History Awesome / Doug

** In the same episode, when Coach Spitz tries to force Patti to continue the Track and Field tournament after she regains consciousness from passing out, Emily tells him politely to can it, and that Patti will not be running anymore.

** To expand: Connie got invited to a party at Doug's house, but to hide a bad haircut she wore a large hat. Roger dared Doug to knock over Connie's hat, and when Doug couldn't bring himself to do it, Roger did. Connie is horrified, and while Roger is laughing his ass off (and was the ''only one'' laughing), Connie slugged him in the gut.

* ''Judy's Big Admission'' had the Vole University admission board mistakenly assuming Doug's artwork was created by Judy, and it gets her admission in. To put into perspective, Doug, a middle school student who is mostly self taught and has a lot of anxiety issues and self doubt, created artwork that was good enough to get his sister admitted into a prestigious art college.

* Beebee standing up to her StageMom in "Doug's In Tights" after she purposefully tanks her ballet audition. When Mrs. Bluff somehow thinks Doug cost Beebee the starring role (despite it plainly being clear that Beebee was dancing like a maniac and Doug was ''trying to stop her'') and starts yelling at him, Beebee tells her mother to back off explaining it was the only way to make the woman understand Beebee just wanted to work on costumes.

* You ever watch a show where a bully character or some nasty individual humiliates or otherwise upsets a character, and knowing you'd do so, practically beg the victim to punch the bully? Well, unlike most examples, Connie listened, and obliged.

* In one episode, Doug is walking out of the bank and finds an envelope full of almost $15,000 [[note]]$27,000 in 2020 dollars[[/note]]. That is a lot of money today, and would have been worth even more when the episode first aired. Doug turns the money into the police; when no-one claims it after thirty days, the money is legally his. Doug then sees a report on the news about the woman who lost the envelope. The next day, Doug finds the woman and returns the money. Doug not only handed off a huge amount of cash twice, but the second time, the money was legally his and he had no obligation to return it. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark He did it anyway because it was the right thing to do]].

* "Doug and the Bluffington Five" for showing a realistic view of a student protest: the students manage to get their voice heard in a debate, but fail to make actual change because the adults were just humoring them to look good and in part because Patti's AcquiredSituationalNarcissism breaks up the original protest group. Fortunately for the students, the [=PTA=] can't agree on a uniform design.
* The WeightWoe episode has been sited as one of the more realistic portrayals of eating disorders in television. It even has Patti visualizing herself as fat and ugly when everyone around her can see that she's anything but.

* In "Doug's Secret of Success", Doug calls out the members of the secret club for mocking Skeeter and cheating on tests, and telling them that Skeeter is a better person then any of them because of it.

** Connie's eventually proven wrong when she learns Flounder of the Beets -- despite being famous even though he dropped out of school -- can barely read, write, or spell, and is in massive debt to the record company. Turns out most of the Beets had their stuff repossessed by the record company when they broke up because they couldn't understand their contracts. Only Wendy Nespah's still living the high life, specifically because she not only graduated from high school ''and'' college, but was [[CrazyPrepared smart enough to get a law degree just to make sure the record company's contract didn't screw her over]] like her former bandmates. It's a decent way to actually explain the point of the "stay in school" aesops so many shows force down their viewers' throats by showing ''how'' Wendy used her higher education to ensure she has a comfortable lifestyle.