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* AmbiguouslyRelated: Sid started out just casually being refered to as Ernie's uncle, with no deeper focus on their relation. Years later, a one-off gag would confirm that Sid is the older brother of Ernie's mother.
* DecompositeCharacter: Reverend Bob and "Wild" Willie O'Haberman started out as a strange example - during the early "Stealing Cable" storyline, Ernie hires two different lawyers on Sid's advice (three actually, but the second one has no relevance to this trope), the first one being a black man with the same name and competence as the character later known as Willie, but with the same design as Bob, and an extremely competent and expensive lawyer who looks just like the later Willie. Neither character ever appeared again in their original incarnation, and were eventually reworked into the ones the readers became familiar with.
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Sid's main form of income; he runs a fradulent investment firm, where one of the offered investments are real estate. Said estates tend to be worthless land plots where you're lucky if they're only flooded with water, houses not even rats would want to live in, and farms located in swamps or on the bottom of the ocean.
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Sid's main form of income; he runs a fradulent fraudulent investment firm, where one of the offered investments are real estate. Said estates tend to be worthless land plots where you're lucky if they're only flooded with water, houses not even rats would want to live in, and farms located in swamps or on the bottom of the ocean.
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Sid, as well as others.
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* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Sid, as well as others.Sid's main form of income; he runs a fradulent investment firm, where one of the offered investments are real estate. Said estates tend to be worthless land plots where you're lucky if they're only flooded with water, houses not even rats would want to live in, and farms located in swamps or on the bottom of the ocean.
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* SleazyPolitician: One Piranha Club member manages to get himself elected Mayor of Bayonne.
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* SleazyPolitician: One Bert, a member of the Piranha Club member and salesman of the infamously tacky aluminium siding building material, runs for Mayor of Bayonne in one storyline, and actually manages to get himself elected Mayor win, though this doesn't seem to take much of Bayonne.his time away from hanging around the club.
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Crosswicking.
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* SerialEscalation:
** Played with in one strip, where Bud Grace (the author/artist, who regularly appeared in the comics for behind-the-scenes tomfoolery) was told by a frustrated editor that his comics were getting weirder and weirder -- which was around the time the martian Zerblatt had become a recurring character and had fathered dozens of froglike kids with a supermodel.
** In an interview, Grace admitted that his comics ''were'' getting increasingly more and more bizarre, likening it to eating a lot of spicy food -- after a while it doesn't seem as spicy anymore, and then you want something spicier.
** Played with in one strip, where Bud Grace (the author/artist, who regularly appeared in the comics for behind-the-scenes tomfoolery) was told by a frustrated editor that his comics were getting weirder and weirder -- which was around the time the martian Zerblatt had become a recurring character and had fathered dozens of froglike kids with a supermodel.
** In an interview, Grace admitted that his comics ''were'' getting increasingly more and more bizarre, likening it to eating a lot of spicy food -- after a while it doesn't seem as spicy anymore, and then you want something spicier.
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* AngryGuardDog: When Sid needed a recording of an angry barking dog for his home security system scam (the original tape with a barking chiuaua didn't exactly impress the customers), he asked the owner of the local junkyard if he could record the man's dog. The owner agreed, since "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Old Satan]] hadn't had much fun lately". Sid wisely decided to hire some extra help, with mixed results.
--> '''Enos''': Did it work?
--> '''Sid''': No, all you can hear on the tape are Arnolds screams.
--> '''Enos''': Did it work?
--> '''Sid''': No, all you can hear on the tape are Arnolds screams.
* DietEpisode: The second half of the "Cheese Of the Month Club" arc, with Ernie trying to lose the weight he gained due to the first part.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Ernst, the Piranha Club mascot and Sid's pet piranha, to the point where Sid uses him as a garbage disposal. He can even devour non organic material like car tires and metal with no problem.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Ernst, the Piranha Club mascot and Sid's pet piranha, to the point where Sid uses him as a garbage disposal. He can even devour non organic material like car tires and metal with no problem. He still refuses to eat [[StockYuck broccoli]] though.
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* ShoutOut: On a double date/game night, Felicia's InsufferableGenius boyfriend Basil produces a perfect rendition of the ''Art/TheNightWatch''.
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* RunningGag: People deciding to go to some far off, unhospitable place whenever the prospect of marriage comes up. Also people mistaking Arnold Arnoldski for a dog. Also, in the early strips, the corpse of JimmyHoffa turning up in unexpected places.
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* RunningGag: People deciding to go to some far off, unhospitable place whenever the prospect of marriage comes up. Also people mistaking Arnold Arnoldski for a dog. Also, in the early strips, the corpse of JimmyHoffa UsefulNotes/JimmyHoffa turning up in unexpected places.
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* MomentKiller: If Doris and Ernie are sitting on a couch, trying to have a romantic time, expect Doris little brother Spencer to be standing by the end of the couch, staring at them.
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* MomentKiller: If Doris and Ernie are sitting on a couch, trying to have a romantic time, expect Doris little brother Spencer to be standing by the end of the couch, staring at them. Ernie tried to bribe him to leave the room once, [[ExactWords only for Spender to keep watching through the window]].
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* MyBelovedSmother: Sid's elderly mother came to visit for quite a while during one story (Sid had put an ad in the Bayonne newspaper, hoping to scam lonely mothers who lost contact with their kids, only for his own mother to show up, even though he hadn't put his actual name in the ad), and quickly showed she didn't care that her son was well into late middle-age, constantly lecturing him on his cheating and boozing.
--> '''Ma Ferniwilter''': It's 2 AM! I bet you've been with your buddies, cruising up and down the street, whistling at girls, and... *sniffs* ''you've been drinking!''
--> '''Sid''': Mom, I'm ''52 years old!!''
--> '''Ma Ferniwilter''': It's 2 AM! I bet you've been with your buddies, cruising up and down the street, whistling at girls, and... *sniffs* ''you've been drinking!''
--> '''Sid''': Mom, I'm ''52 years old!!''
