History ComicStrip / SallyForthHoward

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''Franchise/TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''Franchise/TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''Franchise/TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

** A strip of the cast at a convention features some attendees dressed as [[Manga/SoulEater Manga Albarn, Soul Eater Evans]], [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]], and Jem.

** A strip of the cast at a convention features some attendees dressed as [[Manga/SoulEater Manga Albarn, Soul Eater Evans]], [[Anime/FLCL Haruko Haruhara]], and Jem.

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''Franchise/TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

* RunningGag: Every Easter, Sally always bites the ears off of Hilary's chocolate bunny.
** Every autumnal equinox will begin with a soliloquy on how awesome Fall is.
** Every Halloween, Ted argues with [[https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/ted-forth-vs-the-trick-or-treater-the-annual-title-bout/ the same eight year-old trick-or-treater]].

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''Franchise/TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''Franchise/TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

-->"It doesn't feel like people ever age around here. It's like a ''TwilightZone'' episode, but with Wi-Fi."

* ShoutOut: [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel]], of all people, [[http://comicskingdom.com/sally-forth/2017-06-04 appears]] in one of Hil's dreams in a 2017 comic strip.

* AuthorAvatar: Marciuliano [http://medium-large.com has said] "there is no denying Ted is essentially me."

* DeconstructorFleet: Marciuliano seems to take pleasure in showing how off-putting family with sitcom-like behavior would be in the real world. As an example, the Forths have no friends because no one wants to deal with [[ManChild Ted's loopiness]] or [[BrokenBird Sally's desperate need to prove herself]] to her mother.

!!!This comic provides examples of:

* VillainOverForDinner: When Sally's sister Jackie announces that she's hooked up with Sally's former boss Ralph. They're now married.

* DeconstructorFleet: Marciuliano seems to take pleasure is showing how off-putting a sitcom-like family would be in the real world. As an example, the Forths have no friends because no one wants to deal with [[ManChild Ted's loopiness]] or [[BrokenBird Sally's desperate need to prove herself]] to her mother.

* TheCameo: [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel]], of all people, [[http://comicskingdom.com/sally-forth/2017-06-04 appears]] in one of Hil's dreams in a 2017 comic strip.

'''''Sally Forth''''' is a King Features syndicated [[NewspaperComics newspaper comic]], originally written and drawn by Greg Howard (then a recently retired lawyer), and introduced in 1982. It is a slice-of-life domestic comedy, tending towards story arcs but often using the gag-a-day format for the Sunday strips. In 1992, Craig [=MacIntosh=] took over the drawing with Howard continuing to write. Then, in 1999, Francesco Marciuliano took over the writing, when Howard left the strip completely (and when arguably the strip [[GrowingTheBeard entered into its full form]]). Sally Forth is carried in nearly 700 papers nationwide.

-->Nona started as an answer to my own question, "What if [[Literature/HarryPotter Luna Lovegood]] lived in the suburbs... and wasn't a wizard... and didn't have an English accent even though, let's face it, English accents make everything sound brilliant or diabolical... except maybe the poor English characters in Creator/MikeLeigh films... Seriously, just watching those doomed characters try to scrape enough shillings to purchase a pen to sign over their house to creditors is absolute torture... Who am I talking to?"

-->Hilary: "Wait, if Bettina aged a year, why am I still 12?" Ted: "Don't... don't go down that rabbit hole. The whole system will fall apart."