lived on a farm. This trope is also used more traditionally in other strips which have sometimes have the characters visiting relatives who live on farms.
* [[Crocodile Tears]]: In one strip Minnie the Minx used these to convince her dad's boss that her dad has been driven insane from work-related stress so her dad could take time off work and take her to the fun fair.
** In another, she used them to get various people into trouble after learning to cry on demand at a stage school.
* [[Crossover]]: The strips will from time to time will feature characters from elsewhere in the comic walking in and having a role. These can range from cameos to advancing the plot.
** This is explained as all the characters living in or near "Beanotown" which is incidentally next to Dandytown, leading to at least one crossover there.
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* [[Girls Have Cooties]]: Dennis. In the final segment of ''The Beano Videostars'', Dennis was kissed by a girl, so he stopped the film and jumped out of it so he could go to the projector and cut that part out so it never happened.
** He also described a "doting girl" as the "most feared of creatures" in a 90s strip.
** He doesn't seem to mind averting it to team up with Minne the Minx or Ivy the Terrible from time to time, though.
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: The Nibblers - this is made fun of in Beano Annual 2009 when the Nibblers briefly meet the Ratz.
* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: Sidney & Toots
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* [[High School Hustler]]: Roger the Dodger
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: During the lead-up to Bea's arrival, Dennis got so fed up with the mystery he announced that he wouldn't be appearing in the next issue. Cue several other characters trying to take over his strip.
** "Gnasher's Tale" was replaced by "Foo-foo's Fairy Story" when the former character was missing. (Foo-Foo was Walter the Softy's miniature poodle, and Gnasher's default enemy.)
* [[Hot Teacher]]: Minnie the Minx's teacher.
** Oh yes. And the small knickers that hang on her washing line wehn Minnie terrorises her at home...
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: One ''Les Pretend'' strip in ''The Beano'' had Les's dad discussing the daft things Les pretended to be with his friends, and them all laughing about it. It was at the end of this strip that we first learnt Les's dad and his friends are all [[Elvis Impersonator]]s.
* [[I Thought It Meant]]: One of the reasons why the series will probably never take root in the US (apart from how severely British it is) is that Bean-O is a well-known gas medication in the US.
** The comic's name actually comes from an old-fashioned term for a large feast.
* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Many characters have occasionally glimpsed international counterparts who look identical except for wearing stereotypical national costume.
* [[Insult to Rocks]]: Daisy apologising to warthogs everywhere for comparing Ernest to them.
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* [[Political Cartoons]]: Numerous strips during World War 2 were political in nature such as Musso the Wop (which featured the italian dictator [[Benito Mussolini]] as an incompetent buffon) and other strips such as a Lord Snooty strip where Lord Snooty fought against [[Adolf Hitler]].
** It has been argued that the Beano was instrumental in changing Hermann Goering's reputation in the English-speaking world from potentially dangerous war hero to idiotic, overpromoted [[Fat Bastard]].
* [[Print Long Runners]]: The comic itself (
** Lord Snooty (1938–49; 1950–91, intermittently until 2000)
** Biffo the Bear (1948-1986, 1989–99)
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