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== ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' ==▼
* ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]''{{'}}s [[World War II]] flashback: It starts with the [[Foregone Conclusion]] that Edna (Gran) ends up married to Bill O'Malley - rendering the [[Love Triangle]] between her, O'Malley and Nazi P.O.W. Lt. Kiesl more about Juliette's paternity than anything else. Then we have to deal with the snowballing implausibilities that make the story go, starting with the OSS tapping [[The Ingenue|a naive, untrained USO singer]] to spy on the Nazi POWs, continuing with O'Malley beating up a British superior officer for calling Edna a Nazi-loving whore (which was what it looked like because the Americans ''never told the Brits what Edna was doing''), to a 10-year [[Time Skip]] to when Edna and Kiesl reunite and become lovers in earnest (and later become engaged) only for Edna's boss, the base commander whom Edna now worked for as a civilian, letting Kiesl and Edna know that Bill was still alive (in a move worthy of [[Othello|Iago]]). The lack of drama got so bad that Brooke McEldowney threw in a flashback-within-the-flashback to establish that Edna and Bill had more than unspoken attraction between them and to try and show that Edna wasn't being needlessly melodramatic over Bill's still being alive. The resolution which details what happened after Juliette was conceived, which tried the patience of even the most loyal of the strip's fans, devoted a week's worth of strips to Gran's marriage to O'Malley, Gran's vague comments about how for reasons she couldn't fathom, she was disliked and that it was entirely possible it was wrong of her to treat Juliette as harshly as she did merely because a previously-unknown son died.▼
** Edda's 2012 pregnancy scare: she reacted to the thought of possibly being pregnant (apparently after getting "carried away" and having sex with Amos without protection. Once.) by first driving to Vermont to talk to her mother, then the both of them immediately flying to Vienna (a spur of the moment flight that would've been prohibitively expensive) to talk with her grandparents. Apparently phones don't exist in the 9CL world. And neither do pregnancy tests, since Edda didn't even "anoint the stick" until long after she'd returned from Vienna. Ditto actually telling Amos about it. Only one character, [[Creator's Pet|Seth]] calls Edda on her flightiness.▼
== ''[[Doonesbury]]'' ==▼
* A recent{{when}} ''[[Doonesbury]]'' strip had a guy with a permit to carry. Some woman insulted him because he has a permit to carry. This being ''Doonesbury,'' the guy was portrayed as a moron. But, whatever your politics are, you probably shouldn't insult someone who is openly carrying a handgun.▼
** There are some real [[Unfortunate Implications]] in that statement, but another stupid moment from the same strip was when the permit holder tried defending himself and then an Iraq war veteran piped up to put him in his place, since the "war veteran with liberal/progressive views" is one of Trudeau's favorite means to shut up his straw conservative characters. Fair enough --it's his comic strip-- but there are two problems with this, though: first, you'd have to wonder about [[Double Standard|a guy who undoubtedly trusted his safety to a firearm on numerous occasions frowning on someone else doing likewise]], and second, if we're supposed to treat his opinion as objective truth because he's a veteran, then what would happen if there was another Iraq vet in the diner who ''supported'' the right to carry? [[Fridge Logic|Would the characters have to flip a coin to decide who was right?]]▼
** Before that, a series of strips in which a father does everything in his power to prevent his (adult) daughter from joining the military. Armed-forces members went ''berserk'', with cause -- the recruiting officer was a [[Strawman Political]].▼
== ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' ==
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* As if we need to see just how much more implausible we can get, the Westview School Board just canceled athletics '''in the middle of the season''' due to a lack of money because the school levy failed. Never mind that school budgets are set the spring before, or that the levy failure would affect ''next year's'' budgets, or unilaterally cancelling athletics would screw up every other school's schedule. Not to mention that it appears that the '''marching band''' gets to survive the chopping block. Let's just go with Batiuk has absolutely no concept of how anything involving schools actually works.
* And then we have the much-ballyooed 2012 prom storyline "featuring" two gay students who attended the prom together. "Featuring" is in quotes because not only did the gay couple in question only show up in three strips in the entire arc (none of which were at the actual prom) but ''they were never even named.'' The boys were less characters and more living [[Mac Guffins]]
▲== ''[[Doonesbury]]'' ==
▲* A recent{{when}} ''[[Doonesbury]]'' strip had a guy with a permit to carry. Some woman insulted him because he has a permit to carry. This being ''Doonesbury,'' the guy was portrayed as a moron. But, whatever your politics are, you probably shouldn't insult someone who is openly carrying a handgun.
▲** There are some real [[Unfortunate Implications]] in that statement, but another stupid moment from the same strip was when the permit holder tried defending himself and then an Iraq war veteran piped up to put him in his place, since the "war veteran with liberal/progressive views" is one of Trudeau's favorite means to shut up his straw conservative characters. Fair enough --it's his comic strip-- but there are two problems with this, though: first, you'd have to wonder about [[Double Standard|a guy who undoubtedly trusted his safety to a firearm on numerous occasions frowning on someone else doing likewise]], and second, if we're supposed to treat his opinion as objective truth because he's a veteran, then what would happen if there was another Iraq vet in the diner who ''supported'' the right to carry? [[Fridge Logic|Would the characters have to flip a coin to decide who was right?]]
▲** Before that, a series of strips in which a father does everything in his power to prevent his (adult) daughter from joining the military. Armed-forces members went ''berserk'', with cause -- the recruiting officer was a [[Strawman Political]].
▲== ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' ==
▲* ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]''{{'}}s [[World War II]] flashback: It starts with the [[Foregone Conclusion]] that Edna (Gran) ends up married to Bill O'Malley - rendering the [[Love Triangle]] between her, O'Malley and Nazi P.O.W. Lt. Kiesl more about Juliette's paternity than anything else. Then we have to deal with the snowballing implausibilities that make the story go, starting with the OSS tapping [[The Ingenue|a naive, untrained USO singer]] to spy on the Nazi POWs, continuing with O'Malley beating up a British superior officer for calling Edna a Nazi-loving whore (which was what it looked like because the Americans ''never told the Brits what Edna was doing''), to a 10-year [[Time Skip]] to when Edna and Kiesl reunite and become lovers in earnest (and later become engaged) only for Edna's boss, the base commander whom Edna now worked for as a civilian, letting Kiesl and Edna know that Bill was still alive (in a move worthy of [[Othello|Iago]]). The lack of drama got so bad that Brooke McEldowney threw in a flashback-within-the-flashback to establish that Edna and Bill had more than unspoken attraction between them and to try and show that Edna wasn't being needlessly melodramatic over Bill's still being alive. The resolution which details what happened after Juliette was conceived, which tried the patience of even the most loyal of the strip's fans, devoted a week's worth of strips to Gran's marriage to O'Malley, Gran's vague comments about how for reasons she couldn't fathom, she was disliked and that it was entirely possible it was wrong of her to treat Juliette as harshly as she did merely because a previously-unknown son died.
▲** Edda's 2012 pregnancy scare: she reacted to the thought of possibly being pregnant (apparently after getting "carried away" and having sex with Amos without protection. Once.) by first driving to Vermont to talk to her mother, then the both of them immediately flying to Vienna (a spur of the moment flight that would've been prohibitively expensive) to talk with her grandparents. Apparently phones don't exist in the 9CL world. And neither do pregnancy tests, since Edda didn't even "anoint the stick" until long after she'd returned from Vienna. Ditto actually telling Amos about it. Only one character, [[Creator's Pet|Seth]] calls Edda on her flightiness.
== ''[[Garfield]]'' ==
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