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* In "Que Fim Levou o Sansão", Monica, Maggy and Denise trying to figure out who took Monica's bunny and Denise makes the obvious name drop of Jimmy, prompting Monica to ask how does she know that. When Denise rethorically asks who else they know that don't like her...[[BrutalHonesty Maggy drops an extensive list of people that fit the criteria]], including the likes of Carmen, the comic's recurring villains, every boy in the block...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Santa Claus]].

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* In "Que Fim Levou o Sansão", Monica, Maggy and Denise trying to figure out who took Monica's bunny and Denise makes the obvious name drop of Jimmy, prompting Monica to ask how does she know that. When Denise rethorically asks who else they know that don't like her...[[BrutalHonesty Maggy drops an extensive list of people that fit the criteria]], including the likes of Carmen, the comic's recurring villains, every boy in the block...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Santa Claus]].Claus.
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* In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to instantly pass out. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian slang for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.

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* In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to instantly pass out. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian slang term for "stomach renting" is a term slang used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.
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* In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to instantly pass out. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian term for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.

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* In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to instantly pass out. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian term slang for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.
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* In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to completely lose her shit. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian term for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.

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* In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to completely lose her shit.instantly pass out. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian term for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.
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--> '''Mr. Five:''' WHAT?![[BigWhat WHAT?!]]
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* In "Uma História de Elefantes e Palavras-Chaves" ("A Story of Elephants and Keywords"), Jimmy befriends a circus elephant who is trained to react to trigger words that make it do tricks or enter a combat mode. When Junior unknowingly says the trigger word in a passing remark about the elephant, it goes berserk and charges at Junior. Then, completely out of nowhere, a RelaxOVision pops up with a small bee reciting a TastesLikeDiabetes poem over the elephant's rampage.
* A oneshot had this seller promoting a SuperStrength tonic and asks for a volunteer. He decides to pick an example from the crowd and picks a little girl assuming she had a child's strenght. That little girl is Monica, who lifts the weights, boulders and cars the seller had around for demonstration. Those weren't fake, but because everyone assumed Monica was a weak little girl, the crowd thinks the seller is trying to con them. Later, the same seller tries to sell an appetite tonic...[[ForegoneConclusion and asks Maggy for a demonstration.]]

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* In "Uma História de Elefantes e Palavras-Chaves" ("A Story of Elephants and Keywords"), Jimmy befriends a circus elephant who is trained to react to trigger words that make it do tricks or enter a combat mode. When Junior unknowingly says the trigger word in a passing remark about the elephant, it goes berserk and charges at Junior. Then, completely out of nowhere, a RelaxOVision pops up with a small bee reciting a TastesLikeDiabetes sugary poem over the elephant's rampage.
* A oneshot had this seller promoting a SuperStrength tonic and asks for a volunteer. He decides to pick an example from the crowd and picks a little girl assuming she had a child's strenght.strength. That little girl is Monica, who lifts the weights, boulders and cars the seller had around for demonstration. Those weren't fake, but because everyone assumed Monica was a weak little girl, the crowd thinks the seller is trying to con them. Later, the same seller tries to sell an appetite tonic...[[ForegoneConclusion and asks Maggy for a demonstration.]]
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** Nick Nope getting dropped into Oa also deserves mention. He's absolutely delighted at the fact that the Green Lantern Corps is comprised of so many different alien lifeforms, when Kilowog comes to address him saying that an average human kid shouldn't be there. Nick actually takes offense at being called "average".

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** Nick Nope getting dropped into Oa also deserves mention. He's absolutely delighted at the fact that the Green Lantern Corps is comprised of so many different alien lifeforms, when Kilowog comes to address him saying that an average human kid shouldn't be there. Nick actually takes offense at being called "average"."average".

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* In "Lições", Maggy's lack of table manners earns her the etiquette teacher's disdain. During make-up class, the woman says they appear to finally be dealing with a topic Maggy is interested in, since the girl always arrives with her lips covered in gloss. Maggy responds that it's not gloss, it's just chicken grease.

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--> '''Smudge:''' It's called a ''coup d'etat''.

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--> '''Smudge:''' I killed my own king.
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--> '''Smudge:''' It's called a ''coup d'etat''.d'état'', my friend.
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'''Smudge:''' Well, pirates used to wear head scarves and earrings!\\

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--> '''Smudge:''' Well, pirates used to wear head scarves and earrings!\\
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* Smudge's idea of dressing up as a pirate involves wearing a [[FlowersOfFemininity floral]] bandanna, an earring and his mother's clogs (to represent a wooden leg).
'''Smudge:''' Well, pirates used to wear head scarves and earrings!\\
'''Jimmy:''' Yeah, but that was before people invented dignity.
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* Monica and Maggy read "[[https://sillydragon.com/gen_edu/Fables/Fable_0149.html The Fable of the Two Scarabs]]", though they incorrectly assume that "dung" is another word for "ice cream" and mispronounce [[Literature/AesopsFables the author]]'s name as "Isopor" (Portuguese for "polystyrene"). Once they are done, Maggy realizes that, since she refused to share her ice cream with Monica, she is as gluttonous as the insect from the story and starts to cry, yelling that she is "a selfish polystyrene scarab". When Franklin overhears her and asks why she is weeping, Maggy responds that it's because she ate a lot of dung, causing the boy to faint.
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* Mr. Five tries to get Jimmy and Smudge to stop playing videogames by having them play chess, much to the boys' annoyance. After he explains that the game is over once the king dies, Smudge decides to kill his own king.
--> '''Mr. Five:''' What did you do?!
--> '''Smudge:''' It's called a ''coup d'etat''.
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* In "Você Está Pensando o Mesmo que Eu?" ("Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?"):
** When Jimmy finds out he missed the opportunity to make a wish upon a shooting star, he freaks out and begins rambling about all the things he wanted, namely being stronger than Monica, getting a truckload of comic books, and [[PrecociousCrush having his baby sister replaced with Britney Spears]].
** Jimmy and Smudge figure out they share a telepathic link when they both have the same ridiculous epiphany at the same time.
--> '''Smudge:''' If a man eats a cow that ate grass from the pasture, then he is a vegetarian by proxy.
--> '''Jimmy:''' So why doesn't he just go to the pasture and eat the grass to begin with?!
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* In "Barraco entre Famílias", Jimmy and Sunny's families face each other in a game show. One of the challenges has the boys perform a number to a panel comprised of Franklin, Monica and Smudge. Jimmy and his mother design a flying bathtub, which fares poorly with the judges[[note]] Franklin criticizes the project for being too simplistic, Monica is concerned about water rationing, and the aquaphobic Smudge angrily berates the invention for its "poor taste"[[/labelnote]]. Meanwhile, Sunny's performance is to jump on a washing machine and pretend it's an angry horse, which is inexplicably acclaimed.

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* In "Barraco entre Famílias", Jimmy and Sunny's families face each other in a game show. One of the challenges has the boys perform a number to a panel comprised of Franklin, Monica and Smudge. Jimmy and his mother design a flying bathtub, which fares poorly with the judges[[note]] Franklin criticizes the project for being too simplistic, Monica is concerned about water rationing, and the aquaphobic Smudge angrily berates the invention for its "poor taste"[[/labelnote]].taste"[[/note]]. Meanwhile, Sunny's performance is to jump on a washing machine and pretend it's an angry horse, which is inexplicably acclaimed.
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* In "Barraco entre Famílias", Jimmy and Sunny's families face each other in a game show. One of the challenges has the boys perform a number to a panel comprised of Franklin, Monica and Smudge. Jimmy and his mother design a flying bathtub, which fares poorly with the judges[[note]] Franklin criticizes the project for being too simplistic, Monica is concerned about water rationing, and the aquaphobic Smudge angrily berates the invention for its "poor taste"[[/labelnote]]. Meanwhile, Sunny's performance is to jump on a washing machine and pretend it's an angry horse, which is inexplicably acclaimed.


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* In "The Game Master", the gang plays a TabletopRPG where the objective is to steal a treasure from an ogre. Jimmy unsurprisingly decides to roleplay as a pirate, though he fails to defeat the monster due to an unlucky dice roll. Monica then faces the ogre as an architect, and successfully steals the treasure by ripping him off with an unfair contract.

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* In "O Plano da Armadura à Prova de Mônica" ("The Plan of the Monica-proof Armor"), Jimmy decides to use a bird cage as armor to protect himself from Monica, but asks Smudge to test it. Smudge flicks his nose through the cagebars, pelts him with thorny seeds and kicks his unguarded shins. Jimmy, in his hubris, thinks his plan is infallible since Monica's default approach is punching and bludgeoning him with her plush bunny, which the cage DOES defend against, so he leaves to find her and prove his point, insulting her to her face and boasting about his armor. Only:

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* In "O Plano da Armadura à Prova de Mônica" ("The Plan of the Monica-proof Armor"), Armor"):
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Jimmy decides to use a bird cage as armor to protect himself from Monica, but asks Smudge to test it. Smudge flicks his nose through the cagebars, pelts him with thorny seeds and kicks his unguarded shins. Jimmy, in his hubris, thinks his plan is infallible since Monica's default approach is punching and bludgeoning him with her plush bunny, which the cage DOES defend against, so he leaves to find her and prove his point, insulting her to her face and boasting about his armor. Only:


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* In "O Ogro da Ponte" ("The Bridge Ogre"), Denise hypnotizes Monica, who comes to believe she is the titular creature and begins terrorizing anyone who tries to cross the local bridge.
** Denise tells Jimmy that Monica's delusion will only be broken once she, the hypnotizer, snaps her fingers... only to realize she doesn't know how to perform this simple action.
** Jimmy's plan is to take advantage of Monica's fantasy and dress up as someone that ogres fear. So he confronts her as Prince Charming... and uses Denise as his steed. Notably, this is one of the few times Jimmy manages to make fun of Denise, rather than the other way around.
---> '''Denise:''' Wait, why am I the one down here?
---> '''Jimmy:''' Because I look like a prince. And you, like a horse.
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* In "O Plano da Armadura à Prova de Mônica" ("The Plan of the Monica-proof Armour"), Jimmy decides to use a bird cage as armor to protect himself from Monica, but asks Smudge to test it. Smudge flicks his nose through the cagebars, pelts him with thorny seeds and kicks his unguarded shins. Jimmy, in his hubris, thinks is plan is infallible since Monica's default approach is punching and bludgeoning him with her plush bunny which the cage DOES defend against and he then leaves to find Monica to prove his point, insulting her to her face and boasting about his armor. Only:

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* In "O Plano da Armadura à Prova de Mônica" ("The Plan of the Monica-proof Armour"), Armor"), Jimmy decides to use a bird cage as armor to protect himself from Monica, but asks Smudge to test it. Smudge flicks his nose through the cagebars, pelts him with thorny seeds and kicks his unguarded shins. Jimmy, in his hubris, thinks is his plan is infallible since Monica's default approach is punching and bludgeoning him with her plush bunny bunny, which the cage DOES defend against and against, so he then leaves to find Monica to her and prove his point, insulting her to her face and boasting about his armor. Only:
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* In "Os Micos que a Gente Paga para Ir à Praia", Junior spends the whole story pulling pranks on his family and Maggy as revenge for forcing him to go to the beach with them. At the end, he hides from his enraged cousin in a tube, until Maggy walks in and points it out it's a sewage pipe, causing the boy to freak out.

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* In "Os Micos que a Gente Paga para Ir à Praia", Junior spends the whole story pulling pranks on his family and Maggy as revenge for forcing him to go to the beach with them. At the end, he hides from his enraged cousin in a tube, until Maggy walks in and points it out it's a sewage pipe, causing the boy to freak out.

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* One comic has Monica, Maggy and Denise trying to figure out who took Monica's bunny and Denise makes the obvious name drop of Jimmy, prompting Monica to ask how does she know that. When Denise rethorically asks who else they know that don't like her...[[BrutalHonesty Maggy drops an extensive list of people that fit the criteria]], including the likes of Carmen, the comic's recurring villains, every boy in the block...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Santa Claus]].

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* One comic has In "Que Fim Levou o Sansão", Monica, Maggy and Denise trying to figure out who took Monica's bunny and Denise makes the obvious name drop of Jimmy, prompting Monica to ask how does she know that. When Denise rethorically asks who else they know that don't like her...[[BrutalHonesty Maggy drops an extensive list of people that fit the criteria]], including the likes of Carmen, the comic's recurring villains, every boy in the block...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Santa Claus]].



* One early comic had Junior wanting to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to completely lose her shit. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian term for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.

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* One early comic had In "Barriga de Aluguel", Junior wanting wants to rent Maggy's stomach, as in having someone to eat his food for him, and she accepts. When she eats so much she becomes bloated, she tells her mother that she got like that after renting her stomach, prompting her mother to completely lose her shit. What makes this funny is an unfortunately LostInTranslation DoubleEntendre as the Brazilian term for "stomach renting" is a term used for ''surrogate pregnancy'', so Maggy's mom's FreakOut is completely understandable, especially with Maggy's bloated stomach from overeating.



* While it didn't end well for Maggy, it was LaserGuidedKarma at its finest to, after he spent the whole story pulling pranks on his family and Maggy over not wanting to go the beach, see Junior walking right into a sewage pipe unaware of what it was until Maggy points it out, unaware he was hiding from her inside the pipe.
* One story had Monica stuck in a mudhole, with Jimmy 5 and Smudge trying to get her out somehow. At one point Smudge tries digging around the area Monica is stuck on and finds out the mud hardened around her and is as hard as cement now. When Smudge asks Jimmy for ideas, this gem happens:

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* While it didn't end well for Maggy, it was LaserGuidedKarma at its finest to, after he spent In "Os Micos que a Gente Paga para Ir à Praia", Junior spends the whole story pulling pranks on his family and Maggy over not wanting as revenge for forcing him to go to the beach, see Junior walking right into beach with them. At the end, he hides from his enraged cousin in a sewage pipe unaware of what it was tube, until Maggy walks in and points it out, unaware he was hiding from her inside out it's a sewage pipe, causing the pipe.
boy to freak out.
* One story had In "No Meio do Caminho Havia uma Poça de Lama" ("There Was a Mud Pool in the Middle of the Road"), Monica gets stuck in a mudhole, with Jimmy 5 Five and Smudge trying to get her out somehow. At one point Smudge tries digging around the area Monica is stuck on and finds out the mud hardened around her and is as hard as cement now. When Smudge asks Jimmy for ideas, this gem happens:



* One story had Jimmy use a bird cage as armor to defend against Monica but he asks Smudge to test him. Smudge flicks his nose through the cagebars, pelts him with thorny seeds and kicks his unguarded shins. Jimmy, in his hubris, thinks is plan is infallible since Monica's default approach is punching and bludgeoning him with her plush bunny which the cage DOES defend against and he then leaves to find Monica to prove his point, insulting her to her face and boasting about his armor. Only:

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* One story had In "O Plano da Armadura à Prova de Mônica" ("The Plan of the Monica-proof Armour"), Jimmy decides to use a bird cage as armor to defend against Monica protect himself from Monica, but he asks Smudge to test him.it. Smudge flicks his nose through the cagebars, pelts him with thorny seeds and kicks his unguarded shins. Jimmy, in his hubris, thinks is plan is infallible since Monica's default approach is punching and bludgeoning him with her plush bunny which the cage DOES defend against and he then leaves to find Monica to prove his point, insulting her to her face and boasting about his armor. Only:



* One story involves Jimmy befriending a circus elephant who is trained to react to trigger words that make it do tricks or enter a combat mode. When Junior unknowingly says the trigger word in a passing remark about the elephant, it goes berserk and charges at Junior. Then, completely out of nowhere, a RelaxOVision pops up with a small bee reciting a TastesLikeDiabetes poem over the elephant's rampage.

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* One story involves In "Uma História de Elefantes e Palavras-Chaves" ("A Story of Elephants and Keywords"), Jimmy befriending befriends a circus elephant who is trained to react to trigger words that make it do tricks or enter a combat mode. When Junior unknowingly says the trigger word in a passing remark about the elephant, it goes berserk and charges at Junior. Then, completely out of nowhere, a RelaxOVision pops up with a small bee reciting a TastesLikeDiabetes poem over the elephant's rampage.


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* In "Sonhos de Papel" ("Paper Dreams"), Jimmy's latest plan to defeat Monica involves training an army of ants to become sailors of his armada of paper boats, then sending them on a voyage to Monica's backyard. As soon as the colony sets sail, a car sinks the boats by splashing water on them, causing Jimmy to cry hysterically while the few surviving bugs sing "[[Film/Titanic1997 My Heart Will Go On]]".

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* In "Panterelas versus Pitangueiras", Monica is shocked that Denise has befriended Penha and demands an explanation. What follows is an entire page of Denise passive-aggressively "defending" Penha.
--> '''Denise:''' Is Penha cruel and mean? Yes. Is she ugly as sin? Absolutely. But is that enough reason to cancel her? Just because she is arrogant, boastful, petulant, smug and unbearable? You should know she has a wonderful trait we all lack: a huge pool in her backyard.

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* One comic has Monica, Maggy and Denise trying to figure out who took Monica's bunny and Denise maks the obvious name drop of Jimmy, prompting Monica to ask how does she know that. When Denise rethorically asks who else they know that don't like her...[[BrutalHonesty Maggy drops an extensive list of people that fit the criteria]], including the likes of Carmen, the comic's recurring villains, every boy in the block...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Santa Claus]].

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* One comic has Monica, Maggy and Denise trying to figure out who took Monica's bunny and Denise maks makes the obvious name drop of Jimmy, prompting Monica to ask how does she know that. When Denise rethorically asks who else they know that don't like her...[[BrutalHonesty Maggy drops an extensive list of people that fit the criteria]], including the likes of Carmen, the comic's recurring villains, every boy in the block...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Santa Claus]].




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* Jimmy tries to ruin the girls' sleep over by telling them ghost stories, so a frightened Denise proposes they clear the air of negative vibes by burning incenses. This leaves Jimmy flabbergasted, as he thought incenses served a completely different purpose.
--> '''Denise:''' You've never seen an incense before?
--> '''Jimmy:''' Of course I have. My mom always lights one up after dad is done [[ToiletHumour using the toilet]].

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* Emerson Abreu has gone on record saying that "Monica's Origin" is among the stories he's had the most fun writing. Its premise is that a narrator (who is actually Angel in disguise) informs Monica of her "real" backstory, though the entire tale is but an excuse for him to roast her every other panel. It starts with baby Monica being literally kicked out of a ship, because her weight was threatening to sink the vessel. Since "rotten things float", she survives and washes up on African shores, where a family of elephants mistake her for one of their own and adopt her. Monica thus spends her childhood in the mother elephant's nest, with the latter sitting on her every night to keep her warm.
--> '''Jimmy:''' Wait, let me see if I got this ''stwaight''. Monica is super ''stwong'' because she was ''waised'' under an elephant's a'''bun'''dance?
* The crossover between Chuck Billy's gang and Denise was acclaimed for a very good reason, as the contrast between the hillbillies' culture and Denise's modern lingo led to comedy gold. Denise organizes a rave in Chuck's farm and requests him to supply the party with cool beverages and hip songs... leading him to harvest the milk from his cows and hire a fanfare band.

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