History Comicstrip / KrazyKat

-->''"Krazy" moans & sighs a bit, as is the custom of they who moan & sign.''

%% * NoMoreForMe

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy and childless [=VanWagg=]-Taylors, who desperately want a child but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap.

* BlatantLies: The narration in [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/422 this strip]], wherein Ignatz's tossing of the brick is censored:

* [[CatConcerto Kat Koncerto]]: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon irresistibly [[FurryReminder kompels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a clock, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].

* [[CatConcerto Kat Koncerto]]: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip:

-->'''Krazy:''' Omoon!! Omoon!!! Omoon!!!!! What is it in thee what makes in me a great desire to sing.

--> '''Austridge:''' I will now ask the audience, has it a "enemy"?

* [[FunnyBackgroundEvent FunnyBakkgroundEvent]]: Frequent. In fact, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny background event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Krazy's reaktion when circumstances kontrive to stem the tide of Ignatz's brick-throwing, or otherwise make him a more traditional wooer.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: In one strip, Ignatz begins aktively kourting Krazy after diskovering that the Kat stands to inherit large sums of money from his unmarried aunt and uncle. When the aunt and uncle marry each other and produce an heir, Ignatz goes back to tossing bricks, to the koncerned Krazy's relief.

* [[LovableCoward Lovable Koward]]: Krazy's stint as a "kop" (when Officer Pupp is bedridden) only lasts until he heads off to apprehend some suspekts who turn out to be rhinos.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy and childless [=VanWagg=]-Taylors, who desperately want a child but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the widowed Marihuana Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap.

* TheVamp: The duck in the robin's tale of why he flies south for the winter. Krazy also thinks of Pauline Pullet as such. ("Vamp" was a pretty popular term back then.)

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy and childless VanWagg-Taylors, who desperately want a child but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the widowed Marihuana Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Constatntly.

* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like, in a Koma!: Krazy has kissed Ignatz in his sleep several times. [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther To which he has responded positively, despite being unaware of what happened.]]

* [[WorthlessYellowRocks Worthless Yellow Roks: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:

* WorthlessYellowRoks: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:

* [[BoringButPractical Boring, but Praktical]]: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impraktical it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the praktical uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, including its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling back a brick thrown by Ignatz.

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Krazy has kissed Ignatz in his sleep several times. [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther To which he has responded positively, despite being unaware of what happened.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Frequent. In fact, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny background event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.

* HighOnCatnip: Due to prohibition, Krazy and his fellow kats have to eat "near katnip", which doesn't have the same "kick".

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:

* [[BlackComedy Black Komedy]]: Occasionally.

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Krazy, by virtue of his skarf.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: In the kolor strips, Krazy is dark blue, and Ignatz and Officer Pupp are pink.

* AnthropomorphicShift: Krazy first appeared in "The Dingbat Family" as a rather ordinary looking pet kat. Eventually, Ignatz appeared and the two gradually bekame a komedy team until they got their own strip, free from the konfinement of human ownership.

* BlackComedy: Occasionally.

* BodyguardCrush: Officer Pupp's krush on Krazy seems to spring from his konstant need to defend the Kat.
* BoringButPractical: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impractical it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the practical uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, including its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling back a brick thrown by Ignatz.
* BreakoutCharacter: Ignatz and Krazy developed as a space filling gag in Herriman's earlier strip ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs.'' As far as minor characters go, Gooseberry Sprig was the main character in another earlier strip of Herriman's, ''Gooseberry Sprig.''
* CatsHaveNineLives: Okkasionally referenced with regard to Krazy. In one kartoon, we find out that he has three of his lives insured --"When I get rich I'll ensure the other six."

* CoincidentalDodge: A RunningGag -- Krazy would bend down to talk to a smaller creature, such as a "woim," just as the brick was thrown.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In the 1918 New Year's strip, Ignatz makes a resolution to stop throwing bricks at Krazy. He soon encounters bricks (and references to bricks) everywhere he goes, and when Krazy flat out ''hands'' him a brick, it's too much and he pulls some quick LoopholeAbuse. He didn't swear not to throw ''stones,'' did he?

* ConArtist: These happen through Kokonino now and then and, of kourse, Krazy buys their tales and their goods.
* DatingCatwoman: Krazy regards Ignatz as both an "[[FriendlyEnemy enemy]]" and a lover, and sees no diskrepancy between the two.

* FurIsClothing: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one strip: Krazy klaims to have a "netural sense of modesty", being "complitly clothed in a garmint of fur", and regards Ignatz as "nude" bekause he doesn't have fur himself.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one early strip, Krazy wonders if Ignatz doesn't love her any more, as "he spermed me".

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Cheese. When the mice have a "Fromage Festival" it turns into a full-on cheese riot, and Krazy wakes up hungover and promptly signs up at Temperance Headquarters.

* LovableCoward: Krazy's stint as a "kop" (when Officer Pupp is bedridden) only lasts until he heads off to apprehend some suspekts who turn out to be rhinos.

* OhCrap: Ignatz' expression when he realizes he's beaned Officer Pupp by mistake.

* SelectiveObliviousness: Krazy thinks Ignatz's bricks to the head are a sign of love, and that Officer Pupp is just "playing tag" with Ignatz when he throws him in jail.

* SleepCute: Used many times with Krazy and Ignatz, and at least once with Ignatz and Officer Pupp! (With Krazy sleeping near them, they'd both been pretending to sleep, each hoping the other would go away, until finally the Kat up and left--at which point they shrugged their shoulders and went to sleep for real.)
* SophisticatedAsHell: All over the narration and dialogue.

* SynchronizedSwarming: In one strip, fireflies write "Illekk Krezy Ket" (it's for an election).

* VerbalTic: The narration loves to add the words "yizzaboy" and "tobeeshur" to emphasize whatever points it makes.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Krazy and Ignatz, konstantly making dates so they kan karry out their usual brick shtick.

** Played straight with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Roger Roquefort the "Robber Rat" and his band of reckless rodents]].

* BornLucky: Krazy, to a ridikulous extent, in one episode. She even explains her luck by saying, "I guess I'm just born lucky."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ignatz, of bizarre bricks from all over the world.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Parodied in "Keeping Up with Krazy". Kolin Kelly, to whom Ignatz has sold a new house and two kars, thinks Krazy is trying to kompete with him when she sits outside under an umbrella with a pair of roller skates. When she picks herself a flower, Kolin gets himself a garden, and so on.
* CutAndPasteSuburb: At the end of "Keeping Up with Krazy", Ignatz builds one out of ''umbrellas.''

* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypus: A platypus rekurs as a kharakter.
-->'''Platypus:''' ''(rescuing Krazy)'': I'll untie his arms then duck back in my hole before some zoological nut kidnaps me -

* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/16 this strip]], Krazy arches her back, fluffs up her tail and hisses when she sees two coconuts and briefly mistakes them for enemies.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Frequent. In fact, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny background event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.

-->--Final panel of June 17, 1917 strip.

-->--'''Krazy''', frequently